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mik wrote: Fri Apr 11, 2025 12:16 am https://bsky.app/profile/mortenmorland. ... icmuith222

The Russian invasion ‘Z’ is a nice touch

jamcg wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 5:18 pm The bad guys are raping and pillaging the country (and the world for that matter) for their own benefit and there’s far too many Americans whooping cheering and thanking them for doing it

I think this puts my point better

DaveE wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 9:53 pm

Sundayjumper wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 9:39 pm Latest tariff news. Imports from China to be subject to a $200 charge per package from 1st June. $10 order from aliexpress ? That’ll be costing you $210.

Obviously aimed at Temu, to help Amazon.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential ... alignment/

Looks like it was already $150 per package...

increase the per postal item containing goods duty in section 2(c)(ii) of Executive Order 14256, as modified by the Executive Order dated April 8, 2025, that is in effect on or after 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on June 1, 2025, from 150 dollars to 200 dollars.

It was zero. It’s gone 0-50-150-200 in the last few days. 8th April in the quote was when to went to 150. 9th April is the updated order raising it to 200.

Did Trump hate China so much before COVID, when he kept calling in the "Chi-na Virus"?

After seeing a few things regarding Temu, I’m for this as the slave trade is much worse than I naively thought.

Dave!

240PP wrote: Fri Apr 11, 2025 9:01 am

I think we need to change the definition of bombshell.

Jobbo wrote: Fri Apr 11, 2025 8:33 am Did Trump hate China so much before COVID, when he kept calling in the "Chi-na Virus"?

It's worth reading about the backstory of Peter Navarro in this respect...

How y'all doing?

Back from the US. Had a wonderful time. Quickest time ever through customs and lots of Americans being very apologetic about Trump and cursing the millions of people who didn't vote.

The news made for very interesting reading/watching each day with the tariffs stuff. And as for the stock market...

Why was customs so quiet? Would have though there was a queue of people trying to get out

Cheery customs guy just scanned passport and I was on my way. No questions whatsoever.

Wonder if you’d have had the same experience if you were black or Asian

I'd imagine as TSA staff probably have had the same "WE MIGHT FIRE YOU, YOU LAZY CIVIL SERVANT SCUM" emails as everyone else, they just don't give a fuck.

jamcg wrote: Fri Apr 11, 2025 2:28 pm Wonder if you’d have had the same experience if you were black or Asian

Possibly - not all TSA are white, after all - but with a MacAccent?

And… they’ve already backed down on tariffs on phones & computers. LOL.

I mean, several major manufacturers - Acer, Asus, Lenovo, Dell, HP, Razer - suspended deliveries on their products in the US

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Asus-Lenov ... 46409.html

...and FrameWork (Tiawan supply mostly) dropped pre-orders on their new convertible laptop in the US specifically, as well as some of their cheaper models, because even with the lower tariffs on Taiwan, they'd be making a loss.

They did a good blog about it - typically transparent of them - here:
https://frame.work/gb/en/blog/tariff-dr ... -customers

I read an article earlier that there's no-one in the ports actually collecting these new insane tariffs, thanks to a 'bug in the system'. USA is so fucked.

Exemptions on the necessities - phones & computers. No exemptions for vulgar frivolities like basic clothing and medicine. Cool.

Sundayjumper wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 8:05 am Exemptions on the necessities - phones & computers. No exemptions for vulgar frivolities like basic clothing and medicine. Cool.

Hilarious isn’t it, i kind of want China to say fuck you, it’s all or nothing.

(terrifying that China, with its woeful human rights etc is the “good” guy here….)