This has Vought’s saliva and spunk all over it.
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They fucking DO buy our shit!!! GAH!!!
It is, I’m sure that’s the thinking, but it’s just no way to run an economy.
I know what you mean by that, but…
I don’t know… I’m seeing lots of cheap stuff for sale from other places these days. But again, I guess that’s a bit of anecdata?
@ObakeBakaNeko - the Dugin comment… yep, back to good old mercantilism! Cause that worked out well!!!
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My wife is currently in a panic that vanilla and cocoa will be hard to find or insanely expensive. You know what she goes through a ton of in her business? Yup…
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Of course. I didn’t say it is a good way to run an economy. 
Did you miss my “for instance”? I didn’t say or mean China is the only country we import stuff from. I was saying I’m surprised that imports are only about 15% of the U.S. economy.
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I wasn’t arguing with you, more trying to add to… In general, I think the era of China being the major manufacturing hub of the world, might be over, at least for cheaper goods? But we saw this with Japan in the 70s-80s, too…
I don’t know. I think there is lots of things to be critical of in the age of the neoliberal economy… but I think we all agree that this method of trying to “fix” things is only designed to benefit Trump and his class of cretins, at the expense of everyone else.
I’ve often wondered what a more democratic, bottom up globalization would look like, and how we get there from there… I guess people smarter than me have tried to tackle that question.
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Yeah, sorry if it came off antagonistic! Not my intent!
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He may not have resurrected groceries but he certainly killed satire.
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Remember when he “discovered” Juneteenth?
Speaking of which, what are the odds he’s going to try to tag it as DEI this year?
Sigh.
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And remember that both Canada and Mexico agreed to…exactly the agreements they already had in place. He trumpeted it as a big win - which of course his base echoed and the press almost completely did as well - but anyone who looked at it for more than about 5 seconds could see he got nothing but as usual just said he did.
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With any luck, we’ll get to shoot for three!
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And that candy bar with brown chocolate on the outside and white coconut inside? They called it Bounty. It came from Mars originally. We’re putting tariffs on that too. Who keeps letting those ‘coconuts’ into the USA?
@j9c Not enough likes for those 10 rules. 8 and 9 need executing right now, but the bully inTrump knows that ‘divide and conquer’ usually works. Plus what @Docosc said in reply.
It’s civilizational suicide
Well, suicide is sort of deliberate. Trump and his henchfuckwits have no idea that this is what they are actually doing. It’s more like being an inadvertent nation-level Darwin award candidate, removing US country ‘DNA’ from the international gene pool, but doing so by infecting the rest of the world with the same disease while they are at it. (Or something like that - I hear the sound of an analogy breaking.)
… and then I saw the GOP COVID report. So they’re doing it at an actual disease level, too.
As to this, US products do not meet UK/EU standards in many respects. So basically he’s saying “take our hormone-fed beef and chlorine-washed chickens, and pesticide-residued produce and import it or we will stick tariffs on”. I doubt the EU will cave. UK might (a “Brexit benefit”!!)
Because not all the things that Americans buy and which are measured to calculate price inflation, are imported.
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I keep thinking about how he would indicate some confusion on the difference between the UK, Britain and England every time he went to the UK. (Which, given his mother was Scottish, was pretty weird he didn’t already understand before becoming president.) That’s what made me realize how cognitively impaired he is. It was clearly not knowledge that sunk into his brain, even though it was pretty basic. But even worse, he felt the need to publicly muse about it. In the UK. To British people. In a way that indicated he thought this was all new/uncertain knowledge for them as well. It’s not just that he’s ignorant and stupid, his cognitive issues mean that other people fundamentally do not exist for him as real, independent beings.
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