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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social

I don’t think it’s a privilege for another country to sell me bananas. I’m glad they grow them, and I’m happy to pay for them.

jul 13, 2025, 1:28 am • 2,064 270

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Libraryanna @libraryanna.bsky.social

It’s the most commonly bought thing at Walmart.

jul 13, 2025, 2:44 am • 2 0 • view
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Surunitemi @surunitemi.bsky.social

The world can safely assume this MAGA PresiDeath is as stupid as he appears to be! The next 3.5 years are going to be an insane-fest that we will have to endure!

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njcnlr.bsky.social @njcnlr.bsky.social

That’s because you’re a decent human being

jul 13, 2025, 1:43 am • 1 0 • view
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IsleInTheStorm @isleinthestorm.bsky.social

Sounds normal to me. Been working that way for hundreds of years.

jul 13, 2025, 11:17 am • 1 0 • view
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🫘Desireé Owen @oweninthefirst.bsky.social

He lives in the 1800's. I'm convinced he never attended a college class of any kind, especially at Wharton. Seriously, have you ever run across any college graduate this stupid?

jul 13, 2025, 4:22 am • 2 0 • view
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dadioski.bsky.social @dadioski.bsky.social

It's what mobsters used to tell store owners to collect, "I give you the privilege to sell in my neighborhood, for your own protection, lest somethings bad should happen to your business" The guy is an outright mobster criminal and sex offender.

jul 13, 2025, 1:31 am • 8 1 • view
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DDrae🇨🇦 @ddrae.bsky.social

Whether they like it or not ….. it’s how abusers talk

jul 13, 2025, 5:09 am • 2 0 • view
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Ride Or Die Dem 🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🗽 @hocuspocusblade.bsky.social

Trump: "I don't give a fuck that it's almost impossible to grow coffee plants in America so I'm going to tax the shit out of importers. How do you like those apples?"

jul 13, 2025, 1:44 am • 1 1 • view
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msnaught.bsky.social @msnaught.bsky.social

Those letters say no such thing and he is blithering g. Also, a few glaring journalism (for lack of a better term to describe this) ethics issues in choice of "interviewer." This is even worse than Cuomo "interviewing" Cuomo on CNN during pandemic. 🙄

jul 13, 2025, 4:46 am • 2 0 • view
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George Orwell's Ghost @polintowers.bsky.social

This has got to be the dumbest imbecile ever to disgrace any office of government in this country

jul 13, 2025, 1:42 am • 3 0 • view
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jcs77.bsky.social @jcs77.bsky.social

Reminds be, did I hear correctly, he is going to "sell" NATO the weapons already promised to Ukraine for them to distribute? Have we ever sold NATO arms? All he wants is the money. Everyone should pay us for every little thing? Greedy SOB isn't he?

jul 13, 2025, 2:54 am • 2 0 • view
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DDrae🇨🇦 @ddrae.bsky.social

Yup and he doesn’t want to give them directly to Ukraine….. cause you know. Pooty will be upset

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jcs77.bsky.social @jcs77.bsky.social

Just wish each of those countries tell him to shove it. It's not a diplomatic deal request. It's a forceful demand from the biggest crook/bully in the world. I hope they all stand their ground against this madman. Only way for them to save face.

jul 13, 2025, 2:50 am • 1 0 • view
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LilyGreen @lilygreen.bsky.social

oh wait. thus is his version after being counseled to sound more presidential. lol.

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LilyGreen @lilygreen.bsky.social

have they been drugging him? since shootings in MN, he's been very subdued in these videos. his posts obv, not so controlled.

jul 13, 2025, 3:12 pm • 1 0 • view
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itsjamiem.bsky.social @itsjamiem.bsky.social

I want to know where our money that we are paying for these stupid tariffs is going?

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tinmann91.bsky.social @tinmann91.bsky.social

“…various countries “

jul 13, 2025, 1:47 am • 1 0 • view
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JJ @jjbrainstorm.bsky.social

But it is a privilege that many of these countries bought US debt. A few trillion in fact. I don't expect many to hold it long though. I expect they may unload most if not all of it soon.

jul 13, 2025, 1:49 am • 1 0 • view
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patti13.bsky.social @patti13.bsky.social

"But if you're brown, don't step into our country or we'll send you to Sudan."

jul 13, 2025, 1:50 am • 1 0 • view
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Dave Urban @davidjohnurban.bsky.social

That is so completely delusional. How is it that the media continues to cover up for this nonsense?

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Thinking aloud @2bthinkingaloud.bsky.social

Seems like a good time to remind Americans to STOP SPENDING for anything beyond what you need. Every $ not spent is a vote against this administration. It is the only language they understand.

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ヒッピー @sgthippie.bzky.team

We didn’t fight wars and overturn democracy in Latin America for expensive bananas!

jul 13, 2025, 1:47 am • 1 0 • view
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samshell2.bsky.social @samshell2.bsky.social

Trump knows all about “privilege”. He’s had the”privilege”of escaping our laws & justice for decades,by having”friends in high places”& people that do his bidding.The mob boss used that”privilege”to keep himself out of prison & steal our country,money,resources. We must remove his “privilege” now.

jul 13, 2025, 2:28 am • 2 0 • view
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MichiganBlue 💙 @bluemeade7.bsky.social

jul 13, 2025, 2:28 am • 1 0 • view
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here2learn2.bsky.social @here2learn2.bsky.social

The grandiosity is beyond obnoxious.

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findannie.bsky.social @findannie.bsky.social

I agree!

jul 13, 2025, 1:50 am • 1 0 • view
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drjoep.bsky.social @drjoep.bsky.social

What’s he talking about?

jul 13, 2025, 9:17 pm • 1 0 • view
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vl2024.bsky.social @vl2024.bsky.social

Felon47 regime house of cards collapsing soon …

jul 13, 2025, 3:26 am • 1 0 • view
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Troy Lacefield @talace.bsky.social

Coffee, tea, mango etc etc

jul 13, 2025, 1:31 am • 1 0 • view
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Kimba @kimba1129.bsky.social

Exactly

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artisticnan.bsky.social @artisticnan.bsky.social

A privilege? That's rich. Meanwhile Canada is building stronger trade agreements with our trustworthy allies.

jul 13, 2025, 1:43 am • 6 0 • view
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jroylake.bsky.social @jroylake.bsky.social

In other words, cost is not an issue for prezorangey.

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jeanmoulin4ever.bsky.social @jeanmoulin4ever.bsky.social

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DDrae🇨🇦 @ddrae.bsky.social

Every single day we need to post John Roberts to shame him and the Epstein posts to remind him.

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Sharon Chisholm @theogsharonc.bsky.social

So please explain why he keeps throwing ppl out. Oohhh… he means the privilege is for pasty-colored ppl.

jul 13, 2025, 2:51 am • 1 0 • view
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Welsh rarebit @welshrarebit.bsky.social

Where others see business opportunities he sees extortion opportunities.

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labboypro.bsky.social @labboypro.bsky.social

"I only eat genuine red, white, and blue Idaho bananas. Sure, they cost me $12 each, but that's the price of freedum."

jul 13, 2025, 11:13 pm • 1 0 • view
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Matthew @mateoatl.bsky.social

Oh wow he signed the letters.

jul 13, 2025, 1:43 am • 1 0 • view
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BB79 @beachbums79.bsky.social

The stupidity is real.

jul 13, 2025, 4:55 am • 1 0 • view
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Paul A. @paul.ofthenorth.ca

It's a privilege to buy US goods? Well, if that's how you feel about it...

jul 13, 2025, 1:43 am • 2 0 • view
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Mummified Yeti Hand @jackacid.bsky.social

Talk about low energy!

jul 13, 2025, 1:34 am • 1 0 • view
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Malebranche @foxux.bsky.social

Historically, that has been the best way to get bananas.

jul 13, 2025, 6:08 pm • 1 0 • view
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Dawn Alene @dawnalene.bsky.social

He’s an imbecile

jul 13, 2025, 1:28 am • 29 0 • view
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Sane English @saneenglish.bsky.social

Trump thinks signing pieces of paper with his big Sharpie signature is being President

jul 13, 2025, 1:53 am • 2 0 • view
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Scott Lelli @scott-lelli.bsky.social

Repeal the Corn Laws

jul 13, 2025, 1:43 am • 1 0 • view
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JT Compton 🌊 fighting tyranny @jtcompton.bsky.social

Tariffs are Trump's latest scam to tax average Americans while offsetting his tax breaks for billionaires. Tariffs are a tax on US. #ETTD #WPE #StupidTariffs

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DDrae🇨🇦 @ddrae.bsky.social

He’s collected billions. Thinks it’s his money. The people are paying it.

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AnnieOakleyinGA @annie1x.bsky.social

Who the hell does he think wants to shop or work in the U.S. now? It’s damn sure not the Canadians or Mexicans or anyone else who values their freedom. Hell I don’t even want to shop or work in America and I live here.

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DDrae🇨🇦 @ddrae.bsky.social

Yeah we’re getting another fucking tariff Monday. You watch

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AnnieOakleyinGA @annie1x.bsky.social

Yep.

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busber.bsky.social @busber.bsky.social

Advanced information for his pals to start their grift and work the stock market again while he manipulates it with his tariffs.

jul 13, 2025, 7:57 am • 2 0 • view
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dengelbr.bsky.social @dengelbr.bsky.social

For me as an European it actually is no privilege to buy anything from the USA. The opposite is true, it is an obligation not to buy anything from the gangsters' republic! European is great, Canadian is great, Mexican is great, US American is not!

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DDrae🇨🇦 @ddrae.bsky.social

Hahaha shop? Shop for grocery’s? It’s no privledge. I dropped 4 things that were from the USA today…

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social

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DDrae🇨🇦 @ddrae.bsky.social

Thumpers going to build a banana plantation….. and sell bananas the Mexicans pick.

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rob quigley ppm_319 @robppm319.bsky.social

paid a little extra for fruit from Peru rather than california today, happy as a Canadian to do it.

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DDrae🇨🇦 @ddrae.bsky.social

Had to put the nectarines back tonight 😭😭😭😭

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tootall64.bsky.social @tootall64.bsky.social

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tinmann91.bsky.social @tinmann91.bsky.social

You’re right. And it floored me when he won in ‘16. Then is when I realized how many imbeciles in our country.

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Deborah C @debcombs14.bsky.social

He’s a Fing lunatic

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essathebrowndog.bsky.social @essathebrowndog.bsky.social

With an auto pen because they are all the same

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Jack Sprat @jacksprat39.bsky.social

The WH imbecile speaking absurdities for the complicit media to dutifully report as coherent and normal.

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crainiumlainie.bsky.social @crainiumlainie.bsky.social

It is now.

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redhead14.bsky.social @redhead14.bsky.social

To do anything in the US right now is no privilege!

jul 13, 2025, 1:38 am • 1 0 • view
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Howell Harris @trefeca.bsky.social

Trade as “the privilege to shop”? The man really is an idiot.

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bookred.bsky.social @bookred.bsky.social

He's insane. Wharton should be VERY embarrassed.

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Biff Whipster @biffwhipster.bsky.social

His brain is oatmeal

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Elaine @mypups.bsky.social

Food soon to be a luxury.

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saltam.bsky.social @saltam.bsky.social

I’m enjoying my California produce now while I can at a good price. Although strawberries have not reached 99c a clamshell yet.

jul 13, 2025, 3:36 am • 4 0 • view
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KENTUCKIAN @kentuckian.bsky.social

I imagine most people are afraid to come to the US anymore

jul 13, 2025, 1:58 am • 1 0 • view
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Mannwich @mannwich.bsky.social

A complete moron and lunatic is running the show. Congrats to all.

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felinesareperfect.bsky.social @felinesareperfect.bsky.social

Shop and work? Is this not about trade in goods and services? Trump's brains are getting mushier by the day.

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Doug Smith @genejockey57.bsky.social

Also, it's like he's got the idea bass-ackwards. THEY'RE not shopping in OUR country. WE'RE shopping in THEIRS.

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DDrae🇨🇦 @ddrae.bsky.social

But he said he doesn’t need anything we have🐦‍🔥

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steverinosky.bsky.social @steverinosky.bsky.social

Boy, is she ever grilling him!

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Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com

Wait until you hear about coffee.

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DDrae🇨🇦 @ddrae.bsky.social

Oh he’s gonna build Coffee and banana plantations For the banana republic.

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barbiedahl.bsky.social @barbiedahl.bsky.social

What a dumb ass. Is he going to get in his way back machine to deposit potash under Mara Lardo.

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bvrcat.bsky.social @bvrcat.bsky.social

Sorry nope don’t want that privilege hard pass!!

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i8dc 👊🇺🇸🔥 @i8dc.bsky.social

BUT WHAT ABOUT ALL OF THE AMERICAN BANANAS WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICAN BANANAS

jul 13, 2025, 2:10 am • 1 0 • view
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Audrey @audreygv.bsky.social

This guy is off the rails everybody and we should all be concerned. The US president is cray cray!. Seriously.

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SouthernFriedHusker @husker1184.bsky.social

Gonna say it again. The tariffs are aimed at Jerome Powell. The pressure campaign on him right now is massive

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digiblader.bsky.social @digiblader.bsky.social

Except tariffs will lead to significantly higher interest rates as inflation skyrockets.

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Don Hoskins 🍁 True North Strong & Free!🍁 @djbhoskins.bsky.social

This is great... There are so many other nicer countries to trade with we in Canada don't need to sell anything in the US to do just fine, thank you... 😎🍁✊

jul 13, 2025, 1:56 am • 2 0 • view
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DDrae🇨🇦 @ddrae.bsky.social

Apparantly they don’t need anything we have….

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My License Plate Meeper @meeper444.bsky.social

Past the letter, is anyone keeping track of this stuff? Like, can Vietnam say their tariff is 4% to customs and customs can't say it isnt?

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obinr.bsky.social @obinr.bsky.social

In other words, no trade deals???

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DDrae🇨🇦 @ddrae.bsky.social

Yup

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supermanlover-56.bsky.social @supermanlover-56.bsky.social

He sounds like a mob boss 😅

jul 13, 2025, 2:12 am • 3 0 • view
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Martin Guindon 5.58🤘 @psykodorky.bsky.social

It's always been his trade, pretty much.

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mharris15.bsky.social @mharris15.bsky.social

Also, the tariffs we place on foreign goods coming into the US have nothing to do with other countries "shopping or working in this country." He's such a moron.

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Debbie🇺🇦🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hollylilly22.bsky.social

Wait till they want coffee or chocolate with the bananas

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Thinking aloud @2bthinkingaloud.bsky.social

Seems like a good time to remind Americans to STOP SPENDING for anything beyond what you need. Every $ not spent is a vote against this administration. It is the only language they understand.

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UnCivil Defense™ 8647 🗽 @musiccomposer.com

and his pals are shorting the markets again. #resist #ice #NoKings #Terrorism #Fascism

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knize.bsky.social @knize.bsky.social

She not even going to mention Epstein, is she? That will go over well.

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retinco.bsky.social @retinco.bsky.social

She won't because Trump is trying to shut it down. He wants no more talk about Epstein. Lara will obey.

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tinmann91.bsky.social @tinmann91.bsky.social

Obey. Perfect word

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Fred Kesselman @fkess23.bsky.social

So sleepy

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Matilda Morgenschoen @mmorgenschoen.bsky.social

besides the fact that he thinks *selling* stuff to us is “shopping in our country”

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salt-miner.bsky.social @salt-miner.bsky.social

If you were trying to hire a CEO and found a guy who only understood economics in analogy to retail, you would pass

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Matilda Morgenschoen @mmorgenschoen.bsky.social

especially when they don’t understand retail, either

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coloneltompeeping.bsky.social @coloneltompeeping.bsky.social

I'm going to charge Americans a 50% tax for the privilege of buying foreign goods.

jul 13, 2025, 2:04 am • 1 0 • view
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AladdinNoons @aladdinnoons.bsky.social

Been there many times. Spent tens of thousands of dollars there. I will never be back. You need to get your Gestapo and SS off the streets. You’ve no idea how “land of the free” appears to the outside world #revulsion

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Jase 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇮🇪 @jasonboerema.bsky.social

Other countries are more than welcome to sell their products in the United States, it’s just the American people that will have to pay out the ass for those products. Tariffs are a tax on us, why doesn’t he understand that?

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DDrae🇨🇦 @ddrae.bsky.social

He’s so proud of the billions he’s collected from the American people and businesses.

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123simco.bsky.social @123simco.bsky.social

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elmariachi3k.bsky.social @elmariachi3k.bsky.social

Privilege? Fuck you. Nothing to dream about in the fascist regime.

jul 13, 2025, 11:25 am • 2 0 • view
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Nita @nn-2an.bsky.social

His signature looks like an EKG

jul 13, 2025, 3:08 am • 1 0 • view