It appears the #WhiteHouse has decided to levy #tariffs on the noble #penguin - presumably b/c they refused to buy American #snow ...
(BTW: #snow = now a kind of #RareEarth due to globally rising temperatures?)
Note: Thanks #AI for the pic, I appreciate it.
Trump's punitive tariffs are not really causing concern among the penguin colony on Heard and McDonald Islands.
There also were some #Penguin themed signs...
#HandsOff #minnesota #resist
...and then, a triggered #MAGA incel, unwanted unf*cked, entered the chat with a straight face and in all seriousness said that the reason that tariffs were placed on those islands was because there are underground facilities producing something they don't know what from those islands...
#TrumpTariffs:. “In addition to the #penguin-occupied #HeardAndMcDonaldIslands, the tariffs target the #BritishIndianOceanTerritory, whose sole occupants live on a joint US-UK military base on Diego Garcia island… And then there are the tariffs against countries that have actual goods & services on which US consumers depend. #China: 54%. #Vietnam: 46%. #Cambodia: 49%. #SouthKorea: 25%. No corner of the US consumer economy will go untouched…” | Wired https://www.wired.com/story/trump-tariffs-penguins/
My #penguin will join me at the mass protest at the #minnesota State Capitol tomorrow, April 5. Meet you there! "No tariffs on Penguins!"
"The penguins are ripping us off!" he yells madly!
“This is the takeaway of the manifold #tariffs announced by President Donald #Trump on Wednesday afternoon. In addition to the #penguin-occupied Heard and McDonald Islands, the tariffs target the British Indian Ocean Territory, whose sole occupants live on a joint US-UK military base on Diego Garcia island. Yes, the United States is levying reciprocal tariffs against its own troops.”
