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Should be a wild four years.

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It's really cute to see a little boy push mowing the White House lawn. But my dad would've killed me if I missed strips of grass like that
Don't want to derail, but one thing you have to teach your kids is not to do back and forth like that but to make concentric squares from outside in.
 
I'm just pointing out that China's population is 4x larger than the US and China has undeniably experienced an economic miracle in the past 25 years (paid for by you and I). China's new middle class with disposable income is larger than the entire US population and every Fortune 500 company is falling over one other trying to gain access to it. China's middle class has exploded while the US' middle class has collapsed in the same time. Nothing I just typed should be controversial as those are objective statements of fact.
What happened in Taiwan was a miracle. What happened in China is paper held together by duct tape and atheist prayers. Buildings are falling apart, infrastructure is deteriorating, factories are shutting down, houses remain empty and people can't even sell them, and everyone with even a little bit of cash is trying to figure out how to get out. There is an entire industry centered around converting yuan to dollars because the Chinese put an arbitrary limit on how much money you can exchange out of the country.
 
I would not be surprised if the tariffs lead to a shitload of negations and eventual lower tariffs to the US. The EU is super asshurt right now, likely because they actually thought we wouldn't do it.
China won't lower a thing, but smaller/non-euro allies will likely renegotiate within the next few months. The EU will destroy itself before changing a thing, but maybe some east-euros will reach out.

The whole "THE STOCK MARKET IS DOWN THEREFORE THE ECONOMY IS DESTROYED" shit has been happening since Trump's first term. Literally the same shit happened when China tariffs were implemented.
Look at twitter right now and tell me most of the people bitching aren't either bots or shill accounts.
 
Are you aware that the amount that Trump was showing in the chart was fabricated out of nothing?
Tue EU doesn't charge the US 39%, it just doesnt.


"The EU does not impose a 39% tariff on US goods
Available evidence shows that the real EU tariff rate is nowhere near the 39% mark.

The European Commission says it charges an average tariff of just 1% on US products entering the EU market, "considering the actual trade in goods". It adds that the US administration collected approximately €7 billion of tariffs on EU products in 2023 compared to the EU's €3 billion on US goods.

A World Trade Organisation (WTO) estimate puts the average tariff rate on US products entering the EU slightly higher at 4.8%.

In both cases, this is far off the 39% figure quoted by the Trump administration."

source; https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/...ld-trumps-tariffs-on-the-eu-really-reciprocal
I can literally point to several products the EU tariffs against the U.S for far more than 39%. Just because it's not a blanket tariff doesn't mean they don't do it on certain shit you faggot.
 
I suspect we'll see the same across a variety of goods. If I can't get a new, cheap melamine cabinet, I'm more likely to look for a secondhand wooden cabinet instead.
This is already happening at a small scale thanks to social media. Everyone I know uses Facebook Marketplace and Nextdoor to find furniture and housewares, and that also usually involves cash money being handed over to someone who lives in your town which is great.

As much as social media is a plague on peoples souls, the accessibility it affords is downright magical. Consider also that for every consoomer selfie soyjacking over their shelves of funkopops, there's an equal but opposite cottagecore girlie who's teaching herself to refinish the antique furniture she found by the side of the road. These aren't trad homesteaders either, these are normal people.

I cannot imagine being a tariff doomer.
 
I need to re-dig it up, but some of the postulations on how many uninhabited buildings they have are fucking doom pill worthy. Well, if you are a mainlander chink that is. That’s not even bringing up the rapidly shrinking population and the depressing youth unemployment, which will probably get worse as the realization there is no great Chinese century up ahead starts to dawn on them.
One of the ghost cities is a replica of central Paris, and could house close to a million people.
 
If I pay someone to punch you in the face, it is my fault you got punched in the face.
that's exactly my point you retarded nigger, Iranian sponsored groups are extensions of Iranian policy. You're so retarded that you end up agreeing with me

Yes because Israel are meant to be ALLIED to the US
Israel wasn't allied to the US until 1989. The US and Israel worked closely together in the 1960s but did not enjoy the close relationship until far later.

An ally killing your men is unforgivable.
Why isn't UK holding the US accountable for killing British soldiers in 1991, 2003, 2007, and 2009. How about Canada when a US pilot high on go pills bombed a Canadian infanty unit killing 4 Canadian soldiers?

Why aren't you upset about the USS Stark where Iraq did the exact same thing, killing 37 Americans? You have no idea of this incident because you don't have any rationale in your head other than raw hatred.

Point is there's more proof for than against and if you talk about it you're immediately silenced in the mainstream.
cite your shit you inbred faggot. I've literally read the original documents. There's zero evidence of this.

iligan hates the US is because of Israel and it's antics
Iran hates the US because of Operation Ajax, the US's support for the Shah, their view of the US as imperialistic, and because of severe sanctions. I know it's hard to understand complex things like this unless your political mommy Candace Owens or your political daddy tucker explains this to you carefully but the Iranian regime has always hated the US. They refer to America as the Great Satan and Israel as the Little Satan.

I say because you don't have arguments.
nigger you're the one endorsing the people attacking american soldiers because israel bad

>Iran says mean things about the US and has goals of hurting soldiers
you stupid nigger, if you openly say that it's fine for Iran to have the goals for hurting soldiers and excuse the deaths of soldiers killed by Iranian funding then you inherently weaken the argument against israel for killing US soldiers. Why is it fine for Iran to kill US soldiers now but then cry about Israel being the real enemy for an incident that happened years ago

This is why you're going to be banned from 110 countries one day. If time heals all wounds and 58 years is too late then we shouldn't ever have to hear about the ancient history that is the Holocaust or Jewish oppression ever again
literally jewish/israel derangement syndrome. you're willing to let radical islamists kill US soldiers just so israel will presumably suffer somehow

The daily wire is going bankrupt so the money controlling his viewpoints doesn't have as tight of a grip
Your pedophile looking daddy Ian Carroll was lying, the daily wire isn't going bankrupt
 
This is already happening at a small scale thanks to social media. Everyone I know uses Facebook Marketplace and Nextdoor to find furniture and housewares, and that also usually involves cash money being handed over to someone who lives in your town which is great.
We got a hardwood baby changing station for ten bucks through FB marketplace.
 
The whole "THE STOCK MARKET IS DOWN THEREFORE THE ECONOMY IS DESTROYED" shit has been happening since Trumps first term.
I quit viewing the stock market as a reliable indicator of anything when it only took a couple weeks for it to rebound and gain again after March of 2020's shutdown, yet no one was doing shit because all the businesses and logistical systems were fucked. Where the fuck did all that value suddenly come from? Stimulus checks hadn't even happened yet.
 
I have no dog in this race, but stock bros are parasites who contribute nothing to ANY society, all they do is try and benefit off of others hard work, have 0 morality, would sell their mother if her cleaning efficiency dropped 5%, and have no loyalty to anything other than their own numbers.

Sorry, that's a lot of text to call them Jews. Get fucked. Globalism is literally killing the western world.
See it's all the headlines in the news too, omg the stock market graph is pointing down! Like I should give a shit, so long as machinery needs repairing, I'll be fine. You too can have this ease of mind by just learning/doing something of actual benefit to someone rather than partaking in very Jewish behaviour.
 
basic necessity food is NOT imported, the US actually works very hard to ensure basic necessity foods are available from within the country. go to a farmer's market, man. support local grow.
Part of living in a globalized economy means shortages in other parts of the world can directly translate into price increases for you even if the shortages are on the opposite end of the planet, because its all part of one global supply of food. A reduction in food production anywhere means more strain on the globally available production even if your own country remains a net exporter.

In practice this may not be the case owed to specific policy pursued meant to negate the push-pull of global supply/demand but you definitely see this phenomenon with oil for instance.
 
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