Holy shit! That guy hacked the system!
Just off the top of my head:
- Pressuring the Fed to cut interest rates and other actions to reduce the US dollar’s value
- Massive payouts to agribusiness, especially maize and sugar producers.
- Try bringing in some fruit or a salami into the US. I dare you.
- OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, xAI etc ripping off the entire world’s entire content.
Maybe someone else can fill in the rest.
So now he’s angry that we’ve fucked up our agricultural exports badly enough that the rest of the world doesn’t think our trash goods are food grade?
I would love some of the diseased chlorinated freedom chicken from the U.S.
When Trump says piracy, I understand he’s referring to classic piracy (with little boats and all), and when he says IP Theft, I assume he’s referring to the piracy that concerns us. Good luck adding a tax to my $0 rate.
When he says transshipping, he probably thinks of a container ship flying the trans flag.
Crewed by transgenic mice!
Bowling ball test?
Trump has claimed a few times that, in order for cars to be approved for import in Japan, they must be able to withstand an impact from a bowling ball without denting. It’s not a real thing. When the White House press secretary was asked why Trump made up such a weird lie, she said it was “obviously a joke”.
Its ironic to be complaining (or rather bullshitting) about japan restricting vehicle imports while the US is restricting imports of kei trucks for reasons.
Because kei trucks are obviously death traps
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Does he think that pirates would turn around and buy $1 Trillion worth of media if pirating stopped? Lmao.
When they say ‘piracy’ does he think they are referring to Captain Jack Sparrow?
He doesn’t think at all.
I bet the gerbil on the wheel in his head is exhausted. He should shove a couple more up his ass to help out.
How dare other companies cheat by having more stringent food standards than the USA? Everyone should be forced to buy and ingest real American salmonella.
I am still annoyed that we let the damn Argentinian beef get through, but I think it’s comparatively hilarious that we still won’t budge on US “food”.
So anyway, here I was, drifting through the lemmy pages, when I realized there was a ton of money to be made by writing software for smugglers.
I have never really known a smuggler of physical goods, but I imagine I will try now
I can’t imagine their software and bookkeeping would be significantly different from any other international logistics company?
Don’t know. But if the tariffs are as bad as many think, I believe the black market in the USA will grow faster than the speakeasies and smuggling booze did a century ago. There will be huge demand to bring in cheaper goods that are legally sold at higher rates.
It’s a new and huge untapped market to provide support, even if most of the movement of goods will be done by organized crime later. A lot of what will happen is unknown.
Certainly there will be a new cat and mouse dynamics. Very rarely does a huge layer of graft poof into existence to fast in a country. Lots of dynamics navigating this new electronic frontier!
You heard him folks, shine up your Somali and take to the seas, this man wants to see if we can cost him more money as traditionalists.
Whose writing this shit for him?
AI.
This is just a list of “but I’m not winning so it’s not fairrrrrrrrrr” whining (whinging?)
I was wondering when piracy is going to join the game. Awkwardly absent so far.
