I hope we respond by putting tariffs on American pickups. Democratic nations need to cut the US out of the global economy entirely until they learn how to act right.
Apologies if there’s any weirdness in this post, it’s my first one.
So the question is: what is he trying to distract from now.
First go round, yeah, Trump was distracting on purpose. The thing everyone seems to be missing is that, the man isn’t in charge any more.
Look at his tweets, or whatever the fuck they’re called, mostly focused and on point. Listen to his words, he doesn’t ramble on and on and on. We only hear truncated quips.
Anyone remember how he got more and more demented as the election came closer? Anyone remember how his cognition dropped off a cliff in 2021 or so, and continued downwards, fast?
The Project 2025 people have got him locked in as a mouthpiece, nothing more. Competent people are now in charge, this won’t be like 2017.
I think we can all do something. I know our economy is tiny, but Australia buys way more from the US than they buy from us… and you know what a big chunk of that is? Services. Some of those are hard to shift but others are easier.
I’ve hosted all my websites and registered all my domains in the US for over 20 years.
That changed yesterday and I’m transferring everything over to Australia.
For Fedi, look at Australian servers where you can. Subscriptions? Fuck off Netflix et al. Get out of Google as much as you can. If you’re here you are probably already out of FB and Reddit, but leave anything else you can that is US based and try to support AU or EU.
Don’t buy US foods, cars, or technology where possible (let’s face it, most of those are crap anyway).
And you know what, most of the US based internet is shit now too. It was fun 20 years ago, but consistent enshittification has been the worst in the US. At least the EU is trying to fight it.
Yes our economy is tiny, but we can change more than you might think, and as the rest of the world probably will do similar, the US won’t be quite as well off as it thinks it is.
Heyyyyyy welcome to the “being threatened by the USA because Trump felt like it” club!
-EU + Denmark, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Panama.
It’s an honour to be part of this prestigious and exclusive group! ☺️
It’s less exclusive every day.
Denominating all international trade in Euros would probably shut him right the fuck up.
I believe BRICS is already working to replace existing USD backed global rare earth and commodity markets with new markets backed by gold and BRICS currencies and without speculation based pricing.
America is no longer a superpower and will soon become just another country to plunder for resources, including human labour.
Aight boys, time to start putting it back in the ground.
Oh please Albanese, put a 50% tariff on American cars.
We’re talking about Albo here, he’ll apologise and ask if Trump can double it.
Dutton would offer the country to be annexed mind you.
I hope we respond by putting tariffs on American pickups.
I kinda don’t want this. Because I want those yank tanks taxed and/or regulated regardless, because it’s the right thing to do, and I don’t want progress towards that to be undermined by being seen to get caught up in a bullshit trade war.
Huge cars with terrible visibility should have been outlawed ages ago anyway. There’s no good reason for someone’s bonnet to come up to my shoulders on a fucking ute.
There’s a reason why the road toll is going UP per capita in the US.
As much as it sucks for the Americans, there is a small part of me that’s happy about Trump shooting themselves in their own collective foot, because maybe we’ll consider diversifying our alliances a little. Instead of being America’s little laptop.
