• kescusay@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Every headline like this should make clear that him imposing tariffs by fiat is illegal and unconstitutional.

    I hate the fact that the media just reports that he’s doing it without ever citing Article 1, Section 8:

    The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

    Every one of these tariff manipulations has been 100% illegal, because the supposed emergencies he’s using to excuse them are nonexistent.

  • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    I hope the official response will be harsh. Like China did. China called Donny’s bluff until he folded. We EU should do the same. We don’t need the US. Many of their products are of poor quality, like their cars(or a major safety hazard). Most of their food is considered toxic according to our food standards. Their booze is disgusting. Their online services are criminally evil.

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      16 days ago

      California wine is still good; hell, even the French use California wine to mix with theirs during a bad harvest. I’m on the verge of joining a California separatist party because this crisis will not end, and to cut off California from the rest of the world is cruel. Its cruel what the orange bastard is doing.

  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Kick the AmeriKans where it hurts. We should stop buying US made weapons and tariff the fuck out of US digital services. It’s their last bastion and increase trade with Canada and Mexico.

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    17 days ago

    I Hope that european Institutions and companies begin to use EU-tech. Like I don’t unterstand why my uni uses Outlook, Office and Teams instead of FOSS

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    17 days ago

    Not looking for a deal, looking for a grift. The stock markets will drop-- again-- and the rich parasites will gobble up more money. Then yam tits will claim victory while backing off like a little bitch.

    I’m not religious but I sure hope that hell exists just so these people go there…

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Good news. Whoever still thought it was still possible to get some slack by kissing Trump’s ass are now fully caught up with the reality that he is an unreasonable prick.

    Now the real decoupling of economies from the US can begin.

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      18 days ago

      He’s not unreasonable he’s just a dickhead.

      Give him money and he will do what you want, fuck anyone else or his country.

      He is being completely reasonable if all he cares about is himself. He’s just a dickhead.

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        17 days ago

        He will do what you want, for about 5 minutes and then he’ll hold out his hand for more and fuck you over anyway.

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        18 days ago

        He’s not unreasonable he’s just a dickhead

        He is definitely both of those things.

  • andybytes@programming.dev
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    16 days ago

    Well, America’s foreign policy for quite some time, depending on which president you want to refer to, was still to weaken Europe, to stop it from getting affordable natural gas from Russia. We are just lying to ourselves not acting like we’re being aggressive to one of our allies. This is clearly a soft war against people that I’m pretty sure the public don’t want to show aggression towards. So Orange Man Bad Sure, but we’ve been up to no good for a minute. The Neo-liberal era is over with. The pause button no longer works. We are approaching World War 3, where everybody’s fighting everybody. We’ll see climate disasters. More and more, our societies will become so corrupt with police officer gangs. And because everything is connected, every institution will mirror this very institution that’s causing all of our problems. Top down governance with no room for finesse or ideas. Lowest common denominator thinking as we watch the exponential function ramp up at a particular period and blast right off the fucking charts. To the point where either the smaller curve is not observable or the chart is so big that we can’t see the largest sector. FAFO poor breeders