Can we add “Broke off diplomatic partnerships with countries that were close allies for decades”?
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I’m just trying to figure out what’s up with Haley’s resignation.
I’d be with you on the Korean thing, and I imagine eventually the space thing will be useful. I would even agree on the border control thing though I think their methods could use some work.
Lower taxes however just seems like a way for Republicans to break the government and claim it’s ineffective so they can funnel that money towards private interests/companies. Taxes are already historically low anyway and super low taxes makes people FEEL good but ultimately screws them over because then they don’t get anything for the taxes they DO pay.
I’d also argue that the barometers we usually use to determine whether the economy is strong or weak are largely based on FEELINGS which means that it really isn’t based on anything tangible and that the people responsible for those feelings could have them at any time. People running a lot of companies know Trump is one of them which is why they feel good about the economy.
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Liberals say immigration enforcement is racist, but the group most likely to benefit from it is black men
Claims that immigration enforcement equals racism ignore the reality that the group most likely to benefit from a tougher approach to immigration enforcement is young black men, who often compete with recent immigrants for low-skilled jobs.
In trade or military occupancy?
That op-ed uses a paper where the following is quoted:
“immigrants have been cited as proof that African Americans lack the pluck and determination that have allowed millions of immigrants from Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean to pursue the American dream”
This is not saying that the slant towards the other end is invalid, but what’s keeping this group in the “last hired” category is the bigger question. How is the POTUS and his cabinet putting policies in place that can create a better opportunity. If it’s America first, let’s start there.
More like the economy has absolutely zero basis in real currency anymore, and it is whatever the bankers say it is, backed by whatever global social turmoil and/or prosperity they are affecting to effect their phantasmal grasp’s belief-based literal grasp upon actuality, if not reality.
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- citation needed
International trade is extremely complex. The fact that America currently has no international trade strategy whatsofuckingever is not helping the country long term nor short term. Yelling about “u r mean” and pissing people off and confusing allies and enemies alike gets us what exactly? Any trade deal, even the renamed NAFTA, is about give and take. Very few if any deals are one-sided: both parties are getting something out of it.
Again, highly placed peoples inside and outside the country don’t understand what’s going on nor how to rationally deal with long-term trade strategy with the United States. This is echoed by the … Chinese minister of trade or whomever the fuck he is that said about the same thing in interviews two weeks ago.
This is politics for morons. This is international trade strategy by morons.
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It’s pretty simple, Trump is trying to prevent China from taking over. Chinese firms are stealing American IP and they have a huge manufacturing base. Pretty soon US won’t be able to compete at all.
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By building up better relations with our trading partners by withdrawing from international trade deals and planetarily critical treaties? The old “win by not playing” chestnut?
I’m unclear how Trump’s approach is manifestly different than previous administrations beyond claiming everything is a problem due to “national security” and tearing up previously negotiated agreements and deals. The maverick approach seems dubious when his own Republican advisors think he’s an idiot. The maverick approach seems dubious when people inside the country and out are unable to make any long-term plans.
It’s pretty simple
The Dunning-Kruger effect in action. These are delightfully complicated areas.
I’m curious what happens to Trump’s stans when things go bad. Ford’s layoffs and the incoming effects of tariffs? Realizing the economic growth is isolated out to the already rich? Market bubble bursting and the crazed tax cut biting us in the ass? Let’s cut taxes some more wooo.
Oh the irony.
Why should I trust the so-called experts? Have any of them accurately predicted anything ever?
Most actual experts will couch their language is such a fashion that you understand that they are indicating that “this is a thing they think might happen but you would have to be thick to think that anything in life is a guarantee”.
But yes, your statement there is further demonstration of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Two of Trump’s appointees can’t come to an agreement on immigration:
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BTW I was not implying foreign policy as a whole was simple, rather Trumps aims are simple. Step up your reading comprehension numbnuts.
Sessions making marijuana again a boogeyman and all those immigranta detained have grown the prison population not to mention those separated children
Also we were never going to be nuked by north korea.
The cease fire and peace talks was pushed forward because south korea hated that trump kept trying to goad nk into a war while sk had decades of peace talks
They did bond over how stupid trump is. But really
So then what you post is true
So that shirtless twig on yourube is the gospe
In most cases they have advanced degrees, experience, or application of theory that goes well beyond what can be found in a Google search. To your second point it depends on what you are referring to. Here’s a report by USA Today that compared what the CBO model of the enrollment of the Affordable Care Act and what actually happened:
If you are referring to weather, meteorologists have decades worth of data on weather patterns to construct models for hurricane tracking.
In all honesty, these reduction in tax revenue won’t work if the government keeps spending at the rate that it is. That’s honestly an equation that’s grade school level.
These tariffs sound nice, but if the cost of manufacturing increases, then the cost of products will increase and potentially have less options as consumers. Will the economy still be good if consumers have to pay more? We’ll just have to wait and see as all statistical models have the possibility of being wrong.
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Money money money…money.
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This shouldn’t surprise anyone. Trump is a moral relativist who has no code of beliefs other than enriching himself and his buddies. He was willing to backtrack on beliefs he claimed to have held for decades in order to run as a Republican. Plus the guy in question was a journalist, so I imagine he cheered silently to himself when the Saudis did this.
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