Who knew giving all your power to a dictator could go wrong?

But…but… Biden!

I don’t understand. Why isn’t she happy about this?

Gotta make sure those poor white males aren’t suffering. They have everything going against them after all.

I love the way Kennedy suggests taking some ridiculous old wive’s tale of a cure for measles “with doctors supervision.” So you should listen to doctors when they advise you how to take a home remedy but absolutely don’t listen to them when they suggest a medical remedy.

I’m not sure it would have mattered.

I hope he moves to Peru and Peru deports him.

Yeah, I think this is right. I don’t even have the signal app on my phone but carrots got me in to a meeting of the board of Coca Cola. It’s definitely carrots.

Uh oh, they’re expressing outrage now. I’m sure someone will suffer.

No switch blades, no brass knuckles, oh well, guess they’ll just have to shoot each other.

I believe they thought they could ignore the order because they could ignore the order.

Feel sorry for her. Maybe she’ll find a better partner.

Yup, put up a bigger fight than these so-called democratic leaders.

I hope you’re right and it ends this whole shit show.

Except I thought he was only elected by 31% of the public and at least a small portion of them are turning against him too. Remember a lot of people didn’t vote.

Am I the only one who thinks 53% of people disapproving of his performance is actually a pretty good record for him. This number should be in the 90’s.

Uh oh, Democrats are outraged. There will be hell to pay now.

Yeah, we should definitely hurt Canada economically. I mean screw our best ally and longest lasting friendship.

Retaliatory measures don’t have to include taxing your own people. I suggest merely rallying people around the cause of boycotting US products does more good.

A tariff is a tax on the country imposing the tariff. The only way it actually hurts the country that the tariff is placed against, is if people stop buying the foreign products. But in the case of a tax on steel or aluminum, that would require people to avoid all products made with foreign steel/aluminum. This is nearly impossible. So it only hurts Australians in this case.

Plus that’s not how capitalism works. A real example from Trump’s first term was a tariff imposed on washing machines. The tariff made foreign washing machines more expensive than domestic ones. So far, so good. What did American companies do? Raised the price of domestic washing machines to match that of foreign ones in a greedy grab for profits. This meant the incentive to buy American washing machines was nullified. You know what people also buy when they buy a washer in the US? They buy a dryer. So the price of dryers went up as well, even though there was no tariff on those. So in the end all that happened was Americans wound up spending more for washers and dryers. Why would a country want to do that to its own people?

You’re screwed no matter what you do. As right wing as Australia has become, I can’t believe I’m saying this, but good job Australia.

There are other ways to retaliate. China doesn’t mess around. They outright banned certain companies from operating there and denied sales of certain needed elements to the US.