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From: Chris Schram <chrispam1@me.com>
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Subject: Re: gulf of america
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:29:24 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:39:59 +0000, Wilf wrote:

> On 17/02/2025 at 22:40, Chris Schram wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
> I'm just hoping that your new president will let go of the reins of
> power in 4 years' time.

Gawd! It feels like 4 years already! On a brighter note, That meat shell 
he is using as life support can't possibly last 4 years, can it?

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government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state