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Cake day: February 14th, 2025

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  • At this point the Trump admin is just trying to find the best way to back down without looking weak. They don’t really have a plan to do so, they’re just hoping some other shit storm takes center stage.

    In the case of Australia, our government decided that it’s not worth trying to secure a deal for a number of reasons:

    • the whole world is in the same situation, and our tariffs are less than others, so others can do the heavy lifting
    • we’re not really adversely effected. We don’t sell heaps of things to the US and they need to keep buying the stuff that we do sell.
    • you can’t really make a deal with someone who will discard the deal as soon as it becomes beneficial to do so.
    • whatever concessions we might offer are better used in other negotiations.
    • China is presently wooing us and we’re more desirable since we’ve curtailed our long standing romance with the US.

    The rubric is going to be similar for other countries.

    If nobody bends over for Trump he will end up fucking himself.