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Paul Merton, "One of the plans is to have Vance run for President. He wins, and he makes Trump his Vice President. Then Vance resigns. And Trump takes over" Ian Hislop, "Which is exactly the method used by Putin to stay in" "Not that I'm saying Trump copies, admires, and loves Putin"

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And entirely self-inflicted!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

The USA is so fucked.

submitted 2 hours ago • 295 comments

I’ve messed this up. Please help.

submitted 7 hours ago • 189 comments

BOOM!! Bluesky now has more than 34 MILLION users! Share the good news!! 💙 🦋 bsky-users.theo.io

submitted 10 hours ago • 307 comments

UK: Brexit is the biggest act of economic self harm any country will ever perform USA: Hold my beer...

submitted 9 hours ago • 255 comments

I vacilate hourly between, "Thank god they're terrible at this" and "for all our sakes I wish they were better at this."

submitted 6 hours ago • 18 comments

It looks as though Trump saw us shoot ourselves in the foot with Brexit and thought "We should do that, but with a much bigger gun and in both feet"

submitted 15 hours ago • 13 comments

Senator Angus King: "I have to point out, Mr. Chairman, in the hour that we've been sitting here, investors in the United States stock market have lost two and a half trillion dollars."

submitted 1 day ago • 286 comments

The dismissal of Timothy Haugh came just hours after the US president sacked a number of senior National Security Council officials following claims of disloyalty by a far-right activist. www.ft.com/content/0e4d...

submitted 16 hours ago • 57 comments

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"Worried about privacy at the US border? A volunteer IT tutor advises travellers to wipe devices – or use a burner phone – to avoid scrutiny"

submitted 15 hours ago • 68 comments

Also, it's got nothing to do with anything our government has done. It's a mathematical consequence of the mad formula they're using as we have a trade deficit. Other countries that sucked up (like Japan or Vietnam) got screwed by the formula.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

It's got zero to do with negotiation or indeed with any sense of logic. The tariff rates are the product of minds which are functionally insane, doing fantasy mathematics at scale. We're all lost in a hall of mirrors pretending that a compass will help us find our way out.

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

Would seem extremely unwise to make a trade deal with a man who puts tariffs on an island inhabited only by penguins, no tariffs on Russia and ruinously high tariffs on some of the poorest countries in the world. Trump is a wildly mad and vindictive autocrat. Trying to please him is treacherous.

submitted 15 hours ago • 29 comments

Chronic normality bias: he must have a cunning plan, it can’t be as stupid as it looks

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Left: Jonathan Reynolds, "We can position the UK between the US and the EU, if you want to do business anywhere in the world you can come to the UK" Right: Ursula von der Leyen, "Europe has everything we need to make it through the storm, if you take on one of us, you take on all of us"

submitted 1 day ago • 90 comments

Don't look at your pension, whatever you do.

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

Sen. Mark Warner on the disturbing, unexplained firing of the NSA chief on Thursday

submitted 18 hours ago • 62 comments

More than 1m cars sold in UK each year too big to fit typical parking space

submitted 17 hours ago • 39 comments

Tariffs were supposed to be better for the USA than any other major economy They have been worse for the USA than for any other major economy.

submitted 23 hours ago • 11 comments

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

submitted 1 day ago • 171 comments

Happy Liberation Day to all who celebrate the release of money from your retirement accounts into thin air.

submitted 23 hours ago • 331 comments

"I think it’s going very well. We’ve never seen anything like it. The markets are going to boom. The stock is going to boom. The country is going to boom." Donald Trump today, after his tariffs knocked $2.5 trillion off the value of the US stock market.

submitted 21 hours ago • 21 comments

this is gob-smacking: www.ft.com/content/e025...

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

It’s as if he’s a Russian asset, trying to destroy America from within.

submitted 1 day ago • 592 comments

🔥 🔥 🔥 www.ft.com/content/47c2...

submitted 1 day ago • 145 comments

In a dystopian movie, JD Vance would be the toady loyalist who does whatever the leader wants, only to be shut out of the escape helicopter by the leader himself when the regime falls and beaten to death by the mob

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Yes, Trump's tariffs will hurt US consumers in the short term, but, you should focus on the long term, where it will also hurt them.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Over $2 trillion has been erased from the stock market so far today.

submitted 1 day ago • 539 comments

Liberation Day has now liberated the US economy of $2 trillion. That's $5,882 for every man, woman and child in America.

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

The EU has a gigantic stick in its possible trade retaliation arsenal. But it's so big, they may never dare to use it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

I see Trump has targeted the highest % tariffs on the biggest dangers Falkland Islands: 41% Laos: 48% Lesotho: 49% Saint Pierre and Miquelon: 50% Russia: No new tariffs

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

US stock market just closed. Carnage.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Dow drops 1,500 as US stocks lead worldwide sell-off after Trump’s tariffs ignite a COVID-like shock Who would have guessed apnews.com/article/stoc...

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Hot tip: Everyone loses.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Redate this to today and it becomes a stunning moment of self-realization we will never actually experience in this space-time continuum

submitted 1 day ago • 221 comments

BREAKING: Israel has been bombing Syria again because Hamas tunnels, um, human shields, um, I've no idea what excuse we're using this time actually. Israel just really wanted to launch some bombs because that is what Israel does x

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

In my conversation with Chancellor Scholz this morning, we agreed to strengthen the diverse trade relationship between Canada and Germany. As we face the crisis caused by President Trump’s tariffs, reliable trade partners are more important than ever.

submitted 1 day ago • 161 comments

He’s virtually psychotic.

submitted 1 day ago • 4799 comments

Presidents shouldn’t have the power to pardon anyone. It’s all so corrupt.

submitted 1 day ago • 505 comments

$2.2trillion dollars were wiped off international stock markets today. Trump is making Liz Truss look like a fiscal genius.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

We tried mass tariffs in 1828, and it crashed the economy. We tried again in 1930, and it crashed the economy. Third time’s the charm, I guess.

submitted 1 day ago • 1532 comments

Ace businessman Donald Trump has knocked $1.5 trillion off the value of Wall St today. If you can't imagine losing $1.5 trillion, just imagine losing $1 every second for 31,709 years.

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The markets when they realise the people running the US economy think an equation with two variables is a good methodology for starting a thirty-front global trade war through a half-trillion dollar tax increase:

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In a "Fact Sheet" published alongside his tariffs, Donald Trump made clear that Britain would have to accept hormone-raddled beef and chlorine-washed chicken as part of a deal to remove his punitive tariffs. Starmer better not roll over and surrender! www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments