Yo, free market wankers. Fap to THIS!

Your POTUS, folks.

How you feeling about those SC seats these days, Pally?

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/08/cnbc-panel-loses-their-cool-blames-trump

Attempted Federal seizure of corporate control.

When does the revolution start?

Didn't he also order the left to not be so crazy.


But good for him for finally caring enough about a greater mass murder in the US over past few years than a century of mass shootings and terrorist attacks combined. All thanks to China's exports of fentanyl that end up in US, which Xi could stop within a week. This obnoxious fucker actually took what he had to know would be a hit to the DOW over a point of principle. Mind boggling.

He's got a habit of thinking problems exist that are just in his fucking head.

That one's also in yours, but I'm not gonna begrudge either of you some company.

Still better odds of not ending up spreaded wide open than voting for him.

Right, because all the past promises of what would happen if Trump ever became president make the nutjobs sound so credible this time.

You guys have a real good bead on reality.

I am pretty sure we already had that challenge to protest hillary. Nice try, but dems are not as stupid as you MAGAts.

Annnnd back in reality everyone will continue to do business with China if they want to because lame Presidential declarations on Twitter aren't exactly binding

True. Imagine if he had made that promise in all 57 states...

Look.
I know you don't stand for anything.
You know you don't stand for anything.
You know I know you don't stand for anything.
I know you know I know you don't stand for anything.
The rest of us all know you don't stand for anything.
You know the rest know you don't stand for anything.
You're not the least bit ashamed to not stand for anything.
So why play these stupid games?
You're not gaining anything with the lie.
You're not fooling anyone.
You're not getting a one-up on anyone.
Trump's power isn't rubbing off on you by pretending to be in his club.
He doesn't give a shit about you.
You know this.
Why the facade?
Is it because you've put on the show so long, you don't know who you'd be without it?
Are you a stack of masks hiding something long dead?
Why the hell not just stop it?
Just stop.
Just goddamned stop it.
Sokar did his bullshit literally to the death.
You don't have to be like him.
Just stop it.
Just.
Stop.

Lol Trump is brain damaged

That whole press conference was just bizarre.

What Trump press conference is NOT bizarre?

Actually, I made a mistake. The "ordering" of US firms to get out of China was part of a tweet storm...not a presser.

Yeah, as as we were saying in the Mulan thread, perhaps it's about time the US put principle before money, vis a vis China.

But it would be nice if Trump actually had a sound strategy for doing that, rather than throwing up tariffs haphazardly and being a whiny bitch on Twitter.

Remember TPP?

I don't agree TPP was the way, but agree with all the rest of what you said. TPP, imo, was just another kick of the can. An appropriate move, perhaps, fifteen years ago.

When your counterpart is willing to cheat and holds you in contempt with no regard for your resolve, and a multilateral approach too burdensome to achieve any material results (comply or face punishment, etc.) then perhaps a 'bull(shitter) in the china shop' is the only approach available.

Trump has no authority to issue such an order, so it will likely be ignored.

And I don't know if this is by design that the trade war heating up coincides with the demonstrations in Hong Kong, but, if we play this right, we might be able to put China jn a real pickle.

A couple of months ago even before Trump stepped up the fight and before China said they'd be adding tariffs, the pressure of a (tariff-ready) loudmouth president already nudged some things in the same direction.

same rule applies

If Obama or Hillary had issued an "order" like this, you'd have a decent percentage of RightForge shitting blood and ranting about "tyranny" and "watering the tree of liberty."

I wonder what's different about this situation.

Crooksandliars.com. The ultimate guide to left wing lunacy.

But then that would probably be an exceptional event, not just another day in August. Not that I agree with the reactions you predicted.

Once you reach "worse than Hitler" what worse is there? Worse than worse than Hitler? Worse than Hitler's mom? His doctor? Do we switch to the Commies?

What imaginary people are you talking to?
Are we supposed to be answering for some kooks you've got in a tab opened to Reddit or something?
Close your extra tabs, and focus.

Have you met our president? He is a guy who's strategy was so bad he lost as the house in a casino where the odds are dramatically stacked in his favor. If you know Atlantic city odds, they are the worst for the player and favor the house so much more than anywhere else in america. I am not sure about foreign casino odds, but AC is a huge rip off for gamblers and that is where he lost as owner of casinos. That is actually difficult to do.

This man who has a losing strategy where you are statistically able to stack the deck on your favor is now playing a strategy game with people who know what the fuck they are doing. We are going to get whomped big time, and it is your fault for putting that dipshit in the lead and defending him. The only thing that is saving us from being destroyed is we are way overpowered anyway. That does not mean we cannot take a beating.

Oh, like you have a grading system beyond "left".

But he did tweet it.



One wonders if he's going to continue to have his things made there, or if he's going to have production moved to a country like Bangladesh where labor is even cheaper than in China. (Not to mention the lower safety regulations.)

So they react the same way about hillary mailing selfies to her daughter as they would about Obama making an order to private companies to follow his will. Them some fucked up people.