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https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1915826567017631942

This analysis from Ryan Grim is pretty funny.

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[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 12 points 3 hours ago

Lmao this country finally elects "a businessman" despite decades of everyone knowing their bosses just sit around taking calls acting like it's "work" and then when they ask the president what he's doing he goes "I took a bunch of calls in my office."

We fuckin deserve him. We really do.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 4 hours ago

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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 18 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Are the trade deals in the room with us right now?

[–] NuraShiny@hexbear.net 16 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The lies don't have to be good, they just have to be believed. This in turn means that bad lies are actually more powerful and useful, because believing them reinforces the ingroup. Questioning dear leader?! That's grounds for a shunning!

[–] frogbellyratbone_@hexbear.net 29 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

there's zero chance Trump and Xi are talking. neither of these two have any idea how any of this works to the degree/level required to come to a trade deal with one another.

when there are legit trade talks it's going to be entire teams of people over the course of weeks/months with extreme technical understanding of commodities, manufacturing, currency, supply chains, etc.

[–] Pentacat@hexbear.net 8 points 10 hours ago

I’m not sure the US has people like that.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 29 points 20 hours ago

when there are legit trade talks it's going to be entire teams of people over the course of weeks/months with extreme technical understanding of commodities, manufacturing, currency, supply chains, etc

On the American side, those people have all been fired

[–] dead@hexbear.net 16 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

neither of these two have any idea how any of this works

I'm not sure who you are referring to. Ryan Grim is a good reporter and he created DropSiteNews with Jeremy Scahill. Ryan Grim is making fun of Trump.

The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said yesterday and today that there have been no negotiations. Xi has made no comment because Trump hasn't talked to Xi.

Trump told Time magazine that he had called Xi and that negotiations were happening.

[–] frogbellyratbone_@hexbear.net 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

wdym Ryan Grimm literally just posted that he's regularly talking to President Xi ahaha

Trump and Xi. They are not talking. Zero chance. Trump is clearly lying.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Ryan Grim was being sarcastic when he said that he called Xi. It's a joke.

[–] frogbellyratbone_@hexbear.net 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

no way he's serious super serious :)

dude lol. i know. i knnnnow. go reread my comments <3

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 30 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

So those of us who want to continue living in a shared and objective reality can just go fuck ourselves, I guess?

[–] dead@hexbear.net 50 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Dear Xi, I wrote you, but you still ain't calling
I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom
I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not have got them
There probably was a problem at the post office or something

[–] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 18 points 20 hours ago

Damn didn’t realize trump had bars like that

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 51 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Donald Trump has entered the Canadian girlfriend phase of his trade war with China

😂

[–] frogbellyratbone_@hexbear.net 28 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I too speak regularly with Chairman Xi. He says I am amazing and am the pride of the proletariat. ... Do not attempt to confirm this with Xi, he said he would deny it.

orly