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kingdragonfly
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  #3362973 11-Apr-2025 14:37
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I was thinking "How does the US bring back a tiny bit more stability?"

I remembered f "Vote Loki" Marvel’s imagining of its trickster god antihero’s campaign for president

Loki: “The other presidential candidates dance around questions like they’re hot irons. They make up half-positions based on whatever people want to hear, and they clearly stand in contrast to their true history. And then once they take office, they do whatever they want anyway as quietly as possible.”

“America,” Loki continues, “if I were your president, I’d have the guts to lie right to your face. And you’d love it.”


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  #3362979 11-Apr-2025 15:21
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Once your reputation is ruined, you can live a carefree life. Where there is no morality, there is no seriousness. America has gone from former role model to omnipresent laughing stock of the world. Rich, decadent upstarts and good-for-nothings are plundering a run-down society and it doesn't even realise it. They are making America even dumber and more untrustworthy than it has already become. Let's see when they threaten the world with nuclear weapons instead of tariffs.

 

How they see themselves:

 

 

How they really are:

 

 

 

 

 





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  #3362996 11-Apr-2025 16:10
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Or this is also how they are (saw this parody somewhere, seems to be going around online in various forms at the moment):

 


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  #3363000 11-Apr-2025 16:39
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Trump pledges tariffs on pharmaceuticals, setting up fight over who pays: Washington Post

President Donald Trump is pledging to target the pharmaceutical industry with tariffs even while pausing many of his global levies for 90 days, threatening to disrupt international supply chains and raising the prospect of a clash between drugmakers and insurers that could determine whether patients are hit with higher costs.

Trump said Tuesday that his administration will “be announcing very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceuticals,” a bid to force companies to make more of their medicines in the United States. On Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said a 90-day pause [would not apply to pharmaceuticals].

But raising tariffs on prescription drugs could carry additional risks for the new administration, as well as for drug manufacturers and insurance companies.

How much U.S. patients feel the effects of tariffs depends on whether pharmaceutical companies seek to pass the costs on to others in the medical system.
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“If the tariff cost can be passed on to consumers, the pharmaceutical companies will happily do that,” said Brad Setser, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations.
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“If it leads to people being denied drugs because they can’t afford them, that’s a tragedy.”
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  #3363007 11-Apr-2025 17:02
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Fox News Jess Watters is mentioned below. Shortly after Trump took office, Jesse said "Canada... the fact that they don’t want us to take them over makes me want to invade. I want to quench my imperialist thirst"

Right-wing commentators scrambled to spin Trump’s disastrous tariffs: LA Times
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And then there’s Fox Business’ Larry Kudlow — once a proud free trader, now just another guy huffing Trump fumes — saying, “Buying cheap goods is not a real prosperity.” You know what else isn’t prosperity, Larry? Telling working people to pay more for socks while billionaires get tax breaks and bailouts.

And who could forget the Fox News caption “Trump’s Manly Tariffs” that popped on screen during a segment in which Watters asserted that “When you sit behind a screen all day it makes you a woman.” Which is a weird flex coming from a guy who literally gets paid to sit behind a screen all day. In makeup. Also … what’s wrong with being a woman?
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  #3363104 11-Apr-2025 22:22
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https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin

 

Interesting to see how quickly his ratings tail off, moreso in the wake of his stupid tariffs. It reminds me of what happened to Biden after the cost of living kicked in in 2021 and his ratings started to tank.

 

But for the orange buffoon, are the wheels falling off already? Is the honeymoon over?

 

(note that this graph is from the bloke who started the [sadly] now-defunct 538 website, hence why the graphics style look similar):

 

 

 


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  #3363114 12-Apr-2025 06:50
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Quite a few cartoons given everything going on this week, here's some for your Saturday morning:

 

 

^ I'm quite sure that list could be longer, but that's a start

 

 

^Not Brexit, but...

 

 

^ a (genuine) worry I now have to think about for my boy's school trip later this year 😕

 

 

^ this one speaks for itself.


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  #3363175 12-Apr-2025 14:08
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Another nail in the coffin of US democracy:

The NY Times -
Five More Big Law Firms Reach Deals With Trump

 

today

 


Five more prominent law firms facing potential punitive action by President Trump reached deals on Friday with the White House to provide a total of $600 million in free legal services to causes supported by the president.

 

Four of the firms - Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, A&O Shearman and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett - each agreed to provide $125 million in pro bono or free legal work, according to Mr. Trump. A fifth firm, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, agreed to provide at least $100 million in pro bono work. ...

 

The terms are similar to ones Mr. Trump previously announced with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; Willkie Farr & Gallagher; and Milbank.

 

 

Nine law firms have now pledged $940 million to Trump's approved causes.   😖

 

and ..

 

The Washington Post - DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions

today

 


A DOGE engineer removed users’ access to grants.gov, threatening to further slow the process of awarding thousands of federal grants per year.

 

DOGE employees have made changes to grants.gov, a federal website that has traditionally served as a clearinghouse for more than $500 billion in annual awards and is used by thousands of outside organizations ... 

 

Federal agencies including the Defense, State and Interior departments have historically posted their grant opportunities directly to the site. ...

 

... a DOGE engineer recently deleted many federal officials’ permissions to post grant opportunities, without informing them that their permissions had been removed.

 





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  #3363183 12-Apr-2025 15:00
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Who is surprised? Shysters among themselves. As long as the Americans put up with it, everything is fine, isn't it? 😈





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  #3363292 12-Apr-2025 18:21
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Seems that China has again retaliated? Ive just got in.

 

Trump is waiting for China to approach it for a deal. Wont happen. Asian countries have honour, it would be seen as weak to cave in. Trumps business ventures are based on being a bully so that others with less financial resources, do in fact, cave in. China being an autocracy isnt governed by elections or mid terms or poll results. They have stated they can endure this longer than the US. They can also engage in non US countries to embrace trade, which is something the US cannot do, A) as they target everyone else, B) as they cannot be trusted.

 

While there are many products that can be sourced elsewhere, there are many that cannot. Many such countries have been tariffed even though the US cannot manufacture or grow them, super dumb.

 

End game is other countries will work with other countries, the US is the last resort. You may find that MANY countries have FTA deals, while the US has tariffs. But the US will bring manufacturing/growing back to the US which will be great, yes, it will be great. US consumers may think otherwise. The reason that some products are imported is they do it cheaper, and/or better. That mantra seems lost now. 

 

Isolation 101

 

When Trump is dumped, not a great deal will change as the world moved on to trading with partners they trust. You cannot wind that back in a US election.

 

 


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  #3363296 12-Apr-2025 18:54
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Exactly what I think and why I‘m not scared at all by this clown. 👍 All the china he has already smashed will have to be bought again in other countries. But he makes sure that Americans get back to where we all belong: on the ground (when he left).





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  #3363297 12-Apr-2025 18:56
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Trade imbalances. Widely reported that the US has trade imbalances, being ripped off for decades etc. Why is that? IIRC China vs USA has a 4-1 imbalance, where China exports 4X what the US exports to China. Why is that? China doesnt export 4X, the US IMPORTS 4X. Because its better value. Perhaps Trump could ask its manufactures/growers to provide better value o allow the trade imbalance to equalise... Adam Smith Guns and Butter. While thats a means of trade its not too dissimilar. If I can provide guns and you can provide butter, lets trade (yes this was before money became the trade currency) But it still applies now. USA cannot grow/manufacture everything, so you have trade agreements, to allow both parties to trade what they make/grow better. 

 

Norfolk Island , POP. 3500, are tariffed 37% IIRC. What they export to the US, the US cannot produce. Thats not a tariff situation where you punish unfair practices, its just a punishment.

 

When we were kiddies, trade lunches. One kiddie has tasty mince sandwiches, another has lettuce and marmite sandwiches. FTA existed back then.


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  #3363298 12-Apr-2025 18:57
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Tinkerisk:

 

Exactly what I think and why I‘m not scared at all by this clown. 👍

 

 

He may well make the world a better place once it all washes out. Friends work with friends, everyone is pretty happy. (correction, most everyone)


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  #3363299 12-Apr-2025 19:07
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The stupid boys have struck again.





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