• Fair Fairy@thelemmy.club
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    Is he aware that us car manufacturing has been decimated by china?

    Why would they buy us suv, when china is right there and they can buy straight from the factory?

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    “Thank you for your attention to this matter” is a phrase stolen from fifth-rate middle-management corporate power wannabes. We are not his employees and do not work for him. I’d believe him more if he ended his endless emails with “…and always remember. Fuck You”.

  • Luffy@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    transshipping

    Did that MAGGOT just say the Bad Bad trans word? How the fuck are his removed followers not trying to Hang him yet?

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    8 hours ago

    It is my great honour to announce that I have made a trade deal with the round device on the wall. I bet the batteries, for free and it will correctly tell the time twice a day.

  • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    “we will give you paying us taxes and in exchange we can ravage your economy”

    this is a caricature of a caricature of itself. its kind of funny that the literal president of the united states is saying shit like this. this just cannot be true.

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    So American will pay between 20 and 40% tax on goods coming from Vietnam but the Vietnamese can buy US goods with no tax?

    Cool.

    Do Americans know this?

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        It’s funny. 20 to 40 tax on Americans and none on the Vietnamese and he thinks that people who make an average of USD$8,000 per year are going to buy $100,000 US SUVs. He’s a delusional idiot.

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          I some times ask myself is it dementia or imbecility?

          Does that man understand the bullshit coming out of his holes, or is it the narcism that makes him talk and talk and talk, no matter how much lunacy is it the words leaving him…

          • comfy@lemmy.ml
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            If I had no idea who he was, I could give extreme benefit of the doubt and say it’s spin. Claiming a loss is really a win.

            But we do know who he is, so I’m going with imbecility.

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              I clicked on the link and There’s no german page for that… but there’s a page in Pfälzisch, the dialect people in the german region Palatinate (Pfalz) speak.

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    SUV=SubUrban Vehicle

    That’s what I thought the acronym stood for when I was younger, because I would usually see them in suburbs. Now that I’m older, I refuse to call them sport utility vehicles because suburban vehicle is a much better description of their intended use-case.

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      16 hours ago

      Considering there is nothing sport or utility about them, I think your name for them is fitting.

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      They’re great at driving onto sidewalks, or over the curb if the person in front is taking too long at the drive thru.

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    You know, it’s getting seriously difficult for me to discern Trump’s actual posts from parody accounts.

    The way he writes and says things… It just sounds like someone trolling.

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      I almost wonder if there’s a PR team making them, trying to impersonate Trump’s style.

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        Definitely. This one was not written by him. Too many accurate details about Vietnamese titles and too many long words in general. When he writes his own they are usually in all caps, doesn’t contain any large words, but frequently contains typos instead.

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      @Tattorack @Davriellelouna Trump himself is completely out to lunch. He doesn’t know what his own policies are, only that he’s been told that whatever he just signed will make him look powerful and manly. The handlers running his accounts are just having fun knowing they can make abundantly clear that the dictator has no idea what’s going on and civil society is (for now) powerless to do anything. That can only go on for so long…

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      As I keep saying: It sounds like he thinks the word “tariff” just means “payment”. Then he follows that with “[whoever he thinks should make the payment]”. Tariff by Apple, Tariff by China, etc. Honestly. I don’t know how else you can make it make sense.

      https://lemmy.world/comment/17225002

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        My supposition is that he’s a complete moron following advice from someone working off a protectionism 101 primer from 1834 who had Randian bullshit physically replace his brain to the point where they don’t do the rest of the steps to make the protectionism work because that’s the government doing stuff and therefore communism