The intransigent European Union is hitting a dead end with immovable Trump on the issue of tariffs. The resulting dynamic is what we would expect given 75 years of the Marshall Plan (European Recovery Plan) as part of the EU’s only point of reference.
In order for the EU to maintain its socialistic form of government, it needs to continue the economic benefits from one-way tariffs that exploits the American consumer market. President Trump’s plan to force reciprocity is against its entire economic foundation. The EU simply cannot fathom life without the status quo.
In many ways the EU is in the same position as Canada. From its perspective, economic reciprocity is not sustainable; it would have to change its social compacts. This is the core of the conflict.
The EU trade delegation hit a brick wall in Washington DC, as the U.S. trade team reiterated the baseline tariffs are not something within the negotiation dynamic.
BRUSSELS — The European Union is weighing a provisional trade deal with the United States that would maintain a 10 percent tariff on most exports, the European Commission told EU ambassadors on Friday.
The EU executive reported back after a crucial round of talks in Washington on Thursday, in which Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič sought to head off a threat by President Donald Trump to impose a 50 percent tariff on all European goods from July 9 if no deal is reached.
In addition to the baseline tariff, conversations would continue on providing relief to specific industry sectors such as cars, two national officials cited top Commission officials as saying.
The outcome fell short of expectations in European capitals after the Commission’s trade negotiating team had previously said the possibility of “up-front” tariff relief for some industries was under consideration. The U.S. levies 25 percent tariffs on cars and 50 percent on steel and aluminum. (read more)
As we highlighted in term-1, these ongoing negotiations with the EU on the issues of trade are extremely challenging. However, in term-2 President Trump’s position is much simpler; why keep arguing about the same problem only to end up in negotiations of intransigence?
Instead, if the EU is going to continue negotiations as a collective, President Trump is now favoring just sending the EU a letter informing them of the tariff rates applied to each of their industrial sectors. This is the most direct and impactful way to end the stalemate.
The EU cannot fathom the new level of ambivalence carried by President Trump, and by extension his trade team, toward the conversation. There is no level of countervailing tariffs the EU can announce that impacts the position of Trump. Even if the EU were to end all trade with the USA, that only feeds into the goals and objectives of the Trump administration.
The EU has no power in this dynamic beyond its purchasing power, and if the EU doesn’t want to level the purchasing – thereby maintaining a trade deficit, then Trump will equalize the financial imbalance with tariffs.
Canada is in the same position, hence its alignment with the EU.
Such a simple explanation. The EU and Canada have been persistent sucks on our economy for the past 75 years.
They cant fathom not having our money to pay for there social programs 2 months vacations and military protection.
Its time to end this parasite once and for all. God bless America MAGA
Get the F*** OUT OF NATO! Pay the political price with the feckless Neo-Cons and rabid, neutered Leftists! JUST SAY NO!
And get the heck outta the United Nations – and get their headquarters OUT of our country!
You are so right! It is analogous to the 35 year old kid who lives in the basement, comes upstairs for toilet paper, and wants to dictate the terms of his continued residence and support. It’s time to boot them with the advice: “Grow up and see how the world actually works!”
I think there has been a lot of bloodsucking on both sides of any borders, the USA is not a nation of naifs, it is just as much a nation of capitalists that have profited muchly. I might agree that in Canada the degree of naivety pervades much of the foodchain right up to and including our politicians. A lot of profit, a lot of socialist pandering, a lot of social jusice warrioring. Are you all much different?
Yes.
Imagine if half that capital had stayed home and gone into a proper education system and national infrastructure.. as that wishful thinking wears off, one is forced to imagine how fast our “Leaders” would have figured out how else to steal it from us rubes and we’d be right where we are now.
Love the use of the 2001 Space Odyssey pic. Perfect
Time to end the endless talk. They just have to be submitted.EU can tap out. Same with Iran and ”no nukes”talk. Arabs who call themselves ”palestinians”and their 75-year war with Israel accompanied by endless ”solutions”from the USA/UN etc. The woke crazies who are on the Democrat Party team. BLM, Antifa. Canada. Ukraine/CIA war. All of these must be pummelled into submission. They can’t be reasoned with like drug addicts and alcoholics who cycle through rehab and never get clean.
As a Canadian witnessing our Country make WOKE, Climate, FakeHealth, FakeNews, Fake “culture” media content & many more launder policies a priority with our tax dollars, while leading our squandering Nation into indoctrination, self destruction & despair – all in large part because U.S. tax dollars (now YOUR GROWING debt to pay!) help subsidize these unnatural pursuits – Please America, we beg you: Cut us off and force us into a MERITOCRACY!
This British Columbian
Concurs.
Our entrenched power hub in Quebec and Ontario will never capitulate unless forced to.
Those of us that have been aware of this are prepared and will do fine.
Several of us here regularly talk about our nations demise, and “ adjusting our sails”
An example are two long time B.C. Ferries employees of our acquaintance.
They recently bought a property in Dubai.
Is it wise? Who knows, but these two are disgusted with the high taxation, etc etc They witnessed first hand the fascists in the Liberal government during Covid and set things in motion.
The U.K. is similar many are on the move out, or making plans too.
London and Birmingham Englands two largest cities have entrenched ( it seems ) Muslim first mayor.
Cheers!
Twenty thousand millionaires left the UK last year.
How many welfare recipients moved in. 500,000?
Just how many (muslime) freeloaders does Buckingham Palace sleep…?
Greetings from across the Strait, neighbor, where things are uncomfortably similar to what’s happening in Canada.
Canadian-style government policies are entrenched and Canadian radio is predominant hereabouts. The current state government powers that be would probably be thrilled at the prospect of becoming BC Sur if they had their druthers.
But a whole bunch of us aren’t going for it.
If push came to shove the ptb might be sorely surprised and decidedly disappointed.
I live in Toronto, pay 3000 for my one bedroom (power, internet parking included) My pension doesn’t cover the costs. I see the young people, many feel hopeless. The oversupply of international students is annoying. No jobs for actual students. These are all the result of policy where the political class use us for funds and indulge their fantasies. I have ”fond”memories of Trudeau mania from the late 60s. We’re so fkcd.I’m hoping MAGA puts us out of our misery.If interested, Moose on the Loose has data and a lovely big chart that shows all of Carney’s green companies. He also details the fact that Carney moved his companies offshore and skipped out on paying 5 billion dollars in taxes he would have owed.
Excellent presentation – that flow chart he made is top notch… I’d like to see the whole thing so I could take it all in – a picture is worth millions of words to me.
Moose on the Loose has got it goin’ on.
I also like the fat angry mortgage guy,he isn’t selling anything,he isn’t owned by anyone, just useful short videos ,
I just discovered him last week and he tells it like it is. Good stuff.
He’s good – said “enormously smaller” – gotta love a man who can turn a phrase like that!
He shows common sense – a jewel of great price nowadays!
I read a social media post that claimed Asian Triad gangs are pumping Billions of dollars of drug money into Vancouver through the casinos.
And that 50% of high rise condos are owned by CCP Chinese, some empty?
And these Asian influences now have Inspector posts gamed, allowing in illegal immigrants and fentanyl precursors.
I visited Vancouver around 1998 and thought it was pristine and spectacular. Times have changed, including San Francisco level street homelessness and whacky, insane drug policies.
It sounds like a disaster, again underpinned by whacky liberalism and low birth rates.
It’s the hat. Never should have gone for the hat lol.
Maybe Elon can franchise out his “American Party” to Canada? Call it the “Canadian Party”🤡🤡
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Canadians (and the people of all other former Commonwealth nations) have been as badly mistreated as we Americans. What mistakenly pass for “our governments” are actually corporations in business to provide government services; British Crown Corporations acting criminally to be more precise. All need to be liquidated for cause.
This will provide an overview of the nature of the fraud affecting us all: lackofvalidpledge.pdf
The awakening Americans are taking the necessary steps to reestablish our lawful land jurisdiction government. The same opportunity is open to Canada and all other misruled nations in the former British Commonwealth and occupied nations of Europe. You have to free yourselves peacefully; no one can do it for you.
Use our template for your your benefit: The American States Assemblies
Final note: the Affidavit of Probable Cause mentioned at the end of the first link may be found free of charge at the second link: click on the red bar, “Click Here To Continue Your Education” and it is the middle entry in the top row. Written in a style appropriate to the widest possible audience, the opening pages give a complete history of the nature of the centuries-old fraud. (The civics lessons we never had.)
Alberta here….working to separate from parasitic Canada…it’s unsustainable and God willing MAGA will tip Canada off it’s communist perch asap.
Europe has now evolved into a parasite riding on the coattails of the US economy. They have taken a 75-year gift of the post WWII Marshal Plan’s economic recovery parameters and used it not for the sole benefit of the people that they govern but to entrench themselves as rulers over them in a manner somewhat like the dictators that were defeated in WWII. It is time to remind them that our generosity has a limit and that time has come. Best take heed because we have a very thorough and efficient exterminator known as POTUS Trump.
A Marshall Plan which was a rescue to a failed social-order which attempted to commit suicide, but was rescued as usual, by the American Taxpayer!
What can you say about countries that allow r*pe-torture-and-pimp Pakistani Muslim “grooming gangs” to deflower and horrifically use their teenage children?
One UK estimate in 250K to one million victims.
That is hundreds of millions of gang rapes. Which further reduces future births from these tortured traumatized girls.
No Second Amendment. Old men outnumbered by packs of men in their 30s and 40s. Police do nothing, Labour (Democrats) cover it up.
Sweden is seeing some reduction in these populations – they reduced / cut off welfare. Too little, too late?
Tariffs are a commission for the wealthy few.
The losers are the people who actually make the products, and the consumers who purchase them.
Serfdom.
Depends on the situation
this is the situation
Once you sell any product in the European Union it pays Value Added Tax of 17 to 27% according to the country. Therefore our Tariff for all European products has to be at least 17%. Europe should show US gratitude for giving them freedom in WW II despite France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Norway, Belgium, Holland, and Denmark that were on the other side.
And Jolly Old England was on its knees… to all of you insulted neutered Bull Dogs…I have read, and reread all of Churchill’s books. He openly acknowledged that England…and the anachronistic Commonwealth was finished without the USA.
Holland, Belgium, Norway and Denmark were not on the other side to the best of my knowledge, and many across France were bravely active in the resistance. Likewise in Italy where my father fought. He personally told me stories of bravery exhibited by of many Italians. That said, I agree that the tariff structure of the Marshall Plan needs to be unwound but also feel compelled to defend those countries and people in occupied countries that did what they could to resist the Nazis and Mussolini’s Black Shirts.
Yeah, but…but..it’s been almost 90 years. Is a debt never paid? 🙁
I used to think like that too, now I don’t. I had to go back and re-think the entire 20th century.
Surrendered and collaborated. Italy was in the axis.
Is Europe “free” now?
Debatable..
We have carried most of the European countries for decades, both through our military presence and our highly favorable (to them) trade deals…in return, they have disparaged us and continued living as profligate trust fund babies.
Now, the hammer is coming down and they are being told that the gravy train is coming to an end. Sadly, old habits are very hard to break and a few countries may end up totally collapsing when left to stand on their own merits, but so be it, IMHO. Continuing to protect and provide for people who have been given MUTIPLE opportunities is simply enabling, and frankly, I am just tired of it all the way around!
I feel the same way about many of the people here who are going to be “forced” into having to get a job under the new Medicaid/SNAP rules…I know there are working poor on the rolls and I am not talking about them. A hand up for someone who is struggling, but trying, is VERY different from a handout to someone who feels entitled to someone else’s money! Have a few of them in my own family circle and I am just DONE!
As I’ve posted before: “Nothing squeals louder than the brakes on the Gravy Train.”
Can’t wait to see the 4th generation welfare queens who’s main contribution to society is dropping 4 or 5 illegitimate kids have to make up excuses to why they shouldn’t have to get a job.
Europe’s countries – have been seeded with welfare refugee bombs – that once the money is withheld the human bombs go off.
this same technique was used on US via the invasion.
i’m thinking that “the earlier it gets fixed, the cheaper the solution” a pox upon those politician/welfare-subculture-diversity enablers
i think Europe falls
I think it’s been falling but they haven’t landed yet.
Sweden reportedly cut off some funds and is now seeing a net outflow.
Is that the train with biscuit wheels?
Square biscuit wheels, at that!
Built for soppin’..
Eye-opening article by Jeffrey A. Tucker in the July 1 – 8 issue, re the challenge(s) to getting the American ‘engine of prosperity’ (my words) working again in the USA. Too many young people with no ability (or desire) to fill the ever-expanding job openings, partly because they have useless paper credentials that prepare them for nothing Productive, even IF they were willing to work.
Link to the article?
This is my concern as well – we have an entire generation that has NEVER been taught HOW to work and therefore have no desire to try it, since there is ZERO societal or financial incentive to do so! Sadly, we are going to be stuck paying the bills for a percentage of the population that have been raised to be dependent and will probably NEVER be productive but we don’t have to keep enabling successive generations! At some point, just like President Trump is doing with the EU member nations, we will need to simply say “NO MORE HANDOUTS” and let the chips fall where they may!
For perspective, although I homeschooled my children, I am now in favor of MUCH more stringent requirements because I know WAY too many people who are now using that as an excuse to be “stay at home” moms – demanding welfare and unlimited support from government, family, church, etc while their children are simply being raised to do the same! The public schools are a mess, yes, but pulling children out of them and then not teaching them anything isn’t the solution either!
Reminiscent of captain John Smith, when the explorers came to the US new world. Everyone wanted to treasure hunt but not productively work and produce food. So it was no work, no eat. Those times are coming and here.
Those who will not work shall not eat.
And that is biblical: 2 Thess. 3:10
once finalized
1) must replace with dumber more compliant (dumb meaning naive to freedom)
(people that don’t think twice about ring cameras, alexa devices, voice controlled remotes, ear buds that you can speak into [surveillance])
2)then seed those types with paying them more to be on welfare than to work, and making the current population work just to keep up with the welfare seed replacements.
3) steer births to the replacement
4) the replaced die out or are very weaken
5) stop the payment, start enforcing conformity without resitance amongst the replacements
6) have a toy land to be worse than Sadaam.
Mexican Americans and Latinis filling that gap.
Restaurants, blue collar, cement work, kitchen cabinets, tree trimming, fence building, most 90% Latino in Northern California. Only some white plumbers and electricians.
Fast food in the Bay Area largely Latino, app drivers 50-60%?
Outer suburbs, outside Sacramento, still some normalcy.
A friend tipped me off to another factor. Nepotism. She said her Costco was hiring cousins, brothers sisters of current employees. Costco allegedly ended that. My friend partly left bc she felt shut out of social interactions not being a Spanish speaker or Latino. She was on an island.
“Nepotism”, Once the aliens entered the trades in Cali, Caucasians were locked out. Won’t” do the work is very different from “not allowed”.
You are correct.
This dynamic is far more in play than is generally acknowledged.
I’m seeing a problem locally that we’ve got going on.
If it’s here, it must be all over.
A lot of really good people work at jobs like the local lumber yard, the hardware store, even big box stores, they put some 20 years into these places that pay the best they can afford to- but it’s not enough at all anymore and here they are, getting older, not making enough money and they’ve got over 20 years into what was really a dead end job, but yet it’s all that is around.
The good worker is under-employed yes, but then what else is around?
I’m saying this is a good, hard worker that has been squandered by the system.. BUT there is time left to do something with these people.. how about just a huge jobs training program to move them upward and then move a young one into their job?
There was a day when there were really good jobs that were designed to spend an entire lifetime at, then you’d get a pension. This is what the parents of these guys at the lumber yard did, so you can see them replicating this pattern but the issue is that was never a good job to invest your life in.
So my point here is that there are a lot of very good workers out there in dead end jobs that really should get moved on somehow into something better..
I’m not quite sure how this should be designed, but I can see the problem.
The flip side of this is (and I am one who may consider taking advantage of this) that there are decent jobs – not great ones, but those that can provide a modest income – available for seniors like me who are able and willing to work. And hopefully teach or set the example for the younger crowd.
In fact, wouldn’t it be nice to involve seniors in the training process for workers just entering the workforce? A lot of good work ethic and knowledge goes out the door when people retire, and many like me don’t bring in enough on Social Security to live comfortably so they are forced to go out and find part-time work to survive. Getting paid a decent wage to train others would be incredible!
Agree.
We really need some out of the box new thinking now to deal with where we find ourselves.
We’ve got a good two generations that have been really screwed over.
I see a lot of people around me in their late 40s and 50s that have worked hard, put in the time and done their best, but yet financially gotten no where.. and these are not dummies, it’s just there only is what there is around you.
We all know what it means to be stuck on the Plantation.
You can’t pack up and move away if you don’t have the money to do this and then look at what the real estate situation has been.
If we don’t figure this out and fast, we’re going to see a TON of people moving into retirement age with just about no savings at all.. we’ve got to find a way for the people this age to get onto a path, finally, that will lead them to making some good money for their last 10 or 20 years of working.
I’m in this same situation myself.. gave up a career that was dead ending to stay home and raise the kids, homeschooled them. But now it’s time to pick up the pieces BUT into what???
To your point:
https://notthebee.com/article/companies-are-hiring-etiquette-coaches-to-help-zoomers-acclimate-to-the-workplace
This would be ideal for me.
I’m double the age of one guy I work with and triple the age of another. These young people ARE willing to work and work hard, but they can’t find any hope in working for wages that aren’t enough to get by. They aren’t being greedy, rather just want hope for a better future. If MAGA wants the economic engine to gain momentum that’s a must solve issue. Do so and the 35 and under workers are going to be loyal as long as MAGA stands.
Medicaid/SNAP is supposed to be a safety net, not a hammock.
What a perfect description ! May I steal this?!
Another good one that I say a lot is that it’s supposed to be a safety net not a Lifestyle Choice.
The Saftey Nets are Selective. Too bad contributing to them is not Elective..
welfare is how they pick winners and losers.
they disparage us in movies and advertisements and social programs to encourage naive women to seek elsewhere. then they mockingly say our birth rate is falling.
then they import in replacements and incentivize them to have families with more money.
we see them at the grocery store with carts fuller than our. We work to keep up with the Welfares.
its not the Jones anymore
its keeping up with the Welfares
$500 extra a month is valued at over a $15,000 raise
remember that money isnt probably not taxed
Case in point: women from “other cultures” coming thru the checkout lines at Walmart with their $75 nail jobs, perfect hairdos and expensive clothes, and 5 kids following them, using their SNAP cards to pay for expensive groceries. Then along comes the boyfriend/spouse who pulls out a wad of cash (that they likely got paid under the table) that would choke a horse, paying for cigs, beer, and anything else that they can’t use the SNAP card for.
This is first-hand experience – I worked as a cashier at the Walmart referenced.
Ahhh… the great Maha Rushie. I found that line to be one of the most memorable in his first book.
Miss him terribly, but I know he’s undoubtedly looking down laughing at libs, and cheering Trump on.
What or who is Maha Rushie?
Rush Limbaugh
El Rushbo
Rush Limbaugh.
Don’t forget the EU has generous benefits including SIX WEEKS paid vacation.
We have a massive transfer of wealth going on, and some of the grown children retire early, others lazy, still others stoners.
I know one man early 50s “taking care of his Mom”, no job, new Jeep.
Another early 50s man mooching off of his immigrant girlfriend who works as a cleaning person.
A third inherited a million dollars, bought an old mobile home, and works 1/4 time as a musician. Maybe. Emotional issues, good person.
Another, a friend’s brother, is a life long drug user and small-time dealer. Being pushed out, but the next few years will inherited 500K to one million (when Dads CA home is sold).
How are the euros supposed to give all the freebies away if they have to pay their fair share?
Check and check!
Now give in EU and Canada for the Check mate !!
Love the 2001…… now put up the cut where the ape is smashing down with a jawbone…. Orange Ape Bad…..smash EU!!
100%
Thanks, Sundance! I’ve been wondering how their socialist government was helped being kept afloat. Dots are continuing to be connected. 🤔
Doesn’t this post reveal that PDJT’s position threatens the EU’s very theory of organization–aggregation=competitive leverage with the U.S.?
In that…
1) The EU’s unified tariff structure is at risk, either by agreement at the EU level or piecemeal by country; and
2) The EU’s export market’s purchasing leverage is at risk by the withdrawal altogether of its principal importer, the U.S.
Viewed another way, as the EU’s reason for being potentially evaporates, its members would be well advised to shift their attention from a flawed notion of alliance allegience, and toward advancement of its internal markets and interests.
If Germany wises up, they will cut their own deal with President Trump and the EU will be no more.
Let’s Go!!!!
‘the point’ for each country.
weaken Centralization of welfare distribuiton
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If the EU disappears, many member states will be thrilled. They can cast aside their socialist leaders in EU and vie for nation first economies
Poland is thriving.
This is similar to our American problem with cheap imports from around the globe. We have lived good off of cheap products made in poor countries. For America we need to make quality products here that employ Americans and make working class a viable life.
Already being done – stop buying cheap foreign crap… WE The People already make everything better…
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some links go to amazon stores – bypass the (already wealthy!) middleman profiting from these Made In USA companies by going directly to the business itself to purchase.
Recognize sneaky ‘hiding-foreign-made’ tactics – REJECT the dishonest companies!
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The EU (I now pronounce it Eewwww) was birthed of a Nazi fever dream/ psychotic British royal fantasy.
I wonder if Europe actually realizes this. I guess they are too busy trying to not be raped on the way to the mailbox to notice.
I’d love to see some free speech and assembly for the Freedom Lovers over there leveraged by the Deal Master.
When you describe them not being able to fathom the new Trump ultimatum, it’s like you’re describing a toddler being told he can’t have any ice cream before supper lol.
How ironic most of the world are parasite grownups living in wealthy Uncle Sam’s basement because they can’t make a living in the competitive world under rules respecting their rich Uncle Sam.
Further irony is this entourage of our parasite “allies” who can’t stand on on their own in the real world want to DESTROY RUSSIA which is one of the few nations not screwing the USA because we won’t trade with THOSE RUSSIAN MEANIES.
The only reason these parasites PRETEND to be our friends is they don’t want us to stop throwing our money around so they can party USING OUR MONEY all the time.
The real reason they hate Donald Trump is he expects the freeloading world to grow up and earn its own way and stop living in Uncle Sam’s basement on a FREE RIDE.
The age-old problem is rich guys always have plenty of friends hanging with them when they throw money around.
I love and appreciate everything POTUS Trump is doing for our country. I just hope he will have some mechanism in place to keep what he creates for us, so that Administrations after him can’t roll it back.
The five stages of dying:
denial
anger
bargaining
depression
acceptance
People make the mistake of thinking that the subject goes through one phase and then passes to the next. This is dead wrong.
The subject can go through multiple stages at the same time.
I would say the EU is going through all the but the final phase right now.
Grief is what is described – not necessarily just “dying”… as in an imminent personal death. Loss of every kind carries a degree of grief with it… there are many kinds of loss that inspire – and necessitate – the grief process.
They are grieving the loss of their own comfort; the comfortable status quo’s end is sinking in.
Learning how to proactively complete the (natural & innate as respiration) Grief process is imperative for healthy mind/body/Spirit Human life.
Unresolved Grief is an affliction that weakens every Human – is why we have been prevented, by the usurpers, for generations, from learning how to 1.) understand it fully & accurately, AND 2.) complete the Grief process pro-actively on purpose!
Remember this when watching EU going forward… that entity will *weaken* very fast.
AmaraGrace, you have a good knower and it works mighty fine.
Why don’t they take the UN back with them!
They have been very quiet lately . . . wouldn’t it be a big mess if and when Mamdani gets elected?
I hope Sammy and Torie aren’t planning another color revolution . . . in New York City!
In my opinion, Sammy and Torie are busy creating unrest in Tbilisi, Georgia at the moment.
Total Bastard Airlines – SNL
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“buh’,bye”, Airbus!
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I get very irked each time I have to fly on EU subsidized Airbus aircraft.
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Now we need some competitors to Boeing to keep them honest.
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What a bunch of pansies can’t manufacture a special 747 for Air-Force 1 in one year.
This is why you pull ticks from your pets. The blood sucking can turn into diseases.
They need to be paying us back for the treasure and people we lost supporting their lazy butts in ww1 and ww2…tariffs aren’t enough.
Put simply, it is time the Marshall Plan was let die.
The look on Ursula face is priceless.
It is the look of what the hell just happened
And what are we gonna do??
Facelift and all.
Yes sir! She is thinking who will pay for the next one.
There is no way the EU countries will be able to meet the 5% of GDP contribution to NATO goals either. They simply do not have it. They will slow walk it hoping they can outlast the Trump administration and hope for the next admin to let them off the hook. Combined with trade tariffs Trump will bring EU to its knees.
As are the Socialist Liberal Snow Mexican people of Canada waiting out MAGA .
All for naught.
Ergo contribution “in 2030”.
Why is POTUS letting that slide?
Last tern her got immediate contributions.
#perpetual-underestimation
OrangeManBadass brings it
The photo of von der Lyin is excellent – caught her looking like a deer caught in headlights…
just realizing she’s personally & inescapably in the position of “circling the drain” perhaps.
Hey, EU, all other countries and all demorats and progressives—-the gravy train is over. No more ripping off the American taxpayers. No more free money. We hard working Americans will be keeping more of our hard-earned money Thanks to DJT
MARGARET THATCHER – once said something about ‘other people’s money’.
Now you know who’s money she was talking about…..Uncle Sams.
Ours.
The Socialists are just mad they will be running out of other people’s money…ours.
Here is a comparison of how the eu and the us grew since the EU was formed. It illustrates the effect of socialist policies. And bear in mind that the US was wasting enormous amounts on wars, and generally “policing” the world while eu was doing squat, except taking advantage of trade policy.
To emphasize the point: a rational tax system will keep growth high. The newest change in policy (reduced taxes on working class, and big tax write-offs for investing in factories) is expected to change the long-term us real growth rate to at least 3.4, and probably 4.4 – this is a huge effect. Note to elon: gfy.
Nominal GDP Comparison: US vs EU (1993 vs 2024)
Region 1993 GDP (USD) 2024 GDP (USD) Growth Nominal Growth
US $6.86 trillion $29.17 trillion 2.3% real + 2.4% inflation 4.7%
EU $6.75 trillion $19.42 trillion 0.74% real + 2.7% inflation 3.44%
Sources
US 1993 GDP: MeasuringWorth, MacrotrendsUS 2024 GDP: IMF WEO, April 2024EU 1993 GDP: Estimated from historical Eurostat and World Bank dataEU 2024 GDP: Statistical references via IMF and Wikipedia summary
GFY = Go Fund Yourself!
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the “Go Fund Yourself” statement… as a witty & powerful chant… is as clever as was the FJB substitute – “Let’s Go Brandon”.
Thanks & accolades to the originator – (writer not attributed, sadly)…
{ After 18 years of fighting, Congress has just told Planned Parenthood to go fund themselves }
Yeah, the unelected EU scumbags will burn through those Russian frozen assets faster than ever now. They’re very good at stealing other people’s money although they claim they have only spent the interest on it.
A guy at the verizon store saw my number was tied to a corporate acct. He asked me if business was coming back. I don’t think people realize how long it will take to bring dormant industries back online in the US. It won’t happen in a couple months. It will take years. Most likely it won’t happen in our lifetime but it had to start at some point.
put on your website
“you pay more to know the product isnt false advertised, won’t break, the parts within it will all be there, and that you won’t have to return (but if you do, a real person in this country will be there to assist)”.
The Black Monolith has landed in Brussels!
Oh, that’s good!
Maggie saw this day coming decades ago, when the “other people” would finally grow tired and push the European snouts out of the trough.
The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.
I think this video (posted in yesterday’s Presidential thread is perfect for this one:
It is approx 2hrs long, but it accurately explains what is going on in the West.
Once you watch it, you will realize why it fits this thread perfectly. President Trump is a spanner in the works!
Spanner aka Monkey Wrench….:0)
I wonder how old one has to be these days to be able to know what either of those words actually mean?
Reminds me of showing a 14 year old granddaughter how to use a brace and bit. She thought it was like magic because it did not need to use batteries!
The EU thieves that are recipients of 80 years of the over generous Marshall Plan should be cut off immediately. It is time for them to pay the piper, just like every other government. There is no reason for the old Warsaw Pact governments, who were forced to rebuild after the war while being raped by the Russians behind the Iron Curtain, to carry an even up tariff deal with America. I think that the Warsaw Pact countries ,who were coerced to join the Marshall Plan thieves, should get a more favorable tariff rate, especially any American loving country like Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic. Just my rambling opinion.
Oh, My oh my! I love the image from 2001 A Space Odyssey. How apt!!! Brilliant summary, Sundance! I just can’t stop smiling!
Trump’s Art of the Deal keeps on working for the USA. When will these European (and Canadian) buffoons get it? Oh and by the way, the price for Canada has just lowered.
the world was grown via you and I being left behind.
they world can’t adjust because they never had a place without us being left behind.
ambivalence – do you mean intransigence?
This is all coming to a head, ……
Now, this is jmho, look for Musk to get right in the middle of this.
Remember, for months now Italy’s Georgia Meloni & Elon were all giddy with each other.
Lots of puzzle pieces:
https://www.firstpost.com/world/if-youre-musk-the-number-you-dial-belongs-to-meloni-italy-pm-named-most-influential-in-europe-13843848.html
https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2025/07/02/pm-anwar-meets-up-with-muslims-in-italy
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-powers-look-to-create-financial-firm-to-thwart-us-donald-trump-sanctions-on-iran/
https://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/meetings/meeting-2025/participants-2025
Think how different the entire set of conversations would be if each country which is a member negotiated on behalf of its own country.
The EU was meant to be a helpful market collaborative, not a prison.
As Germany goes, so goes the EU.
Germany is a mess, shutting down nuclear power, continuing an invasion. Their native birth rate is abysmal, and has been for decades, churches now more museums than places of worship.
Worst of all they are de-industrializing mainly bc of the Green New Deal. They also rely on American military bases for monetary flow.
The EU countries commit to spending 5% on the military in 2030? Good luck w that. Why not an immediate increase right now?
Germany still trying to ban AfD. Labeled ‘far right’, ‘extreme right’, ‘ultra right’.
And, what happened to the EU building and funding their own EU military force that they talked about earlier this year?
The Marshall Plan, let no good deed go unpunished.
“In many ways the EU is in the same position as Canada. From its perspective, economic reciprocity is not sustainable; it would have to change its social compacts. This is the core of the conflict.”
If by social compacts they mean a small group of elite have all the benefits while the commoners work hard, are taxed to death and have to endure the chaos of intentional invasion of 3rd world barbarians who destroy the very fabric of the society they claim as refuge?
That social compact is only possible by financial support by unfair trade and unrest created in third world nations via Deep State USAID/CIA actions.
POTUS Trump’s plan is to eliminate both and change the social compact to benefit the regular people
He who has the cards, makes the rules.
The EU Commissioners will simply declare Amazon, Apple, Google, Nvidia and Microsoft as monopolies and fine them $10 billion Euros each every year or so to make up the difference!
Then an EU judge will uphold the decision. It’s the standard operating process in Europe to bleed American companies!
They are free to FAFO.
when the cost to do business in the EU becomes too much
they will all leave
“Take it, or leave it!” I like it, has a definite pro-America ring to it. 😁
the EU and Canada will squeal louder then
a 350lb single mom with 6 kids who lost their food stamps
music to my ears
Love the 2001 Space Odessy gif. That’s always my question for the libs always complaining about tariffs, are they stupid as I hear from so many know nothing liberals? If so why do other countries use them? I’ll spare you the time…they don’t have an answer.
If Denmark negotiates with Canada to transfer control of Greenland, can Canada become a member of the European Union?