Convicted Felon Reelected as President of the USA
-
Thread started by Demon_Skeith
- Credits
- 69,037
Can we keep pissing off trump so it activates the stroke hidden within him?
Even if he dies we still have a major problem, Elon Musk. The reason why Trump won --Aside from the fact that he also won the popular vote this time, though the popular vote never determines who the next president is-- The Electoral college vote was mainly because Musk bought the Republicans, and voters by giving them that $1 million lottery and the Judges allowed it. Thus he can do the same come the next election. With Republicans completely in Elon's pocket, he can/will most likely force/bribe the Republicans to make him one of the next presidential candidates and then he can/will most likely bribe electors/voters to make sure he wins the next presidential election. While we don't know what his exact economic plans are if he is the president, what we have seen so far we know the guy is a complete authoritarian, which is of course bad. He will run the country completely his way that will benefit him, and his Billionaire buddies, and the States will cease to be a Democratic Country. If Trump is not dead yet or still able enough cognitively by that time he will most likely try everything in his power to challenge Musk and maintain his presidential seat, and I suspect Trump is already planning for that from now, trying everything in his power to change the presidential laws to allow him to be president for life or so that he can be another presidential candidate come the next election, he is afraid of Musk.
The Electoral College System must go away and thus allowing the people to vote for the next president directly. But in order for that to happen, it requires support from two-thirds of both houses of Congress and three-quarters of the 50 states. With the senate and congress under the Republicans, Musk and Trump's control that's not gonna happen. Unless something extraordinary happens, like, enough Republicans jumped ship.
Last edited:
You get a tariff, and you get a tariff and everyone gets a tariff.
I'm just glad he's dumb enough to do it all at once. When the other countries work together to cut off the US and make it hurt with their own countermeasures it will happen all at once and no one will come out of it indifferent.
Full list
- A 10% baseline tax on imports from all countries and higher tariff rates on dozens of nations that run trade surpluses with the United States
- 34% tax on imports from China (On top of the one of earlier)
- 20% tax on imports from the European Union
- 25% on South Korea
- 24% on Japan
- and 32% on Taiwan.
- Vietnam 46%
- India 26%
- Norway 15%
- Moldova 31%
- Thailand 36%
- Iraq 39%
- Democratic Republic of the Congo 11%
- Republic of the Congo 10%
- Angola 32%
- Cameroon 11%
- Falkland Islands 41%
- Mozambique 16%
- Zambia 17%
- Switzerland 31%
- Indonesia 32%
- Malaysia 24%
- Cambodia 49%
- UK 10%
- Zimbabwe 18%
- Malawi 17%
- Syria 41%
- Vanuatu 22%
- Liechtenstein 37%
- Guyana 38%
- Libya 31%
- Equatorial Guinea 13%
- South Africa 30%
- Brazil 10%
- Bangladesh 37%
- Singapore 10%
- Israel 17%
- Fiji 32%
- Tunisia 28%
- Ukraine 10%
- Nicaragua 18%
- Kazakhstan 27%
- Laos 48%
- Côte d'Ivoire/Ivory Coast 21%
- Botswana 37%
- Venezuela 15%
- Philippines 17%
- Mauritius 40%
- Chad 13%
- Nigeria 14%
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon 50%
- Chile 10%
- Nauru 30%
- Algeria 30%
- Brunei 24%
- Jordan 20%
- El Salvador 10%
- Pakistan 29%
- Namibia 21%
- Myanmar 44%
- Sri Lanka 44%
- Serbia 37%
- Madagascar 47%
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 35%
- Lesotho 50%
- North Macedonia 33%
- Norfolk Island 29%
- Réunion 37%
- Credits
- 69,037
Read from BBC and Reuters:
Vietnam could be particularly vulnerable to Trump's latest salvo of levies. It has a large trade deficit with the US and has been a beneficiary of firms moving factories out of China to avoid measures announced during his first term in office.
While some countries have hit back at Washington, Vietnam's Prime Minister, Pham Minh Chinh, has suggested that he may take a more diplomatic approach.
Speaking in January, he said he was willing to visit Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida and "golf all day long" if it benefits his country, drawing laughter in the room.
The Trump Organization is planning to invest billions of dollars in golf courses, hotels and real estate in Vietnam, according to the Reuters news agency.
The first project will reportedly be a residential complex with three 18-hole golf courses, which will break ground in May.
"Just had a very productive call with To Lam, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, who told me that Vietnam wants to cut their Tariffs down to ZERO if they are able to make an agreement with the U.S.", Trump wrote on his Truth social platform.
"I thanked him on behalf of our Country, and said I look forward to a meeting in the near future," Trump added.
Lam confirmed the call and the pledge to cut tariffs on U.S. goods. "At the same time (Lam) proposed that the U.S. apply similar tax rates to goods imported from Vietnam," read a report on Vietnam's government portal published shortly after Trump's post.
And then there is golf - playing a game with Trump had worked for the late Japanese leader Shinzo Abe.
Abe and Trump established a friendship, which included many golf games over several years. The friendship arguably helped Abe secure tariff exemptions for Japan's critical car industry at the time.
--------------------------------------------------
So Pham and Trump are going renegotiate the tariffs back to where they were before with Vietnam/US, and thus there's no point of imposing that crazy reciprocal tariffs in the first place and most manufacturing will still remain in Vietnam. And Tariffs negotiations could be done anytime between countries without having to announce crazily high tariffs first. Also it's because Trump got personal business stakes in Vietnam. In other words mainly it's for his own benefit.
Vietnam could be particularly vulnerable to Trump's latest salvo of levies. It has a large trade deficit with the US and has been a beneficiary of firms moving factories out of China to avoid measures announced during his first term in office.
While some countries have hit back at Washington, Vietnam's Prime Minister, Pham Minh Chinh, has suggested that he may take a more diplomatic approach.
Speaking in January, he said he was willing to visit Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida and "golf all day long" if it benefits his country, drawing laughter in the room.
The Trump Organization is planning to invest billions of dollars in golf courses, hotels and real estate in Vietnam, according to the Reuters news agency.
The first project will reportedly be a residential complex with three 18-hole golf courses, which will break ground in May.
"Just had a very productive call with To Lam, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, who told me that Vietnam wants to cut their Tariffs down to ZERO if they are able to make an agreement with the U.S.", Trump wrote on his Truth social platform.
"I thanked him on behalf of our Country, and said I look forward to a meeting in the near future," Trump added.
Lam confirmed the call and the pledge to cut tariffs on U.S. goods. "At the same time (Lam) proposed that the U.S. apply similar tax rates to goods imported from Vietnam," read a report on Vietnam's government portal published shortly after Trump's post.
And then there is golf - playing a game with Trump had worked for the late Japanese leader Shinzo Abe.
Abe and Trump established a friendship, which included many golf games over several years. The friendship arguably helped Abe secure tariff exemptions for Japan's critical car industry at the time.
--------------------------------------------------
So Pham and Trump are going renegotiate the tariffs back to where they were before with Vietnam/US, and thus there's no point of imposing that crazy reciprocal tariffs in the first place and most manufacturing will still remain in Vietnam. And Tariffs negotiations could be done anytime between countries without having to announce crazily high tariffs first. Also it's because Trump got personal business stakes in Vietnam. In other words mainly it's for his own benefit.
Last edited:
- Credits
- 69,037
People are starting to turn on orange boy, I hope for a blood bath soon.
MAGA cultists keeps repeating the delusion that this will bring manufacturing jobs back because companies will have to bring their factories to the USA to avoid tariffs but do not understand that most companies will never invest in an environment of uncertainty when the tariffs could be removed or doubled the next day based on trump's mood. A factory is a huge investment and they'd be looking for years or decades of smooth profitabale operations in their forecasts before shelling out the cash and then comes the part of figuring out the supply chains and vendor and distribution selections.
Which means if they even suspect the next 2 presidents will remove or reduce the tariffs they'd never even consider opening a plant. Then there's the tariffs on things like steel, aluminium and industrial machines which would make it even more expensive or unattractive to invest in America. Of course all this assumes they even have the surplus money to just expand whenever they want. If they're struggling, or for all the reasons mentioned above they will decide to simply increase prices because that is the safe bet. The companies I see that would move production to the US are probably the ones that are too dependant on the US market to abandon it and have the money to invest.
Tariffs can and do work when certain sectors of your economy need protection or to save jobs but they're applied with surgical precision taking into consideration possible domino effects of applying it on things like geopolitical situations, existing trade deals, etc. Never a blanket tariff on everything which is nothing short of a sledgehammer on global supply chains.
Given he just paused tariffs and the kissing ass comment I'm sure he just enjoys the feeling of having power.
Which means if they even suspect the next 2 presidents will remove or reduce the tariffs they'd never even consider opening a plant. Then there's the tariffs on things like steel, aluminium and industrial machines which would make it even more expensive or unattractive to invest in America. Of course all this assumes they even have the surplus money to just expand whenever they want. If they're struggling, or for all the reasons mentioned above they will decide to simply increase prices because that is the safe bet. The companies I see that would move production to the US are probably the ones that are too dependant on the US market to abandon it and have the money to invest.
Tariffs can and do work when certain sectors of your economy need protection or to save jobs but they're applied with surgical precision taking into consideration possible domino effects of applying it on things like geopolitical situations, existing trade deals, etc. Never a blanket tariff on everything which is nothing short of a sledgehammer on global supply chains.
Given he just paused tariffs and the kissing ass comment I'm sure he just enjoys the feeling of having power.
Last edited:
Trump and his cohorts could also be doing insider trading with his stock market direct manipulation with Tariffs on and off and on.
From time:
Trump Media closed up 22.67%, soaring twice as much as the broader market, a stunning performance by a company that lost $400 million last year and is seemingly unaffected by whether tariffs would be imposed or paused.
Trump’s 53% ownership stake in the company, now in a trust controlled by his oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., rose by $415 million on the day.
Trump Media was bested, albeit by only two-hundreds of a percentage point, by another Trump administration stock pick—Elon Musk’s Tesla.
Last month, Trump held an extraordinary news conference outside the White House praising the company and its cars. That was followed by a Fox TV appearance by his commerce secretary urging viewers to buy the stock.
Tesla’s surge Wednesday added $20 billion to Musk’s fortunes.
Kathleen Clark, a government ethics law expert at Washington University School of Law, says Trump’s post in other administrations would have been investigated, but is not likely not to trigger any reaction, save for maybe more Truth Social viewers.
“He’s sending the message that he can effectively and with impunity manipulate the market,” she said, “As in: Watch this space for future stock tips.”
From time:
Trump Media closed up 22.67%, soaring twice as much as the broader market, a stunning performance by a company that lost $400 million last year and is seemingly unaffected by whether tariffs would be imposed or paused.
Trump’s 53% ownership stake in the company, now in a trust controlled by his oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., rose by $415 million on the day.
Trump Media was bested, albeit by only two-hundreds of a percentage point, by another Trump administration stock pick—Elon Musk’s Tesla.
Last month, Trump held an extraordinary news conference outside the White House praising the company and its cars. That was followed by a Fox TV appearance by his commerce secretary urging viewers to buy the stock.
Tesla’s surge Wednesday added $20 billion to Musk’s fortunes.
Kathleen Clark, a government ethics law expert at Washington University School of Law, says Trump’s post in other administrations would have been investigated, but is not likely not to trigger any reaction, save for maybe more Truth Social viewers.
“He’s sending the message that he can effectively and with impunity manipulate the market,” she said, “As in: Watch this space for future stock tips.”
Last edited:
- Credits
- 87