• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    Good news. Whoever still thought it was still possible to get some slack by kissing Trump’s ass are now fully caught up with the reality that he is an unreasonable prick.

    Now the real decoupling of economies from the US can begin.

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      Whoever still thought it was still possible to get some slack by kissing Trump’s ass

      I dunno, Trump’s ass is probably really slack.

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      He’s not unreasonable he’s just a dickhead.

      Give him money and he will do what you want, fuck anyone else or his country.

      He is being completely reasonable if all he cares about is himself. He’s just a dickhead.

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        He’s not unreasonable he’s just a dickhead

        He is definitely both of those things.

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          He’s not insane though (he’s not eating poop or giving away money), that’s the point. He’s just a c*nt who will burn in Hell because of his willful, aware, carefully planned amoral actions.

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        That would work only for a short timespan, then somebody else will give him something or he’ll have a shortcircuit in his two brain cells and we’re back to square one.

      • Kickforce@lemmy.wtf
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        He will do what you want, for about 5 minutes and then he’ll hold out his hand for more and fuck you over anyway.

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    12 hours ago

    I Hope that european Institutions and companies begin to use EU-tech. Like I don’t unterstand why my uni uses Outlook, Office and Teams instead of FOSS

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    Next week he will brag about how he made a tremendous deal, and lower the tariffs as a result. What tremendous deal he made will be left unspecified, but Fox News will use this opportunity to report how great of a deal maker he is.

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      Whenever he makes this announcement, expect there to be a flurry of buying activity in the US stock markets in the day (or even hours) immediately preceding

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      There will be no deal, he will just lower the tariff. However, he will claim a deal was made

      Like he did with China.

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    All I know is that it’s good to have cash for when the orange traitor decides to advance his boss’ interests.

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    The EU needs to give him the China treatment. Calm, sovereign, and let him rage in hus bubble. The EU is way too emotional and decomposed. Then again, the EU is fully dependent on US technology. Should be fun.

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      I agree, but I think they are? I think every (traditional) western ally of the US are working back channels to no success. They’re moving on and finding more reliable trading partners.