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[–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Even against the staggeringly grotesque day-to-day reality of Trump's corruption and malfeasance, this urge he apparently has to try to come to the rescue of foreign politicians rightly facing consequences for their own corruption and malfeasance really stands out.

It sounds glib, but it really does appear thst he simply, genuinely believes that corrupt sacks of shit have to stick together, and he's trying to do his part (and, no doubt, end up owed a favor).

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Fuck it, 500% tariffs on everyone!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Tropico has ceased trading with a certain major superpower! The Palace's statement? 'They don't trade fair, so neither will we.'

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago
    27 comments in c/world@lemmy.world view that post
    [–] 68 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    50% on Brazil, same as China. What is so stupid is that it is completely obvious that Trump doesn't have a cohesive strategy for his tariffs. Rather, they're just a convenient weapon he can wield as a bully. Why should any American not want a country to criminally prosecutes their corrupt former leader, let alone pay higher taxes on goods as a result? Eventually, this raising of taxes on Americans with tariffs on foreign goods will have a bigly negative impact on the U.S. economy.

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Don't forget that Brazil is one of the few countries that the US has a positive trade imbalance with. The stated goal of the tariffs was always balancing trade, this is explicitly political strong-arming.

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  • [–] [S] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Yeah, I feel somewhat guilty for trumpposting, but threatening Brazil for handling with its own internal politics is the lowest of the low for any country. Disgusting, even for him.

    I'd just try to replace every USA import with a chinese equivalent if I were Lula and divert e.g. meat exports to China and the EU. That would be fun to watch https://www.datamarnews.com/noticias/brazils-beef-exports-to-the-u-s-soar-by-498-despite-trumps-tariffs/ muricans without hamberders.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Lol, that is exactly what I've been doing for months now. Why pay extra for a device which has a few final assembly steps in the US, when i can just source the components directly from China and build it in house?

    Switching up key suppliers to avoid paying taxes to the trump regime is a hard sell with the suits upstairs, but when the Americans start slapping additional taxes onto themselves and driving up their prices, they are handing me a divestment opportunity on a silver platter.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's more insane than that. 55% is only on certain items from China. Most are at 35%. So effectively Brazil would be higher. The craziest is they're higher for purposes of political interference from USA...

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  • He’s trying to interfere in other country’s legal systems now.

    Isn’t just fucking with America enough for this dipstick?

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    Trump is a pedophile...

    Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Dedollarization speedrun any%

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Gee whiz, don’t you miss the days when the US government was more covert in their interference in Latin American countries’ affairs? The CIA contracted out their dirty work or had no-name agents do it for them. At least it’s as plain as day.

    I hope California and Cascadia can secede before the US gets its nasty karma. Not all of us should pay.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    In 64, yes. In the last election, no. Biden expressly told Bolsonaro's toadies to go fuck themselves with their coup. Hopefully, Brazil has had time to set up protections against the US gov meddling from now until their next election.

    PS: you can access the article if you go through this reddit page https://www.reddit.com/r/foreignpolicy/comments/14faga9/the_discreet_us_campaign_to_defend_brazils/

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    You don't get to bail out your fascist friends, Donnie.

    Hold the line Lula!

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Tropico has ceased trading with a certain major superpower! The Palace's statement? 'They don't trade fair, so neither will we.'

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    distraction from his epstein files situation, nice try trump.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Whatever TACO.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    “And it is necessary to have this to rectify the grave injustices of the current regime.”

    But bombing children in isreal doesnt count for shit?

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    Remember the kids who rode the short bus to school? Once in a while, some of these kids would be in your class and sometimes they'd have an episode. Everyone would ignore them and let them settle down.

    That's America to the rest of the world now. Trump has made America the kids on the short bus.

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