Because Republicans are lazy, entitled, delusional, malevolent idiots. This is always the answer to why they do anything.
Yes, it’s very funny that we’re tariffing penguins or whatever. But that’s just the administration clicking the checkbox to select all or whatever because they are not thoughtful or careful people.
Because the Trump Admin asked ChatGPT what a good tariff policy would be, and that’s the garbage it spat out.
There’s an article on the verge about it. Four AI programs all had the same response as Trump’s board (less a 10% minimum and a few numbers were rounded.)
That’s why they’re tariffing remote and extremely poor countries they didn’t know existed at 50%. Zero trade is a “100% deficit” and half of that is 50%. This administration really is that stupid.
It’s not a country and it’s so ridiculous that the only plausible explanation I’ve heard is that someone at some point asked a LLM which hallucinated it into being a country and having a trade deficit and no one questioned it afterwards.
Because it’s been included as a country on the tarriffs schedule since at least 1987-88.
If it’s on our official list of tariff-able trade partners, and Trump tasks the USTR with tariffing every trade partner at least 10%, there’s no reason for it not to make the cut.
The damp cheeto just asked an aide to come up with all the places we trade with so he could tariff them, and the aide just used chatGPT because nobody competent still works there. And chatGPT didn’t understand the question.
Our “very stable genius” and his staff of evil bootlickers don’t bother with petty details. So, time and time again they make clear to the world what troublemaking dimwits they are.
Like fruitflies, roaches and maggots, they are what they are and do what they do. Anyone expecting carefully thought out, logical and constructive plans and deeds is expecting too much..
It was clearly done with an algorithm because First Lady Edolf Muskler doesn’t understand when to use a computer algorithm and when to use actual human thought. I don’t think J.R. Pants, or whatever the heck his name is, had much to do with it because he was busy eating crayons, and old man Diaper Trump just goes with whatever Muskler says.
>According to an analysis of US import data and shipping records, multiple shipments of goods were classified as having originated from Norfolk Island or Heard and McDonald islands when neither the company address, nor the port of departure for the shipment, nor the destination port were located in those territories
>…Heard Island and McDonald Islands – an uninhabited group of islands covered in glaciers near Antarctica, which is also an “external territory” of Australia – was also named in the White House’s list of “countries” hit by tariffs, with a 10% tariff placed on it.
>The territory does have a fishery but no buildings or human habitation. Despite this, according to export data from the World Bank, the US imported US$1.4m (A$2.23m) of products from Heard Island and McDonald Islands in 2022, nearly all of which was “machinery and electrical” imports.
>The Guardian has identified multiple bills of lading that suggest exports originated from the remote islands but are largely steel or plastic imports from Europe to the US. The paperwork lists the shipper’s address as being in the Heard Island and McDonald Islands rather than Germany or Austria, however.
>One bill of lading, from September 2024, relates to parts for a PET recycling plant, shipped from Starlinger Co in Vienna to Oakland California, which lists the address of Starlinger as being in “Vienna, Heard Island and McDonald Islands”. Starlinger Co was contacted for comment.
importantly from the same article
>journalists and economists have figured out the method used by the Trump administration to calculate the tariffs placed on other countries and territories. It is a simple formula which produces a tariff percentage based on the country’s trade deficit with the US in 2024. The Guardian has confirmed that this formula produces the 29% figure using US trade data for Norfolk Island
Because professionals didn’t do this work. There are (or were) highly skilled specialists in the government — economists with PhDs, international relations experts — who would normally do this sort of work, but they weren’t consulted. Instead political appointees armed with Excel and ChatGPT put this together
Incompetence, over-confidence and worst of all lack of rigor. They just copy-pasted something and then declared it true without ever remembering to double-check if the list of “countries” even listed countries to begin with
Looking back, I probably should be surprised they didn’t include a 20% tariff on Sordland
He used AI to make the list. He doesn’t fucking know geography…i’d be surprised if he could more than two or three countries in Africa..or like Europe, he probably thinks Africa is a country
They used chatgpt to calculate it, and chatgpt divided it by internet domain name. So entities that are part of s country but have their own Internet domain got tariffed the standard 10%
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What do you think is the reason why the us administration set 10% tariff against an empty island?
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That’s just what Ronald wants you to think.
I assume because all he did was literally look at a list of every country in the world, subtracted Russia, and said “tariff that.”
Google says that somebody listed goods that they traded as being from there in 2022. So, probably something automatic.
5d chess, ofc.
Or may be they just dumb? Who knows
Birds are assholes. Especially penguins 🐧
Fuck those penguins. They know what they did!
Because Republicans are lazy, entitled, delusional, malevolent idiots. This is always the answer to why they do anything.
Yes, it’s very funny that we’re tariffing penguins or whatever. But that’s just the administration clicking the checkbox to select all or whatever because they are not thoughtful or careful people.
Because the Trump Admin asked ChatGPT what a good tariff policy would be, and that’s the garbage it spat out.
There’s an article on the verge about it. Four AI programs all had the same response as Trump’s board (less a 10% minimum and a few numbers were rounded.)
That’s why they’re tariffing remote and extremely poor countries they didn’t know existed at 50%. Zero trade is a “100% deficit” and half of that is 50%. This administration really is that stupid.
We have discovered sentient penguins who are secretly trying to destroy our economy with a heavy trade imbalance of fish.
We’ll never let those fake tuxedoed pests get away with this!
Its either that, or severe brain damage at 1600.
Trump is dumb. We get it.
It’s not a country and it’s so ridiculous that the only plausible explanation I’ve heard is that someone at some point asked a LLM which hallucinated it into being a country and having a trade deficit and no one questioned it afterwards.
Because our president is genuinely brain dead
Why do you think?
I also think there was a typo on a trade site that showed there was like 1.4 million in “mech and tech” trade out of those islands back in 2022.
https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/USA/Year/LTST/TradeFlow/EXPIMP/Partner/HMD/Product/All-Groups
But even Snopes looked into it and can’t find an answer for where those numbers came from.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-tariffs-heard-and-mcdonald-islands-penguins/
Those fucking penguins have been taking our manufacturing jobs for decades!
Because it’s been included as a country on the tarriffs schedule since at least 1987-88.
If it’s on our official list of tariff-able trade partners, and Trump tasks the USTR with tariffing every trade partner at least 10%, there’s no reason for it not to make the cut.
Imagine a country populated by Canada geese. Oh wait, that’s where they got the idea from.
The damp cheeto just asked an aide to come up with all the places we trade with so he could tariff them, and the aide just used chatGPT because nobody competent still works there. And chatGPT didn’t understand the question.
Our “very stable genius” and his staff of evil bootlickers don’t bother with petty details. So, time and time again they make clear to the world what troublemaking dimwits they are.
Like fruitflies, roaches and maggots, they are what they are and do what they do. Anyone expecting carefully thought out, logical and constructive plans and deeds is expecting too much..
It was clearly done with an algorithm because First Lady Edolf Muskler doesn’t understand when to use a computer algorithm and when to use actual human thought. I don’t think J.R. Pants, or whatever the heck his name is, had much to do with it because he was busy eating crayons, and old man Diaper Trump just goes with whatever Muskler says.
Grok wrote the policy.
Because our leaders are dumb
Because he’s a fucking idiot
Because he is an idiot, duh.
The answer is simple:
Trump is ignorant of most things in the world and surrounded by people who are even more ignorant.
To quote a great philosopher: “Stupid is as stupid does.”
Because his base is dumb? They’re eating that shit up. If their base wasn’t receptive to this dumb shit, they wouldn’t do it
Dementia … dementia is your answer
Because they are fucking morons.
According to the Guardian
>According to an analysis of US import data and shipping records, multiple shipments of goods were classified as having originated from Norfolk Island or Heard and McDonald islands when neither the company address, nor the port of departure for the shipment, nor the destination port were located in those territories
>…Heard Island and McDonald Islands – an uninhabited group of islands covered in glaciers near Antarctica, which is also an “external territory” of Australia – was also named in the White House’s list of “countries” hit by tariffs, with a 10% tariff placed on it.
>The territory does have a fishery but no buildings or human habitation. Despite this, according to export data from the World Bank, the US imported US$1.4m (A$2.23m) of products from Heard Island and McDonald Islands in 2022, nearly all of which was “machinery and electrical” imports.
>The Guardian has identified multiple bills of lading that suggest exports originated from the remote islands but are largely steel or plastic imports from Europe to the US. The paperwork lists the shipper’s address as being in the Heard Island and McDonald Islands rather than Germany or Austria, however.
>One bill of lading, from September 2024, relates to parts for a PET recycling plant, shipped from Starlinger Co in Vienna to Oakland California, which lists the address of Starlinger as being in “Vienna, Heard Island and McDonald Islands”. Starlinger Co was contacted for comment.
importantly from the same article
>journalists and economists have figured out the method used by the Trump administration to calculate the tariffs placed on other countries and territories. It is a simple formula which produces a tariff percentage based on the country’s trade deficit with the US in 2024. The Guardian has confirmed that this formula produces the 29% figure using US trade data for Norfolk Island
Because the people who set the tariffs are fucking morons.
Because professionals didn’t do this work. There are (or were) highly skilled specialists in the government — economists with PhDs, international relations experts — who would normally do this sort of work, but they weren’t consulted. Instead political appointees armed with Excel and ChatGPT put this together
Incompetence, over-confidence and worst of all lack of rigor. They just copy-pasted something and then declared it true without ever remembering to double-check if the list of “countries” even listed countries to begin with
Looking back, I probably should be surprised they didn’t include a 20% tariff on Sordland
He used AI to make the list. He doesn’t fucking know geography…i’d be surprised if he could more than two or three countries in Africa..or like Europe, he probably thinks Africa is a country
Because… and hold on, this is a shocker… they gave absolutely ZERO thought to what they were doing
They used chatGPT to give them a list of all the different domain names for countries/regions.
You think I’m kidding but I’m not
Because this is a stupid administration ran by a team of dullards, led by a brain dead geriatric.
Because we’re led by a moron
Clearly they are a threat to the US’s fast food industry.
There can only be one McDonald’s!
They used chatgpt to calculate it, and chatgpt divided it by internet domain name. So entities that are part of s country but have their own Internet domain got tariffed the standard 10%