Why isn’t it “rich people will have 1 yacht rather than 4”?
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You know why. The same reason Martha Stewart gets jail for insider trading but the ultra rich and politicians do it in the open with no consequences
Yeah, I was making a point.
Because you keep your yachts in the Caribbean so they aren’t subject to tariffs anyway
but he insisted China will suffer more from his trade war.
Even if this were true (which is dubious) this doesn't make me feel any better. That would simply make this a Pyrrhic victory.
What is the point of any of this? Oh yeah, cruelty is the point.
The point? I think he expected the world leaders to come bearing personal gifts and favors. Trade some of the US's global position and power for his own personal wealth and power? I don't have proof, but it would be on-brand for Trump.
He's also surrounded himself with yes-men and crazy people (e.g. Navarro). He clearly has an elementary understanding (at best) of economics. Money good. China bad. Money go to China bad (trade imbalance). Tariffs keep money here.
Combine all that with the fact that he never admits responsibility for anything. When China pushed back, he retaliated. When they stopped participating, it leaves us in a stalemate that I believe will hurt us a lot more than them.
So, I think the trade imbalance is the justification. The goal is likely just personal power for Trump. But he doesn't really know what he's doing, doesn't care to learn, just thinking he's the greatest being in existence and everything bad is not his fault.
Nah, raising a shitload of money fast for tax breaks to pay off the billionaires who handed him the presidency is the point. Cruelty is why idiots would vote for this
"The american people will suffer but china will suffer more." So hes hurting us to hurt them? Great job dumbass.
Goddamn fucking piece of shit fucking moron
If he understood anything about his electorate, he would know that it would be a choice of 1 meal a day instead of 3, if the rent is still paid.
Let them eat cake!
Can't wait to see what happens when China stops buying our debt.
Yeah, I'm sure China's trembling at the mere idea.
Donny "2 dolls" trump.
What is trump now? a buddhist? How is a child with 30 dolls suffering? unless they are suffering from too much happiness.
People are going to die in the streets due to the impact of these policies.
Not sure man, my vehicle threw a rod and I am struggling to find financing to get a used vehicle until I make the money to figure out a long term solution. Partner checked FB marketplace because I don't have an account, I checked Craigslist, and the dealers near me can't seem to make a loan work with $1000 down on vehicles listed at $15k. Found one car selling for under 10k, but it has 95k miles and everything online seems to say it has a 135k mile average lifespan. So when you don't know how the people before you drove it, and it's got a 3rd party exhaust on it, I have to assume my extremely (55-60 mile) drive to work will leave me stranded on the side of the road by the end of the year still owing money on it unless I scrape the barrel everywhere in my budget and somehow sell it for nickles in 6 months trying to trade it in for something half way better. Maybe I can get arrested when I become homeless and die in jail instead of on the street.
Maybe I can get arrested when I become homeless and die in jail instead of on the street.
Do it quick, lest you end up in a foreign death gulag to top it all.
Go to credit unions around you and apply for a loan yourself. You shouldn't ever rely on dealerships to find financing for you. Interest rates are awful right now but with your commute you need something reliable and fuel efficient (like a Camry or Corolla).
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Even if this were true, a policy that hurts everyone isn't sucessful just because someone else suffers more than you.
It is for Republicans
It wouldn't even be a pyrrhic victory. It would just be mutual suffering.
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China's economy is still projected to grow while US heads to recession , this guy tries to create his own reality everywhere he goes.
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Except the kids aren't getting 2 dolls. They're getting dragged out into the middle of the street half naked in the middle of the night because the brownshirts can't even read an address correctly when they're casually disappearing whole families.
Why the fuck is this even reported on. Fuck this whole system, down to the author that thought 'ya that's worth making an article'
Don't buy your kids dolls. Buy them fpv drones.
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I don't think most kids get 30, but is he already talking about how Christmas is going to be? Tomorrow is May 1st. That is 7 months away.
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2 dolls instead of 30 works out to a reduction of 93.3%! That's HUGE. If that's supposed to be his positive spin on things, Americans are truly fucked.
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Because that's what it's all about - someone else suffering more. The objective is to increase the amount of suffering in the world, since we clearly don't have enough of it just yet, but making sure others suffer more than us. Because trying to make it so that everyone suffers less is communist, unamerican and bad, I guess...
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Cause American girls were getting 30 dolls every Christmas.
This guy is such a psychopath that he doesn't even understand how Christmas gifts work.
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Nothing like a rich guy who has never known struggle to tell everyone else they need to struggle because he's a moron
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Why parrot his bullshit in the headline? China will not suffer as much as the US. This is such bullshit.
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"It's One Banana, Michael. What Could It Cost, $10?"
“People are worried, even some people who voted for you, saying ‘I didn’t sign up for this.’ So how do you address those concerns?” ABC host Terry Moran asked Trump.
“They did sign up for it, actually, and this is what I campaigned on,” Trump replied. He added, when questioned about price increases on electronics, clothing and homebuilding, that “China probably will eat those tariffs.”
Man I hope democrats use that ammunition he left sitting there for the next 80 years.
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What about the kids who were lucky to get 2 dolls prior to the trade war? Shit outta luck I guess.
Trump has a plan for them too. The coal mines.
Florida is already making it normal for children to be the future workforce.
Just tell them kids in China have negative dolls. That will make them feel better!
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More like two meals instead of three
The rich will still get 30 and a new sports car
Everyone knows the goal of running a country is to make people suffer. Not to accomplish anything positive. That would be GlObAlIsM
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China is happily selling to the rest of the world, and yes their sales will go down without the US market, but they won't in sense of the word "suffer".
American kids might “have two dolls instead of 30 dolls,”
Operating on the assumption that most households aren't buying their kids 30 dolls (and those that do are probably going to be under the least economic pressure to cut spending), if American households actually cut spending on their kids by a proportional 93% of whatever they were going to spend, I expect that midterms are going to be interesting.
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