Trump announces rebalanced trade deal with EU - von der Leyen confirms. Boom! #winning.
The market is going to churn.
Thank you to conor, FrankL and 94 for calling Trump's tariff policy the ruination of our US economy. You guys are very valuable as a "True South" compass.
Link: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-announces-trade-deal-european-union
Replies to: Trump announces rebalanced trade deal with EU - von der Leyen confirms. Boom! #winning.
BFD, Cheerleader.
You're probably a Financial Times guy, too?
Sorry, not sorry.
Link: https://x.com/Geiger_Capital/status/1949593685865189468
Literally nothing Trump does will be good enough for these nuts.
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Tell us where the DOW will be in AUG 2026 because of Trump’s brilliant tariffs agenda.
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The Dow? Heh. That's for the old wheezers who watch the CBS Evening News.
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Even CNN realizes how The Dow is no longer the best indicator of the US Economy
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Link: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/05/16/business/dow-40000-history-nightcap
Bookmark, Mr. Dodgeball
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Why aren’t you happy for the US? Was it always so for you?
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All ready to discount this major achievement, eh? Lol. Loser. USA! USA! USA! MAGA ftw!
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Not a major achievement. Shitty way to extort our friends.
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Are you like this in real life? Must suck to be you.
MAGA! Winning! What a great time to be an American!
Trump is incredible. Tells you what he’s going to do, and just starts knocking each item off the checklist. Like a true business leader.
It really pisses you and the other 6-7 jagoffs off doesn’t it?
You posted, “it must suck to be you” while looking in the mirror
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Are you obsessed with me? Sure seems like it.
Come on, start a fight with me like you seem to do with half the people on this board. You have serious anger issues and clearly fail to take your Lexipro on a daily basis. You know the doctor told you that you can’t self-medicate.
You call the innocent banter on here, fighting? I enjoy political discourse…
And I enjoy ridiculing the easily ridiculed. Just know that I drive this train, old man.
All I know is you’re
An asshole and it’s easy to tell you are one in real life as well. Many, many others feel the same way.
You own no one but your simpleton self.
Yet you keep responding. Kind of hard taking me off ignore, huh?
And when it comes to you…yes, I’m an asshole and I’d be the same way to you in person. My money is that you’d cower like the sniveling cunt you are.
“Ourfriends” who were gouging us w unilaterally closed markets and unfair tariffs? Heh, This is big
Very big.
Nonsense.
Take the recent US Steel deal as an example.
Nippon is 3 times bigger than US Steel. 8 times more profitable. Nippon is the 4th largest steel producer in the world. US Steel is 24th. They have advanced technologies.
Stop living in the past. It is the reason you lost the election
Perhaps chaos, flip flopping, and market manipulation is your concept of leadership. Not me.
You didn’t refute a thing I said. You are living in the past.
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We’ll mark you down as DOW breaking 50k by August 2026. I’ll take the under.
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You are living in the past. This is why you lost the election.
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Tell us where the DOW will be in AUG 2026 because of Trump’s brilliant tariffs agreements.
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Time will tell.
You act as though anything less than 50,000 is a complete failure. That’s a false premise.
Let it play out. Your bravado means nothing.
You lost the election. Stop whining.
Bookmark.
Pick a number. It’s 45k today.
The DOW is antiquated. Even your beloved CNN agrees.
Read the link I posted above. You lost the election.
Deal with it.
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Do you get Reuters with NYT or WAPO subscriptions or is it separate?
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What do you libs have to cheer about?
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Just more contrived Pee Pee Tapes.
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The framework is set. If the deal comes to fruition, a big win for Trump and the US…
I’m hopeful that it truly happens. Next…on to China.
The general deal: 15% tariff on all EU goods across the board...
....including EU autos which were at 25% (which was a big positive for the EU appeasing Germany but which still gives an overall much more fair trade deal) - but the 15% all all other EU goods as well is far more income for the US than the auto concession
...PLUS EU will buy 750 Billion in US energy (which they had to buy anyways and which will NOT be bought from Russia or other scumbag sources such as Venezuala anymore
....Plus EU obligated to make 600 Billion in additional US investments
...pharmaceuticals will not be part of any deal since they are an issue for the US still wrt egregious price gouging - Trump wants them made in the US and the price gouging to stop - that will be next.
...Trump refused to give the EU a break on steel (EU wnated a certain amyt of their steel imported into US before the tariff kicked in on their steel in the US).
Overall, an excellent deal for the US.
Overall, a good deal for the EU and not much different than Japan's deal.
The Dems could could not get this kind of deal done, and in fact, they could not even conceive of it. They wanted continued appeasement just as with NATO. Achieving was beyond their abilities and also was not consistent with their loathing of America.
Big, big, big win. MAGA victory lap. I own my Trump vote 100%. ....now libs can feel free to turn back to their Pee Pee Tapes 2.0 BS - it's all they have. Come to the light DFH, there is room here for you.
Link: http://.including EU autos which were at 25%
It’s not a done “deal” yet. I’d hold off on the victory lap until it’s…
Truly done.
Fair - it has to be approved by EU. But it indicates that EU clearly is going to deal.
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Fingers crossed. If it happens, it’s a huge win
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The Silence of the OF libs is deafening.
Hopefully this gets fleshed out soon.
Great News for Americans.
The response will be, "nobody said this wasn't a good policy, just Trump's approach". Same with NATO
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NATO’s reinvestment into their military readiness has more to do with Russian aggression than it…
does with Trump rhetoric.
BTW, EU is paying their share by BUYING arms from US to send over to Ukraine.....
....which not only eliminates a good amount of our financial burden for this war , but it gives US companies significant productivity which means more tax money for the US.
Ukraine gets what it wants, the US gets relief in two different ways, and Europe starts pulling their lazy-ass weight finally.
My point stands. Russian aggression and fear that Trump…
wouldn’t honor article 5 are the reasons, IMO.
So yeah, another victory for Trump.
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Exactly. But at least DFH wants what's best for the US even if he won't credit Trump. The other libs
....not so much.
If you consider Russian aggression and our closest allies fearing that…
their closest ally wouldn’t come to their aid a victory…yeah, big Trump win.
Fuck that. Our "closest allies" weren't behaving like allies and were using us egregiously. It took
a real leader as POTUS to fix it...not a dementia patient's appeasing Handlers.
He gave them the option...FAFO. And they chose not to FA. Wise.
And NATO started its build up prior to Trump taking office…
NATO is essential to our nations security…intel, troops, tech.
Link: https://www.gmfus.org/news/nato-strength-unity
Trump did this. No one else.
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Nope, wrong
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Then why didn't they do this in the 3 3/4 yrs of Biden's Adm after Putin invaded Ukraine in Feb '20?
That isa rhetorical question because the answer is SO obvious.
You were wrong about Trump. You have to find a way to deal with that/
Like I said, a fear that their closest ally wouldn’t come to their defense…
and more crucially, Russian aggression led to increased military spending…Trump’s threats played a role, but it was Russian aggression that provided the biggest motivation. Here’s an excerpt from the attached article:
“ Trump bragged in last year’s two presidential debates about having convinced, in his first term, NATO allies to increase defense spending. His threats—and, crucially, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine— kicked investment into higher gear. Only four alliance partners met the target of spending 2% of GDP on defense when Trump initially entered the White House. Four years later, nine countries met the threshold; 23 of the now 32 allies did so in 2024. Those facing the greatest security risks, perhaps unsurprisingly, have the highest defense spending, among them eastern flank countries that border Russia. Poland spends more than 4% of its GDP, more, in fact, than the United States. This commitment to rearm and innovate benefits Washington economically and strategically. NATO allies’ defense purchases from American manufacturers grew to $24 billion in 2023, part of a broader 55.9% increase in US foreign military sales over the previous year.”
You’re partially right if you consider threats an effective tactic, however, those threats weren’t the main reason for NATO’s increased military spending. In fact, the spending increased during the Biden admin.
More like a realization that the gravy train was over. You’re pretzeling to find any way that you
can to not gove Trump the credit that he deserves.
The problem with appeasers is that the appeased see your weakness. Trump is not weak.
Now we have Uk getting what it needs, Russia cut off, NATO strengthened, a bunch of lazy, mooching countries starting to pull their own weight all of which helps the US..
Thst is what I call good leadership.
And you give Trump too much credit as usual…
What I stated is true. Speaking of appeasers…how’d Trump’s approach on Russia work out? He appeased Putin and now you see what happened. Putin ran rings around him…made him look foolish.
He's the boss. It's great to have someone in charge. The buck stops here and so does the credit.
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Still not the main reason…sorry, buck
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Bullshit. You do know that Article 5 has been invoked ONE time in history, yes?…
And that was after 9/11. Our real allies supported us during our GWOT. They lost men, treasure, et al. They hardly used us as we established the pecking order after WW2. In other words, the US has been their protector since aftet the fall of Nazism. Threatening them and making an ass of yourself gets us nowhere. Trump is a wannabe isolationist. Luckily he’s changed his tune as expected recently and that’s because he has no balls…Russia, case in point.
Russian aggression + a believable threat to leave them on their own (Trump) = action.
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