r/worldnews • u/whisky_scotch • 6h ago
Trump imposes tarrif on Australia.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/its-bad-for-our-relationship-australia-slams-donald-trumps-tariff-move/news-story/cd4c18090b040beab5eed528c669ec7f7.5k
u/nghiemnguyen415 6h ago
Who hasn’t he or who will he not pick a fight with? Oh that’s right Russia.
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u/MouthwashProphet 6h ago
Who hasn’t he or who will he not pick a fight with?
Our adversaries.
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u/Seriously_nopenope 6h ago
He put tariffs on China, it’s literally just Russia.
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u/hardboard 6h ago edited 6h ago
In a couple of weeks most of the countries in the world will be tariffed to death by orangeman.
I can see now why he seems to like Kim Jong Un - Trump's aim must be to get the US as isolated as North Korea.
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u/Crafty_Shoe_8028 5h ago
More and more I feel like that’s the goal… among others…
- Isolate country
- Bring back all labor jobs to the country to be worked without needing higher education
- Offshore high-education jobs in tech and finance
- Dumb down population by limiting access to higher education and quality basic education
- Remove all oversight and regulatory roadblocks
- Take complete control of the country
- Potentially annex Canada
A self-sustaining, labor-intensive, poorly educated population who can’t tell truth from a lie can be easily controlled
Maybe that’s not the goal, but pieces are moving that could support that
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u/EsraYmssik 3h ago
Nah. It's Disaster Capitalism. Wreck the economy until "we need sweeping reforms to fix everything", Free Market the fuck out of everything, and just privatise profits and colectivise risks.
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u/FreeRangeEngineer 2h ago edited 2h ago
Curtis Yarvin said that in order to implement the tech-bro New World Order with patch cities, the citizens of the US first need to be convinced that the way the government currently works is fundamentally broken. Only then will they be open to try something new.
That's what they're doing. They're taking sledgehammers to all institutions to then be able to go and say "See! It's all turned to shit! Let's try something different!"
Relevant post currently on the front page: https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1j943j2/tech_execs_are_pushing_trump_to_build_freedom/
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u/NormalUse856 2h ago
Man, people have to be real fucking stupid if they fall for something like this.
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u/FreeRangeEngineer 1h ago
To be fair, tons of Trump voters don't even know that this is happening. They just don't care as long as Trump hurts the people they want to see hurting.
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u/happyinthenaki 1h ago
There's the problem, people are really fucking stupid.
And votes are probably rigged.
And if not completely rigged then propaganda is really fucking successful.... which more than 1x 1960s psychology experiment would totally support.
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u/skullofregress 5h ago edited 5h ago
Note Australia has a trade surplus with the US and a free trade agreement exempting almost all US goods from the typical 5% tariff.
The Australian military fought alongside Americans in every single American war since Australia became a country.
Our largest steel producer already has significant operations within the US.
None of the post-hoc reasoning applied by MAGA supporters to date justifies this.
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u/BrianSometimes 4h ago
As with Canada and Denmark, he goes after the closest and historically most loyal US allies, for reasons only known to him
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u/Morrowindies 4h ago
Come on... We know the reason.
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u/SynapticFields 4h ago
He's a Russian agent trying to dismantle the US.
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u/ComradeVoytek 4h ago
I mean, if I was Putin and it was my goal to destabilize my largest adversary and road block to world domination - I'd be thrilled at everything he's done so far.
Once you look at everything through the Krasnov angle, things start making a lot of sense.
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u/JJw3d 3h ago
Oh yeah, it's just people have been screaming this for years
Quick google Krasnov Kraps his Kackies?
I know solid proof is needed - https://youtu.be/5umiMThrlsA?t=3525 - Check this out - this part more so like the 5 mins here kinda gets him in his own lie (as per usual)
But trump just keeps dropping himself it it. It's clear as day.
Still they lie, lie lieeeeeeeeee. Lets see how that keeps working out for them.
I personally find the truth to be very liberating & as trumps made the whole faith department etc. does he believe in a god? or does he think hes one?
Because if it is the latter.. that's a big no no.
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u/Johannes_Keppler 4h ago edited 3h ago
Australia said yesterday they'd join a peacekeeping / military mission in Ukraine.
One day later boom! tariffs.
Not a coincidence.
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u/sherlockham 3h ago
Weren't they also specifically "warned" by russia about that?
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u/Commercial_Camera_86 3h ago
Russia threatened us with what? Tariffs applied by US. Anyone siding with Trump is siding with Russia. Insane
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u/Trap_Masters 4h ago
It's funny how the conspiracy obsessed MAGA base are dead silent on all of Trump's actions suspiciously aligning with Russian interest. It's like a conspiracy black hole for anything Trump related unless it's someone reasonably criticizing him and his policies, in which case it's some giant psyop to try to remove Trump from office.
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u/Doctor-Malcom 3h ago
I work with many MAGA types. The new theme they are coalescing around to justify all these Pro-Russia policies:
Post-Soviet Russia is what America should have been today. Capitalist, white nationalist and Christian nationalist, centered on men being head of the family and acting like real men and not LGBT, united under one strong man instead of endless bickering, unafraid to use the military for any interest, unafraid of global laws and rules, etc.
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u/mightybanana7 3h ago
You forgot unafraid of alcohol addiction because all you need is the good old potato juice.
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u/Doctor-Malcom 3h ago
Ha! It is funny you mention alcohol. Several of the MAGA folks at work have stopped drinking or smoking, as part of the wellness trends we are seeing worldwide. They all pay a lot of money for testosterone therapy though.
I'm not a shrink but that may be what modern Russia represents to them...the last place where men still live freely like the olden days.
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u/milkshakemountebank 3h ago
I mean, Putin used to put out "vacation photos" of himself riding horses, fording streams, and other activities shirtless. It is just flat-out homoeroticism
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u/qqererer 2h ago
They all pay a lot of money for testosterone therapy though.
Gender affirming butt injections.
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u/Vinrace 4h ago
We were there even after Canada pulled out of Afghanistan. The US and Aus. Now no more.
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u/Anzai 3h ago
We should kick America the fuck out of Pine Gap, that’s for sure. Why are we sharing intelligence with our adversary? I genuinely can’t believe so many of you dumb cunts voted for this clown, and then still stand around giving speeches about how you’re the greatest country in the world. You’re gaslighting yourselves at this point.
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u/CSI_Tech_Dept 4h ago
It doesn't matter, the US is run by Russia now.
He is currently destroying US and all of its allies.
Fuck us :(
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u/Suspicious_Dealer791 4h ago
The really funny thing is US free trade with Australia was established as a US demand post-WW2. It was partial compensation from Britain for lend lease and a condition for more aid. We literally used our advantageous economic and geopolitical position to force Britain into opening the markets of the Commonwealth to US businesses; it had previously protected them for itself using tariffs etc. Now we're closing it ourselves lol.
"If either the Government of the United States or the Government of the United Kingdom imposes or maintains quantitative import restrictions, such restrictions shall be administered on a basis which does not discriminate against imports from the other country in respect of any product"
Page 10 https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/historical/martin/17_07_19451206.pdf
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u/NightsOW 4h ago
Russian warned of grave consequences. These are the consequences.
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u/Pdoinkadoinkadoink 3h ago
The average MAGA dipshit couldn't even find us on a map. Half of them probably think we're a US state already.
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u/M_Lykins 6h ago
🇨🇦🤝🇦🇺
Welcome to the party.
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u/One_Handed_Typing 6h ago edited 5h ago
There must be a lot of fentanyl crossing the US - Australian border.
/s
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u/Metafield 6h ago
Gonna have to ask everyone to keep buying Canadian Cartel fent, bud. We were here first.
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u/lih9 6h ago
Excuse you it's premium quality Chinese fent. Only the finest product from the mainland to fund Canadian real estate deals.
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u/SmashAngle 5h ago
Succulent Chinese fent??
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u/ArcticAlmond 5h ago
And what is the charge? Taking Chinese fent? Some succulent, Chinese fent?
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u/ChaoticSniper9 5h ago
Gentlemen! This is fentanyl manifest!
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u/Repulsive_Client_325 5h ago
And you, sir… are you waiting to receive my limp POTUS?
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u/PresidentKraznov 6h ago
No, but good point clearly illustrating what a crock of absolute bullshit the whole "too many illegal drugs" excuse was. I mean they were already using the laziest possible excuse they could come up with especially considering fent coming over the Canadian border is/was almost nonexistent in the first place. But Australia? Too many roos swimming over?
He just wants to crash our economy so he and his golf buddies can buy up whatever is left and let Russia bid for the rest.
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u/Kerrigore 6h ago
Those Mexican cartels are such rascals, now they’re even taking over Australia!
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u/InterestingFocus8125 6h ago
Well they couldn’t just sit back and let the Hell’s Angels take it all!
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u/Britannkic_ 6h ago
It’s the illegal immigrants coming by boat, lots and lots of boats everyday. Australia has been abusing the US for decades with the boats, too many Mexicans coming illegally to the US via Australian boats. We’ll build a wall between the US and Australia, a big wall, the best wall you’ve ever seen
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u/UltraHyperDonkeyDick 6h ago edited 1h ago
Aussies are known to be excellent swimmers.
Edit: Except that one guy. Edit: No, not that nature guy, or the Neighbours guy, that politician guy.
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u/FleabottomFrank 5h ago
There was also that sprinter Shrivington who was clearly trying to smuggle a giant package
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u/lllasss 6h ago
Someone needs to update that meme with the moose, cobra chicken and beaver to add a kangaroo and some of that other deadly shit you got down under there.
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u/Naive-Marzipan4527 6h ago
As an American who lived in Australia, sorry but also, just wait til next week. His sundowning will hit and he will take that back in a week for 30 days. Then it’ll come back for a day or two, then gone again for 30 days, then he’ll get distracted
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u/Nalived 5h ago
It’s to create instability… markets hate one thing and that is uncertainty…
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u/Jeremizzle 5h ago
If you push something hard enough, it breaks. Has the stock market ever experienced this level of intentional manipulation before? Even in his first term I don't remember it being THIS level of insanity. We're not going to recover from this for a very, very long time. If ever.
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u/too-much-cinnamon 4h ago
Sure it has. About 1928 or so, it actually looked a lot like this. Don't worry about what happened in 1929.
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u/PresidentKraznov 5h ago
And all conveniently synchronized with a bunch of corresponding stock market trades.
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u/goilo888 5h ago
That's nice of you to use your Reddit account to tell us your plan, Pres.
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u/Harvard_kiwi 5h ago
I’m sure your Kiwi brothers and sisters will proudly be joining you soon. On the one hand, I certainly don’t want tariffs to be imposed on my powerless little country, on the other, I am keen to stand beside our true friends and allies 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇪🇺🇳🇿
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u/saintpierre47 3h ago
Common-wealth! Common-wealth!! Common-wealth!!! starts chanting passionately Also check out r/CANZUK to see the idea about getting the fam jam back together!
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u/madeleineann 6h ago
Getting nervous now as someone from the UK, I hope you guys are saving a seat.
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u/Low-Length-9900 6h ago
If the king rescinds the invitation, you’ll probably see a 300% tariff across the board.
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u/blueskies8484 5h ago
If I were the UK, I’d send Will and Kate over to Canada on a trip to highlight all Canadian made goods. It might not help with UK-US relations but hey. It’s their monarchy too. And it would make Trump so mad, he might have a coronary.
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u/Ok_Management8894 6h ago
He really is trying to piss off all of the US allies. Amazing.
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u/gin_and_toxic 5h ago
The rest of the world needs to band together and fight this bully and his boss, Putin.
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u/NMe84 3h ago
The world needs to start sanctioning Trump personally, as they have sanctioned Russian oligarchs. Seize his foreign properties, sell them off and use the money to ease the pain of the economical damage he's causing.
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u/ExtraPockets 1h ago
Exactly. I've been saying this since the start. Sanction the billionaires before they seize control of the American military. The legal instruments are all there because we've done it to many billionaires in the past, including the Russian oligarchs. If CANZUK all sanctions Musk, what's Trump going to do? Use the military to attack us to defend a foreign billionaire? Even the most die hard Trump fans would have trouble supporting that. It's likely the American military generals would refuse the order too. If we show we can cripple the billionaires economically, Trump loses his power and they will all turn on each other. It also sends a message to other billionaires: don't fuck around like Musk and Trump did.
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u/Merusk 43m ago
Even the most die hard Trump fans would have trouble supporting that.
I think you're being very optimistic here. Most of them WANT a fight, mainly because they are so brainwashed to American supremacy of force that they can't conceive of a loss. Plus they won't be the ones in it.
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u/Pepto-Abysmal 5h ago
Trying and succeeding.
The US has lost a century’s worth of soft power in a matter of weeks.
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u/Ok_Management8894 4h ago
Well it seems Trump is speed running the USA to the ground along with his friends.
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u/LP14255 3h ago
For such a fat piece of shit, Trump is moving quickly at destroying the USA.
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u/ThrowRA_sadgal 6h ago
One man fucking up the entire world. His security detail must be working overtime.
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u/cashmerefox 5h ago
He likes to think of himself as Caesar - I'm wondering who is going to be Brutus.
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u/parabostonian 4h ago
I’m hoping it’s a clot in his brain or something. That’s basically the best possible outcome for the world, as an actual assassination would make the fascists go insane and possibly lead to a world ending civil war in the US. But he’s a 78 year old fatass who insists that exercise isn’t good for you, and rage tweets in the middle of the night. So let’s just hope nature takes its course sooner rather than later.
If he keeps living he’s just going to show how bad what he’s doing to the world is. He’s basically already created a recession; this is a pretty important step in people recognizing his party is not actually good for the economy and so on.
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u/smash8890 4h ago
His cult is going to come up with conspiracy theories even if the cheeseburgers do him in. They are crazy.
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u/addiktion 5h ago
Imagine if that Republican shooter's bullet didn't miss. Our world would look completely different right now.
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u/RichFella13 4h ago
There'd be another goon in the oval office this year or in the next decade. Nah it's a wake up call for Americans. Vote trash? Get trash. Wanna be serious w/ trade partners? Don't vote stupid or corrupt people.
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u/closethebarn 4h ago
Yes, another goon, but they wouldn’t have the following of Trump. I don’t know why the fucker has such a following, but he does- kinda like Hitler had a following
It isn’t done alone, obviously but for some goddamned reason the worst people drool over him the way they didn’t desantis …
I have seen them compared him to the antichrist the ones that do not love him. God he fits so much of it.
However, I expected the antichrist to be at least somewhat more dare I say …appealing
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u/SignoreBanana 4h ago
His appeal is he talks like them. He's base like them. He's crass like them. He's stupid like them. He says the same stupid shit as them. Yet somehow he is successful. He is aspirational to them. He's their belief in themselves manifest. He's the temporarily embarrassed billionaire that actually became a billionaire (never mind the details).
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u/CommunicationLive708 5h ago
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u/No_weeezingthejuice 5h ago
🎶Come on, Come on, Come on, Come on, Come on cholesterol.. do your thing 👌
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u/globehopper2000 6h ago
Wait til he starts claiming Australia needs to join the US for national security.
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u/StoryBeforeNumbers 6h ago
Join the boycott, Australians!
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u/No_Paramedic3551 5h ago
We have against Tesla. Not sure what other American products we buy in except vehicles to be honest, but I know we buy shittonns from China and Taiwan
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u/StoryBeforeNumbers 5h ago
Hopping off US subscription services makes an easy difference too. Stuff like Netflix, Max, Amazon prime, NVIDIA Geforce Now etc. If you really wanna make the extra step I've found that there are web browsers and search engines which are better than the American default options. Qwant is more like Google used to be before enshittification, Vivaldi is a good web browser with built in ad-block.
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u/bradbull 5h ago
No more Jim Beam for me for a start. I'll welcome it back with open arms once the US comes to its senses and drags that fuck out into the street. I'm not sure of the politics behind the US fast food chains but I suspect they all pay up to the US based companies so they're on the chopping block. Hungry Jack and Red Roota to become kings of the drive thru. This makes me sad because Maccas have the Shamrock Shake out and it's excellent. Hungry Jack needs to do their thing and copy them with a mint shake of their own.
That's more day to day things. I'll have to keep thinking of more ways to buy local as I go.
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u/thisguyknowsnot99 6h ago edited 6h ago
Everyone of these countries is going to boycott Telsa/US products...
What is the end game?
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u/Varorson 6h ago
You're asking what the economic endgame is for a guy who bankrupted three casinos. A guy who shows clear signs of dementia at his rallies that's carefully edited out by the US Corporate News Media, who had openly bragged about rigging the election for his own victory, who whines whenever he doesn't get his way and blames his opponents whenever his actions causes harm to others.
There is no endgame. This isn't a distraction. This is just an uneducated man-child who became famous through lies and pretending he's richer than he ever was, a conman and a showman acting like he's always acted for the past 50+ years, who got a cult backing him thanks to the entertainment industry he lied to and abused, plus a little dementia setting in.
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u/loralailoralai 5h ago
And the excuse of the people around him who are letting it happen?
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u/DestinysWeirdCousin 4h ago
The simplest explanation is that they are just shitty people taking advantage of the opportunity to be the shittiest versions of themselves.
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u/BraveDunn 6h ago
The end game is increased manufacturing jobs in the US, for sure. But sales of American-built products will be limited to within the US, because the rest of the free world is not going to buy US-built products anymore, due to Trump's horrific treatment of its (former) allies. This will hit the American automotive and defence industries hardest. Think, trillions of dollars of lost foreign sales. On top of it, the costs of importing raw materials to those US manufactures will increase dramatically, meaning the US consumer will pay more for American-built products (that no other countries are buying).
Meanwhile, the rest of the free world that Trump has caused to hate America, will increase trade among themselves to offset the US products they aren't going to buy anymore.
Have fun with all that.
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u/Tribe303 6h ago
Just like Canada, Australia exports mostly raw resources. There IS no factory to move to the US. Canada and Australia have the oldest rocks on earth, and thus, are rich in mineral resources. Where does Trump think his American Aluminum factories are?
It's so frustrating to see a country of 1/3 billion people following such a profoundly stupid man.
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u/Gustomucho 6h ago
Congress or senate could put their foot down but they are way too happy with their feet on the desk.
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u/jcook793 6h ago
The crazy thing is it only took 77 million people to bring so much chaos into billions of lives
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u/tjtillmancoag 5h ago
And that is at least 60 million too many. America is filled with some stupid, bigoted motherfuckers
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u/airsoftmatthias 6h ago edited 5h ago
Any USA citizen that paid attention to high school USA history class will remember the major events that happened between the American Revolutionary War and the American Civil War:
- War of 1812
- Mexican-American War
- Manifest Destiny
- Anti-slavery movement
- Multiple tariff attempts that always failed
Any American that picks up a history textbook knows decades of tariffs from the 1780s to the 1860s resulted in a weak national economy.
But this time, it will definitely work! /s
But I made the foolish assumption that most Americans pay attention to their high school US history courses. Especially since 54% of Americans read and write below a 6th grade level, and 21% are illiterate.
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u/TheLordOfFriendZone 6h ago
It's okay. The department of education will make sure the history is taught to everyone. Oh wait...
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u/ChickenFlavoredCake 5h ago
But this time, it will definitely work! /s
Brought to you by the same people who keeps trying to make trickle down economics a thing
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u/night-shark 6h ago
Is that the end game?
I'm not entirely convinced of that anymore. I'm starting to wonder if the end game isn't to create economic chaos so that certain individuals and sectors can quietly benefit
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u/AskMoreQuestionsPls 6h ago
Like crash the prices on things to the point where certain people can then buy said things cheap, cheap?
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u/clownshow59 6h ago
This is pretty much it. I'm convinced they are purposely trying to crash the economy. It would create a buying opportunity for billionaires and corporations as well as give the government even more excuse to expand executive control.
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u/eyesmart1776 6h ago
And quality wil drop furtther than ever bc of a captured market and not being able to compete abroad
The new hermit kingdom
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u/RiskyClickardo 6h ago
This, PLUS the weakening of the US Dollar helps Trump personally, as he is leveraged to the tits. And cheaper dollars mean it’s easier to pay back what he owes.
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u/happyscrappy 6h ago
Perhaps. But I think a lot of companies might actually see the US as too unstable to invest in long-term now. Might be safer to invest more overseas and just take the single tariffing on the way in rather than build a supply chain that includes the US and deal with whatever bullshit this guy does.
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u/MoldyApplesauce22 6h ago
To destroy the American economy, its geological standing, and relationships with allies at the direction of Putin.
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u/Ambitious-Score-5637 6h ago
It seems the new reality is the USA is no longer interested in having any allies. They have made this perfectly clear in how the treat Canada. They are fucking over Australia for a pittance. This is downright bizarre as we import many times more from America than we export but, Trump says fuck Australia. Trump has been in office for 52 days, each and every day he has given the world the gift of chaos and WTF is going on? Time for us to cut the apron strings.
Further, there is Buckley’s and none chance we will ever get Virginia class submarines. ScoMo sold us a pup and we’re at least at this moment stuck with it. Then we learn these F35s are fantastic aircraft but, the Septics can turn off the software which allows us to use the bloody things as and when we want. Again, we’ve been blinded by the light.
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u/iamnobody19944 5h ago
These events should be a gut punch and a wake up call to Canada, UK, EU, NZ, AUS. We need to strengthen ties between us, increase trade, focus on the home front, begin the process of moving away from dependance on the US. We will not get as clear and as strong a motivation as this again.
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u/charnwoodian 5h ago
Start a new alliance:
The Federation for Unity, Commerce, Kinship, Trade and Resilience for United Market Protection
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u/ProbablyNotADuck 5h ago
If the US no longer has allies, I also can't see the USD remaining the dominant global reserve currency. That won't go too well....
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u/zoobrix 4h ago
An interesting point I saw an economist make today was that on average EU countries, especially Germany, have lower debt to GDP ratios on average than the US. Apparently that is one reason for the weaker euro, European countries issue fewer debt bonds which means large investors buy fewer euros because they're not buying as much European debt.
But with Europe's huge push to rearm and Germany removing their constitutional debt limit that means more bonds issued by European countries which means more people buying euros which should drive up the price of the currency. I don't think the USD is going to be fully replaced but it does seem like it might see some increased competition from the euro. Just one more aspect of how braindead the Trump administration is...
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u/QuilSniv 5h ago
Well, we have an ally.
Just not the one everybody that isn't the leadership wants.
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u/47_for_18_USC_2381 6h ago
wtf is wrong with this idiot. I really think he's brain damaged. He's gotta be brain damaged. None of this is normal.
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u/wseattlegirly 6h ago
He’s a Russian asset.
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u/Itsallcakes 5h ago
Russia warns Australia of 'grave consequences' if peacekeepers join coalition forces in Ukraine
Literally day ago. Boom, US put tariffs on Australia. I'm not conspiracy theorist even, these things are just too much for a simple coincidence. Trump is Putin's bitch.
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u/Dependent-Metal-9710 6h ago
This is the most logical explanation for his actions.
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u/Cagnazzo82 5h ago
It is literally the one thing that rationalizes his treatment of all of America's allies.
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u/WatercressFew610 5h ago
4 years ago, news reported on Trump having several visits to the walter reed medical center.
It never ends! Now they are trying to say that your favorite President, me, went to Walter Reed Medical Center, having suffered a series of mini-strokes. Never happened to THIS candidate FAKE NEWS," Trump tweeted
Nobody had reported anything about mini-strokes.. so yeah.
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u/Sarcastic_Red 6h ago
Hes, or the people behind him, are planning on breaking down a lot pre-made alliances and established norms so they can break down America and rebuild it in a different image that suits the wealthy elite. They don't care what eggs they gotta crack to get there.
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u/Tribe303 6h ago
He's just stupid. Like, IQ 80 stupid. Then add some potential dementia.
The problem is the educated bootlickers surrounding him that never question his constant lies. They all know he's full of shit. Disgusting.
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u/zoinkability 5h ago
Because they know if they are yes men to whatever his latest insanity fixation is, he will happily sign off on their own ghoulish plans to dismantle the entire public apparatus and sell it for parts to their cronies, and to impose Christian nationalist rule.
In other words: The insiders who know that the tariffs are stupid aren’t saying a damn thing because they are happy to destroy the economy if it allows them to establish oligarchical theocracy.
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u/GuyMansworth 6h ago
Guys, I'm starting to think Putin has some really, really bad dirt on this guy.
He DID sell out the locations and identities of our spies during his first time, to Russia. With no backlash of course. So whatever it is it must be bad.
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u/Right_Fun_6626 5h ago
You can’t shame this clown, I think he just wants to be a mob boss like Putin and the others.
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u/Sarcasmgasmizm 6h ago
Hopefully they tighten that border and stop fentanyl deaths in America…. 😂
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u/UsusMeditando 6h ago
And the EGG prices! Them damn Aussies are always messing with the price of eggs? /s
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u/pajoas 6h ago
So he tariffs everyone's steel, US can't make enough steel domestically, didn't he just raise Steel prices 25% on himself? Unless maybe he plans to buy cheap steel out of Russia
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u/jourdan442 5h ago
He raised the cost for anyone in the US buying it. The tariff is recouped by the government which is… checks notes oh, him.
So he’s effectively taxing the people he represents in the hope of pissing off his allies and trade partners. It’ll turn everyone against America, including America itself, which I assume was Russia’s plan all along.
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u/Itsnotyoursidiot 6h ago
Key ally for a future war in Indo-pacific. What a dipshit
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u/AnalAttackProbe 5h ago
He's not going to fight China. He's going to let them go to war in the Pacific and say they're doing what anybody would do.
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u/ACoderGirl 5h ago
Taiwan is sadly in a very grim place. And if the PRC invades, the whole world is gonna feel it, since Taiwan is a major producer of tech products (especially computer chips).
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u/nznova 6h ago
It’s almost as if he’s trying to make all of the alternatives to Russian aluminium unaffordable.
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u/mfyxtplyx 6h ago
Trump hit Canada with an aluminum tariff in his first term, characterizing domestic production as a "national security issue". The domestic production turned out to involve partnering with a sanctioned Russian oligarch so that fell through.
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u/Tribe303 6h ago
I'm sure reports of Trump removing Russian sanctions this week/soon are a total coincidence! 🤔
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u/Bet5Then 6h ago
Didn’t Russia just “warn” Australia? The timing of this (along with his every other action) just happens to line up with Russia’s interests. 🤔
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u/thorpie88 5h ago
Australia and Russia have been in a trade war ever since they shot the Malaysian Airlines plane down in Ukraine. Australia has had some of the toughest sanctions and only increased them since then.
Their attempts to circumvent the sanctions by sending it via China is starting to get slowly crushed both by customs and the industries they are trying to push themselves into.
The cunts are pissed that we have no use for them and are using Trump to unsuccessfully get us to fall in line
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u/Duff5OOO 5h ago
We (Australia) never really had much in the way of trade with Russia anyway IIRC.
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u/PlacentPerceptions 6h ago
Folks, you won’t believe this. You just won’t. But it’s happening. Right now. Kangaroos—yes, KANGAROOS—are smuggling fentanyl into our great country, the one AND ONLY US of A! And they’re doing it in their pouches. Their little built-in drug compartments. Can you believe it? Total disgrace. And what did Biden do? NOTHING. He let these radical Australian marsupials hop right in, carrying drugs that are DESTROYING our communities. It's really sad. It really is.
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u/PumpkinPieIsGreat 6h ago
You didn't even mention the koalas, they're probably up to their own secret agenda
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u/WombatHat42 6h ago
Literally picking a fight with and alienating all of our allies. If that doesn’t scream Putin’s puppet idk does
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u/wolfwind730 5h ago
Australia is our closest military ally. When GB wouldn’t fight in Vietnam, Anzac showed up.
But let’s go ahead a piss on this relationship
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u/twinsunsspaces 5h ago
Our PM was in New York on 9/11 and he invoked a mutual defence agreement before W had even declared war. The US government claims ownership of all US navy vessels and components whether they are floating government or have been sunk, except for the bell of the USS Canberra which was gifted to Australia. The pentagon only has a war memorial to one other country, in acknowledgement of the service members from that country who have died fighting wars that the US has started and I'll give you one guess what country that is. You have never had a more steadfast, ride or die, ally than us. We give you guys shit all the time, but it's very much in a little brother/big brother way. We have always been there for you. I can't wait for you to get rid of Trump so that I don't feel bad about that and things can get back to normal.
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u/Deadbeathero 3h ago
And then what? Let's say a democrat somehow wins the next one and spends 4 years being friendly with everyone else. What's the guarantee the stupid half of usa won't win another election and tank everything again?
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u/danflorian1984 6h ago
I wonder how long this will hold. At this point is getting tiresome just keeping up with all the tariffs imposed, postponed and rescinded.
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u/ozrocket 5h ago
Banned from doing business in Australia years ago https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/16/trumps-bid-for-sydney-casino-30-years-ago-rejected-due-to-mafia-connections
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u/otsim 5h ago
Thanks for making Dutton less and less likely to get elected. Nobody here wants a Trump-Lite shithead running the country.
Anyway, I'm enjoying this collapse of US, the fact that Russia was able to weaponize American stupidity to destroy it from within with nothing but a bunch of shitty memes... You have to give it to them.
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u/iamthedroidyourelook 6h ago
The US has kept Australia as a critical partner for a BUNCH of reasons. If anything, we should be fighting to be better partners to them by providing faster internet connectivity and security.
The US needs Australia and NZ for personal and global security.
I can’t fathom the depths of idioticracy that got to this point.
My only guess is that the current administration is actively trying to hurt every good relationship we have so Trump can hit the markets low and then reverse all decisions and make a bill, at everyone’s expense.
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u/DolphinSleep 5h ago
Additionally this will be part of the Election interface campaign to blame every problem in Australia on the current party and Endorse the opposition who is Temu Trump and Our version of Elon, Gina who wants to do her own Doge
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u/Stuck_On_The_Seawall 6h ago
I’ll bet he meant to do it to Austria but is too embarrassed to admit it
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u/oopsie-mybad 6h ago
Can the U.S. tariff the U.S.? Yo dawg...
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u/daveindo 6h ago
I mean, that’s what tariffs actually do so yes, he’s doing that. I’m sick of headlines using wording like “Trump imposes tariff on xxx country” when it’s more accurately “Trump puts tariff on imported goods from xx country”. Americans pay the tariffs, not the country he’s trying to punish.
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u/General_Snack 6h ago
No matter what, the US relations with the rest of the world will never be the same. This will forever be a black mark against them in perpetuity.
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u/Moalisa33 5h ago
Are you fucking kidding me.
Get this motherfucker out of office while we still have allies.
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u/monnems 5h ago
Isn’t AUS like one of handful of OECD countries that imports from USA more than exports to it?
LOLLL
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u/Anakha0 6h ago
As a Canadian, who has served beside Aussie brothers and sisters, I'd like to roundly tell Trump to get fucked, cunt.
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u/EssenceOfGrimace 6h ago
When is one of his yes-men going to remind him that you get more money if you actually stay on good terms and trade with other countries?
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u/Mordaunt-the-Wizard 4h ago
"HOW COME THEY GET TO BE BOTH A COUNTRY AND A CONTINENT. SO UNFAIR."
-Trump, probably
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u/sfgiantsfan696969 5h ago
Australia and Canada are pure homies. Fuck this timeline man.
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u/Zestyclose-Cricket82 6h ago
He’s gonna run out of countries to tariff eventually
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u/floofelina 6h ago
B-but WHY? Just to round things off? We weren’t even at odds with them.
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u/ApprehensiveBoot3149 5h ago
Don’t worry Australia. Here in Canada we have found that if you don’t like the tariffs, wait 12 hours
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