• mPony@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    38 comments, and CTRL-F Epstein returns no results.

    Evidently all the new distractions are working. Who would have thought.

    • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 hours ago

      I’m still not distracted from the Epstein files, but know that until we get a Democrat congress there’s a snowball’s chance in hell of seeing all the files. Even then, I think enough Dem establishment will be questioned by being in them they’d want to bury it too.

  • sircac@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    The ones who joined so far look like the worlds “most wanted” list. Including himself.

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    1 day ago

    Trump has invited the leaders of 60 nations to join the Board of Peace with the stipulation that each contribute $1 billion dollars.

    It’s not “Join the Board of Peace or get tariffs”, it’s “Give me a billion dollars or get tariffs”

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      1 day ago

      This is called Extortion. It’s obvious he thinks he can run the presidency like a mafia operation. But I think people in general are about done with putting up with this bullshit.

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        He didn’t even think it through that much. His thought process was:

        “The UN won’t let me do what I want. I’m going to make my own UN with me in charge so I can do anything I want.”

        “The UN I’m making is so awesome because I’m in charge, I should charge people to join.”

        “The King of France was mean about my super awesome UN, I’m going put tariffs on him! What does France sell? Wine and Champaign.”

        Thoughts 2 and 3 are completely unconnected. If you spent 10 minutes explaining the connection to him he’d think “I’m smarter than I thought, either way I get money!”

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      1 day ago

      Some folks seem to think he is saying “pay into the fund for the Board of Peace”, but I am quite convinced he means pay him that money personally.

      Same with the donations for the inaugural ceremony… they directly ended up in Trump’s grubby hands without anything to show for towards the American public.

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        19 hours ago

        That is what it means. He can spend the money on whatever he wants.

        It’s also just another power play.

  • ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Lmfao this God damn idiot. He’s gotta know how stupid this looks. You gonna force peace? Leave it to a rapist pedophile to think he can force anything.

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      3 hours ago

      And petulant child methods. “I’m going to make my OWN UN, then everyone has to do what I say!”

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Macron, don’t join. The rest if the world will happily increase our purchase of your wines to offset losses stemming from any decrease in sales you experience in the US.

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    Other nations need to stop playing and just wrip up all trade deals with the US and just move on. We’re not going to learn until everyone moves on without us.

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      20 hours ago

      If enough countries tariffed the hell out of US goods and services, this shit would stop. When corporate America starts yelling at the congressmen they bought because they’re no longer making any money — congress would suddenly remember they are the ones who legally control the power to set and repeal tariffs, not the president.

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        17 hours ago

        Don’t tariff just stop doing business all together. Let those ships pull in, then return to sender.

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    1 day ago

    I don’t know why other countries don’t respond by passing their own export tax/tarrifs…

    If trump wants to double the price of your goods, fuck him and get your own slice first.

    You still get paid for everyone shipped to America, but the importers only get paid when it sells. So that’s getting business to go after Trump to lower his tariffs.