Worth noting that the tariff threat worked. Columbia is now allowing the deportation flights and the tariff threat has been lifted.
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Murillo added that the South American country’s presidential aircraft is available to facilitate the return of migrants who were to arrive hours earlier on the U.S. military airplanes
Colombia didn’t refuse to take their citizens back. They objected to their inhumane treatment and being delivered on military aircraft. The American media has become a pro-Nazi propaganda machine.
In an effort to combat "wokeness", Trump bans coffee!
SHUT UP DAD
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He's speedrunning straight to the end of WW2. Not long and he should kill himself.
Trump must not realize how itchy most peoples index fingers get when they're short on caffeine.
The country is Colombia, not Columbia
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So... I hate Trump and I hate that America is sending deportees in restraints, but this article explicitly started that the tariffs were averted.
The headline and summary are misleading.
The story has evolved since this was posted.
The toddler-in-chief throwing a tantrum.
Petro has very sane demands here...he will only receive them on civilian planes being treated with respect, and is turning away military planes carrying people in chains.
In the gold rush, sell shovels.
If you aren't printing and selling "I did that" Trump stickers...
Colombia, AKA coffee
Without context, that would be bigoted as fuck 😄
Then again, when Trump is involved, you can never really rule out bigotry 😮💨
I mean coffee IS Colombias largest export and Colombia is the world's largest exporter of coffee.
Is it bigoted to reference staple exports when discussing threats of tariffs?
Nah, I'm just joking about the implication of "Colombia, also known as Coffee" 😉
Does he not know what happened when someone tried to fuck with the price of another caffeine favorite, Tea? We don't even like tea and coffee is beloved so I'm sure this'll go well!
You underestimate the right's ability to scapegoat brown people for their failings. Fox news will throw out some wool that Colombia is somehow at fault and they will pull it over their own eyes.
OT: I'm so frustrated that in my local Costco there's no single English tea, but they have entire aisle just for coffee.
? Our Costcos have lots of tea. I'm not sure about a whole aisle of it... maybe a regional thing?
Eventually there is going to be a massive backlash to all the shit this piece of shit is doing. I really believe it
nations which trade with the united states, which makes up pretty much every one, are stuck, this is what means to be the only superpower in the world, the engine of economics starts and ends with the united states, folks can take their luck with china but china doesn't even come close. not sure who you expect, and what form this "backlash" would take, but it'd be interesting to hear what columbia would do with all the surplus coffee it can't sell if there's an embargo, what would happen to it's farmers, it's shippers, it's entire economy. this is why the columbian president changed his tune.
The world's economies are intertwined now.
Such behaviour will lead to countries decoupling from the USA. Over time, this will lead to the USA having ever less power.
(Btw, regarding "the only superpower": The EU countries combined have a larger military than the USA.)
There's no embargo. Colombia doesn't need to do anything.
Trump is putting a tariff on the coffee. USA consumes almost 300 times more coffee than they produce. Even if they could produce 300 times more than they already do, it's very unlikely that they can do it cheaper than Colombia. The price for Americans is simply going to increase by 25%
The backlash will come from Americans.
I was speaking more generally than this specific tariff action
ok, generally what would you have the general world at large to do about trump's bullying, again being the leader of the worlds only superpower to which all other countries are inextricably linked economically right down to the very bones of their own economies? generally?
I don't know, we'll see. Calm down by the way