it’s about negotiating and he’s trying to start from a position of strength
negotiating what? what specific issue is he trying to address with these tariffs?
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it’s about negotiating and he’s trying to start from a position of strength
I’m more afraid he’s gonna spend it all on that horrible AI Stargate projectI think that Elon and the tech elite need to cut public expenses, cut taxes to the wealthy, and channel that money into tech/space development - it'll make people really upset unless he can somehow blame it on something (tariffs not working out because CHYNAH) but really it's that he wants to exert more economic control which generally reads as big government which would be a tough sell as a republican. He's playing games in order to get money and latitude to tech so that A) Elon can go to Mars B) AI can replace a lot of labor costs and C) secure some type of power bloc comprised of those he chooses to anoint. It's very machiavellian.
It seems like he’s trying to get Mexico and Canada to do better border control and then he’ll pull back on the tariffs. Is anything set in stone yet?negotiating what? what specific issue is he trying to address with these tariffs?
alasdair
Wow, really? I mean it kind of makes sense because the US is so much bigger, but I just have no idea. Where do you get info on this type of stuff and how do you know to trust it?I note many executive orders are related to the transport of fentanyl into the US. Now the thing is, far, far more fentanyl is transported from the US to Canada than vice versa - but the thing is, US media ONLY mentions imports.
So executive orders designed to stop China from producing precursors and executive orders to punish both Mexico and Canada for allowing importation. THAT may be one possible explaination.
But as we have noted so many times, there are always new scaffolds. There are always new precursors. Legal control does not and never has affected price or availability. What it means is that opioids that aren't well researched with replace those that for better or worse, at least have a history of human trials. The trush is, if there is a market, there will always be people prepared to supply that market. Education is far more effective.
They did that in my downtown on Not My President's Day as well.They were out in sub zero weather today around me protesting Trump!!! It is just starting.. wait until they reach their stride and find their confidence.
Executive orders have been a thing that trace back further than Obama to Bush, Clinton, HW Bush, and Reagan. It was a slow but steady increase that both sides were complicit in as neoconservatism and neoliberalism began to take over both sides of the American monoparty. It's been a steady march towards oligarchy and autocracy that has been thinly veiled by the illusion of 'progressives' and 'conservatives'.yep
"Obama goes around signing executive orders. He can't even get along with the Democrats. He goes around signing all these executive orders. It's a basic disaster. You can't do it." (trump, feb 19 2016)
"We have a president that can't get anything done so he just keeps signing executive orders all over the place." (trump, january 26 2016)
"I hate what Obama does with gun legislation. He doesn't talk to anybody. He goes out and signs executive orders. In theory you're supposed to the old fashioned way, get everybody into a room and get something people agree on." (trump, january 26 2016)
"I don't think [Obama] even tries anymore. I think he just signs executive actions." (trump, december 12 2015)
"Nobody wants to listen to [Obama], including the Democrats, so he just goes around signing executive orders." (trump, november 10 2015)
"Why is @BarackObama constantly issuing executive orders that are major power grabs of authority?" (trump, july 10 2012)
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Yeah, that drives me crazy. His support for Israel is so freaking blatant.I think @alasdairm was merely pointing out that Donald Trump is the only candidate (to my knowledge) who bitterly complained of another president using executive orders only to issue more per week than previous presidents did in a year.
OT I'm fascinated that so many people bitterly complained that the US was forever handing money to Israel and yet it seems to have gone quiet when the president who has shown the most support for Israel comes to power.
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I am in no way asserting the right or wrongs of the claims, merely noting that it always seemed to be a stick to bash presidents with and now all is silent. I don't know why.
Just as we are upset with Trump doing this, I rarely saw protests against Obama doing the same (albeit less extreme than trump, but more extreme than Bush) things.
He's a conduit to installing a technocratic oligarchy to take the reins once he's done, in exchange for funding and guaranteeing both his victory in the election, and freedom from incarceration.BTW the average price of oil production in the US is around $33.20. per barrel but is likely to increase as off-shore becomes a larger proportion. In contrast OPEC nations vary but it's between $10-$20 per barrel.
So if the US seeks a price war, it's going to lose. It's one of those things that sounds great until you recognize that the USA ≠ The World.
If the US wishes to MAGA, it's education that's going to be a key driver. Skilled jobs are going to be the important thing because as previously noted, even with tarriffs, China can still make simple things for vastly less. If OPEC makes oil plentiful - China will have a boon as it's a key input they lacked. Put simply - China wins indirectly from Donald Trump's policies.
I've never met Donald Trump and so my knowledge is based purely on watching speeches and other publically available sources. But he doesn't appear to understand geopolitics and let's face it, he's unlikely to live for long enough to see what the long-term outcomes are. I don't wish him or anyone else harm, but I do not see the outcomes professed aligning with the executive orderes enacted.
It's a model which conforms to a multipolar hegemony between oligarchs in US, Russia, China - supports surveillance societies, and fosters endemic corruption.MSN
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Well, you have to admire someone who is prepared to take advantage of a situation.
But while you do that, consider that Donald Trump OBVIOUSLY considered the US in terms of a 'wealthy elite' and 'the people' i.e. an oligarchy. Take a look at nations that are oligarchies and ask if the people or the elite profit from such a system.
Because a quick search does sort of hint that the people do not do very well out of such an arrangement.