No kidding! I don’t get their silence at all.
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The president has made it very hard for other countries to give him what he wants.
Sick of winning.
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Get ready for higher unemployment, lower earnings and wages, business closures, punishing price/earnings drops for our farmers, and a general decline in our standard of living, except for the very wealthy of course.
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“We will have the most beautiful Trade War and get Mexico to pay for it.”
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Welp perfect record of fuckups - one after another. The idiot monster can’t get anything right and never will.
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The Deplorables will likely only turn against their Lord and Master Trump when the cost of goods at Walmart skyrockets…and that’s coming soon.
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Yeah it really is. He is going to cripple this country’s trade.
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Matt Bevin doesn’t know Kentucky bourbon is exported to…anywhere.
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The rest of the world also needs to keep the tariffs focused so that they cause the most harm to people and industries in the geographic areas that voted for Trump. Its the only way his base will rethink their support.
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This raises a question that, so far, I haven’t seen anyone addressing. What benefits would a raging set of American trade wars bring to Russia? So many of our actions these days are working to Russia’s benefit, I have to assume that the trade actions will as well. I hope someone here at TPM is looking into those effects.
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In the picture, is gov Bevin drinking…champagne?
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I get what Trump is trying to accomplish. He wants to give US industries a boost. Over the last 40 years we have drifted into a consumer economy focused on finance. We have moved away from manufacture. A lot of Trump’s base used to work in manufacturing and a consumer society that is totally tied to the financial industry can easily find itself the victim of other countries that make things.
All that said, a trade war with the rest of the world doesn’t move us far enough, fast enough to head off a really nasty economy depression. There are probably other, better ways to promote growth in manufacturing that haven’t occurred to this administration.
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trump pee pee in stemware.
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In slow motion.
And about to speed up shortly.
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I was given a gift last night of something I have never heard of before, French Vodka.
As soon as Happy Hour arrives I’m going to try it by chilling it with crystal clear ice and pour it into my most impressive martini stemware. I’ll toast the Statue of Liberty and Macron’s hits on trump and a big fat fuck you for Vlad.
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You think possibly they’re trying to mitigate the disaster privately? I don’t understand it either. Are they as bad as Trump’s idiot supporters, they just hate Democrats that much?
@ncgirl741 too
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He just loves to destroy things - alliances, economies, trade agreements, anything, just for the sake of destruction. After all, it is far easier to destroy than to build, especially if you are incapable of building anything other than a scam. Being an incompetent failure and serving Russian control interests also helps motivate this destruction
The fall out will be interesting and important. If, over there next 4-5 months, inflation increases substantially, factory closures and unemployment rise, farm failures skyrocket, then maybe the Blue Wave will really be a tsunami. The ONLY thing Lying Con Man Traitor Trump had going for him was the economy. Now that he is on the path of economic mass murder, even the soya bean famers in the Midwest will vote Democratic. WOW!!
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But those profits may not be so easy to get now. Then what will the RepublaThug donors do???
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Was it Froggy B? It’s quite nice but I haven’t found it anywhere up in teh Northeast.
Bourbon is an $8.5 billion industry in Kentucky, although I am not sure that number incorporates the tens of thousands of tourists from all over the world who take the Bourbon Trail every year.
Coal is barely a third of that: $2.8 billion at best, and that’s almost certainly an exaggeration for a decomposing corpse of an “industry.”
Coal employs 6,438 people in Kentucky and fewer every year. Bourbon employs 17,500 and is booming.
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