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Trump Does his Awesome New Tariffs. Winning!!

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by gator_jo, Feb 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM.

  1. flgator2

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    Canada folds to Trump's demands and strikes $3 billion border deal

    'I just had a good call with President Trump,' he posted on X.

    'Canada is implementing our $1.3 billion border plan—reinforcing the border with new choppers, technology and personnel, enhanced coordination with our American partners, and increased resources to stop the flow of fentanyl.

    'Nearly 10,000 frontline personnel are and will be working on protecting the border.'

    It comes after Trump at the weekend announced he was preparing to slap 25 percent tariffs on imports from north of the border.
     
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  2. flgator2

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    Yes, we're winning
     
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  3. JustaGator

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    You are all an embarrassment to the Founding Fathers and founding principles of our Nation to "provide and support the common good."

    Words like "deportations", "purges", and "ideology eliminated" - those words belong beside "Final Solution", "dictatorship", "gulag" and "concentration camp", not in America.

    So let us know when you are done <checks notes> "winning", so we can stop laughing at you and your fellow MAGAts who have clearly gone off the deep end.

    FYI - DOGE isn't a an actual government department and they can't save billions, because Congress controls the purse strings, not Elon Musk with his Nazi salutes or even Stephen Miller with grandiose plans and his little hand signals to the white supremiscists.

    What is ACTUALLY happening is much akin to delusional people on the corner telling us the world is coming to an end, but we are all pretty sure it will be here tomorrow. You'll break some windows, shout your slogans, and then the police will cart you off - either to prison or a graveyard.

    So know that your place is history is assured. It will be a footnote between somewhere between real Nazis and secessionists, both defeated and thrown into the dustbin of history.

    There are good reasons for that - the first being that real "patriots" are ready to punch your looney tickets the next time we see you in our Capitol after beating up police officers. The next is that I doubt you will muster up the intestinal fortitude to die for DOGE, MAGA, Trump or Musk - and they surely won't die for you when they can hide in a bunker or jet off to a non-extradition country. What good is grifting on the scale they are currently are without getting to spend the money they took from you mooks?

    So when your delusions come crashing down around you and you one day realize what you REALLY ARE, I just hope you have time to tell the dude lighting you up that you would like to surrender.

    Hopefully he/she/they will be taking prisoners - I am of the opinion that people with bad ideas don't change, they just die and the world moves on.
     
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  4. citygator

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    The one that they announced 6 weeks ago under Biden? Nice. You realize Trump makes you look like a fool to any normal person, right?

     
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  5. flgator2

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    Lol. What a bunch of s*** .
     
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  6. citygator

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    "Who the hell made these deals they are so bad?"

    Well, that would be you Mr. Dealmaker Trump. Dude is so far gone he has no idea what is going on. There is a non-zero chance he thinks he is in his first term and forgot the last 6 years.



    Here is him bragging about the great USMCA deal that he now hates. Would be funny if his mental acuity werent so scary.

     
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  7. citygator

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    Lol. Too funny. Whoops... get him off the air!

     
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  8. dave_the_thinker

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  9. TheGator

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    Get off your comie white horse. The founding fathers never envisioned income tax, much less than 30%-50% when you add in state and local income taxes.

    Income taxes were created to help finance the Civil War, long after the founding fathers. For World War I, the highest tax rate was 7%, which was to finance the war.

    Then the commie liberals have increased it to upwards of 40%-50% when you include state and local taxes. The founding fathers never envisioned over taxation, and certainly never envisions taxing citizens to provide charity to the rest of the world. The history of income tax was to pay for wars, not charity.
     
  10. JustaGator

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    Yeah, the Founding Fathers never envisioned a lot of things, like the Industrial Revolution, automobiles, airplanes, atomic bombs, and AI at our fingertips, but taxes were one they actually did.

    Unfortunately the world is more connected and complex than it has ever been, and we cannot hide our heads in the sand and pretend that we don't have to pay taxes to enjoy the modern conveniences like roads, bridges, ports, police and fire, military assets etc. and our security and safety they provide.

    Things like USAID do exactly that, provide security while helping other countries develop so their emigrants don't all wind up on our doorstep at once. If you think the current illegal immigration numbers are an invasion, which they are decidedly not, and not just more bullshit from Trump (now it is about fentanyl if you hadn't noticed).

    Also, we are ALWAYS AT WAR. We've been under attack from Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea for years - we just do not declare wars for things like them overthrowing our government with their failed trust fund baby and cancelled TV reality show star and putting big dumb words in your empty head like "commie" (note it has two m's) because the stakes are too high with nuclear arsenals - or do you think nuclear missiles care if you want to hide behind a 2000 mile long wall you pretend Trump built?

    So tell me in the Constitution where it says that we cannot levy a tax (hint: it doesn't - see Article I, Section 8, Clause 1).

    We surely blew the brains out of people who felt their taxes were unfair under the Articles of Confederation during Shay's Rebellion and again after the Revolutionary War during the Whiskey Rebellion, and most prominently during the Civil War (seceding being a great tax avoidance scheme if you pull it off, which they didn't).

    Lazy people decry taxes like they decried losing their slaves. It's part of life and unfortunately you happened to pick the Dear Leader who decided you need to pay more and his rich friends, less. Dumb move.

    So either vote someone who isn't trying to tax you to death or get over it or move to a country that doesn't make you pay such onerous taxes - you'll probably find many lazy people like yourself already there - its called Russia and you'll make great cannon fodder in Ukraine or lots of fun for the FSB if you think the FBI is bad.
     
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  11. wgbgator

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    They didnt envision immigration policy for that matter, like there wasnt even a formal citizenship process. No one thought it was a big deal to step off the boat (unless you were a slave of course) call yourself American and start voting until a bunch of Chinese immigrated in the 19th century.
     
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  12. rivergator

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  13. Orange_and_Bluke

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    Pretty sure your party would embarrass the most liberal founding father…
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  14. JustaGator

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    Looks like someone "Found" Grindr - which one are you in the video?

    Anyway, good luck with that and try not to bottom out!
     
  15. wgbgator

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    The most "liberal" founders were raping their slaves and shitting in a hole in the ground, so you got him there. But they did wear wigs and fanciful clothing, so it could be a wash. Those guys look pretty masculine compared to a dude in a powdered wig and knee breeches.
     
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  16. Orange_and_Bluke

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    Haha…nice try man.
    That’s your party and I ain’t invited.
    Have fun in there. Remember, if you get even a little chub you might be…
     
  17. Orange_and_Bluke

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    Cool that means your people were terrible people back then too.
    Awesome Self Own.
     
  18. wgbgator

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    You guys get mad when the libs tear down statues of those guys, but then are like "oh they were just libs like you that raped slaves" ... get a coherent world view, I beg of you
     
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  19. Orange_and_Bluke

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    You got owned bro.
    But that’s no reason to try and lump me in with someone else you probably lost another battle to.
     
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  20. wgbgator

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    Nothing could be more of a self-own than you searching for a gif of dudes dancing together to post
     
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