Mia Wong
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Yeah. Yeah. It's done. Like the economy as we knew it does not exist as of like this morning. Right. Everything that we've known about how this thing works is fucking done. And some of these are just, you know, like unbelievably hideously cruel. So there's, for example, a 44% tariff on Myanmar. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. It's done. Like the economy as we knew it does not exist as of like this morning. Right. Everything that we've known about how this thing works is fucking done. And some of these are just, you know, like unbelievably hideously cruel. So there's, for example, a 44% tariff on Myanmar. Yeah.
Which, you know, is a country, yeah, devastated by a horrific war, wage for a brutal dictatorship, and also fucking suffering from a catastrophic earthquake. And we're like, fuck you, eat shit, 44% tariff.
Which, you know, is a country, yeah, devastated by a horrific war, wage for a brutal dictatorship, and also fucking suffering from a catastrophic earthquake. And we're like, fuck you, eat shit, 44% tariff.
Which, you know, is a country, yeah, devastated by a horrific war, wage for a brutal dictatorship, and also fucking suffering from a catastrophic earthquake. And we're like, fuck you, eat shit, 44% tariff.
There's one more that I want to talk about, which is that Sri Lanka has been suffering from an unbelievably devastating series of economic crises, and they're getting hit with a 44% fucking tariff in a moment when they already haven't had enough dollars to fucking import fuel for their economy to function.
There's one more that I want to talk about, which is that Sri Lanka has been suffering from an unbelievably devastating series of economic crises, and they're getting hit with a 44% fucking tariff in a moment when they already haven't had enough dollars to fucking import fuel for their economy to function.
There's one more that I want to talk about, which is that Sri Lanka has been suffering from an unbelievably devastating series of economic crises, and they're getting hit with a 44% fucking tariff in a moment when they already haven't had enough dollars to fucking import fuel for their economy to function.
So this is going to be devastating, not just for us, but for a whole bunch of people across the world. So this is the other aspect of this, too, that's really fucking brutal, is that for the U.S., right, we don't need other countries' money. We don't need to have piles of any other country's money around, right? We can just buy things in American dollars.
So this is going to be devastating, not just for us, but for a whole bunch of people across the world. So this is the other aspect of this, too, that's really fucking brutal, is that for the U.S., right, we don't need other countries' money. We don't need to have piles of any other country's money around, right? We can just buy things in American dollars.
So this is going to be devastating, not just for us, but for a whole bunch of people across the world. So this is the other aspect of this, too, that's really fucking brutal, is that for the U.S., right, we don't need other countries' money. We don't need to have piles of any other country's money around, right? We can just buy things in American dollars.
But if you are Sri Lanka, you need American dollars to buy oil. Yes. There are so many fucking things that you could only buy in American dollars. And when these tariffs go up, when the prices increase, and when they can't fucking sell their stuff, that means that they don't have dollars. And that means that they can't get access to a whole bunch of the vital commodities that they need to survive.
But if you are Sri Lanka, you need American dollars to buy oil. Yes. There are so many fucking things that you could only buy in American dollars. And when these tariffs go up, when the prices increase, and when they can't fucking sell their stuff, that means that they don't have dollars. And that means that they can't get access to a whole bunch of the vital commodities that they need to survive.
But if you are Sri Lanka, you need American dollars to buy oil. Yes. There are so many fucking things that you could only buy in American dollars. And when these tariffs go up, when the prices increase, and when they can't fucking sell their stuff, that means that they don't have dollars. And that means that they can't get access to a whole bunch of the vital commodities that they need to survive.
And this is just going to fucking devastate them. And I think that's been an angle that I really wanted to make sure we talked about because...
And this is just going to fucking devastate them. And I think that's been an angle that I really wanted to make sure we talked about because...
And this is just going to fucking devastate them. And I think that's been an angle that I really wanted to make sure we talked about because...
It's been, I haven't seen any fucking mention of it at all, even though those are the people who are going to suffer the most in this, are people who are already completely on the fucking edge, whose economies have already been collapsed, who've already been so brutally exploited by these same fucking people, and they're just fucked.
It's been, I haven't seen any fucking mention of it at all, even though those are the people who are going to suffer the most in this, are people who are already completely on the fucking edge, whose economies have already been collapsed, who've already been so brutally exploited by these same fucking people, and they're just fucked.
It's been, I haven't seen any fucking mention of it at all, even though those are the people who are going to suffer the most in this, are people who are already completely on the fucking edge, whose economies have already been collapsed, who've already been so brutally exploited by these same fucking people, and they're just fucked.