lecoqsportif
Well-known member
It all rests on Jerome Powell. He needs to steer the ship by himself until November.
The political class has gone insane or mute.
The political class has gone insane or mute.
This, all of this, is what happens when you let the dumbasses take the wheel.
The comparison I keep thinking of is Rob Ford when he was mayor of Toronto.Screw that.
The inability for the people that the people of america elected to their three branches of government to stop this makes this Americas shame.
The US can "win" a trade war with China. Or Canada. Or the EU.
They cannot win against all of them at the same time though.
Daniel Dale
@ddale8
Breaking: Trump announces he plans to retaliate against China's retaliation against his $50 billion in tariffs, asking his officials to identify another $200 billion worth of goods to hit with tariffs.
Trade wars are easy to win.
Doesn't this mean that the cost of living will go up dramatically for the majority of Trumps base? People that have below middle class income rely on cheap products not made in the US.
Doesn't this mean that the cost of living will go up dramatically for the majority of Trumps base? People that have below middle class income rely on cheap products not made in the US.
no.
you are excusing the evil cowards tearing kids away from their parents and lying about it.
you.
not me.
That's exactly what it means. The question is how many lies that base is willing to believe when it happens. Will they blame Trump, or will they blame who Trump tells them to blame?
Except I didn’t.
Zeke gonna zeke I guess.
Trump is obviously trying to bluff.
he is genuinely surprised that all of China, Canada, and Europe have readied dollar for dollar responses, I think.
he's still betting they fold quick.
Oh, I dunno....one can always blame congress and past administrations for letting unfair trade get to this point.
I really don't think the 30% will budge on anything. That 30% is energized and appears to have weaponized their votes against any Republican who speaks out against Dear Leader.
So I don't think it matters what Trump blames it on, they'll buy it and punish any Republican who claims that the emperor isn't wearing any clothes.
I think you're giving him too much credit here. He's made his business career on bullying and litigating (which he believes is part of "negotiating"). I don't think he thinks the response of his opponents through, or cares. He just knows that he wants something, and he starts leaning on his "opponent" until he gets what he wants.
Works great on getting plumbing contractors to settle on 70% of the bill. Likely will work less great when dealing with Xi.
his own chief of staff talking about impeachment now.
more interesting is that Trump is threatening this massive trade me war while at the same time going all in on saving ZTE (which senate just shut down).
how much money do you think Trump is personlly making off this ZTE scam?
sure but 30% ain't gonna cut it.