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1 minute ago, Macanudo said:

Harrison Fields, a White House staffer, was on the radio today with Steve Scully talking about all of this.  He was rah-rahing the tariffs.  Scully asked him about Heard and McDonald plus Diego Garcia.   He said the reasoning was to prevent anyone trying to get around the tariffs by using places like this.  Of course Scully didn't ask him how some tiny ass windswept, penguin infested islands 1,000 miles from Australia would factor into that.

Ok, let’s play along.

Some country under tariffs decides to try to game the system by claiming a false country of origin. Are they contending that they would have been tricked if they were told “Yes sir Mr. Customs Officer these industrial widgets were built in Heard and McDonald Island! No tariffs for me.”

And instead they would be charged 10% to make up for all the penguins that have been screwing over American workers?

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26 minutes ago, Auto Driller said:

Ok, let’s play along.

Some country under tariffs decides to try to game the system by claiming a false country of origin. Are they contending that they would have been tricked if they were told “Yes sir Mr. Customs Officer these industrial widgets were built in Heard and McDonald Island! No tariffs for me.”

And instead they would be charged 10% to make up for all the penguins that have been screwing over American workers?

The only thing on Diego Garcia is an airbase we operate. 

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32 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

Harrison Fields, a White House staffer, was on the radio today with Steve Scully talking about all of this.  He was rah-rahing the tariffs.  Scully asked him about Heard and McDonald plus Diego Garcia.   He said the reasoning was to prevent anyone trying to get around the tariffs by using places like this.  Of course Scully didn't ask him how some tiny ass windswept, penguin infested islands 1,000 miles from Australia would factor into that.

Heard and McDonald was lined up to be the next Cayman Islands for money laundering, but noooooo.  Dotard was too smart for them dumbass penguins.

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35 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

Harrison Fields, a White House staffer, was on the radio today with Steve Scully talking about all of this.  He was rah-rahing the tariffs.  Scully asked him about Heard and McDonald plus Diego Garcia.   He said the reasoning was to prevent anyone trying to get around the tariffs by using places like this.  Of course Scully didn't ask him how some tiny ass windswept, penguin infested islands 1,000 miles from Australia would factor into that.

if this wasn't a lie then gibraltar would be tariffed the same as the UK and guadalupe would be tarriffed the same as france.

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1 minute ago, elfenix said:

if this wasn't a lie then gibraltar would be tariffed the same as the UK and guadalupe would be tarriffed the same as france.

Bolded for chuckles.

Dear god, all they fucking DO is lie.  Their lie rate is greater than the average human's respiration rate.

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16 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

They are fucking morons. I explained 10 years ago that we were losing the country and needed to stop being polite and be very clear that the idiots are fucking idiots. 

Idiots impervious to shame. They created the perfect killing machine.

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Maybe because I've had too much Japanese whisky and Scotch. But FUCK TRUMP!

 

Actually, I don't need to be drunk to say with conviction, FUCK TRUMP!

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13 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

Idiots impervious to shame. They created the perfect killing machine.

Yeah I tried to make "Make Ignorance Shameful Again" happen but felt a lot like Gretchen in Mean Girls

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7 minutes ago, Superhero said:

Maybe because I've had too much Japanese whisky and Scotch. But FUCK TRUMP!

 

Actually, I don't need to be drunk to say with conviction, FUCK TRUMP!

I’m fucked up on vodka and weed and echo your message.

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Vodka is not worth the money.

 

At times I wish I didn’t work for a construction company and they didn’t give a shit about weed, because I feel like I’ve been missing out.

Even my stick-up-her-ass wife has tried edibles and she is so much more fun when she’s high. 

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13 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

This is what I've been saying over and over. Dems need to hang this shit on Congressional R's. Scream it from the mountain tops. DOTarD is fucking you over, hard. And Congress is letting him do it. 

Introduce bills to stop this shit. They won't pass, but it might help to get the message out there. 

The right-wing media bubble is impenetrable. 

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12 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

They are fucking morons. I explained 10 years ago that we were losing the country and needed to stop being polite and be very clear that the idiots are fucking idiots. 

The 'Everybody Gets a Trophy' kids became 'All Opinions Are Important!' adults. 

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1 hour ago, Ben Tobin said:

The 'Everybody Gets a Trophy' kids became 'All Opinions Are Important!' adults. 

Bullshit.  Today I was at my son's soccer game.  We were there cheering, I saw the smallest kid take a chest full of soccer ball and minutes later another kid get hit in the groin and collapse while trying to block a ball.  Those kids played and had heart.  They tried, practice, sweat, etc.   Those adult opinions require no such fucking effort or learning.   

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16 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Bolded for chuckles.

Dear god, all they fucking DO is lie.  Their lie rate is greater than the average human's respiration rate.

For real, if they say an entirely true sentence about anything it would be breaking news. We are in pre-glasnost Soviet Union on that front. Among others. 

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1 hour ago, Ben Tobin said:

The 'Everybody Gets a Trophy' kids became 'All Opinions Are Important!' adults. 

Correction: the people who have bitched and moaned about "everyone gets a trophy" kids for decades have always been "you have to take my opinion seriously" overcompensating wimps.

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I don't really believe Trump himself picked the formula, unless he's actually bought into the AI = god shit that Elon and Thiel believe. More likely, he just doesn't want people thinking that he outsourced his favorite policy to a bunch of underlings. 

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1 hour ago, Ben Tobin said:

The 'Everybody Gets a Trophy' kids became 'All Opinions Are Important!' adults. 

LOL.  When I was young one of my mom's favorite lines was, "Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one."  Don't hear that one much anymore.  

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13 hours ago, Superhero said:

Why? Do you want to be pegged?

 

/NTTAWWT

Uh, aren't we all getting pegged right now by our government?

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1 minute ago, Macanudo said:

Uh, aren't we all getting pegged right now by our government?

NowThis made it seem more enjoyable

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25 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

I don't really believe Trump himself picked the formula, unless he's actually bought into the AI = god shit that Elon and Thiel believe. More likely, he just doesn't want people thinking that he outsourced his favorite policy to a bunch of underlings. 

It’s a Peter Navarro operation.  Navarro was shouted down in the first Trump administration, but now the gatekeepers are paper shuffling simps.

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7 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

Maybe billionaires who are wholly insulated from consequences for crashing the economy shouldn’t be running government. 
 

This is all just so fucking dumb

fify

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44 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

Correction: the people who have bitched and moaned about "everyone gets a trophy" kids for decades have always been "you have to take my opinion seriously" overcompensating wimps.

On Facebook several years ago, I had a lot of back home type friends who were always going on about "everyone gets a trophy" and how it's making today's kids and our country soft. They didn't seem to remember that in the leagues we played in as youths in the 80s everyone got a fucking trophy, the same god damn trophy whether they were on the championship team or last place. Same whether they were the best player in the league or the worst. Yet somehow in 2018, they were a bunch of old school hard asses who never ever got a participation trophy. 

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Trump may have killed off any hope for US ownership of Tik Tok.  

https://archive.is/qNS9e

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Earlier this week, when it seemed as though TikTok’s fate in the US would actually be decided by April 5th, everyone — from Amazon to the founder of OnlyFans — was coming out of the woodwork to buy it.

As it turns out, none of them had a chance. And now, thanks to President Donald Trump’s tariff war, no one may get to buy TikTok.

 

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People familiar with the matter tell me that, despite all of the bids for the app, the White House was only seriously considering an Oracle-led consortium, which included many of ByteDance’s biggest investors who were set to roll their stakes into a new, US entity. 

The proposal, which would have licensed the app’s algorithm from China and shuffled some shareholder money around to make TikTok look more independent from ByteDance, was set to be announced before President Trump went nuclear on tariffs. As others have reported and I’ve independently confirmed, his tariff announcement on Wednesday torched any immediate chance of the TikTok proposal being blessed by the Chinese government.

 

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On Friday, less than an hour after Trump said he was pushing back the clock on banning TikTok by another 75 days to finish working out a deal, ByteDance issued its first statement on the situation, saying that “any agreement will be subject to approval under Chinese law.” 

After suggesting on Thursday that China would approve a TikTok deal in exchange for tariff relief, the president seemed less confident on Friday: “We hope to continue working in Good Faith with China, who I understand are not very happy about our Reciprocal Tariffs (Necessary for Fair and Balanced Trade between China and the U.S.A.!).”

Anyone who has been closely following this tortured saga that is the TikTok ban is exhausted. Now, five years after he first tried to ban it, Trump has seemingly torpedoed the plan that was finally going to keep TikTok running. 

His friend Larry Ellison was going to secure more business for Oracle by reviving the broad strokes of the Project Texas security proposal that was made to the previous administration (albeit this time with fewer security guarantees, since this administration doesn’t really care about national security threats the app may or may not pose). TikTok’s investors and employees were finally going to get certainty about the app’s fate. ByteDance was going to effectively stay in the driver’s seat while maintaining control of its algorithm. And Trump was going to get to say that he saved TikTok. 

TikTok gets to continue operating in the US for a while longer, thanks to Trump’s Department of Justice not enforcing a ban that was passed by Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court. TikTok’s US hosting providers, including Apple, Google, and Oracle, are seemingly still okay with this situation despite the fact that they are very much breaking the law. And unless Trump ultimately eases on tariffs against China, TikTok may end up banned after all.

What a giant farce.

 



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