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[buffalo_bill]

Chief economist Donald Duck has been asked about sharply increased car prices to expect due to all his tariffs but he confirmed he " could not care less ". And obviously under the influence of intoxicating liquids he further confirmed " it would make US car manufacturers help them selling cars and make them rich ".

 

I intend to ring Donald tomorrow, clarify the details and Tuesday latest I shall inscribe at Harvard to launch the New Donald Theory of Economics. (NDTE).

[Mekong]

27 minutes ago, buffalo_bill said:

but he confirmed he " could not care less "

This can’t be true, this would  mean an American saying the phrase correctly.

What Americans say is “I could care less” implying that there is less to care than they actually are even thought this is not what they mean.

[buffalo_bill]

 

The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Trump held a call this month with auto CEOs and threatened them with even heftier tariffs if they raise prices because of the import taxes. But Trump on Saturday said he hopes his tariffs lead to higher prices, because it will encourage automakers to build their cars and parts in the United States and persuade customers to buy American.

"I couldn’t care less,” Trump said. “I hope they raise their prices, because if they do, people are gonna buy American-made cars. We have plenty.”

 

Because apart from Trump everybody understands this is total nonsense, somebody of his staff tried to find some way out of this crap:

 

After the interview, an aide to the president followed up with NBC News to say that Trump was referring specifically to foreign car prices.

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I also see Tesla in Canada no longer receive Government subsidies while it remains in place for all other EVs.

[Coss]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360634083/trump-lashes-out-putin-ukraine-ceasefire-talks-stall

excerpt:

Donald Trump said he was “pissed off” with Vladimir Putin and threatened to ramp up sanctions on Russia as Ukraine ceasefire talks stalled.

The US president said he was “very angry” with his Russian counterpart demanding that Volodymyr Zelenskyy be replaced with a transitional government as the price for peace negotiations.

He also threatened to introduce secondary tariffs on Russian energy exports, targeting countries that buy Russian oil and gas with sanctions.

“If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault – which it might not be – but if I think it was Russia’s fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia,” he added in a morning phone call to NBC on Sunday (local time).

“That would be that if you buy oil from Russia you can’t do business in the United States. There will be a 25 per cent tariff on all oil, a 25 to 50-point tariff on all oil.”

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Coss Comment: so if you buy oil from Russia, you cannot do business in the USA, and Donald will charge you 25~50% tariff on the oil that you can no longer buy.

Unless of course he's charging you a tariff in another country you do business in... Which aligns with his view that he is King of the world and can set taxes and tariffs in any country...

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IDIOT

[Old Hippie]

18 hours ago, Mekong said:

This can’t be true, this would  mean an American saying the phrase correctly.

What Americans say is “I could care less” implying that there is less to care than they actually are even thought this is not what they mean.

You didn’t get the memo, The language is now called AMERICAN. 

[Old Hippie]

On 3/27/2025 at 6:15 AM, buffalo_bill said:

The real tragedy about this woman is that the people of Georgia repeatedly voted  for  this piece of shit to represent  them in the US senate. A person publishing nothing but total junk again and again. She should be married to another writeoff, name Matt Gaetz. How can these people win elections in the US?

I worked with a guy who had been a history teacher in Georgia. When he talked, he sounded very much like the stereotype dumbassed hick. Poor grammar and diction etc…so this may be part of why she can get elected..?

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This article is a few years old but a recent report claims it's even closer now.

US ‘closer to civil war’ than most would like to believe, new book says

Academic and member of CIA advisory panel says analysis applied to other countries shows US has ‘entered very dangerous territory’

The US is “closer to civil war than any of us would like to believe”, a member of a key CIA advisory panel has said.

 

The analysis by Barbara F Walter, a political science professor at the University of California at San Diego who sits on the Political Instability Task Force, is contained in a book due out next year and first reported by the Washington Post.

At the same time, three retired generals wrote in the Post that they were “increasingly concerned about the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election and the potential for lethal chaos inside our military”.

Such concerns are growing around jagged political divisions deepened by former president Donald Trump’s refusal to accept defeat in the 2020 election.

Trump’s lie that his defeat by Joe Biden was caused by electoral fraud stoked the deadly attack on the US Capitol on 6 January, over which Trump was impeached and acquitted a second time, leaving him free to run for office.The “big lie” is also fueling moves among Republicans to restrict voting by groups that lean Democratic and to make it easier to overturn elections.Such moves remain without counter from Democrats stymied by the filibuster, the Senate rule that demands supermajorities for most legislation.In addition, though Republican presidential nominees have won the popular vote only once since 1988, the GOP has by playing political hardball stocked the supreme court with conservatives, who outnumber liberals 6-3.All such factors and more, including a pandemic which has stoked resistance to government, have contributed to Walter’s analysis.Last month, she tweeted: “The CIA actually has a taskforce designed to try to predict where and when political instability and conflict is likely to break out around the world. It’s just not legally allowed to look at the US. That means we are blind to the risk factors that are rapidly emerging here.”

The book in which Walter looks at those risk factors in the US, How Civil Wars Start, will be published in January. According to the Post, she writes: “No one wants to believe that their beloved democracy is in decline, or headed toward war.” But “if you were an analyst in a foreign country looking at events in America – the same way you’d look at events in Ukraine or Ivory Coast or Venezuela – you would go down a checklist, assessing each of the conditions that make civil war likely.

“And what you would find is that the United States, a democracy founded more than two centuries ago, has entered very dangerous territory.”

Walter, the Post said, concludes that the US has passed through stages of “pre-insurgency” and “incipient conflict” and may now be in “open conflict”, beginning with the Capitol riot.

Citing analytics used by the Center for Systemic Peace, Walter also says the US has become an “anocracy” – “somewhere between a democracy and an autocratic state”.

The US has fought a civil war, from 1861 to 1865 and against states which seceded in an attempt to maintain slavery.

Estimates of the death toll vary. The American Battlefield Trust puts it at 620,000 and says: “Taken as a percentage of today’s population, the toll would have risen as high as 6 million souls.”

Sidney Blumenthal, a former Clinton adviser turned biographer of Abraham Lincoln and Guardian contributor, said: “The secessionists in 1861 accepted Lincoln’s election as fair and legitimate.”

The current situation, he said, “is the opposite. Trump’s questioning of the election … has led to a genuine crisis of legitimacy.”

With Republicans’ hold on the levers of power while in the electoral minority a contributing factor, Blumenthal said, “This crisis metastasises, throughout the system over time, so that it’s possible any close election will be claimed to be false and fraudulent.”

Blumenthal said he did not expect the US to pitch into outright civil war, “section against section” and involving the fielding of armies.

If rightwing militia groups were to seek to mimic the secessionists of the 1860s and attempt to “seize federal forts and offices by force”, he said, “I think you’d have quite a confidence it would be over very, very quickly [given] a very strong and firm sense at the top of the US military of its constitutional, non-political role.

“… But given the proliferation of guns, there could be any number of seemingly random acts of violence that come from these organised militias, which are really vigilantes and with partisan agendas, and we haven’t entered that phase.

“The real nightmare would be that kind of low-intensity conflict.”

Members of the Oath Keepers, a far-right group, on the East Front of the US Capitol on 6 January.

The retired generals who warned of conflict around the next election – Paul Eaton, Antonio Taguba and Steven Anderson – were less sanguine about the army.

“As we approach the first anniversary of the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol,” they wrote, “we … are increasingly concerned about the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election and the potential for lethal chaos inside our military, which would put all Americans at severe risk.

“In short: We are chilled to our bones at the thought of a coup succeeding next time.”

Citing the presence at the Capitol riot of “a disturbing number of veterans and active-duty members of the military”, they pointed out that “more than one in 10 of those charged in the attacks had a service record”.

Polling has revealed similar worries – and warnings. In November, the Public Religion Research Institute asked voters if they agreed with a statement: “Because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.”

The poll found that 18% of respondents agreed. Among Republicans, however, the figure was 30%.

On Twitter, Walter thanked the Post for covering her book. She also said: “I wish I had better news for the world but I couldn’t stay silent knowing what I know.”

[buffalo_bill]

Evaporated boardmember  WAERTH predicted exactly this already years ago.

The yellowman yesterday confirmed that he is serious about a plan to run a third time for President. Needs 2 thirds of congress votes, no easy.