The Trump administration and its minions in Congress keep giving the world even more reasons to hate the U.S. government. From Lorenzo Maria Pacini at strategic-culture.su:
What image is America projecting of itself? Once again, one of ridicule.
Okay, okay, okay. Hold on, everyone. There’s a joke to tell: basically, a Republican from South Carolina said that there will be a secondary tariff of 500% (yes, you read that right) on products imported from Russia, with a significant impact on China. All this would be a terrible threat to Moscow from Trump, who has threatened new tariffs against Putin’s Russia as a means of pushing for peace in Ukraine.
Okay, now you can dry your tears from laughing.
Now that we’re back to being serious, we can’t help but comment on these statements.
Let’s start with our first impression: someone should advise Trump and his loyal followers to see a good psychiatrist, who would surely prescribe one of those terrible medicines that are so popular in America, so that he too could finally put a stop to his delusions. Only the US can really think that Russia and China care about them; only Americans can feel so much like the center of the world that they think that the countries that are dominating (read that three times, please) the world can be intimidated by a few trade sanctions.
Not least because these sanctions affect the American people, who cannot do without imported products, and certainly not Russian or Chinese companies, which will continue to sell, even at higher prices and with better profit margins, managing to wipe out some of the competition.
Only a madman could really think that such a measure is good for his country’s economy… unless that madman intends to systematically demolish his country’s entire monetary system. In that case, well done Donald.
Okay, so what?
Trump has promised a 100% secondary tariff if Putin does not end the war within 50 days, but Graham’s bill, introduced alongside Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, would give the president the power to impose much higher tariffs if he deems it appropriate.
Ladyboy Lindsay the Pink Palmetto Princess is pure comedy gold.
Went to SC as a lil’ shaver and was bitten by a dog. (LOL!)
We have comradette KBJ thanks to Clyburn and SC?
Two can play tariffs but only one can TACO.