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Re: When the shit hits the tan – politicalbetting.com
No those bastards have to pay a high tarrif. They refused to negotiate.So everyone is being tariffed at 10% now apart from China it seemsEven the penguins?
kjh
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Re: When the shit hits the tan – politicalbetting.com
Trump holds firm on tariffs = MAGA “this is all a master plan. He is a genius!”
Trump backs down on tariffs = MAGA “this was his master plan all along. He is a genius!”
As to be expected.
Trump backs down on tariffs = MAGA “this was his master plan all along. He is a genius!”
As to be expected.
Re: When the shit hits the tan – politicalbetting.com
@kylegriffin1.bsky.social
New on @MSNBC: The White House will not release the list of 75 countries that have reached out on trade deals, despite requests from NBC News.
@jasonkirk.fyi
She goes to a different school
New on @MSNBC: The White House will not release the list of 75 countries that have reached out on trade deals, despite requests from NBC News.
@jasonkirk.fyi
She goes to a different school
Scott_xP
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Re: When the shit hits the tan – politicalbetting.com
Yep. We have seen a total failure on Ukraine with Trump's peace plan going absolutely nowhere and the humiliation of Zelenskyy in the White House having been for nothing.Remember when we had all that fuss and excitement about some politicians and the odd cop putting a few quid on the date of the election? What we have just seen is a $1trillion dollar play with inside information available to the Tech bros that surround the Orange one. It almost makes us seem quaint, old fashioned, even child like.The corrupt, contemptuous, lying and lawless nature of this fascistic USA regime is much more significant than its incompetence on tariffs.
No doubt the SEC is already on the case and charges will follow rapidly.
Tariffs has drowned out everything else for days. Covering up a range of authoritarian moves, and covering up too the abject fails on the proud promises on Ukraine/Russia etc.
We still have the absolutely bizarre beach front idea for Gaza floating about whilst the peace there that Trump was trying to claim credit for falling apart.
We have this fiasco with tariffs.
We have innocent people wrongfully sent to a third world jail.
We have had the wilful disregard of court orders by government officials.
It just goes on and on and on.
DavidL
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Re: When the shit hits the tan – politicalbetting.com
Sorry, I'm reading further and the 10% base doesn't apply to Canada and Mexico after all.
But the fact that the White House had to clarify means the shit show continues.
How can you do business with a country that swings from 10% to 99% tariffs in the space of a few hours then back again?
But the fact that the White House had to clarify means the shit show continues.
How can you do business with a country that swings from 10% to 99% tariffs in the space of a few hours then back again?
Re: When the shit hits the tan – politicalbetting.com
As usual the only explanation is that the whole thing is a reality tv show and nothing matters more than having endless drama and crisis to keep ratings.
Re: When the shit hits the tan – politicalbetting.com
The man's a loon.
4D chess my arse.
He'd lose at tic tac toe.
4D chess my arse.
He'd lose at tic tac toe.
Re: When the shit hits the tan – politicalbetting.com
You mean he’s so bigly winning that he just capitulated on tariffs with all countries bar China !Trump raises China tariff to 125% with immediate effectHe knows he’s winning.
Too many PBers won’t admit Trump is winning this, because they hate him. Don’t be one of them.
It’s crystal clear in front of us, Everyone, including UK, are being bullied into a Trump favourable deal, in order to protect their economies, interest payment levels, currencies, ability to sell goods at market price, and jobs. Let’s put JOBS. into capital letters. Every governments financial plans and budgets are screwed now.
The money from the Tarrifs, and from the trade deals everyone has been bullied into signing to lessen the tariff on them, will underwrite the new golden age for America.
He has used the underlying strength of the USA to screw everybody over, friends and foes. No one negotiates like Trump, except Peaky Blinders - or JR Ewing my Dad said, though had to explain.
PB are in denial of Trump winning this because of shear hatred of him. But even PB will have to surrender, and kiss Trumps ass too by admitting it.
nico67
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...Re: When the shit hits the tan – politicalbetting.com
Or, stay on your arse and set up a pb.com posting handle.A rather unsettling article in the New Statesman.I suspect there is much in this, but really, people only have themselves to blame if they're bored. Read a book. Join a choir. Go for a walk. Take up birdwatching. Go to church. Do community theatre. Join a political party. Join a walking group. There are so many things to do, people just need to get off their arse.
"The West is bored to death
Our nihilistic politics are a product of the crushing ennui and spiritual vacancy of modern life.
By Stuart Whatley"
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/04/the-west-is-bored-to-death
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"American greatness has produced a society whose members know not what to do with the freedom and abundance that earlier generations secured. We are now witnessing the squandering of this inheritance, and it is even more idiotic and vulgar a spectacle than anyone would expect."
Come on in: the water's lovely.
