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Thu Jul 10, 2025, 09:48 AM Thursday

Trump's Insanity



What does this even mean? Is he releasing the Kraken or admitting he’s kept countries hostage? It’s anybody’s guess.

If it’s about tariffs, he needs to revisit actual facts and not act on notions rattling around in his big, empty, orange noggin.

The facts: Paul Krugman points out that the current tariff rate South Korea charges the U.S. is zero, which means it would be hard to negotiate it lower, even for a “master negotiator.”

Trump also imposed a 50% tariff on Brazil, claiming there was trade deficit with them. Actually we have a trade surplus with Brazil, meaning they buy more from us than we buy from them.

Crazy and stupid is not what the country needs.
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Trump's Insanity (Original Post) surfered Thursday OP
What a stupid fucker he is. Ferrets are Cool Thursday #1
Time's up BeerBarrelPolka Thursday #2
Gawd, the cringes/embarrassment: "Thank you for your attention to this matter!" OMG hlthe2b Thursday #3
At least he only mis-capitalized Countries? tanyev Thursday #4
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