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Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

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I can't imagine how frustrating and humiliating it has to be for these other leaders to have to publicly kiss the ring - knowing nothing material is really changing - just to avoid a trade war and possible recession for their countries.
 
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U.S. Attorney Offers to Protect Musk’s DOGE Staff

"The newly appointed interim US attorney for the District of Columbia said he would take legal action against anyone who impedes or threatens Elon Musk’s government-efficiency staff, raising the stakes after repeated confrontations between the
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I guess we will wait and see what they treat as a threat, but “impedes” can mean a lot of things …
 
Several of us said that we don't like tariffs but Trump was simply using them as leverage in negotiations. Well, that's exactly what happened. They never went into effect and we have 30 days to negotiate an even better deal(s). We can disagree who got the better "deal" but the point is the tariffs were just the club.

Yeah, it's probably frustrating being an ally/neighbor of Trump's USA but we'll get their assist for securing both borders. See, you don't need a big "border deal" to secure the border. You can secure it simply using your Executive powers and foreign policy diplomacy.
 
Ramrouser said:
Several of us said that we don't like tariffs but Trump was simply using them as leverage in negotiations. Well, that's exactly what happened. They never went into effect and we have 30 days to negotiate an even better deal(s). We can disagree who got the better "deal" but the point is the tariffs were just the club.

Yeah, it's probably frustrating being an ally/neighbor of Trump's USA but we'll get their assist for securing both borders. See, you don't need a big "border deal" to secure the border. You can secure it simply using your Executive powers and foreign policy diplomacy.
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They both basically promised to keep doing what they had been doing.
 
ChapelHillSooner said:
He should be scared himself. No matter what he achieves here, this isn't ending well for him. I suspect he will be at minimum spending a time in prison.
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Whose prison? And when? ttump isn't going to give up the presidency, nor will the techbroligarchy. ttump isn't putting the richest man on the planet in prison.
 
Ramrouser said:
Several of us said that we don't like tariffs but Trump was simply using them as leverage in negotiations. Well, that's exactly what happened. They never went into effect and we have 30 days to negotiate an even better deal(s). We can disagree who got the better "deal" but the point is the tariffs were just the club.

Yeah, it's probably frustrating being an ally/neighbor of Trump's USA but we'll get their assist for securing both borders. See, you don't need a big "border deal" to secure the border. You can secure it simply using your Executive powers and foreign policy diplomacy.
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He got nothing for all that.
 
Ramrouser said:
Several of us said that we don't like tariffs but Trump was simply using them as leverage in negotiations. Well, that's exactly what happened. They never went into effect and we have 30 days to negotiate an even better deal(s). We can disagree who got the better "deal" but the point is the tariffs were just the club.
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No he wasn't using them as leverage. He was planning on putting them in. He only changed course when he saw the market reaction, and saw that he was being dragged by the WSJ and Fox News. He stepped on his dick and Bessent must have gotten in his ear.
 
So Trump announces tariffs on Mexico and Canada, expecting to roll over them. Mexico and Canada respond with a "Go fuck yourself, we can play that game too." Either somebody talks some sense into Trump or he comes to the realization that his bluff has been called, so he calls both Pardo and Trudeau to re-work a deal that allows him to say they agreed to his demands, so he can back off the tariffs without looking like the flaccid, ineffectual, fake tough guy that he is. Both Pardo and Trudeau just agreed to things they are already doing at the border, and Trump backed off his tariffs, but in a way that made it seem like he was only delaying them so he didn't look like a complete pussy by cancelling them altogether. Maybe he thinks in a month, there will be something else in the news cycle that takes our mind off the fact that he didn't reinstate the tariffs.
 
Ramrouser said:
Several of us said that we don't like tariffs but Trump was simply using them as leverage in negotiations. Well, that's exactly what happened. They never went into effect and we have 30 days to negotiate an even better deal(s). We can disagree who got the better "deal" but the point is the tariffs were just the club.

Yeah, it's probably frustrating being an ally/neighbor of Trump's USA but we'll get their assist for securing both borders. See, you don't need a big "border deal" to secure the border. You can secure it simply using your Executive powers and foreign policy diplomacy.
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What do you think he accomplished here? Neither Pardo nor Trudeau agreed to anything they weren't already doing at the border.
 
Ramrouser said:
Several of us said that we don't like tariffs but Trump was simply using them as leverage in negotiations. Well, that's exactly what happened. They never went into effect and we have 30 days to negotiate an even better deal(s). We can disagree who got the better "deal" but the point is the tariffs were just the club.

Yeah, it's probably frustrating being an ally/neighbor of Trump's USA but we'll get their assist for securing both borders. See, you don't need a big "border deal" to secure the border. You can secure it simply using your Executive powers and foreign policy diplomacy.
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What Trump’s balls taste like?
 
JD Heel said:
I can't imagine how frustrating and humiliating it has to be for these other leaders to have to publicly kiss the ring - knowing nothing material is really changing - just to avoid a trade war and possible recession for their countries.
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Is it "kiss the ring" or "kiss the baby"?
 
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