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this post was submitted on 10 May 2025
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It's the art of a deal y'all, don't you get it? The man is the best and only works with the bet. /s
"Oh, shit! A rich narcissistic overgrown child who I thought would help us out doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself! I wish someone had told me... over the last decade..."
This is what he does. He betrays everyone. Even his “friends.”
Ask Giuliani.
Please.
He's never had a "friend." There are only objects to be used, and discarded.
He's a narcissist and probably also a sociopath. Other people are assets (Musk?) or decorations (Ivanka) at best.
Maybe I can finally get the Toyota Hilux I always wanted! But seriously, everyone in the US stop buying shit that isn’t strictly necessary. The corporations cannot “pass the costs along” to us if we don’t buy their shit. Obviously it’s not optimal, but there’s no reason to take it up the caboose just because.
If you want it but don't need it just steal it.
I’m with you, but they’re hard to find on this side of the pond.
Now imagine if people actually boycotted stuff.
I can only dream.
Agreed, but….my Hilux?
I boycott! Oddly enough I just ended a ~15 year Walmart boycott for our family. Began it after becoming aware of their tactics to deliberately strangle local businesses and keep employees below full-time hours to avoid giving them benefits, etc.
Been avoiding them out of habit for so long...started boycotting Amazon, Target, etc. recently...and realized that while I have nothing positive to say about Walmart, they're not even cracking the list of shittiest companies anymore. Because every fucking one else sunk below their standards.
Cool stuff! Boycott shit, people, help out! Most of y'all need the money way more than the stuff these days anyway lol!
Ha ha ha. The Orange Turd is just something else. He is just frontstabbing at this point.
The only people he hasnt' frontstabbed his whole career are the ones too ignorant to know what he is.
Or the russians.
The Russians have the pictures, videos, and correspondence. About very young... girls.
Automakers: That wasn't part of the deal! You said the [auto industry] would stay under my protection!
Trump: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.
I love it for them. Reap the sowing whatever I'm tired.
Isn’t it capped at like 100,000 vehicles? What’s the annual output of American automakers?
Yes it's capped at 100,000 vehicles. I saw a British TV video panel discussion about the deal yesterday and they said that last year they had sold 102,000 here, so the deal covers almost all they would be selling here anyway. So it doesn't seem like it should affect US manufacturers much at all.
US manufacturers will lose market share because US auto market will shrink from higher prices, and relative appeal of used cars. UK can meet its quota by bringing in cheaper cars (mini coopers).
I'm sure the car companies know more about how it will affect them than I do, so I believe what they say and defer to that.
When the panel discussion I saw said the 100K cap is not an issue for the UK since they don't sell much more than that here anyway, I extrapolated that to mean it wouldn't change the status quo for the US side either, but that was just my own speculation.
I'm just saying that if US auto sales drop to 14m units from 17m units, 100k is a larger market share (fraction) of that.
Fair enough. Though I expect Mangolini will give the auto industry more breaks once they kowtow to him enough. That's what it's all about, getting people to pay up or do other "favors" for him in return for him reducing the amount of pain he's inflicting on them -- "nice business you have there, be a shame if anything happened to it".
I thought as much