USA News and Poland - part 14

You are lucky to remember how to wipe your behind. But should remember that if not for US-based benefits you would exist in the era of Angela's Ashes

Do I think Apple are fooling Golden Cow ? Yes - he is a fool and it's easy to fool him, as Putler has shown.

As I'm said, Apple has a net profit of 93 billion and falling - so it would use all of their cash for 5-6 years to make this bullshit investment that they are lying about

@Przelotnyptak1
Still no awareness of the inherent double think

My head hurts. The strain of answering imbecility and senseless assumptions is taking its toll. I need a break, but before I go, I have to ask: How in the world have we managed to send astronauts to the moon and safely return them to Earth, especially without precision tooling and engineers?

Get lost. I am ready to buy lots of stocks when the time is right. You and your dull friend CMS probably plan to short-sell or buy derivatives.

You double down on your profound stupidity Emberasing simpleton hung up on cash transactions unaware of the tremendous wort of 2.829 trillion dollars
The world's most valuable company, but little nit thinks Apple needs to carry 500 billion in its pocket.AAAAGGGHHH.Back to my broker.

Right. Maybe over on the stock market thread you can give us a few tips and call when the bottom of the market is. For sure there is worse to come as sell orders are margin calls are being executed. Warsaw had to stop trading today. Pure vandalism by Golden Cow but I expect him to reverse course tomorrow. He just gave an ultimatum to China but of course they will not respond and lose face.

Still, you got your separate bathrooms

Interesting....first german reactions: No new Audi's anymore into the US (for the next two months at last, and there are enough in stock to bridge that time)....and no VW's anymore (at least from their ports and bases in Mexico, also for the next two months)....till there is more clarity after that current chaos...so they say....

merkur.de/wirtschaft/drastische-reaktion-auf-trump-zoelle-autobauer-setzt-export-in-die-usa-aus-zr-93670988.html

Whats worse....The Chrysler factories in the canadian Windsor and the mexican Toluca (Jeeps, Dodge, Trucks) will close in two weeks because of these new tariffs!

merkur.de/wirtschaft/voruebergehende-werksschliessungen-auto-riese-reagiert-drastisch-auf-zoll-schock-von-donald-trump-93666421.html

PS: As a first has Ferrari already raised their prices in the US....heard VW, BMW, Porsche and Mercedes plan the same! It will probably called "Import tax" or such....

@Barney
Fvck off. The people working two or three jobs are not the ones in trouble. The ones in trouble arent working a job or more than one job. Fvck you man. Really you dont know $hit about the US.

@Paulina
Fvck you. I was homeless at 16. I worked for everything I have. No one helped me, and no one needs help if they work hard enough. You know nothing about the US or the struggles of the poor other than what the left wing media feeds you. Your statements concerning the US and American people are baseless and lack any real life experience or understanding.

As for my caring about my fellow man, I donate more to charity than most Poles make every year. Whoever made that comment is obviously on my blocked list and they can just suck a dick.

Really disappointed at the utter lack of real intelligence here on PF these days. All you know it alls who have never lived in the US, and dont know anything about how Americans think or see the world are the problem with why the US and the EU cant see eye to eye.

There are several foreigners on the forum who act like they know everything about America, but clearly dont understand whats going on here and seem to carry a grudge-likely rooted in jealously.

Europeans, in particular, are often argumentative and speak without real insight.

....frankly that's why I keep donating every month....I learned more on PF about the "other side" than on any official media in all this time.

Of course it helps if the "other side" is also willing to argument openly and bring facts...not only ever the big baseball bat! :)

You have peculiar curiosity to say the least. Following your example, let me wonder if you are taking care of business in the family outhouse.?

@PolAmKrakow
The problem with the US is that both their major parties have screwed the ordinary people. The situation today is a direct result of their policies where millions of people have to work more than one job to stand still. Trumps idea of a high wage economy simply won't work because Americans won't accept paying more for stuff either due to tariffs or increased production costs at home. The right wing were the mid wives of globalism which was a one way street.

It's possible to make an argument that the 70s oil crisis and the US attempt to effectively repatriate petro dollars was the moment of conception for this crazy idea.


Save it for your autobiography.

There aren't now, but what about later?


You keep repeating that, but Bill Ackman is an American. So what's your comment on what he said? That Trump's tariffs could "hit the working-class Americans the hardest"?


That doesn't automatically teach empathy, I'm afraid.


lol
PolAm doesn't even register too well what I'm writing, he just keeps repeating that "we don't understand Americans" and none of you really addressed most of the arguments posted here by those "argumentative Europeans". We present info and we get "Get lost" and "Fvck you" in return. 🤨

That's what you get when the cult is challenged.

People voted for Trump for lower prices and decent jobs. Trump never bothered to consider the consequences his actions would have on ordinary people and has done the opposite of what he promised. It's early days so we will see what happens but I wouldn't be holding my breath on a positive outcome.

Most of them are not playing with a full deck of cards. Delusion, envy, jealousy,denials, and falsehoods are all they have. Not one original thought. CNBC and Google sum it up: trying to reason is useless; sarcasm and satire are the way to remain sane in the sea of insanity.

He is correct.

We don't give a fvck if you do. Just don't do that false concern bit about tariffs and NATO ... It's annoying.

We elected Trump for many reasons. One of them is to give you, Euros, the middle finger. See tariffs, aiding U, and hating Russia. This is your specialty so have fun, morons...

Just delete DC from your speed dial list and forget that idiotic A5. No, we will not commit suicide for any of the NATO shltholes.


Because that's all you deserve.

Especially, when some azzhole in Ireland decides that we elected the wrong guy as president.

Please do, until you turn blue and possibly expire, make the ultimate sacrifice; at least you will make some contribution because so far, nothing but wet flatulence.

Update....just in:

(Google translation)

...EU Commission proposes 25 percent tariff on a range of US imports

7:54 p.m.: The EU Commission has proposed retaliatory tariffs of 25 percent on US imports to Europe, as reported by the Reuters news agency. The retaliatory tariffs are a response to surcharges the US intends to impose on steel and aluminum imports from the EU. The retaliatory tariffs are to be imposed on a range of US products. For some goods, they will apply from May 16, and for others from December 1....

focus.de/finanzen/news/eu-plant-wohl-multi-milliarden-massnahme-gegen-trumps-strafzoelle_579665f3-5c5e-4d46-96bf-c2c99bad18de.html

Probably a reaction that:

EU offers US the abolition of reciprocal tariffs on industrial goods

2:56 p.m.: According to EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the EU has proposed to US President Donald Trump the abolition of all tariffs on industrial goods on both sides. "We have offered zero-for-zero tariffs on industrial goods," von der Leyen said in Brussels on Monday. The administration in Washington has not yet accepted this offer.

The EU has "repeatedly" offered the abolition of reciprocal tariffs, for example in the automotive sector, von der Leyen said. "But there has been no appropriate response to this offer." She emphasized that the EU is "always ready for a good deal....

I see that you reached the end of your rope, too...

I don't blame you. You can post well written three paragraphs and some Euro azzfvcker responds with: No, it's not. That's it. Done.

Cute.

The problem is that the US doesn't make any industrial goods. This country has become a sad, barren wasteland, full of rusting ex-factries and minimum-wage burger flippers...

Now that Trump wants to jump-start that nearly dead corpse, he is an embodiment of the ultimate evil...worse than Hitler...

Check out this stupid woke crap from the UK

Women's final between two biological men shatters defence for transgender athletes
Viral rants by comics based on bad logic and morals can't hide injustice of females always bearing impact of ideological drive for inclusion

telegraph.co.uk/snooker/2025/04/07/womens-pool-final-between-two-biological-men-transgender/

2 men are competing for the UK womens pool championship. WTF!

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@Przelotnyptak1
Perhaps you could try posting something beyond Trump good Biden bad. How do you think the US became a service industry country? Was it because big boys made your billionaires do it or was it US policy. I know I don't live there but would like a reasoned response from someone claiming to have his finger on the pulse of American policy.

Yours in hope
Barney

*They


Yeah, it looks like it...


So I've heard... That's why I'm wondering how much patience they will have waiting for those "decent jobs" while prices will be rising... (if this trade war continues)


I guess we'll see.

I was wondering what will be the situation with IKEA, because I've often seen their furniture and accessories in videos of American artists and craftspeople:

"Made in the USA - Trump's New Tariffs Could Hit 90% of IKEA Products":

woodcentral.com.au/made-in-the-usa-trumps-new-tariffs-hit-90-of-ikea-products/

"It's clear that Trump's liberation tariffs are part of a push to 'free up the forests' and supercharge American manufacturing, but the complication, at least for global multinationals like IKEA, which is committed to sourcing FSC-certified timber products, is getting access to the fibre."
(...)
Yet, according to FSC International, just 14.7 million hectares of US forests are certified under FSC's certification scheme."

So, the problem is - would there be enough wood for IKEA to manufacture in the US? Again, it's about the standards - not official EU regulations this time, but that particular company's standards apparently.

Hey, Barney, you stupid weasel, any comment here?

Thanks, Joker, for reminding us that there is no bottom to the LGBT depravity and lunacy.

Simple.

The US is run by a criminal syndicate with the obedient brbe-taking useful idiots aka our legal representative as bodyguards. See K Street.

How about Europe? Let me predict ...No comment...Right?

I don't think anyone blames him for wanting to jump start anything. I wouldn't mind myself if Poland was producing again big ships for both Poland's needs and for export, for example. But all of that isn't so simple and easy. It doesn't look like Trump knows what he's doing and it doesn't seem like he cares (or even understands? o_O) about the implications of his actions.

A fragment from that article about IKEA:

"In December, Wood Central reported that ,Trump's tariffs would add billions to the cost of timber products, sparking a trade war over lumber, one of the world's most traded bulk goods.

That is according to an analysis prepared by the Peterson Institute of International Economics would have major implications for the $50 billion trade in wooden products: "That's because there is no such thing as a free trade tax," according to a report prepared by Julieta Contreras, Mary Lovely and Jing Yan, who warned that low-income Americans would be hit hardest by the tariffs, which will add at least $25 billion to the cost of timber imports alone."

And in case PolAm will come saying that I don't understand anything and Americans don't buy anything from IKEA:

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Ack! Nobody said that.....and as I mentioned before there IS in big parts understanding and even acceptance that some things can't stay as they have been for so long.

But with all painful but necessary changings, they won't come easy or overnight!

But it's generally amusing in a way that now the world Right is criticizing and (maybe even) ending the Globalization under their self acclaimed loud leader Trump, not the world LEFT as its usually their job....funny times indeed!

I certainly hope EU's response to Trump's tariffs will target the productiom from the states and include high digital tax for US tech giants on all profits made in Europe.