Re: gulf of america

On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:39:59 +0000, Wilf wrote:

On 17/02/2025 at 22:40, Chris Schram wrote:

On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 11:30:08 +0000, Wilf wrote:
 

On 15/02/2025 at 14:20, badgolferman wrote:

Jörg Lorenz wrote:
>

The Trump regime is a bunch of fascists and the tech companies are
nothing but lickspittles.

>
Why do people from Europe pay so much attention to American politics?
Surely there are issues closer to home you should be bitching and
moaning about.  Are you secretly jealous of us?

>
Because your politics affects us.  Our greatest ally has suddenly
decided to stop being an ally and that is huge for us.  Instead Trump
has decided to bully your friends and decides to impose 20% tariffs on
imports from the UK because he thinks we levy 20% Value Added Tax
(VAT) on US imports.  Actually VAT is a sales tax on all purchases,
whatever their origin, even items produced within the UK.  I might
have thought that maybe Trump just doesn't know what VAT is, but you
have sales taxes at city, state and federal levels, so are you levying
those taxes unfairly on all your imports?

 
Well Said Wilf. The Pendejo Administration is hellbent on turning the
clock back 100 or more years, to a time when oligarchs ran unchecked,
eventually plunging the economy into a decades-long Great Depression.
 
Oh, and there was this World War thingy they tried to teach us about in
school.
 
The US system of checks and balances is sure not perfect, but the
lessons we "learned" from the Depression, helped us develop some
mechanisms to prevent that kind of chaos from repeating. Until a
perfect storm from the Far Right arose again to fuck things up again.
 
To those of you outside the USA, please keep in mind that the majority
of us did NOT vote for that Fool. We are fighting back with what means
we have, and we hope to be allies with the World again some day.
 
 

I'm just hoping that your new president will let go of the reins of
power in 4 years' time.

Gawd! It feels like 4 years already! On a brighter note, That meat shell
he is using as life support can't possibly last 4 years, can it?

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