Mr. Cheetos just threw another temper tantrum and asked for "emergency tariffs" in Colombia because they refused a couple of military planes with deportees.

The Colombian president in turn said they'll send a plane themselves and also brought into question the legal status of 16,000 US nationals living in Colombia, as well as further collaboration on illegal immigration in the Darian Gap.

Still, the most likely scenario is that this will be hashed out diplomatically and Trump will claim he actually did something other than being a man-baby in the end.

Anyone with an IQ above 70 knows what they're really about.

Which is why their supporters tend to be those with an IQ below 70.
They should just say what they really want, a pure-blooded future... Or we could take it a step further, and allow them to go fuck their cousins and siblings in exchange for leaving the rest of us alone.

Translated Tweet from the President of Colombia

Trump, I don't really like traveling to the U.S. much; it's a bit boring, but I admit there are some commendable things. I enjoy visiting the Black neighborhoods in Washington. There, I witnessed an entire battle in the U.S. capital between Black and Latino communities, with barricades, which I thought was ridiculous because they should unite.

I admit I like Walt Whitman, Paul Simon, Noam Chomsky, and Miller.

I admit that Sacco and Vanzetti, who share my blood, are memorable figures in U.S. history, and I follow their legacy. They were murdered by the fascists within the U.S., just as they exist in my country, executed in the electric chair for being labor leaders.

I don't like your oil, Trump. It will destroy humanity out of greed. Perhaps one day, over a glass of whiskey—which I'll accept despite my gastritis—we can speak frankly about this. But it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race, and I am not, nor is any Colombian.

So if you know someone stubborn, that's me, period. You can use your economic power and arrogance to attempt a coup, as you did with Allende. But I will die standing by my principles. I endured torture, and I will endure you. I don't want enslavers next to Colombia; we've had enough and freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't join me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world, and you didn't understand that. This is the land of yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of Colonel Aureliano Buendía, of whom I am one, perhaps the last.

You may kill me, but I will survive in my people, who existed before yours in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea, and freedom.

You don't like our freedom, fine. I won't shake hands with white enslavers. I shake hands with white libertarians, heirs of Lincoln, and the Black and white farm boys of the U.S., at whose graves I wept and prayed on a battlefield I reached after walking the mountains of Tuscany and surviving COVID.

They are the U.S., and before them, I kneel—before no one else.

Knock me down, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.

Colombia now stops looking north and looks to the world. Our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Córdoba, the civilization of that time, from the Latin Romans of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that era, who founded the republic and democracy in Athens. Our blood carries the resilience of Black people enslaved by you. In Colombia lies the first free territory in the Americas, before Washington, before all of America. There, I take refuge in their African songs.

My land is one of goldsmithing that existed during the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the world's first artists in Chiribiquete.

You will never dominate us. The warrior who rode through our lands, shouting freedom, named Bolívar, stands in your way.

Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat shy, naive, and kind, lovers of peace, but they will know how to reclaim the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, now Panama, once Colombia, whom you murdered.

I raise a flag, and as Gaitán said, even if I stand alone, it will remain hoisted with Latin American dignity, which is the dignity of America—a dignity your great-grandfather never knew, but mine did, Mr. Immigrant President of the U.S.

Your blockade doesn't scare me because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know you love beauty as I do; don't disrespect it, and it will offer you its sweetness.

COLOMBIA, FROM TODAY, OPENS ITS ARMS TO THE WORLD. WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE, AND HUMANITY.

I'm informed that you impose a 50% tariff on our human labor's fruits to enter the U.S. I will do the same.

Let our people plant corn, discovered in Colombia, and feed the world.

Gustavo Petro | X Cancelled

It's a computer translation so it's not perfect but it's a pretty fire response.

Anyway he ends it by saying he will put a 50% tariff in response, Lol.

In another tweet he says a 25% tariff and in another tweet he says...

"I will never allow Colombians to be brought in handcuffs on flights. Marco, if that was allowed by officials of the Foreign Ministry, never under my direction. They will be sepoys. I am a man of freedom, not of chains"

So while people think him sending a plane to get the deportees himself means he backed down, I think what he is actually saying is he refuses to see Colombians be treated like slaves and will bring them back with some dignity rather than shackled and in chains, not the shitty manner in which America is doing it. And they've not actually backed down on the other issues yet.

Anyway, that tweet is absolute fire and how everyone should be responding to this fucking bully.

Changed the translation source to Deepseek because it seemed more accurate, still fire.

Yeah, Petro delivered. Dude is sabotaged as hell within Colombia too but always stands firm even if he fumbles it sometimes.

Whole world needs to unite and tell America to go fuck itself Tbh.

Colombia is one country and you'd not blame them for eventually backing down because America will crush their economy if they do this battle alone, hence why others need to respond similarly, America is nothing but a bully right now and it will keep pushing and pushing if countries show weakness and continue to take and abuse.

It won't end here and America will continue pushing countries around, unless multiple countries tell America to fuck off and fight back. At this stage I'd happily be poorer if it meant America got knocked down a peg. They can't start a trade war with everyone without destroying their own economy. But how about them egg prices America? Trump is sure doing a lot to get them down /s.

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Now has its own Subreddit, Lol.

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They kind of have to, otherwise he'll just do it again with another excuse the next time. This and stalling for time as the tendency is for Trump to get weaker as the midterms approach and his approval ratings drop.

Chinese company releasing a cheap AI model for free and open source.

Tech Stocks Fall Sharply as China’s DeepSeek Sows Doubts About AI Spending

Nvidia Falls 14% in Premarket Trading as China's DeepSeek Triggers Global Tech Sell-Off

I'm sure this is just markets overreacting as per usual. But I do still think Sam Altman is a conman and the bubble will burst on many companies eventually. It would be hilarious if that happened so soon after the $500bn "Trump" announcement but I doubt it. This will be a wait and see how good DeepSeek actually is and how much it actually cost.