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Fact 1: American domestic beef supply is constrained due to drought. Fact 2: MacDonald's has about 14,000 outlets in America, all serving Big Macs. Fact 3: The tariff on Australian beef is 10%. The shipping distance is 7500 miles. Fact 4: The tariff on Brazilian beef is 50%. The shipping distance is 4000 miles. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-02/australian-cow-market-up-as-tariffs-loom-burger-price-roars/105599526 Is this the dumbest tariff ever?

It's a shame everything I like is either improper, illegal, or fattening.

Biden fired a total of 8 officials during his tenure. His National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, served for Biden's full term. Trump fired three National Security Advisers. Not enough @rse-kissing. Trump's record of firings looks like a slaughterhouse. Quite apart from senior staff, there's about 180,000 federal employees thrown out of work.

True. Imbeciles are impervious to logic and data.

Trump claims he hires only the best people. Praises them to the skies when appointed. Of course, the MAGA faithful can't see the contradiction when he subsequently fires them.

There was a time when kings would behead the bearers of bad news. How sad for Trump he only has character assassination.

Look over there. How original. AFAIK the NSA has no interest in me, or any reason to be. OTOH, paranoia, lies and secrecy have been part of the Russian psyche for a century. Remember Chernobyl?

So this idiot would rather live in a society where the secret police will be spying on you constantly, and criticism of Putin or the war in Ukraine draws a prison sentence. That takes a special kind of stupid.

IIRC E Jean Carroll was awarded $87 million in damages for defamation against Trump. after he claimed he had never met her, and never fingered her. The judge called him a rapist. Non-consensual fingering is rape. One of your more idiotic posts, and it says a lot about your values, or lack of them. But then, what would you expect from a lawyer? Scum of the earth.

Australia lodged protests via diplomatic channels. It received an apology, and assurances those responsible would be held accountable. Qatar had plans for expansion in Australia. The Australian government controls allocations of air routes to airlines. I guess that's a double whammy, with customers deserting them.

Why shouldn't they get a truckload of cash for the stress and humiliation they endured with a non-consensual search? If you did that to a Muslim woman, they wouldn't want cash. They would want someone's head on a platter. Corporations sometimes need to be reminded their powers are limited. Ask Fox News. If Qatar Airways increased their fares to compensate for their poor judgment, other airlines would simply say thank you very much.

"They" want to bring jobs and manufacturing back to the USA. Labor costs and electricity are too high there, unlikely. Devaluing the USD is another strategy. Imports are more expensive, exports are cheaper. That also results in capital flight and increased interest rates on the burden of debt. Ultimately, though, it's about tax cuts for the wealthy and Social Service cuts for the poor. It reminds me of a clown with a dozen spinning plates on sticks, hurrying back and forth to keep the plates from falling off.

It has not been for decades, you are a liar.

50% of plasma, immunoglobulins and recombinant proteins come from Australia. They are hit with a 200% tariff. The USA has a positive trade balance with Australia. It has been that way for decades. So when you talk about status quo, it does not exist in our case. AS for stop crying, take a long walk off a short pier.

BYD is outselling Tesla worldwide. Cheaper, better quality. The only place Tesla outsells BYD is the USA, thanks to a 100% tariff on BYD vehicles. Tesla's quality problems are long-standing. Poor paint quality, finish, electronics glitches, misaligned panels. Americans wanting EV's get far less choice than the rest of the world.

Those carmakers make vehicles in Thailand for a reason.

Toyota, Mazda, Mitsubishi and Honda all manufacture vehicles in Thailand. You are posting rubbish, and not for the first time.

I guess organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan, Maryland White Knights, Aryan Brotherhood, and Sacred White Knights are figments of my imagination then. Please show me one person in Trump's White House who is NOT white. Blacks and Hispanics are significantly over-represented in America's prison population. I guess the white flight from most major cities to the suburbs is another figment of my imagination. America is not racist? You're coming the raw prawn.

IMO Mother Teresa would stand no chance. Face it, Americans are misogynistic and racist. Trump plays that guitar for all it is worth. If Trump is so clever, why did he sue the Wharton School of Business to prevent his grades being published?

Your post assumes the rest of the world wants American goods and services. China does not want American corn. Canada has taken American bourbon off its shelves. Australians will probably be giving American beef the stinkeye. While it is true a weaker currency favors exports, it's a Red Queen's race. Travel becomes more expensive, there is capital flight, and interest rates on government bonds increase. The US government now has to pay more interest on government debt, than it does for defense spending. Which is more than the next 10 countries' budgets combined. You think that's sustainable?

The second Trump administration has cut funding of climate research and environmental protection. The first appointed an oil industry executive as its Secretary of the Environment. It has rolled back Obama-era targets. It has prioritized domestic production of oil, and is mandating coal-fired generators due to be retired to stay in operation. It has junked tailpipe emission standards. It has frozen approvals for all renewable projects on public lands. Switzerland's electricity is 60% renewables. America is less than 25%. You should put a sarcasm alert on your posts, some might take them seriously.

Quite a few people said the same thing about the Nazis.

Irgun and the Stern Gang contributed to the decision of the British to abandon Palestine. Their forte was assassinations. Iran used hostages to humiliate Carter. Going further back, American patriots were regarded as terrorists by the British government during the War of Independence. Not that I am excusing HAMAS, just pointing out the precedents. Israel started out this conflict with a lot of sympathy. It's now the bad guy.

It's pretty rare that I agree with one of your posts. Wealth inequality is a generational problem.

I don't know if I am, he was responding to another post. Thaumaturgy, perhaps.