Yep - pay and they’ll let you play.
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Anyone else notice that the USA is currently running a trade SURPLUS with Canada, the biggest importer of steel to the USA, and has been for many years. China on the other hand imports 3% of steel used in the USA compared to Taiwan at 4%. So I must ask, if it is not to please Vladimir Putin, why does Trump want to start a trade war with a nation from which we export more than we import?
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Because trade wars are fun and easy to win.
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There’s nothing quite like a well thought out, considered, coordinated, consensus plan.
And this:
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told CNBC. “We’re not trying to blow up the world.”
That’s good, Wilbur. Because…that would be a nuclear war, not a trade war. That would be in General Mattis’s job responsibilities. But I’m glad you’re thinking.
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“He’s already indicated a degree of flexibility, I think a very sensible, very balanced degree of flexibility.”
Stormy Daniels: “Um, I didn’t notice any flexibility.”
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Stormy Daniels: “Um, I didn’t notice any flexibility.”
[/quote]I think what she noticed was flacidity.
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White House quickly walks back everything. Then will place blame on ex president Obama for creating “it” originally. Republicans will create a probe and beat a sufficiently dead horse with it.
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You had this backwards. “He’s pushing rope!”
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25% chance that trump devoted 10% of his “office hours” to the tariffs. What a cluster.
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I laughed at Maddow’s comment , the Wilbur Ross who’s been known to “fall asleep in meetings”. The world could blow up and he’d be snoozing away.
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Off-topic: I abhor Chuck Todd. Caught the last minute or his show waiting for Ari Melber’s show.
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What I love is the “spare” - because he still thinks he’s on a fucking television show and he’s going to give the contestant ONE MORE CHANCE to win. This is about one thing and one thing only: attention directed only at Trump, all day every day. The fact that it might help the fat-ass white guy running in PA was, I’m sure, simply coincidental.
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The Art of the Deal was written by Tony Schwartz and Tony Schwartz alone. He’s since revealed PP’s inability to focus, understand what’s being discussed and he’s revealed he has the attention span of a gnat.
And now the hotels don’t want his name, his brand, on many of these hotels. It degrades the value of the property.
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You are one of our top 5 favorite commenters i.d. - but I fear I will bring down the wrath of many, when I say that I don’t think the tariffs are a bad thing.
(scurries away to safe distance)
He’s the bass-ackwards evil-side sheriff
Wearing his big shiny badge, he don’t care if
This upsets trade balance.
It’s his econo-dalliance
'Cause the base of his base supports tariffs.
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is this really true? I know it happened in canada - but isn’t there a property in india still ?
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Without a lot of Googling I can’t fill in the details, but there are properties in NYC including hotels and apartment buildings which demanded the trump name be removed and they were. Panama’s the latest.
I’m not feeling wrathful, but I will direct you to what Paul Krugman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008 said about tariffs.
the idea that a trade war would be “good” and “easy to win” is surpassingly stupid. And the way Trump seems to be starting his war is also remarkably stupid: start by protecting goods that are inputs to industries that employ far more people than those being protected? Do so in the name of national security — a justification that is, for good reason, almost never invoked — when the biggest source of those inputs is that hostile foreign power Canada?
In themselves, these tariffs aren’t that big a deal. But if they’re a sign of what future policy is going to look like, they’re really, really bad.
@irasdad With apologies to anyone who might be offended by the image of a man who needs to reminded he’s the 45th president by embossing the number on his sleeve.
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