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Trump's Bullshit Trade Tantrums

Tariffs are so dumb. They are a tax on everybody (but mostly poorer people) to subsidize politically connected industries and, in this case, 1950s style jobs. May have been posted on this thread or maybe I saw it on facebook, but we're torpedoing our economy over steel while the Chinese are working to crush us on AI. The fool in the white house is playing checkers - badly - while his buddies Xi and Vladimir are playing chess and laughing at him over drinks.
 
But remember it’s important to spite the coastal elites with their gays and their diplomas
 
Tariffs are so dumb. They are a tax on everybody (but mostly poorer people) to subsidize politically connected industries and, in this case, 1950s style jobs. May have been posted on this thread or maybe I saw it on facebook, but we're torpedoing our economy over steel while the Chinese are working to crush us on AI. The fool in the white house is playing checkers - badly - while his buddies Xi and Vladimir are playing chess and laughing at him over drinks.

Yes but according to our resident troll farm, robots are made from steel so this is actually a net positive for the country.
 
But remember it’s important to spite the coastal elites with their gays and their diplomas

Yup. As long as at the end you can say suck it libtards, you know it was the right decision.
 
Yes but according to our resident troll farm, robots are made from steel so this is actually a net positive for the country.

Its 4 years of entertainment. Sit back, chill out and enjoy the show. Then laugh once you realize that pretty much the odds of anything he does having any actual substantial effect on your life is close to nil.
 
Its 4 years of entertainment. Sit back, chill out and enjoy the show. Then laugh once you realize that pretty much the odds of anything he does having any actual substantial effect on your life is close to nil.

This type of mentality is a big reason why we elected a reality tv star and con artist as president.
 
Its 4 years of entertainment. Sit back, chill out and enjoy the show. Then laugh once you realize that pretty much the odds of anything he does having any actual substantial effect on your life is close to nil.

The last part is absolutely not true.
 
The porn star extorition story will not even make the top 5 stories of the week
 
“Why a full-blown Trump trade war won’t happen” [MarketWatch]. “Donald Trump’s plan to impose big tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum has spawned lots of talk about a destabilizing global trade war that’s an echo of the Great Depression, but the White House move is better characterized, for now, as a mere skirmish. The real worry is the skirmish will metastasize into something far worse, especially in light of the president’s mercurial approach to policy. Smoldering disputes over steel and a handful of other goods, however, are far from the raging fire that is a global trade war. That’s why the world hasn’t seen one in a very long time. Trade disputes — as opposed to trade wars — are common and long predate Trump. The U.S., for example, only gets 2% of steel imports from China even though the Asian country produces about half of the world’s supply. How come? The Obama administration hit Chinese steel with heavy tariffs in 2016 that sharply reduced imports, and those remain in place.”
 
Tariffs are so dumb. They are a tax on everybody (but mostly poorer people) to subsidize politically connected industries and, in this case, 1950s style jobs. May have been posted on this thread or maybe I saw it on facebook, but we're torpedoing our economy over steel while the Chinese are working to crush us on AI. The fool in the white house is playing checkers - badly - while his buddies Xi and Vladimir are playing chess and laughing at him over drinks.

Link on that? I think the Chinese are working on ripping off our IP as fast as possible.
 
Parrots sure know how to repeat their mainstream mush.

Never go full mainstream
 
Link on that? I think the Chinese are working on ripping off our IP as fast as possible.

latest
 
Google Chinese AI research and the top several results will show you exactly what I'm talking about.

Meanwhile, this is how a policy with impacts on millions, if not billions, of people is being rolled out.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/07/politics/trade-tariffs-announcement-white-house-confusion/index.html

It would be funny if it wasn't so infuriatingly incompetent and embarrassing. Thanks for inflicting this on the world, rubes.

So when Trump rolls out tariffs, billions of people are affected. When Obama rolls out the same tariffs on the same product, no one notices. The media is dangerous.
 
I googled "Obama steel tariffs" and only got a hit on an article comparing his Chinese tire tariff debacle with Trump's plan. Can someone link me to Obama's steel tariff information? thanks in advance

now ive found something on Bush steel tariffs on Europe....
 
So when Trump rolls out tariffs, billions of people are affected. When Obama rolls out the same tariffs on the same product, no one notices. The media is dangerous.

Oh yeah it's the media's fault for reporting on the President's threat to wage a "trade war" with the entire world via twitter.

We should blame them for Cohn's resignation too.

God your posts are painfully exhausting.
 
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