Trump says he's not 'chickening out' on trade: 'It's called negotiation' - eviltoast
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    Negotiation, like extra salsa for free?

    Now hear me out, just a daydream but it would be hilarious if taco trucks joined his birthday parade.

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    Burrito, TACO TACO, burrito, TACO TACO TACO

    Don’t think just because I got a lot of money

    I’ll give you TACO-flavored kisses honey

    Fulfill all your wishes With my TACO-flavored kisses

    TACO TACO, burrito burrito, TACO TACO

    Fulfill all your wishes With my TACO-flavored kisses

    TACO TACO

  • Zagam@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Lol.

    Give me what I want.

    No.

    Yes.

    No.

    Fine.

    This concludes our one man show of Art of the Deal. Thank you for coming and remember to tip your server.

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    Bawk bawk.

    The way this question riles him up, we now all know what to do.

    Follow up questions though.

    Is it morally wrong for an entire nation to bait their despot into increasingly deranged ego trips?

    Do you think there is any public display he could perform that would be enough to get the 25th invoked?

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      Is it morally wrong for an entire nation to bait their despot into increasingly deranged ego trips?

      Nope.

      The more deranged you can make him a appear, the more people are willing to distance themselves from him.

  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org
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    Short a bunch of stocks, announce they will drop sharply, they do, reinvest the money you just made by buying those very same stocks, announce they will rise sharply, they do, sell them, rinse and repeat. If a country offers a decent trade deal in the process of course that’s a nice bonus but this system works well for him as is.

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      You’re not a man, you’re a Chicken Boo!

      Holy hell, where was that memory hiding out?

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        He wears a disguise
        To look like human guys,
        But he’s not a man,
        He’s a Chicken Boo

  • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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    I feel like saying they’re just bargaining positions makes them even weaker.

    All the rest of us (non us countries) have to do is keep saying no abd we will all get better “deals”.

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      About the first rule in negotiating is “don’t negotiate against yourself” and it was practically the first thing Trump did.

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    Just let him claim it as a victory so he’ll stop tariffing us all to death. We all know it’s stupid, well those of us with more than 2 brain cells to click together, but there’s just too much stupid to invest fighting all of it. We need to triage and prioritize the worst damage first, and if he can convince himself that he’s saved us from the big bad foreign powers then we can redistribute our efforts elsewhere.

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      A federal judge just overturned his illegal tariffs, so we can move on from this idiocy. Tariffs are Congress’ domain. His bullshit excuse for stopping the "fentanyl state of emergency " doesn’t fly for global tariffs when there’s at most 1 country you could apply that excuse to - and his tariff negotiations didn’t even address that issues.

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        Yeah, but will the Supreme Court let it stand? It’s not like we can trust them to do the right thing.

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    Right… I guess I just “negotiated” with that high dive when I was a little kid as I climbed back down crying like a little baby.

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    I’m torn. I love tacos. They’re one of the best foods out there. Now they’re associated with Trump, albeit in a negative way, but I will still think of that cancerous shit stain every time I eat a taco, and that’s sad.