TRUMP’S TARIFF WAR:

THE CHAOS BEGINS

Since returning to office, Trump has turned global trade into a battlefield. His latest round of tariff threats isn’t just posturing, it’s policy apparently.

🔴 #Europe: Tariffs coming because the EU is “very unfair.” #NATO allies now expected to hit 5% of GDP on military spending. Pay up or else.

🔴 #Canada & #Mexico: 25% tariffs land February 1st unless they stop migrant flows and drug trafficking. Oil might be spared—for now.

🔴 #China: 10% tariffs incoming unless fentanyl stops.

🔴 #BRICS Nations: 100% tariffs threatened if they dare challenge the U.S. dollar.

🔴 #Colombia: 50% tariffs if they refuse to accept U.S. deportation flights. It avoided tariffs—for now—by conceding and accepting deportation.

🔴 Even #Denmark isn’t safe, tariff threats over Greenland 😂. They refused #Trump ’s demands on, but the tariff threat remains.

This isn’t business as usual. The White House confirms these aren’t bluffs—many tariffs start this week. And the world? It’s gearing up to hit back. Canada, Mexico, and the #EU have already warned of retaliatory measures. The global economy is staring down a trade war, and the opening shots have just been fired.

But here’s the real question: What if it works? What if high tariffs force companies to move production to the U.S.? What if every country starts making everything for themselves? Does America boom while global trade collapses? Or does the world fracture into isolated economies, driving up costs and slowing growth for everyone?

The bet is on. Now we see how it plays out.

Continue stacking #bitcoin.

#nostr Friday night thoughts.

TRUMP’S TARIFF WAR:

THE CHAOS BEGINS

Since returning to office, Trump has turned global trade into a battlefield. His latest round of tariff threats isn’t just posturing, it’s policy apparently.

🔴 #Europe: Tariffs coming because the EU is “very unfair.” #NATO allies now expected to hit 5% of GDP on military spending. Pay up or else.

🔴 #Canada & #Mexico: 25% tariffs land February 1st unless they stop migrant flows and drug trafficking. Oil might be spared—for now.

🔴 #China: 10% tariffs incoming unless fentanyl stops.

🔴 #BRICS Nations: 100% tariffs threatened if they dare challenge the U.S. dollar.

🔴 #Colombia: 50% tariffs if they refuse to accept U.S. deportation flights. It avoided tariffs—for now—by conceding and accepting deportation.

🔴 Even #Denmark isn’t safe, tariff threats over Greenland 😂. They refused #Trump ’s demands on, but the tariff threat remains.

This isn’t business as usual. The White House confirms these aren’t bluffs—many tariffs start this week. And the world? It’s gearing up to hit back. Canada, Mexico, and the #EU have already warned of retaliatory measures. The global economy is staring down a trade war, and the opening shots have just been fired.

But here’s the real question: What if it works? What if high tariffs force companies to move production to the U.S.? What if every country starts making everything for themselves? Does America boom while global trade collapses? Or does the world fracture into isolated economies, driving up costs and slowing growth for everyone?

The bet is on. Now we see how it plays out.

Continue stacking #bitcoin.

#nostr Friday night thoughts.

"make getting rugged great again"

Yo i own ZERO bitcoin & a few friends told me i need to hop on NOSTR!

Im Christian, carpenter, yogi, surfer & snowboarder from Massachusetts. Been surfing my brains out in Santa Teresa for months over the past years. #introductions

Indeed! What those people don't get is also that, as I said..

REACTIONS ARE NOT JUST A "👍🏼" (I mean they are on #primal and I always call them out on that).

REACTIONS CAN BE "NEGATIVE".. IS THERE A NEGATIVE #ZAP BUTTON?

I completely agree with you on all the lines.

What pisses me off is people standing on a podium because they are convinced are doing better a d giving more than others.

You want to #onlyzaps, great for you, but the moment you start saying that reactions in general are stupid, and should not be at all, asking devs to take them off.. GFY!

A: Hi Bob!

B: Hey Alice, how are you doing? Oh nice hair you got today.

A: Oh, thanks.. so, you just like them? You are not zapping me for them? You are so FIAT Bob.

So basically we passed from a culture of EGO builders with 👍🏼 on Facebook, to another one where you build your EGO since you give "value" while others are only appreciating something without giving money to it. pendulum shifting so hard.

Let me ask..

1) Do you zap every note you would like 2 years ago or you are limitating your engagement because you settled a higher standard?

2) Let's say Alice zap 21 sats as minimum, and Bob zap 100 sats as minimum.. but Alice got in bitcoin just recently and have a stack of less than 0.1 btc, while Bob is in since 2013 and his stack is 100+ BTC.. who is giving more value, putting more on the line, and giving more?

3) Alice follows 2000+ users, and zaps an avarage of 100 notes a day, from just GM to long form posts.

Bob follows 100 people and zaps less than 5 notes a day but 10 times Alice amount. Who is giving more "value" and making sats flow creating a bigger net of connections and engagement..

4) #Nostr is a fucking niche still, even smaller than Bitcoin, and trying to force onlyzaps to new users that doesn't know anything about it, and don't have anyone that follow and actively engage with them, you want to also take from them an easy way of communication, because Reactions, not just LIKES, ARE A WAY OF COMMUNICATING A MESSAGE.

REACTIONS ARE NOT LIKES, FOR FUCK SAKE!

#growNostr

WTF more than 15 years in #Linux and just now I find out you can customise nano with the .nanorc file..?! How have I never heard of that?! 🤯 I guess there is no need for micro anymore 😜

tell me where you are stuck I can help and happy to do so

My early days of setting up my own lightning node a couple of years ago....