EU to Trump - 'We can also do stupid'

[Tommy Tainant]

Juncker responds to Trump's trade tariffs: 'We can also do stupid'

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has vowed to fight back against US President Donald Trump's threat of a 25% tariff on steel and 10% on aluminium imports.

"So now we will also impose import tariffs. This is basically a stupid process, the fact that we have to do this. But we have to do it. We will now impose tariffs on motorcycles, Harley Davidson, on blue jeans, Levis, on Bourbon. We can also do stupid. We also have to be this stupid," he said in Hamburg on Friday evening.

And so it begins. The cheers of the US steel makers will soon be drowned out by the yelps of the bourbon distilleries and in the end nobody wins.

 

[TheOldSchool]

The one good thing about the GOP was their stances on free trade and capitalism. It’s shocking how quickly and easily they abandoned them.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

The one good thing about the GOP was their stances on free trade and capitalism. It’s shocking how quickly and easily they abandoned them.

Is this just Trump though ?

 

[shockedcanadian]

Juncker responds to Trump's trade tariffs: 'We can also do stupid'

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has vowed to fight back against US President Donald Trump's threat of a 25% tariff on steel and 10% on aluminium imports.

"So now we will also impose import tariffs. This is basically a stupid process, the fact that we have to do this. But we have to do it. We will now impose tariffs on motorcycles, Harley Davidson, on blue jeans, Levis, on Bourbon. We can also do stupid. We also have to be this stupid," he said in Hamburg on Friday evening.

And so it begins. The cheers of the US steel makers will soon be drowned out by the yelps of the bourbon distilleries and in the end nobody wins.

LOL, if I'm Trump I say, "oooh please, goodie goodie one more lump please"

Germany has a $300B surplus, China $200B, on and on within the EU, America has a $500B deficit per year. Just who is going to lose most?

Or, Trump should tell the EU, "how about you limp wristed global apologists trade places for a year, and YOU drop your tariffs to nothing and subsidize the global economy with a $500B loss. Does anything think any of these nations would accept a $500B loss per year!?!

These sob's want to ruin America. Push hard until the U.S economy is overrun with debt and they will either become beholden the rest of the world, and/or the Chinese provide the reserve currency.

The EU and CHina have much higher tariffs already, why don't they offer to drop their rates to the U>S current rates? They want to make sure Canada remains the globalist "bridge" to America while American taxpayers and future generation pay for everyones ride.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Hmmm......the EU should probably shut up....and the OP may want to realize what happened in his own neck of the woods


EU imposes import duties of up to 73.7% on cheap Chinese steel

The European Union has slapped tariffs of up to 73.7% on Chinese steel after manufacturers were forced to cut jobs due falling prices and demand for the material amid an influx of cheap imports from Asia.

Thousand of job have already been lost in the steel industry in Britain in the last year with thousands more at risk as the sector remains under pressure. Industry leaders have partly blamed the squeeze on the sector on China’s dumping of cheap steel in Europe as it struggles to find buyers for its products domestically.


EU imposes import duties of up to 73.7% on cheap Chinese steel

 

[JGalt]

Juncker responds to Trump's trade tariffs: 'We can also do stupid'

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has vowed to fight back against US President Donald Trump's threat of a 25% tariff on steel and 10% on aluminium imports.

"So now we will also impose import tariffs. This is basically a stupid process, the fact that we have to do this. But we have to do it. We will now impose tariffs on motorcycles, Harley Davidson, on blue jeans, Levis, on Bourbon. We can also do stupid. We also have to be this stupid," he said in Hamburg on Friday evening.

And so it begins. The cheers of the US steel makers will soon be drowned out by the yelps of the bourbon distilleries and in the end nobody wins.

Hahahahahah!

Let them do that then. Eurofags can buy cheap crappy Chinese or Japanese rice-burner motorcycles, ratty knockoff jeans from China, and all the Russian vodka they want.

That's just more of the good stuff for us, here in the good ol' US of A.

 

[Meathead]

The one good thing about the GOP was their stances on free trade and capitalism. It’s shocking how quickly and easily they abandoned them.

Remember when the Democrats believed in free speech, democracy and those kinda things before the socialist/snowflake wing took over?

I do.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Juncker responds to Trump's trade tariffs: 'We can also do stupid'

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has vowed to fight back against US President Donald Trump's threat of a 25% tariff on steel and 10% on aluminium imports.

"So now we will also impose import tariffs. This is basically a stupid process, the fact that we have to do this. But we have to do it. We will now impose tariffs on motorcycles, Harley Davidson, on blue jeans, Levis, on Bourbon. We can also do stupid. We also have to be this stupid," he said in Hamburg on Friday evening.

And so it begins. The cheers of the US steel makers will soon be drowned out by the yelps of the bourbon distilleries and in the end nobody wins.

The unwashed masses finally have their moron leader. Can you imagine America has sunk to such a low. When Shrub was president many thought that was about as low-level as you could get for stupid for someone to elect to office. WRONG. The orange turd has lowered the bar so low that a bacteria could not fit underneath. And it is the bugwits that voted for this worthless pile that will suffer by losing their jobs to this assinine tariff crap.

 

[Siete]

why would Trump even consider letting the market set/adjust prices when he can do it and boast about how many bankruptcies he's been through ?

 

[shockedcanadian]

why would Trump even consider letting the market set/adjust prices when he can do it and boast about how many bankruptcies he's been through ?

Yes, but Trump has beaten competition and he knows about being abused. He's taken plenty of shots in his lifetime of business, especially with big banks, so he knows the methods to get things done. It's hardball all the time with him, until terms are favorable.

He is right, you have had some poor leadership the last couple of decades. Absolutely no long term vision for the nation and looking at China the same way the world looked at Germany in the 1930's. How can people not see the massive threat they pose? Why are so many determined to allow them to continue to exploit?

The E.U would only hurt themselves drastically, and when they do, one by one nations of citizens would be angry and express their discontent. Many smaller nations would ask their pals in France and Germany why they would ruin a good thing with America in order to protect their OWN steel industry?

 

[oldsoul]

Juncker responds to Trump's trade tariffs: 'We can also do stupid'

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has vowed to fight back against US President Donald Trump's threat of a 25% tariff on steel and 10% on aluminium imports.

"So now we will also impose import tariffs. This is basically a stupid process, the fact that we have to do this. But we have to do it. We will now impose tariffs on motorcycles, Harley Davidson, on blue jeans, Levis, on Bourbon. We can also do stupid. We also have to be this stupid," he said in Hamburg on Friday evening.

And so it begins. The cheers of the US steel makers will soon be drowned out by the yelps of the bourbon distilleries and in the end nobody wins.

Hahahahahah!

Let them do that then. Eurofags can buy cheap crappy Chinese or Japanese rice-burner motorcycles, ratty knockoff jeans from China, and all the Russian vodka they want.

That's just more of the good stuff for us, here in the good ol' US of A.

AAANNNDDD because of lower demand.... FEWER JOBS!!!!

 

[theHawk]

Juncker responds to Trump's trade tariffs: 'We can also do stupid'

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has vowed to fight back against US President Donald Trump's threat of a 25% tariff on steel and 10% on aluminium imports.

"So now we will also impose import tariffs. This is basically a stupid process, the fact that we have to do this. But we have to do it. We will now impose tariffs on motorcycles, Harley Davidson, on blue jeans, Levis, on Bourbon. We can also do stupid. We also have to be this stupid," he said in Hamburg on Friday evening.

And so it begins. The cheers of the US steel makers will soon be drowned out by the yelps of the bourbon distilleries and in the end nobody wins.

I thought tariffs didn’t work? If it’s “stupid” then why does he want to do exactly the same thing? The answer is the EU already imposes tariffs on US goods in order to protect their own industries. Now they are freaking out and can do nothing but threaten the US.

Now, crawl back into your grub hole.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

why would Trump even consider letting the market set/adjust prices when he can do it and boast about how many bankruptcies he's been through ?

American, and European, consumers will pay the cost. Its nuts.

 

[JGalt]

Juncker responds to Trump's trade tariffs: 'We can also do stupid'

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has vowed to fight back against US President Donald Trump's threat of a 25% tariff on steel and 10% on aluminium imports.

"So now we will also impose import tariffs. This is basically a stupid process, the fact that we have to do this. But we have to do it. We will now impose tariffs on motorcycles, Harley Davidson, on blue jeans, Levis, on Bourbon. We can also do stupid. We also have to be this stupid," he said in Hamburg on Friday evening.

And so it begins. The cheers of the US steel makers will soon be drowned out by the yelps of the bourbon distilleries and in the end nobody wins.

Hahahahahah!

Let them do that then. Eurofags can buy cheap crappy Chinese or Japanese rice-burner motorcycles, ratty knockoff jeans from China, and all the Russian vodka they want.

That's just more of the good stuff for us, here in the good ol' US of A.

AAANNNDDD because of lower demand.... FEWER JOBS!!!!

I seriously doubt that. Even with higher prices, those objects are still highly-prized and Euros will still want them. They'll just have to work a little harder to pay for them.

Take Walmart for example: Do you really think people would stop shopping at Walmart if the Chinese raised their prices on everything Walmart sells? Nope, they'd still flock there and gobble up as many Chinese-made televisions as they could, because they want them.

 

[oldsoul]

News flash!! NO ONE WINS A TRADE WAR. Think you can prove me wrong? Go ahead, cite one time when a country has "won" in a trade war. Every single time, prices go up, demand goes down, corruption goes up, standard of living goes down. Far too often this is how WARS are started, the real kind, where people don't lose their jobs, they lose their LIFE!!!

 

[theHawk]

The one good thing about the GOP was their stances on free trade and capitalism. It’s shocking how quickly and easily they abandoned them.

The one BAD thing about the GOP has always been their mantra of “free trade” which was code word for selling out our industries and jobs to cheap Chinese labor.

 

[oldsoul]

Juncker responds to Trump's trade tariffs: 'We can also do stupid'

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has vowed to fight back against US President Donald Trump's threat of a 25% tariff on steel and 10% on aluminium imports.

"So now we will also impose import tariffs. This is basically a stupid process, the fact that we have to do this. But we have to do it. We will now impose tariffs on motorcycles, Harley Davidson, on blue jeans, Levis, on Bourbon. We can also do stupid. We also have to be this stupid," he said in Hamburg on Friday evening.

And so it begins. The cheers of the US steel makers will soon be drowned out by the yelps of the bourbon distilleries and in the end nobody wins.

Hahahahahah!

Let them do that then. Eurofags can buy cheap crappy Chinese or Japanese rice-burner motorcycles, ratty knockoff jeans from China, and all the Russian vodka they want.

That's just more of the good stuff for us, here in the good ol' US of A.

AAANNNDDD because of lower demand.... FEWER JOBS!!!!

I seriously doubt that. Even with higher prices, those objects are still highly-prized and Euros will still want them. They'll just have to work a little harder to pay for them.

Take Walmart for example: Do you really think people would stop shopping at Walmart if the Chinese raised their prices on everything Walmart sells? Nope, they'd still flock there and gobble up as many Chinese-made televisions as they could, because they want them.

You may be right, however, if people are spending more on my widgets, they have less money for your whiz-bangs. Or the inverse. Either way, when governments take more money, through taxes of any kind, there is less money for other things, thus, economies stagnate at best and dramatically constrict at worst.

 

[JGalt]

A good read on why Trump's tariffs won't really result in a trade war..

Why a full-blown Trump trade war won’t happen

 

[iceberg]

Juncker responds to Trump's trade tariffs: 'We can also do stupid'

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has vowed to fight back against US President Donald Trump's threat of a 25% tariff on steel and 10% on aluminium imports.

"So now we will also impose import tariffs. This is basically a stupid process, the fact that we have to do this. But we have to do it. We will now impose tariffs on motorcycles, Harley Davidson, on blue jeans, Levis, on Bourbon. We can also do stupid. We also have to be this stupid," he said in Hamburg on Friday evening.

And so it begins. The cheers of the US steel makers will soon be drowned out by the yelps of the bourbon distilleries and in the end nobody wins.

blue jeans?

they're gonna do more than this?

Price of 1 pair of jeans (Levis 501 or similar) in London :: Expatistan

 

[oldsoul]

The one good thing about the GOP was their stances on free trade and capitalism. It’s shocking how quickly and easily they abandoned them.

The one BAD thing about the GOP has always been their mantra of “free trade” which was code word for selling out our industries and jobs to cheap Chinese labor.

Hey, if the Chinese can do it cheaper, that frees us up to INNOVATE, something Americans used to be pretty good at. Maybe we could spend more of our new found "free time" finding a better way of doing it, instead of blaming the "chinese boogey man", or here's a crazy idea, create a product/service of a QUALITY the chinese cannot match.

Whatever you do, stop being so easily duped, and take some damn responsibility for yourself. Find a way or MAKE one.

THAT USED TO BE THE AMERICAN WAY