What is driving this trade war?

[Mac1958]

Trump's desiccated brain is stuck in the 80s when he was railing against Japan.

He and his daughter both have their drek made in China and Mexico.

The dotard is positively schizophrenic.

Ray Dalio put it perfectly: I agree with the problem, but I have great concerns about the solution.

The world is learning about our ham-handed, over-the-top Neanderthal politics first hand now. We'll see how they react in the long run. But it sure looks like they want to separate as soon as possible, understandably. For now, they have to play along.

 

[Mac-7]

The Establishment consists of billionaires. Trump is part of it. Billionaires benefit from Trump's tax cuts for the rich. The stupid, ignorant, poorly educated, poorly paid cretins Trump pretends to live while secretly despising do not.

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Trump is a populist

Which means he has stolen lib thunder on jobs and the economy

The people in your picture may well be former union steel workers or assembly line employees at Westinghouse who made good wages before free trade with china, but now are reduced to being stock clerks at Walmart

 

[sealybobo]

Your greatest fear is that trump will succeed

And despite the hysterical lib news reports, he is

My greatest fear is that Trump will do unAmerican things like what he's doing with immigrants and potentially wants to do to Americans. What he's doing to Harvard and PBS.

Yes, I fear he will succeed. Because his success will not be good for me or us. You'll like it though because you think you are one of them. You're like a middle class Russian who likes Putin

What are his successes? You say he has successes. What are they? I mean besides finding out the leaker is of course one of Pete Hegseth's boys.

 

[g5000]

Ray Dalio put it perfectly: I agree with the problem, but I have great concerns about the solution.

The world is learning about our ham-handed, over-the-top Neanderthal politics first hand now. We'll see how they react in the long run. But it sure looks like they want to separate as soon as possible, understandably. For now, they have to play along.

Trump is making America irrelevant on the world stage.

 

[sealybobo]

Trump is a populist

Which means he has stolen lib thunder on jobs and the economy

The people in your picture may well be former union steel workers or assembly line employees at Westinghouse who made good wages before free trade with china, but now are reduced to being stock clerks at Walmart

He has bullshitted workers but I think they're going to figure that out before the midterms.

This happens to every president so don't be shocked. They have all three houses and they start letting power corrupt them and we see it so then we put Democrats back in charge of the Senate and House to keep Trump in check.

I think checks and balances is going to be big this midterm.

 

[Mac1958]

Trump is making America irrelevant on the world stage.

An untrustworthy predator country is best marginalized whenever possible.

Holy shit, who knew it would be us. Ever.

 

[g5000]

Your greatest fear is that trump will succeed

Yes, he is succeeding at destroying everyone's retirement fund.

Yes, he is succeeding at destroying our farmers.

Yes, he is succeeding at making America irrelevant to the rest of the world.

Yes, he is succeeding at creating a recession which will harm all Americans.

Yes, his tariffs will succeed at keeping food prices high.

Yes, his tariffs will succeed at increasing inflation.

Low growth + inflation = stagflation. Something we have not seen since the shitty 70s.

 

[g5000]

An untrustworthy predator country is best marginalized whenever possible.

Holy shit, who knew it would be us. Ever.

I sure would like to know the nature of the conversations Trump had with Putin in Saudi Arabia.

Because everything Trump is doing is working in Putin's favor.

 

[sealybobo]

Your greatest fear is that trump will succeed

And despite the hysterical lib news reports, he is

Powell isn't the bad guy here you know

Trump railed against Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Thursday, saying his "termination cannot come fast enough!” due to Powell refusing to cut interest rates.

Powell warning a day earlier that Trump’s tariffs are going to cause higher inflation and slower growth. The Federal Reserve needs to hold back on cutting rates until it has a better understanding of Trump’s policies, he said.

Trump doesn't understand. He caused inflation the first time he was President and now he wants to do it again? No sir.

 

[SweetTea]

An untrustworthy predator country is best marginalized whenever possible.

Holy shit, who knew it would be us. Ever.

We are predators for asking for more equitable trade deals to stop subsidizing other countries?

 

[Mac-7]

My greatest fear is that Trump will do unAmerican things like what he's doing with immigrants and potentially wants to do to Americans. What he's doing to Harvard and PBS.

Yes, I fear he will succeed. Because his success will not be good for me or us. You'll like it though because you think you are one of them. You're like a middle class Russian who likes Putin

What are his successes? You say he has successes. What are they? I mean besides finding out the leaker is of course one of Pete Hegseth's boys.

In another words the lib thundering herd has replaced the hysteria of the man-made global warming DOOMSDAY HOAX that used to drive them with a different end of the world scenario of a trump dictatorship

Whoopee!

 

[g5000]

Powell isn't the bad guy here you know

Trump railed against Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Thursday, saying his "termination cannot come fast enough!” due to Powell refusing to cut interest rates.

Powell warning a day earlier that Trump’s tariffs are going to cause higher inflation and slower growth. The Federal Reserve needs to hold back on cutting rates until it has a better understanding of Trump’s policies, he said.

Trump doesn't understand. He caused inflation the first time he was President and now he wants to do it again? No sir.

You know, it's funny. MAGAs blame Biden for inflation, and ignore the fact Trump kept demanding the Fed lower interest rates during his first go-round.

If the Fed had caved, the subsequent inflation rate would have been much worse.

Now he is demanding lower interest rates again, and the herd just sits there like stupid cows.

 

[Mac-7]

Powell isn't the bad guy here you know

Trump railed against Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Thursday, saying his "termination cannot come fast enough!” due to Powell refusing to cut interest rates.

Powell warning a day earlier that Trump’s tariffs are going to cause higher inflation and slower growth. The Federal Reserve needs to hold back on cutting rates until it has a better understanding of Trump’s policies, he said.

Trump doesn't understand. He caused inflation the first time he was President and now he wants to do it again? No sir.

Trump doesn't understand.

Trump understands that we cant continue growing the government while also growing our budget deficit and trade imbalance with china

The establishment in America is doing pretty well under business as usual and does not want to change

But average Americans are being ground into dust

 

[Mac-7]

Yes, he is succeeding at destroying everyone's retirement fund.

You mean the stock market

When has it ever gone down without rising back up again?

 

[sealybobo]

Trump doesn't understand.

Trump understands that we cant continue growing the government while also growing our budget deficit and trade imbalance with china

The establishment in America is doing pretty well under business as usual and does not want to change

But average Americans are being ground into dust

Yes most of us are doing pretty well under business as usual. Clearly you are not. So you want to burn the whole thing down. Trump will survive that. Will you? And will you even benefit from all this?

It would have been a lot easier to help workers if Trump and Elon just gave their employees a raise.

 

[sealybobo]

You mean the stock market

When has it ever gone down without rising back up again?

What about people who were going to retire next year or the year after that? They now have to wait 2 more years to see that Trump's plan was a hoax?

 

[sealybobo]

You mean the stock market

When has it ever gone down without rising back up again?

Funny when Trump's in charge it's the stock market and only rich people are being hurt by the tanking stock market. When Democrats are in charge it's your 401k.

If the stock market tanks for 2 year and then comes back up that's 2 years I didn't make 15% interest. So it's money I never get back. Stop tanking the stock market so MTG can buy low!

 

[Mac-7]

Funny when Trump's in charge it's the stock market and only rich people are being hurt by the tanking stock market. When Democrats are in charge it's your 401k.

If the stock market tanks for 2 year and then comes back up that's 2 years I didn't make 15% interest. So it's money I never get back. Stop tanking the stock market so MTG can buy low!

I understand that you make less money

Just as workers make less money when their factory job moves to china

But a strong manufacturing base is good for your stock investments in the long run

 

[Mac-7]

What about people who were going to retire next year or the year after that? They now have to wait 2 more years to see that Trump's plan was a hoax?

Thats the risk that the stock market represents

See post #378

 

[sealybobo]

I understand that you make less money

Just as workers make less money when their factory job moves to china

But a strong manufacturing base is good for your stock investments in the long run

Fine bring manufacturing back dummy. Just not like this. This is a cluster fuck.

You guys love to complain about how Biden got us out of Afghanistan. He didn't plan it out. Well this is what Trump's doing. Saying he's doing things to fix things but what he's doing isn't going to fix those things it's just going to break more things.

This is exactly why we said trump should not be president. And this is why we all know Trump can shoot someone on 5th avenue OR tank the economy and won't lose 1 supporter. Because you believe he's going to bring your high paying uneducated blue collar job back home. Yea right.