@kralcttam we do not have that exact expression. We will sometimes say “keep the gun powder dry” to indicate that you should stay prepared things turning ugly.
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Remember that after the 2016 USA election, Germany and Denmark requested that their gold be sent back home from the NY Reserve.
They were told to wait... 🤦
They also asked that they be "allowed" to inspect their gold reserves, but had been getting refusals...
@randahl he is fudging the American economy by back filling it with government money, more than the COVID bailout & nearly as much as the banking crash of 2007/8 - he is lying about it & throwing other people's money at it to ride the gravy train for as long as he can, he has sent the $500 million he got for selling stolen Venezuelan oil to a bank account in the middleast, it's his go bag for when he bails on another bankruptcy, this time it is the US he has bankrupted.
https://truthout.org/articles/new-york-federal-reserve-gave-wall-street-over-420-billion-in-the-past-7-months/
@randahl He has Americans fully suckered on who pays these tariffs so now he has it figured that he can use discredited trade tactics for gambits that have nothing to do with trade.
@randahl if the EU had the courage to hit him by applying tarriff on the Software and Tech industry, lets say the double of the US one on EU with automatic update if he change his.
It would destroy his economy overnight.
@randahl that’s because everyone let it work. He threw a tantrum and every world leader fell over themselves to be the ones to make him happy. Now whenever he wants something he’s going to throw the same tantrum. You can capitulate now and lose Greenland but you’ll get the same tantrum when he wants Canada, and Mexico, ect.
7 more EU countries with strong tech bases that could repeal anti-circumvention laws and really fuck over US tech companies by providing adversarial interoperability or migration tools or firmware jailbreaks.
Trump is a completely unreliable partner. Shame on this backstabbing traitor…
History will not judge lightly on this madman.
@randahl
mad at EU so he taxes Americans ... take that EU
@randahl We can all help by boycotting US products.
@randahl He vented through a tweet. He has not legislative powers to impose tariffs, Congress does.
@randahl Here is the post from a site that posts all of his weirdness, so you can read, without entering the toxic zone: https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/34583
@randahl Does it mean USA will pay 10 or 25% tarifs when they will buy Greenland? He makes this land purchase more expensive... strange deal...
Consider for a moment the psychology of the principal involved.
You could declare a trade embargo of exports to the United States.
That quarter kind of leverage though would require the EU to be technologically independent of the United States.
Technological sovereignty really is a thing…
If you haven’t heard Cory Doctorow’s recommendation for measures at the EU has to reclaim tech sovereignty, consider restoring the right to reverse engineer and to repair. Basically shred up elements of trade agreements that criminalize what is a property right.
You can spice up that measure by stridently declaring that frees markets from the shackles of USSR style centralized command and control economics.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/14/sole-and-despotic/
I am currently trying to hunt down his recent speech, but I think this article covers the same topic largely
@randahl Fuck him! He thinks he can bully everyone to do what he wants. I'm looking forward to ditching any US based streaming and cloud services possible. Enough of the orange nazi dictator and his paedophile friends.
@randahl The EU will now need to rip up the trade agreement with the USA and pointedly stop buying US oil and LPG.
It starts to get messy when we start selling off all those US bonds, at that point it really could melt down quite spectacularly with a US default a couple of years later.
