OV9

I think it's been rebranded to Flatulation Day.

Mito Man wrote: Wed Apr 02, 2025 1:18 pm What’s he liberating America from?

Democracy

Can't remember if we've covered it here, but I'm guiltily enjoying watching the Bidenfreude as MAGAs are beginning to feel the bite of what they voted for.

It would be funny if the impact wasn't so tragic.

Not just Putin, it sounds like he's bored of Musk too.

"Trump Tells Inner Circle That Musk Will Leave Soon"

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/ ... y-00265784

Please please please let the Tesla share price drop when he diverts more of his time in that direction…..

Entirely predictable consequences strike again.

"US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally"

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-offici ... 025-04-02/

US: Spend more on defence

EU: OK

<buys stuff from EU suppliers>

US: NOT LIKE THAT !!!!

I don’t know if this is true, but it would be nice.

https://www.threads.net/@thelifeofshark ... IWEH8YwS1A

mik wrote: Wed Apr 02, 2025 6:43 pm I don’t know if this is true, but it would be nice.

https://www.threads.net/@thelifeofshark ... IWEH8YwS1A

I don't know if it's specifically true for Viagra, but I believe Ozempic, the weight loss drug is entirely made in the Netherlands, and the US is one of the biggest markets....

Significant amounts of Baby Formula are made from Irish and therefore EU milk

Yeah, see this is the thing with late stage capitalism - why make something yourself when you can provide a favourable tax/trade deal to import it cheaper?

Then someone like Trump comes along, someone with the same sort of nuanced and deep understanding of international trade as a badly made cheese toasty, and suddenly that supply chain starts looking rather risky.

Beany wrote: Wed Apr 02, 2025 7:09 pm

mik wrote: Wed Apr 02, 2025 6:43 pm I don’t know if this is true, but it would be nice.

https://www.threads.net/@thelifeofshark ... IWEH8YwS1A

I don't know if it's specifically true for Viagra, but I believe Ozempic, the weight loss drug is entirely made in the Netherlands, and the US is one of the biggest markets....

The ‘vast majority’ of Viagra is made in Ireland, apparently.

Let’s see if Trump will be standing proud on his tariff policies.

25% on Imported cars from Midnight…

10% tariff on UK imports for them. Then again that’s fair I guess because whenever we import something from the US there’s a 10% tariff. I wasn’t aware they had no tariffs currently.

A bit of welcome comedy (how do you embed Twitter posts?

https://x.com/TheMaineWonk/status/1907551600383857056

240PP wrote: Thu Apr 03, 2025 7:07 am A bit of welcome comedy (how do you embed Twitter posts?

Change “x” to “twitter” in the link

I was about to ask WTF "currency manipulation" (one of the existing factors taken into consideration when calculating his "reciprocal" tariffs) but I shouldn't really be surprised that (according to this RTE article at least) they haven't shared any of their calculations. Of course.

It’s all about them playing the victim. Always is.

So, almost every country on the planet. Almost. Guess who’s missing ?

Russia, Cuba, Belarus and North Korea.

He thinks he’s bringing tuxedo manufacturing back to America.