Showing posts with label Heard Island and McDonald Islands. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Heard Island and McDonald Islands. Show all posts

Thursday, April 3, 2025

Penguins for free trade

 

Credit: White House

Donald Trump has imposed tariffs on Heard Island and McDonald Islands in the Antarctic, home only to penguins. "Which nobody have heard about". Apparently, the tariff is 10%. 

So in the unlikely case the Australian wildlife service decides to turn the local semi-pelagic avifauna into bush meat (to compete with true Amerikan raccoon and possum steak), YOU HAVE BEEN DULY WARNED.

This is Liberation Day.  

Nowhere on Earth is safe