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Is thst s penguin suit ?

Oh Wise and Grest One could you explain to we thickos the rationale behind imposing import tariffs on uninhabited islands but not on North Korea or Somalia ?

Yes and yes. And so are the fuckwit acolytes he has in his Cabinet. He thinks that tariffs are a solution to a problem, but hasn't a clue as to what they are or how they work.

What Trump has done is nothing to do with 'reciprocal' tariffs. He has looked at trade imbalances and come up with a second grade formula to try to eradicate them. Not for one moment has any actual thought gone into working out how the trading relationships are structured or have come about, hence the lunacy of the Falklands and Lesotho situations, let alone the penguins on Heard and MacDonald Islands. He is totally financially illiterate.

I look forward to seeing how the production of diamonds, currently mined in and imported from Lesotho, is transferred to the US.

Tesco would be dative, and therefore the plural would be Tescis.

So Donnie stopped the war in Gaza ? Tell that to the paramedics and humanitarian workers killed a few days ago.

It's like deja-vu all over again.

MacDonald Island is an active volcano, so presumably you could get quick fried penguin or steamed seal if you time your visit right. #McTasty

Heard and MacDonald Islands have got off lightly,the Falklands are subject to a tariff rate of 41%. Presumably, somebody in the US bought a couple of sheepskin rugs, whilst nobody in Port Stanley has bought an iPhone or Tesla.

Councillors have no shame.

This is starting to read like a script for The Thick Of It that was discarded as being too unbelievable.

From the BBC "According to the list released by The White House on X, the Trump administration will place a 10% tariff on goods from the Heard and McDonald Islands - an Australian territory that is closer to Antarctica than anywhere else, and is completely uninhabited, ( other than penguins ). The US president also announced a 10% tariff on goods from Svalbard and Jan Mayen, two remote Norwegian territories not far from the North Pole, that have a combined population of around 2,500 people. It is unclear what goods are exported by any of these territories."

I wonder if anybody asked Kid Rock if he owned a proper suit

The Art of the Deal, innit Rodders.

Chris Philp, the shadow Home Secretary, has said the Starmer Government has been "far, far too slow" in negotiating a trade deal with the US. What were the Tories doing since Brexit ?

"Oo oo oo, I wanna be like you ou ou...."

In response to your second line, ( added well after my original reply ); why are you so insecure ? Why do you think slinging insults makes you the "winner", or the "better person" ? It doesn't.

As I don't do X, Reddit, Quora, META, or any other of the more enlightened outlets, I fear that at my age the chance has passed me by.

2 weeks ago the US Department of Health ran an exercise to determine their response to a nuclear or radiological incident. Today, everybody involved in that exercisr, and all other members of their teams, have been laid off. Thousands of Federal employees are only finding out they have been let go when, on turning up for work, their door passes no longer let them into their buildings.

Last night I saw an Irish Bhangra band. They are called the Bombay Micks.

Moskva

On a thread discussing Elon Musk, yes it is relevant, unless, that is, we are only allowed to post items that are directly relevant to residents of the UK. In which case the Donald Trump, Russia, and Israel threads should be binned for starters. If the result of this election had gone the way of Musk's candidate, vindicating the bribing of voters, would you be questioning this being posted ?

Could you put that in English ?

Looks like Elon's candidate in Wisconsin has been defeated.