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From: Chris Schram <chrispam1@me.com>
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Subject: Re: gulf of america
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:40:25 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: Welcome to My Unstructured Life
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On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 11:30:08 +0000, Wilf wrote:

> On 15/02/2025 at 14:20, badgolferman wrote:
>> Jörg Lorenz wrote:
>> 
>>> The Trump regime is a bunch of fascists and the tech companies are
>>> nothing but lickspittles.
>> 
>> Why do people from Europe pay so much attention to American politics?
>> Surely there are issues closer to home you should be bitching and
>> moaning about.  Are you secretly jealous of us?
> 
> Because your politics affects us.  Our greatest ally has suddenly
> decided to stop being an ally and that is huge for us.  Instead Trump
> has decided to bully your friends and decides to impose 20% tariffs on
> imports from the UK because he thinks we levy 20% Value Added Tax (VAT)
> on US imports.  Actually VAT is a sales tax on all purchases, whatever
> their origin, even items produced within the UK.  I might have thought
> that maybe Trump just doesn't know what VAT is, but you have sales taxes
> at city, state and federal levels, so are you levying those taxes
> unfairly on all your imports?

Well Said Wilf. The Pendejo Administration is hellbent on turning the 
clock back 100 or more years, to a time when oligarchs ran unchecked, 
eventually plunging the economy into a decades-long Great Depression.

Oh, and there was this World War thingy they tried to teach us about in 
school.

The US system of checks and balances is sure not perfect, but the lessons 
we "learned" from the Depression, helped us develop some mechanisms to 
prevent that kind of chaos from repeating. Until a perfect storm from the 
Far Right arose again to fuck things up again.

To those of you outside the USA, please keep in mind that the majority of 
us did NOT vote for that Fool. We are fighting back with what means we 
have, and we hope to be allies with the World again some day.

-- 
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kakistocracy | kakəˈstäkrəsē | noun |
government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state