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Marycat2021's avatar

Let's not forget that it's Congress' job to enact tariffs, but oops, I guess they're too shittin' scared of Dear Leader to shut his fat old ass down.

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Lynn Veit's avatar

I knew there was another reason I didn't want a smart phone - the first being that my husband has one and I found the damned thing a bitch to operate just to make a simple phone call, as well as knowing that these devices could be used to track my movements anywhere. Now I have an even bigger reason to not have one.

I'll stick with my old T-Mobil flip phone. Easy to use, and cheap.

And I hope I didn't just jinx everything by saying that.

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Sy's avatar

Jesus Fucking Christ.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Nah, I don't think mango man wrote the rants. I seriously doubt he's ever heard of a VAT.

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Lynn Veit's avatar

I agree. There are too many complete sentences, and a glaring lack of egregious grammatical errors.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Plus, not enough ALL CAPS sections! ; )

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Michael Bowen's avatar

I don't know - the first one has a grocer's apostrophe and also a misspelling in the last sentence.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Well....most of the people who surround him aren't highly literate....

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RogationDays's avatar

Doc Zoom is the best

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Zap's avatar

Just making up policy as it goes along. “Policy” lol.

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PaulDietzel's avatar

I know we've discussed this whole thing before and I apologize if it's already been dug-up as it relates to this particular Wonkette entry, but . . .

"thank you for your attention to this matter" has long been the province of a past-due dun

letter; I've never seen it in any type of other correspondence. Back years ago when I was wallowing

in unemployment and negative cash-flow I can remember seeing it as a follow-up to "we've looked everywhere for you check. Could it still be in your checkbook?" And I think that's also where one Donald J. Trump, serial non bill payer, has seen it. If that's the only kind of business letter you ever receive I guess you'd naturally think that's how all the big-bidness tycoons conclude their messages.

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Lynn Veit's avatar

You may be onto something there.

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Shocktreatment's avatar

Dunning letters, cease and desisters, all the 𝘖𝘙 𝘌𝘓𝘚𝘌 communication...

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Excellent observation, Paul. I'm sure you're 100% correct. That last line indeed has the ring of decades-old proper business-speak.

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Sadly Practical's avatar

Well, he certainly cracked the code on how to get media to report on the actions of the incumbent: be a reality show. I expect the next president, should we have one, to license a new cable channel to make what happens in the White House look like The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.

I know there is no one reason for this shitshow but I still believe the majority of the fault lies with the media who wouldn’t shut up about Trump and his embrace of every bad thing they tried to report he did. Have none of them ever dealt with naughty little children? “Kid told not to blow bubbles in milk explodes milk all over table” is not a new phenomenon.

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Stuart's avatar

"...have led to a Trade Deficit with the U.S. of more than $250,000,000 a year..."

That's $250 million. Considering the size of the EU economy, that's peanuts by any measure. I'd bet that's why he spelled it out -- $250,000,000! -- to embellish its scariness, because it really isn't much.

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kmblue187's avatar

If Biden did even one of the things Trump is doing, they'd hang Joe from the nearest lamppost.

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Sadly Practical's avatar

I’m starting to think they wouldn’t. I’m starting to think Trump’s wholehearted embrace of the idiocies and offensive mistakes and evil is CHARMING to the Press. It’s so much easier to report on bad boy does bad thing than deal with the complexity of reality.

Their obsession with telling us Biden or his team were deliberately hiding some health thing or other seems to me a complaint that they have to do journalism when Trump makes it so easy by being unhinged. If Biden had been unhinged, perhaps the doofus “vote for a change/get news from social media” voters would have seen some coverage.

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kmblue187's avatar

I haven't seen much coverage of Trump being the wannabe mad king. Doing bad things yes, dementia, Alzheimers (like daddy) or just being a malignant narcissistic sociopath surrounded by enablers, no. As for all the reportage on Biden conspiracies, you don't dust the furniture when the house is one fire.

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Tom65's avatar

Buy his meme coin and all is forgiven.

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Mark's avatar

Hey Wall Street - STOP LISTENING TO HIM. Doesn't matter what he says, only what actually happens!

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Marla's avatar

E’erybody pays the VAT, Europeans, non-Europeans. If a non-European purchases stuff and takes it out of the EU, they actually get the VAT refunded, once they prove they’re taking their purchases out of the EU.

Just further proof that Orange has no idea how taxes, tariffs or anything relating to the economy works.

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easelox is on timeout's avatar

I'm stating to understand how the boy king bankrupted those casinos. He ain't too smrt.

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Notorious J.I.M.'s avatar

The casino bankruptcies probably also included a 'silent partner'.

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Tom65's avatar

Da.

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meh's avatar

And capiche?

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Shallow state's avatar

From the way he wrote it, you just know he thinks VAT is tax on large containers.

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Notorious J.I.M.'s avatar

"Vat tax?! We gotta start using barrels!"

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Shouldn't someone in the Republican Party start worrying? He just pissed off all cell phone users.

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thephantomcheese's avatar

If it gets all the younguns off TikTok, those geezers won't give a shit...

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