300 trips and natural resources and my friend Donaldo only taxed me 10%. What about you?
I insult him every day and I got the same thing.
Gaslighting while the good ole boys make hay and money and grab power. Once that’s been sorted who cares if the peasants realise they’ve been had? We’ll have the power and all the money so the peasants will be powerless (and poor and hungry and depressed and beaten down and dispirited).
Guns, you say? An armed populace/militia? Don’t make me laugh - our side has all the best guns and all the private security police and armed forces we need - or we will by then.
(Not /s)
There’s some gold to be found in the comments on the BBC article about the tarrifs on the Heard & McDonald islands, including gems such as:
These tariffs are due to “economics unfairness”.
I wasn’t sure if a penguin could economically out-compete the average American, but I’m thankful to the President for confirming it.
and
Looks like Trump has ruffled more feathers.
…and a nickname for Trump I hadn’t come across before, “Tangerine Palpatine” 
I never thought the Penguin thread and this one would cross streams.
But here we are. And we all know what happens when you cross the streams!!
It certainly bamboozled me as to which thread I should post it in!
QEconom. The tariff QAnon…
Maybe we should have a new scale for evil only? Like the RPG Chaotic/Evil, Neutral/Good, etc.
Stupid/Evil/Ineffective, Stupid/Evil/Neutral, Stupid/Evil/??? Suggestions welcome!
Evil Evil.
i think i can promise this is my last harangue about that epic piece of lazy table of stupidity that trump held up during his “liberation day” announce. This one ‘answers’ how the hell did so many irrelevant zones (not even countries) get listed there? And the answer is: some automation was relied upon, let’s say some ‘A.I.’/LLM which just used the internet domain names. Hence “.hm” was included and that hauled in the Heard and McDonald islands (residents: only penguins) …so stupid and lazy and no one really looked at the results before handing in to the orange cess-pool to flounce -sigh-
Lazy tech-bros and Krasnov Kidz chose Trump tariff targets by using their internet domains
Thursday, April 03, 2025 at 10:00:03p PDT
Disloyalty is… (looking on the bright side) … unacceptable and you will be fired (as opposed to jailed or executed).
Haugh was not even part of the Houthi PC small group texts in SignalGate, but hey, some heads (metaphorically) must roll if they make this regime look bad for real reasons, so:
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Some current and former defense officials say there is a growing culture of fear inside the officer ranks within the Defense Department, among officials who worry that they could be fired at any moment for conduct deemed insufficiently loyal to Trump.Haugh was not in the now-infamous group chat on the messaging app Signal, in which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other top officials discussed a sensitive military operation targeting the Houthis in Yemen while unaware that a journalist was part of the group. At a House Intelligence Committee hearing last week where Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe were grilled about the Signal group chat debacle, Haugh testified that, in general, there are risks to using the app.
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Remember when orange-man (previous round occupying the WH) “bombed” Syria and we all saw on the video that zero damage to runways there? MAGAs were all “haha we sure showed them!” There’s a strong Groundhog Day vibe here.
I thought we might get that bounce I expected this morning before the plunge continued. At this point, I have to wonder if the plunge just goes on. Not too far before the whole last year’s gains are erased, then we go down farther. Is there a bottom?
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There’s A List Of The Car Parts Affected By Trump’s Tariffs — Surprise! It’s Basically Everything
https://www.jalopnik.com/1826446/trump-tariffs-impact-car-part-prices/
The new Trump tariffs don’t just affect imported cars, but imported car parts, too, and that’s bad news even for vehicles assembled in the U.S.