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RB TexLa

(17,003 posts)
Tue May 14, 2019, 12:22 AM May 2019

All so he can show his white trash supporters that


he hates foreigners as much as they do, we have to:

Pay more for goods from China.
Pay more for goods made with Chinese parts.
Suffer through downturns in the market.
Suffer from decreased trade with one of the largest market in the world.

But, as long as he makes sure they know he hates foreigners.
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rusty quoin

(6,133 posts)
1. If we get something like 2008, what will the punk say?
Tue May 14, 2019, 12:31 AM
May 2019

Who can he blame? I’m sure I will be surprised again, by Fox News. They can spin trump eating baby burgers into a good thing.

lapfog_1

(29,166 posts)
2. there were a number of reasons we "gave away" steel and other
Tue May 14, 2019, 12:34 AM
May 2019

manufacturing industries in the 80s and 90s to China.

1. you don't start wars with your trading partners

2. we wanted to improve the standard of living in the countries with enormous populations of poor people. see point 1

3. we wanted to get rid of dirty polluting manufacturing jobs and transition to "clean jobs" in the information economy

we were going to "retrain" those plant assembly line workers to do more white collar jobs... too bad nobody figured out that many of those workers were either too old, not educated enough, or simply not willing to change careers... and that those white collar jobs could move even more easily to lower wage countries than the manufacturing jobs... and those people turned into Trump voters.

Flaleftist

(3,473 posts)
5. Trump got them liberals real good. I tell you what.
Tue May 14, 2019, 12:43 AM
May 2019

They all mad and shit. I may owe more in taxes, pay more for everything I buy and maybe lose my health insurance, my papa is losing his farm, but he sure got dem liberals good. - some dumbass Trump supporter

anarch

(6,535 posts)
10. damn straight! and that's the top priority for some of these assholes
Tue May 14, 2019, 07:04 AM
May 2019

"you know what really pisses liberals off? when you destroy the environment and drive most life on Earth into extinction! They get so upset, it's hilarious...fucking stupid tree-hugging hippie libtards. This is Amerikkka! We're rough and tough and don't take shit from anyone! It's our God-given right as white people to take whatever we want from the planet and exploit it for profit; it's what God tells us to do in the bible--so to hell with these commie 'scientists' and their libtard supporters! Let's destroy the Earth just to get their goat!" etc.

Midnight Writer

(21,540 posts)
7. Trump is also killing our national security. What country will enter an agreement with us now?
Tue May 14, 2019, 02:04 AM
May 2019

I know from prior experience folk here don't believe it, but I think he is deliberately "churning" our markets so big traders make out (while regular buy and holders lose out).

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