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Polds4OSU
Marshall
Welp in 4 months in office, Trump has had Russian State TV hail him as an Ally and call for Statues in his honor be built in Russa and Now Chinese people joke that Mr. Trump is a patriotic son of China who is diligently advancing Chinese interests by causing chaos in the United States.
'Comrade Trump': President's punishment of China backfires as Chinese workers hail him as hero
The 245 percent tariffs President Donald Trump put on China are “unlikely to achieve his goal of returning manufacturing jobs to the United States,” wrote Dr. Moira Weigel in a New York Times guest essay Thursday.
And instead, they're earning him praise for championing the nation.
The Harvard University assistant professor trained as a merchant a year ago in an Amazon center in Hangzhou — and she's hearing praise from the people she met there.
They believe the tariffs “will force Americans to pay more for the same prosaic goods they’ve always gotten from Amazon," she wrote.
"They will also push the Chinese Amazon ecosystem to broaden its horizons and, in doing so, strengthen China’s economic power throughout the world.”
Weigel penned that Amazon, where a lot of Americans purchase things, “is as much a Chinese company as an American one.” This is because “more than half of [Amazon’s] top sellers are in China, and the fees these third-party sellers pay to use Amazon’s marketplace are one of its largest sources of revenue.”
She noted other experts “dismiss the idea that the tariffs will help bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States.”
The author added, “the tariffs create a strong incentive for Chinese sellers to try to sell their goods elsewhere,” something Weigel claims the Chinese government has been “calling on businesses to do.”
“In China, one of many nicknames for President Trump is Chuan Jianguo. ‘Trump the Nation Builder,’” Weigel recalled of her most recent trip to China. “My best translation is ‘Comrade Trump.’ The joke is that Mr. Trump is a patriotic son of China who is diligently advancing Chinese interests by causing chaos in the United States.
“So perhaps it makes sense that so many merchants seem to admire Mr. Trump as a businessman, if not as a leader.”
However, another Chinese source told the author they believe, “the fondness for Mr. Trump is mostly a joke. But many share a sense that, however painful they may be in the short term, the tariffs will eventually spur China to assume its rightful place as the world’s leader and the beacon of a new phase of globalization that’s no longer centered on America.”
Harvard professor saying Trump is messing things up. I can see her getting deported and I'm only half joking when I say that. It's only a matter of time before US born political dissidents start disappearing.
I am well aware of what Seb Gorka said.Top Trump administration official Seb Gorka said those demanding due process for a wrongly deported Maryland dad might themselves be accused of “aiding and abetting criminals and terrorists.”
The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) on Threads
Top Trump administration official Seb Gorka said those demanding due process for a wrongly deported Maryland dad might themselves be accused of “aiding and abetting criminals and terrorists.”www.threads.net
He can *&^% right off back to Hungaria as far as I'm concerned.
Polds4OSU
Marshall
Imagine that.
Libertarians calling for the impeachment of an authoritarian fascistic President and his administration.
Like any actual libertarian would do instead of making excuses and dismissing such things as extremely partisan panic.
What makes a libertarian is their commitment to civil liberties and anti authoritarianism. Anything else is revisionism by someone who is not libertarian. There are an awful lot of fakes these days.
Jesus effing Christ. You really do have orange all over your lips.
JTOSU
Ranger
Maybe the best take admitting being clueless about American ideology and political parties.
* Lots of Dems are for tax cuts, pro-life, and pro gun. Currently, Dems can’t come to a consensus on what a woman is.
* Lots of GOP are pro-choice, pro public education, and more liberal immigration. Currently, GOP can’t figure out if they are hawkish or isolationists.
Show me one person that strongly believes and defends everything on a political platform and 90%+ you will find someone that cannot stand up for their own beliefs.
BTW, Ted Brown who is a leader of Libertarians of Travis County stated he was for illegal immigration during a speech last year. I do not support that at all.
I strongly support legal immigration. My dad and FIL are proud immigrants and did it legally.
Brown is also against REAL ID. I support it. Someone truly valuing liberty, IMO, should understand needs of national security and personal safety.
Edit: You will have to point me to where I said citizens should not get due process or that I support authoritarians at all.
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mugatu
Sheriff
With this being the case what are your thoughts on deporting people who have done it legally, and making it nearly impossible to do legally?
My wife is a legal immigrant with citizenship through naturalization of her mother. The administration ignoring citizenship of certain immigrants and even US born and treating some like they aren't people is starting to hit closer to home for me and my family. How long until they decide she's not a citizen anymore and they brake up my family and send her to a non-friendly country she hasn't been to in 20 years and would be at danger in?
JTOSU
Ranger
I don’t think we should send any legal citizens to another country. That is plain wrong.
Edit: Addtional info, my dad’s sister still lives in South America. My niece want to a small college near KC ona tennis scholarship. After college she was threatened with deportation and they kept her from getting a work visa after graduation. She legitimately had a long term US born boyfriend and had to move up her wedding date. That was during Biden administration.
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Ok, so what should happen when we do that and then refuse to bring them back? What should the repercussions be?
If this isn't something every single American can agree on, we've already lost.
The irony of this post is that I was referring to /r/goldandblack which is a self-styled "libertarian" subreddit that doesn't have a single thread up regarding due process for immigrants/green card holders/citizens at all. Multiple days later. It is a bunch of social conservatives that don't like the label. It wasn't directed at you.
Then you responded by making a near complete case that you are indeed not a libertarian as you support authoritarian and unconstitutional measures. All I can say is, I rest my case.
JTOSU
Ranger
I let you answer that. I don’t think that is going to happen. Yes I heard the comment from Trump, but again he says a lot of dumb stuff.
We unfortunately still have many US citizens being held by other countries.
But we should never allow US citizens to be sent to a foreign jail.
If one doesn't support due process for non-citizens, then that person does not support due process for citizens. All one has to do is to say that "this person isn't a citizen" and ship them off. There is no hearing where one can demonstrate citizenship.
JTOSU
Ranger
This will be my last response as you clearly cannot comprehend and are becoming another zzz’s bro.
I never stated I support of authoritarian items or unconstitutional measures. It is easy to search. Post it here.
He's done everything he's said he would do. How is this different?
mugatu
Sheriff
The challenge is you almost never speak against the things you are saying here that you don't support. But you are very vocal to support certain actions that are being taken, some are at best borderline unconstitutional. The closest to not showing support is when you make statements about wanting to wait for more info when some things come to light.
When someone only shows support for Trump, and shows that support strongly, it becomes very hard to believe that person don't support everything that is happening.
If you start periodically showing some points of disagreement abd unhappiness with him and things he is doing you'll stop getting told you are a red hatted MAGA.
OK, fair. Did a congressman fly to Russia on the taxpayer's dime to secure the release of Brittney Griner?
Stargazer
New member
Says the preacher guy who doesn't pay taxes.
Both political parties need to be flushed down the toilet... right where they belong. This country has become the laughingstock of the world.
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