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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Whose writing this shit for him?

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 hours ago

AI.

This is just a list of "but I'm not winning so it's not fairrrrrrrrrr" whining (whinging?)

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 4 hours ago

"old man tries to conceptualize modern reality"

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 30 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Just off the top of my head:

  1. Pressuring the Fed to cut interest rates and other actions to reduce the US dollar's value
  2. Massive payouts to agribusiness, especially maize and sugar producers.
  3. Try bringing in some fruit or a salami into the US. I dare you.
  4. OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, xAI etc ripping off the entire world's entire content.

Maybe someone else can fill in the rest.

[–] elvith@feddit.org 8 points 4 hours ago

OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, xAI etc ripping off the entire world's entire content.

Rules for thee, not for me!

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 26 points 6 hours ago

“You are required to let me fuck you over! You are not allowed to resist it or find alternative means!” 🖕

[–] scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

So now he's angry that we've fucked up our agricultural exports badly enough that the rest of the world doesn't think our trash goods are food grade?

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 14 points 7 hours ago

I would love some of the diseased chlorinated freedom chicken from the U.S.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 103 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 19 points 7 hours ago

Holy shit! That guy hacked the system!

[–] zout@fedia.io 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I'm guessing that one is toward the EU?

[–] moody@lemmings.world 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Or Canada with the dairy subsidies.

Also it's not like the US has subsidised corn for decades or anything like that.

[–] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Controlled production is not the same thing as a subsidy. Canada controls supply. There is a quota system. No US dairy supplier ever uses their quota, so don't get dinged with tariffs.

It is literally nothing.

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 75 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

The fuck is "non-tariff cheating" supposed to mean?

[–] Pirata@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

I believe he's trying to say "here's other examples of CHEATING other countries do to us that are unrelated to tariffs". Who knows.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 9 points 7 hours ago

Don't know but it's extremely obvious that some of his posts are ghost-written (just like his book) and this is one of them.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 31 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 35 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Nobody knows what it is, folks. People are asking, “What is it?”—nobody knows. Experts, politicians, the fake news—nobody has a clue. Maybe it’s something, maybe it’s nothing. Could be the biggest thing ever, could be nothing at all. Nobody knows, believe me. Total mystery.

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

Bigly if true

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 17 points 8 hours ago

Some nonsense phrase they made up

[–] scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 7 hours ago

You heard him folks, shine up your Somali and take to the seas, this man wants to see if we can cost him more money as traditionalists.

[–] Rodneyck@lemm.ee 21 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

When they say 'piracy' does he think they are referring to Captain Jack Sparrow?

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

I bet the gerbil on the wheel in his head is exhausted. He should shove a couple more up his ass to help out.

[–] pebbles@sh.itjust.works 22 points 8 hours ago

Does he think that pirates would turn around and buy $1 Trillion worth of media if pirating stopped? Lmao.

[–] driving_crooner 24 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 37 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Trump has claimed a few times that, in order for cars to be approved for import in Japan, they must be able to withstand an impact from a bowling ball without denting. It's not a real thing. When the White House press secretary was asked why Trump made up such a weird lie, she said it was "obviously a joke".

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 15 points 7 hours ago

Reminds me of the mind-blowing video from Channel 5 news of them interviewing Trump supporters about him posting a pic of himself as king and they say "Oh it means he's the King of Presidents, like Elvis Presley is the King of rock and roll" and I just couldn't possibly facepalm any harder.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Its ironic to be complaining (or rather bullshitting) about japan restricting vehicle imports while the US is restricting imports of kei trucks for reasons.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Because kei trucks are obviously death traps

sideeyes motorcycles

[–] Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

When Trump says piracy, I understand he's referring to classic piracy (with little boats and all), and when he says IP Theft, I assume he's referring to the piracy that concerns us. Good luck adding a tax to my $0 rate.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

When he says transshipping, he probably thinks of a container ship flying the trans flag.

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 hours ago

Crewed by transgenic mice!

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 18 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

How dare other companies cheat by having more stringent food standards than the USA? Everyone should be forced to buy and ingest real American salmonella.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago

I am still annoyed that we let the damn Argentinian beef get through, but I think it's comparatively hilarious that we still won't budge on US "food".

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 7 hours ago

I mean. We could do all that if we want.

[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 16 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder what his definition of Transshipping would be if asked off-the-cuff without his advisors around.

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 16 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder what his definition of Transshipping would be

I think that's when a fishing boat puts on some guns and radar and starts calling itself a battleship ?

[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 15 points 8 hours ago

lmao, I would believe that he believes it. He could play Ron Burgundy really well.

Diversity definition

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 14 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I'm not interested in giving rich humans access to another trillion dollars.

That works against the best interests of hu-fucking-manity.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 hours ago

I was wondering when piracy is going to join the game. Awkwardly absent so far.

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

So anyway, here I was, drifting through the lemmy pages, when I realized there was a ton of money to be made by writing software for smugglers.

I have never really known a smuggler of physical goods, but I imagine I will try now

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I can’t imagine their software and bookkeeping would be significantly different from any other international logistics company?

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Don’t know. But if the tariffs are as bad as many think, I believe the black market in the USA will grow faster than the speakeasies and smuggling booze did a century ago. There will be huge demand to bring in cheaper goods that are legally sold at higher rates.

It’s a new and huge untapped market to provide support, even if most of the movement of goods will be done by organized crime later. A lot of what will happen is unknown.

Certainly there will be a new cat and mouse dynamics. Very rarely does a huge layer of graft poof into existence to fast in a country. Lots of dynamics navigating this new electronic frontier!

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

idk if i want agent orange to get a stroke because on one hand might just die but on the other hand the nonsense he speaks could just get more powerful

Hell, he might end up more coherent.