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[mlanguishi]

You don't get "Seal Team 6" without training and discipline.
You don't learn to ride a bike without at least one scraped knee.

If the US military turns its guns on its own civilians 'Biden's F-15 vs AR-15' scenario none of will have be posting about it here. They ain't gonna fucking do it. Military isn't that pozzed now to turn guns on Americans and if they did, then we're all fucked and might as well launch all the nukes. Local cops might turn on you, but I refuse to believe the US military will use force even if Biden says it. They'll hang his head on the platter.

 

[Terrifik]

yes , bidden is poll drunk. go home retard not believe the bait.

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President Biden will call to triple the current 7.5% China tariff rate on steel and aluminum imports.
The White House has ramped up pressure on China to amend its trade practices, citing concerns of an oversupply of clean energy products subsidized by Beijing.
Biden's demand for tariff hikes comes as he balances election-year politics against fraught relations with China and heightened concerns about the strength of the U.S. economy.
President Joe Biden is calling on the U.S. Trade Representative to triple the China tariff rate on steel and aluminum imports as he makes the rounds in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania.

On Wednesday, the president will visit the United Steelworkers headquarters in Pittsburgh.

Biden's demand to raise the current 7.5% average tariff on steel and aluminum is an effort to make clear that his administration's recent warnings about China's trade practices are not empty threats.

On a visit to China last week, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen raised concern that Chinese subsidies were creating an oversupply of clean energy products, like solar panels and electric vehicles, that would outpace domestic demand. She worried that overcapacity could be dumped on global markets at artificially cheaper prices, potentially stifling competition.

In an interview with CNBC's Sara Eisen, Yellen said that tariffs were not off the table if those overcapacity qualms went unaddressed.

Chinese officials and state media have since denied the overcapacity accusation, saying that its abundance of supply of clean energy products is a result of "constant innovations," not government subsidies.

As China shrugs off the overcapacity concerns, the Biden administration is doubling down on what it perceives as the threat to global trade.

"China's policy-driven overcapacity poses a serious risk to the future of the American steel and aluminum industry," National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard said on a call with reporters on Tuesday. "China cannot export its way to recovery. China is simply too big to play by its own rules."

Biden's balancing act
Biden's escalated push to hike tariffs comes as he balances election-year politics with a fragile geopolitical landscape and heightened concerns about the strength of the U.S. economy.

On the one hand, the White House is still working to thaw relations with China after several years of near-frozen communication, in part sparked by former President Donald Trump's initial round of China tariffs, which almost triggered a full-fledged trade war.

Tariffs can also have unintended economic ripple effects by raising U.S. manufacturing costs that may ultimately translate to higher consumer prices. That would be an unwelcome result during a time when Biden is already in the middle of a yearslong battle to bring down stubborn inflation and prove to voters that his economic agenda is working.

A senior administration official on Tuesday rejected the notion that tariff hikes would lead to higher inflation.

"If taken these actions will not increase inflation, but they will protect American jobs and steel industry," the official said on a call with reporters. "Residual inflation is not coming from goods, these actions will not change that."

On the other hand, the Biden campaign is looking to maintain a hawkish China stance as he competes against Trump for blue-collar workers' votes. In that vein, Biden will also reiterate his opposition to the proposed sale of U.S. Steel to Japan's Nippon Steel.

"It's important that U.S. Steel remains a domestically owned and operated company," a senior administration official said Tuesday. "The president will make that clear again. He has told the steelworkers he will have their backs and he means it."

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The White House has ramped up pressure on China to amend its trade practices, citing concerns of an oversupply of clean energy products subsidized by Beijing.

i got a bridge to sell you

Janet Yellen warned in a Wednesday speech that China’s surplus of clean energy products is depressing prices in global markets and squeezing U.S. green manufacturing.-WED, MAR 27 2024

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/27/yellen-china-solar-ev-surplus-global-markets.html

After years of clean energy investment, China has an excess of solar power, EVs and lithium-ion batteries, allowing it to export those products at cheaper prices to markets around the world.
Yellen plans to confront her Chinese counterparts about these trade practices during her upcoming visit to China.
The U.S. is trying to grow its own clean energy industry domestically with investments from new legislation, but is still playing catch-up with China’s green energy sector.

 

[dustbuster]

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Holy shit this is just pure panic mode.
He spent his entire term dismantling Trump's tariff regime and destroying domestic industry, not only in the US, but in the EU and Germany in particular through his foreign policy.

Plants in the US and EU responsible for upwards of 1/3 of global aluminum production were GOING BROKE due to the energy poverty he caused.
So now he's imposing tariffs rather than backing off his "green" insanity, which basically means he's adding massively to the cost of our aluminum, which USED to be competitive with a fraction of the tariffs he's imposing now, due to the energy costs he imposed.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

If hard-liners were harder line they'd have gotten a MAGA speaker.

The same mentality of far right/left people: "no, we need to be MORE extreme, that's how we get the centrists and win!"

Oh come on.
This discussion was an interesting contention between caution and ambition and here you go straight-up lying to EVERYONE's face.
Get it together, man.

Jack Smith can't prosecute Trump if he's too hungry because his salary is $0 so McDonalds is out of reach.
The beauty of the power of the purse is the house doesn't have to do anything for ALL spending to eventually stop. That's why it's power, not suggestion.

Saying the Speaker and Majority can defund everything is like the people in the UK who say "Well actshuallly King Charles can totally go in and disband Parliament!"

Technically possible, but will never happen IRL.

 

[dustbuster]

Saying the Speaker and Majority can defund everything is like the people in the UK who say "Well actshuallly King Charles can totally go in and disband Parliament!"

Technically possible, but will never happen IRL.

I lived through half a dozen shutdowns between 1992 and 2016.
They can do it and have done it.
It just takes a set of balls larger than pencil erasers.

If they don't pass CR's the government just fucking shuts down.
They don't have to get "consent" from anyone else, they can just sit there, do nothing, and the dollars stop flowing.

The same mentality of far right/left people: "no, we need to be MORE extreme, that's how we get the centrists and win!"

You mean like Trump did during his 2016 campaign? Telling marxists to pound sand and t-posing on their moral outrage?
Yeah, it works, not because it "gets centerists", but because it activates the 35-40% of adults who do not vote because they're not represented, due to shitheads cowtowing to insane communists as if they're legitimate.

The American Electorate hasn't moved politically since about 1984.
They've just been silenced and arm-twisted by top-down authoritarianism, primarily via lawfare, for decades.
They hunger for anyone willing to stand up for common sense, and all it takes is unapologetic bulldozing of that agenda to get massive turnout.
For the latest example, see Florida going from swinging on 0.01% margins to DeSantis +20

 

[George Lucas]

I don’t think Trump will actually be able to accomplish much as president. Certainly not like he was able to in his first term. The avenues that Trump used to get stuff done have been closed up, and anything novel will be in appellate court hell. We won’t have cocaine Mitch and the House will be a wild card at best. Getting a Supreme Court justice will be even more difficult than before.

I want him to win because I want to send a message.

 

[dustbuster]

I want him to win because I want to send a message.

That's why I voted for him in the first place.
I wanted the biggest fuck you I could find and he was it.
I was tired of the democrat activists pushing censorship (from all the way back in 2011 to 2016) and wanted to deliver a wake-up call.

They apparently "woke up" to the idea of just going full fascist.

 

[Weppers]

So nothing. You present no serious proposals. Just empty platitudes of vague suggestions of things. You just waffle on the same things with no specifics.

I appreciate your efforts but dustbuster is the most autistic poster in this thread. You’re trying to argue against whatever technically possible fantasy is gratifying his compulsions from one minute to the next and if you ever shoot one down he’ll just move to a new one.

 

[Your Girlfriend's Dad]

If you guys wanna laugh at how out of touch the Biden regime is, just check out their Twitter. It's just constant genderspecial bullshit. They can't read the room.

 

[dustbuster]

I appreciate your efforts but dustbuster is the most autistic poster in this thread. You’re trying to argue against whatever technically possible fantasy is gratifying his compulsions from one minute to the next and if you ever shoot one down he’ll just move to a new one.

A&H needs a "Blackpill Us Politics" thread where people with no solutions but "lay down and wait for the commie to line you up against the wall" can circle-jerk each other.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

yes , bidden is poll drunk. go home retard not believe the bait.
https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1780530946598412542 https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/business/money-report/biden-wants-to-triple-china-tariffs-on-steel-aluminum-imports/5328395/

I will believe it when I see it. Sounds like some empty bluster.

If you guys wanna laugh at how out of touch the Biden regime is, just check out their Twitter. It's just constant genderspecial bullshit. They can't read the room.

It makes sense in a way. The only people who actually follow Biden's Twitter are total "blue no matter who" cultists who consider Biden to be right wing but will vote for him because he has that D next to his name anyway. They are pandering to the core audience.

The other Biden voting groups are not interacting with it at all, nor will they ever see it. Same with centrists or possible swing votes.

 

[dustbuster]

I will believe it when I see it.

I believe it.
It follows the standard lefty playbook.

Cause massive problems with regulations.
"compensate" for the regulations with yet more economic interventions, all of which generally adds to the cost of goods.

(and yes, I'm an economic nationalist who believes in tariffs, but THESE tariffs wouldn't be necessary if Biden didn't make the electricity required to smelt aluminum too expensive for domestic plants to operate competitively with his green policy shit)

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

A&H needs a "Blackpill Us Politics" thread where people with no solutions but "lay down and wait for the commie to line you up against the wall" can circle-jerk each other.

Go be the change you want to see in the world then, you're not helping any here. Try posting less and thinking more for a while - Your ideas may just as much be a case of poorly, fragmented over expression of incomplete thoughts that make them seem stupider than they really are. Idea fragments make sense in the moment when you're on your 20th post of the day, but are completely incoherent when your a passing reader who last saw a fragment ten posts back, five hours ago, and intermingle it with what everyone else is saying.

 

[dustbuster]

Go be the change you want to see in the world then, you're not helping any here. Try posting less and thinking more for a while - Your ideas may just as much be a case of poorly, fragmented over expression of incomplete thoughts that make them seem stupider than they really are. Idea fragments make sense in the moment when you're on your 20th post of the day, but are completely incoherent when your a passing reader who last saw a fragment ten posts back, five hours ago, and intermingle it with what everyone else is saying.

I'm aware you're aligned with a certain "tribe" of assholes on this board, but reality doesn't bend to conform to your insults.

I quote the people I'm responding to and speak proper english.
If you're not following you need to drink a lot less.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

NY has been trending red for years due to NYC's fuckups. In 2022 the Repubs swept town and local assembly groups (they have a complete lock on them now, which has never happened before in the state's history) and took a sizable chunk of Nassau's assembly as well. Nassau County then immediately banned transgender athletes from competing with women at public facilities. In fucking New York.

It's been said before, but NYC (and the other burrows boroughs not counting Staten Island), plus Albany and Buffalo are like the only REAL blue places in NY while everywhere else is red.

Although in Long Island's case, there is a culture war that's going on that nobody is talking about, and just because they ban trannies in that instance doesn't mean there's other sorts of fuckery going on. For example, while there is an underground hispanic movement going on to paint Nassau County red, you still have schools promoting black/gay shit and jews every other day screaming about antisemitism (a.k.a. schlomo creating "white supremacy" grafitti and letters posted in majority-jewish villages)

A whole bunch of people from Queens/Brooklyn/NYC are moving their asses out east to Long Island and are making things for the worst. Before their kind came along, Long island rarely ever (if not never) had any street beggers with signs outside in the middle of the streets, but all of a sudden they've been showing up. Hicksville/Levittown/Bethpage and probably other middle-to-northern'ish towns have been turning into TheMiddleEast/India 2 Electric Boogaloo. Nassau went from a deep red to basically purple within years.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

I'm aware you're aligned with a certain "tribe" of assholes on this board, but reality doesn't bend to conform to your insults.

I genuinely don't know what this means and I am dead serious when I say I'm not trying to start a fight by asking about this - What are you talking about?

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I've heard a common sentiment of "Johnson _is_ fucking it up, but right now there's not a whole lot to do other than put in Jefferies or that Zoomer or some other dem after the various dipshit rinos quit"
it's like "yes, this car does stall every four lights and the brakes need a lot of pumping, but we have to get seventy miles from here today and this is the only car available"

if there was a really great Speaker available to replace him with and a strong enough gop majority to get it that would be really nice, and it would also be nice if Santy Claus brought me some in-line skates this year

 

[Nol 2]

Although in Long Island's case

Long Island gave us the IDC, which will eternally be funny. For the Kiwis's who didn't follow NYS politics at that time, Long Island is primarily Jews. The Democratic party was on the verge of winning both chambers of the Legislature and the Governors Mansion, so the Jews split off the dems to caucus with republicans to not give gibs to the Blacks.

 

[dustbuster]

I've heard a common sentiment of "Johnson _is_ fucking it up, but right now there's not a whole lot to do other than put in Jefferies or that Zoomer or some other dem after the various dipshit rinos quit"
it's like "yes, this car does stall every four lights and the brakes need a lot of pumping, but we have to get seventy miles from here today and this is the only car available"

To take this metaphor forward.
My response to that sentiment is:

"This hulk doesn't qualify as a car, and rather than pretend it's a car, I'd rather find the local hotel on foot, and stay there until we can get a car capable of going 800 miles in a day"

 

[Your Girlfriend's Dad]

(and the other burrows)

It's boroughs, but I think you're version accurately illustrates the bug hive nature of the city.