• bluewing@lemm.ee
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    11 hours ago

    Yeah, it’s hard to put a tariff on a country that you have already sanctioned and don’t trade with at all. But that fact doesn’t play well here.

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      11 hours ago

      The US has 3.5 billion in trade with Russia. The tariffs include Iran; Venezuela, etc… they also slapped them on countries which we have a trade surplus with.

      It’s also looking like they used chatgpt to write the list but then specifically omitted five countries. Russia, north korea, Cuba, Belarus. Russia and its fine closest allies. How can anyone see this and not think the Kremlin does t own the Epstein tapes

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        10 hours ago

        In terms of nations, I really have no idea what 3.5 billion means. Like is that a lot? I feel like we probably trade that much with China in like what, a week? A month, a day?

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          9 hours ago

          He tariffed countries with no people and trade deficits of thousands of dollars, and tariffed Ukraine.

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        10 hours ago

        they released the JFK tapes! several times!

        honestly i remain skeptical any “kompromat” on trump exists. or any Epstein documents remain that matter. we’ve all seen it

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          10 hours ago

          I was skeptical up until the tariffs. Now it’s obvious they’ve got blackmail.

          Alao an interview with epstein was leaked last year where he mentioned trump having sex on his plane. But in 2017 that clip was suppressed for some reason.

          We know trump flew on that plane many times and that it was rigged with secret cameras

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            i wouldn’t say trump wasn’t a super gross Epstein buddy, we already know that.

            “rigged with secret cameras”, so what. where is it now.

            edit I know nothing is forthcoming. there’s nothing. stop fabricating and focus on what’s happening, because it’s already terrifying

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            10 hours ago

            I doubt it’s a blackmail thing, because at this point, not one of Trump’s supporters would give a damn if it was clearly proven that Trump personally took CP pictures.

            I think Putin just whispers sweet nothings into Trump’s ear and controls him that way.

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              9 hours ago

              A large part of their movement is based on aesthetics. And csam is probably a bridge too far for them. It just looks ugly. But I have no doubt many of them don’t care about that either.

              But from the blackmail angle, the public image of a sick pedo is not compatible with the orange man’s public facing persona and his narcissism would make him the perfect blackmail target