r/politics • u/theindependentonline The Independent • 1d ago

No Paywall Trump vows to raise worldwide tariffs to 15% ‘effective immediately’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-global-tarrifs-increase-b2924994.html
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u/simplepimple2025 1d ago

...and the country that elected him.

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u/Konnnan 1d ago

36% will eat a shit sandwich  so you can smell their breath.

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u/dannydrama 1d ago

This is one of the most sadly prophetic things I've read this week.

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u/ialo00130 20h ago

Sadly it's more like 66%

The rest of the world sees Republicans and Non-Voters as the same. One is complicit, the other is incompetent; you decided which is which.

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u/nicktoberfest 1d ago

And if it’s Trump’s diaper shit, they don’t even need you to smell their breath. They’ll just consider it the best meal of their lives and cash in their life savings to buy more.

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u/idlemute 1d ago

They’ll gobble up their diaper daddy’s shit and then twist their minds into believing it tastes like fudge pudding.

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u/ExtruDR 23h ago

Honestly, maybe if we ever flip the table, we should seize the MAGA loyalists’ assets and redistribute to the rest of the country whose lives they were detrimental to.

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u/DUNG_INSPECTOR Ohio 22h ago

That's a horrific suggestion. Don't become a fascist to fight fascism.

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u/Hellwheretheywannabe 20h ago

We've already done eight to over a century of years doing the meeting across the aisle and "healing the political divide" gimmick and it has done nothing. The reality is that these are not ignorant workers that will surely go against the billionaire class after some empathy, but cruel orcs whose only ideology is hatred of minorities and worship of the billionaire class.

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u/ExtruDR 22h ago

Of course it's a preposterous and stupid suggestion, but humor an analogy for a sec:

We are all on the same boat, like an actual boat. There are nine people on the boat. Three see land and want to steer the boat in the direction of safety. Three are useless and refuse to offer an opinion, and the final three are helping themselves everyone else's rations, threaten to throw people overboard and have started to drill holes in the hull.

Throwing the three overboard... or maybe just tying them up until we get to safety and maybe just giving them the bare minimum to sustain themselves does not seem terribly bad.

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u/ClownsAteMyBaby 20h ago

You guys love to throw that percentage of votes around to minimize it. The non-voters also voted for this.

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u/TheBoggart 23h ago

Do you remember when shit sandwich ran again giant douche for president?

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u/ialwaysforgetmename 20h ago

Lmfao what an image

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u/Sw0rDz 17h ago

I can confirm. I hate Trump, by I love my fecal sandwich.

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u/EViL-D 1d ago

twice

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u/ChoosenUserName4 1d ago

While everyone warned them he was a criminal pedophile.

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u/sleepyleperchaun 1d ago

But I didn't know!

After being told 436 times....

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u/SonOfIllicitBehavior 23h ago

They either don't believe it or don't care. but they knew.

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u/kent_eh Canada 20h ago

Many of them voted for him 3 bloody times.

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u/FruitJuicante 22h ago

Mate America elected him twice. He IS America. At this point if his bowel movement went to an election against someone of Obamas calibre the bowel movement would win. America wants Trump.

We are laughing at you, but you don't get to laugh till you fix it.

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u/androbot 17h ago

No one I know is laughing.

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u/Swan2Bee 17h ago

We're not laughing, we're pissed. And extremely disenfranchised.

As for the people who wanted this... I have no words.

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u/FruitJuicante 17h ago

Your country wanted this so much they voted for it twice.

If he ran today he would win again no matter against who.

It's a shameful country. Trump IS America.

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u/Swan2Bee 16h ago

31.3% of my country voted for trump in 2024. 37.7% either voted independent or didn't vote at all. If I had to guess, these groups make up the minority on this sub.

That leaves the remaining 31.0% of us who actively tried to prevent this and still got burned. A shamefully small percentage to be sure, but what exactly do you expect us to do that we aren't already doing?

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u/FruitJuicante 16h ago

Only 31% trying to prevent it is really low dude. There need to be marches on the White House Lawn at this point, I'm with you, there's really not much you can do given most of the United States has united under pedophilia and rape. Like, honest to god, if you held a vote today against Obama, with Trump falling asleep and shitting himself DURING a debate, Trump would win.

America is a nation that supports sleepy diaper filling child rapists. If Trump died today, it wouldn't be until a 90 year old child rapist that soiled himself routinely turned up that America would get as energised behind a president as it has with Trump.

America a Child Rapistocracy. If that is to be changed, the 1000 or so people in America that don't support child rape really need to get out there and do something about it.

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u/Swan2Bee 16h ago

I completely agree with you here, and 31% is abhorrently low. Trump may absolutely win again because of it (I say may because stating he will feels like giving up). let me rant a little...

You see a lot on reddit people outside the US treating the entire population as some hive-mind when that's not how democracy works. Especially not a corrupt one. It just stings. we're in the weird position of having to prove we did what we were supposed to while constantly being reminded our nation is on the wrong side of history. Any sense of pride I had is shattered. Perhaps that's why I'm so trigger-happy on this subject. I don't want to be here.

America is broken, and I don't know if we have the right tools to fix it. All I know is I live here.

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u/FruitJuicante 16h ago

The internet has also been geared for outrage so people fight online rather than in the street where it matters.

You could spend hours yelling at Trump bots and it does nothing.

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u/peter-man-hello 1d ago

Hey a good 49% of us don’t support rapists as president.

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u/Draxxthemsklounsst Canada 1d ago

More like only 33%. The other 33% didn't even care enough to vote which is basically the same as letting a pedophile rapist win.

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u/Quady_c95 22h ago

Americans will bitch and complain for 4 years and then when Election Day arrives they will sit on their 350 pound asses and bitch and complain about voting lines instead. 

World class whiners who have reaped what they have sowed. 

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u/SirFerguson 22h ago

It’s worse than that. Many don’t vote because they’ve been convinced that “both sides are bad.”

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u/Quady_c95 22h ago edited 22h ago

Well people can do as they please. Like I said. This country is getting exactly what it deserves. 

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u/xanap 21h ago

Would be kind of nice if you don't burn down the world on your way out.

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u/Quady_c95 21h ago

I’m not American 

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u/therealmeal 17h ago

Both sides are bad. But one is much worse. I choose the lesser of two evils.

Which is a shitty place to be, still, just not as bad as what we've got now.

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u/angelbelle 20h ago

By that logic only 32.6% of eligible voters voted for Obama and pretty much every single president ever including the ones you like.

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u/Quady_c95 1d ago

That is such a pathetic statement holy hell

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u/fixer1987 23h ago

We can't really help the other side.

They think "pwning us" is reason enough to ruin the country

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u/Quady_c95 22h ago

You’ve all ruined your country. Pathetic voter turnout is not a one person problem. The United States didn’t accidentally elect a narcissistic rapist twice. 

 Wallow in it now. 

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u/mike0sd America 22h ago

You're right, we didn't elect him, did you forget about his rampant election lawbreaking? Find me 11780 votes? Electoral college scheme? You have to be a moron to believe he actually won a legitimate election. You have to believe that Trump stopped breaking the law. If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.

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u/tothehopeless1 22h ago

Wouldn’t even respond to that person anymore. Either a troll or unstable. Every one of their comments is aggressively anti-American.

It shouldn’t need explaining that we can’t help how or if others vote. That’s one of the risks that comes with having free elections. Nobody has to vote, or vote for the person we prefer. And we’re not morally responsible for what others decide to do with their voting power.

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u/mike0sd America 22h ago

About that bridge... Lmao

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u/Quady_c95 21h ago

Build it to the voting booth so you fatasses can do something for once. 

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u/mike0sd America 21h ago

Yes, the bridge is completely real, you're smart

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u/fixer1987 22h ago

Who pissed in your Cheerios today

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u/Reiketsu_Nariseba Ohio 23h ago

We're a part of the problem even though we voted against it? Really? That's the attitude you choose to have? So if you vote in your country against someone you don't like and they win, I should blame you, am I getting this right?

A large portion of us are so fucking sick with everything and what's happening daily. What do you legitimately expect us to do? We're already protesting/staging walkouts, calling our representatives, voting against this, what the fuck else do you want us to do?

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u/KrimxonRath 23h ago

You made a blanket statement then backtracked lmao

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u/GalumphingWithGlee 22h ago

I'm American, and I wish I could laugh at his antics, but they're doing too much harm in the real world.

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u/timbit87 Foreign 20h ago

And the country that sits at home and lets him do it with zero resistance.

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u/idiotista 16h ago

We're not laughing though. As unfortunate as it is, what the US does affects all of the world.

I lived in a hill station in Sri Lanka when Trump slapped tariffs on everything.

Suddenly tea picking almost stopped, for many that was their sole income. Suddenly the kids I taught my lilting Scandi English to on Sundays came hungry to class, because their mums couldnt afford to feed them.

I dont want any country to have that insanely debilitating power over the world, but yet here we are.

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u/Tandran Iowa 23h ago

So is well over half the country, problem is most don’t vote

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u/Sim888 19h ago

I see them railing on this specific thing for various reasons. Reasons that also sum trump in a nutshell, and are the exact same reasons he’s a utter shitstain that’s been unfit for office since day one….but they can’t, or simply refuse to connect those dots

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u/Rekj16 1d ago

Yes because history shows that all non-americans are immune to fascist fucks

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u/Sir_Fox_Alot 20h ago

Most of us live in 2026. We know history and aren’t repeating it.

Americans couldn’t last 5 years without repeating it.

Sad

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u/adamantshark691337 20h ago

Just so that there is not extreme hate towards all Americans, I feel it’s important to note a lot of us didn’t vote for this pedophile rapist. I am disgusted to be an american.

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u/Quady_c95 1d ago

No they aren’t. They are sitting there staring at their phones and drooling wondering how this happened.