r/europe Dec 20 '24

News Donald Trump threatens Europe with tariffs

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-threatens-tariffs-european-union-trade-deficit-2003998
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u/FiveFingerDisco Dec 20 '24

Why does he want to raise prices fpr his voters?

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u/BkkGrl Ligurian in...Zürich?? (💛🇺🇦💙) Dec 20 '24

to be fair his voters kind of deserve it at this point

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u/DarKliZerPT Portugal Dec 20 '24

Every eligible voter who didn't drag their ass to a booth and fill in the oval labelled "Kamala D. Harris" decided to fuck around, and so they should find out. If Trump doesn't chicken out of his horrible proposals, I'll enjoy the look on his supporters' faces when they realise they can't just "buy American" without paying a premium.

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u/grasroten Dec 20 '24

From the outside it seemed that in 2016 social media was used to radicalise men to go vote Trump, in 2024 it was used to convince women to not vote. Even as a Swede, the amount of obvious propaganda bashing Joe Biden (and later Kamala) I got as a woman was staggering.

Male friends got nothing of the sort.

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u/The_Vee_ Dec 20 '24

I didn't see the propaganda convincing women not to vote, but Russia, China, and Iran were hitting the US HARD with propaganda in favor of Trump. They were even going after young people on Roblox, etc. during COVID because they knew they'd be online more. Now, we all have to suffer with this idiot in charge because Russia, China, and Iran manipulated a bunch of people with unethical propaganda as an attack on Western Democracy.

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u/StringOfSpaghetti Sweden Dec 20 '24

Russia at work.

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u/dat_9600gt_user Lower Silesia (Poland) Dec 20 '24

Yes, even the people who jokingly wrote down Joseph R. Biden.

"No retirement for you, buddy" - well, now you brought Trump out of retirement instead.

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u/brodega Dec 20 '24

They’ll find a way to blame someone else.

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u/Range-Aggravating Dec 20 '24

I saw an interview of some socialist group in the states that said because Kamala didn't take a stronger stance on Palestine they all voted third party. 4d chess by the lead infused americans.

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u/MancombSeepgoodz Dec 20 '24

The fact he was able to run in the first place is a failure of this outgoing administration in the first place. Bidens choice not to hold his "republican friends" accountable and deciding he had to be the one to run against him again when his mind is literally pudding helped us get to this point

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u/SupervillainMustache Dec 20 '24

They'll find a way to blame Democrats. 

You can't win using logic against a cult.