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Rubashov said:
Ive been looking for content on the US-EU trade deal, I think its basically a shakedown by the US, with the EU is having to pay Trump tribute. (honestly its like ****ing ancient Rome) Japan cut a similar deal, tariffs and Japan handing over billions to Trump, I believe the Japan deal was so transparently a bribe that Trump is allowed to direct where the Japanese loans go.

Im astounded at the willingness to bend the knee.
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Seems like it. No tariffs on US goods entering Europe. 15% on European goods entering the US. And the EU must buy billions in energy and weapons from the United States.
 
Red said:
Seems like it. No tariffs on US goods entering Europe. 15% on European goods entering the US. And the EU must buy billions in energy and weapons from the United States.
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Its basically a 15 percent tariff on German cars, the Europeans can use the energy, they no longer have access to Russia gas and oil. I have a feeling that the rest of it, buying US weapons and ect, I reckon they'll drag their feet and wait Trump out. You know Trump has no eye for detail he wants the headline, the show.

But yeah its a complete capitulation from the EU
 
Rubashov said:
Ive been looking for content on the US-EU trade deal, I think its basically a shakedown by the US, with the EU is having to pay Trump tribute. (honestly its like ****ing ancient Rome) Japan cut a similar deal, tariffs and Japan handing over billions to Trump, I believe the Japan deal was so transparently a bribe that Trump is allowed to direct where the Japanese loans go.

Im astounded at the willingness to bend the knee.
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When you have shown definitively that you are a psychopath hell-bent on creating a dictatorship and you simultaneously wield the world's most powerful army and economy, and you have shown you have zero disregard for even your own citizens, then they are kind of forced to do so. Just like Austria and Czechoslovakia through the Munich Agreement at the outset of WWII. The question is, will this go down as part of Trump's Munich Agreement? Maybe the Scotland Golf Course Accord?
 
Red said:
Seems like it. No tariffs on US goods entering Europe. 15% on European goods entering the US. And the EU must buy billions in energy and weapons from the United States.
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So, at the core of it, the American consumer is ****ed over while the EU consumers get their good considerably cheaper. I mean it will be argued that it will drive an increase in imports from America but it drives up the overall cost to the American people which will slow overall consumer spending and threaten to stall out the American economy. That's one of the many hidden pieces of tariff wars that explains why they are so dumb and harmful for each country involved. Trump thinks it's a win/lose for the US vs. the EU, but really is a lose/lose for everyone involved in the long run. The only win for Trump is in his efforts to further destabilize the American economy so he can eventually claim dictatorial powers to "save" the country, but really from the **** he's doing to it to become dictator. Wow.
 
LogGrad98 said:
When you have shown definitively that you are a psychopath hell-bent on creating a dictatorship and you simultaneously wield the world's most powerful army and economy, and you have shown you have zero disregard for even your own citizens, then they are kind of forced to do so. Just like Austria and Czechoslovakia through the Munich Agreement at the outset of WWII. The question is, will this go down as part of Trump's Munich Agreement? Maybe the Scotland Golf Course Accord?
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I wonder how much this deal, has influenced Trump's change of mind toward the Ukraine/Russia war as well. Hegseth and Vance have outed themselves as anti-European through their own text messaging blunder, you can assume they've had nothing to do with any of this.

I sort of wonder if there has been a bit of a power shift inside the palace. Rubio as Secretary of State and National Security advisor sits at the head of two huge and vastly powerful bureaucracies, he could be making his move to be seen as Trump's number two. Aside from the intersections of power he control he's also smart enough to stay out of the limelight.
 
LogGrad98 said:
So, at the core of it, the American consumer is ****ed over while the EU consumers get their good considerably cheaper. I mean it will be argued that it will drive an increase in imports from America but it drives up the overall cost to the American people which will slow overall consumer spending and threaten to stall out the American economy. That's one of the many hidden pieces of tariff wars that explains why they are so dumb and harmful for each country involved. Trump thinks it's a win/lose for the US vs. the EU, but really is a lose/lose for everyone involved in the long run. The only win for Trump is in his efforts to further destabilize the American economy so he can eventually claim dictatorial powers to "save" the country, but really from the **** he's doing to it to become dictator. Wow.
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Well no if the deal is like the deal with Japan he will also get several hundred billion dollars to embezzle as he sees fit.
 
Rubashov said:
Well no if the deal is like the deal with Japan he will also get several hundred billion dollars to embezzle as he sees fit.
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Still, like all Trump "deals", harmful to ordinary folks, and only helps Trump. That's the gist, and final intended end, of everything he has done.
 
CBS preparing to fire Colbert:

movieweb.com

"What He Said Was Unacceptable": CBS Reportedly "Very Close" to Immediately Firing Late Night Star After Controversial Outburst

You reap what you sow in the world, and CBS' decision to cancel 'The Late Show' is proof of that.
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Anyone who has tuned into The Late Show last week will notice that host Stephen Colbert has been acting a little more…let’s say controversially than usual. Like most late night talk show hosts, including Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon, Colbert has always been gleefully delighted to take swipes at a certain businessman-turned-president, but since the announcement that his show was being canceled next year, Colbert has been even more derogatory towards President Trump than normal and network bosses are really, really not happy. Diddums.

On his first show after the cancellation of The Late Show was announced, Colbert labeled himself “a martyr” when slamming Trump’s social media postscelebrating the cancellation and warning other “untalented” talk show hosts that they could be next. During the same show, Colbert told Trump to “Go f-ck yourself.”

While the studio audience – and many viewers - clearly agreed with the eloquent sentiment, the show’s bosses did not. Now it looks like Colbert may not even make it to the end of the series next year, as, according to journalist Rob Shuter, there have been words had with Colbert, and they have come “very close” to pulling him off-air. After reportedly calling an emergency meeting the morning after Colbert’s show aired, two senior executives reportedly said:

“He's daring us to fire him. And honestly? We’re close to doing it. He’s been warned. What he said was unacceptable. There are real consequences this time.”
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Red said:
CBS preparing to fire Colbert:

movieweb.com

"What He Said Was Unacceptable": CBS Reportedly "Very Close" to Immediately Firing Late Night Star After Controversial Outburst

You reap what you sow in the world, and CBS' decision to cancel 'The Late Show' is proof of that.
movieweb.com movieweb.com

Anyone who has tuned into The Late Show last week will notice that host Stephen Colbert has been acting a little more…let’s say controversially than usual. Like most late night talk show hosts, including Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon, Colbert has always been gleefully delighted to take swipes at a certain businessman-turned-president, but since the announcement that his show was being canceled next year, Colbert has been even more derogatory towards President Trump than normal and network bosses are really, really not happy. Diddums.

On his first show after the cancellation of The Late Show was announced, Colbert labeled himself “a martyr” when slamming Trump’s social media postscelebrating the cancellation and warning other “untalented” talk show hosts that they could be next. During the same show, Colbert told Trump to “Go f-ck yourself.”

While the studio audience – and many viewers - clearly agreed with the eloquent sentiment, the show’s bosses did not. Now it looks like Colbert may not even make it to the end of the series next year, as, according to journalist Rob Shuter, there have been words had with Colbert, and they have come “very close” to pulling him off-air. After reportedly calling an emergency meeting the morning after Colbert’s show aired, two senior executives reportedly said:
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We need a LOT more of this. A lot.
 
Free speech and stuff
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fishonjazz said:
Free speech and stuff
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Anyone else here remember when I was called names when I proposed that the government break up the social media companies that are feeding the majority of our citizens crap information have been silent over the last 6 months? Wonder why?

This also seems bad.

View: https://bsky.app/profile/donmoyn.bsky.social/post/3lv2tplfnwk2c


We’re canceling comedians, prosecutors, professors and colleges, and news agencies because they’re providing inconveniences to our ruling leader and party. “wHaT aBoUt FrEe SpEeCh?”
 
Sardines said:
This can't be real.
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I was curious so I googled.
It appears to be accurate.
Here is a long article about the paramount/trump stuff and I found this part: And that concession of the media monitor is really serious, because what they're saying is that they are going to self-censor basically for ideological purity according to what this administration likes and to report only in the way this administration likes. Apparently, bias is anything this administration doesn't like. And that is what they're promising not to show anymore to their consumers.

What we know is that this monitor will report directly to the president and will field complaints about the news and about other issues with the programming.

 
fishonjazz said:
I was curious so I googled.
It appears to be accurate.
Here is a long article about the paramount/trump stuff and I found this part: And that concession of the media monitor is really serious, because what they're saying is that they are going to self-censor basically for ideological purity according to what this administration likes and to report only in the way this administration likes. Apparently, bias is anything this administration doesn't like. And that is what they're promising not to show anymore to their consumers.

What we know is that this monitor will report directly to the president and will field complaints about the news and about other issues with the programming.

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Well, I pay for Paramount Plus. Looks like that will change. ****ing unreal.
 
fishonjazz said:
I was curious so I googled.
It appears to be accurate.
Here is a long article about the paramount/trump stuff and I found this part: And that concession of the media monitor is really serious, because what they're saying is that they are going to self-censor basically for ideological purity according to what this administration likes and to report only in the way this administration likes. Apparently, bias is anything this administration doesn't like. And that is what they're promising not to show anymore to their consumers.

What we know is that this monitor will report directly to the president and will field complaints about the news and about other issues with the programming.

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I was told that rainbow books at libraries and proposals to regulate the social media telling people to not get vaccinated was the real threat to free speech.
 
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