So now he’s angry that we’ve fucked up our agricultural exports badly enough that the rest of the world doesn’t think our trash goods are food grade?
I would love some of the diseased chlorinated freedom chicken from the U.S.
It is our strongest export for the global autistic community 💪🇺🇸
idk if i want agent orange to get a stroke because on one hand might just die but on the other hand the nonsense he speaks could just get more powerful
Hell, he might end up more coherent.
Trouble is he would still be smarter than bumbling biden.
I’m not interested in giving rich humans access to another trillion dollars.
That works against the best interests of man-fucking-kind.
my concern over IP Theft goes from the ground up, can’t help it. I’ll worry about what corps think they’re missing out on right after I’ve acknowledged each and every person who has ever written anything on the internet, or shared an original work in any way. the damage done by tech bros pillaging the collective imagination is way higher than $1T
The fuck is “non-tariff cheating” supposed to mean?
I believe he’s trying to say “here’s other examples of CHEATING other countries do to us that are unrelated to tariffs”. Who knows.
I think he’s saying things other than tariffs that affect how many dollars the US could make selling shit to your country.
Thing is, the list doesn’t make sense. Yeah most countries have VAT. 1) So does the US, it’s called sales tax. 2) I pay VAT equally on American, Estonian or German goods. What’s the problem?
Oh, that makes sense.
As opposed to cheating as an insider trader who manipulates markets with yo-yo tariffs.
Don’t know but it’s extremely obvious that some of his posts are ghost-written (just like his book) and this is one of them.
It means any attempt to not suffer
Good question.
Nobody knows what it is, folks. People are asking, “What is it?”—nobody knows. Experts, politicians, the fake news—nobody has a clue. Maybe it’s something, maybe it’s nothing. Could be the biggest thing ever, could be nothing at all. Nobody knows, believe me. Total mystery.
Bigly if true
Some nonsense phrase they made up
I mean wouldn’t it just be “ways to cheat tarrifs”
Like I guess they don’t want to promote that but they could just say “ways to cheat tarrifs we will punish” to try to sound hard.
But this phrase just makes no sense.
It’s senile idiot for “I’m a senile idiot.”
My hard drives cost 20% more. IDK what he’s on about “cheating”.
I wonder what his definition of Transshipping would be if asked off-the-cuff without his advisors around.
I wonder what his definition of Transshipping would be
I think that’s when a fishing boat puts on some guns and radar and starts calling itself a battleship ?
lmao, I would believe that he believes it. He could play Ron Burgundy really well.
I would kill to see a journalist ask him about literally anything from this list.
So anyway, here I was, drifting through the lemmy pages, when I realized there was a ton of money to be made by writing software for smugglers.
I have never really known a smuggler of physical goods, but I imagine I will try now
I can’t imagine their software and bookkeeping would be significantly different from any other international logistics company?
Don’t know. But if the tariffs are as bad as many think, I believe the black market in the USA will grow faster than the speakeasies and smuggling booze did a century ago. There will be huge demand to bring in cheaper goods that are legally sold at higher rates.
It’s a new and huge untapped market to provide support, even if most of the movement of goods will be done by organized crime later. A lot of what will happen is unknown.
Certainly there will be a new cat and mouse dynamics. Very rarely does a huge layer of graft poof into existence to fast in a country. Lots of dynamics navigating this new electronic frontier!
Does he think that pirates would turn around and buy $1 Trillion worth of media if pirating stopped? Lmao.
Does he think
No.
Precisely.
He just shitposts. It’s not even high-quality shitposting. It’s not like becoming president improved anything about him. He doesn’t rise to the occasion; the occasion collapses as he rolls over it and makes a mess of it. Every single time.
funniest thing I’ve read this week. But don’t have any friends with whom I can share
Holy shit! That guy hacked the system!
How dare other companies cheat by having more stringent food standards than the USA? Everyone should be forced to buy and ingest real American salmonella.
I am still annoyed that we let the damn Argentinian beef get through, but I think it’s comparatively hilarious that we still won’t budge on US “food”.
When they say ‘piracy’ does he think they are referring to Captain Jack Sparrow?
He doesn’t think at all.
I bet the gerbil on the wheel in his head is exhausted. He should shove a couple more up his ass to help out.
Govt subsidies? Really?
I’m guessing that one is toward the EU?
Or Canada with the dairy subsidies.
Also it’s not like the US has subsidised corn for decades or anything like that.
Controlled production is not the same thing as a subsidy. Canada controls supply. There is a quota system. No US dairy supplier ever uses their quota, so don’t get dinged with tariffs.
It is literally nothing.
“You are required to let me fuck you over! You are not allowed to resist it or find alternative means!” 🖕
You got Trump Derangement Syndrome?
Or just like fucking minors?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/minnesota-justin-eichorn-arrested-soliciting-minor
Did you reply to the wrong comment?
The fuck are you on about?
He doesn’t even know or care about how traditional tariffs are supposed to work. What makes him think he knows what the fuck is non-tariff? Old fucking moron.
Just off the top of my head:
- Pressuring the Fed to cut interest rates and other actions to reduce the US dollar’s value
- Massive payouts to agribusiness, especially maize and sugar producers.
- Try bringing in some fruit or a salami into the US. I dare you.
- OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, xAI etc ripping off the entire world’s entire content.
Maybe someone else can fill in the rest.
OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, xAI etc ripping off the entire world’s entire content.
Rules for thee, not for me!
(2) The US has sales tax which is VAT in a trenchcoat.
(3) The US dumps its corn below cost and saturates foreign markets due to massive corn subsidies.
(6) Try buying a toilet that uses more than 1.6 gallons per flush in the US. Oh wait, you can’t, it’s banned.
(8) US companies have transshipped Chinese goods ever since Trump’s 2018 trade war
