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And it's phony why? Because you don't like the results?

Please name a treaty that say it wouldn't happen. Good luck with that. It doesn't exist. I'm sure you will evaporate on this point just as you always do.(How about those LLC's?) Stop making things up. How do you know what I know and don't know? Here's something I know. Another way to address that coup is that there was a popular uprising against Yanukovych caused by his reneging on the promise to seek to join the EU. Instead he opted to join whatever sad name that Russian dominated economic union goes by. Because Russia had such a dynamic advanced economy? And clearly you are unacquainted with Putin's lies about Ukraine. That it's not a separate culture, that it's an inherent part of the Russian empire. And of course there are the threats that Putin has made to reclaim the old Russian empire.

They weren't sent back. They self-deported.

Yes Europe is a hellhole Wealthy Americans have death rates on par with poor Europeans The study, led by researchers at Brown University, found that the wealthiest Americans lived shorter lives than the wealthiest Europeans. In fact, wealthy Northern and Western Europeans had death rates 35 percent lower than the wealthiest Americans, whose lifespans were more like the poorest in Northern and Western Europe—which includes countries such as France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/wealthy-americans-have-death-rates-on-par-with-poor-europeans/

And yet the Republicans are pushing for tax cuts. Not only that, they are resetting the baseline for those cuts so they can justify cutting more. "Senate Republicans released a new budget blueprint Wednesday that would pave the way for $1.5 trillion in new tax cuts in addition to making President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent. They hope to adopt the plan in the coming days to instruct committees to begin work a massive bill to pass Trump’s agenda on taxes, immigration funding and other priorities. Senate Republicans are using the budget “reconciliation” process to evade the 60-vote hurdle in the chamber, where they hold a 53-47 majority, and cut Democrats out of the process." https://archive.ph/aW5kv

You sure about that? Charge of the Light Brigade The Charge of the Light Brigade was a military action undertaken by British light cavalry against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War, resulting in many casualties to the cavalry. On 25 October 1854, the Light Brigade, led by Lord Cardigan, mounted a frontal assault against a Russian artillery battery which was well-prepared with excellent fields of defensive fire. The charge was the result of a misunderstood order from the commander-in-chief, Lord Raglan, who had intended the Light Brigade to attack a different objective for which light cavalry was better suited, to prevent the Russians from removing captured guns from overrun Turkish positions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade Crimean War The Crimean War[d] was fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Second French Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont from October 1853 to February 1856.[9] Geopolitical causes of the war included the "Eastern question" (the decline of the Ottoman Empire, the "sick man of Europe"), expansion of Imperial Russia in the preceding Russo-Turkish wars, and the British and French preference to preserve the Ottoman Empire to maintain the balance of power in the Concert of Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_War

No it doesn't. Actually it never did and now it owns a lot less. https://usafacts.org/articles/which-countries-own-the-most-us-debt/ https://usafacts.org/articles/which-countries-own-the-most-us-debt/

I think Musk is alarmed buy Europe's growing disdain for Tesla. So he's desperately trying to distance himself from Trump. Let's see if he continues to support the AfD and engages in more harsh criticism of Europe.

Did you miss that part about the rare earths? Maybe like many members here, you're in the grips of a belief that China only produces flimsy consumer goods?

I don't think you understand. There's mom, and there's apple pie, and there's Donald Trump. And no matter how much you love your mom, or your apple pie, or your mom's apple pie, if you don't hold Donald Trump in the same high esteem, that means you hate America.

And maybe because, as 3NUMBAS noted, China holds quite a few cards of its own. Let's wait and see if Trump actually imposes that threatened 50% hike. I think the total would come to 104%

Thank you for your rebuttal. So convincing.

Always weird the tendency of some members to make a topic all about themselves or at least allegedly all about themselves. Since we're all anonymous here, who knows how much is fact and how much is fiction?

Because NoDisplayName had no evidence or argument to offer on the issue, he resorted to making it personal.

Trumpists might believe that Trump and Musk love them back. But the truth is, they're really getting f***ed.

There's a saying that the best defense is a good offense. In your case I guess the best defense you can come up with is a bad offense. You've got nothing.

Today you have given us no evidence that you do. Does that just if I'm making a similar assertion about you?

Do you think most = all? Actually, in this case, the deportee has never even put on trial.

Navarro is rabidly pro tariff everywhere. I doubt that Trump thinks zero tariffs between the . USA and Europe are a good thing. But maybe you could share some evidence with the rest of us but this is the case?

Don't trivialize it. It was a serious, meaningful bromance.

So, for argument's sake let's say your characterization of Biden is true. Therefore even if it wasn't his fault, he still is responsible for inflation because of his intellectual failings?

Incomplete. It has a huge plant in Germany. Although, given the state of its European sales, it may not be there for long.

Market was basically flat at closing. If it's Israeli tariffs rou're referring to, they've been basically negligible for years. Israel and the USA have a bilateral agreement. If not, then not relevant.

It could be that he signaling to the Chinese government that what's going on in regard to tariffs is not his fault. It's uncertain how mollified they will be.

Another empty personal attack. You've got nothing.