Trump... Epitome of alpha.

[speed dawg]

Do you care to elaborate on your denial that Trump is weakening international alliances? Those alliances are what has kept peace with Russia since WW2, by serving as a check on Russia's power. So when our president, who is, to use your wording, IGNORANT, MISINFORMED, (and) DELUSIONAL insults NATO, the UK, and Germany all in one trip, while kissing Putin's ass on an international stage, how does that not all serve the interests of Russia?

The last I checked, the commies are the bad guys. And a president who hands over his country to them is a traitor. This is how military coups happen - the president is a traitor to his country and his generals forcefully remove him from office, while we still have a country left. It has never happened in the US, but there is a first time for everything.

It's been easy to hold Russia down the past few decades, they weakened themselves with all their socialism. Now, Putin's in charge, and he has balls, and Russia is rising. Got nothing to do with us.

LOL at "handing over our country to them". Another LOL at "kissing Putin's ass". That's not what I saw. He's simply trying to establish a good relationship with them. Trump is the first president in years that Putin actually respects.

NATO has become the liberal, and Russia is the one rising in strength. Talk about irony. Liberalism ruins everything.

Bible_Belt....sorry man, but I think you've just decided to be on the other side. You're not very open-minded at the moment.

 

[speed dawg]

Tariffs are ultimately paid by the consumer, just like any other tax. And taxing a business until it dies, for the greater good of course, sounds a lot like socialism to me.


https://www.stltoday.com/news/local...cle_4b231618-f068-541f-8d79-d0e95c39c419.html
In southeast Missouri's Trump Country, a manufacturer wrestles with the negative side of Trump's tariffs

....Within a few weeks of the start of the tariffs, sales had fallen by 50 percent. Company officials say much of its lost business went to cheaper imported Chinese nails.

“It’s chaotic, and there’s some incompetence involved” in how the tariffs have been implemented, McCaskill told company officials as she toured the plant. “They’re chasing your customers into China’s arms.”

Its profits falling, Mid Continent laid off 60 workers in mid-June. It publicly warned that another 200 of its roughly 500 total employees could go by the end of July. And it opened the possibility of folding completely if something didn’t change.

The company is asking the Commerce Department for an exemption to the tariffs for its supplier, but so are thousands of other companies. Barring that, it says, the plant might relocate to Mexico to escape the effects of the tariffs.

Backwards logic.

The tariffs are intended to weaken just this sort of thing. They've been counting their profits all this time, while using cheap Chinese garbage materials, like many other companies. Now, just like everyone else, they have a decision to make. They can make a better product, or move their product to Mexico and continue to make the crappy product. This McCaskill person is pressing the panic/fear button like so many others. Buy from American companies, it's that simple. Prices will go up temporarily, until some competition emerges, then they will stabilize.

Again, good change always prompts some bad before the longer period of good. I'm seeing this in my business too. It's temporary. Will be better in the long run.

 

[speed dawg]

In the market, one does now "allow," or forbid (its opposite). If you open a lemonade stand, you compete with the lemonade stand down the street. Unless you're more interested in Stalinist, state-induced strongarm tactics. Which then makes your question ironic, since the tactics are as socialist as the countries with which you're competing.

Other countries are doing it, basically because they can, because Americans want cheap crap.

So then, the question really is, do you favor Stalinist intervention when things don't go your way, or are you willing to give competition a go? Because everything has a cost. If you don't have an answer for cost, you should not be in business.

Some government intervention is OK and is needed. Trump is trying to simply even the playing field.

What will happen, is the cheapest of the cheap will still be made overseas. What we need to keep here, is the higher end stuff that requires a higher skilled worker.

 

[Bible_Belt]

Just because everything at Wal-Mart is made in China, people think that means the US doesn't export anything. We are in fact a huge exporter of goods, but most of them are raw materials and agricultural products. I live in farm country. The three crops here are corn, soybeans, and some wheat. The soybeans go almost entirely to China, much of the wheat is exported around the world as well. The corn gets fed to hogs and cattle to produce meat, which largely goes to....drum roll please....China and other foreign countries.

American farmers will be the first ones taking it on the chin due to Trump's ignorant trade policies. This country is not an island. If we seal ourselves off from the rest of the world, we'll start a new dark age and fall behind other countries, leaving us vulnerable to collapse or invasion.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/30/tys...ghts-trade-policies-for-gloomier-outlook.html
Tyson shares dive 7% after the company cuts profit outlook because of tariffs

 

[Bible_Belt]

Trump killing farm profits with his ignorance is not a change of subject. Great Leader opens his mouth and soybean prices drop 20%, corn is down 15-20% and that is just the immediate drop. It's going to get worse. Put all the farmers out of business and we won't even be able to feed that military of ours.

https://thesouthern.com/news/local/...cle_d9bb23e6-6725-5517-831b-273a3798989b.html
Local farmers appreciate Trump's $12 billion in ag aid, but wish they didn't need it
....I’d rather have my market than have a band aid,”

....“I would rather have trade than aid,”

....U.S. Sen. Durbin didn’t mince words in his criticism of not just the aid money but the tariff’s themselves.
“Bailouts, tweets, and bragging won’t save the lost crop value for our farmers and won’t protect their reputations around the world as reliable sellers,” Durbin said in a press release. “The president’s scorched earth trade war has put a lot at stake for Illinois and our rural economy.”

 

[speed dawg]

It ignores all of my points noted and brings up a different topic, so yes that is a subject change.

As I said earlier, change can be bad, but managed change is fine. The agricultural industry is now temporarily undergoing change as work is done to fix our trade issues.

This is why Trump put in temporary subsidies to allow for managed change in the process.

Completely reasonable, as are his changes towards strengthening our key strategic resources and manufacturing.

Hard decisions. But desperately needed. Those are the decisions Trump is making right now. The decisions Obama was too weak to make.

We will all benefit over the long haul, but the next Democrat president will take credit for it, while ruining the economy in the process, requiring a new Republican to come in and fix it. All the while they'll be crying on national TV wondering how he got elected when all their polls said there was no chance.

 

[brexit]

The best president ever LOL

 

[Bible_Belt]

This tweet was a real gem, especially the comments to it. California is on fire because they have trees and rivers. If we would just cut down all the trees....and I'm not sure what one does to get rid of a river but we should do that too....then we wouldn't have fires. Silly liberals and their trees!

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1026228024403021824

California wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which aren’t allowing massive amount of readily available water to be properly utilized. It is being diverted into the Pacific Ocean. Must also tree clear to stop fire spreading!

 

[Bible_Belt]

Even the NYT acknowledges tree clearing as a strong fire prevention technique. Not sure why anyone would think that is crazy.

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordeba...widlfires/harvesting-trees-will-prevent-fires

The Times has to publish a right wing nut ball every once in a while. Note that was from 2012. Otherwise people would accuse them of being the "liberal media."

H. Sterling Burnett is a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis.

from the comments:
This from Wikipedia on Burnett's NCPA: "The NCPA has been characterized as a 'right wing think tank' by organizations including People for the American Way, a politically liberal advocacy organization, which noted that NCPA funding has come from foundations with a conservative orientation such as Bradley, Scaife, Koch, John M. Olin Foundation, Earhart Foundation, Castle Rock, and the JM Foundation."

I do also like the other comment that likens letting the logging companies loose to clear cut the forests to prevent fires is akin to draining lakes so that people don't drown in them. Destroying wilderness and enriching corporations is always the answer for Republicans.

 

[Bible_Belt]

Nothing in that article says it is a good idea to let the logging companies cut down the forests as a way to stop wildfires. It is scrub and undergrowth that causes fires, as the article states, and not simply that trees exist. The article says more funding is needed for fire prevention, and Trump is probably hard at work finding a way to slash what funding already exists.

 

[Bible_Belt]

I sometimes buy Christmas gifts from an import business in Florida. I got an email from them today that said:

Section 232 Tariffs on Aluminum and Steel
Due to the recently imposed tariffs by the U.S. government on some of our key product categories, we have no choice but to raise the price of the effected goods to shoulder the added cost of importing these products.

 

[Bible_Belt]

Must everything be seen through the military-industrial complex goggles? More pigs at the trough as the country backslides.

That reminds me of a quote from a recent article about climate change.

https://www.salon.com/2018/08/05/on-climate-change-its-time-to-start-panicking/

The real problem, in my view, isn’t the nature of our economic system, it’s the way that special interests and plutocrats have blocked the sort of common-sense market approaches to dealing with environmental problems that were once supported by democrats and republicans alike. The problem is the moral and ethical rot that now lies at the very center of the republican establishment, the lack of good faith and the total sellout to special interests and plutocrats.

 

[Von]

Guys.

You realize that cutting the trees won't stop the burning ? Russia, West-Coast Canada, California etc... Have all the same issues.... The Heat!

The Trees are starting to burn because they aren't trees made for these types of weather.

''It's global warming if you wanna call it''.... However, it's great for the economy.... Why ? Because now Russia and Canada can access territories that were never accessible... we will finally be able to dig that Oil, Diamond, Uranium, Potash.

Forest Fires starts from the soils.

Since it starts from the soils... it will still burn... but the fire won't be able to monkey-branch by using trees.

In the USA... The military is around 10 millions jobs (direct and indirect).... mostly all to make a ''war against Russia''. It also the main employer in 70% of Republican voting states. It's labelled as ''security'' but who ever invaded the USA too far, too big, too many populations. Security is a big job provider.

USA imports from Russia: Steel and Iron (5th biggests importer), also it import Oils, Uranium, agricultural fertilizers, platinum
https://ustr.gov/map/countriesaz/ru

USA-Russia trade balance is a deficit for the USA (by 15 billions)

Canada-Russia are necessary allies of the USA because we have ALL the ressources of the world including Fresh Water.

Russia supplies most of the energy of Europe... they just need to turn off the gaz valve and Europe going in a Energy Crisis

China and USA have alot of ressources (USA has alot more than China) but some strategic ressources are moslty in Canada and the USA.

China, USA, India will be bigger consumer than producers in a few decades (around 2050) due to aging population.à

The American-Build Chinese factories are starting to be ''outdated'' too, but they still much more modern than the USA ones.

Why do you think liberals support illegal/immigration? It's more than just vote!

In Canada, we have a shortgage of jobs especially in tourism, vacation industry (day camps), lifeguards, restaurants, farms, factories.... due to aging population and the ''white-european 1st world country problems of not wanting to do dirty jobs''.... They need immigrants to fill the spot.

Trump is great entertainement and I believe he's really smart in his dealings. However... it won't be enough to save his voting base industries. Time are changing.

Texas started booming after decades of crisis... why? They cut the minimun wages... They getting jobs back from China and using robots for the rest.

China been outsourcing productions to Vietnam and Thailand, Laos, Cambodge, Indonesia.... Wage in China are too high now.

Trade Wars are better than Gun Wars

Trump will become God-Emperor and start the Trump dynasty. Like the Clinton, Like the Bush, Like the Kennedy, Like the Trudeau.

Democracy is dying in the Western-Occidental-FirstWorld. Millenials seek authority.

The USA in the 1950's passed a ''Freedom for ressources policy''... It would bring ''Democracy through Authoritarian Regime backed by the USA military in exchange of their resssources to provide wealth-freedom to USA citizens''
Ex: Saddam Hussein in Irak, OsamaBenLaden in Afghanistan, Videla in Argentina, Brazil 1964 coup, Nixon Economic war in China, Pinochet in Chile, CostaRica no-stop coup d'état (Flores to Samoza), El Savador Ceren, Guatemala 1954 and 1980's, etc etc.. (etc cause its all of Latin American since the 1950's) All of Latin America (with the US Death Troopers aka Squads), Lybia to counter Italy, Haiti Regimes 1980's and 90's, Lebanon in the 1960's, Syria 1950's etc. etc...
Alot had to do with Communist fighting but it was also to install pro-american dictatorship that would give ressources to USA citizens.

BTW! The American Military budget is fake... it's actually paid by foreigners (me!) due to USD policies and trade agreement... it's closely linked to Trade deficit. So ''balancing the trade commercial accounts would dilude the USA military budget''. Who do you think pays for the Polish Army base ? The polish citizens

 

[Bible_Belt]

The Trees are starting to burn because they aren't trees made for these types of weather.

''It's global warming if you wanna call it''.... However, it's great for the economy.... Why ? Because now Russia and Canada can access territories that were never accessible...

There are also new shipping routes around the north side of Russia that are going to open when climate change thaws the ice. Putin has been building Russian bases in northern areas that look like their location does not make sense, until you look at what the sea will look like after it thaws.

The Trumpers are all climate change deniers, yet they love Putin, who is obviously preparing his country for that future. If only our Great Leader were as wise as him.....

 

[Von]

There are also new shipping routes around the north side of Russia that are going to open when climate change thaws the ice. Putin has been building Russian bases in northern areas that look like their location does not make sense, until you look at what the sea will look like after it thaws.

The Trumpers are all climate change deniers, yet they love Putin, who is obviously preparing his country for that future. If only our Great Leader were as wise as him.....

True, it might have passed unnoticed in the USA but did you know Obama and Canada previous governement (Harper) and early Trudeau were actually having a diplomatic fight about Northen Canada (North Pole).
USA was declaring that Northen Canada belongs to the USA (even if it was our ''geographical rights'')... Why? The ice is melting up North.

Russia/Danemark/USA/Canada/Norwayare disputing the new North Pole trade routes. Canada has been adding military base in the North too.

The Panama Passage is losing traffic because its easier and faster to go up North now by boat to reach Asia.

The weather is shifting... Soon Mexico will be covered in Snow like Canada used to. New York had more snow than Canada for the past 5 years. Our canadian wildlife especially winter animals have been spotted in CostaRica.

Animals have a 6th sense about Weather

 

[Red Legg]

America is about to become super rich and is already doing so under President Trump's leadership.They way we will do it is simple...TARRIFS...all we have to do is have a level playing field on TARRIFS...no one in the world can touch our fvcking powerhouse of an economy..The world is already scared sh!tless…..USA..USA !!

 

[Von]

Nobody denies "climate change". But they do challenge that it is man made.

The climate changed long before we were here, and it will change long after we are gone.

You know I am a Liberal-Conservative ... Fiscaly Conservatie - Liberal Socially.

Every day I find myself more and more in conflict with the liberal extremes and society disolvement.... We going from the ''Religious-Moral-Conservative-Authoritarian extreme- ToptoBottom'' to now Extremes of ''bottom-up run again by an elite of moral defender''.

Society needs a Moral Authority... Left-Right-Center.

You know what society also needs ? A Place .... Earth.

Earth however has the same mood-swing has humans and their society.

Once in a while, it decides to have a mood swing.... go from hot to cold, cold to hot. Like a Woman

It's a natural phenomenon but this phenomenon does have ''human side effect - help - buff''.

Humans aren't responsible for climate change but they do make it worse (we see it in local communities).

What I don't buy is this: ''Earth is dying''.... Sure the Earth will die cause of the pollution... except... Earth is where we live... the foundations... Foundations usually last longer than its inhabitants after a crisis.
It's human who needs to be ''Saved'' not Earth.... Earth even if polluted... what's a 100year plastic bag lifetime compared to 5 billions years .

Earth will just ''rejunevate''.

Look at Chernobyl in Ukraine... Afer the nuclear reactor explosion... humans were forced out for decades... Now Chernobyl is full of wildlife and green space. Nuclear explosions are good for nature.

Humans are in ****, not the Earth... Earth will get by just fine.

Also these ''green technology'' I really believe in them... except you know what ? A Tesla is sure green when driving but its alot of dirt and pollutions to the chinese digging through mining the minerals needed for it.... Green for Occidentals, Massive pollution to Asians.

It's we are green... cause we pollute someone else.
Hypocrisis.

Now ending my rent: Climate change is happening, there is human elements in it but it's natural and we will be the ones to suffer. Look at all the Weather crisis in the USA now... Weather is becoming BPD and extreme more often

 

[Bible_Belt]