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Current Republican strategy is to pick a fight with the only other superpower that hasn’t spent years ramming its face into a Ukrainian fist and also makes a lot stuff that citizens of the U.S.A. rely on (including stuff domestic industries use to make stuff, not just finished products).
Tariffs on U.S. goods entering China will rise to 84% from 34% starting April 10, according to a translation of a Office of the Tariff Commission of the State Council announcement. The hike comes in response to the latest U.S. tariff increase on Chinese goods to more than 100% that began at midnight.
Maybe China misheard him and thought he said kicking.
“This is the largest transaction in the history of our country. These countries are calling us up, kissing my ass. They are dying to make a deal. ‘Please, please, sir, make a deal. I’ll do anything. I’ll do anything, sir.’
As an aside, it isn’t surprising that he’s bragging about ass-kissing sir sayers begging to obey him. And who totally exist. He just couldn’t name any. However, I suspect that shit like this makes people in a position to do so less inclined to enter negotiations. The fact that a nation’s leader doesn’t display their ego as bizarrely as trump doesn’t mean they will be eager to have him assault their dignity and patience. Also, when shit goes wrong, “I won’t kiss trump’s ass,” will be a handy message for political opponents.
At any rate, the 84% tariff is even less surprising given that it comes on the heels of more insults and lies from assorted Republican perverts. Here’s human couchstain VP Juicy Divan.
China on Tuesday slammed US Vice President JD Vance for his comments about “Chinese peasants” in an interview that has drawn widespread ire and ridicule on China’s internet – and comparisons with Vance’s own self-proclaimed “hillbilly” background.
Speaking to Fox News last Thursday, Vance defended President Donald Trump’s market-hammering tariffs and railed against the “globalist economy.”
Because it isn’t antisemitism if you’re also trying to use Jewish people as human meatshields during your attack on democracy. Apparently.
“What has the globalist economy gotten the United States of America? And the answer is, fundamentally, it’s based on two principles – incurring a huge amount of debt to buy things that other countries make for us,” Vance told news show “Fox & Friends.”
“To make it a little more crystal clear, we borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture.”
Asked about Vance’s comments at a regular news briefing Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said: “It’s both astonishing and lamentable to hear this vice president make such ignorant and disrespectful remarks.”
And Pete “Hic!” Hegseth.
“China-based companies continue to control critical infrastructure in the canal area,” Hegseth said. “That gives China the potential to conduct surveillance activities across Panama.
Or they could just wait until you add an ambassador from China to a Signal chat.
This makes Panama and the United States less secure, less prosperous and less sovereign. And as President Donald Trump has pointed out, that situation is not acceptable.”
The Chinese company that owns ports on the canal is in the process of selling the ports to Blackrock, so who knows what will happen to the current spurious casus belli. Claim that by accepting money from a company based in China, Blackrock has cooties? It wouldn’t be any less ridiculous than “Greenland is ours. Because.”
Shortly after the meeting, the Chinese Embassy in Panama slammed the American government in a statement on X, saying the US has used “blackmail” to further its own interests and that who Panama carries out business with is a “sovereign decision of Panama … and something the US doesn’t have the right to interfere in.”
“The US has carried out a sensationalistic campaign about the ‘theoretical Chinese threat’ in an attempt to sabotage Chinese-Panamanian cooperation, which is all just rooted in the United State’s own geopolitical interests,” the embassy wrote.
Meanwhile, Donnie Dotard is urging everyone to buy stocks and chill.
“BE COOL! Everything is going to work out well,” Trump wrote on Truth Social three minutes after markets opened in the red, again.
“The USA will be bigger and better than ever before.”
In a follow-up post, he insisted, “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!”
Can we start calling this disaster a Donniebrook yet?
Too soon?
Too late?
