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

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

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

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Splitters.

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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


Hegseth getting it tight on ye olde twitter Resign - Search / X

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

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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.

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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.

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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 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!

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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.

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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.

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: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.

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.

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

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


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quite astonishing House Foreign Affairs Committee Majority on X: "MAGA 1, Libs 0 https://t.co/0sLwNzic55" / X

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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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.

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

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


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

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

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


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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.

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He does seem like a very dislikable chap.


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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

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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

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

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

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


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

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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

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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

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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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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

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The base rate is 10%, that’s why we have no discount.

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


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Starmer just going to take it.


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Actually looks like NI is 20%.


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

What's the impact on the rest of us?

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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.

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

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People 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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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.

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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.

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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At least he seems to be wearing a suit

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Square go between the bird and Jaydee.

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

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I think he struggles with words like "and" or "cat"

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Great again.

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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.

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Thinking of visiting the US? 🤔

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Horrific!

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


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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.

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Did they give any reason?

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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Don’t think I’ll travel there anytime soon.


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Yes there’s been a few people detained and refused entry for content that’s been found on phones.

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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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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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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?

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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