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"US President Donald Trump has warned that countries which side with the policies of the Brics alliance that go against US interests will be hit with an extra 10% tariff.
"Any country aligning themselves with the Anti-American policies of BRICS, will be charged an ADDITIONAL 10% tariff. There will be no exceptions to this policy," Trump wrote on social media." (BBC website)

I was thinking of charging customers more for gardening services if they voted Conservative. Who would that benefit ?

Under the banner of being random and unpredictable, Trump is making himself look ridiculous now
 
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The Democrat front runner for New York Mayor sounds like an American version of Steeleye.
Zohran Mamdani is promising 'real socialism' with free buses, free childcare, state-run food shops, rent freezes and subsidised house building at a cost of $100 billion to be paid for by high taxes on businesses and shifting the tax burden to "richer and white neigbourhoods". Apparently there are videos of him saying that the "end goal" is "seizing the means of production".
Trump has described him as a "100 per cent communist lunatic".
 
georgenorman said:
The Democrat front runner for New York Mayor sounds like an American version of Steeleye.
Zohran Mamdani is promising 'real socialism' with free buses, free childcare, state-run food shops, rent freezes and subsidised house building at a cost of $100 billion to be paid for by high taxes on businesses and shifting the tax burden to "richer and white neigbourhoods". Apparently there are videos of him saying that the "end goal" is "seizing the means of production".
Trump has described him as a "100 per cent communist lunatic".
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Makes a change to see a populist from the left attracting votes with impossible promises.

Playing Trump at his own game is at least amusing even if indicative of the sorry state of US politics.
 
georgenorman said:
The Democrat front runner for New York Mayor sounds like an American version of Steeleye.
Zohran Mamdani is promising 'real socialism' with free buses, free childcare, state-run food shops, rent freezes and subsidised house building at a cost of $100 billion to be paid for by high taxes on businesses and shifting the tax burden to "richer and white neigbourhoods". Apparently there are videos of him saying that the "end goal" is "seizing the means of production".
Trump has described him as a "100 per cent communist lunatic".
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Many people in the states just as here , say they want change . Well this fella offers ,by US standards real change .We will see how much people really want change.
 
Putitout said:
Many people in the states just as here , say they want change . Well this fella offers ,by US standards real change .We will see how much people really want change.
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They may want change but they wont pay for it.

The local Texas sheriff has gone on record saying the wanted a public warning system for flooding (sirens I guess) only the voters wouldn't pay for it.
 
Like a lot of Trump's base I'm pretty pIssed after yesterday.

They seem to be trying to cover the whole Epstein case up....thousands of videos but one conviction....bullshit.

One of Trump's big promises was to battle the deep state but it was bollocks in the first term and looks bollocks in this one too.

Oh and the State department quietly took Al Nusra in Syria off of the terrorism list.....So, if you're ISIS in Syria but working for us that's fine.

War on terror my arse....feck these guys.

All of our guys who died over there.....dying for the politics of lies.
 
CPFCSaturn said:
The Eppstein stuff is absolutely bonkers - do they really think people are going to believe 'nothing to see here'..?

Apparently Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison for child trafficking to no one!
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Intelligence services have decided it's a question of national security no doubt. Which makes you wonder what they know. It wasn't going to look good that Trump, the Clintons, Obama along with loads of other high ranking officials, were all there - whether they did anything untoward or not.
 
georgenorman said:
The Democrat front runner for New York Mayor sounds like an American version of Steeleye.
Zohran Mamdani is promising 'real socialism' with free buses, free childcare, state-run food shops, rent freezes and subsidised house building at a cost of $100 billion to be paid for by high taxes on businesses and shifting the tax burden to "richer and white neigbourhoods". Apparently there are videos of him saying that the "end goal" is "seizing the means of production".
Trump has described him as a "100 per cent communist lunatic".
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Which means he will do well.

Folk are not voting the middle any more. It's boring. They are turned off.

The Dems put a "middle" up against a blow-hard, frothing, pseudo-hard-right populist and got creamed. Dull dull dull against an opponent who absorbed all the media exposure with daft but impactful social posts. Every day his 2-liners were the headline there, here and everywhere else. Meanwhile, The Democrats... 🙄

This bloke has gone to the other end of the spectrum so Lord help New York. However, his lefty populism and (I suspect) adoption of the same 2 line social media lunacy which, in his case, is promising everything will garner the vote in a door already well ajar.

Perhaps he is finally the great white hope to take on the Trump juggernaut and provide some proper opposition required in a healthy democracy.

Although their poor economy...
 
CPFCSaturn said:
The Eppstein stuff is absolutely bonkers - do they really think people are going to believe 'nothing to see here'..?

Apparently Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison for child trafficking to no one!
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Other than Epstein according to them.

The democrat run DOJ held all the tapes and evidence relating to Epstein and how do we know what's been kept and what's been destroyed.

It's bad....very bad and while the Democrats are completely sold out this has already split the Trump base.

His protection of Mossad/CIA (because on this stuff they are interlocked)....with the five eyes part of it to some extent.....It isn't going to be accepted by a large part of the base.

Being against sex rings used for blackmail by intelligence services should be the position of every decent person.

But there are a lot of people who are quite happy to look the other way.
 
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