Trumpster,

You said; "What diseased US beef? Well none can be found" Grow up, back tracking as usual, I gave you 2 examples. Now from you its "They've found SIX cases", your original clam of "NONE can be found" was a lie.

BTW, The Australian beef industry doesn't need "propping up" as you claim, it can stand on its own two feet, with very strong world demand for our product. in 2024 beef exports reached a record level of over $17 billion, with the US market accounting for $3.4 billion. Much of the Australian beef exports to US are used in conjunction with local beef, that has a higher fat content to produce processed meat patties, sold in fast food outlets, about 2/3rds of our export.

Globalisation has hollowed out domestic economies and enabled an autocratic, hostile Communist China to accumulate a dangerous amount of power. Trump is pushing back against that: as he was elected to do, and as he promised.

The 90 day pause on tariffs is not a backdown by President Trump; he has achieved exactly what he wanted from countries free-loading off America. These countries are now crapping them themselves, making offers to drop all tariffs against American goods. They will welcome American goods with much lower tariffs, or in some cases, none at all. As for Australia, with the lowest tariff of 10%, we need to straighten out the uniparty - our non-Trump problem - and stop listening to the mainstream media and everything it vomits up. As for the ups and downs of the stock exchange, my annual visit to my financial advisor has assured me, as always, that with a few minor adjustments, all will be well. The market always recovers, Donald Trump or no Donald Trump.

ttbn,

That’s quite the victory lap - especially given that the 90-day pause only happened because the US Trade Rep's office was overwhelmed and underprepared for what Trump triggered.

If this was all part of the plan, it’s strange that his own team admitted they didn’t anticipate the scale of the response or have the capacity to handle simultaneous negotiations. But I suppose if you frame every disruption as deliberate, then every scramble looks like a masterstroke.

We’ve now gone from “countries are begging,” to “every nation… will have a different approach,” to “they’re crapping themselves” - and each time, the story shifts just enough to preserve the narrative.

And if these countries really are offering to drop all tariffs, great - where’s the list? Where’s the detail? Because so far, the specifics tend to evaporate as soon as someone asks for them.

As for the markets - yes, they fluctuate. But faith in eventual recovery isn’t the same thing as confidence in the policymaking that rattled them in the first place.

A. The Orange Fascist Regime
B. Communist China

There fixed that for you titibean.
And Ill take our biggest trading partner China any day.

Paul,

" your original clam of "NONE can be found" was a lie."

Nup. No diseases have been found in the food chain. That there are diseases in the herd is different issue that only the naive and/or pompous would fret about.

There are any number of diseases in the Australia cattle herd. I guess that Paul, being so afraid of such things, doesn't eat beef. Oh and there are diseases in our bee colonies. So no honey for Paul. Oh and no pork? Chicken...yikes.

So I'm guessing Paul lives on fresh air and water. oops...not water. There are who knows how many bugs in our dams.

The thing is that, while there are all sorts of pathogens in our (and the US's) food supply that will terrify chicken-littles like Paul, these are filtered out by modern quarantine procedures. So water is cleaned before it gets into our taps. Honey is treated. Meats of all varities checked long before it enters the food chain.

Australia has a long tradition of using claims about quarantine as a trade barrier. This is just another example that the yanks have decided to call out.