This is a joke right? Something from the Onion? Why would any country help out Trump now?
Ask Turkiye.
I thought the US didn’t need anything from anyone else? Isn’t that what you said?
America, Fuck You Asshole!
"You will become part of the US."
two days later....
"Bro my egg prices are high, can you help a brotha out?"
Do not help us. This is what we deserve.
💯
What's ironic is that from all countries he is asking Denmark. Greenland is An autonomous territory under the kingdom of Denmark.
I heard that before asking Greenland he was asking Canada as well.
Is he trying to neg us by threatening our sovereignty and then asking for a favour??? Most high schoolers know better than to fall for that. Like, get real.
No - Bugs Bunny.
I would love to see NATO countries (besides the US) band together and say:
”We will come together to support our great ally, so long as she saves herself. Upon the acceptance of President Trump's and Vice President Vance's resignation, we will provide the aid that our friend needs."
Trump could, in fact, be the hero here. He could walk away from the presidency with a win. For added measure, these countries could write lofty and wonderful articles about Trump's selflessness.
We know he won't.
Aside: I'm not saying Mike Johnson would make a good president. But let's take this one thing at a time.
Honestly, I love this idea. Why aren't America's former allies calling for the resignation of Trump and Vance? Let the American people know that if they want cheaper eggs, and better trade deals, they're going to have to find a way to get rid of these traitors who have seized power.
"On this trade war that HE started…"
Ok.. but then it’d be truth for once 😅
Canada here. Our eggs are cheap.
You want em?
Take your trade war agression and shove it up your ass!
You want to take our sovereignty away?
…starve.
Genuinely, fuck us over as hard as you can.
I know about Type 2 “Sorry”, but there are an absolute shitload of idiots down here who don’t.
shitload of idiots
I might agree to ship Canadian eggs to the US...
The Kinder Surprise ones, that is.
I'm assuming the bottom 30% dumbest of the US population would instantly die from choking on the toy inside.
For those who don't know, Canada has two types of "Sorry".
The first is "I'm sorry for what I did."
And the second is "I'm sorry for what I'm about to do."
That's the one that usually ends up adding new entries to the Geneva Conventions.
I'm not saying we should...
But negative tariffs on eggs coming out of the USA and ridiculous tariffs on eggs going into the USA would tickle my funny bone
OMG yes, have canada subsidize imports of american eggs. that would make me so fucking hot. I'd be out a lot of baked goods for a while, but cannot make myself care. I'll learn to bake vegan or something.
Hear me out - apply a tariff from EU to Canada on eggs (stay with me). Apply a tariff 2X that tariff to the US on eggs imported from Canada. Something something, profit
Help? Help? What happened to wanting to be a proud independent country that don't need no allies.
Maybe Russia has some eggs they can lend in these trying times.
I'll take a couple of them Fabergé eggs.
As a true American, don't help us with eggs, it'l hurt your country in the long run. Let us suffer so we can get our heads out of our asses and purge the nazis.
This is why we HAD allies. Had. To assist with the largesse we consume as Americans. You don’t get to swing your orange dick around at the world, offending and assaulting every ally, and then ask for help.
Denmark, from who they want to steal Greenland. They are obviously terminally stupid in Washington.
Meanwhile, the egg department in my grocery store is absolutely full not a single carton sold.
Nobody's paying eight bucks for a carton they can rot.
Meanwhile I bought a pack of chicken breasts at 267 a pound which is the normal price.
There's no shortage of chickens, there's no shortage of eggs
If eggs are $8 a pack (I'm assuming that's a pack of six), then there is no way that imports would be any better even if they weren't tariffed. The average price of eggs in the UK comes out at the equivalent of around $1-3 per pack of 6, so unless you can internationally ship them for $4 or less, it's not going to make any difference.
Capitalism artificially creates scarcity (or the illusion of scarcity) to generate capital.
I'm not suggesting that corporations aren't inflating prices, but your chicken breasts come from birds which are slaughtered pretty young, as opposed to egg layers so there is a much larger window to be infected.
HPAI A(H5) or A(H7) virus infections can cause disease that affects multiple internal organs with mortality up to 90% to 100% in chickens, often within 48 hours.
They're not that young :)
Hold the line Denmark. Don't pull a fucking Australia. Fuck those guys.
It sucks that this is happening.
Food staples becoming a cost-prohibitive thing, regardless of who's elected, is extraordinarily bad. I wish people could get past their reflexive need to point fingers and root for the other team to fail over this, because I'd think that wanting people to be able to eat is something we could all agree on.
The MEGA crowd only cares about themselves, it's unfortunate that normal people have to suffer but the only way to snap them out of their brainwashed state, is to force them day, after day, after day, after day, to suffer the consequences of their own idiot decisions. That means long-term economic hardship for Americans as a direct result of Trump's actions.
Many have already lost their jobs because it turns out that they are "The Waste", and +5 Trump districts are now booing their own representatives in town halls, so maybe that realization will come sooner than later.
I'm not rooting for the other team to fail. I live here.
let the american trash suffer. it's the only thing americans even approach understanding. they cannot comprehend consequences in the future, cannot remember the past. only those that are happening right now. better this now than something worse later.
Unfortunately things need to get bad enough that Trump loses his base or we'll be stuck in this shit forever. Best just to bite the bullet and brace for the shitty hopefully short term until he pushes the wrong person and everything comes crashing down on him. It's the only way forward that may actually result in improvement as far as I can see.
Oh now Trump wants allies?
Recognize the passive voice: "The US has reached out". They don't say Trump reached out or the Trump administration reached out.
European nations, please say that you will export eggs only when the idiots are out of power.
Oh, we can all egg you.
Get bent, United States!
Time to educate Trump in the fine art of export tariffs.
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