The newest lefty complaint is that places with only penguins are getting tariffs.
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No, it's because those places have shipping ports, and they're plugging loopholes where they could route the goods through them and avoid tariffs.
Who the fuck cares, if nobody lives there then it affects nobody.
The TLD idea is fucking retarded. The real reason is the actual import/export data does show goods moving around.
The real issue here is that the admin didn't take their time to validate their numbers before announcing. Should have also put a $ cap on which countries are even worth considering. If a rock in the Pacific exports $5 and imports $1.50, that's not a trade imbalance that anyone should be giving a shit about. I get that they're trying to play up how many countries the US has a trade deficit with, but it doesn't work if no one takes the numbers seriously.
We're talking about clerical errors on single shipments instead of the fact that China's been fucking the US over for decades.
Oh and the funniest one, the Diego Garcia/BIOT one is because of brilliant doctors and engineers...
Mmmm, yes and no. The analytical approach is fine and you make a good point about ratios being meaningless at super low levels. However sometimes simple things can have massive effects. Like the DOGE "name five things" email that should have taken any legit worker and even non retarded bad workers a whole three minutes to type up. But the chaps it created was more valuable than the stated purpose. So it's more of a shake up or a shit test than anything else. Throw everything at the wall, the bad actors will retaliate, the good actors will come to the table, and those who aren't fucking us to begin with or know they were and are okay with the retaliation will just shrug and carry on.
Those penguins are millionaires apparently
Or it's a front area for a multi national laundering scheme, so Trump is putting a tariff on that.
Was about to say, sounds like a good laundering location.
Hit everyone and see what happens is a strategy in horror movies and business.
Money laundering requires a veneer of legitimacy. Money flowing through countries like Ukraine have some plausible deniability. If you're sending funds through a location with no residents is a massive red flag.
It's really the worst thing you could do as a money launderer. At any large scale at least.
So... There's no problem if those places are hit with a 1000000% tariff, then, right?
Cue the "the sky is falling" panic screams in response to that, how it would ruin entire continents, frogs would rain from the sky, the dead coming back to life to feast on the living, mass hysteria. Because people ARE funneling goods and services and cash through these places.
What about cats and dogs living together?
Send Haitian migrants.
They'd eat the penguins
The islands are owned by Australia, and individuals could register companies there to avoid tariffs.
Please, sit back down at the children's table. The adults are working now.
Why do they want tarifs to negatively impact La Réunion, which is effectively a third-world shithole held together by French welfare? Not very Intersectional-Progressive of them. /s
Change it to places that include only fans and they'll change their tune real quick.