This is true: The Trump administration said it has imposed a 10% tariff on the British Indian Ocean Territory, whose only inhabitants are the U.S. and U.K. service members at the military base on Diego Garcia.
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Mike Masnick
Incredibly, this appears to be true. We tariffed our own (jointly operated with the UK) military base.
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#25thAmendment
I watched the movies in the 80s.
Why didn't more senators?
But the formula really seems to be from a large language model
(It has to be a flat charge, since it’s technically all free. But it all has value, and the #elves add much to it.)
'silverfish, house flies, clothes moths, sheep, cockroaches and a rat'
Maybe we (Australia) exported them - that's all I can think of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault
surely there are a few sane #Republicans in Congress...
I hope not.
https://bsky.app/profile/shannonrwatts.bsky.social/post/3lluhqy5iek2h
And not checking anything.
Norfolk Island = Australia
They’re dumb as dog 💩
However they don’t know how to critically think! Slapping tariffs on US military bases & deserted islands in the Indian Ocean show how stupid they are!
I was half expecting him to impose sanctions on the Ottoman Empire or Upper Slobbovia.
😅
I wish I were joking, but given who is running the place, that feels like the simplest explanation for all these bizarre inclusions.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000659374716
Preemptive retaliatory tariffs, just in case.
Very clever.
I dunno what happens to the jets trump staged there for his Iran war
In Canada Red are the good guys. I have no idea why it’s different. “Liberal leaning” Conservatives are called Red Tories not that long ago.
It's like he can't decide what method is more effective to kill #America.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/02/middleeast/us-b2-bombers-diego-garcia-intl-hnk-ml
The exhaustive, unfiltered list of territories, the use of the 10% minimum, the simplistic and wrong use of trade ratio.
Do you smell it?
Oh wait this is the worlds economy your fucking with, it’s going to be scrutinized, we will find out how lazy and dumb this all is.
He is street smart, like a con man.
What's the BIOT tariff on that?
LOL these mudwit, rat fink weasles.
For sure tho, Diego’s only export to the US is sea stories about how much Diego sucks. Value: $0
INCOMPETENCE!
So we got uninhabited islands and our own military bases on the list, and a new metric "reciprocal tariffs" that nobody's ever heard of before and that's doesn't add up.
Because it's OUR OCEAN!
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgpe7721qwo