ROK Drop Open Thread – April 11, 2025

$41,000/year for 129 years sounds like a lot of folding money…

At the current exchange rate, that’s 7,530,631,898.34 KRW.

According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, Canada, Japan, the UK, and the EU appear to be gradually reducing their holdings of U.S. Treasuries—a coordinated, slow-paced move that seems intended to send a clear message to the United States.

An estimated $8 trillion in U.S. foreign debt is being quietly sold off. As a result, U.S. bond yields are steadily rising, making it increasingly expensive for American consumers to borrow. This comes on top of mounting budget deficits, exacerbated by the Trump administration’s multi-trillion-dollar tax cuts benefiting corporations and the ultra-wealthy—a combination that some analysts are calling a recipe for long-term financial instability.

The U.S. financial system faces real risks if global investors lose confidence in the U.S. dollar. Even if tariffs were reversed today, it might be too late to restore that trust. The world seems to be signaling that it no longer views the U.S. dollar as the ultimate safe haven. If that shift becomes permanent, the U.S. could lose its privileged position as the issuer of the world’s primary reserve currency—something that would have significant economic consequences for the Americans. However, the worst thing is that America no longer has any friends left. You’ve pissed them all off. Without your allies covering your back, and without them keeping buy your Treasury bills, you can no longer print money as you like, whenever you like. Now your country will have to be like other countries – watch your spending and work to earn what you get, since you cannot rely on the money printing press.

But who cares? Isn’t this the kind of “normalization” that you Maggots wanted? Now sit back and enjoy your new status as a poor debt ridden maggot country.

Korean left stuff the ballot boxes. https://x.com/GoKorea11/status/1910508968557916671

Trade War? Trump already won.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-tariffs-left-xi-jinping-191144075.html

Gooooo….dddddd Morning MAGALAND!!

How you all Maggots doing this morning?

Are you Maggots Great Again yet?

But isn’t it funny that the world—and I mean Europe, Canada, Korea, Japan, Mexico, and now China—is uniting and thinks you people are a complete joke?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9JR2vmWtKw

I mean, how repulsive your Maggot country must be, for the globe to side with China (China!)… I mean, when did that ever happen? The Euro and the Canadian dollar is soaring, as the world moves their money from a corrupt, gamed US stock and financial markets, to stable democratic countries where you’re not going to get ripped off. Who’s going to trust your markets when your corrupt, abusive government, together with your oligarchial billionaires, can pull an insider trading at their whim?

That’s why your country’s credibility is lost forever. Even if you reverse your trade policies, the trust in your country is gone, you morons.

Like I said before, the only way to fight a big bully is for the world to unite and fight together! Without the world, you guys won’t be able to print your dollars to fund your debt and your space explorations, and your military. Enjoy the high prices of daily necessities coming your way soon. Before that happens, go to your stores and hoard everything you see on the shelves! That $25 Make America Great Again cap will now cost you $100. Can you even afford it, poor donkeys?

Liz reminds me of the Chief propagandist for the Trump administration.

Korea Things, nothing you say means anything.

Many of your assumptions are wrong. More of your conclusions are wrong.

This can be demonstrated through strict chains of reasoning and it can be demonstrated historically.

You repeat the nonsense that the media feeds you. The media lie is seductive to those with lower intelligence, but it is almost always wrong.

Because many people here are aware, your croaking creates no fear and changes no minds.

Whatever goal you have, you are not only failing… but you are also destroying the foundations of accomplishing anything at all to support your agenda.

I have no advice to give you, as your entire ideology is based on nothing rational.

And many people here are rational.

LOL, Trump just blinked on China. That didn’t take long. It only took one day.

And the demand for US bonds is destroyed, as the selloff is still going strong as we speak. This selloff is orchestrated by Canada, which organized a secret meeting between Canada, the EU, and Japan to coordinate a financial attack on America. They are slowly and steadily offloading their US assets, as the currencies of these countries are soaring. Hitting the US billionaires and their ignorant Maggot supporter base’s pocketbooks does wonders for the war.

Why? Because they’ve given up on the US being a logical and fair transparent country. The world is sick of your corrupt people and your whinings, attacks, and insults.

The US Soft Power is no more. You’re becoming a laughing stock. You can take that to the FOX News – Elon Musk X, bank.

You have nothing to feel superior to China.

Just look at this scene where the Trump cabinet meeting where their entire time is spent praising Trump to ad nauseam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQtsMA-iCiw

This type of scene is seen in China and North Korea, and now the USA, the world’s largest Banana Republic run by a cult.

Well, well, well.
In a US customs messaging note quietly slipped out in the early hours of Saturday, a series of numbers were listed as exempt from the 125% tariff on goods entering the country from China.
The code “8517.13.00.00” means very little to most of the world, but in the US customs list it represents smartphones.

The inclusion meant that the number one Chinese export to America by value last year was exempted from the import taxes, alongside other electronic devices and components, including semiconductors, solar cells and memory cards.
In the context of the US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick just days ago announcing that part of the point of escalating tariffs on China was to bring back iPhone production to the US, this was a stunning about-turn.
The White House has gone from clearly suggesting that there would be no negotiation on the baseline 10% tariffs to offering exemptions to the very products causing the deficit that the entire policy was supposed to solve.
This is a lot more than a “row back”. Some have called in the “Art of the Repeal”. The 4D chess has been replaced by someone playing one dimensional checkers, but unable to tell the difference between opposing pieces.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-s-iphone-olive-branch-is-a-significant-trade-war-retreat/ar-AA1CPyqw

We’ve lost the support of “robbiewizz658”. treefrog3349, and
“General_Kenobi_212”
We’ll never recover from this loss.

I was a moderator for an online debate forum many years ago (when ip addresses were pretty easy to resolve). If I had a dime for every time a poster said, “I’m an American, and we sure do suck!” who was actually a foreigner posting from overseas, I’d have…my weight in dimes.
It’s pretty common.

It looks like Trump blinked. He was begging China to call him, and China just ignored him. After all, Trump has to help his billionaire buddies out at Apple and Nvidia. I just can’t wait for the average Maggot in America to go to a grocery store soon and start whining why they can’t eat anymore. Just can’t wait.

Maggots can try to block the sun with their hands, but you can’t block the truth.

India, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Vietnam all still have high tariffs, even if they are suspended for 90 days. And I’m sure they think they are friends of the US lol. After 90 days, who knows what will happen, considering his advanced signs of Alzheimer’s mixed in with natural evilness.

Korean News: “US Hegemony Staggers due to Trump’s Tariff Show”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d79mNB6Kv3A

너무덥다-b4y 2 hours ago
하루만에 지맘대로 관세를 막 바꾸는 사람하고 무슨 협상을 하고 거래를 하냐 언제 바꿀줄 알고
What kind of negotiation and transaction can you have with someone who changes tariffs at will? Do you know when he will change them?

xksw11 2 hours ago
미국이 항상 적자여도, 미국에 대한 신뢰때문에 미국 채권을 다른나라에서 산거지. 신뢰가 없으면 그냥 적자국임. 더 이상 미국 채권을 가지고 있을 필요가 없어지죠.
Even if the US was always in deficit, other countries bought US bonds because of trust in the US. If there is no trust, it is just a deficit country. There is no need to hold US bonds anymore.

hhducho8818 2 hours ago
무슨 약을 먹었는지 이랫다 저랬다 하는 미친 념
What drug did he take to make him do this and then do that like a crazy idiot.

@잊혀진꿈 2 hours ago
무엇보다 전세계의 신뢰를 잃었다는게 제일 크지
The most important thing is that they have lost the world’s trust.

@오넬호날 2 hours ago80대 미국 노인네가 세계를 바라보는 관점에서 크게 벗어나 있지 않음.
His thinking towards the world is not far from the thinking of any old American man in his 80s

@32dhkdrhfwo46 2 hours ago내가 볼때 미국이 큰일이다
조만간 미국이 큰 대가를 치러야 할것 같아 보여
I think the US is in big trouble. It looks like the US will have to pay a big price soon.

@hong-kyupark4501 2 hours ago이제는 미쿡이 국제리더가 아니다
똑똑한 또람프의 행동이 미쿡을 무너트리고 있는다 70여년간 이어진 세계최강 미쿡은 없어지는구나
The US is no longer a world leader. The actions of the smart Dorumf
are destroying the US. The US, the world’s strongest country for 70 years, is disappearing.

@tony-m3p8g 2 hours ago
미국은 신뢰를 잃었다 마피아식 정책이다 불신지옥
America has lost its trust. It is just a mafia-style policy. It is a hell of distrust.

What does it tell you when everyone is now supporting China over the USA? You’re now the rogue nation.

We’re moving to Florida.
That will be about a 4 percent “raise” in income (no state tax, CO has a 4 percent tax).
I’d say no more wolves, but someone sent me a photo of a coyote out there that looks as big as a wolf.

We’re moving to Florida.

That will be about a 4 percent “raise” in income 

Child labor state as well as a Hurricane disaster zone. Good luck trying to get home insurance. Even if you’re able to get one, you’ll have to pay $6K on average. I hope the storm blows your house down.

Regardless of the actual amount, just the discussion of such fees has led to the cancellation of major ship orders to Chinese shipyards, and the switching to builders in Japan, Korea, and even the U.S. 

That’s good news. Korean shipyards are full to the brim with orders from throughout the world. But builders in the US? Nah. They can’t even build naval ships for their navy, nor are they even able to fix what they have. So they have to get South Korea’s help.

US looks to South Korea as it tries to revive shipbuilding and catch up to China

If the US needs to forcibly appropriate yet another Korean industry again, and move their industries to the US to give jobs to Americans, you would think the proper moral thing for the US to do, would be to not slap South Korea with 25% tariffs. But that’s just me. A president with no morals with his maggot backers, wouldn’t think twice to theft other countries’ resources and still accuse them of ripping off America and then slap 25% tariffs.

LOL who would have guessed?
Elon Musk has admitted his Department of Government Efficiency may only cut $150 billion in spending — just 15 percent of his original $1 trillion goal.

Musk told President Donald Trump’s cabinet the revised number in a meeting Thursday, back-tracking on his previous promises to cut $1 trillion in government spending by September 30, the end of the fiscal year.

However, a new analysis from The New York Times reveals that even Musk’s much-smaller goal likely isn’t feasible because DOGE has been inflating its progress with billion-dollar errors and making assumptions about future federal spending that isn’t set in stone.

DOGE continues to publicly report its savings on its website, labeling it the “Wall of Receipts.” The site, which was last updated Tuesday, is heavily error-ridden and shows a total of $150 billion in estimated savings, according to the Times.

While DOGE has cleared up some mistakes — including entries that mistakenly triple-counted some savings or reported billion when they meant million — others still remain, the outlet reports.

These errors include a reported $1.9 billion in savings from a canceled IRS contract. But the contract they cite was actually canceled under former President Joe Biden.

Another error includes a touted $1.75 billion in savings from a supposedly canceled grant to a vaccine nonprofit, according to the Times. The nonprofit has reported they were already paid the grant in full, meaning DOGE saved nothing by canceling it.

Now, even groups that support Musk’s goal are saying they’re frustrated with DOGE.

“They’re just spinning their wheels, citing in many cases overstated or fake savings,” Romina Boccia, the director of budget and entitlement policy at the libertarian Cato Institute, told the Times. “What’s most frustrating is that we agree with their goals. But we’re watching them flail at achieving them.”

Musk’s $1 trillion goal has been clearly impossible for a while. Last month, The New Yorker reported that DOGE would only save $245.8 billion a year if it fired every single federal worker outside the military or USPS