Trump's Second Term

[Lukraak_Sisser]

I appreciate other countries have much bigger headaches to deal with due to the orange bully, but regarding the UK does anyone know, when Trump said the UK had been "out of line" just WTF he was talking about? It's a genuine mystery to me.

They have a Labour government even after Trump said it should be replaced by Reform?

 

[Andy_Ross]

I appreciate other countries have much bigger headaches to deal with due to the orange bully, but regarding the UK does anyone know, when Trump said the UK had been "out of line" just WTF he was talking about? It's a genuine mystery to me.

I want to know what the EU 'atrocity' is.

 

[Olmstead]

I want to know what the EU 'atrocity' is.

They make better cars.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Donald's statement on South Africa

Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump

South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY. It is a bad situation that the Radical Left Media doesn't want to so much as mention.
A massive Human Rights VIOLATION, at a minimum, is happening for all to see. The United States won't stand for it, we will act.
Also, I will be cutting off all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed!

 

[The Don]

I want to know what the EU 'atrocity' is.

Running a trade surplus with the US ?

Having a car industry which produces desirable cars and not the kinds that only have a market in the US ?

Not completely bending at the knee to Trump ?

Not spending enough on defense ?

 

[The Don]

Donal's statement on South Africa

I wonder which prominent white South African born person has captured his attention ?

 

[Jack by the hedge]

If you export more to the USA than you import from the USA, you are being subsidised by the USA and that is terrible.

But I gather the UK does not have a trade surplus with the US. So it's more likely to be whatThe Don said: Trump is personally affonted by the nasty windmills you can see from his golf course, and Britain has not obligingly removed them. So it's going to be trade war because of his need for petty personal revenge.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Edited post to add the missing d

 

[Planigale]

I appreciate other countries have much bigger headaches to deal with due to the orange bully, but regarding the UK does anyone know, when Trump said the UK had been "out of line" just WTF he was talking about? It's a genuine mystery to me.

Mandelson, wind farms spoiling the views from Trump golf courses, refusing planning permission for Trump developments, not recognising his right to someone else's coat of arms.

Chivalry Is Not (Everywhere) Dead: Legal Protections of Coats of Arms - Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal

Of the many controversies that have surrounded Donald Trump, perhaps the quaintest concerns the emblems of the Trump Organization’s golf clubs.[1] The emblem of the Trump Organization’s golf clubs in the United States derives from the coat of arms of Joseph Edward Davies, who was...

www.fordhamiplj.org

 

[Andy_Ross]

Of all the things to say against Trump heraldry bollocks is the least of my concerns.

It's all ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ anyway.

 

[Olmstead]

But I gather the UK does not have a trade surplus with the US. So it's more likely to be whatThe Don said: Trump is personally affonted by the nasty windmills you can see from his golf course, and Britain has not obligingly removed them. So it's going to be trade war because of his need for petty personal revenge.

I think it's just manipulative bluster. He's not planning to start a trade war with the UK, he just wants to make it seem like he might as an intimidation tactic.

 

[Planigale]

Of all the things to say against Trump heraldry bollocks is the least of my concerns.

It's all ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ anyway.

But how important it is to Trump is the issue; not how important it is to you.

 

[Tero]

Trump's misunderstanding of the balance of trade makes him say that we are subsidizing Canada. Suppose we just take over Canada and then also the Canadian dollar. Well, it might look like he solved it. But the "state" of Canada is still selling more to the "US" than the "US" is buying back. They are left with cash that they will use to buy things from say Europe. Nothing has changed.

But the investors jus buy land with "leftover cash."

According to a USDA Farm Service Agency report, foreign individuals and entities had a stake in about 40 million acres of U.S. farm and forest land at the end of 2021, the most recent year for which complete data is available. That’s about 3.1% of the country’s privately held farm and forest land.

Of all foreign-owned U.S. land, Canadian investors owned the most at 12.8 million acres. This makes up 31% of all foreign-owned U.S. land.

Four other countries held 12.4 million acres combined, or another 31% of foreign-owned land: the Netherlands (12%), Italy (7%), the United Kingdom (6%), and Germany (6%). China holds less than 1%.

How Much US Land Do China and Other Countries Really Own?

As of 2021, China owned less than 1% of all foreign-held land in the U.S. Canada, by contrast, held more than the entire area of Vermont and New Hampshire combined.

globalaffairs.org

 

[Tero]

Strawberry fields forev...rotting due to lack of harvesting crew

Eric Young (@oc_dude_007) on Threads

A strawberry field next to my house in Southern California. Not a single soul to pick up the fruit… Usually we have 50+ people harvesting… Now it will all go to waste… Making America Great Again !

www.threads.net

 

[carlosy]

I´ve been thinking the same thing. Trump´s actions are so transparently traitorous that I don´t understand how supposedly patriotic Americans support him.

I do!

They are either
- too busy too be bothered with politics
- too dumb to understand any of it
- too blinded by being in the cult

Not really hard to understand, imho.

 

[Darat]

Strawberry fields forev...rotting due to lack of harvesting crew

Eric Young (@oc_dude_007) on Threads

A strawberry field next to my house in Southern California. Not a single soul to pick up the fruit… Usually we have 50+ people harvesting… Now it will all go to waste… Making America Great Again !

www.threads.net

If that's at all true then surely the correct follow-up action is "you are going to be prosecuted for admitting you used illegal immigrants"?

 

[Tero]

The legal immigrants working the fields will also stay away perhaps a month or two. They don't like being rounded up. just like the Navajo.

 

[Safe-Keeper]

If that's at all true then surely the correct follow-up action is "you are going to be prosecuted for admitting you used illegal immigrants"?

The comments thread reminded me of why I quit Twitter. Dozens of comments of "why dont u pick berries urself".

 

[Ethan Thane Athen]

But I gather the UK does not have a trade surplus with the US. So it's more likely to be whatThe Don said: Trump is personally affonted by the nasty windmills you can see from his golf course, and Britain has not obligingly removed them. So it's going to be trade war because of his need for petty personal revenge.

I read somewhere this morning (can't recall where sorry) that UK has a 1% trade surplus with USA so 'out of line' but not as out of line as the rest of Europe which has a much bigger trade surplus (hence, apparently, 'atrocity'). Basically he won't be happy until everyone is importing more from the USA than they are exporting to the USA.

 

[Norman Alexander]

I read somewhere this morning (can't recall where sorry) that UK has a 1% trade surplus with USA so 'out of line' but not as out of line as the rest of Europe which has a much bigger trade surplus (hence, apparently, 'atrocity'). Basically he won't be happy until everyone is importing more from the USA than they are exporting to the USA.

Then he is not going to be happy.