To The Lefties Who Said Trump's Tariffs Would Destroy The Economy...?
gee, what happened?
So, 75 countries have come to the table to renegotiate and are being rewarded. The stock market responded. China flexed, and just got their teeth knocked out. The best part are the lefties who said China "held all the cards" are deleting their social media comments. 😂
Canada and Mexico...are you paying attention now?
Glorious
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I don't know how it's benefiting you but it's not the world.
Trump's tariffs are like watching a child with a magnifying glass in a room full of ants. Sure, it's interesting from afar, but you know someone's going to get burned. And that someone is usually the poor, unsuspecting ant—or, in this case, the average person trying to buy a new pair of clothes.
Trump's tariffs are like watching a clown juggle chainsaws—it's terrifying, it's mesmerizing, and you just can't look away.
@AlanAPartridge Not benefitting the rest of the world? The rest of the world has ripping off the US for decades. Kind of like how NATO nations weren't meeting their financial obligations. There's a long history of it. So, Trump said no mas, and 75 nations along with the UK stepped up to negotiate fair trade. That's all Trump wanted to begin with. What are you worried about? Can't compete unless the playing field is tilted in your favor?
Ripping off the US? Come on! The rest of the world’s been giving America loads—tea, the Beatles, the metric system. Okay, they didn’t take the metric system, but it was offered! Very generous.
NATO payments? I once forgot to chip in for a curry, doesn’t mean I was trying to bring down civilisation. Sometimes you just forget your wallet. Or you're Belgium!
Yes, fair trade, brilliant. But there's fair… and then there’s Trump ‘fair’—which is less 'even playing field' and more 'everyone else digs a hole while I build a golf course on top of it.
Fair trade negotiations? It was less Geneva Convention, more car boot sale with shouting. ‘Buy my steel or I’ll slap a tariff on your biscuits!’ That’s not trade—that’s Alan Sugar on Red Bull.
You say '75 nations stepped up'—I say ‘75 nations nodded politely and waited for the shouting to stop.’ It’s diplomacy via foghorn!
Can’t compete? Hang on, we gave the world Shakespeare, the Mini Metro, and the concept of queueing. If that’s not soft power, I don’t know what is!
The playing field doesn’t need to be tilted. Just mowed. Maybe a nice chalk line. Perhaps a gazebo. That’s all I’m asking. Not too much, surely?
@4meAndyou Ah, yes, very stirring. ‘No longer benefit the rest of the world’—a bit like when I stopped buying rounds at the local Wetherspoons. Bold move. Lost a few friends. Slept better.
Hard for me to understand? I’ll have you know I got a B in GCSE Economics and once hosted a panel on globalisation and breakfast cereals. So actually, I’m quite au fait.
So basically the new plan is: stop helping the world, sit in a corner, and hope no one notices you're hoarding all the biscuits. It’s not a foreign policy—it’s a bad group holiday in Marbella!
@4meAndyou America may own the tavern… but if they keep jacking up prices and setting fire to the beer garden, don’t be surprised when the EU opens a wine bar next door with a loyalty card and free olives 😏
@4meAndyou Tapas, ladies night, buffalo wings—yes, yes, very impressive. But let me tell you this: Britain’s got pork pies, pub quizzes, darts and Trevor who plays Dire Straits covers on a loop and a passive-aggressive barman called Clive, now that's tradition 😏
Ladies night on Fridays? We did that in Norwich once. It ended in tears, three divorces, and a full ban on ‘It’s Raining Men’. We don’t do fun—we survive it 😒
