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He might be, but there are people who will try to make it happen. So I just thought I would ask
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Just to give you some context as to why trump's barking about Russian tariffs is utter nonsense:
Some data on US imports in 2024 from the US Commerce Department site:
- From China: $438.9 billion
- From EU: $605.8 billion
- From Canada: USD 412.7 billion
- From Mexico: USD 505.9 billion
- From Switzerland: USD 63.4 billion
- From Hungary: USD 12.8 billion
(The Hungarian figure is included in the EU total)
- From Russia: USD 3 billion
Specifically, the value of pharmaceuticals exported from Hungary to the US alone (4.38 billion USD) is almost one and a half times more than the total amount of Russian exports to the US!!!
But to give you a better sense of the magnitude:
Total US imports in 2024 were 4110.0 billion USD. Russia's share of this total is 0.00073 (7.3 tenths of a thousandth) or 0.73 thousandths.
This is less than the rounding margin! Specifically, there is an immeasurably negligible trade relationship between the US and Russia!
It would be pointless to impose a tariff on this, it would make no sense and have no meaningful effect.
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These unsubtle bluffs are a good way for the whole world to regroup and start reducing all possible US exposure. The US will never recover from this. This world cup was won without keeping the game: CHINA! Congratulations.
Some data on US imports in 2024 from the US Commerce Department site:
- From China: $438.9 billion
- From EU: $605.8 billion
- From Canada: USD 412.7 billion
- From Mexico: USD 505.9 billion
- From Switzerland: USD 63.4 billion
- From Hungary: USD 12.8 billion
(The Hungarian figure is included in the EU total)
- From Russia: USD 3 billion
Specifically, the value of pharmaceuticals exported from Hungary to the US alone (4.38 billion USD) is almost one and a half times more than the total amount of Russian exports to the US!!!
But to give you a better sense of the magnitude:
Total US imports in 2024 were 4110.0 billion USD. Russia's share of this total is 0.00073 (7.3 tenths of a thousandth) or 0.73 thousandths.
This is less than the rounding margin! Specifically, there is an immeasurably negligible trade relationship between the US and Russia!
It would be pointless to impose a tariff on this, it would make no sense and have no meaningful effect.
United States Imports from Russia - 2025 Data 2026 Forecast 1992-2024 Historical
United States Imports from Russia was US$3.27 Billion during 2024, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. United States Imports from Russia - data, historical chart and statistics - was last updated on March of 2025.
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I'm not so sure, I think if he thinks he can do so, he will.....
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Joking your way into a autocracy huh (joke)? It might be decent to let the leftist know at what point they are "allowed" to be worried. Since its basic human instinct to worry about things before its too late to change course.
Not passing judgement, just a fascinating topic played in real time.
I listen to Dan Carlin, some of you may know his hardcore history podcast. He recently did a "common sense show" that used to be a regular thing but went on a long hiatus during trump's first term. (I first started to listen to his "common sense show" during snowden NSA case).
He talked about an interesting book from 2010 (The Decline and Fall of the American Republic, Bruce Ackerman)
long before trump about the systemic deformities that have built up in the system, creating the conditions for a disaster. from clinton to bush and obama etc. And he did seven interesting predictions. Yall can decide if they came or are coming true or not.
1. The evolving system of presidential nominations will lead to the election of an increasing number of charismatic outsider types who gain office by mobilizing activist support for extremist programs of the left or the right.
2 All presidents, whether extremists or mainstream, will rely on media consultants to design streams of sound bites aimed at narrowly segmented micropublics, generating a politics of unreason that will often dominate public debate.
3 they will increasingly govern through their White House staff of super loyalists, issuing executive orders that their staffers will impose on the federal bureaucracy even when they conflict with congressional mandates.
4 they will engage with an increasingly politicized military in ways that may greatly expand their effective power to put their executive orders into force throughout the nation.
5 they will legitimate their unilateral actions through an expansive use of Emergency Powers
6 and assert mandates from the people to evade or ignore congressional statutes when public opinion polls support decisive action
7. they will rely on elite lawyers in the executive branch to write up learned opinions that vindicate the constitutionality of their most blatant power grabs. These opinions, Ackerman writes, will publicly rubber stamp presidential actions months or years before the Supreme Court gets into the act. And they will generate heated debate amongst the broader legal community. With the profession divided, he says, and the President's media machine generating a groundswell of support for his power grab, the Supreme Court may find it prudent to stage a strategic retreat, allowing the President to displace Congress and use his bureaucracy and military authority to establish a new regime of law and order. These, he writes, are the dynamics of the decline and fall of the American Republic. End quote.
edit. Just wanted to point out about Dan Carlin (cos i really dig him), that he says he is an independent politically and in my opinion the key point about his latest episode (which i recommend) was that there's only so many straws a camel can handle on its back and at some point the camel's back will break. It might not be this presidency but every straw brings that point of no return closer and this course did not start with Trump.
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It's the reason why I asked that question. I wanted to gauge at what point will those people that voted for Trump, hell at this point even those who didnt, say enough is enough.
In other news, I wonder if people are seeing the impact of administrations action with regards to ICE and handling of immigrants on the airline industry. Tourism in the US is in a slump with lower than expected bookings... in a time where global travel is booming.
In other news, I wonder if people are seeing the impact of administrations action with regards to ICE and handling of immigrants on the airline industry. Tourism in the US is in a slump with lower than expected bookings... in a time where global travel is booming.
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I mean, the Democrats are literally insane. All of them. This is not your Grandpa's Democrat Party. They were dealt a shocking blow in November, when every organ of power was weaponized to take out Trump, and yet he survived and won in a landslide. They don't need to purposely troll us, they just need to be themselves to be shocking.
So, can you imagine the meltdown if the system was manipulated for Trump to run again? OMG!!!!! LOL!!! I'd be tuned into CNN and MSNBC 24/7 to watch them melting down and crying. There is not enough popcorn on planet Earth to supply us all!
I know Trump is aware that he has a short time to accomplish what he is trying to do, before the left get's reorganized. He is fundamentally trying to change the American economy and restructure government because he sees that the current system is not sustainable as it is. No small or easy task and the American people still support him. And honestly, no one else would do it.
Next election cycle, Trump will be 82 years old. That may be considered too old, even if there weren't and legal obstacles. He's trolling. The dems and media (same thing, actually), are biting their lip, trying not to fall into a trap and look like fools as usual. Anyway, he's not running again.
The Dems still have the support of the elites, billionaires and media - so who knows who they'd run in '28. They may feel, Trump's done, it's okay to go back to our old woke ways now.
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No third term, please. Time for a younger guy at that point, but still MAGA.
Up till recently Danes we complaining about their subsidy some 1/3 of the Greenland economy. Trump says he is interested and suddenly they are all colonial 1800's again like its great to vacation there and play with the seals
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That's a lot of area for Denmark to protect. Or should this be the new primary front for NATO?
They haven't sent much to down a Russian missile, after sterilizing the women it turned out subconciously they really want them to be men. There must be massive reparation law suit coming after all the ethnic cleansing things the Danes did to them. Not white enough intil now.
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I just wanted to get back to these dummies with new info. They wanted Alberta to stop sending oil to the US. All hyperbole. Why?
1) Alberta is control of it's energy, not the commie central government.
And this is the best one....
2) The pipeline which supplies the green wienies in Ontario and Quebec from Alberta goes from Alberta, through the US to Ontario. They'd be cutting off their own oil. LOL!
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