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Trump's Trade Wars - another disaster

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Monday, February 25, 2019 8:30 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
What is with the constant double speak?

Just say, you're right 6.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Do you want to be told that you were correct to vote for Trump because he knows what he is doing about foreign trade? But Trump does not. It is Robert Lighthizer who knows what is going on. Trump knows nothing. He is a big fat goddamn ignoramus with too many opinions about things he doesn't understand.
www.theguardian.com/global/video/2019/feb/25/donald-trump-clashes-with
-his-own-trade-chief-in-front-of-chinese-delegation-video

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Monday, February 25, 2019 8:43 AM

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Shanghai stocks just had their best day in more than three years after comments from the leaders of China and the United States brought investors piling back into the market.

The benchmark Shanghai Composite (SHCOMP) leaped 5.6% on Monday, its biggest daily percentage gain since July 2015, according to Reuters. That lifted it into a bull market, which is defined as a rise of at least 20% from a recent low.

Some of the encouragement came from US President Donald Trump, who announced that he'll delay a major tariff hike on Chinese exports . . .

The US government was due to hike tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods from 10% to 25% on March 2 if the two sides were unable to reach a deal before then. Trump didn't specify what the new deadline for raising tariffs would be . . .

www.cnn.com/2019/02/25/investing/us-and-china-trade-war-stocks/index.h
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Trump was not specific about anything other than whenever the next time he has a meeting with Xi, it would take place at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Trump has no idea of what he will be doing, but he will be doing it in Florida.

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Monday, February 25, 2019 9:30 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
What is with the constant double speak?

Just say, you're right 6.

Do Right, Be Right. :)
Do you want to be told that you were correct to vote for Trump because he knows what he is doing about foreign trade? But Trump does not. It is Robert Lighthizer who knows what is going on. Trump knows nothing. He is a big fat goddamn ignoramus with too many opinions about things he doesn't understand.
www.theguardian.com/global/video/2019/feb/25/donald-trump-clashes-with
-his-own-trade-chief-in-front-of-chinese-delegation-video

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No. I want to be told that I was correct that Lightheizer is an idiot that doesn't know what he's talking about and the guy who wrote the article is an idiot that doesn't know what he's talking about.

I'll never get you to admit that you're an idiot that doesn't know what he's talking about, but 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Monday, February 25, 2019 7:23 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Why does this thread seem to get bumped when the Markets are climbing? This time to the highest point in almost 4 months.

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Tuesday, February 26, 2019 7:16 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

No. I want to be told that I was correct that Lightheizer is an idiot that doesn't know what he's talking about and the guy who wrote the article is an idiot that doesn't know what he's talking about.

I'll never get you to admit that you're an idiot that doesn't know what he's talking about, but 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

A full-scale U.S.-China trade war appears to be on hold, and may be avoided altogether. The bad news is that if Trump does sign a trade deal with China, it will basically be because the Chinese are offering Trump a personal political payoff. What payoff?

Experts were asked what Trump really wants from his trade deal with China; the most popular answer was “tweetable deliveries.”

Sure enough, Trump has been crowing about what he portrays as big Chinese concessions, which all seem to involve China’s government ordering companies to buy U.S. agricultural products. In particular, the postponement of the trade war came after a Chinese pledge to buy 10 million tons of soybeans. This will please farmers.

What China is offering doesn’t at all get at the real U.S. national interests at stake, other than farming. But it does give Trump something to tweet about.

www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/opinion/trump-trade-china.html

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Tuesday, February 26, 2019 12:53 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Ah... so you still can't say I'm right. Noted.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Tuesday, February 26, 2019 2:49 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Ah... so you still can't say I'm right. Noted.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

I do not agree that Lightheizer is the idiot to Trump's genius. I've heard both talk about subjects I have knowledge of. My conclusion is that Trump should be declared mentally incompetent while Lightheizer truly knows about what he speaks. And it's completely stupid for Trump selling out America to China just because the Chinese bought soybeans from farmers that Trump wants to vote for him in 2020.
www.politico.com/story/2018/12/26/trump-lighthizer-china-trade-war-107
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www.politico.com/news/robert-lighthizer

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Tuesday, February 26, 2019 8:12 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Ah... so you still can't say I'm right. Noted.

Do Right, Be Right. :)
I do not agree that Lightheizer is the idiot to Trump's genius. I've heard both talk about subjects I have knowledge of. My conclusion is that Trump should be declared mentally incompetent while Lightheizer truly knows about what he speaks.

Once again, you're moving the goal posts.

I didn't say anything about Lighthizer's idiocy compared to Trump's genius.

I don't buy that you've followed anything Lighthizer has said about anything outside of this one instance either since you can't be bothered to even spell his name correctly.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Lighthizer's an idiot.

Not only is it "A MOU", not "An MOU", but his definition is comically exactly the opposite of reality when he says “An MOU is a binding agreement between two people,” he said. “It’s detailed. It covers everything in great detail. It’s a legal term. It’s a contract.”

These old idiots need to learn how to Google.

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A memorandum of understanding (MOU) is a nonbinding agreement between two or more parties outlining the terms and details of an understanding, including each parties' requirements and responsibilities. An MOU is often the first stage in the formation of a formal contract.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/mou.asp

If you can't admit that Lighthizer was dead wrong here, then I'm just going to end this conversation now because your partisanship is effecting your credibility about anything else you have to say on the matter.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Tuesday, February 26, 2019 9:48 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I'm just going to end this conversation now because your partisanship is effecting your credibility about anything else you have to say on the matter.

6ixStringJack, let’s cut through your superiority complex crap. This is the trade deficit with China for the last three years.

$346,996,500,000 2016
$375,576,400,000 2017
$382,331,500,000 2018 The final number will be larger when Dec 2018 deficit is included. It is not yet known.
www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html

Do you see the trend?
The Chinese trade deficit is getting bigger and bigger under Trump. He said it would get smaller and smaller. Trump is a disaster when you look at the numbers.

Now that I think of it, Trump said the National Debt would get smaller and smaller. It is getting bigger and bigger, faster and faster. Trump is a disaster if you look at his numbers rather than listen to the sound of his voice.

“If you were against President Obama’s deficits and now you’re for the Republican deficits isn’t that the very definition of hypocrisy? Don’t you remember when Republicans howled to high heaven that President Obama was spending us into the gutter, spending us into oblivion?”
www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-lawmakers-seek-to-declare-22t-national-de
bt-a-security-threat

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Wednesday, February 27, 2019 8:53 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I'm just going to end this conversation now because your partisanship is effecting your credibility about anything else you have to say on the matter.
6ixStringJack, let’s cut through your superiority complex crap. This is the trade deficit with China for the last three years.

$346,996,500,000 2016
$375,576,400,000 2017
$382,331,500,000 2018 The final number will be larger when Dec 2018 deficit is included. It is not yet known.
www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html

Do you see the trend?
The Chinese trade deficit is getting bigger and bigger under Trump. He said it would get smaller and smaller. Trump is a disaster when you look at the numbers.

Now that I think of it, Trump said the National Debt would get smaller and smaller. It is getting bigger and bigger, faster and faster. Trump is a disaster if you look at his numbers rather than listen to the sound of his voice.

“If you were against President Obama’s deficits and now you’re for the Republican deficits isn’t that the very definition of hypocrisy? Don’t you remember when Republicans howled to high heaven that President Obama was spending us into the gutter, spending us into oblivion?”
www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-lawmakers-seek-to-declare-22t-national-de
bt-a-security-threat

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

DID I STUTTER!

I don't give a shit about whatever it is you keep bringing up.

I'm talking about one simple article written about one stupid thing that one stupid guy said, who's stupid author's stupid point was predicated on the FALSE notion that the other stupid guy said something that wasn't stupid.

Quit changing the subject and just say "You're right, 6ix. That article was stupid.".

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Wednesday, February 27, 2019 9:18 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I'm just going to end this conversation now because your partisanship is effecting your credibility about anything else you have to say on the matter.
6ixStringJack, let’s cut through your superiority complex crap. This is the trade deficit with China for the last three years.

$346,996,500,000 2016
$375,576,400,000 2017
$382,331,500,000 2018 The final number will be larger when Dec 2018 deficit is included. It is not yet known.
www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html

Do you see the trend?
The Chinese trade deficit is getting bigger and bigger under Trump. He said it would get smaller and smaller. Trump is a disaster when you look at the numbers.

Now that I think of it, Trump said the National Debt would get smaller and smaller. It is getting bigger and bigger, faster and faster. Trump is a disaster if you look at his numbers rather than listen to the sound of his voice.

“If you were against President Obama’s deficits and now you’re for the Republican deficits isn’t that the very definition of hypocrisy? Don’t you remember when Republicans howled to high heaven that President Obama was spending us into the gutter, spending us into oblivion?”
www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-lawmakers-seek-to-declare-22t-national-de
bt-a-security-threat

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

DID I STUTTER!

I don't give a shit about whatever it is you keep bringing up.

I'm talking about one simple article written about one stupid thing that one stupid guy said, who's stupid author's stupid point was predicated on the FALSE notion that the other stupid guy said something that wasn't stupid.

Quit changing the subject and just say "You're right, 6ix. That article was stupid.".

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Goddamn it, 6ix, you always focus on the trivial and insignificant. Nobody but Trump and you gives a shit about the difference between how the Chinese understand MOA and Trump's and your understanding. When the American negotiator is talking with the translator for the Chinese delegation, the American uses China's understanding of MOA, not yours or Trump's. And the bigger picture, beyond your ego, is that you never see Trump, at least if you look only at the numbers, is a big fat failure. Failure meaning everything he claims to have accomplished would have happened without Trump if Trump went golfing 24/7 for the last 2 years and left everything drifting in whatever direction the GOP controlled Congress pushed it.

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Friday, March 1, 2019 8:38 AM

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Will Robert Lighthizer restrain Donald Trump’s impulse to take a headline-grabbing and self-defeating China deal? On Monday, Trump crowed to a White House gathering of the nation’s governors that “we’re going to have another summit, we’re going to have a signing summit, which is even better, so hopefully we can get that completed, but we’re getting very, very close.” The more Trump trumpets success before true game-changing progress has been agreed to, however, the more he creates pressure for a bad deal, and the more he undercuts his own negotiators.

Ever since China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the trade imbalance between the United States and China has become more and more lopsided. In 2001, the deficit stood at $83 billion. In 2017, it reached $375 billion. Rather than moving toward a more open economy, as enthusiasts of WTO membership predicted, China has intensified its policies of state-led capitalism and protectionism. Combined with its outright technology theft, these policies have enabled China to achieve domination in industry after industry, with grave economic and geopolitical consequences for the U.S.

Robert Lighthizer, the U.S. trade representative, aims to change that. He is dead serious about using America’s economic and political leverage to reset the U.S.-China relationship.

There’s only one person who can undermine what Lighthizer is trying to achieve. That would be Donald Trump. Why? Because in the next few days or weeks, Trump is looking for a quick deal that gives him bragging rights, while Lighthizer is playing a long game for systemic change. The president’s predictably failed summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, as he comes home to face the aftermath of the Michael Cohen hearings, only increases the pressure for a successful “signing summit” on trade with China’s Xi Jinping.

Should that happen, it will be a stunning defeat for America. To date, says China journalist and scholar James Mann, “Lighthizer has been the driving force in persuading Trump not to take deals that would generate headlines but not alter China’s system.” It will take something close to a miracle for Lighthizer to prevail again this time.

More at https://prospect.org/article/trumps-one-good-appointee

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Saturday, March 2, 2019 12:56 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

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Why does this thread seem to get bumped when the Markets are climbing? This time to the highest point in almost 4 months.

And yet again today Dow climbed above 26,000 - and here we have another bump of the thread.

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Saturday, March 2, 2019 7:36 AM

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:

And yet again today Dow climbed above 26,000 - and here we have another bump of the thread.

The good news the markets were reacting to is the trade deficit with China will break $400 billion in December 2018, biggest deficit in history. But Trump had promised the smallest deficit. The markets realized the President is weak and ineffectual, a eunuch to be ignored.
www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html

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Saturday, March 2, 2019 7:46 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I'm just going to end this conversation now because your partisanship is effecting your credibility about anything else you have to say on the matter.
6ixStringJack, let’s cut through your superiority complex crap. This is the trade deficit with China for the last three years.

$346,996,500,000 2016
$375,576,400,000 2017
$382,331,500,000 2018 The final number will be larger when Dec 2018 deficit is included. It is not yet known.
www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html

Do you see the trend?
The Chinese trade deficit is getting bigger and bigger under Trump. He said it would get smaller and smaller. Trump is a disaster when you look at the numbers.

Now that I think of it, Trump said the National Debt would get smaller and smaller. It is getting bigger and bigger, faster and faster. Trump is a disaster if you look at his numbers rather than listen to the sound of his voice.

“If you were against President Obama’s deficits and now you’re for the Republican deficits isn’t that the very definition of hypocrisy? Don’t you remember when Republicans howled to high heaven that President Obama was spending us into the gutter, spending us into oblivion?”
www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-lawmakers-seek-to-declare-22t-national-de
bt-a-security-threat

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

DID I STUTTER!

I don't give a shit about whatever it is you keep bringing up.

I'm talking about one simple article written about one stupid thing that one stupid guy said, who's stupid author's stupid point was predicated on the FALSE notion that the other stupid guy said something that wasn't stupid.

Quit changing the subject and just say "You're right, 6ix. That article was stupid.".

Do Right, Be Right. :)
Goddamn it, 6ix, you always focus on the trivial and insignificant.

I'm looking for you to say that the article you posted was bullshit.

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Nobody but Trump and you gives a shit about the difference between how the Chinese understand MOA and Trump's and your understanding.

Maybe Trump does. I don't.

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When the American negotiator is talking with the translator for the Chinese delegation, the American uses China's understanding of MOA, not yours or Trump's.

How do you know that the Chinese got it wrong? How do you know that the Chinese view an MOA differently?

YOUR ARTICLE NEVER ONCE SAID THAT IT DID!!!!!!!!

It just quoted Lighthizer, an American who SHOULD HAVE FUCKING KNOWN WHAT AN MOA IS GIVING A DEFINITION FOR AN MOA THAT IS THE COMPLETE FUCKING OPPOSITE OF WHAT AN MOA IS!!!!!

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And the bigger picture, beyond your ego, is that you never see Trump, at least if you look only at the numbers, is a big fat failure. Failure meaning everything he claims to have accomplished would have happened without Trump if Trump went golfing 24/7 for the last 2 years and left everything drifting in whatever direction the GOP controlled Congress pushed it.

Meh...

All Presidents I've ever voted for or against were big fat failures. He's yet to do anything that would make me think he was in the top 3.

I'm not defending him here. He ain't my Daddy.

I'm just waiting for you to admit that your article you posted was bullshit.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Saturday, March 2, 2019 8:09 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I'm just waiting for you to admit that your article you posted was bullshit.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Okay, it is bullshit. So what did you win? Ignore the article, but I saw the video of Trump castigating Robert Lighthizer in front of the Chinese negotiators. What somebody should have done is made Trump leave the room because clients don't treat their lawyers like that in front the opposite lawyers. Well, Trump does. That is why Trump will lose this negotiation with China. He will declare a victory, but it won't be. China sees who is the weakling (Trump) who knows nothing about how to negotiate, probably because he had a ghost writer for Trump's The Art of the Deal.

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Saturday, March 2, 2019 8:51 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I'm just waiting for you to admit that your article you posted was bullshit.

Do Right, Be Right. :)
Okay, it is bullshit. So what did you win? Ignore the article, but I saw the video of Trump castigating Robert Lighthizer in front of the Chinese negotiators. What somebody should have done is made Trump leave the room because clients don't treat their lawyers like that in front the opposite lawyers. Well, Trump does. That is why Trump will lose this negotiation with China. He will declare a victory, but it won't be. China sees who is the weakling (Trump) who knows nothing about how to negotiate, probably because he had a ghost writer for Trump's The Art of the Deal.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

I win the ability to quote this.

It's good for you too. I've never seen you admit something like that before.

I'm proud of you, buddy.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Saturday, March 2, 2019 9:41 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I win the ability to quote this.

It's good for you too. I've never seen you admit something like that before.

I'm proud of you, buddy.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

I have told many people over the years that they win. They won nothing; they understood nothing. I didn't give them anything tangible, but they sure as hell lost my interest because they couldn't grasp even the simplest things in the world I was telling them.

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Saturday, March 2, 2019 7:46 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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I win the ability to quote this.

It's good for you too. I've never seen you admit something like that before.

I'm proud of you, buddy.

Do Right, Be Right. :)
I have told many people over the years that they win. They won nothing; they understood nothing. I didn't give them anything tangible, but they sure as hell lost my interest because they couldn't grasp even the simplest things in the world I was telling them.

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Cool man.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Sunday, March 3, 2019 5:16 PM

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“I am a Tariff Man,” said Trump.

He also claimed that foreigners pay the tariffs he has been imposing.

Now, that last claim is something you can test. The results?

Foreigners paid approximately none of the bill.

U.S. companies and consumers paid all of it.

And the losses to U.S. consumers exceeded the revenue from the new tariffs, so the tariffs made America poorer overall.

Over the course of 2018 Trump imposed tariffs on about 12 percent of total U.S. imports, and many of those tariffs have been in effect long enough that we can get a first read on their consequences.

On Saturday economists from Columbia, Princeton, and the New York Federal Reserve released a paper, “The impact of the 2018 trade war on U.S. prices and welfare,” that used detailed import data to assess the tariffs’ impact. (The paper, by the way, is a beautiful piece of work.)
www.princeton.edu/~reddings/papers/CEPR-DP13564.pdf

How did they get this result? The U.S. government collects data on the prices and quantities of many categories of imports. Many of these categories faced new tariffs, but many others didn’t. So you can compare what happened to the tariffed imports to the de facto control group of untouched imports; this tells you the impact of the tariffs.

Under Trump’s vision, in which foreigners would have paid the tariffs, what you would have expected to see is falling prices for tariffed goods, offsetting the tariff, so that consumer prices didn’t change. What you actually see, however, is no visible effect of the tariffs on import prices. So foreign suppliers don’t seem to have absorbed any of the tariffs, which were fully passed on to consumers; tariff-inclusive prices (Figure 3, page 28 of the paper) have risen by the full amounts of the tariffs.

A simplified explanation of the paper’s conclusion that the tariffs have made America poorer is here:

www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/opinion/how-goes-the-trade-war.html

By the way, in practice any manufacturing jobs added by the Trump tariffs are probably offset by losses of other manufacturing jobs.

Beyond that, the tariffs have probably contributed to a rising dollar, which makes U.S. exports less competitive.

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Tuesday, March 5, 2019 5:43 PM

THG

Fresh Jolt To India As USA Plans To End Preferential Trade Status To India

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Wednesday, March 13, 2019 10:05 AM

THG

Entrepreneurship was down 40% in 2018.

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The Trump administration’s trade war with China has turned out to be a windfall for Mexico.

Mexico has seen gains in shipments to the U.S. in categories in which competing Chinese goods were hit with tariffs. In all, U.S. imports of goods from Mexico surged to almost $350 billion last year, the fastest growth in seven years. That helped widen the U.S. trade deficit with Mexico by 15% to more than $80 billion, while our trade deficit with China increased by only 12%.

Mexico’s gain is evident across a diverse span of sectors. After the U.S. levied tariffs on metal ores and their byproducts, Mexico’s exports to the U.S. more than doubled, while China’s sank by a quarter.

The trade war also made the U.S. more reliant on produce from Mexico, already the biggest source of vegetables such as cauliflower, carrots and onions. In one stark example, imports of peeled garlic cloves from China sank by almost a quarter after receiving tariffs, while Mexican exports rose 54%.

I’m sure that soon Trump will sign a fabulous new deal with China that will make this all seem like peanuts. After all, trade wars are so easy to win—or so I’ve heard.

www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/03/our-trade-war-with-china-has-be
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Trump’s China trade war is (mostly) pro-business

The China trade debate today is different from the one of 10 or 20 years ago, when labor unions were asking for protection against competition with low-wage Chinese labor. The point of getting tough on China, in those days, was to save American jobs from outsourcing by applying tariffs that would raise the cost of Chinese-made goods and thus discourage American companies from relying on Chinese factories for production.

Over the past five years, however, the China argument has shifted subtly.

Today, under Trump, the United States is primarily asking the Chinese government to enact policy changes that will make it easier for American companies to outsource jobs to China. That includes cracking down on Chinese theft of American intellectual property, paring back regulations that force Americans to form joint ventures with Chinese companies in order to do business there, and ending “forced technology transfer” policies that make American companies hand over valuable knowhow in order to gain access to the Chinese market.

It’s true that the tool Trump is using to try to get these concessions — tariffs — is the same as what labor was asking for in the mid-aughts. But the Trump administration’s policy goal isn’t to keep these tariffs in place to protect American jobs. It’s to remove the tariffs in exchange for the Chinese agreeing to make China a friendlier place for American companies to do business.

This agenda has sparked some backlash from the business community — especially from the farm lobby — because it’s bad for Americans who are heavily involved in exporting to China. But big business writ large is comfortable with this form of confronting China because it mostly serves to advance their interests. The fact that this trade war is easily confused for the kind of old-style populist protectionism that they oppose is, to big business, a feature rather than a bug. Trump is mobilizing anti-trade sentiments that corporate America worries about on behalf of an agenda that corporate America mostly supports.

www.vox.com/2019/6/5/18652791/trump-mexico-tariff-congressional-republ
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Why does this thread seem to get bumped when the Markets are climbing? This time to the highest point in almost 4 months.
And yet again today Dow climbed above 26,000 - and here we have another bump of the thread.

And the last few days the markets are climbing like crazy. So another post here. Nitwits.

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Nitwits.

House Republicans will likely remain as House Republican-y as ever, doing whatever Trump tells them to do and forcing a smile while they do it, but Senate Republicans, just about to a person, are apoplectic over the tariff proposal, which would start at 5 percent on all goods and increase each month until Mexico solves America’s immigration issues. The White House, in an effort that senators definitely interpreted as a slight, sent a couple of hapless lawyers to Senate Republicans’ Tuesday luncheon to field their questions about the policy. (The actual meaningful people in the administration were busy traipsing around England in silly little jackets.)

The lawyers were given a proper scorching. Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford said that the administration “is trying to use tariffs to solve every problem but HIV and climate change.” Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson told them that they would have trouble voting to sustain the president’s veto of a measure blocking the tariff. And Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, whose state would be particularly hard hit by the broad tariff on its neighbor, told the lawyers that he wanted them to take a message back to the White House: that they “didn’t hear a single yes” from the conference in support of the tariff.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/republicans-tariffs-trump-
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Friday, June 7, 2019 5:47 PM

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Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

I keep wondering when the trade war disaster is going to happen.

I'm not an ostrich. The US and global economies have been set up for a repeat meltdown because none of the problems of 2008 were fixed. And the current economic system is unsustainable at many levels.

But from the current state of affairs, Trump has been proved right about needing a wall, and not proved wrong in is approach to unsustainable trade practices.

Anyone care to guess a DATE where Trump's trade war becomes a real (as opposed to imaginary - ie 'fake news') disaster? I'll be happy to put it in the predictions thread for you.

And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?
tic tac

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I keep wondering when the trade war disaster is going to happen.

Anyone care to guess a DATE where Trump's trade war becomes a real (as opposed to imaginary - ie 'fake news') disaster? I'll be happy to put it in the predictions thread for you.

1kiki, Trump is claiming victory when there is no victory in the War he started.

The differences between Clinton’s NAFTA — which Trump called the worst trade deal ever — and the Trump’s USMCA — of which Trump is very, very, very proud indeed: GREATEST TRADE DEAL EVER!! MAKES AMERICA GREAT!!!! — are either:

(a) trivial,

(b) parts of the Trump-nuked Trans-Pacific Partnership, or

(c) changes in auto parts rules of origin that are not on the manufacturers’ wish list and are not really on the United Auto Workers’ wish-list either.

How did this happen? Nobody can figure why Trump claims victory.

This has been Trump’s best strategy from the start: do something trivial and then market the hell out of it. Sure, there’s not much difference between NAFTA and New NAFTA, but there’s not much difference between Tide and New Tide, either. So what? It’s almost an axiom of marketing that success has no correlation with the actual quality of the product being sold.

Even Trump is probably smart enough to know that he can’t actually solve any of the problems he campaigned on. But he doesn’t care. He just needs something, anything, that allows him to claim victory.

www.bradford-delong.com/2019/06/eg-from-nafta-to-usmca-whats-new-and-w
hats-next-center-for-strategic-and-international-studies.html

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Friday, June 7, 2019 8:08 PM

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Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

The thread is about "Trump's Trade Wars - another disaster". A disaster which doesn't exist.

But, to avoid the topic and its very obvious problem, sloppyseconds farts - AGAIN!

And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?
tic tac

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The thread is about "Trump's Trade Wars - another disaster". A disaster which doesn't exist.

But, to avoid the topic and its very obvious problem, sloppyseconds farts - AGAIN!

It is 1941, shortly after Pearl Harbor, and President Trump has declared the War is won. To prove it, he points to Washington D.C., where not a single building is in ruins. President Trump celebrates V-J Day in D.C. with a parade to honor his Mightiness as a Trade-Warrior! But overseas, Hitler, Mussolini and the Emperor are wondering What The Hell are the Republicans and their President celebrating? Then the Axis Powers continue their business of conquering the World, while the deluded Trump voters won't know for years that President Trump didn't win the Trade War.
www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day

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Friday, June 7, 2019 8:35 PM

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I think Second releases more methane in the air while posting in the RWED than all of his cows do in a year from all the poison he feeds them.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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I think Second releases more methane in the air while posting in the RWED than all of his cows do in a year from all the poison he feeds them.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

1kiki, everybody knows you are fucking moron that can't learn from experience. Or are you really going to dare to claim your life running well?

‘Trade wars are good, and easy to win’- Donald Trump
www.cnbc.com/2018/03/02/trump-trade-wars-are-good-and-easy-to-win.html

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I think Second releases more methane in the air while posting in the RWED than all of his cows do in a year from all the poison he feeds them.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

This afternoon Trump declared himself victorious in his Trade Wars. He can do that because his supporters are stupid. (1kiki, 6ix, that is you. Do you realize I read the stuff you morons post about your lives over at http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=58882 ? You are dumber and bigger failures than you know. You being highly articulate doesn't hide your weakness. Rather, it places a spotlight on what is wrong with you.) Imposing tariffs on Mexico would have left the United States fighting trade wars with two of its three largest trading partners and would further unnerve financial markets already on edge about a global economic slowdown:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump tweeted:

I am pleased to inform you that The United States of America has reached a signed agreement with Mexico. The Tariffs scheduled to be implemented by the U.S. on Monday, against Mexico, are hereby indefinitely suspended. Mexico, in turn, has agreed to take strong measures to stem the tide of Migration through Mexico, and to our Southern Border. This is being done to greatly reduce, or eliminate, Illegal Immigration coming from Mexico and into the United States. Details of the agreement will be released shortly by the State Department. Thank you!
5:31 PM - 7 Jun 2019
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1137155056044826626

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Saturday, June 8, 2019 7:24 AM

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I think Second releases more methane in the air while posting in the RWED than all of his cows do in a year from all the poison he feeds them.

Do Right, Be Right. :)
1kiki, everybody knows you are fucking moron that can't learn from experience. Or are you really going to dare to claim your life running well?

‘Trade wars are good, and easy to win’- Donald Trump
www.cnbc.com/2018/03/02/trump-trade-wars-are-good-and-easy-to-win.html

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Was this a drunk post or something?

I won't even go into the grammatical errors here, and only point out that you quoted me but replied to 1kiki.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Was this a drunk post or something?

I won't even go into the grammatical errors here, and only point out that you quoted me but replied to 1kiki.

6ix, 1kiki, Signym are no different then the fat dumb asses on the TV show My 600-lb Life. In every episode Dr. Now tells an obese patient to lose weight or die. Then the next scene is the dumb ass spraying an aerosol can of whipped cream directly in their mouth. Then the scene after is the fat-ass, having been weighted following a month of "dieting", telling Dr. Now that they can’t understand why they keep gaining. Then the doctor tells them to stop lying, straighten out their fucked up life, or they will die. 6ix, straighten out your fucked up life or you will die. 6ix, 1kiki, Signym, please stop spraying aerosol cans of whipped Trump directly in your mouths. It is disgusting.

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Saturday, June 8, 2019 8:14 AM

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lol

Is that the only show you watch on TV other than the news?

I only ask because that's like the 12th time you've brought it up, and I'm in no way fat.

And I hate to be the bearer of bad news, buddy. But we're all going to die. All of your ill gotten riches aren't going to save you from that.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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lol

Is that the only show you watch on TV other than the news?

I only ask because that's like the 12th time you've brought it up, and I'm in no way fat.

And I hate to be the bearer of bad news, buddy. But we're all going to die. All of your ill gotten riches aren't going to save you from that.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

I'm repeating myself: 6ix, 1kiki, Signym, please stop spraying aerosol cans of whipped Trump cream directly in your mouths. It is disgusting. And it will kill you.

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Saturday, June 8, 2019 8:21 AM

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lol

Is that the only show you watch on TV other than the news?

I only ask because that's like the 12th time you've brought it up, and I'm in no way fat.

And I hate to be the bearer of bad news, buddy. But we're all going to die. All of your ill gotten riches aren't going to save you from that.

Do Right, Be Right. :)
I'm repeating myself: 6ix, 1kiki, Signym, please stop spraying aerosol cans of whipped Trump cream directly in your mouths. It is disgusting. And it will kill you.

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Oh. I see what you mean now.

Well, in that case...

Trump is your president too! Neener Neener. I'm taking you down with me buddy.

Enjoy your second hand Trump cancer. Try not to choke on it.

Have a nice day.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Oh. I see what you mean now.

Well, in that case...

Trump is your president too! Neener Neener. I'm taking you down with me buddy.

Enjoy your second hand Trump cancer. Try not to choke on it.

Have a nice day.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

I did not vote for Trump and I am not grateful for the multi-million dollar tax cut he gave me. He signed that tax bill because he would get an even bigger tax cut for himself. He is just some fat-ass ejaculating what Trump-voters want, an aerosol can of whipped Trump cream directly in their mouths.

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Saturday, June 8, 2019 8:45 AM

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Oh. I see what you mean now.

Well, in that case...

Trump is your president too! Neener Neener. I'm taking you down with me buddy.

Enjoy your second hand Trump cancer. Try not to choke on it.

Have a nice day.

Do Right, Be Right. :)
I did not vote for Trump and I am not grateful for the multi-million dollar tax cut he gave me. He signed that tax bill because he would get an even bigger tax cut for himself. He is just some fat-ass ejaculating what Trump-voters want, an aerosol can of whipped Trump cream directly in their mouths.

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Well, great for you then.

My only question is, if it's going so awesome for you, what the fuck do you care?

Don't bother answering, idiot. It goes without saying, but because I'm talking to somebody with a low double digit IQ I'll point out that it was rhetorical.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Well, great for you then.

My only question is, if it's going so awesome for you, what the fuck do you care?

Don't bother answering, idiot. It goes without saying, but because I'm talking to somebody with a low double digit IQ I'll point out that it was rhetorical.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

6ix, lots of insults, but there no sign that you understand what is wrong with Trump's trade war. Mexico and the US agreed on border policies months before Trump’s tariff threat. Trump made the tariff threat for show. After taking the economy hostage, Trump gloated about backing down on Mexican tariffs. Trump was just counting on Mexico surrendering for the greater good, like the real mother in the Judgment of Solomon, rather than see innocent people suffer at the hands of a sociopath.
www.cnn.com/2019/06/08/politics/nyt-trump-mexico-agreed-deal-months-ag
o/index.html

6ix, there is also no sign that you understand what is wrong with a 600-lb person. Or 300 pounder. There are a hundred million Americans that are not freakishly large enough to deserve a TV episode, but they are making the same mistakes as the 600 pounders. The TV show makes it perfectly clear that these people need to, and can, fix their own problems before they have surgery. Surgery only makes it easier for the problem to stay fixed for the rest of their lives. The typical Republican needs to stop being stupid about who is causing their personal problem: it is not the government -- it is themselves. 6ix, the Federal government can't fix you even if Trump is reelected.
Adult Obesity www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html

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6ix, lots of insults, but...

Shut up. All you do is insult people with every post.

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6ix, there is also no sign that you understand what is wrong with a 600-lb person. Or 300 pounder. There are a hundred million Americans that are not freakishly large enough to deserve a TV episode, but they are making the same mistakes as the 600 pounders. The TV show makes it perfectly clear that these people need to, and can, fix their own problems before they have surgery. Surgery only makes it easier for the problem to stay fixed for the rest of their lives. The typical Republican needs to stop being stupid about who is causing their personal problem: it is not the government -- it is themselves. 6ix, the Federal government can't fix you even if Trump is reelected.

Unlike you, I don't lie to everybody about the circumstances in my life. I'm pretty much an open book in these parts.

I'm doing just fine. Don't worry about me. Feel free to read about it in the garden and rain thread. You're welcome to join us in conversation there if you can behave like a human being for five minutes before you post there.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Letters sent from prison by the former Irish mob boss detailed his love for President Donald Trump and annoyance at the Mueller probe.

The former mob boss said he enjoys Trump's war against the media and that the President has his vote in the next election.

James "Whitey" Bulger wrote on a number of topics ranging from the first lady to the news media to Trump's foreign policy efforts.

“History may show Trump was the man of the hour,” Bulger wrote. “Feel China respects him and hesitant to try to bully him.”

Bulger also talked about Mueller, who led the FBI at a time when rogue agents had protected mob bosses like Bulger.

"Trump is experiencing what Mueller and company can orchestrate," Bulger said last September. "[Mueller] should observe biblical saying - 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.'"

More at Fox News www.foxnews.com/us/whitey-bulger-praised-trump-prison-letters

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Shut up. All you do is insult people with every post.

6ix, interestingly, Whitey Bulger's fellow prisoners beat him to death. I wonder why? Could it have something to do with Trump? I often wonder why no one in Indiana has beaten you to death. Is it because you hide inside most of the time with no contact on the outside?

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Letters sent from prison by the former Irish mob boss detailed his love for President Donald Trump and annoyance at the Mueller probe.

The former mob boss said he enjoys Trump's war against the media and that the President has his vote in the next election.

James "Whitey" Bulger wrote on a number of topics ranging from the first lady to the news media to Trump's foreign policy efforts.

“History may show Trump was the man of the hour,” Bulger wrote. “Feel China respects him and hesitant to try to bully him.”

Bulger also talked about Mueller, who led the FBI at a time when rogue agents had protected mob bosses like Bulger.

"Trump is experiencing what Mueller and company can orchestrate," Bulger said last September. "[Mueller] should observe biblical saying - 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.'"

More at Fox News www.foxnews.com/us/whitey-bulger-praised-trump-prison-letters

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Shut up. All you do is insult people with every post.
6ix, interestingly, Whitey Bulger's fellow prisoners beat him to death. I wonder why? Could it have something to do with Trump? I often wonder why no one in Indiana has beaten you to death. Is it because you hide inside most of the time with no contact on the outside?

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More likely it's because Indiana is a state that always votes a Republican for president.

You'll actually find that almost the entire country does outside of large cities.

But I do take your meaning though. Wacko left wing extremists are extremely violent people, and Trump Derangement Syndrome hasn't been making them any nicer these last few years.

If you ever feel the urge to leave your cows roaming free and fly out to Indiana and give it a try yourself though, I'm your Huckleberry.

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More likely it's because Indiana is a state that always votes a Republican for president.

You'll actually find that almost the entire country does outside of large cities.

But I do take your meaning though. Wacko left wing extremists are extremely violent people, and Trump Derangement Syndrome hasn't been making them any nicer these last few years.

If you ever feel the urge to leave your cows roaming free and fly out to Indiana and give it a try yourself though, I'm your Huckleberry.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Yes, 6ix, the Republicans will remain in control of the Federal government by the design of the Founding Fathers, slaveholders Washington, Jefferson and Madison. California’s 40 million people get two senators, while two Senators also represent states like Wyoming (578,000 people), Vermont (626,000 people), and Alaska (737,000 people). The 8 senators from California, Texas, Florida, and New York represented more people than the 68 senators from the smallest 34 states, which includes Indiana. It was a very clever design which has made the Federal government not a Democracy ruled by the majority. 68 Senators is a veto proof number that can do/stop pretty much whatever they please, leaving the majority of Americans out of luck at the Federal level of government.

www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction/2019/4/9/18300749/senate-problem-elec
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More likely it's because Indiana is a state that always votes a Republican for president.

You'll actually find that almost the entire country does outside of large cities.

But I do take your meaning though. Wacko left wing extremists are extremely violent people, and Trump Derangement Syndrome hasn't been making them any nicer these last few years.

If you ever feel the urge to leave your cows roaming free and fly out to Indiana and give it a try yourself though, I'm your Huckleberry.

Do Right, Be Right. :)
Yes, 6ix, the Republicans will remain in control of the Federal government by the design of the Founding Fathers, slaveholders Washington, Jefferson and Madison. California’s 40 million people get two senators, while two Senators also represent states like Wyoming (578,000 people), Vermont (626,000 people), and Alaska (737,000 people). The 8 senators from California, Texas, Florida, and New York represented more people than the 68 senators from the smallest 34 states. It was a very clever design which has made the Federal government not a Democracy ruled by the majority. 68 Senators is a veto proof number that can do pretty much whatever they please, leaving the majority of Americans out of luck at the Federal level of government.

www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction/2019/4/9/18300749/senate-problem-elec
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

So I guess that's a no on the invite then.

Cool by me. Let me know whenever you're feeling like a real cowboy.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Sunday, June 9, 2019 10:03 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

So I guess that's a no on the invite then.

Cool by me. Let me know whenever you're feeling like a real cowboy.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

The closest I every came to Indiana is a month at the Marathon refinery in Canton Ohio. My impression was that the entire state was rusty iron and cracked concrete, but long work days in January didn't leave much time for sightseeing. I think Ohio needed to rebuild their man-made world and do it right this time instead of cheap. Rebuilding would create a lot of jobs and prosperity, but the Republican controlled states won't start until the Federal government provides free money from the larger and more successful economies like California and Texas. I doubt that will happen so long as Republicans are in a position to veto it in the Senate.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Sunday, June 9, 2019 11:23 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

How fortuitous for you. Looks like the government is saving somebody today after all.

If you ever change your mind and wanna find hell with me, come on up to Indiana and I'll show you what it's like.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Sunday, June 9, 2019 1:53 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Trump recently negotiated a trade deal with Mexico — a deal barely different from NAFTA, which Trump had called the “worst in history”. The whole point of trade deals is that they’re supposed to provide some certainty. The USMCA, like NAFTA, amounts to a promise by all three participants that they won’t arbitrarily impose new barriers to cross-border trade.

Then Trump went ahead and threatened major new tariffs on Mexico, not because it had violated its trade agreements, but because he didn’t like something that was happening on the border, a situation that has nothing to do with trade policy. So the USMCA appears, in practice, to be a solemn promise by the U.S. government not to impose tariffs on Mexican products … unless it feels like it.

And then, after all the dire warnings of what would happen if Mexico didn’t give Trump what he wanted, Trump appears to have backed down in return for a declaration that Mexico will do pretty much exactly what it had already promised to do before the threats: www.nytimes.com/2019/06/08/us/politics/trump-mexico-deal-tariffs.html

Now, the business world is extremely pleased that the trade war appears to have been called off. But it does look as if a Trump threat is worth about as much as a Trump promise: There’s no particular reason to believe that he’ll actually go through with it.

The only thing we can be sure of is that whatever happens, Trump will claim to have achieved a great victory: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
MEXICO HAS AGREED TO IMMEDIATELY BEGIN BUYING LARGE QUANTITIES OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT FROM OUR GREAT PATRIOT FARMERS!
5:03 AM - 8 Jun 2019
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1137329348409778177

In the case of the Mexican standoff, this may not seem too bad. But think about what it means when foreign leaders know that the President is:

(a) gullible
(b) easily susceptible to flattery and
(c) eager to proclaim victory, and unwilling to admit that he didn’t actually get anything significant.

Basically, this turns America into a systematic chump. Hold a summit, flatter Trump’s vanity, let him issue a communique claiming vast achievement, then go on doing whatever you wanted to do. Just ask North Korea’s Kim, who snookered Trump into thinking he’d made major concessions, went right back to building up his nuclear attack capacity, and still gets praised by Trump as our allies watch in horror.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Sunday, June 9, 2019 9:19 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

I keep looking for the trade war disaster that 'Crunchy as a brick' posted about, that presumably happened sometime before Wednesday, July 25, 2018 2:35 PM. Where is it?

Or maybe our champion farter can tell us all when it's supposed to happen in the future rl, instead of in Crunchy's fevered imagination. But despite looking very, very closely for that precious OT prediction, all I find are more farts from the farter ... about everything BUT the actual topic.

How about it, farter? Any predictions when this trade war disaster is supposed to unfold?

And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?
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