They’re most likely waiting out their time 'till Trump comes with a decree where he allows it, untill then they pay the fines and shrug it off.

Yes, I think this is a first test to see how far they can stretch things with the law and deport people without justification at all.
By extension it tests the current regimes ability and efficiency on how easily they can remove people. When it is clear there are no legal roadblocks and delays the shipping containers and “train transports” will come out…

Also, I don’t think he’s dead, might have been beaten and barely fed.
But they most likely will have no knowledge about his status or direct whereabouts at all, might even be handed over to El Salvador’s prison anonymously. Regimes in such prisons usually strip all identity anyway.

I am a bit curious to where this will go, I agree it looks to be what you say, an opportunity to throw the case and get a ruling that will fortify things against a breakup.

On the other hand Musk despises the Zuck and is petty enough to work towards breaking up Zuckerberg’s empire behind the scenes. He would love to buy up chunks of it.

I can hear Trump laughing and snickering with his cronies

It’s a get lost payment, not a welcome to the USA bonus …

10k to get lost, it’s unspoken but the money is to leave the country because that is then owned by Trump.

This is a typical Trump deal, Trump gets what he wants and the other side gets ripped off. There never will be equal footing between trading partners in a Trump deal.

Yeah … the DEA will be useful and needs expansion for the coming suppression of unwanted drugs:

• The world devastating fentanyl crisis
• The poisonous measles, covid, shingles vaccines distributed amongst naive americans.
• The demonic influence of cannabis.
• Abortion medication distributed to pregnant women in abortion clinics.

It’ll probably save Medicare a few dollars as well so all is good in maga’s world.

In his mind he actually does think all his businesses were successful, because he himself got away unscathed when they one by one failed spectacularly, and he always blamed someone else…

It also shows why he boasts to never have gone bankrupt … indeed personally he never has, just his whole entrepreneurship floats on top of a lake of bankruptcies and fraud.

Isn’t Ozempic already mad expensive in the US compared to Denmark where it comes from?

Perhaps he thinks Ozempic actually is harvested in Greenland? :-D

What really needs to stop is the obscene bonus culture. It is quite disgusting to keep reading a company needs to lay off 500 people only to then give some CEO a bonus of 15million. Or banks running a deep 9 digit number loss in a year but still the higher ups get a bonus for some reason or a vague years old contractual promise. The top should feel loss first before it “trickles down”, and honest pay for honest work should include the top as well.

And while I am at it, senseless management jobs should be allowed to be contested, no more “manager toiletpaper” who only shows up once a week to make an order, yet makes 5x the wages of people under him.

Hahaha

This whole presidency is raised for maximizing CEO income and no taxes for everyone at the top.

It will be interesting if Trump actually manages to pull it off, because he’ll make the US swap places with China:
No one trusts the country anymore, but if it has low enough wages and proper production capability it will produce everything cheaply just to export it all overseas where the luxury goods will be sold. Of course all profits will be made overseas, not in the US because hardly anyone can afford the luxury items no more.

Meanwhile the production states will get deep smog clouds and intense small coal particle pollution in return. And the need for face masks will be back…

It requires people who eventually jump off the roof of the building…

Already most international trust is gone, it will be at least a decade before that comes back.

If everything stays on the current track the US will self impose as much of a full isolationist policy as it can within this “presidential” term, this is to fully focus on the internal situation and destroy any option of rebellion and dissent.

Police/National Guard will be strictly enforcing presidential decrees and oppressing the American people .
Their armored personnel carriers and gatling guns will come in handy now.

In a few years workers will be forced into (cheaply bought up) government/factory housing because their own properties will be too expensive to keep.
And with the upcoming low wages the need for 4 jobs just to be able to buy groceries will keep them locked in fear of losing any pay they have or the house they may rent.

By the time the things inside the US are fully locked in, the tax breaks have fully caught up, losses of foreign trade incomes and loss of military sales all stack up.
So the US is declared bankrupt by the outside world because the trust is gone a long time now and the US makes it clear there is no intention to pay its debts.

This will cause the US to look outward again, not to make allies but to conquer lands for products/goods that it still has a (growing) shortage of.

If there was no moment for a true WW3 before this, it will be the moment it starts:

The US will declare war on multiple countries and attack them in small scale skirmishes. Meanwhile China has massively invaded Taiwan, the US will not be able to stop it. Crazy Kim launches missiles at Japan and South Korea just to join the chaos, Iran openly attacks Israel with backing of multiple other Islamic states, they have not forgotten Gaza’s destruction. And Russia profits by invading eastern Europe unimpeded. Armies of 80.000 Europeans are no match for a force of 1.300.000 Russian cannon fodder.

This all sounds like futuristic doomspeak, but it all could happen within 8 years. China has been preparing for a large conflict to happen around 2030, even moving its industry deep inland. Trump is well on his way to demolish in 2 years any international trust that the US will do the right thing or can be called upon for help. He will leave/dismantle NATO and be excluded from a new NATO variant that buys its weapons elsewhere. Putin has proclaimed he expects to fight whomever within 4 years.

It is 2025 now, and things are very clear that Trump’s hunger for power will be the catalyst accelerating everyone to a very destructive WW3.

It’s also quite ironic that originally China’s low wages were seen as the core problem/reason how they could offer products so cheaply.
But the way Trump is destroying things the need for low US wages will come up again…

Alas, of course everything across the board will get more expensive with his tariffs, from vegetables, to electronics, energy and housing, so the common worker will be screwed and locked in his situation, preferably unable to go on strike.

He’s laughing because those penguins are hit with tariffs.

He’s going to demand the EU must buy the chlorine washed chickens and growth hormones laced beef… the fact that they do not want them has been bothering him for years and in his mind it is a willfull trade deficit.

They shouldn’t even have offered that, now he feels justified and vindicated in his demands and lies that the others are doing the US harm.

Best was to have the press loudly declare they offered 0-0 in 2017 and he did not want anything to do with that … but putting it on the table (again) now, and saying we’re ready to negotiate, is a show of weakness on the part of the EU.

I am quite convinced he’s gambling with other people’s (Americans) money, not his own…

I am curious to know how this will play out…

Of course you’re right in that it’s financially not an option in a lot of countries, and I think Trump has no regard for that at all.

But I am more speaking about the things that bother him, like Europe absolutely not wanting the chlorine washed chickens, nor beef treated with growth hormones and antibiotics. I vaguely recall an eastern country also not wanting US grown fish for some reason that eludes me now. Over the last few years Trump has mentioned these things like they are an annoying stone in his shoe and was considering forcing the other trade partners to buy them anyway through some wild trade agreement.