Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’ (3 Viewers)

[Cosmo]

We have surpassed the first, we are one step from the second, the military staffed concentration camps now exist....so.....your conditions are met.

Spoiler

watch out for moving goalposts...

Who is in the "concentration camps?"

 

[ElChupacabra]

Because I replied to you a few times?
I reply to lots of people, am I stalking them as well?

 

[Gatsby]

The fact that he specifically cited "messaging and propaganda" as the reason he's doing this means that it's blatantly unconstitutional. It will be struck down on free speech grounds, since Trump can't help running his mouth.

 

[ElChupacabra]

So much for anime lovers...

I wonder if that's just in theaters or...

Time to use those VPNs!

Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’

President calls films ‘national security threat’ and claims he called on commerce department to immediately enact tariff

www.theguardian.com

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So I can't help but wonder who gets hurt here more, given that US films are distributed worldwide far more than foreign films are in the US. If we get in the business of reciprocal tariffs, this could hurt US studios far more and help other nations develop their films and distribution.

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

So I can't help but wonder who gets hurt here more, given that US films are distributed worldwide far more than foreign films are in the US. If we get in the business of reciprocal tariffs, this could hurt US studios far more and help other nations develop their films and distribution.

I expect Trumpy is more upset that Hollywood will often film in other areas. Canada gets quite a few US films shot up here. I believe most harlequin movies are probably shot in Canada.

They are still US films, generally with US ACTOR'S
and writers using Canadian crews.

 

[CaughtInThe]

I'm sure Donald is currently looking for some patriotic producer to get started on "Donald - Golden President, Golden Man, Golden Idol" starring Kirk Cameron and Tucker Carlson.

 

[BabaVoss]

More pointless trumpy stupidity.

 

[ElChupacabra]

Other countries should retaliate.

I can guarantee you that there is a huge market in the rest of the world for American films.

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We'll see if they do, because between the decline of US film studios and the growth of foreign ones, Donnie Boy might be speeding up their demise.

 

[CaughtInThe]

All that shit that Republicans/Conservatives said they were during the Rush Limbaugh years has just been flushed right down the toilet.

And it was easy for them. They've been lying about who they really are for decades.

 

[CaughtInThe]

More pointless trumpy stupidity.

Every. ****ing. Day.

4 years of chaos.

 

[CaughtInThe]

 

[TobyOne]

Because I replied to you a few times?
I reply to lots of people, am I stalking them as well?

 

[Gimmesometruth]

Who is in the "concentration camps?"

that is a state secret, your honor.

 

[CaughtInThe]

 

[Absentglare]

Watching foreign movies is a national security threat.

Let that sink in.

He wants us isolated.

This is insane.

This is quite literally a tactic from Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, etc... and that book the scum of the Earth MAGAs always quote, 1984.

Foreign movies are a - "national security threat", "messaging", and "propaganda"?

This is now where we're at? Really???

It will be exceedingly crucial for Trump to isolate his supporters.

Trump has managed to retain control by denying reality using his own overstep-backtrack strategy. First, he oversteps the bounds, everyone condemns him for overstepping, then he backtracks. To his supporters, this makes it look like everyone is overreacting to Trump, that they are “Trump haters”, since they are shielded from the true consequences through the backtrack. This strategy applied to many seemingly chaotic items in parallel also obscures reality by crowding it out, by amplifying lots of noise.

Trump won’t be able to hold back big true consequences forever. Before big true consequences hit, and they are coming at us like a freight train, he needs to gain even more control over our information systems. He is pressuring journalists, academics, lawyers, health officials, economists, etc., because he needs to. The next stage will require that he filters reality, that he extinguishes information systems that could challenge his power by providing an undeniably better explanation for the observation set.

 

[ElChupacabra]

Trump's post shows he has no clue what is happening to movie studios. It's embarrassing.

 

[ElChupacabra]

Yet the UK doesn't have their PM placing tariffs on foreign movies for reasons as bonkers as the current US president has.

 

[TobyOne]

Yet the UK doesn't have their PM placing tariffs on foreign movies for reasons as bonkers as the current US president has.

 

[CANON]

I do watch very little US TV, some game shows, some reality TV being the exception. C'mon people, there's a world ready to be explored.

Get ready for tariffs on any media not produced in the US, no more cheap Netflix or foreign news websites. The FTC is already looking into tech censorship:

Censorship by technology platforms is not just un-American, it is potentially illegal. Tech firms can employ confusing or unpredictable internal procedures that cut users off, sometimes with no ability appeal the decision. Such actions taken by tech platforms may harm consumers, affect competition, may have resulted from a lack of competition, or may have been the product of anti-competitive conduct.

Federal Trade Commission Launches Inquiry on Tech Censorship

Today, the Federal Trade Commission launched a public inquiry to better understand how technology platforms deny or degrade users’ access to services based on the content of their speech or affilia

www.ftc.gov

Continue to explore the world while you can because there just might be a great orange firewall popping up, all in the name of National Security.

 

[ElChupacabra]

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I'm sure if they had their guns they'd be shooting at police officers who came to arrest them. Good lord that's daft.

 

[Gimmesometruth]

Who is in the "concentration camps?"

The admin does not have a history of being very selective with their detentions:

Migrants in U.S. legally and with no criminal history caught up in Trump crackdown

President Trump promised the largest mass deportation effort in the country’s history. As his Homeland Security Department works to deport more people, immigrants with legal status or no criminal history are being detained and deported. We hear from three people to better understand the impact...

www.pbs.org

 

[KingLeo]

New movie coming out starring Donald Trump.
It is called Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest and he is playing all three roles.

 

[yankintx]

As the US entertainment industry is a huge export, I will expect retaliation.

This is madness, it's already effecting foreign tourist visitor numbers to the US.

 

[Felis Leo]

Haha, yeah. The British lost their empire...all while doing far, far, far less stupid things initially at the onset of their downfall than our country is doing presently.

Based on what we are doing, if we draw the comparison to the British, the United States will be lucky to have territory equal to that of Rhode Island to govern at the end of our Untergang.

 

[Phys251]

Other countries should retaliate.

I can guarantee you that there is a huge market in the rest of the world for American films.

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I guarantee you China will. They're a big market now for many Hollywood movies.