Donald Trump Appreciation Thread

[badgerx16]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/climate-of-fear-montreal-doctor-says-nyu-cancelled-her-presentation/

"A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.

Dr. Joanne Liu, the former international president of Doctors Without Borders, said the abrupt cancellation speaks to the “climate of fear” universities in the U.S. are now living under in which they preemptively “self-censor” themselves to avoid retaliation."

"Liu, a pediatric emergency physician at Sainte-Justine Hospital and professor at McGill University’s School of Population and Global Health, was due to give a presentation on challenges in humanitarian crises on March 19 at NYU, her alma mater. "

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The night before the presentation, she said she got a call from the vice chair of the education department who had raised concerns with the contents.

A couple of the slides in her presentation touched on the casualties in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war as well as the cuts at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Liu said she was told the slides about Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic” while the USAID section might be perceived as “anti governmental.”

Liu, who was already in New York when she got the call, offered to make edits to those slides but then three hours later, after some deliberations, she said the university apologized and said they had to cancel."

[badgerx16]

J D Vance has been tasked with removing "improper ideologies" from.................

 

 

 

 

 

The Smithsonian National Zoo Park.

[Gloucester Saint]

  On 31/03/2025 at 14:34, badgerx16 said:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/climate-of-fear-montreal-doctor-says-nyu-cancelled-her-presentation/

"A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.

Dr. Joanne Liu, the former international president of Doctors Without Borders, said the abrupt cancellation speaks to the “climate of fear” universities in the U.S. are now living under in which they preemptively “self-censor” themselves to avoid retaliation."

"Liu, a pediatric emergency physician at Sainte-Justine Hospital and professor at McGill University’s School of Population and Global Health, was due to give a presentation on challenges in humanitarian crises on March 19 at NYU, her alma mater. "

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The night before the presentation, she said she got a call from the vice chair of the education department who had raised concerns with the contents.

A couple of the slides in her presentation touched on the casualties in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war as well as the cuts at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Liu said she was told the slides about Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic” while the USAID section might be perceived as “anti governmental.”

Liu, who was already in New York when she got the call, offered to make edits to those slides but then three hours later, after some deliberations, she said the university apologized and said they had to cancel."

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More from the fascism/communism/totalitarian playbook. 

[AlexLaw76]

  On 01/04/2025 at 11:27, Gloucester Saint said:

More from the fascism/communism/totalitarian playbook. 

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What, banning people from talking to a university audience?

Been going here for years 

[Gloucester Saint]

  On 01/04/2025 at 12:07, AlexLaw76 said:

What, banning people from talking to a university audience?

Been going here for years 

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Hence the previous government’s free speech legislation re-introduced with some tweaks, as Sussex just discovered.

[whelk]

The average American investor must be overjoyed to have a commercial genius at the helm ensuring they remain wealthy

 

[badgerx16]

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.

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[buctootim]

  On 02/04/2025 at 15:23, whelk said:

I've been posting piss takes of 'Liberation Day' and criticisms of Trump's tariffs on X today. They've been getting a lot of new likes and follows - which is new for me, I don't post to be popular. So intrigued by who was liking me i looked at the profiles. Really surprised to see that around two thirds were obvious Trump supporters. He's losing the room

 

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[whelk]

  On 02/04/2025 at 16:22, buctootim said:

 

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Are you trying to steal my identity TIm?

[buctootim]

  On 02/04/2025 at 16:27, whelk said:

Are you trying to steal my identity TIm?

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I want to walk like you and dress like you, Follow you home and sit in your car. 

[buctootim]

  On 02/04/2025 at 16:27, whelk said:

Are you trying to steal my identity TIm?

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Alternatively i messed up a quote

[31cc]

  On 02/04/2025 at 16:37, buctootim said:

I want to walk like you and dress like you, Follow you home and sit in your car. 

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[badgerx16]

  On 02/04/2025 at 16:37, buctootim said:

I want to walk like you and dress like you, Follow you home and sit in your car. 

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

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[hypochondriac]

Nice little Brexit dividend kindly bestowed upon us by Donald. @Gloucester Saintmust be well chuffed 😎

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[egg]

Interesting to see the world reaction to this. Seems to be based on largely made up numbers factoring in VAT and other nonsense.

I vote for simply mirroring the US tariffs - he wants reciprocation, then he gets reciprocation. 

[Gloucester Saint]

  On 02/04/2025 at 20:58, hypochondriac said:

Nice little Brexit dividend kindly bestowed upon us by Donald. @Gloucester Saintmust be well chuffed 😎

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10% is better than 20% although I doubt it’s the same impact as losing 6% of our economy through the type of Brexit we had.
Closer links with the EU will wipe out the impact of the 10% and probably washing our face overall. I’ve seen various different reports on the impact, some economists saying it will be very little and not worth worrying about, but others pointing to specific sectors such as whisky which is more reliant on the US market.

25% on 🚙 across the piece though. Mind you, the ones we export over there are at the luxury end, eg wealthy Dems or GOP who won’t be fussed by a few $k extra. Building them over there is unlikely after the Mercedes experience in the Deep South, the cars are absolute dogs. 

It’ll be his rural base, and a lot of it is rural, that it hurts the most. Typical pick up truck they love up $10-12k new after he whacked Canada on metals. They voted for it…..not many buses around there.

[Gloucester Saint]

  On 02/04/2025 at 21:14, egg said:

Interesting to see the world reaction to this. Seems to be based on largely made up numbers factoring in VAT and other nonsense.

I vote for simply mirroring the US tariffs - he wants reciprocation, then he gets reciprocation. 

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The VAT hang up is weird. It’s neither a left or right wing tax, Maggie doubled it in 1979 and Blair kept it there as both focused on lower income taxes. And all domestic suppliers over the threshold pay it as well as international. It isn’t specific to the US. A 10% UK tariff will just mean our consumers accelerate the trend of preferring not to buy American goods where they can, even if the government doesn’t reciprocate.

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[benjii]

 

Worth a read to cut-through the typical hot air bollocks that passes for actual policy announcements and understand the nonsense basis for some of these tariffs.

 

[badgerx16]

  On 03/04/2025 at 07:56, benjii said:

 

Worth a read to cut-through the typical hot air bollocks that passes for actual policy announcements and understand the nonsense basis for some of these tariffs.

 

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The Art of the Deal, innit Rodders.

[egg]

  On 03/04/2025 at 08:10, badgerx16 said:

The Art of the Deal, innit Rodders.

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Houdini, Blaine, etc, would be proud of that level of sleight of hand. 

[benjii]

Hilariously, they are trying to make out that they've done something more clever than simply dividing trade deficit by exports, by posting an equation with additional parameters that are supposed to reflect the impact of price changes on imports and exports. Notwithstanding that this would vary massively from country to country (Lesotho - diamonds, Honduras, cheap textiles etc..) and notwithstanding that they have also omitted the value of service exports... the parameters make zero difference 

 

[badgerx16]

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

[badgerx16]

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."

 

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[benjii]

Seems like the formula is based on asking Chat GPT for an idea of how to do tariffs for dummies.

[benjii]

  On 03/04/2025 at 09:43, badgerx16 said:

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.

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."

 

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ISO codes, apparently. 

[badgerx16]

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

[revolution saint]

  On 03/04/2025 at 09:50, badgerx16 said:

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

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This kind of inefficiency is exactly why they need DOGE.  Musk will sort it all out once he's stopped crying about Tim Walz being mean about him.

[benjii]

 

Fuck it, why not?!

 

[Whitey Grandad]

  On 03/04/2025 at 09:44, benjii said:

Seems like the formula is based on asking Chat GPT for an idea of how to do tariffs for dummies.

  On 03/04/2025 at 09:43, badgerx16 said:

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."

 

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that’ll stop anybody who’s thinking about opening a car factory on any of them.

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[Weston Super Saint]

  On 03/04/2025 at 09:44, benjii said:

Seems like the formula is based on asking Chat GPT for an idea of how to do tariffs for dummies.

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Musk must be fuming that they didn't use his AI tool.

[badgerx16]

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.

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[Whitey Grandad]

  On 03/04/2025 at 13:13, badgerx16 said:

Heard and MacDonald Islands have got off lightly,the Falklands are subject to a tariff rate of 41%.

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What is there to eat in the MacDonald Islands?

[badgerx16]

  On 03/04/2025 at 13:32, Whitey Grandad said:

What is there to eat in the MacDonald Islands?

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

#McTasty

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[sadoldgit]

  On 01/04/2025 at 12:07, AlexLaw76 said:

What, banning people from talking to a university audience?

Been going here for years 

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Really Elon?

[sadoldgit]

  On 31/03/2025 at 11:58, rallyboy said:

The less-racist Trump supporters who have casually voted themselves into poverty and chaos, are we allowed to call them thick yet?

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A guy phoned into an American radio show and said how much he supported Trump’s tariffs. When asked what he does he said that he had his own company selling T-shirts. He imports those T-shirts from China. D’oh! 😜

[whelk]

Stock market roaring. He’ll make you rich again. Sorry billionaires only

 

 

[egg]

  On 03/04/2025 at 18:16, whelk said:

Stock market roaring. He’ll make you rich again. Sorry billionaires only

 

 

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I will try to avoid logging on to Hargreaves Lansdowne tomorrow. Yesterday's announcement, and recent uncertainty, has shortened my retirement for sure. 

[badgerx16]

  On 16/01/2025 at 07:02, Weston Super Saint said:

Donny is claiming he sorted out Gaza and cancelled the Chagos deal, all before he even got to the White House.

Just Ukraine to sort by the end of next week and he can put his feet up for four years I guess.

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  On 16/01/2025 at 07:09, Turkish said:

You can say what you like about Trump but he knows how to end a war

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  On 16/01/2025 at 07:09, egg said:

To be fair, he pretty much has. Gaza should have been done months ago, and it's no coincidence it's happened now. Directly of indirectly he's got it over the line. We've confirmed that Chagos has stalled pending his input. Ukraine won't take long. 

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

[whelk]

  On 03/04/2025 at 18:34, egg said:

I will try to avoid logging on to Hargreaves Lansdowne tomorrow. Yesterday's announcement, and recent uncertainty, has shortened my retirement for sure. 

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Over 1600 down now. Still over an hour to go

[egg]

  On 03/04/2025 at 19:44, whelk said:

Over 1600 down now. Still over an hour to go

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Almost 1700 now. S&P and NASDAQ even worse in % terms.

 

[egg]

  On 03/04/2025 at 19:29, badgerx16 said:

 

 

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

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Alas he's either directly or indirectly given the green light to step it up. Carnage. 

[whelk]

  On 03/04/2025 at 20:08, egg said:

Almost 1700 now. S&P and NASDAQ even worse in % terms.

 

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It’s almost as if the analysts have worked out that the cost of an iPhone (made in China) is now too expensive for the average American. Great news for them they can now buy a phone made in Idaho

[aintforever]

  On 03/04/2025 at 20:10, egg said:

Alas he's either directly or indirectly given the green light to step it up. Carnage. 

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The more Palestinians they kill and buildings they demolish, the easier it will be to build Trump’s resort.

[rallyboy]

Trump and Musk must be making millions on the markets, just like Odey did by financing Brexit.

Those in charge of uncertainty can bet big - and win even bigger.

[Whitey Grandad]

  On 03/04/2025 at 18:34, egg said:

I will try to avoid logging on to Hargreaves Lansdowne tomorrow. Yesterday's announcement, and recent uncertainty, has shortened my retirement for sure. 

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I would suggest not logging in again until the dust has settled. Maybe four or five years down the road. After the next presidential election.

[benjii]

  On 03/04/2025 at 21:56, rallyboy said:

Trump and Musk must be making millions on the markets, just like Odey did by financing Brexit.

Those in charge of uncertainty can bet big - and win even bigger.

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Crash the markets with a stupid policy. Buy when cheap. Reverse policy and enjoy the spike.

 

I think this is more sinister than that though. It's about the destruction of America to enable full autocracy.

[Gloucester Saint]

  On 03/04/2025 at 22:40, Whitey Grandad said:

I would suggest not logging in again until the dust has settled. Maybe four or five years down the road. After the next presidential election.

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Glimmer of hope for the mid-terms, if both Houses switch, or even just the Senate, the process of reversing some of the damage and making him a lame duck can begin. 

[Whitey Grandad]

  On 04/04/2025 at 07:16, Gloucester Saint said:

Glimmer of hope for the mid-terms, if both Houses switch, or even just the Senate, the process of reversing some of the damage and making him a lame duck can begin. 

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We can only hope that reason will prevail.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Another brave, bold policy decision to do the right thing for his country, and his people. Favouring them over decades of financial institutions, companies and countries greedily unbalancing trade for their own benefits.

It's a shame it looks so drastic, but this is due to how long it has been allowed to continue. No doubt there will be hysteria over the move. But if he stays the course, the rebalancing will show the strength of our special ally and the use of the popular mandate Trump has. His party has to remain strong, and not cave into short term concerns.

- Liz Truss

[Tamesaint]

  On 04/04/2025 at 08:37, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Another brave, bold policy decision to do the right thing for his country, and his people. Favouring them over decades of financial institutions, companies and countries greedily unbalancing trade for their own benefits.

It's a shame it looks so drastic, but this is due to how long it has been allowed to continue. No doubt there will be hysteria over the move. But if he stays the course, the rebalancing will show the strength of our special ally and the use of the popular mandate Trump has. His party has to remain strong, and not cave into short term concerns.

- Liz Truss

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Liz Truss or Guided "Shit for Brains" Missile?