Discussion: Trump Going Ahead With Tariffs On $16B In Chinese Imports

The man is the dumbest guy on the planet. He actually said that when the government collects all these new tariffs we will approach no debt. Our debt is now 3 trillion dollars, and the government’s income from tariffs constitutes 1% of all federal income.

I guess he imagines he can collect three thousand billion million dollars in tariffs just like that.

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And President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on virtually everything China sells to the United States.

Knock, knock. Hello? Congress? How do you feel about Trump declaring absolutely everything to be a matter of national security? When do you plan to retake your authority to establish taxes?

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I guess that trade war is proving to be a little tougher than tRump thought…

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Pres. Dunning-Kruger thinks he’s winning it.

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The world’s two biggest economies are locked in a trade dispute over

Screw you AP. And the horse with both asses you rode in on.
This is the result of one person being a traitor, and a moran.
Fuck this is maddening.

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China -US …“locked in a trade dispute over Washington’s charges that China uses predatory tactics in a drive to supplant U.S. technological supremacy.”

Nooooo…that’s what it should be about, but that’s NOT what Trump is talking about…,mindless babble is all Trump and his advisors are capable of.

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The idea that this dispute involves Trump talking in complete multi syllable word sentences that make legitimate economic arguments is total nonsense.

There is no dispute just his rambling nonsensical attacks and trade threats

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Coming Soon: The Red State Assistance Act.

Paid for by the blue states…

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Good afternoon, Walmart shoppers. If you’ll look at your receipt carefully you’ll notice that, in addition to half the crappy products we no longer carry, you’re paying 15% more for the crappy products we still sell.

And thank you for shopping at Walmart, home of the formerly “Always Lower Prices.™”

After receiving public feedback, it cut 515 products

Among those products likely not subject to tariffs are Ivankatoinette-branded products, including baby blankets, perfume, makeup, bowls, mirrors, furniture, books, coffee, chocolate, honey and, of course, coffins.

I don’t know if the tariffs have been lifted on Agolf-branded crap but I can guess.

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Reliable as ever…

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Mo’ taxes.

How many trillions are we owing now?

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Don’t forget the Ivanka holiday centerpiece

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You know if trumpp loses the Wallyworld vote, it’s Game Over, Man!

Eta; Could be the ultimate deciding factors in the next few cycles are:

  1. Jailing Children!
  2. “What tax cut?”
  3. “He took away my cheap Chinese shit!”
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What?? And start voting again – on the record – thereby exposing myself to the dangers of alienating some of the people who voted for me based on my very best impression of vanilla pudding?

If votes were secret (i.e. if every congressperson had plausible deniability for 100% of their actions taken while in office), then you would absolutely see congress fighting tooth and nail for every scrap of power due a “co-equal branch” of government. Mitch McConnell would be locked in a death grip with each president as they fought over who wields the real power in DC. But votes aren’t secret.

See also: why nominees for the Supreme Court basically stonewall from dawn to dusk during their confirmation hearings.


You just became one of the most important and pampered people in Western civilization. You got here by winning a gruelling and ludicrously expensive slugfest slash death-march slash private auction, and in the end your lead was a fraction of a percentage point. And the real kicker is that even after swimming through that ocean of green and red, almost none of the people you’ve been shouting at every day gave enough of a shit to bother voting for or against you – and so you have zero idea why slightly more of them went your way. But now you’re here, and the gig is pretty great. Are you really going to risk losing it all by doing something that could cause some of those inscrutable people – inexplicably – to form a negative opinion of you? If you could, you’d wear a paper bag over your head just to rule out the possibility that someone might dislike your face enough to vote against you next time.

Or, put another way: your favorite TV show just started and you finally got a clear picture – are you really going to try moving the rabbit ears now? Or are you going to plant your ass on the couch and count your blessings?

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He will surrender unconditionally just before mid-terms and declare it a massive victory. FOX and media will follow and his supporters will believe it. His goal is to drive voters to polls.

That act has been in effect for quite some time…

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from the archives
LENINGRAD 1941 {AP} Hitler’s victorious forces converged on Leningrad to take the city from the Communists. The leader of the attacking force, Ritter Von Leeb stated that his troops enjoyed snow, as it reminded them of their youth in the fatherland in the winter. The Field Marshall stated they would conquer and be home soon to celebrate Christmas. Many soldiers like celebrating Christmas with their families.

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That is some solid Fourth Estate work right there.

In other news:

LONDON 2018 {AP} Satan’s army of 110 billion demons has reached the Atlantic Ocean after killing every living person in Asia, Africa, and Europe, according to a final report radioed from London. “I claim all your lives. I am coming,” said the dark lord in a statement delivered through an albino child who was briefly possessed by a demon around midnight Sunday morning in New York City. Blood then flowed from the child’s orifices and fingernails until he collapsed dead. Satan appeared suddenly and without warning on Thursday, and immediately brought forth the entire army of the damned. Albinism is a congenital condition affecting the pigment of the skin, eyes, and hair, according to online sources.

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China now buys more Soybeans from Russia than the United States. But those Midwest
Farmers will stick with the Orange Rectum right up to the foreclosure sales!!

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