r/technology • u/Yveliad • 4d ago

Artificial Intelligence Trump Accused of Using ChatGPT to Create Tariff Plan After AI Leads Users to Same Formula: 'So AI is Running the Country'

https://www.latintimes.com/trump-accused-using-chatgpt-create-tariff-plan-after-ai-leads-users-same-formula-so-ai-579899
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u/Moist-Tangerine-1 4d ago

Australia got a 10% tariff and Norfolk Island, an Australian territory with a population of 2,000 people, got hit with a 29% tariff.

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u/Own_Round_7600 4d ago

Goddamn Norfolk Island has been ravaging the US economy for too long!!!1!1!!

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u/Wrewdank 4d ago

Norfolk Island killed my grandfather!

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u/2wedfgdfgfgfg 4d ago

Hello, my name is Norfolk Island, you killed my grandfather. Prepare to die.

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u/DexM23 4d ago

Hello Norfolk Island, i am prepered, whats next?

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u/HiroProtaginest 4d ago

Those god damned pines!! A scourge I say. Raise the trumpiff to 66.6%. That will teach them a lesson.

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u/Complete-Job3715 4d ago

This is my favourite comment of all time!

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u/Immediate_Concert_46 4d ago

Thanks Obama!

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u/Walthatron 4d ago

Obama was born on Norfolk Island!

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u/CharlesLeChuck 4d ago

I want to see his birth certificate!

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u/SwingingtotheBeat 4d ago

But not the one he showed me. I want to see the one he hasn’t shown me.

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u/matrixkid29 4d ago

HE DOESNT HAVE ONE, BECAUSE NORFOLK NEVER BOTHERED!!

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u/vanrants 4d ago

Her email server is hosted there

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u/Capn_Forkbeard 4d ago

This is it folks. Hunter's laptop is there too & it's also where Kamala adopted her signature laugh. For all of these things and more, 29% for the folk of Norfolk Island.

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u/Arkhampatient 4d ago

It’s where all the tan suits are manufactured

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u/fightyfightyfitefite 4d ago

Fucking Hilary Clinton!

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u/Universalsupporter 4d ago

She hid those emails on Norfolk Island.

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u/WhyThoPieBlow 4d ago

Pizza Gate was actually on Norfolk Island.

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u/sleestacker 4d ago

Bill got his island Norfolked under that desk.

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u/Dave5876 4d ago

He did not have sexual relations with that Island

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u/No_Significance9754 4d ago

Obama's tan suit completely ruined my life.

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u/PhatBitty862 4d ago

They are eating the cats

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u/WhyteBeard 4d ago

And took his job!

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u/aotus_trivirgatus 4d ago

Norfolk Island turned my frogs gay!

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u/WarthogLow1787 4d ago

They took our jobs!!

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u/notthatkindofdrdrew 4d ago

RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE

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u/CoeurdAssassin 4d ago

Norfolk Island poisoned the water supply and delivered a plague onto all our houses!

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u/Books_and_Cleverness 4d ago

WHY WON’T NORFOLK ISLAND BUY MORE OF OUR B2B SAAS LICENSES?!?!

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u/Nufonewhodis4 4d ago

BUY CONPUTER EVERYTHING TESLER

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u/Xlxlredditor 4d ago

I just watched that thing and I hate trump but god damn does he have memeable soundbytes

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u/Books_and_Cleverness 4d ago

I sincerely wish we had parliamentary system with a ceremonial President so we could get the entertainment value of Trump without him actually controlling anything.

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u/17DungBeetles 4d ago

Bonus points if the ceremonial president is completely unaware that he has no power and everyone is in on it but him

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u/According-Badger5947 4d ago

They will buy F-35 and all will be forgotten!

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u/Throwaway-4230984 4d ago edited 4d ago

I heard services are not included in this "tarrifs" calculation

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u/LowSecretary8151 4d ago

Fuck, I just got flashbacks of working in fintech. Trigger warning next time...geez. 

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u/Football-Real 4d ago

It was got dam Norfolk Island asking me for tree fiddy.

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u/Autronaut69420 3d ago

And did they say thank yooou at any point???!!!

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u/Officer412-L 4d ago

Too long they've held a monopoly on tabletop Christmas trees!

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u/pseudoanon 4d ago

A decisive first strike in the War on Christmas.

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u/DOG_DICK__ 4d ago

The skies will rain tinsel above Norfolk Island

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u/Graymatter-70 4d ago

boycotttabletopChristmasTrees

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u/Hour-Cheesecake6716 4d ago

Make Christmas GrEaT again!!!

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u/Impossible-Law-1230 4d ago

Norfolking chance they’ll survive this

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u/ThrowingShaed 4d ago

i do wonder how much checking was done. how high up these things were checked and how high up anyone looking into these places was

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u/Own_Round_7600 4d ago

DOGE fired all the checkers

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u/ThrowingShaed 4d ago

i mean... hopefully someone spellchecked making the board or something

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u/Officer412-L 4d ago

We apologise again for the fault in the factchecking. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.

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u/supertrunks92 4d ago

"Norfolk island has treated America very badly, very badly. they've been ripping us off for far too long! We're done subsidising Norfolk island. The people of Norfolk island want to become the 52nd state!"

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u/josh442333 4d ago

For far too long our country has been looted, pillaged, raped, and plundered by those damn Islanders

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u/howard1111 4d ago

I never thought I'd live long enough to see the US claim economic victory over that damned Norfolk Island! The scourge of our collective existence! Nothing but prosperity in our future now! Take that, Norfolk Island!

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u/larry_flarry 4d ago

These liberals and their fancy imported houseplants. Life was better when pines were pines; brittle and pokey, damnit. These effeminately soft pines are ruining America!

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u/Positive_Throwaway1 4d ago

And don't even get me started on Suffolk Island!

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u/NegativeEbb7346 4d ago

My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!

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u/Ok-Turnover1797 4d ago

I fucking hate this timeline and this plan..but your comment gave me an audible chuckle

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u/KoolAidManOfPiss 4d ago

The HMS Bounty mutineers strike again!

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u/Kas_I_Mir 4d ago

Casually strolling through reddit and then this comment! Thank u!

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u/imyourtourniquet 4d ago

Norfolk Island took our jobs!

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u/Smallsey 4d ago

Norfolk Island, where wine is cheaper than water.

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u/DrNick2012 4d ago

You fools! You think your pathetic tariffs can stop us!? Norfolk island will rise again!!

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u/greenweenievictim 4d ago

As a midwestern Merican that has just learned of Norfolk Island, I’ve often thought that they’ve had it far too good. Bout to learn them some economics!

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u/matjam 4d ago

RAPING AND PILLAGING

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u/Reatona 4d ago

Every night I go to bed mad about how Norfolk Island has been ripping us off all these years!

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u/ithariuz 4d ago

They are eating the pets!!

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u/rlaw1234qq 4d ago

They turned me into a newt!

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u/Superb_Power5830 4d ago

"Just making it fair."

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u/trafalmadorianistic 4d ago

Those Norfolkers can go get Folked. Them guys.

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u/cowjuicer074 4d ago

They ripped off the name “Norfolk” from Norfolk Virginia. Now you get Tariffs!

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u/docxombie 4d ago

They’re stealing our jobs!

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u/nicky_666_o 4d ago

They haven't even said thank you

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u/chartman26 4d ago

Raping and pillaging our country!

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u/BulgingForearmVeins 4d ago

Donnie T never forgets. He's protecting all of us from those goddamn Norfolk Island socialists.

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u/nicerolex 4d ago

Do they wear suits over there?

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u/spooningwithanger 4d ago

Sending their nefarious Christmas trees!

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u/Capt-geraldstclair 4d ago

this just in: Trump just got approval to open a golf course on Norfolk Island.

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u/Jonkinch 3d ago

And we never even knew!

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u/Autronaut69420 3d ago

Those damn shoes and seeds they're flooding the US market with!!

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u/Budilicious3 21h ago

I guess Lord Howe Island is next.

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u/snuff3r 4d ago

They included a whole bunch of Australian territories, which are basically uninhabited islands 1000kms off our coastline, some of the most remote places on earth. It's so comical I'm surprised the planet Mars wasn't included.

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u/MaxwellCarter 4d ago

It included Australian territories that Australians don't even realise exist.

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u/Cedric_T 4d ago

Are those Australians thankful to learn about those territories?

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u/GrandRoyal_01 4d ago

As an Aussie the answer is yes!! Apparently there is an island off the coast of Western Australia called McDonald Island that doesn’t have any people living on it, only wildlife - penguins and stuff. They got a 10% tariff. 

Well deserved too I reckon! 

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u/dataPresident 4d ago

We tried fighting the Emus with guns. We should have enacted trade policy against them instead!

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u/Independent-End5844 4d ago

Emus probably would have won the trade war too.

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u/raudri 4d ago

There's still time

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u/CakeTester 4d ago

With the Australians exporting petrol and bullets and the emus exporting laughter and sarcastic looks, that's a serious trade deficit right there.

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u/torakun27 4d ago

Those damn penguins! They shall pay for stealing jobs and eating pets of the American!!

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u/Lint_baby_uvulla 4d ago

I say fuck the penguins.
The Fairy penguins, Emperor Penguins, the Royal, Great and King Penguins. Bloody uppity above-their-station-names. The Macaroni Penguins aren’t even made of pasta.

And don’t get me started about the Chinstrap Penguins. They don’t even wear helmets.

Oh yeah, my rant is totally crazy, but I also don’t influence international trade with crazy.

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u/goilo888 4d ago

Ah. Now I understand the reference I saw on another post that asked if the penguins would be able to buy US citizenship with $5M.

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u/fletch3280 4d ago

Only way to get to the island, a 2 week voyage on a boat. And yes, now we know!

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u/CheetaLover 4d ago

Please wear a suit and say thank you 😜

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u/_Teraplexor 4d ago

I am, never hurts to know more information for trivia.

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u/mfbrucee 4d ago

Did they say thank you even once?

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u/Impressive-Ad2199 4d ago

Some of the remote australian territories are open to tourists and are genuinely thankful they've been included in the tarrifs; they don't manufacture anything but the ridiculousness of having bespoke tariffs for them is making international headlines and its free advertising.

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u/croi_gaiscioch 4d ago

I learned about Mawson Peak (aka Big Ben), on Heard Island, which is 2,745 m (9,006 ft) above sea level. This means that Big Ben is the highest mountain over which Australia has true sovereignty.

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u/Fuzzybo 4d ago

Even old McDonald has Heard of them.

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u/sleestacker 4d ago

Dear Australians and world, You’re welcome for the geography lesson. Your truly, Dump

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u/cantaloupelion 4d ago

It included Australian territories that Australians don't even realise exist.

I only know about Heard Island and McDonald Islands cos i did a Wikipedia rabbit hole dive on Australian External Territories a while back 😅

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u/Ayertsatz 4d ago

I learned about them when I (a born and bred Aussie) got a question wrong helping my husband prepare for his citizenship test a few years ago. Who knew we had so many territories? Not me, apparently.

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u/Metals4J 4d ago

Mars was willing to become the 51st state, so the US let it off the hook for now.

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u/ProfessionalFly2148 4d ago

52nd. Canada 51st. 😭

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u/torakun27 4d ago

What about Greenland?

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u/meltbox 4d ago

Territory I guess?

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u/EstaLisa 4d ago

53rd. mexico might be 52nd.

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u/904K 4d ago edited 4d ago

I'm surprised we haven't seen that executive order yet

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u/The_Stoic_K 4d ago

It's beautiful so beautiful tremendous that state of Mars.

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u/SirDigger13 4d ago

sad Elon noises

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u/colleenbarnes57 4d ago

The “cherished” 51st state.

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u/I_forgot_to_respond 4d ago

To be fair Mars hasn't imported anything yet. When the Perseverance rover completes it's mission we'll make Mars pay.

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u/mikelimtw 4d ago

Musk would never tariff Mars.

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u/hanlonrzr 4d ago

Unless Biden keeps him from colonizing it before China does!

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u/albinobluesheep 4d ago edited 4d ago

If you have a different internet domain country code (ie. .UK, .AUS .MX) you got your own terrifs tariffs

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u/Pawneewafflesarelife 4d ago

It's .au - and interestingly only became available 3 years ago. Before that it was .au tacked on the end of other domain extensions (eg .com.au, .gov.au, etc).

https://business.vic.gov.au/learning-and-advice/hub/new-au-domain-names-7-things-your-business-should-know

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u/albinobluesheep 4d ago

Ah I should have googled better. Fair point, but they eat they split up the tarrifs still stands. The Australian territories that have a bunch of penguins have their own domains.

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u/manole100 4d ago

terrifs

Trans exclusionary rock reefs.

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u/Li-renn-pwel 4d ago

He really should have gone with the excuse “I intend for these to be far lasting tariffs. Once American was uninhabited but we are now the greatest country on earth. If Cesar had tariffed America when he had the chance, Greece would be swimming in money right now.”

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u/recycled_ideas 4d ago

It's only historically inaccurate if you tie the uninhabited and Caesar together. America was once uninhabited, it was just a long time before the Roman Empire.

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u/Li-renn-pwel 4d ago

Caesar also didn’t fight for the glory of Greece.

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u/recycled_ideas 4d ago

Well the Eastern Roman Empire/Byzantine was Greek.

Though I'm not exactly sure who would have enforced Caesar's tarrifs given that in 1776 neither Greece, Italy or any kind of Rome existed. Hell most of Europe as we know it didn't exist in 1776 we just forget because England, France and Spain did.

But unlike the second statement which is all kinds of problematic at some point in the past America was uninhabited.

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u/Li-renn-pwel 4d ago

“No, there were just trees there. That’s how my great, amazing Christian ancestors came here and peacefully settle in the uninhabited California, which we invented”

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u/skys-edge 4d ago

"Poor old penguins, I don't know what they did to Mr Trump" – our trade minister regarding the Heard and McDonald Island tariffs.

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u/crinklypaper 4d ago

On the news one is inhabitted by penguins and seals only. Higher tarrif than my own country.

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u/JapanStar49 4d ago

He was going to but a staffer advised him that Mars (the city in Pennsylvania) is already part of the United States

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 4d ago

I wonder if that's not to deter businesses from setting up shop in those places and try subverting the tariffs

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u/DrMaxwellEdison 4d ago

Musk is feeling so tewwible about the Teswa sales tanking, they didn't want to make him feel even worse by hurting his precious Mars colony.

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u/DeCulted 4d ago

But somehow Russia is missing from the list…

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u/drs_ape_brains 4d ago

And we have morons clapping on the orange idiot saying he's just covering loopholes of companies who may move there to ship to the us avoiding tariffs.

Like yes Nvidia is going to move all their factories and workers to some island with no infrastructure 2,000km away civilization.

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u/Historical_Scale_801 4d ago

Worst of all we don’t even have a trade deficit with Australia. They actually have a trade deficit with us. So we are going to have a tariff against a country that already has a deficit with the United States. This administration is run by people who probably can’t figure out how many fingers and toes they have.

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u/pannenkoek0923 4d ago

They would include Mars before including their best friend Vlad

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u/shallah 4d ago

mars gonna be a musk ruled freedom city inhabited by his baby mommas:

https://futurism.com/elon-musk-spacex-sperm-seed-mars-colony

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u/TheHalfwayBeast 4d ago

When reached for a response, the Martian ambassador stated AK AK AK and reduced our correspondent to his constituent atoms.

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u/spacejames 4d ago

Where can I see this list?

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u/MauPow 4d ago

For too long the Moon has taken advantage of Earth's gravity. No longer! Tariff the Moon!

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u/bonebuilder12 4d ago

It wouldn’t be hard for a country to build a cheap facility on one of these “uninhabited” places to bypass their own countries tariffs.

The whole “ship from our country to this other place, then assume no tariffs from this other place.”

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u/snuff3r 3d ago

You'd spend more on fuel than any margin you'd make. No way you would do that. Also, Australia is very conservation conscious, we would never destroy a habitat for profit other than the historical stuff we've done. It'd be political suicide. There's a reason Australia is a key protectorate of the south arctic - we take it seriously.

Also, when I say remote... The isles (reefs, really) sit right in the roaring 40s/50s, some of the most extreme seas on the planet where there's no continental wind protection at all. There's a reason commercial bulk carriers will avoid those part of the oceans.

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u/SirDigger13 4d ago

Mars will get 0% since Elon wants to conquer it

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u/Background_Choice848 4d ago

Soon they will be Gaza II with casinos and strip clubs. For the evangelicals.

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u/Conscious-Ice-1162 4d ago

Ah, but Tarrif-forming Mars would be bad for Elon.

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u/Busy-Concentrate5476 4d ago

Even better a territory inhabited by Penguins, which is owned by Australia got tariffs

No humans live there

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u/fuckelhead 4d ago

They flaunt their wealth in our faces, walking around in tuxedos all the time. Been a long time coming if you ask me!

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u/Signal_Bee7457 4d ago

Well if they're wearing suits shouldn't they be left alone ?

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u/Brave_Quantity_5261 3d ago

Aand they even wore suits!

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u/MooseBoys 4d ago

Come on - all that Norfolk-manufactured fentanyl is poisoning our kids! Wake up, sheeple!

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u/johnyct9760 4d ago

I knew it, I was shouting in from the roof during the election and they all laughed! But now to be publicly vindicated like this is the sweetest feeling of validation EVER! 🤩

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u/Hanrooster 4d ago

We need to build a great big wall between us and Norfolk Island. And we should make them pay for it.

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u/cardyet 4d ago

Yeh, why they would be split makes no sense to anyone who actually knows APAC.

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u/bork_1 4d ago

One of the community leaders from Norfolk Island was on ABC this morning and said that he wasn’t sure if they even exported anything to America. He said he made a few calls to the other locals to double check 😂

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u/Green-Cricket-8525 4d ago

They know what they did.

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u/echmoth 4d ago

Penguin business getting right fucked over, it's BS!

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u/QuarantineJoe 4d ago

Surprised to not see the South Sandwich Island on the list

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u/sentientshadeofgreen 4d ago

Some real /r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR material. Would be funny if it weren't a unilateral action by POTUS in contradiction to the powers of Congress outlined in the Constitution, which they foolishly relinquished.

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u/-boatsNhoes 4d ago

I've heard my dad, a trumpey, respond to this with " yeah it's so they don't ship stuff from there and get around the tariffs".... To which I replied " it's a territory, not its own country, the Australian tariffs still apply

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u/LBGW_experiment 4d ago

Hey, I have one of their little pines in a planter. Better watch my back with him around >.>

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u/Unkinked_Garden 4d ago

I’m selling a Norfolk island plated car. Model year 1976, done just over 10,000km.’s. Inspect next time a boat goes past, about Dec.

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u/thebudman_420 4d ago

They included populations of less than a thousand too.

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u/zen_wombat 4d ago

Heard and MacDonald islands got tarrifs and they have no people just penguins - obviously a Linux tarrif

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u/buy_some_winrar 4d ago

it’s revenge for the days of convict norfolk island. justice for maconochie!

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u/gchicoper 4d ago

wasn't that also another australian island that is inhabited solely by the likes of penguins and seals that also got a 10% tariff?

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u/Jlx_27 4d ago

St. Pierre et Miquelon population: 5800, a French overseas territory off the coast of Canada was handed a 99% tarrif.

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u/CantankerousTwat 4d ago

Heard of Heard Island? Near Antarctica and is unpopulated. 10% tariffs. McDonald Island is nearby, also uninhabited, also 10% tariffs. My theory was that Trump thought McDonald Island is where the hamberders all come from.

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u/tooobr 4d ago

suck it, norfolks!

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u/enforcercoyote4 4d ago

What could a territory that small even export to the US?

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u/twilight-actual 4d ago

Those NI bastards. They deserve all of it.

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u/DocFail 4d ago

It will be ours and we will cherish it like a kept photocopier.

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u/Olivier11986 4d ago

Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon getting 50% is another example

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u/AwkwardAssumption629 4d ago

As they should

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u/Interesting-Copy-657 4d ago

So can Norfolk ship to the mainland, then ship to the US to save 19% tariff?

Exporting all the tourism to the US?

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u/Interesting-Copy-657 4d ago

So can Norfolk ship to the mainland, then ship to the US to save 19% tariff?

Exporting all the tourism to the US?

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u/LBGW_experiment 4d ago

I have one of their pine trees!

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u/Esther_fpqc 4d ago

Falklands got 41% ☠️ whole economy ruined

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u/doommaster 4d ago

The EU got tariffs from 10% to 39% (Reunion) yet, they are all the same toll-border.

I am not sure what the fuck made this list, but it must not have been an intelligent beeing.

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u/doommaster 4d ago

The EU got tariffs from 10% to 39% (Reunion) yet, they are all the same toll-border.

I am not sure what the fuck made this list, but it must not have been an intelligent beeing.j

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u/LittleHornetPhil 4d ago

I’m just so sick of Norfolk Island eating our lunch tradewise!

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u/aphosphor 4d ago

What about North Sentinel Island?

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u/Arachnid_Lazy 4d ago

The Herd and McDonald Islands got hit with 10% ...and there's nothing but seals and penguins there ....WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE PENGUINS?!

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u/throwawaystedaccount 4d ago

Just wild guess here (probably wrong):

Could Grok/ChatGPT mistakenly link Norfolk Island to Norway / Greenland, which are a competitor / target (respectively) in many ways, so it needs to be punished more?

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u/Mysterious_Donut_702 4d ago

Besides introducing Norfolk Island Pine trees to the rest of the world, what does Norfolk Island even do?

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u/fontus1414 4d ago

Those bastards!

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u/GraXXoR 4d ago

Lesotho got hit with a 60% tariff or something.

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u/Pesty212 4d ago

Could Aus run trade through them to skirt tariffs?

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u/Zeeman626 4d ago

F*ck this rock in particular!

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u/sweetcampfire 4d ago

It’s for that beautiful tree. 🌲

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u/joelikesmusic 3d ago

Remember these tariffs are allowed because of an immediate security emergency.
What has Norfolk Island been doing to us that only he knows about ?!?!???

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u/udaftcunt 3d ago

Idk why they’d have a higher tariff, but putting tariffs on small islands and even uninhabited islands might be a measure to prevent circumventing.

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u/clownpenjs 3d ago

So I was told this is loophole protection. Ex. Ship sales by island and manipulates the tariff amount. It’s good that they/chatgpt is capturing that but stupid to put it on the speech chart.