The problem is we simply cannot ignore the American market. Trump knows it and like a mafia low level thug, He is trying to intimidate the world.
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I understand, what I meant is that for many of the products, such as coffee and tropical fruits (mangoes, pineapple), optics, etc., there are no immediate alternatives.
The tariffs may slow trade because of increased prices in the US, but it’s not like the US can just produce locally or find another supplier that can take up the slack immediately. (For example, the only two US territories that produce coffee are Hawaii and Puerto Rico, and Puerto Rico doesn’t produce enough for local consumption.)
Politically speaking, Lula doesn’t have to levy taxes on most US goods, as it is a tax on the buyer, which would be popular. He can, of course, use his bully pulpit to encourage people to buy non-US products (essentially boycott the US) which would hurt both long term and short term.
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Pretty much the approach taken in Australia. Back in April, the Prime Minister was asked whether his response would include tariffs on US products. He replied with words to the effect of: “That would feel good today, but what about tomorrow? We just got out of an inflation crisis, nobody wants another one.”
Australia has the luxury of the US being around 5% of our export market. Tariffs will sting, but won’t harm us deeply.
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And these very same products were exempt from the tariffs. At about 700 Brazilian Goods won´t pay tariffs, or at least abusive ones.
It probably won´t work, as we are very divided these days. And there are a lot of american companies here with goods loved by us.
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He was the most obnoxious panel member of Dragons’ Den, the Canadian equivalent of Shark Tank The idea was the same, but whenever he offered some hopeful entrepreneur a deal, his naked greed was revolting. He was drooling at the chance to screw them over. This is probably why he was kicked off the show.
Then he decided he would run for office and become Prime Minister, despite, as you say, having no political experience. After he was laughed out of Canada for that, he slithered south and joined the MAGA bandwagon.
Consider that even David Frum, the other Canadian mouthpiece who left the country for Republican-style conservatism, has backed away from T***p and the MAGAs, and you’ll get some idea of how stupid O’Leary is.
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My internet sucks right now because of a power outage while DTE is hitting up the state for a rate hike but that’s a whole other rant.
O’leary is also a big giant hypocrite. When he was on Shark Tank whenever an entrepreneur wanted some cash to keep production in the US he would say no money for you unless you move production overseas.
But now he’s a big trumper talking about tariffs and American made.
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He would eventually be on … Shark Tank and continue to be the most obnoxious panel member. Given he was flanked by luminaries such as Mark Cuban and Barbara Corcoran, that’s saying something.
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Completely off topic, but I’ve never before seen a professional photograph released publicly where only the Black person is properly lighted and everyone else looks wrong.
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Enigmas never age
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judge ye the tribal-leader by the quality of their hordes (for context ‘Chansley’ is that bison horned helmet wearing treasonous Jan6 rioter buffoon)
QAnon Shaman calls Trump ‘a piece of shit,’ demands $555 to talk to us
Jacob Chansley was pardoned by Trump for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6. How quickly people forget a favor.
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As the old political adage goes, when you’ve lost the QAnon Shaman…
More than five years ago, Phoenix native Jacob Chansley went viral as he and a horde of others stormed the U.S. Capitol shirtless and in a buffalo headdress in a conspiracy-fueled attempt to keep Donald Trump in the White House. Six months ago, Chansley thanked Trump for pardoning him for his role in that insurrection.
On Wednesday morning, in a series of now-deleted tweets, Chansley blasted Trump as a “fraud” and a “stupid piece of shit.”
Hmm, something seems to have changed. …
“changed”? or they expected to be cheered on little war-lords by now and instead see orange-mussolini getting rich and not doing anything for them, oh, and he got drunk? (is “555” yet another nazi shibboleth? #@$!%)
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I’m not sure there’s any lighting in the world that could make that group of humans look right. Even as an atheist I’m looking at the picture and thinking “these people have no souls.”
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