Trump says EU must buy $350B of US energy to get tariff relief
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The ridiculous thing is, digital earnings like the billions from Meta, Google etc. are not getting counted into the trade by Americans. Wonder how the trade deficit would look like if we did that. Apart from that, nobody wants to buy your ugly cars here, they wouldn't even fit to our streets. It's not like you couldn't produce something for the European market, if you wanted. Nobody is interested in something like the Ford F150
Given the amount of new giant pick ups around Ireland, I wouldn’t be surprised if the F150 is popular here.
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Sorry we don't negotiate with terrorists
If it's not from the brown-people region, it's not really terrorism. It's just sparkling freedom fighting.
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But he also indicated that he wanted the EU to reduce its standards to allow more U.S. goods to enter its market, referring to safety measures as "non-monetary tariffs."
"It's tariffs where they put things on where they make it impossible for you to sell a car ... they make it so difficult, the standards and the tests," Trump said. "They come up with rules and regulations that are just designed for one reason: that you can't sell your product in those countries. And we're not gonna let that happen. Those are called non-monetary barriers."
Keep your pedestrian hazards like the cybertruck in your country. We already have enough people driving unnecessarily huge cars. We need less and smaller cars.
Aren't you worried you might starve if your vehicle isn't tall enough to reach the drive-through window? Also, how are you going to transport landscaping supplies for your massive lawn? Furthermore, there's so many big vehicles on the road. I'd be concerned they would bully me if I were in a smaller car.
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The U.S. isn't committing to closing the trade deficit in services, showing that Trump's tariffs are just about American dominance, not 'fairness'.
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The ridiculous thing is, digital earnings like the billions from Meta, Google etc. are not getting counted into the trade by Americans. Wonder how the trade deficit would look like if we did that. Apart from that, nobody wants to buy your ugly cars here, they wouldn't even fit to our streets. It's not like you couldn't produce something for the European market, if you wanted. Nobody is interested in something like the Ford F150
There are a few of those pickup trucks around here. If they were easier to get in Germany I believe more fragile men would buy it. Even if it just sits in the driveway.
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But he also indicated that he wanted the EU to reduce its standards to allow more U.S. goods to enter its market, referring to safety measures as "non-monetary tariffs."
"It's tariffs where they put things on where they make it impossible for you to sell a car ... they make it so difficult, the standards and the tests," Trump said. "They come up with rules and regulations that are just designed for one reason: that you can't sell your product in those countries. And we're not gonna let that happen. Those are called non-monetary barriers."
Keep your pedestrian hazards like the cybertruck in your country. We already have enough people driving unnecessarily huge cars. We need less and smaller cars.
That bowling ball comment from Trump is prime example of talking about shit without understanding said shit. The car is suppose to fucking dent from it! It's why Cyberdick car isn't allowed in Europe, it doesn't dent when you run over a person. I'd explain the physics behind it, but Trumps avocado brain is too fucking stupid to ever understand that.
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The ridiculous thing is, digital earnings like the billions from Meta, Google etc. are not getting counted into the trade by Americans. Wonder how the trade deficit would look like if we did that. Apart from that, nobody wants to buy your ugly cars here, they wouldn't even fit to our streets. It's not like you couldn't produce something for the European market, if you wanted. Nobody is interested in something like the Ford F150
Fareed Zakaria said well on CNN (I like to binge watch it, sue me) recently, Trump is stuck in the 1950 and he's obsessed with manufacturing, it's why he just ignores tech companies, because his avocado brain just can't compute that USA's biggest export is really software and software/online services.
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The ridiculous thing is, digital earnings like the billions from Meta, Google etc. are not getting counted into the trade by Americans. Wonder how the trade deficit would look like if we did that. Apart from that, nobody wants to buy your ugly cars here, they wouldn't even fit to our streets. It's not like you couldn't produce something for the European market, if you wanted. Nobody is interested in something like the Ford F150
Doesnt Meta collect its money in Ireland?
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How much is that in solar and wind power?
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Please, European countries, and even China for that fact, please don't give in. Make tRump eat shit for this stupid bully tactic. He's turned the US into the kiddie table all the parents ignore.
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Aren't you worried you might starve if your vehicle isn't tall enough to reach the drive-through window? Also, how are you going to transport landscaping supplies for your massive lawn? Furthermore, there's so many big vehicles on the road. I'd be concerned they would bully me if I were in a smaller car.
I mean, i specifically chose a small car for city traffic. You don't have parking lots as big as whole football fields here in germany
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Best I can do is to boycott all US products.
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Surely there is zero political support for this in Europe. Of course we're hurting badly from the tariffs, but at least in my circle I don't see anyone supporting bending over to any demand he sends us.
Almost as soon as Trump was reelected, von der Leyen suggested opening negotiations to buy more American liquefied natural gas (LNG). But POLITICO reported that the U.S. had, in response, offered no clarity about how a deal would work.
Don't quite follow this though, does the EU need more fossil fuels? Aren't we moving away from it? Is this aimed at replacing russian natural gas?
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And what guarantees does Europe have he won't just flip the deal on a whim? This guy and these tactics deserve no quarter.
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I mean, i specifically chose a small car for city traffic. You don't have parking lots as big as whole football fields here in germany
I once saw a parking map for a sea world somewhere in USA... this shit is unreal!!Several football fields, I'm afraid:
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Several football fields, I'm afraid:
Yeah, this is exactly the picture i was talking about
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Fareed Zakaria said well on CNN (I like to binge watch it, sue me) recently, Trump is stuck in the 1950 and he's obsessed with manufacturing, it's why he just ignores tech companies, because his avocado brain just can't compute that USA's biggest export is really software and software/online services.
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As an American my advise is for Europe to give Trump the middle finger and let it all fall apart. I don't want our country to die ugly, and I sure as hell never voted for it. But if our hardship leads to the downfall of the Orange Jackass and his whole damned cult, then so be it. With any luck that'll happen before I end up disappeared or thrown into one of Roadkill Kennedy's internment camps for people who take SSRIs.
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Yeah, this is exactly the picture i was talking about
What're we supposed to do? The busses only come on the hour if there's coverage for a region at all. It's really frustrating to see our taxes go to such poor service, so we very reasonably try to teach them a lesson by having our politicians reduce their funding, but they don't learn at all. The service just gets worse until a charitable, for-profit corporation steps in to fill the vacuum, usually with car-oriented services. What would we do without massive tarmacs stretching for miles?
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And what guarantees does Europe have he won't just flip the deal on a whim? This guy and these tactics deserve no quarter.
And what guarantees does Europe have he won’t just flip the deal on a whim?
Nothing. Even worse: he actually wants to be able to flip the deal whenever he feels like it.
This guy is not a "partner" as in a contractual sense but a mobster who wants to use every measure to gain an advantage.
