You're not paying attention. What did Trump say was used to set the tariff rate? ONLY their tariff rate on us? No. There was one other important item. Trump explained it if you were listening. There are other things that do much the same as tariffs, like manipulating the value of their currency and other regulations that limit what we can sell into their country. BOTH those factors were used to set our tariff rate for them.
He was pointing out the 17 there fren! No offense but some anons are just, so know it all, that the actual message flies right over their head. Why not 16% or 18%? Because it’s a message to the deep state! 17% 😉🤦get it? Got it? Good!
Or maybe because 17 is half of 33 which was the rate Israel was charging us for years. The fact that the stopped yesterday.. too little too late, they can eat it
There was also an article on how Israel's deep state is even more intrenched than ours, and that may well be why Israel is last:
hat tip to ashlanddog:
President Hakainde Hichelema (or "HH" as he is called) has allowed the Zambian economy, such as it is, to collapse. If Zambia exports anything, it is probably copper and manganese (and gems). Tariffs are unlikely to hinder that market. The rest of Zambia is not producing much for export because it is primarily not even producing much for domestic consumption. These are sad times for Zambia: poverty, corruption, drought, lack of electric power, widescale alcohol consumption, huge upsurge in pedophile and sexual abuse crimes, low age of mortality. Very elegant tourist venues, puffed-up bureaucrats in crisp suits and expensive automobiles, new airport. (I remember departing from my first visit there. Ticket in hand, I ask "Can you direct me to my gate?" "Oh, the concourse is that way." "But which gate is it?" "You will see. There is only the one gate..." And I'll be damned if they had only ONE gate, for departures and arrivals. I hadn't noticed that when I had arrived. I was flabbergasted. And you had to walk across the tarmac to the plane.)
Thank you for sharing your fascinating experience, fren. Like many African sad stories - over a century of colonialism, exploitation, infightings and corruption. Wealth of minerals and land mass but they cannot get it together.
I don't usually try to point out coincidences, but Jesus was 33 when he started his ministry. Could that tariff rate have been a slap-in-the-face because we are mostly a Christian nation?
You're not paying attention. What did Trump say was used to set the tariff rate? ONLY their tariff rate on us? No. There was one other important item. Trump explained it if you were listening. There are other things that do much the same as tariffs, like manipulating the value of their currency and other regulations that limit what we can sell into their country. BOTH those factors were used to set our tariff rate for them.
Fren, I never said that was the only thing he used to set tariff rates? Where did you get that from?
Do you not believe it’s possible that the tariff percentage is also a message?
Israel for last [916].
good point:
Their deep state is even more deeply entrenched than ours: hat tip to ashlanddog! https://greatawakening.win/p/19AwtGscNO/the-tablet--israels-deep-state-i/c/
He was pointing out the 17 there fren! No offense but some anons are just, so know it all, that the actual message flies right over their head. Why not 16% or 18%? Because it’s a message to the deep state! 17% 😉🤦get it? Got it? Good!
Or maybe because 17 is half of 33 which was the rate Israel was charging us for years. The fact that the stopped yesterday.. too little too late, they can eat it
17 is half of 34
There was also an article on how Israel's deep state is even more intrenched than ours, and that may well be why Israel is last: hat tip to ashlanddog:
https://greatawakening.win/p/19AwtGscNO/the-tablet--israels-deep-state-i/c/
Yeah. But the Philippines and Zambia have 17% slapped on them as well. 🫤
President Hakainde Hichelema (or "HH" as he is called) has allowed the Zambian economy, such as it is, to collapse. If Zambia exports anything, it is probably copper and manganese (and gems). Tariffs are unlikely to hinder that market. The rest of Zambia is not producing much for export because it is primarily not even producing much for domestic consumption. These are sad times for Zambia: poverty, corruption, drought, lack of electric power, widescale alcohol consumption, huge upsurge in pedophile and sexual abuse crimes, low age of mortality. Very elegant tourist venues, puffed-up bureaucrats in crisp suits and expensive automobiles, new airport. (I remember departing from my first visit there. Ticket in hand, I ask "Can you direct me to my gate?" "Oh, the concourse is that way." "But which gate is it?" "You will see. There is only the one gate..." And I'll be damned if they had only ONE gate, for departures and arrivals. I hadn't noticed that when I had arrived. I was flabbergasted. And you had to walk across the tarmac to the plane.)
Thank you for sharing your fascinating experience, fren. Like many African sad stories - over a century of colonialism, exploitation, infightings and corruption. Wealth of minerals and land mass but they cannot get it together.
I noticed that they were charging us thirty three percent. 🤔
I don't usually try to point out coincidences, but Jesus was 33 when he started his ministry. Could that tariff rate have been a slap-in-the-face because we are mostly a Christian nation?
There's not a whole lot that surprises me anymore.
Good addition. I would upvote but the 17 is just too beautiful to disturb.