Negotiating with penguins.

An educated populace is a potential danger to despots, pascal: best eliminate the risk.

DrWatson

Yes, further confirmation - if anyone was still in doubt - that Chump is an imbecile. And he's surrounded himself with sycophants and other imbeciles, Vance (for one) has a very dodgy history, and was reported on his recent visit to Greenland to have expressed surprise that it was very cold. Well, who knew?

The news bulletin the other day that showed Chump boasting about several of his pals who'd made millions (or even billions) out of the recent Stock Market movements was especially disgusting.

And today's news that he's had to relax the tariffs on phones and computers will have got the Chinese leadership wetting themselves laughing.

As HL Mencken said, between the wars, no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. Nearly 100 years later, Chump's MAGA supporters showed that Mencken was a shrewd man of foresight!

He's a verifiable chump who has hugely cut grants to Universities.. where world breaking new research is carried out.. Talk about cutting off your own hand..

Yes, further confirmation - if anyone was still in doubt - that Chump is an imbecile. And he's surrounded himself with sycophants and other imbeciles, Vance (for one) has a very dodgy history, and was reported on his recent visit to Greenland to have expressed surprise that it was very cold. Well, who knew?

The news bulletin the other day that showed Chump boasting about several of his pals who'd made millions (or even billions) out of the recent Stock Market movements was especially disgusting.

And today's news that he's had to relax the tariffs on phones and computers will have got the Chinese leadership wetting themselves laughing.

As HL Mencken said, between the wars, no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. Nearly 100 years later, Chump's MAGA supporters showed that Mencken was a shrewd man of foresight!

Parsley3

🎶 He puts the tariffs on
He takes the tariffs off
On off, on off
The penguins have a laugh 🎶

😂

Wyllow3 you have made my day, better than the usual 'comedians' on TV and I liked the great add-on by Skodadoda
Love all the comments Thank You

Well,at least the penguin is wearing a suit in the Oval Office 😂🤣

🎶 He puts the tariffs on
He takes the tariffs off
On off, on off
The penguins have a laugh 🎶

Wyllow3

this says it all

Agree .. Insanity to put it mildly !!

I would have liked to speak to the intelligent one but the penguin was too busy!!

I hear Trumps given China a bonus - by admitting his weakness on electronic parts., and down graded that tariff. If I were China I'd now ramp up the tariff on those exact same goods - to see where else Trump will show a weakness.
If only those penguins could now manufacture electronics !!!!

Wyllow3

One last pix to enjoy....

Hilarious Wyllow.. thankyou

I wouldn't tackle anyone with a beak that sharp! 🐧

😁

Trump grabs his 10%

Allira

^Quite honestly it is the most remote god-forsaken place you can think of.^
But the penguins love it!

I suppose that they incur this tariff because they are an external territory of Australia and Australia's tariff will be 10%.

There are several British overseas territories in the South Atlantic which are home only to penguins that are being given a 10% tariff - can't remember which ones. You really couldn't make it up. I love these memes, Wyllow 3. I think l would trust the penguins more than Orange One.

Excellent Granmarderby!

Trump knows “Rockall” anyway!

M0nica

Allira

Quite honestly it is the most remote god-forsaken place you can think of.
But the penguins love it!

I suppose that they incur this tariff because they are an external territory of Australia and Australia's tariff will be 10%.

Well, yes, Allira, but why haven't the Americans quoted a tariff rate for Rockall, or Tristan da Cunha? They too are British overseas territories.

No idea, M0nica but the Falkland Islands have been hit with a 42% tariff
In 2023, the Falklands exported $27.4m (£21.2m) of goods to the US, mostly non-fillet frozen fish, according to the Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC), external.

In contrast, the OEC said the US exported $329,000 (£255,000) of goods to the Falklands.

Perhaps Trump has never heard of Rockall or Tristan da Cunha so they escaped attention.

Allira

^Quite honestly it is the most remote god-forsaken place you can think of.^
But the penguins love it!

I suppose that they incur this tariff because they are an external territory of Australia and Australia's tariff will be 10%.

Well, yes, Allira, but why haven't the Americans quoted a tariff rate for Rockall, or Tristan da Cunha? They too are British overseas territories.

Quite honestly it is the most remote god-forsaken place you can think of.
But the penguins love it!

I suppose that they incur this tariff because they are an external territory of Australia and Australia's tariff will be 10%.

Now that Vance has been talking about Chinese peasants it's probably safer for us all if they stick to the penguins.

I would assume the $2 million of exports caught in territorial waters around the islands.

I have ammused myself this afternoon by first actually locating on Google World where these facinating islands are, then looking at them - 1 large active volcano island, the volcano is called 'Big Ben, total area around 140 square miles and then various rock upcrops, calling them islands is a gross exageration. 80% of the area of Heard island is covered with glaciers. There is a bay that I think serves as a harbour, but, as I understand no one has visited the island since 1995 and it is a conservation site of a very high environmental value.

Quite honestly it is the most remote god-forsaken place you can think of.

Nice ones.

You're right there, Monica

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce84jr5mvnno

One of Trump's senior sycophants explained that the Australians might try to tranship goods through the Heard Islands to avoid the tarriffs on Australian goods.

It is clear he had no idea where they were, how big they were or whether they had a harbour or port.

It is known as 'when in a hole, stop digging'

This penguin is saying to Trump:

"You may think your hairstyle is unique but we invented the blond bouffant."