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Should be a wild four years.

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GamerGateSurvivor said:
He floated the idea as a way to court the Libertarians into voting for him. They told him to fuck off so I'm not holding my breath.
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It was a very mixed crowd. A ton of Libertarian figures ended up endorsing him. He couldn't be nominated as the Libertarian candidate anyway, because of either the Republican bylaws or the Libertarian bylaws, I forget which.
 
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XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG said:
Maybe I'm misinterpreting this out of tiredness, but
If a foreign producer can manufacture AND SHIP something for $8 to the USA, and the same something could be produced in the USA for $10, as an earlier poster gave an example for, how exactly does the USA imposing a tariff on the foreign producer of that something make the USA more competitive in the global market to the benefit of the US?
Like, maybe I'm not seeing something you are, but that first sentence is just plainly insane to me.

"Encourage domestic trade and business to strengthen domestic economy."
This here contains multiple unrelated claims and logic.
As in, "tariffs encourage domestic trade", "tariffs encourage domestic business", "tariffs strengthen domestic economy".
None of these are true. Or can you logically explain how exactly?
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It was probably mentioned before, but the Chinese government heavily subsidizes material and shipping costs as part of its industrial strategy (undercut the competitors), and somehow also freeloads on the US Postal service.

So it's actually not an even playing field, and even removing some of those supports can tilt the board back in the US's favour.

That being said, the real China advantage is how responsive their manufacturers are compared to the US and how fast they can bring things into production. Bringing the US up to speed will take extra time, and is possibly one of the places where Vivek was 'right' about US obstinance.
 
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He signed the "No trannies in the women's restrooms" bill, so he already won women's support.
Can't wait for his last speeches. I can only imagine how much Kamala is seething right now, obviously Joe doesn't even know where he is, but it's got to hurt to see Trump undoing everything your administration has done with one signature.
 
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