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[–] 112 points 9 months ago (12 children)

Trump has invited the leaders of 60 nations to join the Board of Peace with the stipulation that each contribute $1 billion dollars.

It's not "Join the Board of Peace or get tariffs", it's "Give me a billion dollars or get tariffs"

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  • [–] 68 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    This is called Extortion. It's obvious he thinks he can run the presidency like a mafia operation. But I think people in general are about done with putting up with this bullshit.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    He didn't even think it through that much. His thought process was:

    "The UN won't let me do what I want. I'm going to make my own UN with me in charge so I can do anything I want."

    "The UN I'm making is so awesome because I'm in charge, I should charge people to join."

    "The King of France was mean about my super awesome UN, I'm going put tariffs on him! What does France sell? Wine and Champaign."

    Thoughts 2 and 3 are completely unconnected. If you spent 10 minutes explaining the connection to him he'd think "I'm smarter than I thought, either way I get money!"

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Some folks seem to think he is saying "pay into the fund for the Board of Peace", but I am quite convinced he means pay him that money personally.

    Same with the donations for the inaugural ceremony... they directly ended up in Trump's grubby hands without anything to show for towards the American public.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Does the French economy make 1 billion in champagne and wine? If not, then it's better to cover the losses by subsidizing the industry as opposed to giving even more away to some corrupt organization.

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  • [–] 52 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Lmfao this God damn idiot. He's gotta know how stupid this looks. You gonna force peace? Leave it to a rapist pedophile to think he can force anything.

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  • [–] [S] 39 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    This demented senior is using grade school yard bully methods. lol

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  • [–] 34 points 9 months ago

    Macron, don’t join. The rest if the world will happily increase our purchase of your wines to offset losses stemming from any decrease in sales you experience in the US.

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Other nations need to stop playing and just wrip up all trade deals with the US and just move on. We're not going to learn until everyone moves on without us.

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    [–] 16 points 9 months ago* (7 children)

    I don't know why other countries don't respond by passing their own export tax/tarrifs...

    If trump wants to double the price of your goods, fuck him and get your own slice first.

    You still get paid for everyone shipped to America, but the importers only get paid when it sells. So that's getting business to go after Trump to lower his tariffs.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Because no sane government would want to reduce exports.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    Reduced volume, but it will be because of Trump's tarrifs anyways, with no extra money for the companies selling or the country exporting.

    Putting their own export tax/tariff, increase per unit profit to make up for lowered volume.

    Like, it's a thing...

    Just because you haven't heard of something or thought it thru, doesn't mean it's pointless...

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Or moreover tax their own citizens because of the actions of another country.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    The importer still pays the export tariffs.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Yes which would be a native company or citizen not the tariffed country.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    This article is poorly written and the terms are confusing, so just to clarify:

    • There are TWO "Boards of Peace" floating around in the headlines.
    • They were both created by point 9 in the "Gaza peace plan".
    • By "Gaza Board of Peace", the article actually means the BoP's Gaza Executive Board. This seems to be what Trump is trying to extort Macron into joining.
    • The 60 nations, $1 billion permanent seat cost BoP is the top-level BoP that the Gaza Executive Board is under.
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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    Trump is bored of peace and wants war.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    this sad cosplay of philip ii of macedon is to pay trump billion dollars to let trump become a global hegamon

    trump is not philip ii

    barron is not alexander

    and aristole is dead

    do not join a board of directors where trump is the chairman

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Pass, fuck Trump n Pootin

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Extortion anyone?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    The ones who joined so far look like the worlds "most wanted" list. Including himself.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago*

    Multiple leaders have expressed concern that the Board of Peace ... now appears to be ... a Trump-led opposition organization to the United Nations.

    That sounds completely useless. It will be putin and trump demanding money from other nations.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    38 comments, and CTRL-F Epstein returns no results.

    Evidently all the new distractions are working. Who would have thought.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I'm still not distracted from the Epstein files, but know that until we get a Democrat congress there's a snowball's chance in hell of seeing all the files. Even then, I think enough Dem establishment will be questioned by being in them they'd want to bury it too.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    He's threatening to invade allied countries and he kidnapped a foreign president.

    Yes, Epstein, that's your internal issue to fix. These threats are significantly more dsngerous and relevant to the rest of the world than fucking Epstein.

    You elected a pedophile, everybody knew he was a pedophile, you live with your choices. But war becomes everybody's problem.

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  • Shit's going to get real when they start tariffing russian escorts.

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