US Erection 12 *AND* 16 *AND* 20 *AND* 22 *AND* 24 *AND* Beyond

[Chef Boi RD]

All this reinforces my position that all of these politicians are trash human beings. There are no authentic or honourable politicians.

Not one.

It's become very obvious to me that they all get into that line of work for personal gain. Period.

Yup. Trump was made for the sport of politics.

[Chef Boi RD]

Trump’s lethal aversion to reading

https://theweek.com/articles/915606/tru ... on-reading

[Per]

Trump’s lethal aversion to reading

https://theweek.com/articles/915606/tru ... on-reading

Yeah, it wouldn't be so bad if he were just a clown; the problem is he's the clown from IT.

[Per]

In other news, at least 25 countries, including France, Germany, Japan, Belgium, Australia, the UK, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, have suspended parcel delivery to the USA. The reason is that Trump has revoked the de-minimis rule, under which parcels with a value not exceding USD 800 could be sent duty free to the USA.

The rule has been revoked through an executive order by Donald Trump and ends on Aug 28th.
Starting August 29th any parcel sent to the US is subject to tariffs, regardless of how low the value of its contents is.

"Key questions remain unresolved, particularly regarding how and by whom customs duties will be collected in the future, what additional data will be required, and how the data transmission to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection will be carried out," says DHL.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/202 ... 816249007/

(c) A specific duty shall be assessed on each package containing goods entered for consumption, based on the effective IEEPA tariff rate applicable to the country of origin of the product as follows:
(i) Countries with an effective IEEPA tariff rate of less than 16 percent: $80 per item;
(ii) Countries with an effective IEEPA tariff rate between 16 and 25 percent (inclusive): $160 per item; and
(iii) Countries with an effective IEEPA rate above 25 percent: $200 per item.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential ... countries/



So if I were to send UW a box of chocolates for his birthday, there is now a USD 80 customs fee added to it.

Since the actual processes of how and by whom all this should be handled still need to be sorted out, a large number of countries have decided to just withhold all packages addressed to the USA or return them to sender.

From the outside looking in, the USA seems to have become a shit show.

I mean, dozens of countries have decided it is better to just not deliver packages to the USA then trying to figure out what they are expected to do.
Normally this type of issues would be negotiated beforehand and implemented with a reasonable timeline. But no.

[Chef Boi RD]

While China, North Korea, Russia, India, Iran, Pakistan, Vietnam….all buddy up in China, Trump alienates USA’s closest and most loyal allies with economic warfare. A great example of how not to do business. Trump’s America on an island all to himself, Make America Great Again,

[Per]

While China, North Korea, Russia, India, Iran, Pakistan, Vietnam….all buddy up in China, Trump alienates USA’s closest and most loyal allies with economic warfare. A great example of how not to do business. Trump’s America on an island all to himself, Make America Great Again,

Yup. The USA has spent decades trying to lure India away from Russia. With Trump imposing punitary tariffs of 50% on their products and claiming HE ended the saber rattling between India and Pakistan he is offending them and pushing them right into China's arms. China and India have long been adversaries. If they join forces... It's almost 40% of the world population, they both have nukes and space programmes and huge armies, they both make cars. The Chinese make some of the best cars in the world now, but they can't export them to the USA because of a 100% tariff. But you see loads of them in Europe. MG, BYD, XPeng, Zeekr... https://www.carwow.co.uk/chinese-cars#gref

And while Europe traditionally has looked to the USA for business, with the current tariff based trade war more and more companies look east to China instead, both for exports and imports.

Yeah, this could be the final drop that shifts the world order back into Asian hands.

If Trump really is worried about China he should have joined forces with Europe, instead he has started a trade war with everyone. But tariffs between everyone else is still low. So logically all other trade increases while trade with the USA drops.


Just one more thing to give you pause: There are more new engineers graduating in a single year in China than there are engineers in total in the USA.

[Megaterio Llamas]

Warm diplomatic wishes from Donald J Trump on China's Victory Day celebration.

Kesep digging Don

[Megaterio Llamas]

While China, North Korea, Russia, India, Iran, Pakistan, Vietnam….all buddy up in China, Trump alienates USA’s closest and most loyal allies with economic warfare. A great example of how not to do business. Trump’s America on an island all to himself, Make America Great Again,

Yup. The USA has spent decades trying to lure India away from Russia. With Trump imposing punitary tariffs of 50% on their products and claiming HE ended the saber rattling between India and Pakistan he is offending them and pushing them right into China's arms. China and India have long been adversaries. If they join forces... It's almost 40% of the world population, they both have nukes and space programmes and huge armies, they both make cars. The Chinese make some of the best cars in the world now, but they can't export them to the USA because of a 100% tariff. But you see loads of them in Europe. MG, BYD, XPeng, Zeekr... https://www.carwow.co.uk/chinese-cars#gref

And while Europe traditionally has looked to the USA for business, with the current tariff based trade war more and more companies look east to China instead, both for exports and imports.

Yeah, this could be the final drop that shifts the world order back into Asian hands.

If Trump really is worried about China he should have joined forces with Europe, instead he has started a trade war with everyone. But tariffs between everyone else is still low. So logically all other trade increases while trade with the USA drops.


Just one more thing to give you pause: There are more new engineers graduating in a single year in China than there are engineers in total in the USA.

The Nio ET9

https://x.com/BowesChay/status/1962512515029520497

https://youtu.be/0iDJiLBlrPU

https://youtu.be/2oRL8JeCpgU

[Chef Boi RD]

He’s a hopeless case. Oppositional Defiant Disorder Narcissistic Silverspooned Megalomaniac.

[Chef Boi RD]

Canada might as well get in early with the new world power - China while The Trumpian Empire scuttles what’s left of that sorry ass country run by Baptist hillbillies.

[Megaterio Llamas]

China is also building huge, gravity-powered batteries that will store large quantities of solar electricity:

https://interestingengineering.com/ener ... ble-energy

Top five energy storage projects in China

https://www.power-technology.com/data-i ... a/?cf-view

[Megaterio Llamas]

Canada might as well get in early with the new world power - China while The Trumpian Empire scuttles what’s left of that sorry ass country run by Baptist hillbillies.

Trump maybe deserves the Nobel Peace Prize after all

[Chef Boi RD]

China is also building huge, gravity-powered batteries that will store large quantities of solar electricity:

https://interestingengineering.com/ener ... ble-energy

Top five energy storage projects in China

https://www.power-technology.com/data-i ... a/?cf-view

While America has been concerning themselves with abortions and LGBTQ, China has been focused on education and technology. The states are done, stick a fork in that mess.

[Megaterio Llamas]

China is also building huge, gravity-powered batteries that will store large quantities of solar electricity:

https://interestingengineering.com/ener ... ble-energy

Top five energy storage projects in China

https://www.power-technology.com/data-i ... a/?cf-view

While America has been concerning themselves with abortions and LGBTQ, China has been focused on education and technology. The states are done, stick a fork in that mess.

Chef, check out the suspension on the Nio ET9 luxury electric vehicle vs BMW and Audi in the first clip I posted earlier today. We don't really see Chinese cars in North America, as Per pointed out, but they seem to be surpassing the best of what the West has to offer and they produce them in numbers unfathomable to us. https://x.com/BowesChay/status/1962512515029520497

To answer your earlier point, yes, I would love to shift toward China, but geography makes it all but impossible, sadly. But...nothing prevents Europe from doing so.

[Chef Boi RD]

Canada may end up going down with the USS Trump Enterprise, unfortunately. Mexico as well.