President Donald Trump
I assume it's still acceptable to have a Trump thread in a Politics forum?
So this is an obvious lie - basically aimed at
You try to restrict responses to a narrow set of parameters because you dont want to to admit that being denied the vote means a removal of all hope for you and your children’s future.
You’re a terminally dishonest and racist PoS.
Please stop beating-around-the-bush. Please tell us what you really think of Luciom!
:p
It's amazing to see Hawley and some others starting to push back ever so slightly. It only takes a few to have some stones before the domino effect takes place.
Good thing like 90% of Trump's base buys everything at Walmart. Once they have more month at the end of their money and become vocal, more in Congress will actually go back to their 2015 opinions of Trump that they have been suppressing for the last 10 years.
x1000. I would rate Hawley as one of the worst human beings in Congress.
Hard to believe that in this day and age that there are still a handful of politicians who act only out of self-interest.
Where's my shock face?
Found it!
😮
He'll obviously get primaried by a principled statesman.
/sarcasm
Well, yes, of course Hawley is a gigantic piece of shiit, but he must be getting phone calls from the Trump base to say that cutting Medicaid is morally wrong.
Well, yes, of course Hawley is a gigantic piece of shiit, but he must be getting phone calls from the Trump base to say that cutting Medicaid is morally wrong.
If I were attempting to get Hawley to do something, I wouldn't bother with appealing to his sense of right and wrong. He is profoundly amoral in my opinion.
But sure, a bunch of calls coming into his office might convey a more practical message about what is in his self-interest.
Well, yes, of course Hawley is a gigantic piece of shiit, but he must be getting phone calls from the Trump base to say that cutting Medicaid is morally wrong.
He is a "social rightwing" (destra sociale, the most common right in europe) kind of person (one could say proto-fascist), like the polish radical right.
If he could pass welfare for whites only he would like to give them french levels of welfare.
That's why i find it very bizzarre that people like Musk who are thousands of miles away from that ideology get called fascist.
Because when you have an actual fascist (except the dictatorship/censorship) platform represented in Hawley, and it finds more ground in common with democrats than actual rightwing libertarian ideologies do, we should use the word but leftist get angry at seeing that actual fascism is much closer to them than actual righwing libertarianism (the "normal" right in the USA, the Reagan deregulation, the "the state is the problem not the solution").
Tariffs can be a tool used to protect your own industry. You deny your citizen's access to cheaper and / or better foreign goods, as to protect your own industry of the same type or to spur local investment.Of course, this hinges on a) Actually having said industry b) Doing it in a reliable long-term manner that actually enables investing in the education, infrastructure and pr
Trump's tariffs definitely lacks any type of cohesive strategy and will probably end up getting completely scrubbed and Trump will declare victory that his competitors blinked first and gave up and the stock market may prove that he did win.
The guy blanketed a wide range of products from various locations which defeats the purpose and more importantly, he applied tariffs without clearly identifying whether the US had a viable domestic alternative or whether the industry was worth protecting, or even possible. That's an important part and it's something that makes me believe that tariffs aren't fit for he economy that we have.
But i think implementation is everything on the success of something like this. Tariffing Chinese solar while supporting US solar manufacturing could actually build an industry that would aslo be environmentally beneficial. Exempting raw materials and agricultural products, or industrial equipment could reduce costs for US manufactures and ease inflation. He's got potential here with his leverage to make improvements but he's just randomly pulling levers. But I think it's far more of Trump=bad than tariffs=bad. But one leads to the other.
Considering the US has never had a mainland missile attack ever... I don't see why spending a $175 billion on a Golden Dome is being viewed as so bad.
Americans are far more likely to die from diabetes, cancer, stroke, heck - even snake bites than they are from missile attacks.
This is the wall grift, part 2. :(
If I were attempting to get Hawley to do something, I wouldn't bother with appealing to his sense of right and wrong. He is profoundly amoral in my opinion.
But sure, a bunch of calls coming into his office might convey a more practical message about what is in his self-interest.
I agree with all of this. I guess I'm just surprised that anyone would find going against Lord Trump to be the better self-interest option at this time. Seems a bit premature.
Considering the US has never had a mainland missile attack ever... I don't see why spending a $175 billion on a Golden Dome is being viewed as so bad.
Americans are far more likely to die from diabetes, cancer, stroke, heck - even snake bites than they are from missile attacks.
This is the wall grift, part 2. :(
How much did Biden spend on defense?
Trump's tariffs definitely lacks any type of cohesive strategy and will probably end up getting completely scrubbed and Trump will declare victory that his competitors blinked first and gave up and the stock market may prove that he did win. The guy blanketed a wide range of products from various locations which defeats the purpose and more importantly, he applied tariffs wit
Yes this is true.
There is even a broad understanding between countries that players will to some degree be using tariffs, customs or subsidy to protect key industries or sectors vital to your security.
For instance a country could have a very expensive agricultural sector that would easily be toppled if food imports went unchecked. While this would be great in times of international prosperity, peace and good crops, it would be an enormous risk if you didn't account for the possibility of international instability, war or droughts. So this country could take measures to protect at least parts of its inefficient and expensive agricultural industry, to ensure food safety in bad times.
This is why countries spend an enormous amount of time and diplomacy to work out trade agreements, establish fora for resolving disputes, work out custom agreements, figure out standards for transportation, (ships, aircraft, trucks, railways), water treaties, environmental treaties and whatnot.
Generally, it is a game of totals. You give up some, you win some. Leverage is not straightforward, it boils down to a combination of economic reality and soft power. Unfortunately, that also means it is always easy to portray such agreements in a bad light, a politician just needs to focus on what you were giving up and ignore what you were gaining.
Globalization tends to get a bad rep, and have become a pejorative for a lot of ideologies. I think that is fairly unfair, the issues people bring up when they talk about globalization tends to revolve around local policy more than it is about countries participating in a global market. As for the alternative, there have been periods in recent centuries when the big players embraced mercantilism, and trade was enormously lopsided compared to today (even today it is still a way good way off from a fair marketplace). Contrary to what all the people in favor of mercantilism and protectionism tends to claim would be the benefits of such policies, those times were unstable and violent times to a degree that make our current issues of conflict and instability look like a pleasant stroll in the park.
you do seem pretty mad. deep breaths. I know it is upsetting you gotta watch Trump finish off the genocide and you cant enjoy it as much.
"Narcissists don't value communal traits ... they don't want to be good, liked, loved. They want to dominate, dictate, control, own ..." says psychologist Sam Vaknin. And maybe put their name all over all of it. LOL.
He wasn't talking about anybody in particular, or even politics. But it hit the bullseye a little bit.
