Politics Thread

[GoMuskies]

This whole thing is kind of weird. Trump just spent his inaugural speech trashing the Biden administration, and now here they are exchanging pleasntries on the Capitol steps. Trump and Emhoff are slapping backs like old pals. Kamala and Emhoff now are driving away in a limo that looks like a hurse (kind of appropriate, I guess). And Trump walks the Bidens to the helicopter which will whisk the Bidens away to who knows where. And they all hug it out.

Now get to the Oval and do some work. He's got insane executive orders to sign for God's sake!

[Xville]

This whole thing is kind of weird. Trump just spent his inaugural speech trashing the Biden administration, and now here they are exchanging pleasntries on the Capitol steps. Trump and Emhoff are slapping backs like old pals. Kamala and Emhoff now are driving away in a limo that looks like a hurse (kind of appropriate, I guess). And Trump walks the Bidens to the helicopter which will whisk the Bidens away to who knows where. And they all hug it out.

Now get to the Oval and do some work. He's got insane executive orders to sign for God's sake!

Basically our politics in a nutshell. Publicly act like they don’t like each other but privately probably besties that hang out on the weekend patting each others butts knowing they are the ones in power. most of America are complete suckers for thinking otherwise.

[GoMuskies]

Time for Karoline Leavitt to become way more famous that she probably wants to be!

[paulxu]

You'd think one of his oligarch buddies would explain to him that foreign countries don't pay the tariffs he's thinking of imposing on them.

It's really not all that hard.

[XU_Lou]

You'd think one of his oligarch buddies would explain to him that foreign countries don't pay the tariffs he's thinking of imposing on them..

"oligarch buddies?" Ever hear of George Soros, etc., etc...?

"explain to him that foreign countries don't pay the tariffs" Do you mean this in the same way corporations don't pay taxes?

Ever hear of "art of the deal"?

Ever hear of fair trade?


Well, you got one thing right:

It's really not all that hard.

[Xville]

You'd think one of his oligarch buddies would explain to him that foreign countries don't pay the tariffs he's thinking of imposing on them.

It's really not all that hard.

Tell me you don’t know how leverage and negotiation works without telling me you don’t know how leverage and negotiation works. I assume you’ve never sold a thing in your life and won.

[paulxu]

Well, this is certainly a guy you wouldn't want to take his word on something.
And of the course the tariffs in his first administration were "leverage and negotiation?"
Which caused retaliatory tariffs from other nations...which caused us to increase farm subsidies by 12 billion to offset those tariffs.

Don't be so easily duped.

A May 2019 analysis conducted by CNBC found Trump's tariffs are equivalent to one of the largest tax increases in the U.S. in decades.[20][21][22] Studies have found that Trump's tariffs reduced real income in the United States, as well as adversely affecting U.S. GDP.[23][24][25] Some studies also concluded that the tariffs adversely affected Republican candidates in elections.

[Xville]

Well, this is certainly a guy you wouldn't want to take his word on something.
And of the course the tariffs in his first administration were "leverage and negotiation?"
Which caused retaliatory tariffs from other nations...which caused us to increase farm subsidies by 12 billion to offset those tariffs.

Don't be so easily duped.

If they were so awful, Why did your savior extend them and even increase them for China? Don’t be so easily manipulated. It’s a negotiation tactic and if they were so awful why was inflation so low during trumps first terms before Covid?

[Xville]

Gotta love Jeff bezos’ new wife dressing like she’s about to do an OF scene in the rotunda

[paulxu]

If they were so awful, Why did your savior extend them and even increase them for China? Don’t be so easily manipulated

You think that makes them OK? You think that means the country will pay for them not the consumer?