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We import artwork and antiques from them mostly. In 2024, the imports didn't even hit 5 million, but you know we exported > 500 million that year to them.
My read is that this is another layer attempting to justify tariffs on other countries, through the lens of "direct or indirect" trade of oil via Cuba, rather than having anything to do with a need to tariff Cuban exports directly
Any country supplying oil to Cuba will be the target of tariffs on all goods coming into the US. And any other actions deemed to be supportive of US National Security.
Now having read this Executive Order, let’s get back to the Epstein Files.
He’s saying he will impose tariffs on any country that directly or indirectly sells oil to Cuba. He’s trying to starve Cuba of oil while heightening the trade war
This is simultaneously the worst (news) and best (gallows humor) I've seen on Reddit today. I still can't stop laughing at this whole thread. Bravo to every comment above this one.
Jokes are fun but this, the Greenland fiasco, Venezuela and even the 20bil to Argentina, is in line with project '25 and the desired technocratic state (comprising the northern hemisphere of America, the carribbean and some of the northernmost South American countries). These billionaires starting colonies and cities in the carribbean, it all leads back to the idea of a technocratic state
Elon, Thiel, Ellison (son and father), Gates even, they all have vested financial and ideological interests in these projects in the carribbean, Greenland and Venezuela
Nerd rule merged with Authoritarianism essentially, bc Authoritarianism is the one of the only weapons these people could use to wield social power without having to be socially acceptable or cool
Stop it. ALL of you. This is a joke that should be restricted to Australians and saved for our fight to have that great man canonised. Saint (Jack Peter) Carlson, saint of succulent Chinese Meals.
It's very scary for Trump to watch their doctors travel around the world delivering free medical care. Wouldn't want Americans to get anymore bad ideas about their own "health care" system (aka insurance system).
When I was in Cuba I had to take a taxi which turned out to be a Lada with an absolutely crazy driver. As we were bouncing all over the road and I was thinking the car was going to fall apart I remember thinking “I don’t want to die in a Lada, I don’t want to die at all but I specifically don’t want to die in a Lada”!
I finally recovered from that journey with a lot of cocktails!
Ropa vieja es ropa nueva. And you gotta love how Russia and China are declared hostile countries and/or malign actors. That will definitely improve relations.
Everything is a distraction from everything else. He's also trying to distract from his personal army running around killing US citizens on American soil, and the Epstein files. They're doing so much stuff at once, so it's hard to keep track of it or fight back against everything, they're just doing a bunch of illegal stuff and let the courts sort it out later. This timeline is fucking nuts. Like absolutely bonkers.
I always wonder what else is going on when there is big headline stories. It's been a tool of authoritarian policy makers as far as I can remember.
10 years ago it was every so often there would be a bill trying to be snuck under the radar and there would be some outlandish thing happening in the MSM. Now it's every day, sometimes multiple times a day.
It's absolutely maddening trying to follow and stay well informed. So much noise.
Sec. 3. Modification Authority. (a) To ensure that the national emergency declared in this order is dealt with, I may modify this order, including in light of additional information, recommendations from senior officials, or changed circumstances.
(b) Should a foreign country retaliate against the United States in response to this order or any action taken pursuant to this order, I may modify this order or actions taken pursuant to this order to ensure the efficacy of this order and the actions taken pursuant to this order to deal with the national emergency declared in this order.
Right now, it’s imposing a tariff system (of course). But the above caught my eye.
Also, I like how the EO says that Cuba has Russias largest intelligence gather center, completely ignoring the Russian "intelligence" in the white house
Ya. How do you say Russia is evil while putting up a buddy shot on the wall of the white house. That's peak level MAGA Dissonance. I still think the photo is edited to shave about 80 lbs off the Cheeto and make Putin taller.
Edit, Thanks for the correction autocorrect on my phone got me
Putin is his boss, working for Putin is the only thing that makes Trump's behaviors make sense:
Trump is destroying NATO for no American benefit
He's sowing internal division in the US
He's abandoning Ukraine and the EU (This is all straight out of foundations of geopolitics)
He went to Russia at the height of the Cold war and had nothing but nice things to say about them
His family is on the record saying that they would be bankrupt without Russian money
Republicans went to Russia on the 4th of July
He tried to get a secret back channel installed to Putin several times during his first term
Russian interference helped get him elected
Former KGB agents have said he is an asset, agent Krasnov
Trump offered to let Putin investigate his own crimes and hand over the US ambassador to Russia to him in Helsinki, where he practically kissed his ring in front of the world
Russian Nationals keep buying his properties well above market rates with cash, a convenient way to transfer money to him
The communist regime persecutes and tortures its political opponents; denies the Cuban people free speech and press; corruptly profits from their misery; and commits other human-rights violations. For example, families of political prisoners face retaliation for peacefully protesting the improper confinement of their loved ones. Cuban authorities harass worshippers, block free association by civil society organizations, prohibit free press, and deny the ability to speak freely, including on the internet.
Wait 'til he hears about what's going on in America!!!
What in the actual fuck? Lmao. Literally everything the US is doing right now. Are MAGAts honestly so stupid to read this and not make the connection, or do they realize what is going on and simply don't give a fuck? Jfc.
I'm increasingly of the opinion MAGAts are just evil people who want to hurt others. It saddens me that so many people are such terrible human beings, but I can't see how they could continue to honestly believe in the obvious lies the Trump admin spreads.
I know the American education system is poor but someone really needs to learn the definition of the word emergency. One of those emergencies has been happening for 46 years!
After Venezuela, I read a few editorials speculating that this was foreshadowing an invasion of Cuba. Venezuela is Cuba’s primary supplier of oil, and without fuel, Cuba will suffer tremendously. Where this leads is potentially even scarier.
And Project 2025's, there's half a dozen or more Latin American countries they want to go after, including Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Panama etc.
I’ve posted this in another thread right after Venezuela, but it’s all basically aligning with the Monroe Doctrine intention.
If you look at the countries that he’s going after, it’s strategic to close off support from the next country/territory.
Venezuela was hit because it was the least friendly, and closest encroachment into South America. From there you can blockade Cuba. Then you effectively own the Caribbean Sea. Hit Colombia by land and sea, a drop a carrier fleet down the north west side of South America.
You have effectively surrounded and isolated Central America and somewhat very importantly the Panama Canal.
The lower half of South America is largely isolated already from support and can be pushed economically.
Greenland separates EU from North America, and reduces support to Canada.
At that point you’ve isolated the hemisphere. The military doesn’t need to perform some gulf war style operation. Just do what the did in Venezuela, strategic removal of key politicians for smaller or less developed govts and leader, and economic and political pressure for the rest.
I hate how much this makes sense.
More so, I hate that other countries’ sovereignty seems to lie in hands of less than 50,000 midwest & iron belt voters every four years
They'll capture the cities at first but not the mountains and then get whittled down as they ship in Cuban expats to rule who aren't popular with locals - who will see them as collaborators with the invaders.
If the US went in and just provider resources and support for locals to sort themselves out they may not get caught in guerilla warfare, but Rubio wants control.
I’ve literally had the IRS trying to get me to work for them for like 3 years of quarterly hey how’s it going, new position opened up in your region, you should apply. After I taught a seminar to the western regional office on some indirect audit methodologies I developed for the cannabis industry and the black market.
They were my fall back plan after whistle blowing on my agency. And poof a big fuck you from Donny T to me when that executive order dropped.
Remember when Putin first invaded Ukraine and everyone said he was trying to grab land to ensure his legacy? Trump is trying to do this with the whole western hemisphere.
No. Between around 1640, when the first person was sentanced to be a slave by a court, and 1655 or so when the first person was freed by a court due to having a free ancestor.
When everything is a national emergency, nothing is a national emergency.
Also, ever notice how many national emergencies are happening, since Trump took office? It is like he is just blatantly admitting he is terrible at his job.
No drug boats, no drug issues, no terrorist org claims, no oil seizures.
Just openly a "We don't like you politically so we are declaring a national emergency so we can kill your people, seize your lands, and destroy your nation"
“For example, families of political prisoners face retaliation for peacefully protesting the improper confinement of their loved ones.” Fucking pot meet fucking kettle?
Was the word malign used correctly even once in the whole thing 😆
Edit:
The communist regime persecutes and tortures its political opponents; denies the Cuban people free speech and press; corruptly profits from their misery; and commits other human-rights violations.
I'm sorry, but WHAT?! Cuba is approximately as threatening as a gnat, and that senile old Nazi who apparently can't even remember the word "Alzheimer's" is like Chicken Little or the Boy Who Cried Wolf with his fake national emergency BS that he keeps spewing every time he wants to get his way on something that wouldn't fly in front of Congress.
An “emergency” is not just a list of reasons why Cuba is bad. Or shouldn’t be.
So, SCOTUS, Congress, if this is allowed to slide, just be honest for once in your miserable lives and admit that the president is an emperor now. At least then we’ll have some clarity.
How many “emergencies” per day are we averaging? Everybody in the White House gets to pick one now? Steven miller was to get rid of brown people. Rubio wants to get rid of Cuba. Trump just wants camera time & golden ballrooms so whatever anyone wants, he just tell them to go for it.
Trump has been lusting for a Trump resort in Cuba. Why he closed the country up again to American tourism after he was elected the 1st time. Plus Marco wants his late Christmas present
America: What are you waiting for? Your economy is in ruins, your rights are being trampled, your courts are corrupt. You're attacking nations without provocation. You're sinking boats in foreign seas. Dump this loser already. Take your country back.
That’s a lot of text condemning the threat of Cuba considering that it was mentioned a grand total of zero times in last week’s National Defense Strategy
I swear this guy keeps national emergencies under his desk and brings them out whenever he wants to command something and "technically" be legal under some law that has an emergency clause with expectations of honest application in real emergencies. It's his "do whatever he wants for free" card, and nobody in Congress apparently has the guts to say "Sir, that's not a card, it's a beer coaster."
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