Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

G.B.Blackrock

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Well, car parts. No one ships entire cars over the ocean anymore except to places like Australia. Other than enthusiasts buying foreign cars that are over 25 years old for the novelty value.
A professor I used to work for would buy a new Volvo in Europe every few years, drive it around while he was on his sabbatical over there, then ship it to his home here in the US. Apparently doing so got him a great deal between exchange rates and tax laws qualifying the car as "used" by the time it was being shipped back to the US.

Of course, this is a single person, so I doubt it scales enough to properly contradict your real point.
 

NovaSaber

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NovaSaber

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Ungnome

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Well, Trump DOES want to devalue the dollar in a poor attempt at bringing manufacturing back, so that checks out. The rich will be able to move their investments to other currencies before he does, so they'll be fine, but the bulk of us....
 

Pocket

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I have a fair amount of money saved up, and despite my bank informing me that I'm finally eligible to move it to a new account that pays non-bullshit amounts of interest, I have half a mind to pull it all out and invest it overseas instead.

Trouble is, I already did that the last time our economy imploded, and I ended up getting burned by Greece.
 

Rhinox

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Cool. Let him dismantle it, let him scatter jive to the wind. And then, when a major terrorist strike kills thousands, let the Tangerine Anus reap the benefits of an angry population.
 

Dekafox

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Just like the population was angry about how his admin killed the pandemic response stuff pre-COVID? The people who care will care regardless, the population at large won't, or at least won't associate it being mostly dismantled with a terrorist attack slipping through.
 

Paladin

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IF there is a terrorist strike during his tenure his supporters will murder anyone and everyone in proximity to them with a skin tone darker than "mayonnaise" as acts of retaliation and he will cheer them on while they do so.
 

Rhinox

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I don't want to reap terrorism with him.

Hate to be the one to break this to you, but guess what?
We don't get a choice anymore.
We had one and boy did we collectively blow that.

And now we get all the fun of watching this man destroy the institutions he considers an enemy. Considering we voted in a convicted felon, it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that the systematic dismantling of the FBI would be high on his priority list.
That means that we are going to be vastly more vulnerable to terrorist strikes.
 

wonko the sane?

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Plus, a large scale terrorist action on US soil would be both a profit making exercise for trumps donors and start a foreign war to distract everyone and a great excuse to invoke martial law and put the final knife into american democracy and usher in the american empire.
 

Pocket

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Hate to be the one to break this to you, but guess what?
We don't get a choice anymore.
We had one and boy did we collectively blow that.
That doesn't mean we have to rewrite our entire moral system to redefine every awful thing that's about to happen to us as Good, Actually just because the people who voted for him might be among those who will suffer.

I'm not so far gone that I'll welcome someone's plan to blow up my house with me in it just because someone I don't like is also in there.
 

Axaday

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So we got COVID instead of VITAS, is this how we get the UCAS and CAS? Did the Great Ghost Dance happen and no one informed us?
That's a big state. I guess he doesn't want to bring the provinces in each as states, because whoopsie the Senate!
 


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