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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Twit tweets: "Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking..."
....better off without them. The vast amounts of money made and stolen by China from the United States, year after year, for decades, will and must STOP. Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing..
....your companies HOME and making your products in the USA. I will be responding to Chinas Tariffs this afternoon. This is a GREAT opportunity for the United States. Also, I am ordering all carriers, including Fed Ex, Amazon, UPS and the Post Office, to SEARCH FOR & REFUSE,....
....all deliveries of Fentanyl from China (or anywhere else!). Fentanyl kills 100,000 Americans a year. President Xi said this would stop - it didnt. Our Economy, because of our gains in the last 2 1/2 years, is MUCH larger than that of China. We will keep it that way!
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
JFC!
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Views on this differ, but China does not necessarily need the US, oh, and China owns about $1.2-trillion in US government treasuries and does not seem to want to buy our garbage anymore.
I think that the interdependence between the two countries would be better looked at as mutually beneficial rather than as completely adversarial and antagonistic:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/winternie/2017/02/07/why-china-doesnt-need-the-us-for-trade/
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)That article is prior to the start of the trade war, but this quote might be salient in regards to an overall view of the potential outcome, so I thought I would include it here:
Were Trump to start a trade war, the most immediate effects would probably be felt by companies like Walmart, which import billions of dollars of cheap goods that are bought mostly by the people who voted Trump into office. The prices on almost all of these items would quickly skyrocket beyond the reach of the lower economic bracketsnot because of manufacturing costs, but because of the tariffs. The result would be an economic war of attrition that China is infinitely better positioned to win.
I think that says it all in short form. The tariffs are going to take the cheap out of the goods and that hurts the people who can barely afford them now, the most, and that's only one spear on the wheel of sharp weapons being unleashed by an emboldened dotard who is obviously lost in the woods and pretty much out to lunch.
Putin must really be loving this. Sit back and watch as the economic debacle of a tale told by an idiot unfolds. "Da, Trumpsky! Khoroshiy!"
gelsdorf
(240 posts)Whoa, Nellie
This has just got to end
Merlot
(9,696 posts)If that were so, why not just order Planned Parenthood to stop providing abortions? Stop t-shirt printers from printing democratic themed t-shirts or shirts insulting to POTUS? Drug companies to stop producing fenatyl, and order Doctors to stop prescribing it? Heck, order all golf courses not owned by trumpft to water their greens with gatorade
Somehow, I don't think capitalism will allow the president to order business to shoot themselves in the foot.
nini
(16,670 posts)Thankfully the rest of the world is being very patient with this nightmare, but we're running out of time with the time bomb in the white house.
MontanaMama
(23,242 posts)The MF is busy today.
Bok_Tukalo
(4,322 posts)<OPE>
exboyfil
(17,857 posts)spanone
(135,636 posts)anyone could have predicted what China would do, you stupid shit.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Hey there, House Democrats. I see you're coming back from the August recess next month. I hope you had a restful time, had a chance to recharge the batteries, and are ready to get back to work. There's certainly a lot to do, goodness!
So . . . can we talk?
demmiblue
(36,751 posts)He is going to sink our country.
Kablooie
(18,571 posts)We don't need no stinkin laws when you have an autocrat making decrees.
Eugene
(61,595 posts)superpatriotman
(6,232 posts)Fascist 101
Cosmocat
(14,543 posts)Vlad Putin is lining up the vodka shots with Queen's "We Are the Champions" blaring away ...
Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)What is he trying to do?
dalton99a
(81,073 posts)RainCaster
(10,690 posts)Our pResident has risen to a new high in financial genius.
Wednesdays
(17,249 posts)And hath decreed upon His subjects.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,698 posts)Take that, Spanky!
Yavin4
(35,357 posts)Just asking.
pnwest
(3,265 posts)Ivanka darling?
eShirl
(18,466 posts)Quackers
(2,256 posts)Temper tantrums and all.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Unbelievable that a POTUS says this.
https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/dow-jones-industrial-average-jerome-powell-speech-51566570992
demmiblue
(36,751 posts)Link to tweet
Maraya1969
(22,441 posts)Johnny2X2X
(18,745 posts)Trump can't order companies to do anything unless the government issues an embargo.
He is losing it and might just be bailing out and giving up.
C_U_L8R
(44,897 posts)this idiot wouldn't last in office through the weekend.
WTF??
jcgoldie
(11,584 posts)You are hereby ordered!
boston bean
(36,186 posts)yonder
(9,631 posts)The (ass)Hat has Spoken
bullwinkle428
(20,627 posts)spanone
(135,636 posts)shut the fuck up, donnie.
Initech
(99,915 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)JDC
(10,084 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Not just insane, but really dangerous.