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Confidence in the market has been achieved over years with rules and regulations if a President has created a situation where insider trading can take place without consequences the market WILL react, lack of confidence in the systems will create massive uncertainty and this will be reflected.

Last years total US trade deficit was $918b, so Trump tanked the stock market by more than $5trillion to try and close a gap of $900b ……. The fart of a deal

Liz Truss had the decency to resign when she fucked up the UK economy

For a full country by country list of the actual tariff rates countries charge the US versus Trumps made up rates see this review by the Cato Institute. www.cato.org/blog/more-ab...

US total imports per annum $2.3t, US stock market drop in 1 day $2t ……. The Art of the deal

The actions of the last few days confirms my previous opinion that America is no longer the ‘good guy’. The rest of the world have just got to get used to that and treat the US as such.

I am going to quote Pete whenever I hear DEI hatred

Parody Australian spokesperson: ‘Australia has a tremendous tourist deficit with the US we send over 1m tourists there each year they send only 600000 here. We cannot keep subsidising their hospitality industry, it’s very nasty and unfair. We are going to have to impose bigly tourist tariffs’

About sums it up

Have to admit that I would react like that

The irony, everyone accepting that blowing up a building full of civilians is okay cause a supposed bad guys girlfriend lives there BUT no one questioning that those saying that this guy was bad are the same guys who have lied (repeatedly) about the text messages

No one think it strange the before President Musk conservatives had 100’s of conspiracies around electric cars, now they all encouraging the cult to buy Tesla

I keep getting messages saying ‘sell your Tesla’ (I have owned since 2017), my question is to who? If no one should own a Tesla then who should I sell it to? Someone needs to think thru the outputs before these messages are put out there.

Absolute idiot

Perhaps we should be listening to this guy?

I don't know who this guy is but he's absolute right.

Not many politicians have gone this far, good on Western Australian Premier www.afr.com/politics/fed...

Over the next 4 years we are going to see the Europe, Japan, South Korea (perhaps others) forces to develop nuclear weapons as a deterrent. They cannot rely on US for the umbrella deterrence.

Always remember Trump only got 49.7% of the popular vote Zelenskyy got 73.2%

💙 if you stand with UKRAINE? 🇺🇦

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

This is what happens in Australia if you behave like Musk www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

How can Americans just stand by when your President: 1. Sides with Russia over its Ukraine invasion 2. Calls Ukraine leader a dictator but not Putin 3. Is in the process of publicly blackmailing Ukraine 4. Is attempting to force Ukraine into a war time election so that he, Musk & Putin can rig

The similarities are uncanny

This news item seems to be gaining traction, not sure if it’s true but it would sure explain a lot

KKKetamine is a hell of a drug

Dinner conversation at Mar-a-Lago. Don Jnr: but Dad you put Bobby into HHS, you put drunken Pete in charge of a lot, you gave Elon like everything, why can’t I just run DEA?