Trump threatens 100% import tariff on UK over digital services tax

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trump-tariff-uk-digital-services-tax-b3003929.html

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lets stopp enforcing the dmca already! we need to listen to the EFF and C. Doctorow

usernametbd@lemmy.zip · 27 pts · 56d (1 reply)

TACO gonna TACO.

Side note, I wish they would just use some emoji in place of his stupid fucking pictures all the time. I can’t stand to see his stupid fucking face everywhere.

RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 56d

🍊💩

Ziggurat@jlai.lu · 23 pts · 56d (4 replies)

Wait, last week it was France, now UK who is next ?

stephen@lazysoci.al · 21 pts · 56d (1 reply)

He’s just picking a name out of Abraham Lincoln’s top hat every day.

Senseless@feddit.org · 8 pts · 56d

So that's what Harry Potter's sorting hat from Temu looks like?

FaceDeer@fedia.io · 5 pts · 56d

https://tenor.com/bYj9U.gif

michel@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 56d

We can make it easy for grandpa by passing digital tax EU wide!

Kidding aside I think that would be great if it could pass

Stupidmanager@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 56d

THIS JUST IN: noxious windbag farts through mouth, the smell is bad but it dissipates quickly. News at 24/7

Hapankaali@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 56d (2 replies)

It's a day ending in "y," so Trump threatens tariffs, all the while still not understanding what tariffs are or why other governments tend to oppose them.

okamiueru@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 56d (1 reply)

Oh, they understand. It's the easiest grift of all time. "Stupidity" is their defense for manipulating the market for personal gain, again, and again.

Tarrifs need to be stable. The kind of stability that meant any changes would be announced a couple of years in advance. Now, the shit stain grifter announces, enacts, and retracts them in a week-month window.

Hapankaali@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 56d

Oh, they understand. It’s the easiest grift of all time. “Stupidity” is their defense for manipulating the market for personal gain, again, and again.

That may be true for some in Trump's circle, but certainly not for Trump himself. Many of his statements have no plausible explanation as part of some nefarious money-making scheme and only really make sense if you accept that he is, in fact, a complete imbecile.

roserose56@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 56d

Are we done with the war on Iran to start tariff threats again?

dumnezero@piefed.social · 5 pts · 56d

when you give blackmailers what they want, there's no guarantee that they stop blackmailing you.

echodot@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 56d

Oh I see someone's told him. This has been the thing for months now and he's only just noticed.

kernkurios@feddit.org · 2 pts · 56d

Did sleepy Donni not have a good afternoon nap and is now grumpy, huh?