• st3ph3n@midwest.social
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    Did he forget about that lawsuit he lost where his tariffs were determined to be illegal?

    Who am I kidding? He doesn’t give a shit.

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    We all know it’s actually just him being a petty little bitch over European countries not getting on board his train wreck of a war.

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    Maybe BMW can announce a layoff, due to tariffs, of 11k jobs in South Carolina. Then VW can layoff 48k in Tennessee, and Mercedes with 6k in Alabama. Then those Southern states can see how horrible their choice of President was for their state…Ha! Who am I kidding, they will follow him into hell and blame Biden.

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    This is why you don’t make a deal with Trump: he’ll invariably break it whilst spewing some bullshit about how “it’s your fault”.

    Mind you the EU Commission is so sold-out, kept under control with kompromat and/or just plain incompetent that not only did they rush to “make a deal” with Trump when he first pushed the EU with Tariffs, they’ll compromise with him now and will do so again, again and again every time he pushes some more.

    In the EU we need to get rid of these crooks and that specific dysfunctional anti-meritocratic structure and put more power in the EU Parliament directly or at least have it chose and elect the entire Commission rather than the “behind closed doors” way the EU Commission members are chosen at the moment - whilst the Parliament is directly elected via Proportional Vote, the Commission is just used by politicians in government all over Europe to reward their politician mates or quietly get rid of their most incompetent *cough* von der Leyden *cough* colleagues.

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      The EU commission and the EU in general works always trying to descalate first, because usually a not-so-good deal is better than a war, even a trade one.

      So trying to get a deal is fine imho.

      Now there it comes the second stage. Got and tried a deal, the other party does not keep its side. Unleash the kraken and go for them. Go nuclear, start dumping US bonds and trade with the rest of the world in Renmibi (we don’t want the Euro to be the world reseve currency, no thanks).

      Hit them where it hurts.

  • Maki@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Now do a 300% tariff on US cars exported to the EU so people will stop buying those damn RAM and Tesla deathmobiles already.

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        Lovely idea, but then the masses of already incited anti-government types will turn even more against the EU governments. If Trump does it, maybe they’ll stop listening to him and his ilk.