Discussion: Trump Threatens Tax On European Cars After EU Slams Steel Tariff

Sorry, they still haven’t got around to staffing the White House Employment Office - apparently they’re all waiting for their security clearances…:wink:

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Nope. I said upthread I think Trump could be persuaded to literally lick the third rail of the subway if sensible people told him he shouldn’t. It may be our only hope.

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More good news for Wilbur:

Mr. Mueller’s got that Cyprus bank of his dead in the investigation’s gunsights

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O my god - if that chart that circulated so many months ago showing the connections between all the players and Putin was correct and so far it seems to be, then Mueller is getting ready to tear the roof off of the whole thing.

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I’d like someone to explain to me how the Secretary of Commerce can claim that adding $175 onto the price of a new car is “no big deal,” while Paul Ryan simultaneously touts a tax cut that nets his constituents $1.50/week.

So yeah, Wilbur, that tax cut will pay for the price increase of a typical car in no time – well, that is if you consider 9.75 years to be “no time.”

ETA: Sorry, bad math – the above assumes the tax cut net $1.50 per month not per week. Even so, it’ll take take more than 2 years to recoup the price increase of a car.

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Got it, was just thinking that no good deed should go un-“pun”-ished…

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I bet the good ol’ boys working at the Mercedes plant in Vance, Alabama are excited. The sacrifice of their jobs will truly MAGA

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Ah. Went back and realized what you were up to. Sorry, but I have an unfortunate family history with puns. My father fancies himself good at them and isn’t. He’s 94 and it’s been a long slog.

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Trump conducts trade policy via twitter rants.

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I’m wondering if you have a fondness for black wool sweaters.

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I’m gonna play the straight man here and say no. Does some famously pun-disliking person have that fondness? Some fellow sufferer previously unknown to me?

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He’s like a 2 year old child pushing keys on a keyboard, seemingly pleased as punch when random letters and symbols and numbers magically appear on the screen because he’s that smart.

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He’s only been in power for a year … he’s only been in power for a year.

I mean, it took certain other parties twelve years to get to the point of burn-it-all-down nihilistic mad rage.

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Yes, I have thought much the same. And not just heart attacks–literally billions of people around the world are no doubt experiencing reduced health and wellness due to the completely unnecessary stress created by Trump and the GOP. It’s insane that we have a whole world, and one messed-up orange motherfucker gets to do all this and the rest of the BILLIONS of people on the planet can do nothing to stop it. A world gone mad.

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The 2-year olds of the world are organizing a FB protest of your remarks even as i type :smirk:

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OT-

Rubbing salt into the wound.

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No fucking shame.

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Based on this past week, all those who are being hurt by this have to do is talk to Trump in the Oval office and these tariffs will go away.

Fat Donny doesn’t have any positions on anything. He just parrots the last person he talks to.

Now available on the Trump website.

Come for March 24th

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