Discussion: USDA: We're Giving Farmers $12 Billion For 'Unjustified Retaliation' To Trump Tariffs

Elections have consequences.

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Well I love how “unjustified retaliation” suggests this could not have been foreseen and that any reasonable country would simply let us slap them around and not hit back. It’s a formal suggestion that you believe an absurd thing, like any piece of authoritarian propaganda.

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HE apparently didn’t foresee it because he’s a frigging idiot and always a victim. Who knew people would retaliate?

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Was this invite anything more that Trump’s petulant attempted backlash to having to read that piece of paper stating Russia meddled in the election? “Oh Yeah? I’ll hang out with my good buddy any time I want, right, Vlad? Vlad?!?”

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He always thinks he’s going to be unique in his ability to puff his chest out and scare everyone. And then everyone laughs and ignores him and he’s surprised. Every single time, he’s surprised. Every single god-damn time.

I read it was a kind of do-over—he figured this time everyone would see how awesome he was. He literally cannot learn from anything.

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My son and I disagree on this point: I actually think his base is smarter than he is. And that’s saying something. They live in the real world, at least …

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Never thought I’d see the day that all those high principled, fiscally conservative Republicans would be pushing welfare. Well, the funds will go to the industries not workers. This is just another form of corporate tax cuts, incentives and thank you for your bribes.

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They’re mostly not severely mentally ill, so there’s that.

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Famous last words:

“Mehr Licht.”
– Goethe

“I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.”
– Nathan Hale

“Holy cow, look at all those fucking Indians.”
– George Armstrong Custer

“Trade wars are good and easy to win.”
– Donald J. Trump

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The Republicans are bankrupting the country. Again.

Dems have to start pushing this line. Because if they don’t, they’re going to get blamed for returning the country to solvency, again, once they’re in power.

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OT but I didn’t see this on TPM yet. From DailyKos: The new Quinnipiac Poll has Trump’s approval rating at 38%, with 58% disapproving, a net minus of 20 percentage points. See poll.qu.edu/…

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Welfare!!!

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Grain-ola payola…

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That’s an interesting possibility, but wouldn’t wanting a do-over require some acknowledgement or realization that you didn’t do it awesomely perfect the first time, a concept I can’t quite see this walking mental disorder grapsing? Maybe he feels that if he’s surrounded with more lackeys and less Finns he’ll make a better impression…

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That $12 Billion must be in rubles…

Poll: More than half of Americans think Putin has dirt on Trump

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Exactly - Going to agri-business not Ma and Pa farms

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‘the Confederate States of Trussia’

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The “Hardball” panel is going crazy tonight over Russian hacks into our power grids. That was big news (which was ignored) like a year ago. Where has Mathews and his producers been? The important matters are all being buried by the media’s preoccupation with Trump’s silly daily tweets.

You can’t be conned by a Con Man, if you are pursing the big stories that really count. It’s time to worry about the national security of the country. We are under attack and Putin has planted poison bills all over our infrastructure.

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And the sooner he can align that White Christian Homeland with Russia, the OTHER White Christian Homeland, the better (in their view). Vlad’s a great guy… What could go wrong?

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The other half know for certain.

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