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17 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

200 trade deals, everyone.  Just believe him:

 

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You’ve made 200 deals?

100%.

Can you share with whom?

Because the deal is a deal that I choose. View it differently: We are a department store, and we set the price. I meet with the companies, and then I set a fair price, what I consider to be a fair price, and they can pay it, or they don't have to pay it. They don't have to do business with the United States, but I set a tariff on countries. Some have been horrible to us. Some have been okay. Nobody's been great. Nobody's been great. Everybody took advantage of us. What I'm doing is I will, at a certain point in the not too distant future, I will set a fair price of tariffs for different countries. These are countries—some of them have made hundreds of billions of dollars, and some of them have made just a lot of money. Very few of them have made nothing because the United States was being ripped off by every, almost every country in the world, in the entire world. So I will set a price, and when I set the price, and I will set it fairly according to the statistics, and according to everything else. For instance, do they have the VAT system in play? Do they charge us tariffs? How much are they charging us? How much have they been charging us? Many, many different factors, right. How are we being treated by that country? And then I will set a tariff. ...

So, once again, dumbfuck doesn't know what words mean.  Somehow, he's concluded that a "deal" is him unilaterally setting a tariff rate.  And he's done that 200 times.  Or he will do that 200 times within 3-4 weeks ...

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I’m just curious, why don’t you announce these deals that you’ve solidified? 

I would say, over the next three to four weeks, and we're finished, by the way.

You’re finished? 

We’ll be finished. 

Oh, you will be finished in three to four weeks. 

I’ll be finished. Now, some countries may come back and ask for an adjustment, and I'll consider that, but I'll basically be, with great knowledge, setting—ready?

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I'm sure the market will find this very comforting somehow, though.

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46 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

200 trade deals, everyone.  Just believe him:

 

 

He made 200 trade deals in three weeks with three day golf weekends and WWE events in between? Where does he find the time!?

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42 minutes ago, Gap03 said:

What I'm doing is I will, at a certain point in the not too distant future, I will set a fair price of tariffs for different countries. These are countries—some of them have made hundreds of billions of dollars, and some of them have made just a lot of money. Very few of them have made nothing because the United States was being ripped off by every, almost every country in the world, in the entire world. So I will set a price, and when I set the price, and I will set it fairly according to the statistics, and according to everything else.

This is the entire problem with this little-dicked simpleton.  He thinks that if the other guys also made a profit, he got ripped off.  It's impossible for his underpowered brain to conceive of a mutually beneficial arrangement.  This is why it's okay for him to stiff everyone he does business with and owes money to.  That's him winning and them losing.  Who gives a shit if it's fair?

We're not going to have an ally left in this world when this guy is done.

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5 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

 

This is the entire problem with this little-dicked simpleton.  He thinks that if the other guys also made a profit, he got ripped off.  It's impossible for his underpowered brain to conceive of a mutually beneficial arrangement.  This is why it's okay for him to stiff everyone he does business with and owes money to.  That's him winning and them losing.  Who gives a shit if it's fair?

We're not going to have an ally left in this world when this guy is done.

I honestly never thought our defense industry would let him smash their gravy train. Supplying Ukraine was the greatest thing that ever happened to that industry. Offload old equipment, build new equipment, Europe lining up to buy from us. He fucking trashed it and not a peep from the biggest industry we have 

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35 minutes ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

I honestly never thought our defense industry would let him smash their gravy train. Supplying Ukraine was the greatest thing that ever happened to that industry. Offload old equipment, build new equipment, Europe lining up to buy from us. He fucking trashed it and not a peep from the biggest industry we have 

Because they will get it later with subsidies.   Old equipment kicking Russian ass was a great marketing play and mutually beneficial for both the government and our industry.  But because trump didn't personally benefit...

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Just like with the farmers, they don't seem to care if their business gets ruined because they can count on free tax payer money later.

That seems unsustainable and bad for the economy to just close off markets and sell less product and then make up for it by putting the government further in debt. 

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7 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Hundreds of thousands?

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5 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

200 trade deals, everyone.  Just believe him:

Uhhh... did someone tell him there are only 195 countries in the world?

https://www.worldometers.info/geography/how-many-countries-are-there-in-the-world/#:~:text=Countries in the World%3A&text=There are 195 countries in,and the State of Palestine.

And China told him to pound sand. So who are the extra 6 countries?

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34 minutes ago, Superhero said:

Hundreds of thousands?

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Uhhh... did someone tell him there are only 195 countries in the world?

https://www.worldometers.info/geography/how-many-countries-are-there-in-the-world/#:~:text=Countries in the World%3A&text=There are 195 countries in,and the State of Palestine.

And China told him to pound sand. So who are the extra 6 countries?

Bro - he's making separate deals with each of the penguin islands.   Keep up.

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So, I have multiple clients that I am quite sure are being fucked over by this massively.

I am a bit afraid to ask, though.  Part of it is I don't want to know, and I fear too that many of them are members of the Leopards Eating Faces party.

But today I wrote a client reminding of some things he needs to send me and he said "I've been busy fighting a trade war."

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15 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

So, I have multiple clients that I am quite sure are being fucked over by this massively.

I am a bit afraid to ask, though.  Part of it is I don't want to know, and I fear too that many of them are members of the Leopards Eating Faces party.

But today I wrote a client reminding of some things he needs to send me and he said "I've been busy fighting a trade war."

Camp near the Fields of Global Commerce
April 2025

My Dearest Clara,

I write you now from the trenches of a most peculiar conflict—not one fought with muskets and cannon, but with tariffs, regulations, and the shifting allegiance of markets. The generals call it a "trade war," but to us enlisted souls in the factories, farms, and freightyards, it feels every bit as real as the battles of my youth. The enemy wears no color, no uniform; rather, he hides behind currency fluctuations and retaliatory duties, his weapons are policy announcements, and his victories tallied not in land, but in balance sheets.

Our commanders—chief among them the President and his council of economists—speak often of protecting the homeland’s industry, of restoring balance with the East. Chief among our adversaries is the Empire of China, who has laid claim to a vast portion of the world’s supply chains. We levy duties upon their goods, and they, in turn, upon ours. The ports are quieter now, Clara. Fewer ships come bearing foreign wares, and our own exports pile up like unspent bullets, waiting for markets that no longer beckon.

The people back home are divided. Some cheer each blow struck against foreign dominance, calling it the price of sovereignty. Others curse the rising costs and thinning shelves, whispering that this war was started not for defense, but for pride. The merchants and smallholders suffer most, caught between policies too large for them to sway, yet too near to ignore.

Still, we hold the line. We speak of reshoring, of independence, of victory through resilience. But as with all wars, Clara, I wonder if the end will come not through triumph, but through exhaustion. Pray that our leaders see sense before this trade war turns to ashes what industry we have left.

Your faithful,
<Insert name of TwiceHorn's client>
4th Division, Economic Front

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40 minutes ago, Thrawn said:

 

Camp near the Fields of Global Commerce
April 2025

My Dearest Clara,

I write you now from the trenches of a most peculiar conflict—not one fought with muskets and cannon, but with tariffs, regulations, and the shifting allegiance of markets. The generals call it a "trade war," but to us enlisted souls in the factories, farms, and freightyards, it feels every bit as real as the battles of my youth. The enemy wears no color, no uniform; rather, he hides behind currency fluctuations and retaliatory duties, his weapons are policy announcements, and his victories tallied not in land, but in balance sheets.

Our commanders—chief among them the President and his council of economists—speak often of protecting the homeland’s industry, of restoring balance with the East. Chief among our adversaries is the Empire of China, who has laid claim to a vast portion of the world’s supply chains. We levy duties upon their goods, and they, in turn, upon ours. The ports are quieter now, Clara. Fewer ships come bearing foreign wares, and our own exports pile up like unspent bullets, waiting for markets that no longer beckon.

The people back home are divided. Some cheer each blow struck against foreign dominance, calling it the price of sovereignty. Others curse the rising costs and thinning shelves, whispering that this war was started not for defense, but for pride. The merchants and smallholders suffer most, caught between policies too large for them to sway, yet too near to ignore.

Still, we hold the line. We speak of reshoring, of independence, of victory through resilience. But as with all wars, Clara, I wonder if the end will come not through triumph, but through exhaustion. Pray that our leaders see sense before this trade war turns to ashes what industry we have left.

Your faithful,
<Insert name of TwiceHorn's client>
4th Division, Economic Front

Yeah, I'm not exactly sure how to interpret exactly what he said.

He's a middle aged white dude, small-medium business owner, Fort Worth suburb.  Probably Trumpy.

His comment could be interpreted as I'm one of the orange mongoloid's loyal soldiers fighting it out against Jynna and our other enemies.

Or, I'm getting fucked in a trade war that we and I didn't want and didn't start.

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Trump is faltering. He burnt to the ground international relationships that have been carefully built over 80 years. But he doesn't have the cards. He was bluffing and now realizes he needs to walk back his bullshit BUT he's an high-level malignant narcissist, so that causes conflict in his tiny pea-brain because he cant admit that he did anything wrong. And he can't learn.  So let's watch as he tries try to "solve" a problem that he, himself needlessly created. 

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Trump’s first term some of his shit worked because he was unpredictable but that ain’t working this time because the rest of the civilized  world has realized he is an ignorant buffoon who just runs his mouth and they aren’t scared anymore. In summary, the bully has bluffed all he can and now actually has to fight. 

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7 minutes ago, Clintonaldo said:

Trump’s first term some of his shit worked because he was unpredictable but that ain’t working this time because the rest of the civilized  world has realized he is an ignorant buffoon who just runs his mouth and they aren’t scared anymore. In summary, the bully has bluffed all he can and now actually has to fight. 

A whole lot of this.  When your play is "bluster and make a lot of noise and dust," it works the first time or two you run it.  But once folks see it for what it is -- and anyone with an IQ greater than Trump (so....pretty much everyone in a position of power elsewhere in the world) absolutely sees it for what it is -- they just stand there and let you make your noise and dust.....and they're still standing there, unmoved, when you're done running your one and only play.  And then what?  He doesn't have a Plan B.  That would require him to know the fucking alphabet, which is clearly 25 letters more than he can handle.

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1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

A whole lot of this.  When your play is "bluster and make a lot of noise and dust," it works the first time or two you run it.  But once folks see it for what it is -- and anyone with an IQ greater than Trump (so....pretty much everyone in a position of power elsewhere in the world) absolutely sees it for what it is -- they just stand there and let you make your noise and dust.....and they're still standing there, unmoved, when you're done running your one and only play.  And then what?  He doesn't have a Plan B.  That would require him to know the fucking alphabet, which is clearly 25 letters more than he can handle.

He has a concept of a Plan B. 
 

and that wasn’t a joke about birth control he is trying to take away either. 

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

A whole lot of this.  When your play is "bluster and make a lot of noise and dust," it works the first time or two you run it.  But once folks see it for what it is -- and anyone with an IQ greater than Trump (so....pretty much everyone in a position of power elsewhere in the world) absolutely sees it for what it is -- they just stand there and let you make your noise and dust.....and they're still standing there, unmoved, when you're done running your one and only play.  And then what?  He doesn't have a Plan B.  That would require him to know the fucking alphabet, which is clearly 25 letters more than he can handle.

Sun Tzu: "Never interrupt your opponent while he is in the middle of making a mistake."

 

Those ancient Chinese already knew about Trump.



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