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bemeruca:
Trump is the bad guy for responding to what others are doing to us

Ha, the Trump admin are fxing dumbasses.
These figures are not tariffs other countries are charging us.
To get the "Tariff" number, they divided the country’s trade surplus with the US by its total exports (t_i = [x_i-m_i]/m_i).
Lol.
And then they tried to come up with some fancy looking formula to fool people like Bemeruca.
But if you notice in the denominator of the formula (below) two of the values(which they chose by happenstance (wink)) are .25 and 4 (which effectively cancel each other out [.25*4=1]).
It's like propaganda everyday with everything.

In a statement published Wednesday night to explain its methodology for tariffs that rocked the globe, the United States Trade Representative detailed a formula that divides a country’s trade surplus with the US by its total exports, based on data from the US Census Bureau for 2024. And then that number was divided by two, producing the “discounted” rate.

China, for instance, had a trade surplus of $295 billion with the US last year on total exports of $438 billion — a ratio of 68%. Divided by two according to Trump’s formula, that yielded a tariff rate of 34%. The same calculations roughly produced the rates for other economies like Japan, South Korea and the European Union.
.....
Trump’s formula included two other parameters — price elasticity of import demand and the elasticity of import prices with respect to tariffs. These were set at figures that effectively canceled each other out, together amounting to multiplying by one.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-03/trump-s-reciprocal-tariff-formula-is-all-about-trade-deficits?embedded-checkout=true

LordReed:
He doesn't care cos it is making him money. The tariffs might even make him mkre money since he can just tack on the charges and pass it on to the consumers with additional surcharges.

People who were in the know probably made a ton of money on the announcement itself.

cococandy:
@bold, That should have been concerning for anyone with two spare neurons to rub together.

The concerning this is that when he went after "Big Law", the media barely discussed it.
It should have been a flashing red warning sign everywhere.

If you can't get competent representation because people are scared for their business, you no longer have a functional Judiciary.

cococandy:
Age aside, the core principle of America is that all men are born equal. No? And we don’t have kings. That was the push that made the founding fathers leave Great Britain. To answer to no king and remove religion from the government.

Fast forward 2025 and his imbecilic boot lickers think that this is okay. No one can criticize the king Trump now. It’s now anti-American to do that. We’re in the upside down.

Absolutely.

Freedom of Speech was that the cornerstone of US Democracy. The founders didn't want the Government pushinsing you for your views because they believed diverse views and debate were necessary for Democracy.

But Trump ran over that already. The minute he went after Big Law firms and Universities those firms and Universities acquiesced, it portended terrible things. If these big firms are scared to push back that doesn't say anything good for you and I.

Trump got more devious people around him this time. They had a plan to quelch dissent and instill fear in institutions that could stop him and is executing it. That's the reason he's going after universities and students. The protest and change movements usually begin in Universities. He's trying to bully the Judiciary now after Bullying Congress.

Trump defines what is anti-American, but the whole premise of what he is doing is UnAmerican and antithetical to what the founders envisioned.

cococandy:
Guys do you think Trump feels the markets are going in the right direction since everything is hitting a bright red?
He probably thinks if the stock market is in the red it means they are MAGA. 😮‍💨

Who handed Peter Griffin the nuclear codes?

They probably handed him this chart and he's super happy right now.

Make America Red Again.

cococandy:
short term pains for long term pains

Lol.
Nice, almost missed it..

The problem with the US these days is that we don't have real discussions about anything anymore and so people don't understand them.
Just soundbites and tweets.

You can't eat all the ice cream you want and lose weight.
It's not possible.
You can't produce the products people would get on Temu/Wish/Aliexpress/Walmart in the US without reducing wages or increasing prices.
People have to be more than comfortable paying more for these goods or cutting wages to produces these goods.

I hope this picks up as the day goes on.
But wow.

cococandy:
So much for being “Free speech absolutists”. Only heavily dense people like MAGA couldn’t that see they wanted freedom to be racist misogynistic pigs without consequences. When it comes to actual free speech AKA the freedom to criticize the government without punishment, you see that they actually hate free speech.

I was right about it the first time they rallied behind Elon on twitter so they can use slurs and spread medical misinformation fact check. I’m right about the rest of it too. Time has revealed y’all to be liars.


https://www.nairaland.com/8388133/us-cancels-visa-nobel-peace

This is absolutely petty.
The guy is 84.

bemeruca:
This was what I was explaining to PDP that IjeBos could not understand after reading it 3times.
But in my case I was talking about tax cuts and income tax.
Also,
The point of tarriff is to bring the production here or give local products a competitive edge.

There is nothing re: this you have the capacity to explain to me.
Focus on explaining to yourself the English language, esp. how to conjugate a verb.

cococandy:
omg

He really said “you get a tariff, you get a tariff, everyone gets a tariff”

Even when it’s asinine 🤣

Well done!

It is Liberation Day, everyone has to get something.
The Dolphins get shiny new tarrifs.
We get a shiny new Recession.

I really shouldn't be joking about this, this is really bad.

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.

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

A cesspool. Yuck.🤢🤮

Ha.

GloriousGbola:
Look at this 3/5ths dunce

I know you don't know what that means
As you know absolutely nothing other than being a failed attempt at a yahoo boy
Looking at you one would almost believe they were onto something. You barely have enough gray matter to copy the posts of white supremacists

Vacuous dunce and his imaginary pikin

He has minimal idea what he is talking about.
Most of it just goes over his head and he's not bright enough to recognize what he doesn't know.

AmazonTopaz:
Oh my goodness the tariff rates the Orange idiot is reciprocating are made up numbers.

Check out this thread.

https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1907559189234196942?t=2GyHo9k2OJf9J6ByryLdiQ&s=19

A U.S. recession to own the Libs. Thank you MAGA.

@Cococandy, Ijebos.

Not on twitter, but saw some posts about it on BlueSky.
The incompetence of the administration is staggering.

None of it makes sense.
If you think deeper about it all it falls apart.
Like making money from tariffs to get rid of Fed taxes.

You can't both want to make money from tariffs and also use tariffs to repatriate production. Because if they repatriate production, then they won't make any money off of tariffs.

basilico:
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 .

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.

Maeve7:
Coco has introduced basic universal healthcare for all. You can claim whatever you want in Trump’s world. If we repeat it often enough, his supporters will start to believe it.

That's how it works.
Saw this post of Americans feelings toward Canada and Europe.
Amazing.
If Americans can change their minds on something based on one person views this quickly Education may become a National Defense issue.

basilico:
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.

This has to be comedy at this point.
You're a nut.

cococandy:
Actions and rhetorics do have consequences. A Europe that defends itself will also have a foreign policy that may very well be contrary to American interests. Gee, who would have thunk it? Maybe now we’ll find out that we benefit from the relationship as much as they did.

I don't think they've though that far.
And why would Europe spend on American weapons of war when they can build up their own industries on spend on themselves?

Maeve7:
How do we know the guy is black or Nigerian? We know nothing about him, do we?

I thought similar for a while.
As honestly, It's easier to believe that he was a non black Nigerian or non Nigerian than the the alternative.

raumdeuter:
Who will be the nut here, the person who believed that Trump will lose Iowa?
If you had any shame you will deactivate or self deport from America
Its already confirmed where the source of your madness is from, It runs in your bloodline

I read the shit you write and I can't believe an adult wrote it.
Do you hear yourself? You sound like a nut.

It's as if you so regularly talk to uneducated people, you think the nonsense you write makes any sense.
From the gaslighting to the outright lying to the cognitive dissonance to the intellectual dishonesty, is there a reasoned thought in your head anymore?

Even this bloodline thing. It's like something someone who just finished primary school living in the village would mouth.
And to be honest, how mental you sound here, you better hope this bloodline thing is BS, or you should fear for your children.

You sound unwell.
No joke.
Let me tell you a secret, my dad is a Trump supporter as well. Birds of a feather.

raumdeuter:
Sensible people know Trump will not lose Iowa but the pollsters knowing the number of idiiots like you who liter the country will buy that crap
So they set you up and you immediately got emotional about how Trump is down by 3points in Iowa
They know depressed and emotional beta males like you will gobble their BS up and run with it
This is not a standalone incident, it aligns with your consistent inability to think and use your own brain(if you have any)
Then let the liberal media play you. Grow a brain and think for yourself

All these broad based conspiracies sounds nuts.

The shit you write here sounds like something a deeply unwell person would write.
You've almost become indistinguishable from Basilico.

raumdeuter:
This is you jumping around like an idiott when the media was playing you, How did Iowa end BTW. What type of village idioot will believe Trump is losing Iowa.

Why don't you take a second and explain what point you think your childish mind has.

A respected pollster put out a poll.
I posted the poll for data nerds.
I didn't say I thought it would happen. But the poll in itself was interesting.

Your argument seems to be that you will brush aside anything that doesn't conform to your way of thinking.
Just like you do with everything else here.
You seem to have gaslit yourself and this anti-intellectual mindless gaslighter.

It's also kinda unnerving how you call everything "media" as it's this amorphous monster that can encapsulate all your fears
You sound unwell.

raumdeuter:
The same media who told you that Trump was losing Iowa by 3 points. Iddiots like you are so easy to play by the media

This level of Gaslighting is actually insane.
I joke about it, but that you do this in every post is mental.

Welcome to Liberation Day!!
Can't way to be soooo Liberated..
Wait, what are we being liberated from again, besides the money in our wallets?

FoolishBoy419:
Funny enough, White Pilots crash more planes than blacks even when you make comparison in proportion to their population. I read somewhere that 80% of pilots are whites but they're responsible for 99% of plane crashes.

Has there ever been a black pilot who crashed a plane?

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.

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.

raumdeuter:
Trump has been playing you like a fiddle when you start throwing fits about anything and everything

To rule for more than 2 terms you need a constitutional amendment which I don't think can be done, If this can get done and get Trump a 3rd or 7th term then so be it, If the proper method of amendment is followed

You are British where a Prime minister can rule for all his entire life. Where Margaret Thatcher ruled for 3 terms, Tony Blair ruled for 3 terms

If you are so angry about 2 terms limit then you have a place to start which is closer to home for you. Start from UK

But... But.. He's only joking...

Trump Attorney Studied Options for Third Presidential Term
The president’s recent comments have rattled some Republicans
https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-attorney-studied-options-for-third-presidential-term-3ad46b43

bemeruca:
You accused raumdeuter of using chatgpt too. Fix your insecurity and envy.

Is it a surprise that two insecure people both used ChatGpt to sound smarter? Pretty obvious for anyone with a brain.
What's amazing, even using ChatGpt you still sounded like an illiterate dunderhead.
Here is the post of sliced up strung together sections from ChatGpt.
Again, isn't it obvious?
I've read it 3 times and still don't understand what you are trying to say.

You are not a real person. I can't.

bemeruca:
trump has already made significant tax cuts via the TCJA, and agenda this year includes extending those cuts and adding new ones, like eliminating taxes on tips and potentially income taxes. your “shell game” critique does not fully align with what trump is doing. The tax cuts are real, not an illusion. Tariffs do generate revenue $80 billion in 2019, potentially $600 billion now but they can’t replace income taxes without a massive shortfall, we know they shift the burden to consumers through higher prices, disproportionately affecting lower-income Americans. the effects or for and against but we would see what works best.

bemeruca:
trump has already made significant tax cuts via the TCJA, and agenda this year includes extending those cuts and adding new ones, like eliminating taxes on tips and potentially income taxes. your “shell game” critique does not fully align with what trump is doing. The tax cuts are real, not an illusion. Tariffs do generate revenue $80 billion in 2019, potentially $600 billion now but they can’t replace income taxes without a massive shortfall, we know they shift the burden to consumers through higher prices, disproportionately affecting lower-income Americans. the effects or for and against but we would see what works best.

Lol. BemerucaGPT is back.
So, you're so insecure about your lack of proficiency in the English language you're back to using ChaGPT for your posts.
And your post still sounds like gibberish.

You're such a beta man.

PDPGuy:
It’s a shell game that is being played by the administration. Eliminate (in theory) federal income taxes, but replace with tariffs to give an illusion of a “tax cut”; meanwhile the effective federal tax still remains the same

Right and it gets a little worse.
The government only makes money through the tariffs if people still buy those foreign goods.
If Trump is saying buy American goods and companies move to the US and produce those goods here, there is no revenue from Tariffs as people will buy American goods.

Incredible shell game.

This conversation is depressing.
Reminds me of the convos I have with Raumdeuter
The US has an education problem.

Fox News telling Trump how to message a problem Raumdeuter says doesn't exist.