President Trump

threespires said:
Shame Derbyshire is too professional to say "actually yeah feel to f**k off you gaslighting, grifting little troll". There is absolutely no point trying to conduct a sensible interview with the likes of Gorka, it's a complete waste of everyone's time.
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I thought she was a typical BBC interviewer. Promoting a left wing agenda and attacking with passive aggressive techniques and blurring the lines with her questioning. Agree that the bloke being interviewed was probably representing a dubious ideal, but he was following a governmental line and should have been the good grace of explaining himself without having the barrage of presenters hissy fits.
Cannot stand the modern trend of newsreaders telling us what we should think. They should give us the news and let us make our minds up (bring back Richard Baker and kenneth Kendal).
Anyway if you want a balanced explanation and not a hissy fit attack on an interviewee here is a quick read fully explaining the situation
taxpolicy.org.uk

No, VAT isn’t a tariff – here’s what Trump (and others) get wrong

There are many good articles explaining why VAT isn’t a tariff. But if you want one with more detail, and more footnotes…
taxpolicy.org.uk taxpolicy.org.uk
 
Silva Citizen said:
I thought she was a typical BBC interviewer. Promoting a left wing agenda and attacking with passive aggressive techniques and blurring the lines with her questioning. Agree that the bloke being interviewed was probably representing a dubious ideal, but he was following a governmental line and should have been the good grace of explaining himself without having the barrage of presenters hissy fits.
Cannot stand the modern trend of newsreaders telling us what we should think. They should give us the news and let us make our minds up (bring back Richard Baker and kenneth Kendal).
Anyway if you want a balanced explanation and not a hissy fit attack on an interviewee here is a quick read fully explaining the situation
taxpolicy.org.uk

No, VAT isn’t a tariff – here’s what Trump (and others) get wrong

There are many good articles explaining why VAT isn’t a tariff. But if you want one with more detail, and more footnotes…
taxpolicy.org.uk taxpolicy.org.uk
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Are you American? BBC news/politics is certainly not left wing but I can understand if you're American.
 
roubaixtuesday said:
Just how dumb this tariff imposition is




Economists are struggling to even describe the sheer level of idiocy involved.
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Are there any countries with a trade deficit with the US?
Because that implies a negative ‘tariff’ percentage needs to be applied …

Regarding ‘sheer level of idiocy’.. it’s on 2 levels… the one that produced the bollox of these percentages… and the main and far more damaging level - people who just lap it up, nod along and don’t question the absurdity of a country supposedly having 94% tariffs.
 
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Every country, every government, corporation and individual needs to wake up this morning and cancel every single fucking order with this shit stain of a nation, and I make no apologies for calling it that, because whilst this **** and his cock sucking government are in charge, that's what it is.

To paraphrase his favourite term, it will cause short term pain but be for the best in the long run.

The only exception should be if someone has ordered a few bullets suitable for a sniper rifle
 
I hope that 8bn global consumers now turn their backs on US brands. Alternative products and services are widely available right across the world and nothing will affect the US more than its brands losing their global market share.
 
Silva Citizen said:
I thought she was a typical BBC interviewer. Promoting a left wing agenda and attacking with passive aggressive techniques and blurring the lines with her questioning. Agree that the bloke being interviewed was probably representing a dubious ideal, but he was following a governmental line and should have been the good grace of explaining himself without having the barrage of presenters hissy fits.
Cannot stand the modern trend of newsreaders telling us what we should think. They should give us the news and let us make our minds up (bring back Richard Baker and kenneth Kendal).
Anyway if you want a balanced explanation and not a hissy fit attack on an interviewee here is a quick read fully explaining the situation
taxpolicy.org.uk

No, VAT isn’t a tariff – here’s what Trump (and others) get wrong

There are many good articles explaining why VAT isn’t a tariff. But if you want one with more detail, and more footnotes…
taxpolicy.org.uk taxpolicy.org.uk
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I think you can trace the problem with modern political interviews back to the introduction of extensive media training for politicians. Once upon a time there was a chance that a question would be asked and that an answer might be proffered. Then at some point pretty much all politicians began to be taught by media agencies how to seemingly address the question with a non answer whilst actually pivoting to their own talking points within the first few words. At that point the technique of asking a question and leaving the interviewee to answer became completely devalued because, rather than an answer. what you would get was a small party political broadcast on whatever the politician wanted to talk about that day. Hence I think why so many interviewers these days interject multiple times during answers to attempt to get them on question rather than on message. This tends to lead to completely unsatisfactory interviews and we're now in a chicken and egg situation.

I went on a course of this nature in the US in the early 2000s, it was only about dealing with the trade press but it was taught by people who trained politicians. It was probably the most depressing piece of training I've ever participated in

Unless and until politicians are instead sent to the "Jack Grealish School of Honest Communication" we are doomed to this unsatisfactory situation and sadly that's not going to happen.
 
JASR said:
Are there any countries with a trade deficit with the US?
Because that implies a negative ‘tariff’ percentage needs to be applied …

Regarding ‘sheer level of idiocy’.. it’s on 2 levels… the one that produced the bollox of these percentages… and the main and far more damaging level - people who just lap it up, nod along and don’t question the absurdity of a country actually having 94% tariffs.
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Yeah, and that speaks to Trump's true superpower. Not business acumen, certainly not intelligence, but low cunning.

He knows people like to feel they're great, but being ripped off and have a strong man protect them. He tells people an appealing narrative and they lap it up. He doesn't even slightly care about the truth or the consequences.
 
Probably just another stock market manipulation scam.
His backers will be making big money betting against the market then they’ll do it again after the next announcement causes markets to jump up.
It’s just a criminal enterprise.
 
Don't what's the problem for any government to put there country first as in there people buying there own made products? Other counties can do the same to any other Country! Someone explain to me why I'm wrong if I'm wrong?
 
roubaixtuesday said:
worldpopulationreview.com

US Trade Deficit by Country 2025

Comprehensive data on the US trade deficit by country, providing detailed information on imports, exports, trade balance, and total trade values.
worldpopulationreview.com worldpopulationreview.com

There's a little known North Atlantic island in there with a $10bn deficit...
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The people of the Nederland will be feeling most aggrieved they’re lumped into EU.

Idiot bollox numbers for idiot consumption
 
waspish said:
Don't what's the problem for any government to put there country first as in there people buying there own made products? Other counties can do the same to any other Country! Someone explain to me why I'm wrong if I'm wrong?
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There is zero problem with it as long as those consumers in the west are happy to pay a lot higher prices for those products, sure as shit Brad in Oklahoma isn’t going to make Nike trainers for $1 an hour compared to Sum Yung Guy in Beijing, that’s what these mad bastards don’t realise everything will cost more if made at home because the west expect better wages and not slave wages. I mean when all the immigrants have gone from the usa who’s cutting their lawns for 50 cents an hour, no white man is.
 
waspish said:
Don't what's the problem for any government to put there country first as in there people buying there own made products? Other counties can do the same to any other Country! Someone explain to me why I'm wrong if I'm wrong?
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You’ve missed a word between “Don’t” and “what’s”.
You’ve misspelled “their” three times as “there”.
You’ve written “counties” instead of “countries”.

No need to thank me.
 
hcblue95 said:
Are you American? BBC news/politics is certainly not left wing but I can understand if you're American.
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BBC news is sui generis; they have a stance but it is difficult to discern what the principles are looking from the outside. There are internal meetings which decide the line they are going to take.
 
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