And stock market goes back up after his friends bought in the dip.
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He’ll find someone and something else that make him threat with tariffs in 5…4…3…2…
Art of the Deal. It has been a pattern since day one. The fact that it has destabilized modern western society be damned if he gets to feel like he has the upper hand.
The NYT is still intent on portraying these as a sequence of reasoned policy positions, and not the aimless meanderings of dementia writ large on the world stage.
They been doing this since his first term. Basically translating his insane gibberish into things that sound like relatively reasonable statements. They would have whole articles about something he said without a single direct quote from him.
Yep I'm getting pretty sickened by what I hear on corpo media about this and other recent events. Sanewashing might be the term, but at the least they try to hash out reasonings and strategy and speculation like it's Sunday Night Football instead of the full-blown fascist thrashing that it is. These news orgs stumbling over themselves to take more of the dollary dick, desperate to maintain the thin veneer of civility that has been cultivated by their owners over generations. Fools and cowards the lot of them.
Same play, everytime isn't it?
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Ridiculous threat.
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A "deal" is made.
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Capitulation.
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"Look at what a great dealmaker I am!"
If this is apparent to a dumbass like me, I cannot see why the media cannot simply say it out loud.
The problem is that Venezuela looked just like that too, until the fuckers actually invaded the capital, bombed it, and kidnapped their leader.
So did Minneapolis, now they’re working really hard at starting a civil war.
It’s like you roll the dice, 9 out of 10 times it turns into useless mouth noises and 1 out of 10 they actually do it.
Hard to stay relaxed and laugh about this shit, man.
Or the intentional actions of a person who understands that his insane ramblings can cause stock market drops and that walking back those insane ramblings will cause stock markets to recover, allowing him and his buddies to make more money.
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Taco Tuesday, just 1 day late
He doesn't know what day it is.
Much like trash pickup, he's a day late due to the holiday.
This was a distraction from Venezuela, which was a distraction from Epstein, which was a distraction from the fact we elected this guy twice.
Uh huh.. What do you wanna bet he was told that every single American military base in the EU would be closed and off limits for US use if NATO was broken apart.
I would have paid anything to be a fly on the wall at that meeting.
Of course Trump will Roy Cohn it and boast the US came out triumphant and the sun shone brightly out the crack of his ass and it awed everyone in the EU that saw it..
pffft!
What did Rutte promise his daddy now?
Probably nothing. What could he promise?
Given Denmark and Greenland seem to not have any idea what he's talking about, this is most likely Trump caving and still trying to get a "Victory!" headline.
Thats the vibe i get.
I think hes been told, emphatically that he doesn't have any support for a military intervention, nor additional tariffs.
He's spoken to NATO guy whos said "you dont have the cards" so the framework of a deal hes talking about is that the US can increase its deployment there (which it could've before) and call that a victory.
Not to sell off all their US bonds. Europe can tank the US economy any time they want.
It seems the Danish are wondering the same thing.
It is far more likely that the Danes selling a token number of US Treasurys as a shot across the bow soiled a number of handmade silk suits on Wall St, and someone was able to convey to the inner circle exactly what that fucking means, and that's how we got Taco Wednesday. Note also last year how, when Japan started suggesting the idea of selling off Treasurys themselves, suddenly Japan's tariff arrangement instantly improved.
And that's only one part of what Europe could do. The anti-coercion instrument isn't nicknamed "the bazooka" for nothing, and just because Europe has been our allies for 80 years doesn't mean they are without means of both prevention and retaliation. It's the orange excrescence's fault for thinking nobody could do anything back, when that is the farthest fucking thing from the truth.
Honestly, having the rest of the western hemisphere unite in their loudest, strongest NO in tandem with Mark Carney clearly outlining a post-US-dominant world order built on fluid alliances is the best thing that could be happening to all of us right now, no matter where we live.
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Trump ALWAYS repeats wharever he talked last told him. Just wait for him to talk again with whorever is behind the idea of the US owing Greenland and he's going to be in it again
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Oh shit, who knew allied governments could have mutually beneficial defense agreements 😲😲😲😲😲😲
Someone like Rutte should whisper in his ear "Donald, our intelligence people are hearing rumors that they are moving to replace you soon with Vance and Miller. Just know that when that happens, we'll grant you asylum in Europe." And lean back and watch as he starts firing every one of his cronies.
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Until he talks to someone else. He's just parroting the last thing someone said to him.
What exactly can a Dutch politician promise in regards to selling someone else’s country?
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TACO
Best soundtrack to read this news to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sSIfWFLP-Y
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The orange turd is going to expect more blowjobs like this and Europe seems happy to pacify the fascists with it.
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TACO…
Never trust a rapist.
And if he (so his oligarch handlers) want those trade agreements and treasuries back, hold the US accountable. Get concessions with very documented repercussions for when he inevitably tries to stop once he gets what he wants.
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