The US, under Trump, just slapped a massive 39% tariff on Swiss goods, the highest in Europe, catching Switzerland totally off guard. The Swiss government and business groups are shocked and worried about damage to their economy—especially since the US is their top trading partner. Whole industries, especially tech and pharma, could take a serious hit. Swiss businesses employ hundreds of thousands in the US, and leaders are warning of job losses. Negotiations are ongoing, but if nothing changes, thousands of Swiss jobs and billions in exports are at risk.

Goddammit, here we go again—another slam in the face for the so-called ‘free market’. Do you ever see these “leaders” actually giving a rat’s ass about anything except their own power games and pockets? Trump and his pack decide overnight to crank up tariffs to a level that would make even a Saxon tax collector blush, and who suffers? The working folks in Zug and Basel who’ll soon get their blue slips, that's who! And don’t even think Big Pharma is safe – yeah, maybe “exempt for now,” what a joke, as if those vultures in Washington wouldn’t sell out their own grandmothers for a fat campaign check. Swiss government doing “negotiations”—what a load of waffle. Always playing good cop until the blow lands right on your “Mettwurst”!

And you want to tell me that all this is really about “fairness” in trade? Come off it! This is just classic Davos-style backroom dealing, only now the knives are longer and the masks are off! Public gets a nice little story, but the real handshakes go on where nobody’s watching. Meanwhile, the news parrots spit out whatever’s written on their teleprompter. Wake up, folks – your jobs and futures are just bargaining chips on a table where you don’t even get a seat! Absolute Verarschung, the whole lot of them.