American Living Standards Are A Sacrifice Trump Is Willing To Make
Trump and his allies say short-term economic pain, through higher prices on consumer goods, is worth the glory that tariffs will bring.
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Of course it is. His entire campaign, his entire political persona and purpose is to have people kiss his ass. Trump is a sociopathic narcist. He demands all bend the knee. This entire campaign was a grievance fueled run for revenge against anyone and everyone, but most especially against people he considered disloyal. He wants everyone to acknowledge him as some kind of god king.
Rumbling in my brain a while I realized I do have a sort of answer to your questions, maybe a really good one.
Look at his first career. He built a lot of real estate and he swindled a lot of people to do it. Contractors in NYC knew that they'd be in court to litigate some of their payment out of him. They kept working with him because he was holding the cards. If you were doing steel or welding or electrical or concrete or whatever in NYC, NOT dealing with Donald Trump was going to leave you out in the cold.
So Vietnam and Madagascar don't TRUST Donald Trump. They just recognize that their economy is dependent on the good graces of the USA and right now the USA doesn't have much grace, but they are dependent even so. They aren't trying to get a good deal. They are trying to get a better one than the one he is throwing at them and they know that they might have to do it again, but they just need to get through 4 years and then see where they are and maybe put some effort into developing other markets. But the point is they don't trust him and it doesn't matter. They have to work with him.
Thank you for the answer man, your insight is appreciated.
It was a rhetorical question, but still appreciated.
It was a rhetorical question, but still appreciated.
And this is the thing that bothers me. I wanted to say something in the Hasbro thread, but that's not the appropriate place.
Even if there are compelling reasons to do so, bending the knee is still bending the knee. If the world at large tells him to hug off, it may take a month or so, but he'd drop the tariffs if only because his own party would rebel. hug, let them be intact when harvest time comes and watch the midwest suddenly go purple. (blue is a pipe dream) A unified front can stop the bullying. This 'every man/country for themselves' just leaves the whole ripe for further abuse. It gives him ammo to go out there and say he's been right the whole time. I cannot abide that.
China, Korea, and Japan I think said they would make a united front when they announced response.
I mean, nothing you said is wrong, but most of these are little countries that have to take care of themselves and because of the way things are they all have a vulnerability to the USA abusing them. It's nice to talk tough, but some of them will collapse if they try to wait him out.
I mean, nothing you said is wrong, but most of these are little countries that have to take care of themselves and because of the way things are they all have a vulnerability to the USA abusing them. It's nice to talk tough, but some of them will collapse if they try to wait him out.
It's pretty much the same mechanism that keeps capitalism running; it's nice to say "I refuse to work for an exploitative/immoral/genocide-enabling company," but that just results in you losing your home and either going to jail (in which case you're still a worker, just for no pay) or dying of poverty. You don't have a choice but to play by the rules of the system.
On an individual level, we have unions to give some leverage to the workers who are being exploited. In an international level, the United Nations and NATO are supposed to do the same thing, but they can't be effective as long as the exploiter is also the Union Boss.
On an individual level, we have unions to give some leverage to the workers who are being exploited. In an international level, the United Nations and NATO are supposed to do the same thing, but they can't be effective as long as the exploiter is also the Union Boss.
Trump administration argues judge cannot order return of man mistakenly deported to El Salvador
The Trump administration is asking an appeals court to suspend a judge's order for the government to broker the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported from the U.S. to an El Salvador prison.
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This is peak ******ed. The openly admit that they accused him falsely and didn't take the time to make sure before sending him to a prison in another country and they so well it is too late now. He's in another country and there isn't anything we can do. The same government that says we need Panama Canal and Greenland and we're not ruling out military force to get them. And then a judge says, No look you need to go take care of this and their response is "You're not the boss of me"
You know what? No one should HAVE to tell you to make this right.
If they can fly Kristie "I shoot animals" Noem over there, film a ******* propaganda piece in 4 ******* K, they can find the man they fucked over.
Trump administration argues judge cannot order return of man mistakenly deported to El Salvador
The Trump administration is asking an appeals court to suspend a judge's order for the government to broker the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported from the U.S. to an El Salvador prison.
This is peak ******ed. The openly admit that they accused him falsely and didn't take the time to make sure before sending him to a prison in another country and they so well it is too late now. He's in another country and there isn't anything we can do. The same government that says we need Panama Canal and Greenland and we're not ruling out military force to get them. And then a judge says, No look you need to go take care of this and their response is "You're not the boss of me"
You know what? No one should HAVE to tell you to make this right.
I genuinely hope everyone in the administration is sued into ******* oblivion by his family. Trump may be criminally immune, but not civilly. And none of his immunity extends down the line.
I can guarantee you that el-salvador was told they could keep everyone, and is going to charge a "fee" to drag him out of there. Nothing is free when dealing with capitalists and tyrants.
Even if it was free, it would require Trump admitting his people made a mistake. He doesn't have the balls for it, so innocent people will suffer instead.
They already admitted it. They just say oh well too late now.
He wants to "restore" manufacturing to America. It's just that everyone has to be poorer and manufacturing has to be subsidized at the expense of our incomes for manufacturing to come back.American Living Standards Are A Sacrifice Trump Is Willing To Make
Trump and his allies say short-term economic pain, through higher prices on consumer goods, is worth the glory that tariffs will bring.www.huffpost.com
El Salvador is already charging a fee to house our deportees. They agreed to accept whoever we send no questions asked, and in exchange we're funding their mega prison.
I'm aware of the deal trump cut: and given what we've already seen trump do; he told el-salvador he could keep them.
Not only do we pay to house them but El Salvador gets a bunch of slave labor to boot. Not sure how anyone could think this was a good idea for the American taxpayer, much less humanity in general. Frankly it's a HUGE violation of the Constitution to boot. Every single one of the people sent there had their rights to due-process stripped. These aren't enemy combatants attacking US soil, which is really the only group who could really be stripped of said rights.