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Re: The trade wars begin
« Reply #50 on: March 01, 2018, 01:35:18 PM »
A lot of sound economic research went into this decision.


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Re: The trade wars begin
« Reply #51 on: March 01, 2018, 01:35:58 PM »
so conservatives now support economic regulation, restricted markets, gun control measures, and limitations on constitutional rights

what a time to be alive

There are liberal regulations, restrictions, and limitations, and then there are MAGA regulations, restrictions, and limitations.

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Re: The trade wars begin
« Reply #52 on: March 01, 2018, 01:36:43 PM »
Any way for congress to stop this?

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Re: The trade wars begin
« Reply #53 on: March 01, 2018, 01:37:52 PM »
You gotta feel like that band on the Titanic if you are a conservative trumper right now.

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Re: The trade wars begin
« Reply #54 on: March 01, 2018, 01:38:54 PM »
DOW drops more than 500 points :excited:

He's hoping we get a 3rd 1000+ point drop in the span of like 4 weeks.
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Re: The trade wars begin
« Reply #55 on: March 01, 2018, 01:39:34 PM »
Trump is so bizarre...

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Re: The trade wars begin
« Reply #56 on: March 01, 2018, 01:41:58 PM »
Trump is so bizarre...

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Re: The trade wars begin
« Reply #57 on: March 01, 2018, 01:43:53 PM »
New Theory: Trump doesn't like being President but is too proud to resign, so he's just trying to get voted out.

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Re: The trade wars begin
« Reply #58 on: March 01, 2018, 01:46:23 PM »
New Theory: Trump doesn't like being President but is too proud to resign, so he's just trying to get voted out.

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That isn't a very well thought-out plan, given that it would take 3 years and he probably won't live much more than 10. So it sounds about right.

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Re: The trade wars begin
« Reply #59 on: March 01, 2018, 03:37:17 PM »

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Re: The trade wars begin
« Reply #60 on: March 01, 2018, 03:40:33 PM »
That tax cut tho

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Re: The trade wars begin
« Reply #61 on: March 01, 2018, 03:45:20 PM »
New Theory: Trump doesn't like being President but is too proud to resign, so he's just trying to get voted out.

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Theory: he is actually still a Democrat and ran just to win then absolutely troll his GOP base by forcing them to come up with defenses for insanely contradictory positions.  Its kind of a revenge thing forcing them to concoct new talking points

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Re: The trade wars begin
« Reply #62 on: March 01, 2018, 03:46:38 PM »
Warm up the glass bottles!
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Re: The trade wars begin
« Reply #63 on: March 01, 2018, 05:31:13 PM »
This is gonna make beer more expensive. That sucks.
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Re: The trade wars begin
« Reply #64 on: March 01, 2018, 05:34:02 PM »
This is gonna make beer more expensive. That sucks.
Drink more bourbon.

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Re: The trade wars begin
« Reply #65 on: March 01, 2018, 05:34:55 PM »
This is gonna make beer more expensive. That sucks.
Drink more bourbon.
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Re: The trade wars begin
« Reply #66 on: March 01, 2018, 06:00:23 PM »
this demonstrates trumps pitiful understanding of the modern US economy.

it is to our advantage to import raw materials at as low a cost as possible so we can make them into cool stuff

instead he wants to try to come back in a game we lost 30-40 years ago.

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Re: The trade wars begin
« Reply #67 on: March 01, 2018, 06:07:01 PM »
it is possible that the intent of this is to rebuild domestic steel and aluminum production capacity in anticipation of a 1vALL war against the rest of the world.

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Re: The trade wars begin
« Reply #68 on: March 01, 2018, 06:08:59 PM »
My goodness. The leader of the Conservative party with freaking metal tariffs.


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The trade wars begin
« Reply #69 on: March 01, 2018, 06:10:31 PM »
this demonstrates trumps pitiful understanding of the modern US economy.

It demonstrates his lack of understanding of economics in general. But if we know anything about modern conservatism it’s that 90% of them will get in line because it’s our team v. Their team.


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Re: The trade wars begin
« Reply #70 on: March 01, 2018, 06:11:39 PM »
instead he wants to try to come back in a game we lost 30-40 years ago.

I would like to revise this to "a game we intentionally outsourced 30-40 years ago in order to make cool stuff better"

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Re: The trade wars begin
« Reply #71 on: March 01, 2018, 06:31:49 PM »
New new Theory: Trump knows the end is near and wants a few good things for his legacy. "Trump was a mess, but at least he gave us DACA and gun control"

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Re: The trade wars begin
« Reply #72 on: March 01, 2018, 08:10:51 PM »


this demonstrates trumps pitiful understanding of the modern US economy.

It demonstrates his lack of understanding of economics in general. But if we know anything about modern conservatism it’s that 90% of them will get in line because it’s our team v. Their team.


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Sadly, true.

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Re: The trade wars begin
« Reply #73 on: March 01, 2018, 08:19:13 PM »
Really I thought we’d advanced to a place politically that free trade was basically supported by all non-dumbasses.

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Re: The trade wars begin
« Reply #74 on: March 01, 2018, 10:39:38 PM »
Really I thought we’d advanced to a place politically that free trade was basically supported by all non-dumbasses.

Well, we elected a dumbass as president, so...