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Bostonhibby

28-03-2025, 09:57 PM

As Hibs fans I reckon we should be against the threats made against a place called Greenland.

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Kato

28-03-2025, 11:58 PM

Have celtc's gren birgade not already got something going?[emoji6]

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cabbageandribs1875

29-03-2025, 01:38 AM

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GnE_6BnXEAA_xLp?format=jpg&name=large

cabbageandribs1875

29-03-2025, 01:40 AM

have they done the same as Trump got caught doing at least twice, waving to no one :hilarious

(1) Ron Filipkowski on X: "JD and Usha Vance pretending to wave to absolutely nobody in Greenland since nobody wants them there. The crowd goes wild for the Vance! https://t.co/AsDyJXi0b4" / X (https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1905720385892717012)

Hegseth getting it tight on ye olde twitter Resign - Search / X (https://x.com/search?q=Resign&src=trend_click&vertical=trends)

Hibs4185

29-03-2025, 07:56 AM

After Canada standing up to Trump and cutting ties with America, Trump is now playing nice and calling the Mark Carney Prime Minisyer rather than governor as he was with Justin Trudeau.

The thought of Canada aligning more with Europe no doubt has led to it.

That’s how you stand up to a bully, well done Canada

Aldo

29-03-2025, 08:16 AM

Pray for Greenland, all those non specific problems the orange one and his Dr Evil sidekick are generalizing about that contented greenlanders never knew existed a few months ago.

Only the U S Nazi party can save them

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Trumps comments about Russian and Chinese ships in the waters around Greenland are just plain stupid. Nae **** Sherlock. They’ve been in and around these waters for decades.

And please excuse my ignorance in most of this but I didn’t realise Greenland was rich in trillion upon trillions of dollars worth of minerals.

There’s the real reason Trump wants to control Greenland.

Ozyhibby

29-03-2025, 08:32 AM

Trumps comments about Russian and Chinese ships in the waters around Greenland are just plain stupid. Nae **** Sherlock. They’ve been in and around these waters for decades.

And please excuse my ignorance in most of this but I didn’t realise Greenland was rich in trillion upon trillions of dollars worth of minerals.

There’s the real reason Trump wants to control Greenland.

I think we’re more likely to see a civil war in the US than an attempt to take Greenland.

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Aldo

29-03-2025, 08:47 AM

I think we’re more likely to see a civil war in the US than an attempt to take Greenland.

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You’re probably not far wrong with that Ozy!

Jim44

29-03-2025, 09:22 AM

I think we’re more likely to see a civil war in the US than an attempt to take Greenland.

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I wonder if Trump’s thugs will have Hitler type ‘Brownshirts’ or conventional red.

Hibs4185

29-03-2025, 09:37 AM

Trumps comments about Russian and Chinese ships in the waters around Greenland are just plain stupid. Nae **** Sherlock. They’ve been in and around these waters for decades.

And please excuse my ignorance in most of this but I didn’t realise Greenland was rich in trillion upon trillions of dollars worth of minerals.

There’s the real reason Trump wants to control Greenland.

I watched a programme years ago on discovery about these Americans that went to Greenland to try and mine rare minerals. A gold rush type programme. That got hee haw because it was so difficult to extract

Aldo

29-03-2025, 09:38 AM

I watched a programme years ago on discovery about these Americans that went to Greenland to try and mine rare minerals. A gold rush type programme. That got hee haw because it was so difficult to extract

I think I watched some of that. Six or seven of them?

Thing is they would destroy the landscape/land and use huge industrial machines unlike those guys who used picks and hammers.

Hibs4185

29-03-2025, 09:42 AM

I think I watched some of that. Six or seven of them?

Thing is they would destroy the landscape/land and use huge industrial machines unlike those guys who used picks and hammers.

Yeah that’s the one! They would use industrial machines but the land was so remote and up and down mountains. I suspect it would be hard to get machinery in.

It’s like Ukraine, theoretical resources of trillions but how much is recoverable? In saying that I’d imagine Ukraine is far easier than Greenland.

Hibrandenburg

29-03-2025, 10:43 AM

I wonder if Trump’s thugs will have Hitler type ‘Brownshirts’ or conventional red.

You make jokes, but the parallels to a previous fascist keep coming thick and fast:

A little food for thought ...

In 1923, Adolf Hitler called for an uprising against the German government. He was put on trial, but received only a lenient sentence and became a convicted felon. Despite the judge's lenient treatment, Hitler claimed that the trial was a political persecution and successfully portrayed himself as a victim of the "corrupt" Social Democrats.

He skilfully staged himself as the voice of the "common man", railed against the "elites", cultural "decadence" and the establishment, all of whom he described as "Marxists". Hitler claimed that the education system was indoctrinating children to hate Germany and promised to lead the country back to greatness.

To consolidate his following, Hitler made minorities the scapegoats for the nation's problems and exploited social divisions with "us against them" rhetoric. Many Germans fell for it. The NSDAP continued to gain popularity until Hitler became Reich Chancellor in 1933.

Hitler appointed German oligarchs as his economic advisors and privatised state-run utilities to secure the support of the business elite. While the working class was divided along cultural and ethnic lines, the Nazis closed trade unions and banned strikes.

Progressive forces and union members were arrested and sent to concentration camps. Corporate profits skyrocketed while workers in Germany lived from pay cheque to pay cheque. Hitler himself became a billionaire during his time in office. He and his clique of oligarchs knew they could get away with their scam as long as they constantly presented an "enemy within" to blame while corporate rule plundered the country.

An easy target was one of the smallest minorities. Hitler stripped Jews of their birthright to German citizenship and began arresting them for mass deportations on the grounds that they were "illegally" in the country. The German press under Nazi control highlighted cases of violence by Jews to convince the public that Jewish immigrants were a danger to the "real Germans".

Hitler wasted no time in dismantling democratic institutions. Loyalty was not only encouraged, but demanded. Opponents were silenced, and media who dared to criticise him were vilified as "enemies" and "Marxists".

Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels boasted that the Nazis had intimidated the media into giving them favourable coverage without having to give direct orders.

The Nazi regime and its supporters collected all books that they saw as promoting "decadence" or what would today be called "woke" and burned them in huge bonfires. They also burned books that promoted class consciousness.

Berlin had a thriving LGBTQ community in the 1920s, including the first transgender clinic. The Nazis burned it down. LGBTQ people were sent to concentration camps and had to wear pink triangle badges. Many were murdered in the Holocaust.

The Nazis also saw masculinity threatened by independent women who were not dependent on men. In 1934, Hitler proclaimed: "A woman's world is her husband, her family, her children, her home." Laws that had protected women's rights were repealed and new laws restricted women to the role of wives and mothers.

Reproductive rights were massively curtailed and doctors who performed abortions could face the death penalty.

Despite all this, the Germans had no comparable historical warning to look back on. Most people did not behave as if doom was imminent.

Most went on with their lives as usual - until many of them were wiped out. When Hitler's reign was finally ended by the Allies, 11 million people had been murdered in the Holocaust and 70 to 85 million people died in the Second World War.

It started with the NSDAP or MAGA, just as it does today.

Jim44

29-03-2025, 01:31 PM

You make jokes, but the parallels to a previous fascist keep coming thick and fast:

A little food for thought ...

In 1923, Adolf Hitler called for an uprising against the German government. He was put on trial, but received only a lenient sentence and became a convicted felon. Despite the judge's lenient treatment, Hitler claimed that the trial was a political persecution and successfully portrayed himself as a victim of the "corrupt" Social Democrats.

He skilfully staged himself as the voice of the "common man", railed against the "elites", cultural "decadence" and the establishment, all of whom he described as "Marxists". Hitler claimed that the education system was indoctrinating children to hate Germany and promised to lead the country back to greatness.

To consolidate his following, Hitler made minorities the scapegoats for the nation's problems and exploited social divisions with "us against them" rhetoric. Many Germans fell for it. The NSDAP continued to gain popularity until Hitler became Reich Chancellor in 1933.

Hitler appointed German oligarchs as his economic advisors and privatised state-run utilities to secure the support of the business elite. While the working class was divided along cultural and ethnic lines, the Nazis closed trade unions and banned strikes.

Progressive forces and union members were arrested and sent to concentration camps. Corporate profits skyrocketed while workers in Germany lived from pay cheque to pay cheque. Hitler himself became a billionaire during his time in office. He and his clique of oligarchs knew they could get away with their scam as long as they constantly presented an "enemy within" to blame while corporate rule plundered the country.

An easy target was one of the smallest minorities. Hitler stripped Jews of their birthright to German citizenship and began arresting them for mass deportations on the grounds that they were "illegally" in the country. The German press under Nazi control highlighted cases of violence by Jews to convince the public that Jewish immigrants were a danger to the "real Germans".

Hitler wasted no time in dismantling democratic institutions. Loyalty was not only encouraged, but demanded. Opponents were silenced, and media who dared to criticise him were vilified as "enemies" and "Marxists".

Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels boasted that the Nazis had intimidated the media into giving them favourable coverage without having to give direct orders.

The Nazi regime and its supporters collected all books that they saw as promoting "decadence" or what would today be called "woke" and burned them in huge bonfires. They also burned books that promoted class consciousness.

Berlin had a thriving LGBTQ community in the 1920s, including the first transgender clinic. The Nazis burned it down. LGBTQ people were sent to concentration camps and had to wear pink triangle badges. Many were murdered in the Holocaust.

The Nazis also saw masculinity threatened by independent women who were not dependent on men. In 1934, Hitler proclaimed: "A woman's world is her husband, her family, her children, her home." Laws that had protected women's rights were repealed and new laws restricted women to the role of wives and mothers.

Reproductive rights were massively curtailed and doctors who performed abortions could face the death penalty.

Despite all this, the Germans had no comparable historical warning to look back on. Most people did not behave as if doom was imminent.

Most went on with their lives as usual - until many of them were wiped out. When Hitler's reign was finally ended by the Allies, 11 million people had been murdered in the Holocaust and 70 to 85 million people died in the Second World War. o

It started with the NSDAP or MAGA, just as it does today.

My post may be couched in sarcastic humour but I can assure you it’s more ‘nervous’ than ‘humourous’

grunt

29-03-2025, 03:27 PM

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s.a.m

29-03-2025, 04:00 PM

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"Canada and Greenland need to have the USA. Very importantly, for international security, we have to have the US."

Bostonhibby

29-03-2025, 05:41 PM

You make jokes, but the parallels to a previous fascist keep coming thick and fast:

A little food for thought ...

In 1923, Adolf Hitler called for an uprising against the German government. He was put on trial, but received only a lenient sentence and became a convicted felon. Despite the judge's lenient treatment, Hitler claimed that the trial was a political persecution and successfully portrayed himself as a victim of the "corrupt" Social Democrats.

He skilfully staged himself as the voice of the "common man", railed against the "elites", cultural "decadence" and the establishment, all of whom he described as "Marxists". Hitler claimed that the education system was indoctrinating children to hate Germany and promised to lead the country back to greatness.

To consolidate his following, Hitler made minorities the scapegoats for the nation's problems and exploited social divisions with "us against them" rhetoric. Many Germans fell for it. The NSDAP continued to gain popularity until Hitler became Reich Chancellor in 1933.

Hitler appointed German oligarchs as his economic advisors and privatised state-run utilities to secure the support of the business elite. While the working class was divided along cultural and ethnic lines, the Nazis closed trade unions and banned strikes.

Progressive forces and union members were arrested and sent to concentration camps. Corporate profits skyrocketed while workers in Germany lived from pay cheque to pay cheque. Hitler himself became a billionaire during his time in office. He and his clique of oligarchs knew they could get away with their scam as long as they constantly presented an "enemy within" to blame while corporate rule plundered the country.

An easy target was one of the smallest minorities. Hitler stripped Jews of their birthright to German citizenship and began arresting them for mass deportations on the grounds that they were "illegally" in the country. The German press under Nazi control highlighted cases of violence by Jews to convince the public that Jewish immigrants were a danger to the "real Germans".

Hitler wasted no time in dismantling democratic institutions. Loyalty was not only encouraged, but demanded. Opponents were silenced, and media who dared to criticise him were vilified as "enemies" and "Marxists".

Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels boasted that the Nazis had intimidated the media into giving them favourable coverage without having to give direct orders.

The Nazi regime and its supporters collected all books that they saw as promoting "decadence" or what would today be called "woke" and burned them in huge bonfires. They also burned books that promoted class consciousness.

Berlin had a thriving LGBTQ community in the 1920s, including the first transgender clinic. The Nazis burned it down. LGBTQ people were sent to concentration camps and had to wear pink triangle badges. Many were murdered in the Holocaust.

The Nazis also saw masculinity threatened by independent women who were not dependent on men. In 1934, Hitler proclaimed: "A woman's world is her husband, her family, her children, her home." Laws that had protected women's rights were repealed and new laws restricted women to the role of wives and mothers.

Reproductive rights were massively curtailed and doctors who performed abortions could face the death penalty.

Despite all this, the Germans had no comparable historical warning to look back on. Most people did not behave as if doom was imminent.

Most went on with their lives as usual - until many of them were wiped out. When Hitler's reign was finally ended by the Allies, 11 million people had been murdered in the Holocaust and 70 to 85 million people died in the Second World War.

It started with the NSDAP or MAGA, just as it does today.I'd never see this as a joke, there's some very valid observations in what you say.

And as someone who has read a helluva lot about the monstrosities that were the Nazi party, their pre and post 1936 rise and methodology, coupled with the warped and dangerous personalities who Hitler surrounded himself with (and why) the similarities are deeply concerning for anyone or anything these fanatical cowards happen to focus on next.

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grunt

29-03-2025, 05:46 PM

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DaveF

29-03-2025, 06:01 PM

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I'd love that to be real and not a Photoshop job

Jones28

29-03-2025, 06:09 PM

I'd love that to be real and not a Photoshop job

It’s real, videos on Reddit of people taking them down. It was a charging station in Tottenham.

Aldo

29-03-2025, 06:16 PM

Read an article earlier about Vance and his comments about security of the waters surrounding Greenland.

This paragraph in the article should put Trump and co’s minds at ease when it comes to the security issue they may have…..

On the security front, a 74-year-old treaty with Denmark permitting the US to increase its military presence in Greenland at any time – from new bases to submarine harbours - should surely take care of Washington's concerns about countering the threat from China, just as it did during the Cold War years.

lapsedhibee

29-03-2025, 07:43 PM

You make jokes, but the parallels to a previous fascist keep coming thick and fast:

A little food for thought ...

In 1923, Adolf Hitler called for an uprising against the German government. He was put on trial, but received only a lenient sentence and became a convicted felon. Despite the judge's lenient treatment, Hitler claimed that the trial was a political persecution and successfully portrayed himself as a victim of the "corrupt" Social Democrats.

He skilfully staged himself as the voice of the "common man", railed against the "elites", cultural "decadence" and the establishment, all of whom he described as "Marxists". Hitler claimed that the education system was indoctrinating children to hate Germany and promised to lead the country back to greatness.

To consolidate his following, Hitler made minorities the scapegoats for the nation's problems and exploited social divisions with "us against them" rhetoric. Many Germans fell for it. The NSDAP continued to gain popularity until Hitler became Reich Chancellor in 1933.

Hitler appointed German oligarchs as his economic advisors and privatised state-run utilities to secure the support of the business elite. While the working class was divided along cultural and ethnic lines, the Nazis closed trade unions and banned strikes.

Progressive forces and union members were arrested and sent to concentration camps. Corporate profits skyrocketed while workers in Germany lived from pay cheque to pay cheque. Hitler himself became a billionaire during his time in office. He and his clique of oligarchs knew they could get away with their scam as long as they constantly presented an "enemy within" to blame while corporate rule plundered the country.

An easy target was one of the smallest minorities. Hitler stripped Jews of their birthright to German citizenship and began arresting them for mass deportations on the grounds that they were "illegally" in the country. The German press under Nazi control highlighted cases of violence by Jews to convince the public that Jewish immigrants were a danger to the "real Germans".

Hitler wasted no time in dismantling democratic institutions. Loyalty was not only encouraged, but demanded. Opponents were silenced, and media who dared to criticise him were vilified as "enemies" and "Marxists".

Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels boasted that the Nazis had intimidated the media into giving them favourable coverage without having to give direct orders.

The Nazi regime and its supporters collected all books that they saw as promoting "decadence" or what would today be called "woke" and burned them in huge bonfires. They also burned books that promoted class consciousness.

Berlin had a thriving LGBTQ community in the 1920s, including the first transgender clinic. The Nazis burned it down. LGBTQ people were sent to concentration camps and had to wear pink triangle badges. Many were murdered in the Holocaust.

The Nazis also saw masculinity threatened by independent women who were not dependent on men. In 1934, Hitler proclaimed: "A woman's world is her husband, her family, her children, her home." Laws that had protected women's rights were repealed and new laws restricted women to the role of wives and mothers.

Reproductive rights were massively curtailed and doctors who performed abortions could face the death penalty.

Despite all this, the Germans had no comparable historical warning to look back on. Most people did not behave as if doom was imminent.

Most went on with their lives as usual - until many of them were wiped out. When Hitler's reign was finally ended by the Allies, 11 million people had been murdered in the Holocaust and 70 to 85 million people died in the Second World War.

It started with the NSDAP or MAGA, just as it does today.

:agree: :agree: And there'd be no shortage of MAGAs happy to be dressed up and taking potshots at the incarcerated classes, just for sport.

Keith_M

30-03-2025, 02:27 PM

During Trump's first stint in the White House, he declared he was going to do the 'biggest deal ever' by buying Greenland. He was raging when the Danish Prime Minister said that Greenland was not for sale.

What we are seeing now is Trump's ego in action. He didn't get his way first time round and he's determined to right that wrong.

This has nothing to do with US security, or even mineral rights, it's 100% the Big Baby determined to get what he was denied first time round.

Scorrie

30-03-2025, 05:21 PM

Read that Greenlanders are wearing MAGA hats…Make America Go Away

cabbageandribs1875

30-03-2025, 05:24 PM

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cabbageandribs1875

30-03-2025, 05:32 PM

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cabbageandribs1875

30-03-2025, 05:41 PM

Ron Filipkowski: "Trevor Milton donated $920,000 to Trump’s PAC last year. He never made political donations before that. bsky.app/profile/atru..." — Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3llhknji4hc2q)

Ozyhibby

31-03-2025, 04:07 PM

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Good work by Trump. Coming recession for the US could be a biggy.

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cabbageandribs1875

31-03-2025, 06:32 PM

quite astonishing House Foreign Affairs Committee Majority on X: "MAGA 1, Libs 0 https://t.co/0sLwNzic55" / X (https://x.com/HouseForeignGOP/status/1906008542382879094)

Ozyhibby

01-04-2025, 03:05 PM

s.a.m

01-04-2025, 03:10 PM

quite astonishing House Foreign Affairs Committee Majority on X: "MAGA 1, Libs 0 https://t.co/0sLwNzic55" / X (https://x.com/HouseForeignGOP/status/1906008542382879094)

The administration's various accounts have basically become trolling sites. Some of the White House's stuff has been obscene.

Hibs4185

01-04-2025, 04:20 PM

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Wonder how long this goes before they start defaulting on loans or have to shut down factories?

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Not much chance of that! Tesla is more than a car company which is why the valuation is so high.

I’m sure a few more months will cause them some pain but I can’t see any defaults or anything such like taking place. Maybe threaten factory closures to scare the governments about unemployment

Ozyhibby

01-04-2025, 04:32 PM

Not much chance of that! Tesla is more than a car company which is why the valuation is so high.

I’m sure a few more months will cause them some pain but I can’t see any defaults or anything such like taking place. Maybe threaten factory closures to scare the governments about unemployment

Valuation doesn’t pay the bills month to month though? They have three giant factories geared up to millions of cars which won’t sell. At some point the money won’t be there to pay the workers, tax etc.

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Scorrie

01-04-2025, 04:51 PM

Trumps so called “Liberation Day” tomorrow with loads of tariffs. Will be interesting to see if he goes through with it. Could be very costly to world economies if he does

CropleyWasGod

01-04-2025, 04:53 PM

Valuation doesn’t pay the bills month to month though? They have three giant factories geared up to millions of cars which won’t sell. At some point the money won’t be there to pay the workers, tax etc.

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They had $36bn in the bank at the end of December.

https://digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/image/upload/IR/TSLA-Q4-2024-Update.pdf

Ozyhibby

01-04-2025, 05:19 PM

They had $36bn in the bank at the end of December.

https://digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/image/upload/IR/TSLA-Q4-2024-Update.pdf

And if revenues drop by a third that will be gone in a year?

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Ozyhibby

02-04-2025, 06:33 AM

They had $36bn in the bank at the end of December.

https://digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/image/upload/IR/TSLA-Q4-2024-Update.pdf

65% drop in Denmark. Can they last a full year if this keeps up? There is a lot of capital out there and nobody buying the cars.

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grunt

02-04-2025, 10:44 AM

Bostonhibby

02-04-2025, 11:11 AM

Myanmar earthquake: "American assistance has yet to arrive".

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:symzo4zcv67xbxapesdwsig2/bafkreib3wnmatbgoh4jq4vhniatlnpjf24tr2vkmjbqlv4zva jfe36wwfa@jpegThey are led by a man that wanted to turn Gaza into a holiday resort.

Maybe in the longer term their current world view might see them as the pariahs that the orange guys Russian and north korean pals have become.

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Ozyhibby

02-04-2025, 04:01 PM

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g4zp3z1p3o

Deliveries down 13% first quarter. Most of them would have been ordered before Trump took office. I would think next quarter would be a lot worse.

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Ozyhibby

02-04-2025, 04:49 PM

Rumours Musk stepping away from DOGE. Doubt that will help Tesla. Damage is done there.

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The Tubs

02-04-2025, 04:52 PM

Rumours Musk stepping away from DOGE. Doubt that will help Tesla. Damage is done there.

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I read an article a few weeks ago that claimed the cabinet generally disliked him for stepping on their toes.

Ozyhibby

02-04-2025, 04:59 PM

I read an article a few weeks ago that claimed the cabinet generally disliked him for stepping on their toes.

He does seem like a very dislikable chap.

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Hibs4185

02-04-2025, 05:13 PM

Rumours Musk stepping away from DOGE. Doubt that will help Tesla. Damage is done there.

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I think he can only serve for 130 days as he isn’t a proper government official.

He was in Wisconsin last night campaigning for the republican Supreme Court nomination and he was greeting about the Tesla share price and how it’s affecting him.

Unfortunately for him the share price is only headed one way for a while

Ozyhibby

02-04-2025, 05:16 PM

I think he can only serve for 130 days as he isn’t a proper government official.

He was in Wisconsin last night campaigning for the republican Supreme Court nomination and he was greeting about the Tesla share price and how it’s affecting him.

Unfortunately for him the share price is only headed one way for a while

I don’t think the share price is tied to sales just yet. It’s all about believing in him. Need the sales to fall a lot further first and see the company struggle first.

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Scorrie

02-04-2025, 08:38 PM

“Liberation day” in full swing. 25% tariff on all cars imported to the US and 10% on all UK goods

Ozyhibby

02-04-2025, 08:44 PM

“Liberation day” in full swing. 25% tariff on all cars imported to the US and 10% on all UK goods

Let’s hope he holds his nerve this time. Americans need to feel some pain.

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Hibs4185

02-04-2025, 08:53 PM

“Liberation day” in full swing. 25% tariff on all cars imported to the US and 10% on all UK goods

Discounted reciprocal rates however UK has a matched rate of 10%.

I think they’ll work out a trade deal pretty quickly. The US has a small trade surplus with us, we must be one of the only countries in that position

Ozyhibby

02-04-2025, 08:55 PM

Discounted reciprocal rates however UK has a matched rate of 10%.

I think they’ll work out a trade deal pretty quickly. The US has a small trade surplus with us, we must be one of the only countries in that position

They’ll soon have a big trade surplus as we won’t match them. Starmer will just take the hit to Whisky and Salmon because it’s Scotland and he doesn’t give a monkeys.

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marinello59

02-04-2025, 08:56 PM

Ozyhibby

02-04-2025, 08:57 PM

Good business opportunity for Ireland just to export from the north.

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Ozyhibby

02-04-2025, 09:18 PM

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Starmer just going to take it.

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cabbageandribs1875

02-04-2025, 09:26 PM

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Ozyhibby

02-04-2025, 09:27 PM

Good business opportunity for Ireland just to export from the north.

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Actually looks like NI is 20%.

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SHODAN

02-04-2025, 09:35 PM

That'll be America's economy completely eviscerated now. Amazing. What was his plan here?

What's the impact on the rest of us?

cabbageandribs1875

02-04-2025, 09:42 PM

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Hibs4185

02-04-2025, 10:05 PM

No Russia on the list

Ozyhibby

02-04-2025, 10:32 PM

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Ozyhibby

02-04-2025, 10:34 PM

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grunt

03-04-2025, 06:19 AM

Discounted reciprocal rates however UK has a matched rate of 10%. I think we need to be careful using Trump's description of reciprocal rates. The rates he claims are entirely made up.

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I think they’ll work out a trade deal pretty quickly. The US has a small trade surplus with us, we must be one of the only countries in that positionTrade deals with the US are not worth the paper. Mexico and Canada had trade deals with the US, "negotiated" by Trump; they've just been ripped up.

Hibrandenburg

03-04-2025, 06:45 AM

No Russia on the list

Under current sanctions there's no real trade happening anyway.

Bostonhibby

03-04-2025, 07:38 AM

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Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkPeople are always telling him things, maybe he just heard that those pesky MacDonald Islanders are laughing at them as well so he thought he'd hit them with one of those big signatures he is fond of?

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Ozyhibby

03-04-2025, 07:50 AM

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Bostonhibby

03-04-2025, 07:53 AM

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Hibs4185

03-04-2025, 08:00 AM

I think we need to be careful using Trump's description of reciprocal rates. The rates he claims are entirely made up.

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Trade deals with the US are not worth the paper. Mexico and Canada had trade deals with the US, "negotiated" by Trump; they've just been ripped up.

We should just give tariff free access for their cars, no one will buy them anyway. It’s not the price of them due to imposed tariffs, it’s the fact they are big and *hite.

lapsedhibee

03-04-2025, 08:35 AM

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That's brilliant. And it's a nice touch they've all turned out wearing orange, to further mock Trump.

matty_f

03-04-2025, 01:05 PM

Paulie Walnuts

03-04-2025, 01:38 PM

I watched a fair chunk of his speech and it blows my mind that anyone takes him seriously at all. It's very difficult , when you try to follow what he's actually saying, to come to any other conclusion than he's an imbecile.

:agree:

He’s incoherent most of the time. It’s incredible that off the back of Biden being so incoherent that the next incumbent is the exact same.

Ozyhibby

03-04-2025, 01:42 PM

:agree:

He’s incoherent most of the time. It’s incredible that off the back of Biden being so incoherent that the next incumbent is the exact same.

Biden was slow and had moments where he lost his place but his policies were well thought out and considered. They were backed by a solid team with evidence based assessments. He put together a strong presidency where the US performed the best in the G20.
His mistake was not sticking by his promise to just do one term and allow a proper primary race.

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Ozyhibby

03-04-2025, 02:02 PM

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Keith_M

03-04-2025, 02:03 PM

So Trump has literally no idea what the word 'reciprocal' means.

Not a big surprise, TBH, but imagine letting a guy with an IQ of a ten year old in charge of the White House.

Hibby70

03-04-2025, 02:24 PM

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At least he seems to be wearing a suit

Bostonhibby

03-04-2025, 04:18 PM

At least he seems to be wearing a suitSquare go between the bird and Jaydee.

Jaydee might eat it but my money's on the bird.

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matty_f

03-04-2025, 04:45 PM

So Trump has literally no idea what the word 'reciprocal' means.

Not a big surprise, TBH, but imagine letting a guy with an IQ of a ten year old in charge of the White House.
I think he struggles with words like "and" or "cat"

Ozyhibby

03-04-2025, 05:26 PM

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03-04-2025, 05:48 PM

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Great again.

Bostonhibby

03-04-2025, 07:20 PM

Great again.Is it too late for the orange guy to bring in Bozo as a consultant?

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Jones28

03-04-2025, 08:21 PM

Is it too late for the orange guy to bring in Bozo as a consultant?

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Could they two dumplings hold a conversation?

Incoherent nonsense from Trump and posh noise from Johnson, it would quite funny to watch if it wasn’t so important.

grunt

03-04-2025, 08:27 PM

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03-04-2025, 09:13 PM

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03-04-2025, 10:29 PM

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Ozyhibby

05-04-2025, 08:58 AM

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grunt

05-04-2025, 08:04 PM

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tamig

05-04-2025, 08:50 PM

Bristolhibby

06-04-2025, 08:35 AM

Ozyhibby

06-04-2025, 09:17 AM

Thinking of visiting the US? [emoji848]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/i-was-a-british-tourist-trying-to-leave-america-then-i-was-detained-shackled-and-sent-to-an-immigration-detention-centre?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

And the UK govt is doing what about this treatment of its citizens?

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Sylar

06-04-2025, 11:34 AM

I’ve experienced the new administration first hand, with my appointment at a US University having been suddenly revoked. Institution were incredibly apologetic but it’s really disappointing.

s.a.m

06-04-2025, 11:36 AM

I’ve experienced the new administration first hand, with my appointment at a US University having been suddenly revoked. Institution were incredibly apologetic but it’s really disappointing.

Really sorry to hear that.:aok:

CropleyWasGod

06-04-2025, 11:50 AM

Ozyhibby

06-04-2025, 11:53 AM

tamig

06-04-2025, 12:31 PM

Bostonhibby

06-04-2025, 12:47 PM

Was speaking to a guy last night who travels regularly to Nashville for his work and he said that the changes at immigration are massive. They took his phone and downloaded all his emails and his social media accounts. Very different atmosphere.
Don’t think I’ll travel there anytime soon.

Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkFriend who lives in Montreal says about one in 3 canadians used to travel to and spend money in the states, especially in winter time in Canada.

They are seriously boycotting there now and reckons it will last and cost the States even more in winter. The Caribbean, specifically Mexico looks like being the winner.

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grunt

06-04-2025, 01:41 PM

Friend who lives in Montreal says about one in 3 canadians used to travel to and spend money in the states, especially in winter time in Canada.

They are seriously boycotting there now and reckons it will last and cost the States even more in winter. The Caribbean, specifically Mexico looks like being the winner.
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Bristolhibby

06-04-2025, 03:05 PM

Was speaking to a guy last night who travels regularly to Nashville for his work and he said that the changes at immigration are massive. They took his phone and downloaded all his emails and his social media accounts. Very different atmosphere.
Don’t think I’ll travel there anytime soon.

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Is this for real? Been hearing things but put it down to scaremongering.

What on earth would they be wanting some random Businessman’s phone for?

J

Ozyhibby

06-04-2025, 03:12 PM

Is this for real? Been hearing things but put it down to scaremongering.

What on earth would they be wanting some random Businessman’s phone for?

J

It’s def real, the guy seemed genuine. Doubts there is anything sensitive on his phone anyway but had to tell his employers because they took the emails.
No idea why they want all that data but I doubt it’s for good.

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greenlex

06-04-2025, 03:15 PM

Is this for real? Been hearing things but put it down to scaremongering.

What on earth would they be wanting some random Businessman’s phone for?

J
Any anti Trump/Vance sentiment and you are persona non grata with the regime

Jim44

06-04-2025, 04:00 PM

Fascist dictatorship. With ‘friends’ like them who needs enemies?

tamig

06-04-2025, 04:36 PM

Is this for real? Been hearing things but put it down to scaremongering.

What on earth would they be wanting some random Businessman’s phone for?

J

There’s been numerous examples reported of people being detained after they’ve surrendered their phones at immigration. Any anti-Trump comments found and you’re done. People from all walks of life.

Paulie Walnuts

06-04-2025, 05:50 PM

Thinking of visiting the US? 🤔

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/i-was-a-british-tourist-trying-to-leave-america-then-i-was-detained-shackled-and-sent-to-an-immigration-detention-centre?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I had a few posters giving it the big un on the main board on the World Cup thread when I said I wouldn’t return to the USA whilst he’s president. One of them even incredibly claimed that nothing has changed in America since he became president, although the poster revels in telling everyone how racist they and their pals are every time the Mackay discussion comes up so it’s not a huge surprise.

Honestly, **** America, **** the World Cup and **** travelling there whilst Trump is president.

Hibrandenburg

06-04-2025, 05:58 PM

I had a few posters giving it the big un on the main board on the World Cup thread when I said I wouldn’t return to the USA whilst he’s president. One of them even incredibly claimed that nothing has changed in America since he became president, although the poster revels in telling everyone how racist they and their pals are every time the Mackay discussion comes up so it’s not a huge surprise.

Honestly, **** America, **** the World Cup and **** travelling there whilst Trump is president.

**** buying anything American if avoidable.

tamig

06-04-2025, 08:04 PM

McD

07-04-2025, 10:37 AM

Hibrandenburg

07-04-2025, 03:31 PM

Speculation growing that the whole tariffs action is to get a 0 tariffs agreement with the EU. If that happens, then the UK might find itself outside looking in and very isolated.

Stairway 2 7

07-04-2025, 03:55 PM

Speculation growing that the whole tariffs action is to get a 0 tariffs agreement with the EU. If that happens, then the UK might find itself outside looking in and very isolated.

White house just said any reports of pauses or 0% tariffs are "fake news". He's just said that if China don't back down on retaliatory tariffs by tomorrow then China will go from 34% to 50%

The last thing he wants are 0% tariffs and a bigger deficit, he wants no trade deficit. In his head selling goods for currency to a nation is him getting robbed, he's been going on about trade deficits since the 80s.

The only people the tariffs will hurt are the American public and nations that do retaliatory tariffs are just hurting their own public. That goes for every nation bar China, who are winning internationally from any trade wars. They should try and get lots of 0% deals in place in the meantime

Lendo

07-04-2025, 03:57 PM

Speculation growing that the whole tariffs action is to get a 0 tariffs agreement with the EU. If that happens, then the UK might find itself outside looking in and very isolated.

I would love to see the brexiteers reaction to this.

Hibs4185

07-04-2025, 03:57 PM

Speculation growing that the whole tariffs action is to get a 0 tariffs agreement with the EU. If that happens, then the UK might find itself outside looking in and very isolated.

I have a vested interest because I have a house in France and for the last few days I’ve been astonished at how far the pound has fallen against the euro.

Initially the pound jumped when the tariffs were announced especially as Europe is 20% and UK 10%.

Maybe this is the reason why.

Britain is in a very perilous state, although I think the rumours wil probably have came from Musk saying there should be synergy between Europe and USA.

Whether musk and trump are still besties is another subject

Ozyhibby

07-04-2025, 04:01 PM

I have a vested interest because I have a house in France and for the last few days I’ve been astonished at how far the pound has fallen against the euro.

Initially the pound jumped when the tariffs were announced especially as Europe is 20% and UK 10%.

Maybe this is the reason why.

Britain is in a very perilous state, although I think the rumours wil probably have came from Musk saying there should be synergy between Europe and USA.

Whether musk and trump are still besties is another subject

Wonder what the pound was at in 2014 when we were threatened with the Euro if we voted Yes?

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Ozyhibby

07-04-2025, 04:03 PM

White house just said any reports of pauses or 0% tariffs are "fake news". He's just said that if China don't back down on retaliatory tariffs by tomorrow then China will go from 34% to 50%

The last thing he wants are 0% tariffs and a bigger deficit, he wants no trade deficit. In his head selling goods for currency to a nation is him getting robbed, he's been going on about trade deficits since the 80s.

The only people the tariffs will hurt are the American public and nations that do retaliatory tariffs are just hurting their own public. That goes for every nation bar China, who are winning internationally from any trade wars. They should try and get lots of 0% deals in place in the meantime

The Donald needs to hold firm and get those extra 50% tariffs placed on China. And we need the EU to get there response out there now for him to go higher again. Americans need to feel real pain.

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Hibernian Verse

07-04-2025, 04:04 PM

Wonder what the pound was at in 2014 when we were threatened with the Euro if we voted Yes?

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https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/history/GBP-EUR-2014

Ozyhibby

07-04-2025, 04:07 PM

https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/history/GBP-EUR-2014

So we would have been better off? [emoji106]

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Stairway 2 7

07-04-2025, 04:09 PM

The Donald needs to hold firm and get those extra 50% tariffs placed on China. And we need the EU to get there response out there now for him to go higher again. Americans need to feel real pain.

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I'm happy for them to feel it but unfortunately it will cause a worldwide recession like 2008. That recession caused an extra 97 million people worldwide to go into hunger. Such is the capitalist system, millions worldwide will die from this and Trump will still be playing golf

Ozyhibby

07-04-2025, 04:12 PM

I'm happy for them to feel it but unfortunately it will cause a worldwide recession like 2008. That recession caused an extra 97 million people worldwide to go into hunger. Such is the capitalist system, millions worldwide will die from this and Trump will still be playing golf

All that is true but we really need Americans to get back to valuing democracy and their fellow democratic allies. The consequences of not could be even higher.
And a side benefit is the tanking oil price will be killing Russia.

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Stairway 2 7

07-04-2025, 04:42 PM

All that is true but we really need Americans to get back to valuing democracy and their fellow democratic allies. The consequences of not could be even higher.
And a side benefit is the tanking oil price will be killing Russia.

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Only positive is that the rest of the world will surely realise we can't depend on one nations for defence, trade, supply lines etc. Europe should have been self protected years ago.

The Russian economy has taken a pounding the last few days crude now at the lowest point in 5 years.

I see some politicians are already trying to use this to bump net zero. Starmer pushing back dates on hybrids etc is calculated and pathetic

s.a.m

07-04-2025, 04:46 PM

All that is true but we really need Americans to get back to valuing democracy and their fellow democratic allies. The consequences of not could be even higher.
And a side benefit is the tanking oil price will be killing Russia.

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I agree. There is no good option here, that protects the innocent citizens affected by this and curtails the US government's mobster-extortion approach to the economy and geopolitics. They need stopped, and it needs to happen quickly before it gets even worse and more dangerous.

s.a.m

07-04-2025, 04:47 PM

Only positive is that the rest of the world will surely realise we can't depend on one nations for defence, trade, supply lines etc. Europe should have been self protected years ago.

The Russian economy has taken a pounding the last few days crude now at the lowest point in 5 years.

I see some politicians are already trying to use this to bump net zero. Starmer pushing back dates on hybrids etc is calculated and pathetic

:aok:

Ozyhibby

07-04-2025, 04:51 PM

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Stairway 2 7

07-04-2025, 05:02 PM

The President of the United States, dear lord

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO. Don’t be Weak! Don’t be Stupid! Don’t be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!). Be Strong, Courageous, and Patient, and GREATNESS will be the result!

Bostonhibby

07-04-2025, 05:09 PM

Hibrandenburg

07-04-2025, 05:35 PM

White house just said any reports of pauses or 0% tariffs are "fake news". He's just said that if China don't back down on retaliatory tariffs by tomorrow then China will go from 34% to 50%

The last thing he wants are 0% tariffs and a bigger deficit, he wants no trade deficit. In his head selling goods for currency to a nation is him getting robbed, he's been going on about trade deficits since the 80s.

The only people the tariffs will hurt are the American public and nations that do retaliatory tariffs are just hurting their own public. That goes for every nation bar China, who are winning internationally from any trade wars. They should try and get lots of 0% deals in place in the meantime

Well if the Whitehouse are saying it's "Fake News" then that's that theory scuppered.

lapsedhibee

07-04-2025, 06:51 PM

Well if the Whitehouse are saying it's "Fake News" then that's that theory scuppered.
Didn't the EU offer Trump 0% tariffs last time round and he turned them down? Who's speculating that he wants that now?
I'll be amazed if he has a coherent plan like that.
Children with measles are dying in America.

Stairway 2 7

07-04-2025, 07:10 PM

Well if the Whitehouse are saying it's "Fake News" then that's that theory scuppered.

There's also that there is zero chance Trump wants 0% tariffs on the EU when that would exasperate the fake problem he has in a trade deficit. He said yesterday “We put a big tariff on Europe. They are coming to the table; they want to talk, but there’s no talk unless they pay us a lot of money on a yearly basis—not just for the present, but also for the past"

He thinks the EU owes them for every year there was a deficit and wants to bring it as close to even or preferably surplus. It's so daft

Bostonhibby

07-04-2025, 07:10 PM

Off the bar

07-04-2025, 07:41 PM

Where's the Washington Post when an evil lying president and his collaborators and enablers need called out?https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20250407/20b5d9638370e0b06a55d7f73a737e45.jpg

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The opinion and editorial pieces in the Washington post are almost universally negative to Trump and his administration.
Even the Bezos decision for the paper to not endorse a candidate in the election was panned by all the contributing opinion pieces as well as being criticised by the editorial board.
The tv news media in the US is awful across the political spectrum but I think they have some excellent newspapers.

Bostonhibby

07-04-2025, 07:49 PM

The opinion and editorial pieces in the Washington post are almost universally negative to Trump and his administration.
Even the Bezos decision for the paper to not endorse a candidate in the election was panned by all the contributing opinion pieces as well as being criticised by the editorial board.
The tv news media in the US is awful across the political spectrum but I think they have some excellent newspapers.

I agree with you, I was alluding to the Post doing what it did to Nixon.

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Off the bar

07-04-2025, 08:29 PM

Bostonhibby

07-04-2025, 08:35 PM

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Bostonhibby

07-04-2025, 08:37 PM

[QUOTE=Bostonhibby;7932470]I agree with you, I was alluding to the Post doing what it did to Nixon.

That would require a functioning congress and Republican Party prepared to impeach him when presented with the evidence. The fact they whitewashed the Jan 6th stuff and didn’t impeach him on that let him know he could do whatever the **** he wants.
The New York Times had that 8 page pull out special during his first term which detailed in indisputable detail the various frauds (mortgage and tax) his business empire was built on. It made no difference.
It doesn’t matter what any journalist digs up now because the US is truly post truth and the MAGA lot will just call it fake news and a witch hunt and it’ll make no difference.Yep, he's neutered the democratic checks and balances whilst taking autocratic control at the same time as surrounding himself with inadequate weirdos who are promoted way above their ability and intellect.

An enormous cult like following hanging on his every nonsensical word.

Not dissimilar to where Hitler was around 1934-5.

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Off the bar

07-04-2025, 08:42 PM

[QUOTE=Off the bar;7932493]Yep, he's neutered the democratic checks and balances whilst taking autocratic control at the same time as surrounding himself with inadequate weirdos who are promoted way above their ability and intellect.

An enormous cult like following hanging on his every nonsensical word.

Not dissimilar to where Hitler was around 1934-5.

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Agree with all of that, it is truly a ***** state of affairs.

I used to enjoy going to the US for work and pleasure but I won’t go back until there’s change there. It’s absolute madness that the worst possible, least qualified people are in charge of everything that’s left.

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Moulin Yarns

08-04-2025, 07:37 AM

This from threads

Ok. I’m shaking. This is my first thread. My small business that I’ve had for 20 years is probably dead as of now. Trump and his idiotic tariffs killed my livelihood, my families business today.
Just now, I got a small shipment via UPS of products my customers are waiting for.

…A small box. A small box of stuff that can’t be made in the USA because we don’t have the materials here.
The tariff bill I have to pay the US government is $5,000.
$5000 needs to be paid up front. How can I stay in business unless I jack up prices now? As a small business I’ve always prided myself on giving …great customer service and lowest possible prices. This is NOT sustainable.
NOT ONE economist says tariffs will be good for the country. If me, an average American is already feeling this and will have to possibly shut my business of 20 years…then I know we are ALL in danger of a collapsing economy.

…All for a vanity act of a narcissistic president that knows nothing about business.
America will be his 7th bankruptcy.
No, I didn’t vote for him. I knew this would end badly in 2016 when he came down that golden elevator in Trump tower. A TV reality star that was playing a role. An act. An unserious man, a felon and a SAer.

…I know I’m writing into a void, none of my post are ever read…but thanks Threads, I needed to vent.
And…if you own a small business, don’t order products from oversees anymore until you jack up your prices to cover your losses. I’m sorry for my loyal customers, some have been with me for 20 years and I love them all. TARIFFS ARE A TAX ON US ALL!
Time to buckle up.

Bostonhibby

08-04-2025, 08:00 AM

Ozyhibby

08-04-2025, 08:03 AM

Feel very sorry for this person.

Many decent Americans will be victims here but the orange fuhrer won't care about this one as he didn't vote for him so isn't one of his foot soldiers.

Hopefully many of his voters and supporters will have their equivalent experience too.

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Feel sorry for those that didn’t vote for him but not for a single person who did. They need to feel the full force. They knew it was going to be very bad for some people and were happy so long as it wasn’t them. Now it’s them and they fully deserve what’s coming.

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Paulie Walnuts

08-04-2025, 08:08 AM

Feel sorry for those that didn’t vote for him but not for a single person who did. They need to feel the full force. They knew it was going to be very bad for some people and were happy so long as it wasn’t them. Now it’s them and they fully deserve what’s coming.

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:agree:

Absolutely zero sympathy for anybody that voted for Trump. As you say, a vote for Trump was very clearly a big **** you to the people it was going to **** over. So many of them were just too stupid to see they were part of that group.

If you voted for Trump, you are everything that is wrong with humanity.

Bostonhibby

08-04-2025, 08:08 AM

Feel sorry for those that didn’t vote for him but not for a single person who did. They need to feel the full force. They knew it was going to be very bad for some people and were happy so long as it wasn’t them. Now it’s them and they fully deserve what’s coming.

Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkYep, classic Nazi Party tactics, divide and rule, create hate targets and hide your real agenda, in this case it feels like there are very few boundaries and it's a cult of "self".

It is so poorly planned that there's no way Trump supporters aren't going to be affected, it comes down to how many of them aren't able to see it, or admit it. He might still be shooting very thick fish in a giant barrel.

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Ozyhibby

08-04-2025, 09:39 AM

https://bsky.app/profile/newseye.bsky.social/post/3lmbz7r4lss2f

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Paulie Walnuts

08-04-2025, 12:09 PM

Bostonhibby

08-04-2025, 12:19 PM

I know it would be nigh on impossible, but has there ever been a calculation of what a completely American made iPhone or something similar (or at least as much as humanly possible) would cost if it was completely built in the states? From the building of the factories, manufacturing, labour etc, it would be an interesting calculation.

If we use an iPhone as an example, they cost about $1300 right now I think. Would it be an exaggeration to suggest they’d have to increase in price to about $15000?It's a great question.

Cleverer people than me were talking yesterday about how the Americans will either have to work for the same wages as the Vietnamese, Chinese and Mexicans or pay sky high prices for similar products to maintain wage expectation in the States. And that's before you factor in available skills.

And all this whilst they are hounding out potential "foreign" labour and seeing favourable trade deals being struck between countries they have hit with tariffs.

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tamig

08-04-2025, 12:41 PM

I know it would be nigh on impossible, but has there ever been a calculation of what a completely American made iPhone or something similar (or at least as much as humanly possible) would cost if it was completely built in the states? From the building of the factories, manufacturing, labour etc, it would be an interesting calculation.

If we use an iPhone as an example, they cost about $1300 right now I think. Would it be an exaggeration to suggest they’d have to increase in price to about $15000?

I was listening to an American economist yesterday and he used the iPhone production as an example to demonstrate the cost of US vs Chinese manufactured. He said $20000 was not an unreasonable estimate. Mental.

Ozyhibby

08-04-2025, 12:52 PM

I was listening to an American economist yesterday and he used the iPhone production as an example to demonstrate the cost of US vs Chinese manufactured. He said $20000 was not an unreasonable estimate. Mental.

I saw a figure of £30000 quoted.

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/01/17/how-much-would-an-iphone-cost-if-apple-were-forced-to-make-it-in-america/

Bostonhibby

08-04-2025, 01:05 PM

I was listening to an American economist yesterday and he used the iPhone production as an example to demonstrate the cost of US vs Chinese manufactured. He said $20000 was not an unreasonable estimate. Mental.Maybe the orange guy is going to solve it with bleach, or get all those penguins visas?

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Paulie Walnuts

08-04-2025, 01:59 PM

Thanks all. That truly is an unbelievable thought, and that’s just one item. Throw in TVs, vehicles, furniture, car parts and a million and one other things and the numbers become absolutely insane.

I saw an explanation regarding a tangerine and even the description around the price of that was mental. Things like the nets you buy them in, the labels, the transportation of them, the tractors that they are moved around in, the warehouses they’re stored in, the shops that are built to sell them and lots of other bits and pieces that would all sky rocket in price.

CropleyWasGod

08-04-2025, 02:06 PM

I saw a figure of £30000 quoted.

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/01/17/how-much-would-an-iphone-cost-if-apple-were-forced-to-make-it-in-america/

That article is 7 years old.

Here's one that is more recent.

https://nypost.com/2025/04/06/us-news/heres-how-trumps-tariffs-could-send-iphone-prices-over-2000/

lapsedhibee

08-04-2025, 02:10 PM

the Americans will either have to work for the same wages as the Vietnamese, Chinese and Mexicans

Maybe the US could pop back to an old system they had there where some of the population didn't get paid at all for the work they did? :dunno:

Ozyhibby

08-04-2025, 02:18 PM

That article is 7 years old.

Here's one that is more recent.

https://nypost.com/2025/04/06/us-news/heres-how-trumps-tariffs-could-send-iphone-prices-over-2000/

Is it not two different things though? That article is the cost of you pay the tariffs? I thought it was for a 100% US made iPhone.

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Ozyhibby

08-04-2025, 02:22 PM

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A bit of infighting happening now.

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Bostonhibby

08-04-2025, 02:40 PM

Maybe the US could pop back to an old system they had there where some of the population didn't get paid at all for the work they did? :dunno:Slowly, slowly, the orange guys vision has only just begun to become reality, he'll invent plenty more super policy, just as soon as people keep telling him........

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Bostonhibby

08-04-2025, 02:41 PM

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A bit of infighting happening now.

Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkWho to back? Rudolf Hess or Herman Goering?

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lapsedhibee

08-04-2025, 03:05 PM

Who to back? Rudolf Hess or Herman Goering?

Got to be a cage fight to decide, surely? :dunno:

Bostonhibby

08-04-2025, 03:07 PM

Got to be a cage fight to decide, surely? :dunno:The Musk Rat has form right enough.

"America's richest and most cowardly man, Musk, proposed an idiotic fight, then came up with every excuse not to really do it".

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Hibrandenburg

08-04-2025, 04:04 PM

Maybe the US could pop back to an old system they had there where some of the population didn't get paid at all for the work they did? :dunno:

I'm sure he'd consider it, if he hasn't already.

CropleyWasGod

08-04-2025, 04:10 PM

Is it not two different things though? That article is the cost of you pay the tariffs? I thought it was for a 100% US made iPhone.

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Yeah, you're right.

The "cost with tariffs" isn't nearly as scary as the other one.

Quite apart from the upfront costs in setting up a production facility in the US, the profit margins at that price will be so slim as to make it uneconomic. Would-be manufacturers would also be wary of the fact that there might be a change in Government, and policy, in a few years' time.

IMO, people and businesses who can afford it will suck up the price-increases for now; others will hold off upgrading.

Sergio sledge

08-04-2025, 04:11 PM

Is it not two different things though? That article is the cost of you pay the tariffs? I thought it was for a 100% US made iPhone.

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Yeah, that's one of the reasons why tariffs might not work as well as Trump seems to think, unless Apple shift the manufacturing for the entire worlds supply of iphones to the US, the cost of manufacturing a 100% US made iphone is likely to be much higher than just getting one from China and paying the additional tariff on it.

For reference, there's an interesting video on youtube detailing the costs involved in making somebody's dream phone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bny2NJkJGXc
which gives a rough idea of the cost of making a phone from scratch. The cost of an iphone would clearly be much less as this is a one off, but it does give you an idea of the costs involved in setting up new tooling lines and assembly lines.

Ozyhibby

08-04-2025, 04:18 PM

Yeah, you're right.

The "cost with tariffs" isn't nearly as scary as the other one.

Quite apart from the upfront costs in setting up a production facility in the US, the profit margins at that price will be so slim as to make it uneconomic. Would-be manufacturers would also be wary of the fact that there might be a change in Government, and policy, in a few years' time.

IMO, people and businesses who can afford it will suck up the price-increases for now; others will hold off upgrading.

My current iPhone is over 5 years old and I’m hoping to get a few more months out of it although the speaker is deteriorating on it now and I’m switching to Samsung after seeing the Apple boss standing with Trump at his inauguration.

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silverhibee

08-04-2025, 04:25 PM

Maybe the orange guy is going to solve it with bleach, or get all those penguins visas?

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You would think that amazing guy Elon could come up with a super duper phone for half the price.

Bostonhibby

08-04-2025, 04:28 PM

You would think that amazing guy Elon could come up with a super duper phone for half the price.He can if he can make it outside America, and do a tariff free deal with China.

Maybe someone should whisper it in the orange guy's ear? People are always telling him they don't want to pay more for everything.

They might get a super deal from a super deal maker.

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silverhibee

08-04-2025, 04:29 PM

Maybe the US could pop back to an old system they had there where some of the population didn't get paid at all for the work they did? :dunno:

I’m sure it will get to that point again

CropleyWasGod

08-04-2025, 04:38 PM

My current iPhone is over 5 years old and I’m hoping to get a few more months out of it although the speaker is deteriorating on it now and I’m switching to Samsung after seeing the Apple boss standing with Trump at his inauguration.

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US citizens won't have that as much of an option, of course. High-end Samsungs are made in Vietnam. (46% on that Liberation Day scale....)

Ozyhibby

08-04-2025, 04:40 PM

US citizens won't have that as much of an option, of course. High-end Samsungs are made in Vietnam.

Owning a phone shop in Hamilton Ontario is likely to become very profitable if these tariffs hold(I don’t think they will).

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CropleyWasGod

08-04-2025, 04:50 PM

Owning a phone shop in Hamilton Ontario is likely to become very profitable if these tariffs hold(I don’t think they will).

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My best mate lives in Toronto, and of course he's pleading with all of us over here to boycott anything US.

So I bought something recently, which originated in Ontario. I proudly sent him a photo of the box.......

"That's Ontario, California.......prick".

:rolleyes:

Ozyhibby

08-04-2025, 04:58 PM

My best mate lives in Toronto, and of course he's pleading with all of us over here to boycott anything US.

So I bought something recently, which originated in Ontario. I proudly sent him a photo of the box.......

"That's Ontario, California.......prick".

:rolleyes:

[emoji23]

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Ozyhibby

08-04-2025, 05:03 PM

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Stick with it Don. I’m right behind you.[emoji106]

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CropleyWasGod

08-04-2025, 05:05 PM

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Stick with it Don. I’m right behind you.[emoji106]

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200% tariffs on inappropriate apostrophes, please.

grunt

08-04-2025, 05:50 PM

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grunt

08-04-2025, 06:03 PM

United States Secretary of Homeland Security, today.

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greenlex

08-04-2025, 06:41 PM

Meanwhile 12% has been wiped out both my pension fund and investment ISA.
At this rate I’ll be a pauper by July.

tamig

08-04-2025, 07:35 PM

United States Secretary of Homeland Security, today.

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It truly is a real-life caricature. The whole thing. How long will it take the people to wake up to what is going on? There must be something in their water 🙄

Kato

08-04-2025, 09:28 PM

$10Trillion lost on stock market since the tariffs were applied but the rich can't afford to be taxed more. [emoji848]

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Stevie Reid

08-04-2025, 09:35 PM

It truly is a real-life caricature. The whole thing. How long will it take the people to wake up to what is going on? There must be something in their water 🙄

https://x.com/mehdirhasan/status/1909691423240470672

Ozyhibby

08-04-2025, 09:37 PM

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https://www.politico.eu/article/keir-starmer-uk-online-safety-act-negotiation-united-states-digital-services-tax/

This man is a disgrace.

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s.a.m

08-04-2025, 11:13 PM

Today's EO says that America's energy is going to be unleashed, and trying to enforce hippy environmental nonsense is hereby outlawed...

https://bsky.app/profile/fieseler.bsky.social/post/3lmdk6x64as2a (https://bsky.app/profile/fieseler.bsky.social/post/3lmdk6x64as2a)

‪Clare Fieseler, PhD‬ (https://bsky.app/profile/fieseler.bsky.social) ‪@fieseler.bsky.social‬ (https://bsky.app/profile/fieseler.bsky.social)
NEW: Trump's latest executive order declares state climate change policies "illegal and unconstitutional."

Ozyhibby

09-04-2025, 08:10 AM

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Bostonhibby

09-04-2025, 10:49 AM

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Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkFrack baby frack I think he said?

Not that it's required but yet more proof that this term is very much about the orange making it up on the hoof so long as he can do one of those big fancy signatures.

When he's gone who they gonna blame?

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Ozyhibby

09-04-2025, 11:20 AM

Frack baby frack I think he said?

Not that it's required but yet more proof that this term is very much about the orange making it up on the hoof so long as he can do one of those big fancy signatures.

When he's gone who they gonna blame?

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Trans people.

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Ozyhibby

09-04-2025, 11:40 AM

Bostonhibby

09-04-2025, 12:10 PM

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And there is a big bond sell off going on at same time. The opposite usually happens. Interest rates globally likely to rise. US could be facing a banking crisis.

Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkThey do like a good banking crisis, those in the know know when to divest and the rest (in their red hats) will be caught in the crossfire Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac style wondering how it all happened.

Agent Orange will blame Joe Biden.

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Smartie

09-04-2025, 01:18 PM

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https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/china-just-turned-off-u-s-supplies-of-minerals-critical-for-defense-cleantech/

"Now the reckoning is here, and it’s being administered by a country [China] that understands resource leverage the way a tiger understands a sheep."

Lovely quote.

grunt

09-04-2025, 01:54 PM

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lapsedhibee

09-04-2025, 02:00 PM

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/china-just-turned-off-u-s-supplies-of-minerals-critical-for-defense-cleantech/

"Now the reckoning is here, and it’s being administered by a country [China] that understands resource leverage the way a tiger understands a sheep."

Lovely quote.

Good article. Wonder how a tiger understands a simpleton with a gun.

Ozyhibby

09-04-2025, 05:07 PM

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Ozyhibby

09-04-2025, 05:37 PM

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Trump ****s the bed except it’s still bad with China now up to 125% and everyone else at 10%.

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blackpoolhibs

09-04-2025, 05:37 PM

Trump blinked first, sanctions postponed for 90 days apart from China.

cabbageandribs1875

09-04-2025, 05:43 PM

Trump fires a top US military official to NATO - POLITICO (https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/07/trump-fires-a-top-u-s-military-official-to-nato-00007055)

(1) Republicans against Trump on X: "JUST IN: Donald Trump has fired Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield, the top U.S. military officer at NATO headquarters in Brussels, adding greater uncertainty over America’s role in the nearly eight-decade-old alliance. —Politico https://t.co/d3H3eAxfsL" / X (https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1909433842563236036)

NOBODY will question Dictator Trump or that Drunk Hegseth

cabbageandribs1875

09-04-2025, 05:50 PM

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GniMaoSXcAAbRYd?format=jpg&name=900x900

Paulie Walnuts

09-04-2025, 05:50 PM

Guess that means all the rich folk have managed to buy the dip.

Bostonhibby

09-04-2025, 05:50 PM

Trump blinked first, sanctions postponed for 90 days apart from China.An actual Military man somewhere, not a 5 times draft dodger or Hesgeth, probably told him they couldn't fight the penguins he'd threatened without all the chinese stuff they are, let's, face dependent on, and in some cases, don't have much of a plan B for once Agent Orange has brain farted.

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babahibs

09-04-2025, 06:00 PM

Guess that means all the rich folk have managed to buy the dip.

Yep, Trump and his mega rich pals have just filled their pockets even more.

lapsedhibee

09-04-2025, 06:06 PM

An actual Military man somewhere, not a 5 times draft dodger or Hesgeth, probably told him they couldn't fight the penguins he'd threatened without all the chinese stuff they are, let's, face dependent on, and in some cases, don't have much of a plan B for once Agent Orange has brain farted.

Yes but as he says in his post, those days is no longer sustainable. I hope he goes all the way with his economic revolution. Not just have Americans building iphones in America, but have each iphone built by a single person. That Adam Smith with his division of labour, what did he know, foreigner wasn't he?

Bostonhibby

09-04-2025, 06:28 PM

Yes but as he says in his post, those days is no longer sustainable. I hope he goes all the way with his economic revolution. Not just have Americans building iphones in America, but have each iphone built by a single person. That Adam Smith with his division of labour, what did he know, foreigner wasn't he?I won't be disagreeing[emoji106]

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Smartie

09-04-2025, 07:31 PM

Trump blinked first, sanctions postponed for 90 days apart from China.

Apparently "shat" is trending.

Bostonhibby

09-04-2025, 07:56 PM

Apparently "shat" is trending.Shat doesn't show on an orange person

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Ozyhibby

09-04-2025, 08:12 PM

With trade between the US and China now coming to a halt, will the Chinese start repatriating their money?

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Hibrandenburg

09-04-2025, 08:46 PM

They do like a good banking crisis, those in the know know when to divest and the rest (in their red hats) will be caught in the crossfire Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac style wondering how it all happened.

Agent Orange will blame Joe Biden.

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You called it, he's babbling on live now about how it's all Biden's fault.

Paulie Walnuts

09-04-2025, 09:38 PM

Yep, Trump and his mega rich pals have just filled their pockets even more.

:agree:

The big hitters ending the day double figure % in the green.

Kato

09-04-2025, 09:39 PM

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s.a.m

09-04-2025, 09:48 PM

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:applause:

Ozyhibby

09-04-2025, 10:10 PM

Bostonhibby

10-04-2025, 06:38 AM

Just watching the news and Starmer claiming that his cool and calm approach has paid off? How does he come to that opinion when we are still on 10% same as before and it’s the Europeans who retaliated who got a reduction? Am I missing something?

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Talking a lot and doing nothing to upset Agent Orange and probably thinking we got luckier than most, by sheer fluke, is pathetic on our part.

We don't have much of a hand to play being a very small trading bloc and largely irrelevant in other areas but fawning over this toxic version of the U S leaves a bad taste. I've got my doubts about Starmer's ability in a crisis.

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Jones28

10-04-2025, 08:24 AM

I am 100% convinced this was a deliberate ploy from Trump and the rest of the Oligarchy to short the stock market.

I would love someone to do an analysis on trading, what was bought and when, and then what it was subsequently sold for.

The same thing happened with tariffs a few weeks ago.

BILLYHIBS

10-04-2025, 08:32 AM

Did anyone buy the dip ?

grunt

10-04-2025, 08:42 AM

Bostonhibby

10-04-2025, 10:05 AM

She was a woman in the navy. There's no room for women in the armed forces.Unless they are that very sinister head of homeland "security" figure?

Maybe a token appointment since we now know so much of their security depends on when China decided to turn on and off supply of those pesky defence related exports that Maga's ain't got and can't produce for themselves.

****wits doesn't cover it.

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Ozyhibby

10-04-2025, 03:11 PM

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Bostonhibby

10-04-2025, 03:31 PM

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20250410/ff48bd22e005ddf9af9af825a53f2c85.jpg

Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkI think this is a really helpful explanation for those americans who maybe thought tariffs were something to eat, or some kind of hat, hopefully it reaches their leadership before it reaches their wallet.

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Bostonhibby

10-04-2025, 03:33 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/krassenstein.bsky.social/post/3lmhn47lbus2k

Those Chinese are using AI to troll us[emoji23]

grunt

10-04-2025, 04:36 PM

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Ozyhibby

10-04-2025, 04:56 PM

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This is a clear escalation. Gone beyond tariffs for the penguins.

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grunt

10-04-2025, 05:49 PM

How are you going to do that, then? Particularly the fourth item on your list.

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Keith_M

10-04-2025, 06:05 PM

I thought this was a good take on the Tariff announcement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEle3pZRqmI

cabbageandribs1875

10-04-2025, 07:55 PM

https://scontent.fman1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/489928116_9627259710664107_7993292262481925524_n.j pg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=aa7b47&_nc_ohc=8t0NcWXC7qYQ7kNvwEuNyrZ&_nc_oc=AdkEkn1lcK2BtdQO3y-8vX0B5aWEmyLovlraYzAT1FQJRvE0hKHMuLa4ipP5PljWhAc&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent.fman1-1.fna&_nc_gid=puD1CXtJCognQ9ITjijFFQ&oh=00_AfGa5llXKP4Chey4BJxVN-5uLFj_YNfZBXx65HdhAnlQOg&oe=67FDEB0B

Kato

10-04-2025, 08:10 PM

Jim44

10-04-2025, 10:30 PM

Aldo

11-04-2025, 06:36 AM

Oh, wowsers. It's almost like they might be crooks or somesuch.

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They don’t care do they. Not even subtle about it yet those who have questioned his

“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY.”

post are just grasping at straws in an attempt to jabs a punch on him.

Clear as day what has been done but let’s not forget he’s a convicted felon for fraud.

matty_f

11-04-2025, 07:32 AM

They don’t care do they. Not even subtle about it yet those who have questioned his

“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY.”

post are just grasping at straws in an attempt to jabs a punch on him.

Clear as day what has been done but let’s not forget he’s a convicted felon for fraud.

It’s a massive carve up whichever way you look at it. This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone - we know what he is. They voted him in fully aware of what they were getting.

Bostonhibby

11-04-2025, 08:09 AM

It’s a massive carve up whichever way you look at it. This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone - we know what he is. They voted him in fully aware of what they were getting.Blatant, grifters knew it was coming. The benefits of a crashed market are there for the few and better to get the grift out the way early and distract the many losers with other stuff like mexican walls, hating other groups and races.

Obviously never made enough out of the mugs with the Trump cryptocurrency wheeze on day 1.

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Ozyhibby

11-04-2025, 09:33 AM

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Surely at the point now when all trade stops?

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Hibrandenburg

11-04-2025, 10:11 AM

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20250411/1f7c4d40eda04b95bbeb0c4788d83953.jpg
Surely at the point now when all trade stops?

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No point in raising tarrifs anymore, trade between the 2 countries is pointless. Trump will probably still try and get the last word though.

Ozyhibby

11-04-2025, 10:46 AM

No point in raising tarrifs anymore, trade between the 2 countries is pointless. Trump will probably still try and get the last word though.

The Chinese have now said they won’t respond any further as it’s just stupid numbers now and will have no effect. Trade is over between them. If they start selling or even just let their bonds expire then the US is in trouble.

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Bostonhibby

11-04-2025, 12:35 PM

The Chinese have now said they won’t respond any further as it’s just stupid numbers now and will have no effect. Trade is over between them. If they start selling or even just let their bonds expire then the US is in trouble.

Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkIf only they could sell the bonds to Russia, Putin could complete his take over[emoji23]

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Ozyhibby

11-04-2025, 12:47 PM

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America’s overall tariff rate actually went up after Wednesday. Shows how dumb stock market investors can be that it went up on the announcement.

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BILLYHIBS

11-04-2025, 06:14 PM

https://i.ibb.co/dZdwthm/IMG-3417.png (https://ibb.co/YgzFXr0)

Ozyhibby

11-04-2025, 07:57 PM

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s.a.m

11-04-2025, 09:05 PM

https://i.ibb.co/dZdwthm/IMG-3417.png (https://ibb.co/YgzFXr0)

:greengrin

cabbageandribs1875

11-04-2025, 11:10 PM

all true apparently :)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GoNTfuHXEAAJi5-?format=jpg&name=large

Ozyhibby

12-04-2025, 01:43 PM

Trump has now excluded smart phones from the tariffs. Wonder how much Apple gave him?

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greenlex

12-04-2025, 02:21 PM

Trump has now excluded smart phones from the tariffs. Wonder how much Apple gave him?

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China should just stop supplying them to the US.

Ozyhibby

12-04-2025, 02:26 PM

China should just stop supplying them to the US.

They won’t though because they are projecting themselves as a safe reliable partner for business.

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Bristolhibby

12-04-2025, 02:39 PM

Trump has now excluded smart phones from the tariffs. Wonder how much Apple gave him?

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More climb downs from Donny. It’s almost as if he’s bitten off more than he can chew.

J

Bostonhibby

12-04-2025, 02:40 PM

Trump has now excluded smart phones from the tariffs. Wonder how much Apple gave him?

Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkWell that's bound to persuade the Chinese to just hand them over what they need.

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Ozyhibby

12-04-2025, 02:43 PM

Well that's bound to persuade the Chinese to just hand them over what they need.

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Think the Chinese must be pissing themselves at the ineptitude of the US.

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Bostonhibby

12-04-2025, 03:10 PM

Think the Chinese must be pissing themselves at the ineptitude of the US.

Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkI'm wondering if the orange guy is a double double agent, working for China as well as Russia?

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Ozyhibby

12-04-2025, 03:14 PM

I'm wondering if the orange guy is a double double agent, working for China as well as Russia?

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To be fair, he might be about to collapse Russia. The oil price just keeps falling and the Russians are now selling at below $50 which means they are losing money. This Trump recession is a nightmare for Putin.

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Bostonhibby

12-04-2025, 03:16 PM

To be fair, he might be about to collapse Russia. The oil price just keeps falling and the Russians are now selling at below $50 which means they are losing money. This Trump recession is a nightmare for Putin.

Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkSo he's a double, double, double agent?

I know he's always telling everyone how clever he is...........

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Ozyhibby

12-04-2025, 03:17 PM

So he's a double, double, double agent?

I know he's always telling everyone how clever he is...........

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Under estimate his genius at your peril.[emoji23]

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Jones28

12-04-2025, 03:37 PM

So he's a double, double, double agent?

I know he's always telling everyone how clever he is...........

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He’s playing 5d chess, the rest of us are playing tiddlywinks.

Bostonhibby

12-04-2025, 05:49 PM

There's nothing he can't do. Finely tuned athlete.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20250412/53abb8ccc2a4c5eb2b4282028e505f66.jpg

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tamig

12-04-2025, 07:13 PM

There's nothing he can't do. Finely tuned athlete.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20250412/53abb8ccc2a4c5eb2b4282028e505f66.jpg

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As a guy I used to work with years ago used to proudly proclaim about his beer belly, he had a slipped chest 😄

Bostonhibby

12-04-2025, 07:23 PM

As a guy I used to work with years ago used to proudly proclaim about his beer belly, he had a slipped chest [emoji1]Wonder what the orange guy calls it

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grunt

12-04-2025, 07:29 PM

Seriously, WTF?

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:ckia47p4xlas3xpmisgrllck/bafkreidf72kqo4jc2kiart2a6rzmjg5sr6mrjr3piy2ruaya6 ee3lwdy34@jpeg

J-C

13-04-2025, 08:59 AM

There's nothing he can't do. Finely tuned athlete.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20250412/53abb8ccc2a4c5eb2b4282028e505f66.jpg

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He's the same weight as me hahaha, add on another 3+ stones at least.

Bostonhibby

13-04-2025, 11:20 AM

People keep telling him Abraham Lincoln did something good, they just didn't tell him what it was.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20250413/271d3aa31443308db3eff369baf4e3b2.jpg

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Bristolhibby

14-04-2025, 04:46 PM

Trump going on about Ukraine starting the war.

****ing unhinged behaviour!

Why don’t the press pick him up on this?
J

Stevie Reid

14-04-2025, 06:41 PM

Things have sunk to a whole new disgusting low in the Whitehouse today. There is no way back from this.

https://bsky.app/profile/adamkeiper.com/post/3lmrxxkzovc2h

Kato

14-04-2025, 09:48 PM

Things have sunk to a whole new disgusting low in the Whitehouse today. There is no way back from this.

https://bsky.app/profile/adamkeiper.com/post/3lmrxxkzovc2hIn the replies as to how to question Trump.

"Maybe next time you ask Trump "What message do you think it sends to other world leaders about your strength being that you are powerless to return Garcia to this country? Will that hurt your trade negations, knowing you are unable to resolve this?""

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grunt

15-04-2025, 06:10 AM

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Hibrandenburg

15-04-2025, 06:13 AM

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There's no way back for this US regime, they have to hold on to power by any means possible or they are doomed.

Bostonhibby

15-04-2025, 06:22 AM

There's no way back for this US regime, they have to hold on to power by any means possible or they are doomed.If and when the orange dictator's regime is ousted it's not too difficult to see the other gangster in this gruesome twosome being Noriega'd?

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grunt

15-04-2025, 12:05 PM

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vqka4tmwebdtqdtt63jbnx4v/bafkreia67vylteaclsyihm7wcigc7becrcq3faq4i35qbqsca rumfsuj54@jpeg

Off the bar

15-04-2025, 05:11 PM

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Edward Luce is really good, his commentary on the US is always spot on.

Hibrandenburg

15-04-2025, 06:12 PM

If and when the orange dictator's regime is ousted it's not too difficult to see the other gangster in this gruesome twosome being Noriega'd?

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We're already well into the downward spiral of fascism. They now have to keep intensifying their odious deeds to strip away the safeguards of American democracy, it's the only way they stay out of jail after their term of office is over.

Bostonhibby

15-04-2025, 06:48 PM

We're already well into the downward spiral of fascism. They now have to keep intensifying their odious deeds to strip away the safeguards of American democracy, it's the only way they stay out of jail after their term of office is over.Indeed

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cabbageandribs1875

15-04-2025, 08:48 PM

https://motforum.com/phpbb/download/file.php?id=18075&mode=view