The TPP is as bad or worse than NAFTA. The President is pushing it hard.

[mick063]

74. All I know is this:

I don't give a crap which foreign nations are pissed, which multinational corporations are damaged, or what the international legal consequences are.

I will relentlessly call for an end to this trade agreement if it is passed. I will work toward a consensus to remove it regardless of the countering "legal speak".

Apparently, we can kill any person, in any nation, without international consequence. We can ground diplomatic flights. We can bug the accommodations of diplomatic allies. We can archive all the foreign social media we desire. We can arm and train foreign extremists. We can torture and detain any foreigner we desire.

We have demonstrated very capable "bully" capacity.

No one, but no one, can convince me that there are detrimental international ramifications for removing this trade agreement. We obviously don't give a shit what the international community or courts thinks of us in a variety of other capacities beyond "trade". In my mind, there is no valid international or legal argument against dropping this trade agreement if passed. We have set much precedence of ignoring foreign objection.


There is no valid argument to say we are "locked in".