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[spring-peeper]

Trump retailiates:

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Good Lord - what a moron!!!


That is his answer to all his international problems - Tariffs!!!!

He really does not like people saying, "NO" to anything he wants.

I do wonder how many people are gonna google "Columbia exports to USA".

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I do wonder how many people are gonna google "Columbia exports to USA".

About $14b a year apparently

Colombia Exports to United States - 2025 Data 2026 Forecast 1991-2023 Historical

Colombia Exports to United States was US$14.11 Billion during 2023, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. Colombia Exports to United States - data, historical chart and statistics - was last updated on January of 2025.

tradingeconomics.com

 

[MickiQ]

I see no-one has yet managed to explain to the Shitgibbon how tariffs actually work then?

 

[spring-peeper]

I see no-one has yet managed to explain to the Shitgibbon how tariffs actually work then?

I'm sure they try, but anyone who disagrees/corrects him is of "low-intelligence".

You have to remember that he is a stable genius.

 

[spring-peeper]

About $14b a year apparently

Colombia Exports to United States - 2025 Data 2026 Forecast 1991-2023 Historical

Colombia Exports to United States was US$14.11 Billion during 2023, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. Colombia Exports to United States - data, historical chart and statistics - was last updated on January of 2025.

tradingeconomics.com

ya - I did google it, and burst out laughing.

Apparently the majority of the exports are petroleum/oil and coal.

Since Trump will be putting a 25% tariff on Canadian goods (including the oil they need for their refineries), I guess they thought they would import more of the "cheaper" products from South American countries. So much for cheaper products from Columbia!!!

I wonder who they will be tariffing next.

 

[tim]

Ha ha, wait for the lies to come spewing out of his stupid gob.

4 mins from Farron on the viewing figures for the inauguration. Hide the ketchup.

Spoiler

Why would I be interested what someone who was too shit even to lead Liberal Democrats thinks of Trump.

 

[spring-peeper]

“These measures are just the beginning,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “We will not allow the Colombian Government to violate its legal obligations with regard to the acceptance and return of the Criminals they forced into the United States.”

He really has a bizarre imagination!!

 

[bluescreen]

Atul Gawande lists some of the consequences of Trump's 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance.

It includes

1. Stops work battling a deadly Marburg outbreak in Tanzania and a wide outbreak of a mpox variant killing children in west Africa before it spreads further.
2. Stops monitoring of bird flu in 49 countries, a disease which already killed an American on home soil.
3. Stops critical work on polio eradication.
4. Stops >$1B in corporate drug donations and coordination eradicating tropical diseases like river blindness, elephantiasis, and others on the verge of elimination in whole regions.
5. Stops medicines, supplies, systems building, staff support aiding >90 million women and children to get low cost vaccinations, prenatal care, safe childbirth, contraception, and other basic lifesaving health needs.
6. Stops direct services for 6.5 million orphans, vulnerable children, and their caregivers affected by HIV in 23 countries.
8. Would furlough all USAID contract staff — which includes half of its global health bureau—unless exempted.

Make no mistake — these essential, lifesaving activities are being halted right now. Clinics are shuttering. Workers sent home. Partners including US small businesses face being unable to meet payroll. All despite clear requirements from Congress to do this work.

 

[Tankus]

So is he going to do that to Mexico too on top of the 25% as they have turned away flights? Insane....

All country's should consider their trade with the USA, it is no longer a reliable trading partner.

If not outright criminal, as I'll bet bribes are on the table....!

 

[Coffeecup]

Why would I be interested what someone who was too shit even to lead Liberal Democrats thinks of Trump.

You didn’t look at it did you?

 

[breadandcircuse]

You didn’t look at it did you?

That or it was a poor attempt at humour.

 

[Rebecca Riot]

Trump retailiates:

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He's taking it well then.

 

[Everything Goes]

Plane upgrade offered along with tit for tat tarrif war.

 

[tim]

You didn’t look at it did you?

I only know one Farron and breadandcircuse seemed to expect me to know who they were refering to. They should explain why it is worth looking at

 

[Coffeecup]

I only know one Farron and breadandcircuse seemed to expect me to know who they were refering to. They should explain why it is worth looking at

It’s an American podcaster giving the viewing figures for Trump’s inauguration.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Trump retailiates:

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American Wanker, Go Fuck Yourself. (full text)

 

[spring-peeper]

https://meidasnews.com/news/ice-raid-in-new-jersey-sweeps-up-u-s-citizens-along-with-undocumented-immigrants?fbclid=IwY2xjawIDnAdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdeHI43ZigSifKyD7SUYdMMekKJJWzYH8aAr7LEV0mnXs6iffh4LFo-jnw_aem_mDRdgLckMDJlRYeSvxfUGw

"Today, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided a local establishment in the City of Newark, detaining undocumented residents as well as citizens, without producing a warrant," Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said in a statement.

"Newark will not stand by idly while people are being unlawfully terrorized," Baraka continued. "One of the detainees is a U.S. military veteran who suffered the indignity of having the legitimacy of his military documentation questioned."

But the above is not true, according to the US government

But according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt in a post on X on Thursday, all 538 individuals arrested were "illegal immigrant criminals."

TODAY: The Trump Administration arrested 538 illegal immigrant criminals including a suspected terrorist, four members of the Tren de Aragua gang, and several illegals convicted of sex crimes against minors.

Also:

Teachers on TikTok and other social media apps are reporting that they have received instruction from district officials to not permit ICE to enter classrooms in compliance with the Plyler v. Doe SCOTUS decision from 1982, which states that public schools may not deny classroom instruction to anyone based on immigration status. Teachers will not comply with ICE in identifying which students may be undocumented.

 

[two sheds]

time to buy some Colombian coffee

 

[Humberto]

They still buy the cocaine?

 

[Jeff Robinson]

What same sex marriage decision?

In 2015 the Supreme Court - when it was less dominated by radical conservatives - ruled that prohibitions on gay marriage were unconstitutional. When the more conservative court of today overturned abortion rights in 2022, they effectively undermined the rationale of the 2015 ruling without explicitly overruling it. Conservatives hate the 2015 ruling and have had in their crosshairs ever since. It’s survival hangs in the balance.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

In 2015 the Supreme Court - when it was less dominated by radical conservatives - ruled that prohibitions on gay marriage were unconstitutional. When the more conservative court of today overturned abortion rights in 2022, they effectively undermined the rationale of the 2015 ruling without explicitly overruling it. Conservatives hate the 2015 ruling and have had in their crosshairs ever since. It’s survival hangs in the balance.

Yes, I think it's inevitable they'll end up overturning the 2015 decision.

 

[breadandcircuse]

I only know one Farron and breadandcircuse seemed to expect me to know who they were refering to. They should explain why it is worth looking at

I've referenced the political scientist on numerous occasions, and gave a clue as to what the vid was about. If you choose not to watch it, or note the clue, that's on you. I regularly put things in spoilers and link to what they are about, as I got flak for posting vids, where I notice others don't.

For reference, once again, the commentator is Farron Cousins, who is a political scientist, who works with lawyers, notably on Ring of Fire, and Farron Balanced. He is eminently more interesting than Tim Farron.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

All this in one day:

• President Donald Trump says he has directed his administration to impose a raft of tariffs and sanctions on Colombia
• It follows Colombia's decision to turn away US military flights carrying deported migrants
• Colombia's president has responded by threatening similar tariffs on US imports and also says he would "receive our fellow citizens on civilian planes, without treating them like criminals"
• Meanwhile, deportation raids in Chicago have begun and Trump's border czar Tom Homan says Congress needs to increase funding for the border effort, including 100,000 beds for migrant detention centres
• Trump also tells the BBC that the US gaining control of Greenland is an "absolute necessity" to guarantee international security and accuses Canada of treating the US "unfairly on trade"
• Earlier, Trump suggested that Gazans could be relocated to other Arab countries - the remark has shocked Palestinians but has been welcomed by Israel's far-right

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

I don't think it will matter in the slightest what the Greenlanders want.

Yeah, ask the people of eg Diego Garcia. The UK properly fucked them over. When one of the superpowers wants something, smaller countries/territories are usually powerless to resist.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Green light for China over Taiwan, if he does go into Greenland, they could just repeat felon 34's words for justification.

Good point. And there are other contested islands in the South China sea, such as the Spratly Islands.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

I'm sorry, I'm still very far behind: why the fuck is he even interested in Greenland anyway?!

Is there any kind of historical link? Is Greenland actually just the convenient catalyst for some larger objective?

As well as mining for rare earth elements, there's also mining for precious stones, eg rubies. But it's probably the rare earth elements that Trump's mostly interested in. Or rather the crypto, AI and other tech bros who have his ear are interested in them.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Trump has disbanded The Federal School Safety Clearinghouse External Advisory Board,
that works to prevent school shootings. How much more of a cunt does he have to be
before he loses his supporters, or are they so fucking hateful, or stupid, that he'll not lose them?

UPDATE: Federal school safety board disbanded under Trump administration

The latest education news updates from EdSource.

edsource.org

Because God forbid they lose their Second Amendment rights to bear arms (and shoot children and teachers dead with them).

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Trump retailiates:

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He's abso-fucking-lutely deranged. He's despotic. When are the men (and/or women) in white coats going to intervene and take him away in a straitjacket to a padded cell?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

He's abso-fucking-lutely deranged. He's despotic. When are the men (and/or women) in white coats going to intervene and take him away in a straitjacket to a padded cell?

It'd be deeply cruel to other inmates in the mental hospital to have to live next to him.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

It'd be deeply cruel to other inmates in the mental hospital to have to live next to him.

True.