Roundybout

You know a trade deficit isn’t the same thing as a budget deficit, right? It just means we buy more than we sell. It’s natural when you’re the No. 2 manufacturing nation in the world and our citizens have stupid amounts of buying power.

Im a big proponent of the German model, a public option that can compete with private insurance. They figured it out in the 1880s for Pete’s sake!

Disaster looming

We could always raise corporate taxes to where they were in the 1950s golden era, and we could institute universal healthcare which would save billions a year

I refuse to make cuts to arts and sciences. We got to the top of the planet through scientific achievements.

No, I’m saying that the extra costs to import goods is almost always passed on to the consumer. Look at what happened during the Pandemic! If you want to specifically target China, it would make more sense, but a blanket tariff on every single nation is a disaster. There is nowhere for consumers to turn. There are serious warning signs that the dollar may fall out of being the world’s reserve currency. Then what happens?

How could a nation like Britain ever compete with China? This is just cope. Consumers bear the costs of tariffs. This is settled economics. You, like anyone who supports this policy, are anti-free market and anti-American.

Because it’s not about fixing the debt, it’s about cutting services to the poor and marginalized.

Helicopters are naturally unstable things, you’ll never catch me on one of them.

Now with news that countries like Japan are dumping bonds, it's basically a sign that they figured out how to beat Trump. He blinked and admitted the bond market got him spooked.

Hear hear!

I believe the big knock is he is relatively raw with only 20 starts and six interceptions to his name. Super quick though.

Oops! A unanimous SCOTUS decision! It’s pure racism, nothing more. Said it for years.

Rough week for the bond markets

What happened to “promises made, promises kept?”

Okay boomer

It’s been 10 years, can’t you guys find a new gif?

So much winning!

Okay, but you realize that China is less isolated than ever now? All we’ve done is harm our OWN trade with China. China will seek trade elsewhere with countries willing to do business. Additionally, we’ve greatly harmed our relationships with our allies abroad, so they are much less likely to do business with us. Why would they?

Yes, my forum posts from two years ago will follow me to my grave.

Surely this time he will face consequences!

Trump's government openly tries for price controls and market manipulation, seeks the return of coal mining, and has suggested that Americans in white collar jobs should return to the fields as farmhands. MAGA is Maoism at this point. The "West" has historically stood for free trade. Are you equating DEI to the Covid response? If the Covid response was so bad, why don't you blame Trump? His administration shut everything down in the first place. "Well it was a bad thing then so we introduced something worse so now the bad thing seems okay by comparison" is one hell of a formula

Hey I was wondering where you’ve been hiding these last couple days? Need some kind of “win” so let’s dig up a two year old thread.

Dude how is China isolated? They’re free to trade with anyone else! This bizarre victim complex you and other MAGAs have is baffling. No one “rooted” for Black Monday, we saw it coming a mile away! Further, this is still bad! We have an embargo on Chinese goods! We have a blanket tariff on everyone with no end in sight! We have at least 90 days of uncertainty! My god man, open your eyes. You’re so poisoned by Covid that you’re not thinking rationally.