Trump vows to slap 25% tariffs on EU and claims bloc was ‘formed to screw US’
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I said 80 plus years. US hegemony also didnt start really taking off until after WW2. Before that they mostly focused on native genocide and being horrible to the Mexicans.
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Special K if Elon is any indication
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Yes, because the initial tarriff talks went over so well...
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I remember John Kerry's election in 2004 was thwarted due in part to the perception that he was flip-flopping around a lot of issues. Trump is constantly making an absolute fool of himself by constantly backing away from shit he said he was going to do.
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After I sent this, I saw a clip about it. It looks like he did suggest it was all on April 2 in some interview. If he had it wrong, was deliberately being confusing or what is unclear, but it hardly matters.
We'll see what happens then, basically. Either way, we should be getting the hell away from American dependence.
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Plot twist, it wasn't forgotten. The person who wants the EU destroyed the most is probably Putin.... Followed 2nd by huge corporations/monopolies.
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And hopefully Trump would care? Last time we blacked them out (by accident) all hell broke loose in just a day, but they don't vote Republican.
Come to think of it, we could also cut off land access to Alaska. We're going to let him escalate this first, though.
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Pathological liar.
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The Columbia flows through Eastern Washington, it's on the other side of a mountain range from Seattle. That's like threatening to cause an avalanche at Banff to hurt Vancouver.
In either case it's the environment that would bear the brunt of the conflict. If you want to hurt Seattle you could just raise our electric bill.
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Ah, my bad.
Well, IIRC the rest of Washington is a militia-ridden red state, so maybe that's even better.
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I don't get it. If we do retaliate, the US will have something to gain (back) by removing the tariffs.
I don't know what studies you are referring to (please leave a link) but it seems counterintuitive to not have that bargaining chip to force a quick end to the tarriffs (See US vs Canada 2025, US vs Mexico 2025).
I don't see how one could reasonably measure policies like these through time; of course it's worse in the short term for all involved parties but should resolve the situation faster. If they only measure the time during active tarriffs of course it's better through survivorship bias.
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Ofc the EU was created to screw the USA. Good for them. Nobody wants to be subservient to the paper petrol-dollars of a genocidal empire.
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Mandatory pro-GMO video https://youtu.be/7TmcXYp8xu4?si=6lj3t9N914evSq7h
TLDR: all our food is genetically manipulated. GMO is simply a method to make better targeted interventions. -
It did for Mexico and Canada.
They agreed to nothing new, and the terrifs vanished.
It must be like trying to negotiate with a toddler.
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Both actually, as depressing as that is. The entire region started as the Oregon Territory just before the civil war, and ever since the beginning has had to grapple with far right nutjobs.
Over time the coastal west of each state became more and more blue and populous, while the east stayed rural and backwards.
Things are slowly changing though, Spokane county has voted blue for the past decade.
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The EU has an official mechanism to combat economic pressure like this that includes suspension of all intellectual property from the country imposing the tarrifs.
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I've been studying biology and genetics at univ., so I understand the topic very well. The problem with GMO is not the technique per se, but the fact that companies can lock agricultors with specific pesticids, regardless of the damage they can do to environment.
For example, Gluten molecule was made stronger by French scientists, for the agricultural lobbies during 90-2010, and now a lot of people suffer from this.
