Literally all it takes is to say nice things to him. Amazing.

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    Surround yourself with Yes-men, piss off your allies, cuddle with dictators. Great strategy.

    Maybe MAGA actually stands for Make America Gone Again. Is that acceptable English? Not a native speaker.

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    As much as I hate Starmer, he and Zelensky have done a good job of keeping their interests vis à cis Trump.

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    So the orange toddler is pissed at Canada because Trudeau laughed at him a few times?

    Jfc. What a time to be alive.

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    And of course Donald Trump is as immovable as granite and unwaveringly loyal to his friends & allies.

    There is no chance of him having a spat with the Aberdeenshire council about rubbish collection for his golf club and responding with a 50% tariff…

    Or for that matter of being directed to do it by his owners with even less justification…

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    So a trade deficit equals a subsidy in trump’s brain.

    The US has a trade deficit with most of the world. If he goes 0% -> 25% on all imports it’ll be about $1T in funds moved from private hands into government coffers. (Of course, not all countries have 0% import tariffs today).

    Would this be the biggest tax raise in American history?

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      Would this be the biggest tax raise in American history?

      Maybe, and it hits the poor worse than most forms of tax increases.
      So it’s blatantly in favor of the 1%, accumulating power even more in the top.

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    The UK and US have pretty balanced trading, both reprting surpluses. Isn’t that the real reason? Tariffs would be really stupid here