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    Denzel WashyourtongueIbn Safir
    11/23/18 12:33pm

    This is the result that you receive when you have a non-thinking president who looks at everything as if it’s all binary and his massive intellect is what the solution has always needed.

    If “X” is a problem use “Y” to solve it.

    “I’m the best for this issue folks. Believe me”...

    If he asked a question or two, or just, you know, sat down and thought for more than one second about a problem bigger than “what direction should I wipe my ass in” we would be in much better shape.

    I think?

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      BabbylonianDenzel Washyourtongue
      11/23/18 3:13pm

      You’ve pretty much got it. Had President Obama taken the exact same actions, Trump (and every other Republican) would never have stopped criticizing him for it...and probably would have claimed that Obama did it in order to weaken our country because he’s actually Kenyan.

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      Old white guyDenzel Washyourtongue
      11/23/18 4:24pm

      First, you ask the impossible. Trump can’t think. He goes by his gut! That’s how he became a successful billionaire (well, that and money laundering for the russians). He certainly has no concept of seeing a bigger picture or even cause-and-effect. He sees a cause and the answer is “Trump!”. 

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    Raineyb1013Ibn Safir
    11/23/18 11:30am

    And the idiots who voted for this semi-sentient walking cesspool will still blame anyone but Dolt 45 and themselves for this shit. 

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      Old white guyRaineyb1013
      11/23/18 4:12pm

      You mean the ones who’ve lost their jobs because their company closed down, and fine that public support is being wiped away as well for those in need...  but say they still support what he’s doing. Yeah, go figure. It’s the “we’ll become rich like they are!” syndrome.

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      Have you got a 27B-6?Raineyb1013
      11/24/18 2:18pm

      I’ve come to the conclusion that there is no way to teach him anything. Even if he were somehow successfully impeached and all his money and resources were taken away and he was put in prison with absolutely no special treatment, he still wouldn’t learn. You could torture him in any and every way you could think of, and he still wouldn’t learn. And that’s exactly why his base loves him so - it’s the ‘stand your ground’ in so many more ways than one, and to them, that’s what ‘Murica is all about - “my parents and grandparents didn’t change, and by Jesus, I’m not gonna budge, either.”

      There is something fundamentally wrong with his thought process - he has been raised such that he was a millionaire by the time he was 8 years old on top of being sheltered from every mistake he ever made. When he was young, even when he made mistakes, they weren’t acknowledged as anything but actions - and whatever needed to be done to fix it was done. His mom wasn’t there to love him, and his dad wasn’t a human being, and therefore was incapable of treating little Donnie like one (which is where he got it from). Aside from that, you have to assume he was raised by the help.

      Once he was old enough to ‘fend for himself,’ he only had to do a couple things: make sure that the money Daddy continued to give him was not taxed (handled by people he payed to do that kind of thing), and guilt/force his dying father to rewrite his will, ensuring that he (Donne) was taken care of and his brother was cut out. Beyond that, all he has ever had to learn to do was keep people from finding him out. Finding out that he wasn’t as rich as he says he is, that he isn’t as smart as he claims to be, that he’s not the world’s greatest businessman, the world’s most attractive man and best lover, that he isn’t the best president that this country and, by extension, the world, has ever fucking seen. He is a fraud and he knows it, but he’s convinced himself that he’s got everyone else convinced that he’s a straight shooter (when he’s on a bout of mania - I’m also convinced that when he’s depressed, he knows goddamn well that everything falling apart is just around the corner). The only people he doesn’t think he’s got convinced is “the Enemy of the People,” but he has to play the Victim sometimes - it’s part of his con.

      These are the reasons that he will go to his grave not learning a single lesson. He’s gotten this far without learning anything or having to change his behavior, so why should he start now? Actually, it’s not a question of “why start,” it’s the reality of “he’s very much neurologically and behaviorally incapable” of starting.

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    RubycakesIbn Safir
    11/23/18 10:46am

    Pictured: Trump pointing to the empty space where normal people have brains.

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      Bae Bae WattRubycakes
      11/23/18 11:18am

      “And HERE’S where I press when I want to smell burnt toast!”

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    Old white guyIbn Safir
    11/23/18 11:07am

    You just don’t get it. Trade wars are easy to win. He’s proven it. He worked a completely new deal for nafta! And China is about to cave! Trump said so right before the elections, proving he’s right. You all just can’t see the big picture and the master plan, and even if you could, it’s so complex your simple minds couldn’t comprehend it.

    But here, let me try to explain it to you:

    Trump raises tariffs -> other countries call trump and beg for trump to talk to them, they’ll give him anything -> trump signs new deals that make every American millionaires -> trump is lauded as a genius

    This plan is similar to the one he has used to improve the strength of the us around the world, which, as we all know, he has already succeeded at. Every world leader trump has talked to has said they can’t believe how much stronger the us is now than under weak-us obama!

    Rewriting nafta to make it the best trade deal ever made was just the start! The world is cowering at our feet, and trump is just waiting for the right time to let them up.

    But he’s also has other priorities that he wants to do before then. First up, bring back the unicorns! And not the lame ones, but ones that fly!

    This is what I’ve gleaned so far from watching Fox and friends this month.  

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    weapon-a the first try suffers no trollsIbn Safir
    11/23/18 11:40am

    If these tariffs aren’t the clearest example of his lack of understanding of the world and the sheer scope of his delusional state....

    China is effectively our manufacturing district. China has or controls an enormous range of essential natural resources, and a sizable portion of it’s population desperate to move out of poverty. Not to mention a government which controls everything and will tolerate no opposition.

    When one has a country whose leaders need not GAF what the population thinks and one whose population holds the key to their leaders success, which is more likely to feel inescapable pressure when their citizens begin to suffer?

    I simply cannot understand how this fool can even imagine a scenario in which the Chinese come running to us begging for tariffs to be eased before we come running to them.

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    bobettyIbn Safir
    11/23/18 11:49am

    I work for a company that handles data for significant manufactures in homewares. In the past month, we have gotten hundreds of price increase emails that go into effect Jan 1. If you need some shit, buy it before the end of the year.

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    torchbearer2Ibn Safir
    11/23/18 1:05pm

    What does Jack Daniel’s use that is subject to the tariffs? I thought the main focus was on steel and aluminum from China. Or is it just the barrel rings that are causing this.

    I wonder if Coke is going to use this price hike to not only cover the cost for cans but possibly move more people to the plastic bottled soda, causing them to buy more product and spend more money.

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      nopetorchbearer2
      11/23/18 1:14pm

      It’s China’s retaliation, I thought.

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      EBDBBNBtorchbearer2
      11/23/18 1:45pm

      There’s a 25% countervailing (response) tariff from the EU, Canada, etc. on bourbon because it’s such an iconic US beverage. Bourbon distillers are therefore losing tons of sales outside the US. They are going to raise prices inside the USA to make up for that.

      You’re right that the US tariffs are mostly on steel and aluminum. The countries hit by the tariffs implemented countervailing tariffs on US goods in equal value to the expected impact to their own economy from the US tariffs. These were strategically focused on things that would affect states with prominent US legislators. Bourbon = Kentucky = Mitch McConnell.

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    BadOmbreIbn Safir
    11/23/18 10:47pm

    Like, I don’t like who we’re going to get here, but less consuming in the end won’t necessarily be a bad thing.  We’ve been hooked on unrealistically cheap shit for years. 

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    boredalwaysIbn Safir
    11/23/18 11:28am

    He’s just butt hurt because no one gave a fuck about him over the holiday, trying to spin his daughter’s emails, and what real women think of him:

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