Sunday, 9 March 2025

Boycotting America

 
At my local extreme left wing Stalin loving Communists Party meeting it was mentioned how in view of America being run by Fascists and backing the Genocidal Israel and sucking up to Putin's Russia while introducing tariffs on everyone and generally being dicks, we should boycott all things American.   
We was going to put it to the vote but being Communists, we just told everyone to do it anyway but we had a problem when we tried to devise a list of things to not buy which had Made in USA stamped on it.
In response to Trump's tariffs, the EU is lining up tariffs on imports of US cranberries, orange juice, sweetcorn, peanut butter, bourbon whiskey, cigarettes, cigars, cheroots, cosmetics, motorbikes, boats, jeans, leather footwear, swimwear, underwear and steel products but as none of the above in our homes are American, i guess we have unwittingly done our bit by not buying them anyway but we agreed that the next motorbike we buy is not a Harley Davidson or our next packet of cigarettes Lucky Strikes.
Leaving it to one side with a suggestion that we will just carry on not buying things made in America until we can find something made in America we can purposely not buy we moved on to avoiding American culture such as TV and movies.
Staying away from American comedy shows is quite easy, to be frank those guys are just not that funny and as most of their comedy shows are cheap rip off of our own, we can just watch the far superior original anyway but TV shows will be harder, I am only on Season 6 of the brilliant Supernatural so will avoid them once I have finished with Sam and Dean adventures and as there are 15 seasons, it could be a while yet.
Musically i will struggle as almost permanently going into my ears (or rather the one working one anyway) are bands such as Green Day, Guns N Roses and the Ramones and i recently found my way to the Megadeth discography but luckily Canada, Australia and Britain has some great musicians so out goes Billie Joe Armstrong and Billy Joel and in comes Billy Idol and Billy Bragg.
Facebook, Twitter and Whatapp accounts have been deleted en mass and our Apple and Google mobiles phones will have to go and be replaced with mobiles from Huawei, Nokia and Samsung and my HP Computer will now be a Lenovo, Acer, Fujitsu, Siemens or Sharp.
The final agreement was not to use the words Trump or Musk so we will no longer play Trumps or Top Trumps and Trumping will now be called a trouser trumpet or tooting and any perfume with a strong sweet musk will now be simply called a smell and orange's, tangerines, mandarins and other Orange coloured fruit will be banned from our fruit bowls.        
Hopefully this boycott will only need to be until 2028 when an adult will regain the American Presidency but until then, as Billy Bragg sang: 'Bring up the banners from the days gone by'.
Wow, its going to be a long 4 years. 

7 comments:

Not really a blog said...

Customs duty is assessed on the fair market value of imported goods at the time they arrive in the UK and worth more than £135. Import prices generally consist of: Cost, Insurance, Freight and Duty, and a standard VAT of 20% the aggregate value.
> "fair market value" is calculated but subjective
> the UK adds a tariff of 20% on US goods and services
> the intent is to make US goods and services less attractive to British consumers
> the VAT contributes to a trade imbalance that favors the UK
>>> the UK will have to decide if it should take its proper subordinate role to the US (which has a prosperous future), or if it should take a leading role with the EU (which has peaked and is entering a multi-decade economic decline)

Falling on a bruise said...

Are you mad? Obviously the EU. Its right on our doorstep and it's the largest single market in the World meanwhile the USA is stiffing it's largest trading partners so why would anyone want to get involved in anything with you???

Not really a blog said...

yes you keep telling us ( well, me, nobody else seems to read the blog) that the eu is the largest "single" market. it might also be the only "single" market. now, if you count canada, mexico, and the US a "single" market then maybe the eu isn't the biggest. for certain, if you count the 50 US states as a single market, the US is a bigger "single market". then there is the fact that china is not a "single" market but is a bigger market, well then, "single" market doesn't really mean much.

stiffing the nations that have taken advantage of the US you mean. hmmm, that sounds fair.

you are so dumb. the uk and all the eu nations on are a long downhill glide and your arrogance keeps you from accepting your true place in the world. i believe all you leftists called that hubris a few years ago.

Anonymous said...

Still struggling with the definition of a single market I see. Google really isn’t that hard to use, just ask someone if you need help with it or stay ignorant, no skin off my nose. Actually stay ignorant as it’s quite funny.

Anonymous said...

yes (sic) you keep telling us ( well, me, nobody else seems to read the blog)

For someone who tries so desperately to make me think you are actually clever despite all the evidence which shows otherwise , you really have no idea how this works do you.

Not really a blog said...

you don't understand enough about economics to properly interpret what you are reading in google regarding "single market"...

i do know how it works. i "investigated blogging" extensively in the early 2000's when i was in applied research. then i went beyond investigation, and researched the potential economic and financial impacts.

you don't seem to get the idea that when an automated app, bot, worm, crawler, etc. breeze thru your blog google counts it as an access - even though no human actually sees your content...

read about selenium, beautiful soup, or other html/js testing tools. then consider how data is pulled from the web using such tools to load search engines and databases for AI/ML training...

Falling on a bruise said...

i (sic) do know how it works. You obviously don't, hey maybe you should ask someone who knows.