Treasury Secretary, genius negotiator: “I wouldn’t try to retaliate. As long as you don’t retaliate this is the high end of the number.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO0GFiJ5ADc
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Well that is the perfect answer coming from an administration filled with sexual predators - “just sit back and enjoy it.” Take what we dish out and don’t complain.
The Republican 1990 gubernatorial nominee, Clayton Williams, apologized for an off-the-cuff remark suggesting that some victims of rape should ''relax and enjoy it.''
This whole plan depends on the globe not pushing back. That ain’t gonna happen. So, then what? Reverse course. Or does the USA get very very nasty in an effort to bend the world to its will.
I feel like I hear these phrases in movie scenes of assaults... of various sorts... and I'm not the kind of person to make those comparisons lightly...
What in the world makes them think the countries trumpty dumpty is targeting will just sit there and do nothing in return? Seriously, how arrogantly delusional is that?😏
sort of like that republican guy Robert Regan, a nominee for the Michigan House of Representatives in 2022:
"I tell my daughters, 'Well, if rape is inevitable, you should just lie back and enjoy it'."
He lost the race.
How did he find this many psychopaths to appoint to key roles? The only thing we’re probably safe from the next four years is serial killers. They all work for Trump.
Bwahahahahahaah. Fuck him. These people have lost their minds…if they don’t think a mountain of shit is coming for them…they are mistaking our tolerance for weakness.
Bessent along with the entire Trump regime can fuck off and when he's done fucking off he can fuck off some more. Thank you sir may I have another is not how you respond to this. Isolate the US and see how well they do.
You know - like we expect Social Security beneficiaries to do when we shut off their payments.
“Sit back and take it in, let’s see how it goes” … or you’re a “fraudster”.
Hey, Republican congressmen and senators have sat back and taken whatever Trump gave them. If it's good enough for them, why shouldn't foreign governments do the same, amirite?
That sounds a little "rapey" and certainly sounds like something THESE guys would have said at some point in their lives,and i'm sure they also approve of that message,, "Sit back, take it in, let's see how it goes."
Jesus, sounds like what women have said rapists tell them while they’re raping them. The arrogance is strong in this one. Thinks he gets to tell every other country how to react & how to manage their economies. That Star Spangled Banner is going to start being booed well beyond Canada now.
It’s because the US bleaches our chicken and our beef has hormones and EU has them outlawed. So he can play chicken with tariffs all he wants. They won’t budge.
Seriously? I can't say I've ever gone to the grocery and noted that there was "beautiful" and "weak" meat. Is that in a special section of the store where neanderthals like Lutnick shop?
I think I get the logic behind the 5th grade math tariff rate calculations. The issue for Trump is the trade deficit. If a nation gets their trade deficit with us down, in theory, their tariff rate would go down. But they haven't said this explicitly. Instead we get our beef good, their beef bad.
Um, ok. Sounds like a mobster making a threat. Does he really believe that Trump won't get upset about some stupid little thing and slap another 10-20% on? I'm giving it about a week before he throws a tantrum at some country.
When a man is sexually assaulting you, don't fight back. It will only make him more angry. Rapists gonna rape, and right now it's the people of the USA getting raped.
Our trade partners are not spineless moronic pansies like the GOP. Elon has no sway, Trump has no sway, there is NO gain for other countries to get fucked by this moronic regime
The EU will, of course, retaliate, but only in a strategic way. Tariffs hurt your own citizens, and the Europeans are not stupid enough to hurt themselves THAT much.
So many negotiations is just a small part. The books will be written about how in 90 days the best economy in the world at the time was tanked into a prolonged recession that could lead to losing the unique ability to run deficits without consequences. Only the best people
Worth gaming this out -- if you retaliate you'll increase the odds that Trump and his minions are out sooner, and rationality returns. If you don't, you suffer the consequences potentially in perpetuity.
The world knows a contract with donald trump is meaningless. Breaking contracts is his business strategy.
Problem is this isn’t some struggling plumber you can leverage into settling for pennies on the dollar.
These are sovereign nations, with options
What a great country, where idiots like this guy, Lutnick, and for ffs Trump, can make a lot of money and achieve high office. There was the robber baron era and now we are in the era of the con.
The US just declared an a trade war on every piece f land in the CIA world fact book.
I'm serious, Trump's tariff list is literally the CIA world fact book.
Look at how the tariff list spelled Cocos Islands with Keeling in parentheses, just like the CIA WFB.🙄 https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/
Other countries can take a cue from Canada. Leaders tell their people to support local and positive partners. And that will generate large financial pain without “formal” tariffs. Then redirect all gov spending and purchases…and then hit very targeted products in red states.
Does he still not get the world is not afraid of the “once” powerful and respected USA! It’s now run by a clown and those that can fit in the clown car!
If this buttmunch doesn’t think China is going to retaliate with some brutal counter-tariffs & more import/export controls… then he truly is as stupid as he looks.
Why on earth does anyone ever believe that a country would just take it up the ass and not retaliate. It wouldn't make any sense under the sun. It's mind boggling to me to accept that all it's taken is one orange man to come and destabilize the entire planet. The actual fuck.
That mofo smiles like he is so proud of his accomplishment of making life in the US more expensive for everyone who is not a billionaire. Karma please handle them!
If you retaliate we will be forced to hurt our own citizens even more. This is all coming out of peoples 401k's as we speak. Don't make us do it because we will.
Bessent Is Another Fucktard DOGE Supporter Who Assisted Musks' Sociopaths Access To The Treasury Financial Payment System Database‼️ Listen Folks, Musk/DOGE Have Every Americans' Personal/Medical/Financial Information‼️ They Cannot Be Allowed To Get Away With It‼️ We Must #FightBack For #TheResistance‼️
So, America just threw a flurry of punches, punching everyone in the room in the face -- metaphorically speaking -- and is saying: "As long as you don't retaliate, we're done."
I encourage the civilized world to retaliate against trump's tariffs HARD. Maybe throw in some personal sanctions against him and his regime buddies.
#TariffAmerica #LiberationDay
The problem is that they have no reason to trust Chump. If they turn their backs he’ll stab them again, because he is the scorpion, it’s in his nature. The lies change, but he never does.
Specifically, retaliate against anything these numbfucks own. Destroy their portfolios. Make them poor as the people they don't care about. Ruin their fucking lives.
they all need to retaliate to at least as significant number as the Republicans have proposed. All foreign governments need to kick the US in the balls everytime we do something like this if they expect the conservatives/Republicans to wake up
One thing we know, non-Americans have more guts and honor than any member of this regime. To the idiot playing as Treasury Secretary, maybe if you get out of this position in the image and leave, it will be better off for all of the country.
Has even one moron in Trump's Admin stumbled to the realization that when we pressure manufacturing businesses in Mexico and various other countries to transfer their manufacturing operations to the US that it will increase pressure on people in those countries to migrate to the US to find work?
The stupidity is mind boggling. We know MAGAts are morons but this fucking guy really needs to go crawl back under his rock. I hope all countries hit back hard.
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https://www.foxnews.com/media/treasury-secretary-bessent-tells-countries-not-retaliate-after-sweeping-liberation-day-tariffs
Anyone else hearing this when he speaks??
Basically, same thing...
Are they ALL insane??
We *will* figure a solution to this that keeps us from spiraling into WW3 *and* deep-sixes his team's ambitions for our future.
PM Mark Carney
re: rape.
“If it’s inevitable, relax and enjoy it.”
"I tell my daughters, 'Well, if rape is inevitable, you should just lie back and enjoy it'."
He lost the race.
https://www.newsweek.com/lie-back-enjoy-it-if-raped-state-rep-jokes-hed-tell-daughters-1685698
We need to start digging. Because there's stuff to hang around each of these people's necks.
F@k off
“Sit back and take it in, let’s see how it goes” … or you’re a “fraudster”.
They. Are. Afraid. Of. Us.
It’s time. APRIL 5
https://www.fastcompany.com/91309656/hands-off-april-5-protest-near-me-saturday-trump-musk-50-states-what-to-know
Open markets for BYD? Tax Facebook? Unionize local Amazon?
There's only one way to get a bully to stop. Fight back.
#elbowsup
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/28/from-chicken-to-tomatoes-heres-why-american-food-is-hurting-you
Ireland produces a huge amount of EU beef. Ireland exports 95% of production. Very high quality.
https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations
https://x.com/KushDesai47/status/1907618136444067901
The Mnuchin Files, aka Steve & Louise Take DC:
Things a rapist would say......
Just like Trump likes it…
The EU can't, since ~39%?
So, they will HAVE to retaliate.
ps. EU GDP (PPP) = USA GDP (PPP).
Not gonna be fun, mais bon.
I miss adults. I really miss adults.
No. 🍁
Are you fucking kidding me???
WHAT AN IDIOT !
Fight them with every breath.
Make each and every action you take one of resistance to whatever it is they stand for and represent.
Shame their followers.
Shame them.
Punch every single nazi
Problem is this isn’t some struggling plumber you can leverage into settling for pennies on the dollar.
These are sovereign nations, with options
Guy wearing a wet speedo during an ice storm peach pit ball sack small blue dick energy.
I'm serious, Trump's tariff list is literally the CIA world fact book.
Look at how the tariff list spelled Cocos Islands with Keeling in parentheses, just like the CIA WFB.🙄
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/
Don't worry. I got even when I hit my teenage years.
Maybe not the incompetency and stupidity the Treasury Secretary wants history to remember him for.
This guy is disturbingly delusional.
He looks like if stupid and moron and idiot got into a cousin fucking bloodline and stayed there for 10 generations.
"Love to. How about Global Tariff War."
"WOULDN'T YOU PREFER A NICE GAME OF CHESS?"
https://bsky.app/profile/thebluemeeple.bsky.social/post/3llvg6f6axc2g
Trump's 2016 tariffs were a disaster and mostly for red states.
The markets will be a blood bath tomorrow.
They are want groveling and they want to manipulate the stock markets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilism
This is totally one sided.
Others will retaliate.
Has Bessett met the Irish?
We've punched our trading partners in the face on your behalf, and told them not to punch you back or they will be sorry.
love Scott and Donald, 2nd April 2025
--xx--
Dear US middle class,
Check your 401k's.
Love, the rest of the world 3rd April 2025
#TariffAmerica #LiberationDay
One thing I’ve learned as a victim of violence who thought being more compliant might lessen the punishment… it didn’t.
Abusers only feel bolder. Fight back. Don’t be nice.
Make it hurt so badly they never try again.
#Elbowsup 💪🏼🇨🇦
Specifically, retaliate against anything these numbfucks own. Destroy their portfolios. Make them poor as the people they don't care about. Ruin their fucking lives.
Retaliate hard against the Trump administration.
Corp America will be able to offset the impact by raising prices on consumers and via Trump’s future tax cuts. They will end up better off.
American consumers are going to be left paying the tariffs.
DONALD TRUMP: Let them eat shit.
ELON MUSK: Are you my kid?
this is a club of abusers.
Bessent knows he is speaking gibberish.
His face says: ‘Please make this stop’
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