Trump threatens BRICS countries with 100% tariffs

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1 hour ago, Lucas said:

Call it what you want but desperate times call for desperate measures. He's going to destroy the USA anyways, make things happen faster so maybe americans wake up faster and get him out of office faster. I couldn't care less.

 

5 minutes ago, PartySick said:

A lot of people who didn't pick him will suffer because of him. Not only Americans either. You should care about that.

im trying to figure out if @Lucas just has an extremely bad way of expressing what they mean and are actually just trying to say i hope trump goes ahead and ****s things up so that his stans will get a harsh awakening and doesn't mean they actually want people to undeservedly suffer but are just saying the inevitable is the inevitable now he's been voted in and sadly a harsh reality is needed in order for him to lose his hold.. if that makes sense?

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Well, why is he saying this? Just saying anything to rile up his followers again. As if BRICS is that powerful to begin with, LBR for a second 

Poverty (both absolute and relative) has long been a major concern for the BRICS countries. Members of that group literally just mostly poor countries wanting business from, and in turn, doesn't mind became lap dogs for China. 

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We’re really out here still  giving Twitter more traffic huh? 
 

Majority of people who voted for Trump cite “the cost of milk and eggs” so it’ll be interesting to see what they pivot to if Trump tanks the economy. They’ll no doubt come up with some stupid excuse to continue supporting him. It’s a cult 

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17 minutes ago, Catnikko said:

 

im trying to figure out if @Lucas just has an extremely bad way of expressing what they mean and are actually just trying to say i hope trump goes ahead and ****s things up so that his stans will get a harsh awakening and doesn't mean they actually want people to undeservedly suffer but are just saying the inevitable is the inevitable now he's been voted in and sadly a harsh reality is needed in order for him to lose his hold.. if that makes sense?

No way he actually wants people to suffer. This is a pop music forum, people like to exaggerate, and he's not a sociopath lol.

My whole family could be ripped apart by Trump's immigration policies and I'm not exactly rich either so those tariffs are coming directly for my wallet and belly but even I have to admit I'm lowkey perched for people's lives to get harder directly due to Trump's policies. If only because that's the only way his audience will abandon him.

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3 minutes ago, PartySick said:

No way he actually wants people to suffer. This is a pop music forum, people like to exaggerate, and he's not a sociopath lol.

My whole family could be ripped apart by Trump's immigration policies and I'm not exactly rich either so those tariffs are coming directly for my wallet and belly but even I have to admit I'm lowkey perched for people's lives to get harder directly due to Trump's policies. If only because that's the only way his audience will abandon him.

oh yeah i mainly meant that to the other replies saying hes a sociopath or whatever

 

also i hope for you it doesn't become as bad and for that to happen  its so scary and im not even in the US

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1 minute ago, Catnikko said:

oh yeah i mainly meant that to the other replies saying hes a sociopath or whatever

 

also i hope for you it doesn't become as bad and for that to happen  its so scary and im not even in the US

Oh nah, people just be saying stuff. Honestly, it would be good for the rest of the industrialized world to gain some independence and stop relying on the US. At least until we keep flipping back and forth every four years between "human rights" and ...idk, "Mexicans are invaders, women are objects, LGBTQ is pedophilia, Jews will not replace us, Muslims are *insert any number of racist comments here*" etc etc.

Plus, the US government has been such a villain for a lot of people around the world. I'm sure it's cathartic on some level to see us at such a low point with only lower to go.

It just sucks that there's good people here and in other countries that will also suffer. But we'll live...maybe

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2 hours ago, Lucas said:

I'm sorry to all the americans here but I hope BRICS will create a new currency  I want Trump to destroy the USA so badly to the point that there will be an insurrection and they put someone who isn't an incompetent nazi in the office  He's going to do it anyway but it will make things happen faster and maybe the americans will wake up and get him out of office.

Wanting innocent people to suffer just because you’re upset is such a MAGA thing to want. You sure you’re not a Trump supporter? 

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2 hours ago, Bonkers said:

The problem with wanting USA to suffer because they elected Trump is this:

(And before you get technical I'm not being literal)

YES.  USA has the dumbest people in the world.
YES.  USA has the worst people in the world.
YES.  USA has the most selfish people in the world
YES.  USA has the worst fake Christian hypocrites in the world

But they also have

The smartest people
The nicest
The most progressive
The most generous

And there are millions and millions of great people who don't deserve to suffer because they share oxygen with idiots.

I mean, yes, they should have dug a hole and pushed the worst ones in it 20 years ago, but they didn't and now we have to just wait and see.   

Unfortunately the downfall might be the only thing that fixes it and we have to just hope that these people are too incompetent to fully implement their disasterous plans.

It's funny because one of my close friends said the same thing about digging a hole for idiots and I FRIED him for it a year ago. Now I'm sitting here like "well maybe we should have". 

2 hours ago, Emvee said:

We’re really out here still  giving Twitter more traffic huh? 
 

Majority of people who voted for Trump cite “the cost of milk and eggs” so it’ll be interesting to see what they pivot to if Trump tanks the economy. They’ll no doubt come up with some stupid excuse to continue supporting him. It’s a cult 

They're already pivoting with mental gymnastics. The talking point now is "the economy lags behind economic policy. So if the economy doesn't get better it's Biden's fault" while completely ignoring the fact that by their (correct) logic, Trump was majorly at fault for Biden's economy (that has started to get better). 

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Seeing hatred rising and people expressing polarising opinions that exclude the factor that there are children who will suffer the consequences of grown up people's choices is concerning. Studying about WWI and WWII it seems we are 1-2 years shy of an official climax. Tbh I can't blame people who believe Trump is a savior. I blame what has happened in between considering him a goofy 15 years ago, into giving him that kind of power. Suddenly there are fascists into power all over the world with dark personal agendas.

Our God is not here today.

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6 hours ago, Bonkers said:

The problem with wanting USA to suffer because they elected Trump is this:

(And before you get technical I'm not being literal)

YES.  USA has the dumbest people in the world.
YES.  USA has the worst people in the world.
YES.  USA has the most selfish people in the world
YES.  USA has the worst fake Christian hypocrites in the world

But they also have

The smartest people
The nicest
The most progressive
The most generous

And there are millions and millions of great people who don't deserve to suffer because they share oxygen with idiots.

I mean, yes, they should have dug a hole and pushed the worst ones in it 20 years ago, but they didn't and now we have to just wait and see.   

Unfortunately the downfall might be the only thing that fixes it and we have to just hope that these people are too incompetent to fully implement their disasterous plans.

God I wish there was a way to make only all the people who voted for him suffer. The US is literally a place of extremes split right down the middle almost 50/50

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3 hours ago, TortureMeOnReplay said:

It's funny because one of my close friends said the same thing about digging a hole for idiots and I FRIED him for it a year ago. Now I'm sitting here like "well maybe we should have". 

I say let them build the wall. Let them build the wall around themselves and they can lock all the Kamala voters out. Shove every Trump voter into Florida and wall it off and let them take care of each other doing what they do best.. the sane people can be 'locked out' 

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Threatening the BRICS countries only motivates them to pursue exactly what is being opposed. I don’t think they’ll fully succeed, but silly statements like this from the incoming U.S. president, boasting about the greatness of the U.S. and the dollar, definitely won’t stop them from trying even harder. 

On another note, from an EU citizen’s perspective, now that we’ve reduced our dependency on Russia, it might be time to turn our attention to the U.S. Despite being friends and allies, Trump’s leadership will undoubtedly bring challenges for Europe.

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9 hours ago, Lucas said:

Call it what you want but desperate times call for desperate measures. He's going to destroy the USA anyways, make things happen faster so maybe americans wake up faster and get him out of office faster. I couldn't care less.

Yeah because in human history, the times a bad leader elected via democratic means is replaced through non-democratic means with a better leader definitely outnumbers all the times a democratically elected bad leader is replaced by an even worse dictatorship. 

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10 hours ago, Catnikko said:

 

im trying to figure out if @Lucas just has an extremely bad way of expressing what they mean and are actually just trying to say i hope trump goes ahead and ****s things up so that his stans will get a harsh awakening and doesn't mean they actually want people to undeservedly suffer but are just saying the inevitable is the inevitable now he's been voted in and sadly a harsh reality is needed in order for him to lose his hold.. if that makes sense?

 

10 hours ago, PartySick said:

Oh nah, people just be saying stuff. Honestly, it would be good for the rest of the industrialized world to gain some independence and stop relying on the US. At least until we keep flipping back and forth every four years between "human rights" and ...idk, "Mexicans are invaders, women are objects, LGBTQ is pedophilia, Jews will not replace us, Muslims are *insert any number of racist comments here*" etc etc.

Plus, the US government has been such a villain for a lot of people around the world. I'm sure it's cathartic on some level to see us at such a low point with only lower to go.

It just sucks that there's good people here and in other countries that will also suffer. But we'll live...maybe

Yeah this. Happy to see that some people on this forum have the ability and knowledge of how to be polite.

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Anyway, isn't Trump supposed to be Putins friend? This won't make his stance as a neutral mediator to end the war in Ukraine any easier lol.