Now i'm scarred ..... No, wait! I'm not! Raise them 40% tariffs just for sending this letter. Not in August, not in September but now. Today. It's the only thing the bully understands.
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Fuck it. Send a letter back saying that you're not going to have this pointless dick waving contest. You're stopping all trade with the US and nationalizing US commercial and military assets in the EU. Effective tomorrow unless the US come back to the negotiating table with a zero tariff policy already signed and ready to go.
"...your Country" retard
" You will never be disappointed with the United States of America". I can't decide if this is a failed promise or a failed instruction or a failed other.
Right when I decide to buy a Fairphone 6, welp, guess I'm keeping my current phone till the the tariffs drop.
Just so you know you pay the tariff rate that was effective when the item was shipped, so if it is in transit before August 1st you would pay the current tariff rate
It is released on August 1st for US market, it would be shipping then.
Ah yes my favorite Country, the European Union.
This "tariff" is just a distraction from the Epstein files scandal, nothing more. It's just noise, not news.
Trump is a eurofederalist icon now I guess ๐
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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.
First, what the fuck is that random capitalization?
Yes, heโs a demented rapist.
Second, so your giving usย in writing, that these tariffsย ~~may~~ย will be modified at will if you feel so.
Yes, heโs a demented rapist.
Third, which country are you talking about? Europe is a continent. EU is a union of independent countries/nations.
Yes, heโs an incredibly stupid and demented rapist.
Heโs the most humiliating thing we could come up with, apparently.
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!
Therefore, we invite you to participate in the extraordinary Economy of the United States, the Number One Market in the World, by far.
any updates on the price of eggs?
you will never be disappointed
Oh I am right now.
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.
Sure. Just like last time, right Donny?
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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I'd have thrown that in the bin as spam if I didn't know better
Thank you for your attention to this matter
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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.
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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.
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Wasn't there something about the Epstein files we were all thinking about just before Trump spouted this new distraction?
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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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Is that supposed to be English?
they should get the president of Liberia to translate
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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Calling Ursula her "excellency" sounds so weird to me, but apparently that's correct for foreign officials?? Would never have expected that.
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Jesus fuck thats a poorly written letter. The idea behind it is worse though
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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