“We… want Trump to win. Bigly.”
^(And to hurt people we hate)“we want to win”
Or, alternatively
“Some fat personal bribes please”
That’s probably the exact reason, they didn’t SAY they wanted bribes on the record, but made a gesture of rubbing their fingers and thumb together and the Japanese delegation ignored or misinterpreted it
They most definitely did not misinterpret it.
“How is this entire shipping container covered by the de minimis tariff exemption?”
(a door swings open spilling thousands of the world’s tiniest violins)
You want paper towel? Yes?
They would like Japan to send them one large box of owning the libs. It’s all they ever want.
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“We’re not allowed to just straight out ask for a bribe, so you have to figure that out on your own and give us the money under the table.”
“Did you stay at a Trump branded hotel ofr this trip? That’d be a start.”
What’s really stopping them from openly asking for bribes?
Nothing, now. Didn’t they change the laws to say government employees can receive “tips”?
Snyder v. United States from June 2024. The ruling is that money given before an official act is a “bribe”, but money given after an official act is a “gratuity”.
Yes, our Supreme Court is batfucked in the head, why do you ask?
It’s because they also receive a lot of “gratuities.”
Associate Justice C. Thomas has entered the chat.
Oh shiiiit. Oh shit shit.
This is too funny to even be laughed at.
What they want is: to reduce the trade deficit. But they don’t know how to do that. The most straightforward way is to produce more American products that people in other countries want. But how can Japan do that for them?
That doesn’t make any sense. Clearly the way forward is to implement, then delay random tariffs several times. Now, Apple will be sure to start building iPhones in the US!
Is there really a trade deficit when you factor in services?
That’s what Trump conveniently “forgets” when talking about Evil Europe. Once you compare trade and services balance it’s quite even
Building a service-based industrial economy would be good for capitalism.
Unfortunately Trump does not serve capitalism. He serves fascism. And fascism requires factories that can be reconverted for a wartime effort once the immigrants and the queer start running out. That’s the fundamental lifecycle of fascism.
Americans are sending us all on a path leading straight to WWIII and nuclear Armageddon if they don’t fix their shit but everybody’s too pussy to spell it out as if this demented ape doesn’t have unlimited control of the most powerful army on Earth and enough nukes to end civilization several times over.
The US has a global trade surplus if you account for tech, financial and healthcare services.
There is an argument to be made that being able to produce certain things domestically is important from a national security standpoint (semiconductors for example).
Whether tariffs could actually produce that, no one actually knows.
semiconductors for example
Agreed. That makes the apparent dislike from the Republican administration of the chips act so weird. It would work well in tandem with a reasonable long term tariff precisely tailored to the goods you need to produce indigenously in future.
This would assume that their goal was to bolster American manufacturing in strategic areas or something along those lines. The evidence suggests that this isn’t their goal.
What that goal might be aside from autarky is a good question.
Yeah I’m with you in wondering about that.
When it’s not working, it’s working. The destruction of American economic might was the objective from the start. Just look at who benefits the most by this.
It’s Putin. Its always Putin, using Skum and HitlerPig as his muscle.
When will people truly internalize that the two biggest foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs, have partnered up with the most prolific traitor in American history? None of them have any loyalty or patriotism toward America, and only see us as a big, rich, fat, lazy target to be ruthlessly exploited and looted, and it’s happening in real time before our eyes.
All they care about is money, and either Putin is paying them directly out of the Russian Treasury (HitlerPig would rape and murder his own mother for far less than a billion bucks, and Putin could order a lot more than that), or they’ve cut a deal to split the booty like the pirates they are.
Yeah, but the Chips Act happened under Biden, so it’s automatically bad. Can’t do anything that makes it look like Biden did anything positive.
Literally educate your populace, you dumb fucking sacks of shit.
God. Why are conservatives so insulatedly stubbornly braindead fartingly fucking stupid??
You want to compete on a global scale? Make your population better than the other ones: INVEST IN YOURSELVES.
You want to compete on a global scale? Make your population better than the other ones: INVEST IN YOURSELVES.
Educate the masses for free? Sounds like COMMUNISM. We won’t have any of that in the ol’ US of A. Get out of here with your Red Danger!
Republicans are incapable of doing that because they see anything that helps someone as a “Handout”
I know. It’s wild. But if you want to compete, you still have to compete. Breaking your own legs in a race is what’s happening. LOOK WE’RE WINNING SO HARD
One of the primary criticisms of Atlas Shrugged is that the villains are so moustache-twistingly farcical in their incompetence and greed that all the workers of the world are morally justified in going on strike, killing most everyone.
The book is full of what I thought were ridiculous strawman stories like what happened to the Japan delegation.
True anarchocapitalism is when the free market has you hammer a girder hard enough to become an unassailable steelman.
Well, also that the workers of the world are the villains.
Japan said they might try to import more US rice, but they yen is still really weak right now (even if the dollar is trying to race it by jumping off a cliff). I don’t think the Japanese govt quite grasps how fucking stupid the Orange administration is yet.
Maybe they need to start having those political satire shows like the Daily Show, but people mostly don’t get involved in politics to the same degree as the US.
https://apnews.com/article/japan-trade-tariffs-trump-d23573689292edd7b3cea7496438a4a0
I’m surprised it didn’t go even worse.
DID THEY EVEN SAY THANK YOU?!?!
Additional 100% tariff on everything except anything imported on days starting with “t” except Tuesdays.
Really, I mean how many people were actually hit with gunfire. None? Pfft - straight up win.
All the GOP wants is to feel like they’re in charge, they don’t have any real vision for America outside of it being less gay.
Well, that and white and male. Oh, and spray-on tans are ok as well.
And eyeliner.
Basically Jersey Shore
The GQP hasn’t had an idea other than, give rich tax brakes, since I’ve been alive
That’s an unfair characterization and completely untrue.
They also want to deregulate everything.
Not true. They want to regulate green tech while deregulating fossil fuels.
They want to regulate birth control while deregulating firearms.
Modern Republicans aren’t conservative anymore, they are straight up fascists, or fascism-curious.
The more they do shit like this the more they look “school playground gay”
No they want it to appear less gay while they do “gay” shit and diddle kids.
Conservative America wants to publicly bitch about petty non-existent grievances while demanding that they be taken seriously.
It’s worked on their constituents, but they can’t seem to understand why it doesn’t work on the rest of the world.
They were too shy to admit they wanted anime waifus to be real so they could import them.
the home-grown ones just don’t taste the same
Comrade Miku would have to register as a foreign agent for both Japan and Brazil
🦭💨
Fart of the seal?
That is correct!
Love it! My new favorite.
I can’t take credit, I saw it in another thread like a week ago.
Basically this. Looking forward to South Park mocking how fuck stupid this administration is
South Park lost me with their many, many “both sides” over the years. I have yet to see them properly stab MAGA in the face out of more than temporary shame.
“we can make fun of everyone! so we’re going to run a years-long transphobic storyline!”
like, no, that’s exactly how priests who diddle kids rationalize it - I do good things so I can’t do bad.
South park becomes extremely vapid once you’re over 28 years old.
You can’t just always pick the middle of two sides of an argument and assume you’re always right.
So much this.
The problem with the BoTh SiDeS crowd is that they have opted out of thinking and believe that by blaming both sides they’ve found a cheat code that allows them to always be right. Real life is not so simple that there’s a one size fits all solution to everything.
This is actually why RESPECTABLE religious groups have theologists that study the bible and why the Vatican has a pope to say which passages are relevant for the modern day.
(One of the Pope’s last rulings for example was that while the Catholic Church still believes in strict gender roles, it’s not cool with transphobia, citing legitimate medical need for transition)
There are no shortcuts, you must engage with all information you receive.
You can’t just say “Compromise?” in an argument between a fire fighter and an arsonist.
It was hard to stay on board as a transwoman with the blatant transphobia and all that.
South Park has traditionally supported the GOP by either normalizing things or both-sides’ing.
Don’t expect them to suddenly stop now.
I wouldn’t call that support, just not flat out calling it bad. They just tell you like it is, you gotta make the call of what’s right and wrong with what’s going on. I’d say they lean more “liberal” personally, but they rich AF so not in the same game we are playing anyways.
They literally had a decades long arc about climate change being as ridiculous an idea as “manbearpig” That’s not what I’d call left leaning
Yeah, but they apologized for it. Everyone is entitled to their opinion at the end of the day, and it is up to us to determine if it is funny or not, just like whether it is true or not. I don’t see them putting many conservatives in a good light, nor do they do that for supposed liberals. They just show all the grey no one talks about and leave it for the viewer to take away what they will. They had a whole 2 part arc where they mock humans inability to change and instead coopt climate change (manbear pig) to work for them while we waste all our resources frivolously until it is too late. Doesn’t sound like a conservative talking point to me?
I’m pretty sure this administration is using South Park and the Simpsons as a guide.
if the last month has taught us anything, real 4D chess would be “make the Switch 2 here, we’ll exempt any tariff that goes to it, and lift the ones on you”
That would triple the price of a product people are already complaining it’s too expensive
i realize my wording is a bit wonky, when i say “we’ll exempt any tariff that goes to it”, I meant the getting resources from elsewhere would be subsidized
also just lower the minimum wage to $2 :^)
They’d still retail for more, because capitalism. Oh, and that “proudly made in the USA” sticker will add another $24.99 to the price as well.
Yeah but it’d benefit the administration at least, I’m not saying it’d benefit anyone else!
That would make too much sense, it would be better if they demanded that Super Mario gives up his Japanese citizenship
We want nothing and you offer nothing?
Deal!
They want to perpetually be the victim.
It’s straight up psychological abuse. They want others to try and read their souls (aka guess) so that they can have the upper hand of being able to say it’s not good enough. Or that it has offended them in some way and oh look tariffs just went up again.
That and personal benefits. Trump is all about the grift. He doesn’t care about Americans, never has. If Japan said they’d make a statue of him on the top of mt Fuji he’s be touring it on every news station within the hour.
This is one of the best scenes in Bronson actually
Male frontal nudity warning:
Also YouTube warning
On Odysee: https://ody.sh/rOeTUhrYh7
Is there any way to view this link without having a Youtube account? I can’t make one.
As soon as I figure out Odysee, I’ll throw you a link
There ya go: https://ody.sh/rOeTUhrYh7
Why not?
First, I don’t like Google’s terms.
Second, if I try to create an account using a different email address, it usually complains that I don’t have a real phone number, or every phone number I have or can borrow has been used too many times to create a Google account (I’ve never made one, but I’ve lent my number to a graphic designer who needed multiple accounts), or it blocks me at the Recaptcha (“Your computer is sending automated queries”).
For my current main email address, there is already an account created for it, which I did not make. This account was “suspended” as of the moment I first knew about it, with no reason given. Google said it would be automatically deleted if not signed into for several months. For a while, it seemed deleted. A year later, another implicit Google account was created in my name, and suspended immediately.
Each time, I learn about the mystery account because when I try to send email to any Gmail user I get a bounce message from [email protected] stating “The account [email protected] is disabled”. Using Google’s forgot-password system, I get confirmation that the account exists, and is suspended.
It’s kind of a big problem, because tons of people use googlemail.com servers to handle their email, even if the nominal domain isn’t gmail.com. When I opted out of Discord’s change in terms, that bounced with the same error message from [email protected]. Contacting Sparkfun’s tech support to tell them I can’t order from them because of Recaptcha, I also got the same bounce message.
It asks for a phone number now?!
It used to ask. I haven’t tried in years. Maybe it only asks if you also create a gmail email address with your account.
