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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:50am On Apr 03, 2025
cococandy:
I guess it only takes a near death experience for a MAGAt to learn. We are thankful Mike Pence’s eyes are open now but too little too damn late.
If the base tariffs are bad why are countries rushing to slash import tariffs to US products.

Switzerland. To slash 99%
Israel To eliminate most
Vietnam Same

Others are threatening counter measures while demanding the tariffs be cancelled.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:35am On Apr 03, 2025
AmazonTopaz:
The Tariff rates are made up and they slammed Tariffs on Heard and McDonald's Island which has no human habitation and is only inhabited by Penguins. grin

This administration is filled with incompetent Buffons who cannot make basic research.

A cesspool. Yuck.🤢🤮
The same X thread debunks the theory it's peddling.
How do you people survive carrying that much hate inside you. Never having anything to look forward to.
You'll be looking 60 by the time you hit 35. Get your children quickly before you get to that age.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:26am On Apr 03, 2025
IjeBos:
I can't figure out if you're playing stupid or you just really are.
I generally don't watch news, I do do a ton of reading.

The simple quesiton is, did Musk actually find the fraud, waste and cost savings they actually said they did?
And DOGE's site only tells us what they "claim" they found.
I'm personally not going to spend hours and days going through each claimed savings.
But the NYTimes and NPR did.
And they both wrote good investigative pieces detailing all the contracts Musk said he saved money by cutting.
Both pieces found a lot of what Musk claimed were lies or distortions.
They laid out the claim from their website, found the contract and actually showed whether it had been cancelled, was already cancelled or didn't add up to the savings Musk said.

If you aren't a paid troll which you may be, at some point in life you are going to have to learn to consume information where you are being skeptical about the sources.
Your political bias makes you embrace lies while shutting out good sources of information.
You do a ton of reading?
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Yet you voted for Kamala Harris?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:20am On Apr 03, 2025
GloriousGbola:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/politics/maryland-father-mistakenly-deported-el-salvador-prison/index.html

A simple Google search is all that is required

It is fortunate you aren't actually in the US. Because unlike these victims there are so many legitimate things to Deport a slimy scumbag like you to an unregulated prison for
From fraud to child abuse to being an all round waste of space cheesy.

No one would be crying for you - because you would be fully deserving of any misery meted our to you.

I mean - the only place where your absence would be even noticed is here - no more beta cuck clown sucking on my dick every other moment tongue

There but for the grace of God goes you - if you were actually in the states and not a clown cos playing at being a network engineer with a range rover cheesy cheesy

A dunce quoting another dunce quoting an easily discredited rag for dunes.

How soon before you sunken place house niggers start giving us quotes from stormfront? cheesy cheesy
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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
bemeruca:
A FULL LIST OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S "RECIPROCAL TARIFFS" HAS BEEN Announced:

1. Cambodia - 49%
2. Laos - 48%
3. Madagascar - 47%
4. Vietnam - 46%
5. Myanmar (Burma) - 44%
6. Sri Lanka - 44%
7. Bangladesh - 37%
8. Serbia - 37%
9. Botswana - 37%
10. Thailand - 36%
11. China - 34%
12. Taiwan - 32%
13. Indonesia - 32%
14. Switzerland - 31%
15. South Africa - 30%
16. Pakistan - 29%
17. Tunisia - 28%
18. Kazakhstan - 27%
19. India - 26%
20. South Korea - 25%
21. Japan - 24%
22. Malaysia - 24%
23. Côte d'Ivoire - 21%
24. European Union - 20%
25. Jordan - 20%
26. Nicaragua - 18%
27. Philippines - 17%
28. Israel - 17%
29. Norway - 15%
30. Turkey - 10%
31. Peru - 10%
32. Costa Rica - 10%
33. Dominican Republic - 10%
34. United Arab Emirates - 10%
35. New Zealand - 10%
36. Argentina - 10%
37. Ecuador - 10%
38. Guatemala - 10%
39. Honduras - 10%
40. Egypt - 10%
41. Saudi Arabia - 10%
42. El Salvador - 10%
43. Morocco - 10%
44. Trinidad and Tobago - 10%
45. Brazil - 10%
46. Singapore - 10%
47. Chile - 10%
48. Australia - 10%
49. Colombia - 10%
50. United Kingdom - 10%


Canada already folded
Mexico too. Israel is dropping tariffs also.
He is trashing WTO .Some DC based economist called it a disaster. He said the tariffs will be challenged in court
Trump has economic advisers this is a well thought out matter.
If they can't sell to Americans, some big companies in Europe like big pharma will take a huge hit.
Glad he didn't touch AGOA for now
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:56pm On Apr 02, 2025
Bemeruca, here is more details about the Maryland Father who was sent to the El Salvador dungeons as a result of an administrative error.
Story originated from .... The Atlantic.

https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/02/media-lie-about-deported-maryland-fathers-legal-status-downplay-his-gang-ties/

Guy was confirmed by judge a MS-13 member and ordered deported initially, had been cited for traffic violations, and on appeal most likely lied to immigration judge who gave him a new lease
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:48pm On Apr 02, 2025
FBI confirmed to Twitter that the Hunter laptop was real. Immediately they placed a gag order .Refused to investigate or prosecute Hunter, also never said anything during shampeachment 1.

In redacted chats released to House Committee, internal FBI chats ...

https://x.com/C__Herridge/status/1907097122517737598

In the chat, the FBI officials showed awareness that the laptop may have contained evidence of criminal activity.

Asked Chan, “actually what kind of case is the laptop thing? corruption? campaign financing?”

Another FBI employee responds, “CLOSE HOLD —” after which the response is redacted.

To which Chan responds, “oh crap” appearing to underscore the serious nature of the probe, which included felony tax charges. Chan adds, “ok. It ends here”.


Methinks it was CP.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:43pm On Apr 02, 2025
cococandy:
this same DOGE? “
Q: "How can we make sure that all the statements that you said were correct so we can trust what you say?" Elon Musk: "Some of the things that I say will be incorrect and should be corrected.

Yep I’m getting my information from them alright. And so far they’ve quietly withdrawn many of their claims that they made so much noise about. Rather than coming out publicly to admit they were wrong, they quietly deleted their claims but still let you run around with the propaganda because it serves their political purpose.

correct and I want it spent on public services for Americans not for financing Elon to trillionaire status.


So do audits. But here we are.

Sounds like you guys pick and choose when to be reasonable. This is such a sensible comment I would’ve expected you to apply same knowledge all around. Not just when it suits you.

Any audit worth its weight takes time and is done by professionals with experience in the field. Not a random billionaire and his lapdog crew of loyal adolescents.

huh
You are quoting fact checkers with an axe to grind You have not checked with the website.
Elon said,if we make a mistake,kindly point it out and we shall correct it

An audit didn't have to take time with data tools available.
Give a data scientist the databases,within a few hours he/she can extract all details and visually map them out .Which is what the DOGE team did within a weekend at USAID.

For instance DOGE removed 6 million entries on Social Security if person's aged 120 years,who had been marked active. Yet the excuse was the system doesn't pay if you are 115. Why have over those aged over 120 in the system then?

As I suggested earlier there will be indictments.
DOGE is saving the federal govt $4B a day If you doubt it ,they are on X ,FB etc .
(I can also give you Trump's number, he calls me ).
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
IjeBos:
This has to be comedy at this point.
You're a nut.
What you mean You go to MSNBC to get news about DOGE which has its own website.
Get it from the horse's mouth , MSNBC is crap fake news that lies 24/7 on everything Trump .
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:31pm On Apr 02, 2025
[quote author=Maeve7 post=134820749]grin[/quote
Fake news.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:23pm On Apr 02, 2025
cococandy:
Musk exposed fraud yet not one “criminal” credibly charged to court for so called fraud. Took away people’s livelihoods and exposed Americans to risks previously handled by the agencies he cut. Same agencies that coincidentally investigated him in the past. Posterity will not be kind to him.
Kindly get your information from http://doge.gov
Stop relying on biased media.Its your tax dollars,yea.
Again investigations, arraignment and trial takes over a year in most cases.
I also believe Obama, Biden and Clinton who are getting 100% of the anti Trump cars will just throw them out at this juncture.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:18pm On Apr 02, 2025
happney65:
President Donald Trump said he doesn’t care if automakers hike prices because of his tariffs. In fact, he encouraged them to.

News.

He be like say Trump is on a mission to purposely destroy America from within. grin
Happney65, here is more context of what Trump said if tariffs cause car prices to go up


Speaking to NBC News on March 29, Trump, 78, said he did not share those concerns. In fact, he welcomed the increased prices.

“No, I couldn’t care less, because if the prices on foreign cars go up, they’re going to buy American cars," he told the outlet, reiterating the sentiment multiple times during a phone call.

"We have plenty" ,he said.
Trump was asked what message he had for CEOs in the auto industry and whether he warned them against passing the cost of tariffs off to their buyers.

“The message is congratulations, if you make your car in the United States, you’re going to make a lot of money. If you don’t, you’re going to have to probably come to the United States, because if you make your car in the United States, there is no tariff," he replied.


Long and short, in his America first agenda that won him the Presidency, he welcomes the idea of people buying American cars , or manufacturers setting up plants there.
If that don't happen if means more revenue raised to the feds.

I don't suppose that objective is evil .
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:03pm On Apr 02, 2025
raumdeuter:
Elon Musk plans to step down from his cost-cutting role in the Trump administration at the end of May after reducing the US deficit by $1 trillion, the tech billionaire said on Thursday, according to The Fox News. Musk, 54, expressed confidence in getting close to that goal, which would halve the annual federal deficit, in just 130 days — saying his team was averaging “$4 billion a day, every day, seven days a week.”
Liberals.
_There is no evidence DOGE has cut any expenditures
_ Elon Musk lied about a contract amount he claimed was terminated
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:03pm On Apr 02, 2025
Trump Executive order on voting challenged by Marc Elias, the former Perkins Coie under whose docket the Steele Dossier was born. Later his lawfirm sued all over in 2020 to have nationwide mail in ballots, counting ballots received days after election day and every other law democrats pushed through to have 2020 elections favour Joe Biden.

Other plaintiffs
DNC, Democratic Governors Association, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee,
Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries.

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/dnc-schumer-jeffries-sue-trump-election-integrity-executive-order.pdf

The Executive Order seeks to impose radical changes on how Americans register to vote, cast a ballot, and participate in our democracy—all of which threaten to disenfranchise lawful voters and none of which is legal,”
Quote
The executive order says the person must have “a State or local official to record on the form the type of document that the applicant presented as documentary proof of United States citizenship, including the date of the document’s issuance, the date of the document’s expiration (if any), the office that issued the document, and any unique identification number associated with the document as required by the criteria in 52 U.S.C. 21083(a)(5)(A), while taking appropriate measures to ensure information security.”

The Democrats described the list of acceptable items for proof as too narrow because too many do not have them

(A) a United States passport;

(B) an identification document compliant with the requirements of the REAL ID Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-13, Div. B) that indicates the applicant is a citizen of the United States;

(C) an official military identification card that indicates the applicant is a citizen of the United States; or

(D) a valid Federal or State government-issued photo identification if such identification indicates that the applicant is a United States citizen or if such identification is otherwise accompanied by proof of United States citizenship
Democrats believe minorities and immigrants are too stupid to obtain a driver’s license or an ID card.
They are the real white supremacists.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:44pm On Apr 02, 2025
Maeve7:
In other words, you can only "think” with the primitive part of your brain.
Oh yes.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:08pm On Apr 02, 2025
Maeve7:
All that matters is the end result. cheesy And they have had voter ID since 2011. Sit with it. Think for yourself. Trump’s brain is too old to do the thinking for y’all.
I do my own thinking . I start from the premise that the left is evil , A lot from the left has a tinge of evil lurking.
So yes,I'm my own man.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:05pm On Apr 02, 2025
Got the tweet from a right winger.
Bill doesn't look that bad though. I'm no lawyer ,let me see what white supremacist lawyers have to say.

cococandy:
I guess it won’t sound so dramatic when you say it how it actually is. You have to dramatize and embellish for shock value.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
Maeve7:
They have had voter ID since 2011. cheesy
The margins for two red neck districts in Florida were half.
How you like this map of Wisconsin.
1. Supreme court election
2. Voter ID election

Pretty interesting. Big blue cities in red states imposing their will.
Summary
2020: Trump won approximately 80.6% of Wisconsin counties (58 out of 72).

2024: Trump won approximately 94.4% of Wisconsin counties (68 out of 72).

I will not be surprised ro hear there is a power outage or some shit like that, counting to resume another day.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:12pm On Apr 02, 2025
Maeve7:
There is no way Grumpy Trump won’t hurt Americans by hurting Europeans. They are the biggest trade partners and while the US is importing more in goods, it is exporting more in services. All these countries Trump is trying to bully won’t bow down to him. He can’t fight the entire world and think it will benefit Americans. He can’t even stand up to Putin. grin
Question is.. Both America and EU have tarriffs on imports and exports Are these tariffs evenly balanced, does one side tax the other more?
If so, is that acceptable?
Today Trump is declaring a national holiday,The day taxes go into effect.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:07pm On Apr 02, 2025
More liberal madness.
Ijebos thinks that I think that whites are superior because I deride the white liberal madness 24/7.

Ijebos. If you ever noticed ,I don't use a particular attack vector towards you ,I only doubt your Harvard pedigree.
( I don't think I have conjugated the verbs,adjectives and nouns in this post correctly)

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:02pm On Apr 02, 2025
Maeve7:
Ok. Time for you to get a nap. Greetings from Wisconsin. smiley
Oh yes. I see the Supreme Court has turned blue They will gerrymander, the Republicans will lose two house seats.
.
Democrat Susan Crawford won WI Supreme Court seat 55% to 45%.
And
WI voter ID won 63% to 37%.

Kinda ironic. Also.
Trump won Wisconsin by 51.2% to Kamala 47.8%.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:10pm On Apr 02, 2025
Maeve7:
How do we know the guy is black or Nigerian? We know nothing about him, do we?
I'm one of the loudest critic of liberals and leftists here.
I call liberalism a mental disorder.
Everyday I post articles deriding leftism and wokeness .
Most of the liberals and leftist nutjobs are white..
Therefore I think whites are superior.
What reasoning is that?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:33pm On Apr 02, 2025
cococandy:
Yes one criminal can be a savage. People from 3rd countries are not savages. Because I’m not a savage. I don’t think you are a savage. Neither is anyone on this thread. And I think you know that

So for my sanity I choose to believe that you’re intentionally misunderstanding me.

There’s no way you didn’t understand what I posted. cheesy
Take care ✌🏾
I singled out those who culturally think women who are uncovered are easy meat for them. People from a particular region. I lumped them together because those who are not savages are the loudest protesters when the rot among them are singled out.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:30pm On Apr 02, 2025
Raumdeuter and Bemeruca.

Liberals are depressed because of climate change, and they are not having children.

https://freebeacon.com/culture/great-news-for-humanity-depressed-liberals-are-increasingly-suicidal-due-to-climate-anxiety-study-finds/

Why it's great smiley smiley

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:10pm On Apr 02, 2025
IjeBos:
You can even tell in how he spoke about the white people he says he works with.

He sees those white people as superior and his betters.
Therefore blackness is deficient or lesser.
Therefore he sees himself as deficient or lesser.

The whole thing is quite sad.
A legacy of colonialism.
Nonsense, I work with white people and I know they are racists , they think of themselves as superior be they just bean counters . As against an electrical engineer like me.

I despise Blair and the media . Without their acknowledgement of the havoc the wrought, they sought to prevent police from investigating Pakistanis. Instead they call them Asians. Chinese, Indians , Koreans, Japanese are Asians who were not part of the groomers.

I call out the predominantly white police in UK , yet I think whites are superior?
They was told, look elsewhere. Look for a black person , look for a Jew, a Gypsy, a Slavic, an Aborigine ,a Red indian, etc . Don't make it appear appear solely Pakistanis because that will be a bad image for multiculturalism, diversity and inclusion. And our multicultural experiment will be deemed a failure .

That's why Tommy Robinson is in solitary as I write this.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:35am On Apr 02, 2025
cococandy:
You can be against crime without adopting white supremacist language. I promise you that such derogatory language does not spare you in the eyes of a racist white person. As far the racist ones are concerned you are all savages from the third worlds.


Their own criminals will never be described with words meant to color all of them as the same. They know how to present the criminals as individually responsible for their crimes but here you are adopting language that presents everyone of your kind as responsible for the crimes of the few. It’s by design. Unlearn it
I'll call you a savage if you think a woman who is not fully clothed is inviting rape.
I will not negotiate on that. These guys when in Europe see uncovered women , they insult them and force them to do degrading stuff.
Tony Blair and his globalist media downplay the horrors these young white girls went through. A young girl plied with drugs rapes by more than 10 men, yet you want me to call these people human.
Blair purposely invited Pakistanis to spite the British, in his own words. I'll post it here one day because YouTube deleted it. It's somewhere out there.
The media and Blair promotion of multiculturalism by inviting enemies should be termed a crime.Its that simple.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:38am On Apr 02, 2025
cococandy:
So white people don’t rape?
Also you’re from a third world country. How come you’ve comfortably accepted the label of savage?

The other day you asked me if I were single would I date someone like Ije. You didn’t like my answer and I want to use this your response to explain further to you why guys like you wouldn’t be interesting to self respecting women. Especially in your camp where you believe men are the natural leaders.

A man who has accepted that he’s lesser due to his race cannot evoke feelings of respect from a woman. If I’m looking at you and seeing that you’re submissive to the white man, why would I want to partner with you?
And this is not personal to you but just using this post as an example. This type of rhetoric screams white worship. Bad people can be found in all races. You don’t need to adopt white supremacist language of calling people from 3rd world countries savages. As black person, it indicates that you’ve accepted this as who you are.

Let’s not even go into what led to the designation of 1st-3rd world labels.
Someone who thinks the wombs of white women are a weapon is a savage. Most of Tony Blairs imports were people who went there to take over UK through demographics. What do I mean by wombs. Get married to them, convert them to your religion .
I can post videos of clerics in UK laying out their plans once they are there. Not one. Many videos.
People who came to conquer not assimilate and espouse British values.
People whose greatest desire is to see sharia implemented in UK.

Where you think this guy thought raping white women is not a crime.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/muslim-claims-he-didnt-know-rape-was-illegal-spared-prison-by-uk-court.html

I was saying UK would be better off they had their Jews then those imports by Blair.
Without mentioning names I meant savages from a particular race, religion and home.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:08pm On Apr 01, 2025
IjeBos:
Thought that post was written by Bemeruca.
Don't generally care about nor will call out typos.
But Bemeruca has problems with the fundamentals of English so his are rarely just typos.
Oh okay, Common with nerdy people like him Elon Musk also seems to have a problem communication. If you read his transcript here , he repeats "so" and "like" too much. For example
So the really the thing that actually has the Democrats losing their mind, by far, the real reason for these attacks and sort of the burning of the cars and everything is that we’re going to turn off the payments to illegals.

Because I mean, because that’s not the deal. It’s simply not right. And look at that thing with the Roosevelt Hotel and like the luxury hotels in New York where the Federal Emergency Management Agency funds were being used to house illegals in luxury hotels in New York that the average American can’t afford. And they were given a welcome package and ten thousand dollars debit cards and everything else. Like, it’s super real.

I mean, it’s like a—I think it’s the biggest voter fraud thing in history by far. And moreover, if left unchecked, it would have succeeded. As Antonio mentioned, the time frame for going from asylum to citizen is roughly five years. And so all of the people that came in on that chart that you saw, if machine behind the Kamala Puppet had won, then they changed out the puppet, but it’s the same machine. Then they would have actually legalized all those people, and there would be no swing states.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:17pm On Apr 01, 2025
happney65:
Basi you see that you should go and cover your face in shame. You did not even see anything against Obama unlike the Moroon you support..

grin
I don't hate Obama at all. I loathe him.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:39pm On Apr 01, 2025
IjeBos:
No need for a period there.

You should see if you can find a English for Dummies book.
Doesn't allow me to edit. I make lots of typos ,which I later edit.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:36pm On Apr 01, 2025
budaatum:
Do Lagos. You might understand demographics change due to migration to where the jobs are.
True they happen organically . The UK one was a deliberate attempt by Blair to make UK as diverse as possible by importing especially Pakistanis, for what? Multiculturalism.
Jack Straw, Tony Blair’s first Home Secretary, was worried. ‘Isn’t immigration the sort of issue which can blow up in our face?’ he asked the Prime Minister.

‘Immigration won’t be an issue,’ replied Blair. ‘Immigration is good for Britain.’

All through his three terms of office, the PM never changed his mind. By the time he stepped down, over two million more migrants than the government expected had settled in Britain — but he dismissed any concerns by claiming they were good for the economy.
Anyone against free-flowing immigration was assumed to be a racist Tory, a view underpinned by the BBC’s reluctance to debate the issue and endorsed by Labour’s promotion of multiculturalism.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:28pm On Apr 01, 2025
descarado:
Goodness me. shocked
Ijebos, leave raumdeuter alone.
You will never win war of banters with him.
I come in peace o
He would if he could comprehend what a fool. Raum makes him look.

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