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Good article, but it doesn’t really answer the headline question beyond
Australian trade minister Don Farrell told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that the tariffs were “clearly a mistake”.
“Poor old penguins, I don’t know what they did to Trump, but, look, I think it’s an indication, to be honest with you, that this was a rushed process.”
A theory I heard that’s just stupid enough to seem plausible with this administration,
Just when I thought it couldn’t get any dumber. Is there no bottom they won’t race to?
TL;DR: the trump administration is utterly swimming in complete fucking idiots.
But in 2022 the US imported US$1.4m (A$2.23m; ) from the territory, nearly all of it unnamed “machinery and electrical” products.
Exactly… That’s a sad attempt by the bbc to try and make sense out of this instead of calling it for what it is, idiotic.
Four Seasons Landscaping has entered the chat…
We have the dumbest people in America running out country now. Thank you MAGA America really is a representative form of government.
My conspiracy theory is that some Australian company is evading taxes or laundering money by routing it through Heard Island and it shows up as a small amount of import/export dollars.
It’s got to be something like that, there was something like $1.3m of machinery exports from an island populated by penguins. Someone was doing something naughty, and whilst the way these tarrifs are calculated is idiotic, it’s fun that it’s exposed sonething like this.
Lol, I’d be so pissed if my tax evasion scheme got discovered because of some Trump tarrif AI hallucination.
Seriously. Can you imagine, you’ve had this process running quietly for years, and it’s getting you round some awkward tax or import restriction somewhere, you’re making a tidy extra profit, and you don’t even feel too bad about fidfling the paperwork a bit, after all, who’s going to notice, a bunch of flightless birds? Then along comes the orange idiot and his cadre of fascists and accidentally expose you because they don’t understand how to rationally calculate tarrifs and just get an intern to copy and paste from the nearest LLM.
It’s laughing at this sort of thing that’s jeeping me sane right now.
Idk why, but my first thought was that it was cia/Contras type thing where the person trying to hide something was a government entity.
