Americans, how do you feel about the 10% tariff placed on an island only inhabited by penguins?

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Americans, how do you feel about the 10% tariff placed on an island only inhabited by penguins?

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  1. Ok_Method_988 Avatar

    It’s sick and pretty sad. 

  2. Easy_Towel954 Avatar

    Those penguins are gonna pay. I hate happy feet.

  3. meowsaysdexter Avatar

    Those penguins had it coming. You’re either for us or against us.

  4. Bennevada Avatar

    If you have seen the documentary, madagascar, you will know those duckers got off easily 

  5. bougdaddy Avatar

    just smile and wave, boys, smile and wave

  6. RoxoRoxo Avatar

    you mean the island that belongs to Australia and therefore is being subjected to the tariffs imposed on australia

  7. zwd_2011 Avatar

    The penguins strike back.

  8. skoltroll Avatar

    On second thought, let’s not go to Washington DC.

    ‘Tis a silly place.

  9. Rest_and_Digest Avatar

    The people in this country who are most in need of being made aware of what this administration is doing probably have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about and won’t believe it.

  10. VoxelLibrary Avatar

    I think it’s about time. Those penguins had it coming

  11. TheMuffler42069 Avatar

    Those are called Business Geese and they have money. They’re in business.

  12. Independent-Buyer827 Avatar

    They can afford those tuxedos they can afford to pay…uhhh wait who’s paying tariffs?

  13. GrimeyScorpioDuffman Avatar

    Those rich penguins with their fancy tuxedos rubbing their wealth in our faces. They need to pay up

  14. BetterthanU4rl Avatar

    Penguins are sex fiends. Make them pay!

  15. druscarlet Avatar

    It’s hilariously stupid. We also placed a 10% tariff on an island solely inhabited by our own military base. Deep thinkers.

  16. LambentVines1125 Avatar

    I’m more annoyed by the ones placed on countries we actually buy stuff from

  17. Huge_Rich522 Avatar
  18. Unicorn_Puppy Avatar

    I talked to President Wobbles the Third today, it’s sheer pandemonium as their canned sardine empire based around the same product is collapsing.

  19. LimeFrostee Avatar

    Those damn penguins have been taking advantage of our good faith efforts to trade with them for years now. There is no end to the indignities they require us to undergo before we can even begin the conversations. “Bring us more pebbles” “Join me in a poop-shooting contest” “Watch March of the Penguins with me all weekend” “balance this egg on your foot.”

    It’s been too much for too long. Fuck those penguins. This is the least they deserve.

  20. TheDukeOfDaKool Avatar

    I know you got that for h1t1

  21. Naturalnumbers Avatar

    Seems like a weird jurisdictional thing, because worldbank.org does show a couple million $ in trade with Heard Island and McDonald Isla: https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/USA/Year/2022/TradeFlow/EXPIMP/Partner/HMD/Product/all-groups

    It’s kind of a dumb thing to get hung up on. Clearly it’s 10% across the board with some listed exceptions. It doesn’t really matter that they didn’t make special exemptions for some uninhabited areas.

  22. PristineEconomics116 Avatar

    Pingu is making sad noises

  23. Illustrious_Hotel527 Avatar

    Still better than the 10% tariff placed on Diego Garcia, a US military base..

  24. Sumer09 Avatar

    It’s about US national security, have you seen happy feet

  25. Unlucky_Ad_1230 Avatar

    But none on Cuba or Russia? Fucking Communist

  26. MoPacSD40-2 Avatar

    Sums up Trump perfectly

  27. Confident_While_5979 Avatar

    It’s Apple and Microsoft trying to kill Linux

  28. sowhat4 Avatar

    Stupid, of course. And totally on brand for the heroes of the MAGAts

  29. Weird_Rooster_4307 Avatar

    Those pesky penguins better start coughing up those fish

  30. Queenofhackenwack Avatar

    trump is a fuckin idiot and he is gonna finish runnin the usa into a third world country……. and the rest of his republicans are no better………………..

  31. Waylander0719 Avatar

    They just dumped out a list and set everything to a 10% minimum, so lazy but whatever. That is why every single country has 10% no matter what, even Russia and North Korea.

  32. RoookSkywokkah Avatar

    Fuck those penguins! They’ve been ripping us off for YEARS!

  33. ivegotajaaag Avatar

    Well, who owns that island?

  34. evacc44 Avatar

    Trump is a literal idiot and I feel pretty shitty about everything that is going on.

  35. Dr-Lipschitz Avatar

    That it is now clear that these decisions were made by using AI. Musk and Trump need to be impeached; you don’t test this kind of technology to make governmental decisions.

  36. Captain_Quinn Avatar

    My plan was to settle there and hoard merchandise to import/export to the US… But I guess I can’t do that anymore

  37. Safety_Drance Avatar

    That pretty much sums up how much Trump and friends understand what they’re doing to the global economy.

  38. VanillaPossible45 Avatar

    back off. I’m drinking the Budweisers as fast as I can

  39. Dariaskehl Avatar

    He said SUIT not Tuxedo!

    Should be 20%. They should say thank you.

  40. Hopeful-Sentence-146 Avatar

    Sucks because I was going to order 1000 Penguins.

    Seriously tho, he is preventing anyone from moving manufacturing to any uninhabited areas.

  41. AnybodySeeMyKeys Avatar

    I guess I’ll need to up my guano budget.

  42. Gloomy_Zebra_ Avatar

    I don’t think the Trump administration has considered the fact that penguin’s currency is fish.

  43. onemanmelee Avatar

    They’re all emperors, they can afford it.

  44. igenus44 Avatar

    Let it all burn. When he burns it all down, the real Revolution can begin. He has started a civil war that will end bloody.
    The fastest way to motivate your constituency to revolt is to leave them poor and hungry.

  45. mothehoople Avatar

    Could be penguins are ” woke”

  46. the_millenial_falcon Avatar

    They had it coming.

  47. Logical-Warning1934 Avatar

    It just shows how damn stupid this whole administration is. Trump proved himself to be Putin’s little bitch by not including Russia on that list. Truly shameful.

  48. matt314159 Avatar

    I’m fucking embarrassed that these nitwits apparently cribbed the list of countries from a Wikipedia page.

  49. Greennhornn Avatar

    If AI says we have to tariff penguins, whom am I to disagree.

  50. CjTuor Avatar

    It’s rough. My cousin in Gotham had to turn to other sources of income…

  51. GoliathBoneSnake Avatar

    Every day I think to myself “they can’t get any dumber” and every day they prove me wrong. I hate it here.

  52. United_Drag_8337 Avatar

    Those fuckers had it coming

  53. SkylerBeanzor Avatar

    It just reinforced the fact that trump and his goons have no plan and no idea what they’re doing and don’t really care. Not one single person could be bothered to vet the list.

  54. ffffh Avatar

    Dem fish ain’t free!

  55. TonyD0001 Avatar

    About time they pay they’re share. Are the penguin imposing retaliatory tariffs?

  56. Chris149ny Avatar

    It pretty much sums up the state of our government.

  57. bansheesho Avatar

    It’s about time we started paying the important tax on those little fuckers. That will show them.

  58. marmot1101 Avatar

    It’s a silly distraction from the pile of real issues tariffs caused and will cause. I’m sure the penguins won’t be happy about the reduced demand for barfed up fish, but they aren’t going to fly here and do something about it. 

  59. jazzbot247 Avatar

    I don’t think it will bother the penguins.

  60. Theperfectool Avatar

    I hate that we’re just letting all this stupid stuff happen.

  61. mordehuezer Avatar

    Fuck them birds

  62. KP_Wrath Avatar

    There’s nothing so quintessentially Republican as doing something out of flailing spite.

  63. Any_Assumption_2023 Avatar

    I’m pretty sure the penguins don’t care.

  64. xSparkShark Avatar

    This is Reddit, what do you think people are gonna say?

  65. JustSomeGuy_56 Avatar

    The next tine I need a tuxedo I will certainly Buy American

  66. SlideItIn100 Avatar

    It tells everything you need to know about our president.

  67. elasticvertigo Avatar

    Kowalski….analysis!

  68. LdyVder Avatar

    It shows how ignorant the US government is.

  69. Kiom_Tpry Avatar

    Not even the penguins get out of their 10% for the big guy. 

  70. Slaves2Darkness Avatar

    Unnatural things penguins they deserve it.

  71. ragemaw999 Avatar

    They refused to help with the egg shortage, they have to pay.

  72. ttpharmd Avatar

    Oh it is very fitting for the moment. When you elect a clown, expect a circus.

  73. GWshark1518 Avatar

    Trump is a fucking moron.

  74. dersteppenwolf5 Avatar

    Smart move as the penguins are unlikely to place reciprocal tariffs on the US.

  75. monkeyhind Avatar

    I love the penguin jokes. My serious answer is that the tariff on an uninhabited island is silly, but not worth spending too much time thinking about considering there are real issues facing Americans and by extension the world economy.

  76. MedSPAZ Avatar

    It seems weird, why would individual islands rather than the nations that have sovereignty over them be chosen?

  77. EdieVv Avatar

    Pure Idiocy. smh

  78. futureformerteacher Avatar

    The same way we feel about everything. Just grab our guns and start shooting indiscriminately.

  79. RipDiligent4361 Avatar

    People want to elect people they perceive like themselves into positions of power. So if you’re the type to use a fucking ChatBot to do your job for you, than this is the government for you.

  80. ShutterBun Avatar

    In the words of Homer Simpson: Quack, quack, quack.

  81. Ocelogical Avatar

    I heard (and I don’t know how credible this is) that this was done to cover loopholes where ships could make a stop at these islands and change their port of origin to bypass the tariffs.

  82. MrPuddinJones Avatar

    Fuck those penguins man, they earned it

  83. NotPoliticallyCorect Avatar

    I feel like ‘reciprocal’ is another word that Trump doesn’t know the meaning of.

  84. Maximum_Pound_5633 Avatar

    Actions of a demented old fool who suits his pants

  85. Long_Library_8815 Avatar

    je suis français, ici on est mort de rire.

  86. ChainLC Avatar

    I just watched March of the Penguins and Madagascar and those guys are badasses. We should be worried.

  87. YounomsayinMawfk Avatar

    Pisses me off as this just shows how little thought Trump actually put into this.

    “Fuck them penguins! But Putin is cool.”

  88. trollivier Avatar

    Santa better be ready when North Pole gets on the list.

  89. areallycleverid Avatar

    But none for donnie’s master putin.

  90. bassgirl90 Avatar

    I laughed out loud when I saw the news. Yes, impose tariffs on the wildlife. That will show them!

  91. Stickystax2020 Avatar

    Queue the Benny Hill theme

  92. haikarate12 Avatar

    The only answer here should be incredibly fucking embarrassed.

  93. Excellent_Garlic2549 Avatar

    Just shows how detached from reality the plan is. Shows the whole world and stock market really. That’s part of the freakout, I believe. It’s clear they don’t know what they’re doing and have every intention of profiteering off the whole world.

  94. Durkio5 Avatar

    Did those penguins EVEN SAY THANK YOU?????

  95. PianoAcceptable1955 Avatar

    They have taken advantage of the American consumer for long enough!

  96. KennstduIngo Avatar

    Those friggin penguins never bought a damn thing from us! 

  97. OGBeege Avatar

    Trolls suck drumpf ass

  98. BMWMpower77 Avatar

    What da penguins do😭😭

  99. Humphrey_the_Hoser Avatar

    Are you suggesting that these penguins have NOT been screwing America for years?