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Americans: "What do WE want? Oh...you don't understand. What are YOU bringing to us as an offering to the god king so that he may bestow his benevolence upon you."
And I'm not even kidding about about that; that's exactly how the Trump administration thinks international relations should be.
One of the contributing factors to the rise of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi), was the economic state of Germany. Establishing an us-vs-them mindset and placing people into poverty might be the point.
The American administration are not serious people, how can so many people not see this? It's like they're obviously not sees.
They want to perpetually be the victim.
It's straight up psychological abuse. They want others to try and read their souls (aka guess) so that they can have the upper hand of being able to say it's not good enough. Or that it has offended them in some way and oh look tariffs just went up again.
That and personal benefits. Trump is all about the grift. He doesn't care about Americans, never has. If Japan said they'd make a statue of him on the top of mt Fuji he's be touring it on every news station within the hour.
Conservative America wants to publicly bitch about petty non-existent grievances while demanding that they be taken seriously.
It's worked on their constituents, but they can't seem to understand why it doesn't work on the rest of the world.
What they want is fealty.
Gifts
They want large financial gifts. Preferably tax free
All the GOP wants is to feel like they're in charge, they don't have any real vision for America outside of it being less gay.
Well, that and white and male. Oh, and spray-on tans are ok as well.
And eyeliner.
No they want it to appear less gay while they do "gay" shit and diddle kids.
The GQP hasn't had an idea other than, give rich tax brakes, since I've been alive
That's an unfair characterization and completely untrue.
They also want to deregulate everything.
Not true. They want to regulate green tech while deregulating fossil fuels.
They want to regulate birth control while deregulating firearms.
Modern Republicans aren't conservative anymore, they are straight up fascists, or fascism-curious.
I'm surprised they didn't ask for Nintendo.
We want nothing and you offer nothing?
Deal!
That's about what I would expect from the Trump regime
Team Manchild’s take on “we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas”…
be nice to close all the bases in japan where crimes stem from.....
You know - when they send their enlisted personnel they don't send their best.
They sand r***ists and drunk drivers.
"We're not allowed to just straight out ask for a bribe, so you have to figure that out on your own and give us the money under the table."
"Did you stay at a Trump branded hotel ofr this trip? That'd be a start."
What's really stopping them from openly asking for bribes?
Nothing, now. Didn't they change the laws to say government employees can receive "tips"?
Snyder v. United States from June 2024. The ruling is that money given before an official act is a "bribe", but money given after an official act is a "gratuity".
Yes, our Supreme Court is batfucked in the head, why do you ask?
It's because they also receive a lot of "gratuities."
Associate Justice C. Thomas has entered the chat.
"we want to win"
Or, alternatively
"Some fat personal bribes please"
That's probably the exact reason, they didn't SAY they wanted bribes on the record, but made a gesture of rubbing their fingers and thumb together and the Japanese delegation ignored or misinterpreted it
You want paper towel? Yes?
What they want is: to reduce the trade deficit. But they don't know how to do that. The most straightforward way is to produce more American products that people in other countries want. But how can Japan do that for them?
Literally educate your populace, you dumb fucking sacks of shit.
God. Why are conservatives so insulatedly stubbornly braindead fartingly fucking stupid??
You want to compete on a global scale? Make your population better than the other ones: INVEST IN YOURSELVES.
Republicans are incapable of doing that because they see anything that helps someone as a "Handout"
Is there really a trade deficit when you factor in services?
That's what Trump conveniently "forgets" when talking about Evil Europe. Once you compare trade and services balance it's quite even
if the last month has taught us anything, real 4D chess would be "make the Switch 2 here, we'll exempt any tariff that goes to it, and lift the ones on you"