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Molly Ciliberti's avatar

Trump will do anything to keep us from discussing the Signal Houthi PC small group chat. Hence he “is pissed at Putin”. Next Trump will demonstrate juggling. I was wrong; Trump is playing with the market and tariffs. SIGNAL HOUTHI PC

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SLMontgo's avatar

I don't want to see big manufacturing return to the US for another reason - POLLUTION. That's one of the reasons for offshoring decades ago. We were in dire straits to clean up our country rife with pollutants. Love Canal immediately leaps to mind. Flint MI's lead-infused public water supply that still is not remediated. Make America Menial Again. Sweatshop jobs? Just say NO.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Love Canal was the first body of ‘water’ to ignite!

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SLMontgo's avatar

As did the Cayahoga River, a moving body of water. No one wants to have these phenomena again.

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Mike's avatar

It’ll never come back

No company, no matter how much their fat, rich, pot bellied white CEO says is gonna go from paying manufacturing workers cents/hour to what we pay here

But MAGA buys it all

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SLMontgo's avatar

They also don't want to either, if we could get an honest answer from any of them. They would lose bigly. Here's a word even more rare than "groceries": SMOG. Instead of teaching critical thinking, "conservatives" demand magical thinking.

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Junior's avatar

trump is a fucking idiot.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

You just explained everything.

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Mike's avatar

Haven't listened yet

But I have something of a contrarian view of all this

The tariffs WILL go away and things will reset back to "normal". There's just too much heat that he's taking for these to remain permanent. And while they're in place, the heat and the pain will intensify to a Chernobyl extent. He will HAVE to back down, which is his pathology anyway

I don't know what the permanent damage will be. I'll have to listen to get this man's take. Certainly we've alienated virtually all of our allies and that won't help.

Tariff-gate accomplishes two things for him:

1) He and Mr. Eyebrows Burgum MTG and all the other Repubes who are engaging in insider trading will make millions. Period.

2) He's got world leaders groveling for relief.

Missions Accomplished. This is working for him, spectacularly

Meanwhile, Claude and Mamaw on their Iowa farm that's about to go under hang out at the fillin' station and cheer him on.

'merica

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Rita Parker's avatar

Just listened. Excellent. I learned alot.

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Phyllis Logan's avatar

Mister "Stay the course - Never surrender" lasted a whole 13 hours before the heat got too high. Days ago, he yelled on social media 'MY POLICIES WILL NEVER CHANGE" -until they do, and policies they're not - just whims and ill-conceived nutty notions.

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Patrick's avatar

Trust the process. Just be sure to lube up first.

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Sharon Heidē Ward's avatar

Great conversation. An economist quoting “Caddyshack” is hilariously perfect in these ridiculous times. And I like his model cars 🚗🚙🚕

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