Are We Feeling Liberated Yet? - Trump thread #141

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King Donald has bigly new tariffs, First Lady Elmo turns out to be ballot box poison and 'Pick Me Girl' Vance is a meanie to the EU.

(But at least the penguins on the Heard and McDonald Islands are wearing suits)

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5297058-trumpmusk-the-doge-and-pony-show-continues-trump-thread-140

I mean, you're not wrong, but the truth is almost his entire cabinet is made up of random right wing internet twats, and even the ones that were semi-serious before are rapidly going in that direction. How much worse is she than Pete Hegseth, really?

I archived this, it's behind a paywall.
"How the anti-Trump backlash is growing"

It is an encouraging read. I think we all need it.

The Town Halls for Repubs are terrible
The ratings for Trump as a President are awful
Tesla is continuing to plummet day by day
The law firms who capitulated to Trump are paying a dear price
Trump lost the Senate majority on tariffs to Canada 51-48
And more

https://archive.ph/BUb6L#selection-729.9-729.47

As we are seeing, the MAGAs are accepting what they are getting with zero signs of that changing.

Remember the whole movement is built on a subtly (and no such subtly) constructed narrative that all your woes are really someone elses fault. And despite being white and male, you have lost your superpower to a bunch of folks who you have been taught (with pictures of course) to blame.

The worse things are going for you, the more what MAGA are saying seems true. That there is a woke conspiracy that is even now resisting the brave efforts of our Lord Trump.

Petty, I know, but it gives me great pleasure that the photographers almost always manage to catch him at a terrible moment. Or maybe he doesn't have any good ones?

Where are his teeth? Did he leave them in Trump's butt cheek?

I always think he’d look perfectly fine if he wasn’t such a wank stain. Somehow being such an unbridled twat makes him really quite ugly.

Bloomberg is reporting that China will impose a 34% tariff on all imported American goods in addition to existing tariffs from April 10

Yes, Guardian reporting it now too!

if he wasn’t such a wank stain

I think you mean his sofa? 😂

*and yes, I know it wasn't true

That map's wrong surely.

Shouldn't Greenland (and I suppose the Faroe Islands) be under the EU envelope as they're still Danish at the moment within the EU?

Paul Krugman

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-careless-stupidity-kill-the?triedRedirect=true

JPMorgan now forecasting a 60% chance of US recession this year.

71 days

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-american-age-is-over

Signing in for the tariff tango💃🏻

I love JVL. I'm afraid he's becoming my spirit animal 😅

Every ship currently en route to the US will be cutting its speed
in the hopes that the tariff situation has changed by the time they dock.
Its moving so fast that sellers may need to wait only a week
for capitulation

Deliveroo by drone to ships at anchor outside US ports will become a thing

That is such an interesting article.

I live on the coast near a major harbour and we have that already that big freight ships are anchoring to wait for best commodity prices.

Funny there's been no mention of smuggling yet ?

Oh my goodness, is this really true? (Sorry it's from X). Selling gold cards with his mug on it for citizenship for $5million

https://x.com/therecount/status/1907906783915511913

https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/donald-trump-gold-card-unveiled-how-to-buy-13877221.html

He's like a pandemic. Wreaking global havoc.

If only we could get rid of him with bleach.

Unfortunately yes the gold cards are real.

US Markets dropped 3% in the first five minutes today
https://markets.businessinsider.com/index/dow_jones

I know nothing about trading, just how bad is that?

Very.
Like Very very.