Ah yes my favorite Country, the European Union.
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Trump is a eurofederalist icon now I guess ๐
European confederation vibes ๐คฉ
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You will never be disappointed with The United States of America.
Is the whole thing satire?
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These Tariffs may be modified, upward or downward, depending on our relationship with your Country.
First, what the fuck is that random capitalization?
Second, so your giving us in writing, that these tariffs ~~may~~ will be modified at will if you feel so.
Third, which country are you talking about? Europe is a continent. EU is a union of independent countries/nations.
At first I thought it might be a standing point for Orbรกn to point out that they want this (but the bad EU, yadda yadda), but after actually reading that garbage of a propaganda piece, I can only imagine that part is boiler-plate, and noone along the chain caught it or could be bothered with correcting it.
Trump is serving up the distmantling of most US soft powers. Like how is this not a game of chicken for us to bunch up on Ireland and tell them no more fucking around with appl and alphabet. I'd love nothing more than a third level bureaucrat tucked away in Strassbourg to calculate exactly how much societal and global harm these companies cause. We could shift that into dollars (somehow?), and make sure they pay that tax, or we start filtering their sites. I rarely believe restriction is the way to go, but nothing would really be lost here.
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They need to stop pussy-footing around with Trump.
He says 30, they need to reciprocate with 60 percent, and will back down to 20 when he cancels the 30.
Make it permanently harmful to threaten this bullshit.
It would be more appropriate from Europe to count all the environmental harm corpos like Cocacola get away with and simply start taxing based on the extra strain they cause to society. Give a number and just not budge. It is not hard to deal with this man.
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I can't decide what's the ~~best~~ ~~worst~~ ~~best~~ most stand-out part, I keep coming back and rereading.
You will never be disappointed with The United States of America.
Are you selling us a car?
Therefore, we invite you to participate in the extraordinary Economy of the United States, the Number One Market in the World, by far.
We'd absolutely LOVE to but unfortunately we have to wash our hair. So sorry. Next time, for sure. Love you, kisses!
you will never be disappointed
Oh I am right now.
Sure. Just like last time, right Donny?
What is even fucking going on? It feels like a child touching random shit on their parents phone, opening apps and accidently calling and buying things. Meanwhile the rest of the world just goes wtf.
Does he sign in fucking sharpie
honestly, if you handed him a fountain pen, i don't think he'd figure out how to use it.
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Naw, that's a jumbo crayon he borrows from Eric.
What does it even say in the first place. I know it should include either D or Donald and either T or Trump, possibly include J or whatever J stands for. The last teo letter look like ld, but the ones before look like rum, as if he just put something together like DumnldJTummmmld.
In his first presidency, he started contracting pens specifically for this. It's a big signature that is very visible when he holds up his signed letter to the cameras after signing. It's a deliberate performance, with an absurd signature for that gesture and good pictures.
Just look at this absurdity
Every. Time.
/edit: New England Firm Makes President Trumpโs Pens (YouTube) 1:20, 8 years ago
I'd have thrown that in the bin as spam if I didn't know better
Thank you for your attention to this matter
Itโs like half a month so he can go back and forth 2-3 times. Letโs see.
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Frame it and hang it in the toilet.
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The layout. It burns.
THE Capitalization IS very Random and i feel that adds To an Aura Of AUTHORITY.
TRADE is capitalized because is IMPORTANT. Imagine being President of the EU commission and having to deal with a toddler.
I can't stand her and I'm so sorry she has to deal with this. #HugsForUschi
Pleade do not Retaliate.
What a clown show.
I can't fuckin stand it, it drives me nuts
since when is the president of the European commission addressed as your excellency
Itโs a cut and paste of all the other letters. Iโve seen more effort put into bulk job applications.
In the UN, everyone is addressed like that, including the heads of missions. I wouldn't be surprised if the presidents of the European Commission and European Council also get addressed like this.
Is that supposed to be English?
they should get the president of Liberia to translate
What a load of cringe.
And that second to last sentence is just the cherry on top of the pile of shit. Everybody is already severely disappointed.
By the way: Does anyoen know if it's even appropriate to call Von der Leyen "Her Excellency"? It sounds pretty weird to me.
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Calling Ursula her "excellency" sounds so weird to me, but apparently that's correct for foreign officials?? Would never have expected that.
Jesus fuck thats a poorly written letter. The idea behind it is worse though
I'm not great on economics but the concept of a tariff is that the entity importing something has to pay an extra levy in order to place in a market a given product.
This follows that an american importer of any trade goods of european origin will have to pay an extra thirty cents for each dollar such goods cost.
That extra cost will then be passed along the commercial chain, down to the final client.
So, prices go up for general public.
Meanwhile, nothing is stopping the country of origin of such products to divert their business to other countries, thus maintaining their normal activities.
Am I wrong or this whole thing is disastrous for the USA?
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OK, what shares is he and his folks buying... We should do the same. His Black mail worked last time, should work again!
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USA is namba waan!
They are better than namba 1...at this rate they're going to become namba zero.
This may be a stupid question, but... is "Excellency" used in a presidential context?:| I've only ever known it to be used when talking about monarchy and the Pope...
It's mostly used in an international political context. In the UN, it's what everyone uses, so why not?
Generally, ambassadors and leaders of UN missions get the form of address too, so I guess it makes sense, even if it's a bit archaic.
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In ideal world EU should agree on a handful of red state exports on which we'd apply say 10%, let the US exporters explain their president why that's wrong and only then enter the negotiations with the US and whatever then the outcome is GET IT IN THE WRITING with his signature.
Yes, he would then try to blame the "evil EU", but having a written and signed agreement is the only way to prevent this monthly "it's on - and now it's off" charade.
Now unfortunately even if anybody had the balls to actually propose it there is too many actors who would shoot any such proposal down. Be it because of fear for their exports or just to be contrarian.
Getting something in writing and signed by Trump isn't worth much. He'll still change his mind and tear it up next week.
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