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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:02pm On Apr 09, 2025
Trump is milking liberation day fir all it's worth . Over 70 countries have called scheduling for negotiations

Bessent notes at the request of President Trump, all administration officials were to pull back from commentary following the “liberation day” tariff announcement. The objective was to give all nations’ time to absorb the impact while reducing the reverberation noise.

After a few days, President Trump then began to assess the inbound communication from various country leaders and their request for renegotiation. The priority schedule permits the honest trade allies to come first in the que to the office of U.S. Trade Representative Jamison Greer, as approved by President Trump.

The first two countries to get listened to are.
Japan
Korea

Not China , .not the EU.
The agreements reached between Japan and Korea will set the baseline for any further dealsxeith other countries
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:53am On Apr 09, 2025
feedthenation:
---China exports to US has been reduced from 21.6% to 13.4%, the impact of this tariff is much smaller than Felon 47 first term---It has been able to diversify trade to every corner of the world and today it's the largest trading partner to 160 countries---By the way the China exports to US account for only 2% of China 19 trillions economy. Of course the 104% tariff will be felt---

---How do Felon 47 and his MAGAdiots expect China to make a call and negotiate a trade deal---
Can't edit. Don't forget that countries as Vietnam, Thailand, Sri Lanka , Mexico and Canada have low tariffs to US market China has been exporting through these countries to America market, the 16% figure could be much much higher.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:47am On Apr 09, 2025
feedthenation:
---China exports to US has been reduced from 21.6% to 13.4%, the impact of this tariff is much smaller than Felon 47 first term---It has been able to diversify trade to every corner of the world and today it's the largest trading partner to 160 countries---By the way the China exports to US account for only 2% of China 19 trillions economy. Of course the 104% tariff will be felt---

---How do Felon 47 and his MAGAdiots expect China to make a call and negotiate a trade deal---
That's roughly 15% of their global exports are to America. That's a huge chunk of money knowing that they sell high end stuff to the west. And crap to Africa.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:42am On Apr 09, 2025
budaatum:
Those millionaires they say we lost are mostly what is called non-doms.

Non-doms only pay UK tax on the money they earn in the UK. They do not have to pay tax to the UK government on money made elsewhere in the world (unless they pay that money into a UK bank account). And smarty, they don't earn or invest in UK, so create no jobs but benefit from our societal structure.

Basically tax dodgers. Good riddance.
From your link
The former chancellor said getting rid of the non-dom rules would raise £2.7bn a year by 2028-29.

Which was to be sent to Zelensky.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
feedthenation:
---Is wall street overvalued?--- of course it is justified to you---considering Felon 47’s tariff decisions have erased $6 trillion in market value---if the same had occurred under Biden or Kamala---the narrative from you would be entirely different---
Tesla is overvalued. And very many other stocks ,a correction is needed.
Look at Theranos. Flagship product was a portable blood test machine using a few drops that could test for hundreds of different diseases and whatever .Not a single machine worked - they used to send specimens to other well equiped labs.Was worth $9B at one time ,with shareholders ranging from George Schultz ,Rupert Murdoch and Betsy Davos. Fanciful device that beat all science. When I first saw her in YouTube before the fall ,I suspected she was a scammer.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
The people's president. If he was for billionaires, he would not crater the stock market. I believe the wall street is overvalued, Tesla is not worth more than GM or Toyota. Amazon makes too much money from China.
A stock market correction was badly overdue.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:05am On Apr 09, 2025
feedthenation:
---Started with your alternative news about covid---Kash Patel and Dan Bongino have got all the powers to start FBI full-scale investigation to make you happy---
I gather you would not want to know why Faucci got a presidential pardon. Personally I would want to know
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:03am On Apr 09, 2025
GloriousGbola:
this is actually why some people are cheering on trump as he scatters the US . because US citizens have always been isolated from the realities american policies cause in other countries

Gadaffi is dead and now his stockpile of arms are in the hands of herdsmen . herdsmen have always been a menace, right from my days in secondary school, but now they are an outright threat. likely some of those arms get to boko haram as well. we are all feeling it one way or another in west afrcica in general and nigeria n particular

more important is this team is a complete gang of cosplayers with no idea what they are doing. the long term result of ousting saddam was isis. who knows what the long term result of destabilizing iran would be?

unfortunately these guys see it all as a movie where the story ends when the credits roll and the 'hero' rides off into the sunset. see also rambo 3 and the brave mujadeen


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDiwhtcVrbw
Boko Haram has Obama to thank for.
I believe he thought he would make a difference to peace and good governance to Libya. Only that he didn't know that North Africa states can't live in a democracy, they need a benevolent dictator. At the same time Clinton buddies were after Gadaffi gold and Libya sovereign wealth fund
Thanks Obama . For the mess in Libya.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:58am On Apr 09, 2025
cococandy:
And you have mashed potatoes where your brain was meant to be 🥰🥰.

Find your manners and try again okay?
OK But don't post lies. Okay?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:38am On Apr 09, 2025
I've read before that the CCP released COVID during the World Military Games in China before the pandemic or first cases were ever reported.
A bombshell report in 2022 was concealed by the Biden admin in order to preserve Faucci theories

The number of United States athletes and staff who attended the 2019 World Military
Games and became ill with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-like symptoms during or
shortly after their return to the United States.


Read the report by US military here (pdf).

https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2019-World-Military-Games-Report-1.pdf

Faucci is modern day Dr Death and all his accomplishments should be wiped off history books
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:08am On Apr 09, 2025
He admits he wanted to kill Kavanaugh over Roe v Wade ruling. Rhetoric from democrats and the liberal left media definitely had something to do with his plans.
That criminal Mangione , you should've seen the look on his face when the prosecution said it would be asking for a death penalty.
The lies and hate from the left is a sure recipe for disaster.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:01am On Apr 09, 2025
cococandy:
Maybe because investigating it will reveal truths that will hurt Trump very badly? You guys get so close to realization and somehow miss it. It’s amazing to behold.

Just like you, I would love some investigations too. Wonder what’s stopping Kash from jumping on it. Hmm. 🤔
You really have a bad attitude. Trump is out to wreck the economy, enrich the billionires, deport illegals.
I have seen that he wants to tariff pharma imports. Productuon cost for a single dose was of covax Pfizer was $1.18 but govts the largest buyers were buying at $20 plus Health costs are largely the wages and research, many drugs would just cost pennies . He also wants to ban pharma advertising which sort of hooks people while buying off the media to never report negatively.

Those are the actions of a fascist.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:35am On Apr 09, 2025
GloriousGbola:
this is a link inside the articel

https://nypost.com/2024/06/05/business/democratic-senator-blasts-5b-program-as-failure-after-only-7-ev-charging-stations-open-in-3-years/



i suspect this is a big oil article

and it is obviously tangential

as i write this, my company has installed 10 charging stations in lagos . we are installing two more this week

public charging station are either ac or dc. dc are the fast charging ones . a fast charger dc is rated from 60kw to 120kw to 300kw . these can charge your vehicle in 30 minutes

installing the charger is only one part of the equation. the other part of the equation is where do you get the power from? and who pays for it?

we met with a guy who wanted to deploy 3 chargers for a bus terminal we did the maths and told him he would need a transformer to power them properly . who then pays for the power? so all those issues have to be addressed since this is public infrastructure . that is the part the article is skimming over

the other part you are missing is this is actually how you grow industries

obama took two chances in his admin - solynara and tesla. solynara failed, but without the loan, tesla would have failed as well and that is actually how governments create industries and jobs - not by tariffs
On a side note about car charging and EV . I'm always critical of Green New deal with regards to reliability if renewable sources Activists have made it impossible to build nuclear power stations in the West, hydros are huge undertakings on vast amounts if land, they banning coal Literally Carbon Dioxide has been sentenced to death.

Back to your charging station .EV need huge batteries, Teslas have some upto 100KW Take an average American with AC, heating and every other fancy thing. Spends average 30KW a day computed annually. One Tesla or 100KW car needs more energy than 3 houses . It's ironic to use diesel to charge EVs and for govt to waste money virtue signalling.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:13am On Apr 09, 2025
raumdeuter:
You are too dumb to understand anything

Only dumb people believed Biden did anything
Those charging stations Too many conditions before you get a contract to build one . Firm must have DEI, such kind of liberal nonsense.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:10am On Apr 09, 2025
raumdeuter:
The bottom line s you cant compete fairly with someone using a different standard. Its like you running a race with someone using banned steroids

China doesnt play fair, they manipulate their currency, they pay low wages, they dont care about their workers etc, Its either US meet them in using the same tactics or find other ways to counter them through tariffs

How can more regulations, taxing the rich and strong unions bring manufacturing, those 3 are all anti manufacturing. These are all the things absent in China which is why they are the manufacturing hub of the world
China ain is to dethrone America as the Superpower using every means possible. A developing country by WTO whise length of high speed train tracks is more than the rest of the world combined,2bd largest consumer of oil etc.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:00am On Apr 09, 2025
Android17:
Notice how Kash Patel won't even talk about investigating the first attempt?

I'm losing confidence in him as well.
I'm also losing hope. Pam. Nondi6has been to fox and media interviews 75 times!!
Kash and Bongino I believe will are there because they came out strongly against deep state actors, I believe they will get a few people . Else they lose every goodwill. Hopefully they get some scalp.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:05pm On Apr 08, 2025
bemeruca:
No, it will create jobs.
The manufacturing is in China. If they bring it home and employ 1 person it is still a plus.
Factories shipping back means Ijebos vast rental apartments get highly paid tenants.
(He would rather die than benefit from a Trump policy )
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:55pm On Apr 08, 2025
budaatum:
And if the bold is the reason dump is tanking the economy, then smart. And no, I don't expect him to announce that's his policy, and even expect him to lie if it were.

Unfortunately, Americans wouldn't exactly appreciate the reduction in wages if assets don't drop in value too, and I can't see asset depreciation being good policy anywhere not to talk of in the USA.
Tariffs are so bad mmmh . WH is unable to cope up with the scheduling of world leaders making their pilgrimage to DC
When Netanyahu was talking about zero tarriffs, Trump face was like why you had them before?.
EU Komisar has been talking to China to strategize on how to counter the tariffs
Senate wants tariffsm changes to be ratified by the house, a sure Veto from Trump.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:42pm On Apr 08, 2025
feedthenation:
---Like many others, I’m not satisfied with the influx of cheap or lower-quality products from China that have flooded global markets---however, we cannot overlook the country's vast manufacturing capacity and large labour force---imposing trade tariffs isn’t the right solution to this issue---
If Chinese cannot do without Nigerian market, they should allow us to export to theirs , not make it virtually impossible . They can't do without guacamole.. hint hint
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:07pm On Apr 08, 2025
GloriousGbola:
No you are missing it. As it is I will only buy Samsung, wd, crucial /sk hynix/ Intel/solidigm

The problem is that people will try to sell fakes or used as new.

If you don't know what to look out for you will get messed up. What happens if you get a fake drive from alibaba? What course do you have for resutution?
The price I quoted is almost what you did. I singled out one Disk for the western markets.
We also get the same from them, with stamps etc but obviously of poorer quality.
I have second hard servers in the office bought from ebay UK mostly that I use for lab testing environment. Good quality too good specs at a fraction of the cost of new ones. I actually use them as gateway servers in some sites .
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:01pm On Apr 08, 2025
Ijebos
Harvard Students offered introductory course I'm Mathematics.
Would this be because of DEI or Critical Race Theory?

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/04/08/crimson-slide-harvard-students-offered-high-school-basic-math-course/
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:45pm On Apr 08, 2025
feedthenation:
---Funny how MAGAdiots said they voted for Felon 47 to improve the economy and lower prices---now all of a sudden that doesn't matter---The US economy depends heavily on China---
Trump is fighting my war on Chinco products.
They never cared about Africa because they make shit loads from their higher priced higher quality exports to America and other western nations
There will be serious trade rebalancing. China will get lots of 110V equipment they can't sell to America and can't dump them anywhere..
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:39pm On Apr 08, 2025
raumdeuter:
If these countries make buying from America hard, then America can make buying from them hard too
If these countries cannot purchase American made, then American consumers should be purchasing American goods or not make it so easy to ignore American made goods for foreign ones
What we consume in America can be produced in America even if at higher cost.

You are so flippant about the loss of jobs because it doesn't affect you, There are people whose jobs are being shipped out daily because it will always be cheaper abroad
Main point Before companies shipped manufacturing abroad, they was making them in America. An example. Texas Instrument calculators were all the rave before Casios dominated..
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:31pm On Apr 08, 2025
GloriousGbola:
Try again

500gb nvme is 50k
1tb nvme is 115k
2tb is 180k

My partner insisted on a 1tb drive. I told him you don't need 1tb for a system drive, but his system has only one drive so 1 tb it is. I may get a second drive for hie3 wwan slot, a 2242 if I can be sure of the compatibility.We did get a 512gb microsd card as secondary storage

You see how the words roll off without Google? That is what real coherent experienced it support looks like

Not a pauper pretending to be a successful professional

I still bought two nvmes for those landfill pcs last weekend

Crucial and western digital

Pro tip always use crystal disk info to confirm the true state of any drive you buy

Most Nigerians unfortunately are actually like Bemuruca dubious, duplicituos fraudulent thieves who will try to sell used products as new. Then again some are also, like bemuwanker posers who don't even know that what they are selling is used or how that matters.

Poverty has so bleeped your mind that your mix financial prudence with being broke.
Always check this if you want a good product.

Certifications: CE, UL, FCC

I promise to be nice to you if you stop parroting Ijebos sloppy sleuth work smiley smiley
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:27pm On Apr 08, 2025
feedthenation:
---Felon47 as a businessman had six of his businesses bankrupted / failed---he is doing everything by using the same formula to disrupt the US economy which has been steady in the past months---
6 out of how many. I know in 2017 he handed around 500 companies to his son.
6/500 .That's a terrible businessman.

NB: you keep repeating this
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:52pm On Apr 08, 2025
bemeruca:
Let's see what China will do 🇨🇳😂🤣
Just seen that China refused to remove the 34% tariff on American goods and Trump has slapped a 104% tariff effective immediately.
Gloriousgbola. Alibaba has this.

WD Blue SN570 NVMe SSD, 2TB
Description: This powerful internal drive delivers up to 5X the speed of traditional SATA SSDs, making it ideal for enhancing performance.
Certifications: CE, UL, FCC
Cost €116


In a few weeks the price will have cratered like those stock exchange indexes
Basically Trump is telling China ,we can do without you.The pill right noway be bitter to swallow ,but relief is on sight.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:26pm On Apr 08, 2025
Android17:
Zelensky represents the greedy and evil globalists who got used to stealing and enjoying taxpayer's money. That's the part people forget - the financial aid from the US is entirely money pried off the hands of the American taxpayers.

That money was being recirculated and redistributed to the globalists, NGOs, the DNC, personal coffers of Biden, Kamala etc as well as the bloodthirsty congressmen and women from both houses including but not limited to Lindsey Graham, Chris Murphy, Mark Kelly etc.

So Zelensky trying to end Trump is akin to an assassin that pulled the trigger. He was only doing what he was instructed to do. Trump signified the end of the largesse and like SLS said, when you fight corruption, it will fight you back.
Just seen a post that Ryan Routh the guy who attempted to kill Trump at the golf club had been speaking to a contact about buying a stinger missile from Ukraine. Contact was not a Fed guy.

NEW: The DOJ alleged in a late-Monday motion that would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh ATTEMPTED TO BUY A ROCKET LAUNCHER FROM A UKRAINIAN ASSOCIATE weeks before his Sept. 15 attempt.

"I need equipment so that Trump cannot get elected," Routh allegedly told his Ukrainian associate.

The DOJ also claimed that Routh was in touch with a Mexican human trafficker about smuggling Afghans into the U.S.-- and later about escaping the country after he killed Trump--and that he used stolen license plates and fake names such as “John White” and “Brian Wilson.”

STORY BELOW


https://x.com/HeadlineUSA/status/1909465569763475736

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:45pm On Apr 08, 2025
Android17:
Zelensky represents the greedy and evil globalists who got used to stealing and enjoying taxpayer's money. That's the part people forget - the financial aid from the US is entirely money pried off the hands of the American taxpayers.

That money was being recirculated and redistributed to the globalists, NGOs, the DNC, personal coffers of Biden, Kamala etc as well as the bloodthirsty congressmen and women from both houses including but not limited to Lindsey Graham, Chris Murphy, Mark Kelly etc.

So Zelensky trying to end Trump is akin to an assassin that pulled the trigger. He was only doing what he was instructed to do. Trump signified the end of the largesse and like SLS said, when you fight corruption, it will fight you back.
Zelensky didn't come forward and say that Burisma was bribing Bidens before the sham impeachment.. Trump of course will never forgive him for that, but right now Trump will tolerate him because he wants to end the war. I saw somewhere that other Burisma directors were CIA,ie the Americans on the board .
Zelensky is laundering money back to dark money groups , he speaks with a lot of entitlement as if he knows something.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:11pm On Apr 08, 2025
IjeBos:
How many times have you been wrong this week alone?
Sharrup and own your wrongness.

He said sensible conversations about the US with people who have never stepped foot in the US. huh grin
You should consider why the only people you find sensible are people who've never been to the US or have to lie about living in the US.

Sensible conversations. Lol.
Why don't you just sit at the corner and suck your thumb ?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:09pm On Apr 08, 2025
raumdeuter:
These are links showing protests even before Trump became president, days after he won the presidential election in 2016 before any of his policies affected anyone

https://6abc.com/anti-trump-protest-donald-trump-philadelphia-protesters/1605348/

https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37946231

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/us/trump-election-protests.html
Madonna . 2017 inaugration day would bomb the WH if she had a bomb. Hollywood stars are also grassroot organizers with their rhetoric

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