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    Just off the top of my head:

    1. Pressuring the Fed to cut interest rates and other actions to reduce the US dollar’s value
    2. Massive payouts to agribusiness, especially maize and sugar producers.
    3. Try bringing in some fruit or a salami into the US. I dare you.
    4. OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, xAI etc ripping off the entire world’s entire content.

    Maybe someone else can fill in the rest.

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      (2) The US has sales tax which is VAT in a trenchcoat.

      (3) The US dumps its corn below cost and saturates foreign markets due to massive corn subsidies.

      (6) Try buying a toilet that uses more than 1.6 gallons per flush in the US. Oh wait, you can’t, it’s banned.

      (8) US companies have transshipped Chinese goods ever since Trump’s 2018 trade war

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      OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, xAI etc ripping off the entire world’s entire content.

      Rules for thee, not for me!

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      As opposed to cheating as an insider trader who manipulates markets with yo-yo tariffs.

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        Nobody knows what it is, folks. People are asking, “What is it?”—nobody knows. Experts, politicians, the fake news—nobody has a clue. Maybe it’s something, maybe it’s nothing. Could be the biggest thing ever, could be nothing at all. Nobody knows, believe me. Total mystery.

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        I mean wouldn’t it just be “ways to cheat tarrifs”

        Like I guess they don’t want to promote that but they could just say “ways to cheat tarrifs we will punish” to try to sound hard.

        But this phrase just makes no sense.

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      I believe he’s trying to say “here’s other examples of CHEATING other countries do to us that are unrelated to tariffs”. Who knows.

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        I think he’s saying things other than tariffs that affect how many dollars the US could make selling shit to your country.

        Thing is, the list doesn’t make sense. Yeah most countries have VAT. 1) So does the US, it’s called sales tax. 2) I pay VAT equally on American, Estonian or German goods. What’s the problem?

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          The problem is that he is a fascist and fascists always need an external enemy to blame.

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      Don’t know but it’s extremely obvious that some of his posts are ghost-written (just like his book) and this is one of them.

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    “You are required to let me fuck you over! You are not allowed to resist it or find alternative means!” 🖕

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    So now he’s angry that we’ve fucked up our agricultural exports badly enough that the rest of the world doesn’t think our trash goods are food grade?

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    How dare other companies cheat by having more stringent food standards than the USA? Everyone should be forced to buy and ingest real American salmonella.

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      I am still annoyed that we let the damn Argentinian beef get through, but I think it’s comparatively hilarious that we still won’t budge on US “food”.

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    Does he think that pirates would turn around and buy $1 Trillion worth of media if pirating stopped? Lmao.

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        Precisely.

        He just shitposts. It’s not even high-quality shitposting. It’s not like becoming president improved anything about him. He doesn’t rise to the occasion; the occasion collapses as he rolls over it and makes a mess of it. Every single time.

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    When Trump says piracy, I understand he’s referring to classic piracy (with little boats and all), and when he says IP Theft, I assume he’s referring to the piracy that concerns us. Good luck adding a tax to my $0 rate.

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    When they say ‘piracy’ does he think they are referring to Captain Jack Sparrow?