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On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 07:16:12 -0400,  -hh says...  

> > So . . . you penalize a country that sells you too much stuff.  Then
> > you penalize them for not selling you enough stuff?
> > <snip>
> 
> Still waiting for the justification for Trump's Tariff on Penguins...

This has already been explained to you, through this group. I can't help it if you missed it.

This has already been explain to you and the others, pretending to be economically stupid. If you don't tariff those you have a 
trade surplus with, or tariff them with a very low number, or not at all, countries that ARE tariffed higher, will simply sell 
their goods to THOSE countries and go around paying America the tariffs.

(I know it's the importers who actually pay the tariffs, but there's nothing to prevent them from countries, like China, from 
selling to the Penguin Islands and the importers buying from them)

Remember the idiots who cried when Trump tariffed the Penguin Islands?

"If you leave (any countries) off the list, countries that try to basically arbitrage America, will go through those (countries) to 
us." - Howard Lutnick

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/04/06/lutnick_penguin_islands_included_in_tariffs_because_people_will_use_them_as_pass
through_loophole.html

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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition

All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their dislike 
of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into 
three distinct phases or stages:

"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, 
as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world."

"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting 
solely of hyperbole."

"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality."

The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk opposition from liberals to anything and everything 
Trump does. If Trump announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would suggest he was up to something 
nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be received 
positively by TDSers.

The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was a 
punch line for late-night comics and nothing more.

Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first coined by the late conservative columnist Charles 
Krauthammer back in 2003. The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in 
reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - the very existence of George W. Bush."