Trump is my favourite comedian of the year already (6 Viewers)

Sky Blue Pete · Friday at 10:24 AM

I think he does absolutely understand
He thinks everything bought in the USA should be made in the USA
Now if any country can do this it’s probably the USA given the different climates and access to raw materials.
The issue comes when people in the USA want to buy things they can’t provide for themselves
In the uk we’d be utterly screwed and have needed to live and work globally hence the empire and trying to stay relevant and why leaving the eu as a ecomic bloc was completely mad and we should rejoin urgently I whatever way we can

Will it work? It will in part it’s a massive market with rich people who are greedy and want what they want when they want it and so companies won’t want to lose their slice.

It’s bizarre to talk of reducing tax and then wilfully adding huge taxes on goods that people are purchasing

Can’t get past the corruption and fraud on a whole new scale going on

The world is changing who knows whether it’s for the better

mmttww · Friday at 10:24 AM

Grendel said:
Or he just wants to make chaos and confusion and then revert back to the status quo

Yeah, I'd have been comfortable this was likely after the first time round when he just said a lot and nothing much happened. Feels like he's got even nuttier people than Bannon behind his decisions this time, though. Ideas of that Curtis Yarvin being played out.

mmttww · Friday at 10:26 AM

Sky Blue Pete said:
I think he does absolutely understand

I genuinely don't think he knows where he is, who he's talking to or what's going on. He's just a puppet, the face of the thing. He was last time as well, but the people using him have gone more aggressive out of the gate this time.

Otis · Friday at 10:41 AM

Apparently this is what is happening in some shops in Canada right now

Mcbean · Friday at 11:45 AM

eastwoodsdustman said:
Eu is now a country is it? I know most Americans Geography is shit but FFS.

Most Americans count a visit to Disneys Epcot as foreign travel

wingy · Friday at 11:48 AM

eastwoodsdustman said:
He definitely doesn't

His administration will.

Otis · Friday at 12:16 PM

Interesting theory.

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chiefdave · Friday at 12:17 PM

Otis said:
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Apparently this is what is happening in some shops in Canada right now

Some stores are clearing their shelves of American products, others are marking which products are Canadian. Not sure why Trump thought this would all be a one way thing and he could just do what he wants with no impact in the opposite direction.

Mcbean · Friday at 12:28 PM

chiefdave said:
Some stores are clearing their shelves of American products, others are marking which products are Canadian. Not sure why Trump thought this would all be a one way thing and he could just do what he wants with no impact in the opposite direction.

Canadian Customers are checking products and if they are sourced in the US they turn them upside down

PVA · Friday at 12:29 PM

chiefdave said:
Some stores are clearing their shelves of American products, others are marking which products are Canadian. Not sure why Trump thought this would all be a one way thing and he could just do what he wants with no impact in the opposite direction.

Brighton Sky Blue · Friday at 12:56 PM

Grendel said:
Or he just wants to make chaos and confusion and then revert back to the status quo

To allow his mates to profit of course.

mmttww · Friday at 1:22 PM

Otis said:
Interesting theory.

Definitely something to it even if it reads like a smug d*ckhead wrote it. Thiel and Yarvin have strong links and Vance is on record as being into Yarvin's ideas.

Sky_Blue_Dreamer · Friday at 4:31 PM

SBT said:
US automakers build their cars with imported parts, which are also subject to the tariffs. So he’s basically telling them to absorb the extra costs until they reshore all their production.

Wonder how all those small government Republicans feel about all this intrusion from the government telling them what they can and can't do.

Sky_Blue_Dreamer · Friday at 4:31 PM

Sky Blue Pete said:
I think he does absolutely understand
He thinks everything bought in the USA should be made in the USA
Now if any country can do this it’s probably the USA given the different climates and access to raw materials.
The issue comes when people in the USA want to buy things they can’t provide for themselves
In the uk we’d be utterly screwed and have needed to live and work globally hence the empire and trying to stay relevant and why leaving the eu as a ecomic bloc was completely mad and we should rejoin urgently I whatever way we can

Will it work? It will in part it’s a massive market with rich people who are greedy and want what they want when they want it and so companies won’t want to lose their slice.

It’s bizarre to talk of reducing tax and then wilfully adding huge taxes on goods that people are purchasing

Can’t get past the corruption and fraud on a whole new scale going on

The world is changing who knows whether it’s for the better

I do. It's not.

Brighton Sky Blue · Friday at 4:37 PM

Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
Wonder how all those small government Republicans feel about all this intrusion from the government telling them what they can and can't do.

If it means denying women the right to choose then they’re fully in favour.

wingy · Friday at 4:47 PM

Can we possibly have a tax on everyone for use of the internet please, I think we're owed a few quid aren't we,oh no you can't do that.How about airline,is that German technology?

Flying Fokker · Friday at 7:42 PM

Fucking fuck.

While Vance was speaking, Trump shared a video produced by the lobbying group Securing American Greatness, outlining the US interests in Greenland.
The video Trump posted on social media features sweeping shots of Greenland's landscape, as well as archive footage that appears to come from newsreels in the 1940s.
"In the cold silence of the tundra, a bond was born," the narrator begins. The video goes on to describe how the Nazis sought control of the Arctic during WW2, and torpedoed a US ship that was on its way to Greenland to help prevent a Nazi invasion.
Four chaplains gave up their life vests "giving their lives so others might live, to protect America and Greenland," the video says. This refers to the sinking of the SS Dorchester by a German U-boat in 1943.
"But today, Greenland faces new threats - from Russian aggression and Chinese expansion," the narrator continues.
It goes on to say describe the US-Greenland partnership growing with "every Arctic patrol, every partnership forged in the shadow of melting ice and rising tensions."
"This is not just history. It is destiny," as music swells in the background and icebergs are shown on screen.
"Now is the time to stand together again," it continues. "For peace, for security, for the future. America stands with Greenland."

Sick Boy · Saturday at 8:01 AM

Vance really is a prick.

Sick Boy · Saturday at 8:05 AM

Flying Fokker said:
Fucking fuck.

While Vance was speaking, Trump shared a video produced by the lobbying group Securing American Greatness, outlining the US interests in Greenland.
The video Trump posted on social media features sweeping shots of Greenland's landscape, as well as archive footage that appears to come from newsreels in the 1940s.
"In the cold silence of the tundra, a bond was born," the narrator begins. The video goes on to describe how the Nazis sought control of the Arctic during WW2, and torpedoed a US ship that was on its way to Greenland to help prevent a Nazi invasion.
Four chaplains gave up their life vests "giving their lives so others might live, to protect America and Greenland," the video says. This refers to the sinking of the SS Dorchester by a German U-boat in 1943.
"But today, Greenland faces new threats - from Russian aggression and Chinese expansion," the narrator continues.
It goes on to say describe the US-Greenland partnership growing with "every Arctic patrol, every partnership forged in the shadow of melting ice and rising tensions."
"This is not just history. It is destiny," as music swells in the background and icebergs are shown on screen.
"Now is the time to stand together again," it continues. "For peace, for security, for the future. America stands with Greenland."

"Greenland faces new threats from Russian aggression and Chinese expansion."

It really is like something from 1984 at this point.

SkyBlueCharlie9 · Saturday at 10:06 AM

I fear how far they will push it. Van etc yesterday dressed in black like Zelenski and lots of very sincere looking soldiers standing behind.
Margret Atwoods dystopian fiction becoming more like a prediction of the future.

Otis · Saturday at 10:21 AM

SkyBlueCharlie9 said:
I fear how far they will push it. Van etc yesterday dressed in black like Zelenski and lots of very sincere looking soldiers standing behind.
Margret Atwoods dystopian fiction becoming more like a prediction of the future.

Been saying that for a few years now.

Gilead here we come, if we're not careful. Aren't some schools over there already only teaching creationism?

Brylowes · Saturday at 12:33 PM

Sick Boy said:
"Greenland faces new threats from Russian aggression and Chinese expansion."

Says the country, aggressively threatening expansionism.

chiefdave · Saturday at 11:30 PM

Brighton Sky Blue · Sunday at 10:07 AM

The free speech champion, definitely not a fascist pig, is now demanding immigrants to turn over their social media accounts if they want to stay in the country.

Recently some of his sycophants on here were insisting that nobody was being deported for criticising the regime. It will shortly be happening.

shmmeee · Sunday at 10:08 AM

Brighton Sky Blue said:
The free speech champion, definitely not a fascist pig, is now demanding immigrants to turn over their social media accounts if they want to stay in the country.

Recently some of his sycophants on here were insisting that nobody was being deported for criticising the regime. It will shortly be happening.

Ive posted people who were denied entry because of their views this is the next logical step.

Captain Dart · Sunday at 10:44 AM

Brighton Sky Blue said:
The free speech champion, definitely not a fascist pig, is now demanding immigrants to turn over their social media accounts if they want to stay in the country.

Recently some of his sycophants on here were insisting that nobody was being deported for criticising the regime. It will shortly be happening.

Declaring social media accounts in visa applications has been required for nearly 6 years since May 2019, why suddenly all the fuss, why was it not reversed under Biden if it was so insidious?

How Does the New Social Media Requirement for U.S. Visa Applicants Affect Me? | Greenheart International

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Ps I was never happy about the policy in the first place but it is not a new thing.

Brighton Sky Blue · Sunday at 10:54 AM

Captain Dart said:
Declaring social media accounts in visa applications has been required for nearly 6 years since May 2019, why suddenly all the fuss, why was it not reversed under Biden if it was so insidious?
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Two weeks ago, the U.S. State Department released a new policy, requiring visa applicants to share information about the social media accounts they have u...

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Ps I was never happy about the policy in the first place but it is not a new thing.

We’ve established you’ll defend anything the orange guy does so a debate on this is pointless.

Captain Dart · Sunday at 10:57 AM

Brighton Sky Blue said:
We’ve established you’ll defend anything the orange guy does so a debate on this is pointless.

I said it wasn't a policy I ever agreed with, I did not defend anyone just pointed out the sudden outrage is more about finding offence at everything Trump says or does even if it is consistant with past policy and policy found acceptable by the Biden administration.

SBT · Sunday at 11:09 AM

Captain Dart said:
I said it wasn't a policy I ever agreed with, I did not defend anyone just pointed out the sudden outrage is more about finding offence at everything Trump says or does even if it is consistant with past policy and policy found acceptable by the Biden administration.

This is an expansion of the existing rules which means immigrants who are already in the country legally (and to whom First Amendment rights should subsequently apply) will now have to let the State Department go through their private messages.

While I know that “But Biden” is what often passes for intellectual debate on the right these days, I don’t know why you’d pretend this isn’t a significant escalation.

Captain Dart · Sunday at 11:24 AM

SBT said:
This is an expansion of the existing rules which means immigrants who are already in the country legally (and to whom First Amendment rights should subsequently apply) will now have to let the State Department go through their private messages.

While I know that “But Biden” is what often passes for intellectual debate on the right these days, I don’t know why you’d pretend this isn’t a significant escalation.

The change applies to green card holders who apply for permanant residency as I said consistant with earlier policy which I never agreed with in the first place.

You do know UK, EU, Australian and Canadian immigration search social media for applicants status too.

I hate all these rules and restrictions in the name of 'National Security' myself but don't attack me for something I have no control over.

Brighton Sky Blue · Sunday at 11:26 AM

Captain Dart said:
The change applies to green card holders who apply for permanant residency as I said consistant with earlier policy which I never agreed with in the first place.

You do know UK, EU, Australian and Canadian immigration search social media for applicants status too.

I hate all these rules and restrictions in the name of 'National Security' myself but don't attack me for something I have no control over.

You haven’t criticised anything the orange man has done so far. Are you also applying for permanent residency?

SBT · Sunday at 11:26 AM

Captain Dart said:
The change applies to green card holders who apply for permanant residency as I said consistant with earlier policy which I never agreed with in the first place.

Huh? Green card holders ARE permanent residents.

shmmeee · Sunday at 12:51 PM

Captain Dart said:
Declaring social media accounts in visa applications has been required for nearly 6 years since May 2019, why suddenly all the fuss, why was it not reversed under Biden if it was so insidious?
View attachment 42275

How Does the New Social Media Requirement for U.S. Visa Applicants Affect Me? | Greenheart International

Two weeks ago, the U.S. State Department released a new policy, requiring visa applicants to share information about the social media accounts they have u...

greenheart.org

Ps I was never happy about the policy in the first place but it is not a new thing.

You declare them in case you do something and they need to track you, this is to prevent you from entering.

chiefdave · Sunday at 12:58 PM

shmmeee said:
You declare them in case you do something and they need to track you, this is to prevent you from entering.

tbh I'd be a bit worried if US intelligence is relying on you giving them your tweet account and them waiting for you to tweet about what you intend to do

shmmeee · Sunday at 1:25 PM

chiefdave said:
tbh I'd be a bit worried if US intelligence is relying on you giving them your tweet account and them waiting for you to tweet about what you intend to do

Think it’s more you hop your visa then post at DisneyLand

Trump is my favourite comedian of the year already (6 Viewers)

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