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I'd love if we cold turkey completely decoupled. Imagine if carney just walked up to the mic and said "I'm so done with your nonsense, no deals, get your shit together, we're done" and walked away, I'd love that.
The utter basics of business negotiation is co-operation to make each situation a win-win for each party and not to come out "victorious" as Trump appears to think whilst screwing the other side.
Clearly, the world has had enough.
Not buying milk was a national security threat and it lead to a cave in Missouri with 1.4b pounds of cheese, Dominoes surviving, the cheesy gordita crunch, and Got Milk?.
All because religious women were tired of men being alcoholics and we could deliver fresh ice cream to a foxhole on Iwo Jima to treat war fatigue.
Everything I said is real, America is a joke of a country.
And cheetohs too, i think.
Gotta love the ice cream barge story tho, what a weirdly demoralizing thing for another country to be struggling to maintain a supply line and the enemy shows up with a fucking barge that's purpose is to constantly churn out 3 flavors of dessert
One of my favorite stories is the diary or letter that a German made after the US invaded. They captured a position and found a fresh chocolate cake. At that point the German army was raiding villages for food because the German supply chain was fairly disrupted. So that dude wrote about how fucked the war was going for them and the Americans had fresh chocolate cake in a warzone on the other side of the planet while the Germans were in the next country over from home.
That must have been absolutely demoralizing coming to understand the American logistical prowess.
Now we send semi-trailers with Burger King and McDonald's across the globe to feed the troops. 'Murica
πor π?
If you build a bunker you live in a bunker. Good luck with that bunker, bunky.
ππ€‘, surely?
For clarification, dairy in the US is heavily subsidized and as a result the US dairy industry over supplies massively. The industry wants to 1)retain these subsidies and 2) gain export markets to drive up demand so they can raise prices (including in the US). As stupid as that is domestically, for other no country's domestic dairy industry can possibly compete without equivalent subsidies or some kind of protection.
So framing this as wanting to compete in the "free market" is complete nonsense since the US is purposely distorting the shit out of the dairy market by propping up their supply side.
Your own people are most affected by tariffs. And they will add to government coffers.
That said, they're a weapon: tariffs will also affect exports to the USA of the other country. In some countries this can be a big enough issue to give in to such threats, in others, not so much.
And they will add to government coffers.
Generally not much. The economic damage is rarely worth raising tariffs above a fairly low point unless there are issues of economic autonomy at stake.
We're not even butchering the goose that lays the golden eggs. More like feeding it to a hungry wolf while our children starve.
On the plus side bourbon has been cheaper this year. Which is nice considering how much more of it I've been drinking to cope with all this shit



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