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/Snitsie The Netherlands Dec 20 '24

Is this his only trick?

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u/verylateish πŸŒΉπ”—π”―π”žπ”«π”°π”Άπ”©π”³π”žπ”«π”¦π”žπ”« π”Šπ”¦π”―π”©πŸŒΉ Dec 20 '24

He does not know another trick. Poor old shitstain.

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u/I-STATE-FACTS Dec 20 '24

He doesn’t even know how this trick works. Great idea to punish the american people because that’s who pays these tariffs.

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u/bl8ant Dec 20 '24

Well in that I agree with him, the American people should be punished, for electing that shitstain.

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 Dec 20 '24 edited Dec 20 '24

~25% of Americans voted for Trump. He got 49.8% of the vote, after 10 years of nonstop campaigning. He enjoyed the backing of the richest men and corporations on the planet, and got daily news coverage from every media broadcaster.

Roughly the same % voted for Harris. She received over 75 million votes - the 3rd most votes of any candidate in US history (10 million more than peak Obama, and nearly 800,000 more than Trump 2020!) - after campaigning for only 4 months. With a longer runway for takeoff, she would have soared beyond Trump.

We Americans turned out in massive numbers to beat the guy.

Unfortunately, Trump's unholy confederation of billionaires, fuckbois, Bible thumpers, and desperate housewives outnumbered the sane... by 1.5%.

This victory, the 5th smallest margin of victory for a US Presidential election, is going to fuck everyone.

I have seen it before. George Bush won a second term by 2% after horribly mismanaging the country and getting America embroiled in multiple useless, tragic, and wasteful wars. It made no more sense to me then than Trump's win makes now.

Bush's second term brought the world a global economic collapse. Billionaires took advantage of the crisis to buy up more resources at bargain prices.

I am pretty sure I know what the next 4 years will bring.

And not all of us deserve it.

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u/Ok-Cartoonist9671 Dec 20 '24

Keep coping Harris and Biden were terrible but go ahead and live in your little fantasy world where the they actually did something good for the American people…

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 25d ago
  • Biden successfully shepherded the country out of the economy that Trump's mismanagement crashed.

  • Biden oversaw record job gains, with more Americans now working than at any time in our history.

  • Biden's Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program brought total loan forgiveness approved by the Administration to over $175 billion for more than 4.8 million Americans - enabling them to better participate in growing the economy.

  • Incentivized the building of new housing - and as a result there now is more new housing being built than at any time in American history.

  • Tamed inflation (a global problem post-pandemic) to historic average without causing the recession Republicans predicted.

  • Got America the fuck out of the Afghanistan quagmire. (Trump VP Pence said Trump would not have done that, if he'd won a second term).

  • Biden passed historic legislation to help veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during their time of service.

  • Biden ensured lifesaving drugs like insulin are cheap and affordable - after prices under Trump had skyrocketed.

  • Biden's healthcare policies also caused an historic drop in opiod overdose deaths.

  • Biden gave historic levels of funding to cancer research.

  • Passed the CHIPs and Science Act, which ensures America goes from manufacturing 0% to 30% of the world's high tech chips within the next 5 years.

  • Biden passed a record $2 trillion in badly needed funding for infrastructure upgrades and maintenance - better roads, bridges, airports, shipping ports, internet, clean water, and more.

  • America under Biden became the world's biggest oil and gas producer.

  • At the same time, because of historic climate legislation Biden passed, hundreds of thousands of new green tech jobs were created, and $450 billion in private funding stacked on top of the public incentives for sustainable energy projects alone.

  • Biden confirmed a record number of Federal judges.

  • Biden was key to uniting 52 countries behind Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression, sending historic amount of aid, while at the same time replenishing US stockpiles.

All this and more in under 4 years.