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So by slapping tariffs on Colombia, just slapped a 25% tax on the US. Way to go, Felon!

Laffy

2/ Via Angry Staffer:

Escalating 25/50% tariffs? Monumentally stupid. Will make coffee, limes, avocados, cut flowers, and bananas cost more for US citizens.

@GottaLaff When I enjoy my morning coffee in Toronto I will picture MAGAts suffering.

@Jgmeadows And me in BC. But I hate that anti Trumpers will suffer.

@GottaLaff Me too, but then Canadians will likely suffer shortly, and it's not as if we got a vote.

@GottaLaff @Jgmeadows Can Canada have Colombia's coffee, limes and bananas? We still love you and are avoiding U.S. goods.

@Jgmeadows @GottaLaff The UK is looking for new trading partners, having had our Trump-adjacent nationalist isolationists turn their backs on its old ones :-).

@GottaLaff@mstdn.social

Looking forward to those cheaper groceries we were promised!

@Eetschrijver He was less popular during his first term, but he still committed atrocities. Sigh.

Because he's not running now, he has no reason to care about polls.

@TexJoachim He's good at it. He's done that 3-4x now.

@GottaLaff Shame that so few people seem to understand.

@GottaLaff
This is the exact example of MAGA shooting itself in the foot, to prove a point.
Well done, moron, well done.
(Tariffs impact the buyer, that's the USA. Not Columbia!)

@GottaLaff Wait and see what happens when the US slaps those tarrifs on Canadian oil.

@GottaLaff I have a feeling Oil might be magically except though..

@GottaLaff Trumo has surrounded himself with several layers of sycophants. Not a single one of them will point out to him the negative consequences of his temper tantrum. He's sitting there basking in the glow of false congratulations on his business acumen.

@Pourroy Exactly. Because if they dare... well, they'd get fired, vilified, threatened.

@GottaLaff

Good thing Lawrence O'Donnell doesn't work for Sir Mark Thompson's CNN, or he'd be out of work by now.

@GottaLaff I have to wonder what the environmental impact will be if most people are consuming less from far off places and more from closer to home, what will be the impact on the farmers under the thumb of cartels, reduced shipping traffic/pollution, ...
We may appreciate what we have taken for granted for the luxuries they truly are.
The "golden age" (for the privileged) may be followed by economic crash, environmental disasters, & war, in no particular order. (see early 1900s)
Koyaanisqatsi?

@ArrowbearMoore @GottaLaff It’s what you eat more than the transport of said food that matters. Biggest impact you can make is eating less beef 🙂

@GottaLaff

Wait, wasn't on of his promises to reduce grocery prices? Oh, right! He doesn't care! (& also: he lied.)

@cavyherd @GottaLaff To be fair, there is a big chance that most of the people who said they voted for him because of eggs prices were also lying, as it was a more acceptable reason than admitting they are just narcissistic racists who want 'others' to suffer.

@GottaLaff THANK YOU im sitting here thinking, 50% tarriffs on ummm cocaine?

we also get produce and COFFEE from Columbia. my bad.

@Crystal_Fish_Caves @GottaLaff illegal narcotics having a more stable price than all the other commodities....

@GottaLaff Did I just see that they caved to his demands already? Accepting people they had refused?

@GottaLaff Tariffs on goods from #Colombia will make #coffee even more expensive, and won’t do a damned thing about the #PriceOfEggs. The more costly #AmericanCarnage2.0 is for #WorkingClass #MAGA cult members, the bigger the #BlueWave will be in the #2026election. ✅

@GottaLaff Ever get the sense Trump's mission is to make Americans poor and miserable?

@Tharpa @GottaLaff i believe this is the objective of project 2025 with which he is compliant

@catsrule0000 @GottaLaff Alienating allies, threatening wars, stuffing his cabinet with bums he scraped up from the street, it seems to me everything Trump does is laser-focused on dragging America to Hell. .. but, of course, what would one expect from a Russian traitor? My question is, are we going to roll over forever? It seems an intolerable situation.

@Tharpa It's his goal, yes. See: 2025, Project

See: Every speech he makes

@GottaLaff
And rum. Don't forget we Americans love us some rum.

@GottaLaff Also, since some of those products, esp avocados, are grown in the US, their prices will jump because of greed. It is unlikely any of it will ever return to previous affordability.

@Catawu Right. Coffee prices rose and no tariffs were imposed