It's hard to wonder why...
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It's an economic zone made up of smaller countries, and functionality structured in a completely different way the US is regarding the fed vs the states. That fact the US president is referring to a continent as a country is unbelievably embarrassing.
If only that were even close to the most embarrassing thing about him.
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He's a socially stunted bully (wait is that repeating myself?, not sure up to a certain age anyways) so yes, I think one of most satisfying wishes to make these days would be to give Trump self awareness and empathy.
one of most satisfying wishes to make these days would be to give Trump self awareness and empathy.
I see that playing out like in the comic when the Joker was temporarily made sane. He was hysterical about the monstrous things he'd done and begged to be killed. Trump's entire being is malice and cruelty. Without it, he would no longer exist.
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I can’t realistically be mad at Canada, Mexico, or all of Europe over it.
If anything, they haven't condemned our fascist government enough. I think they're still largely in shock. Hopefully they'll get in the groove of the new world order without the US sooner rather than later.
If anything, they haven’t condemned our fascist government enough. I think they’re still largely in shock.
There's no sense in pointless bluster. Much is happening behind the scenes.
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If anything, they haven’t condemned our fascist government enough. I think they’re still largely in shock.
There's no sense in pointless bluster. Much is happening behind the scenes.
They need to kick the US out of all those military bases around the world.
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Turned out it was carrying a Bible. Upside down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_photo_op_at_St._John's_Church
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Twice. They did it twice.
You can almost (but not quite) forgive the first time. You could -maybe- write it off as an experiment, or that they were giving the 'real politicians' a scare to get them back in line.
However that's a lot of 'almost' and 'maybe'.But the second time, that's fucking unforgivable.
I didn't vote for him, but I expected his first term to be appoiting halfway competent people to run everything so he could fuck around and take the credit. I doubt I was alone.
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He really does think the EU is a country. I'm not sure my opinion of Americans will ever recover from them having voted in this absolute moron.
~32% of Americans voted for Trump. ~31% for Kamala, and the remaining ~67% voted third party or not at all.
Republicans are taking these actions, not Americans. And Democrats should have captured more of the 67% instead of going after the ~32%.
That being said, Americans are dumbbbb
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As a resident of a Continental Country that is not the US, we've pretty much always seen Europe as a single, monolithic thing. It's hard for us to grasp how something like France, which is just slightly bigger than Minas Gerais, 4th largest state of Brazil, is a completely separate thing from the rest.
Ha, and France is the largest country in the EU!
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One of the good things to come from this is an end to the hegemony of the US. Now I have to hope the rest of the world will choose to be better as a result of it.
Hmm, I would hope, but I doubt US power and influence will disappear that easily. It'll probably just be more negative.
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~32% of Americans voted for Trump. ~31% for Kamala, and the remaining ~67% voted third party or not at all.
Republicans are taking these actions, not Americans. And Democrats should have captured more of the 67% instead of going after the ~32%.
That being said, Americans are dumbbbb
You seem to be doing some American math in that first line.
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~32% of Americans voted for Trump. ~31% for Kamala, and the remaining ~67% voted third party or not at all.
Republicans are taking these actions, not Americans. And Democrats should have captured more of the 67% instead of going after the ~32%.
That being said, Americans are dumbbbb
130%? Might wanna check your math
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130%? Might wanna check your math
My bad. Just ran through the numbers on ballotpedia the other day.
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You seem to be doing some American math in that first line.
I fixed it. Thanks for dunking on my character rather than correcting me tho
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What the fuck do tariffs do other than make shit more expensive for US residents?
If you're trying to build domestic manufacturing capacity in a specific industry in which many other countries are competitive, placing tariffs on products in that specific sector can encourage people to buy local until your manufacturers are competitive in the global market.
Similarly, if a foreign country is flooding your market with an excess of some product (dumping) and it's depressing the price of that product and putting your domestic manufacturers out of business, tariffs can help protect them while you work through treaty processes like WTO complaints.
Trump is doing neither of those things. Blanket tariffs are more likely to collapse your economy than grow it (see: Smoot-Hawley). His tariffs on specific products like steel and aluminium are unlikely to grow American manufacturing capacity in those sectors. Modernizing steel manufacturing in the US would take decades. Aluminum smelting is really energy intensive, so US aluminium producers can't compete very well with Canadian aluminum producers because Canadian producers have access to cheap and plentiful hydro-electric power. During his last term, steel and aluminium smelting capacity in the US actually shrank and the higher costs of materials in downstream manufacturing put hundreds of thousands of people out of work.
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America was killed, by Americans, in a democratic election. And so many are still fondling the corpse, writhing with carrion bugs, and pretending it's still alive.
America was killed, by ignorant Americans
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~32% of Americans voted for Trump. ~31% for Kamala, and the remaining ~67% voted third party or not at all.
Republicans are taking these actions, not Americans. And Democrats should have captured more of the 67% instead of going after the ~32%.
That being said, Americans are dumbbbb
Oh, fuck that. Stop making excuses.
Yes, the US electoral system is all kinds of fucked up, but Trump won, and the Republicans won a majority in the house and the senate. And since then, even though he's dismantling the federal government the level of protesting in the US is minimal.
Look at the protests in Serbia or in Turkey, or even in Israel. The protests in the US aren't happening because enough Americans either support Trump or are OK with what he's doing. This isn't some merely Republican thing. This is Germany in the 1930s, one group driving the process and the vast majority either supporting or just going along.
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I didn't vote for him, but I expected his first term to be appoiting halfway competent people to run everything so he could fuck around and take the credit. I doubt I was alone.
Why would you expect that?
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Why would you expect that?
Because I thought he was lazy.
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As a resident of a Continental Country that is not the US, we've pretty much always seen Europe as a single, monolithic thing. It's hard for us to grasp how something like France, which is just slightly bigger than Minas Gerais, 4th largest state of Brazil, is a completely separate thing from the rest.
Honestly, that just seems like ignorance. It's like you don't know that France likes wine and Germany drinks beer. Or that the two were on opposite sides of two world wars.
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What the fuck do tariffs do other than make shit more expensive for US residents?
Theoretically, they encourage Americans to buy American-made alternatives to tariffed goods. In some case that will work, but the tariffs need to be targeted for that to happen. For example, putting a tariff on fishing rods might make people buy locally-made fishing rods rather than imported ones (this is an example of a retaliatory tariff Canada placed on the US btw).
This doesn't work when the tariffs are on things that aren't made locally. If you put a tariff on things that aren't made locally you just make things more expensive. If the government is sane and stable, businesses might invest in a factory to produce something that isn't made locally to take advantage of the tariffs, but that kind of thing takes time. And if you think the government might change its tariff plans before you can finish your factory, it's not worth the investment.
