China unlikely to blink first... So the f*** what?

[justoffal]

As long as our War Department continues to get blank checks, the deficit will only get worse. Both parties are guilty of being cowards.

There's a lot of fraud at the Pentagon

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Benefit no. We got a financial sugar high from cheap Chinese shit. By supplanting American manufacturing it reduces the tax revenue to the federal government creating inflation which then devalues the dollar. Very similar to a drug addiction. Of course one of the big problems now is that all the old American manufacturing factory buildings have been converted to condominiums. We're a decade behind in industrial construction.

But yes people do want cheap stuff there's no question about that. That's why fentanyl has become so popular.... It's less expensive than cocaine.

Cheap Chinese goods are not an addiction any more than food is. They’re a necessity and especially thanks to democrat economic policy. Money printing, entitlements and energy stifling.
This tariff step backwards will be no good if it isn’t given the time it needs to generate the multiple steps forward.

 

[kyzr]

We had the longest stretch of low unemployment since 1969 and the cult had no idea.
They hate the same people who Trump hates and nothing else matters to these Ku Kluxxer wannabes. They swapped their sheets and hoods for red hats.

Its not "Bidenomics" its about "Bidenflation"

Americans need an extra $11,400 today just to afford the basics, Republican analysis finds

Compared with 2021, the typical household must spend an additional $11,434 annually just to maintain their standard of living, analysis shows.

www.cbsnews.com

Americans need an extra $11,400 today just to afford the basics​

 

[whitehall]

Are the Brits obsessed with "blinking"? Do they trust king Chuck to make the right decisions when most of the Royals are morons? The tariff situation is an ongoing series of compromises and the Brits need to handle their own financial problems.

 

[Eman623]

Decoupling from China was always inevitable. They were supposed to liberalize like So Korea and Taiwan and even Vietnam to some extent. Instead they used their economic power to become a malevolent wannabe evil empire.

Trump did not create China but he may get the blame for ending them as a threat, especially if this causes severe economic pain at home.

It's a shame.

 

[August West]

Really? Maybe the Orange Shitgibbon needs to look in the mirror.

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Even his MAGA hats are made in China.

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I'm okay with buying from Vietnam after what we did to that country. It`s a mild form of paying reparations, but we also owe Iraq. Taking the money from the War Dept. budget would be appropriate.

 

[bendog]

Cheap Chinese goods are not an addiction any more than food is. They’re a necessity and especially thanks to democrat economic policy. Money printing, entitlements and energy stifling.
This tariff step backwards will be no good if it isn’t given the time it needs to generate the multiple steps forward.

Even Trump knows Jina and free trade date back to Reagan if not Nixon. Trump's gambit is the dems' tariffs and protectionist gambits that they lost the elections of 80, 84 and, to an extent, 88. And the DNC ebraced trade to win in 92, 96, 08, 12 and 20