4w ago

Trump calls Japan 'very spoiled' as he floats idea of imposing 30% or 35% tariff

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4w ago

Trump calls Japan 'very spoiled' as he floats idea of imposing 30% or 35% tariff

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Burn all the bridges!
Trump is the best thing that ever happened to China and Russia.
- Fascist dictators being buddies
- Trump is the best thing that ever happened to China and Russia.
  As intended.
- more russia than china, china likes to play both sides so it doesnt matter either way, but they do care about economic stability.
It's all projection with Donald Trump. The mob boss demands more when America has enough wealth as is.
Be China
Do nothing
Win
- Be China
  Win without fighting
Fun fact: Japan owns an obscene amount of US national debt. Guess what would happen if they decided to sell it off?
- Japan owns a lot of American debt but most of it is owned by American domestic companies.
  
  Sure, but the question is if it owns enough to make the bite hurt.
- I'm ignorant on this, how does selling held debt affect a country?
  
  What happens, do you think, to the value of US Treasury Bills on the market if Japan just dumps what they have in a massive sale?
- They have been. Billions of it
I'm so sick of him, I wish every country would just band together and boycott trading with the USA till trumps admin resigna. Sure we'd suffer to but putting up with this guy is too much headache. And he's not going away.
We are at companies that have daily meetings to see how the tarrifs are affecting orders, supplies and pending deliveries. The amount of time wasted by departments is ridiculous.
Man born with golden lips attached to his ass attempts to judge others on excessiveness
Oy, the comments from Redcaps. What a bunch of assholes.
- Can we normalize the term "redcap"? It's a nice identifier for these fascists.
  
  I've been trying. I like it better than "MAGAt".
Rutte's ass kissing went to his head, he thinks he's the world's "daddy".
What you gonna do Cheeto? Drop another bomb on them? Lousy fecker
We don't import their rice or cars because they're both shit.
- Yeah the infamous Japanese cars, nobody ever said anything good about those right? Like the garbage Corolla. Or did anyone ever drive a Prius? Or a Hilux?
  
  Wait, are people downvoting me because they think I'm saying Japanese cars are shit?
  I'm a Japanese-Canadian living in Japan; I'm saying we don't import American rice and cars because they're shit.
- Didn’t they used to import a ton of shitty rice from the US due to some fucked trade deal? Which they just let sit around because they don’t want to eat it?
  
  A lot of the old emergency stockpile rice gets sold off as animal feed as it ages out. I would imagine something similar happened for that.
  
  I mean we have em already, but nobody buys them.
  I bought a bag to see, but I never ate it because it was full of those rice beetle things. Probably just a coincidence, but I've NEVER had that happen in the 15 years of living here so I don't wanna take that chance again.
- its a little complicated for the rice thing, japan wants thier own rice domestically because they can charge more for it, if they import rice they would have to lower the price of rice in general.

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