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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
The Mod with the Migraine
I dunno if this
was discussed, but apparently the tariffs on Chinese-made goods won't affect Ivanka Trump's products.
While Trump rails at Harley-Davidson motorcycles for moving some production to Europe to dodge EU tariffs, the first daughter and senior White House adviser has never manufactured a single product for her Ivanka Trump brand on American soil.
Trump enacted tariffs Friday morning on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods, affecting hundreds of products from boats to medical devices and auto parts. Products spared include those manufactured by his daughter.
That means Chengdu Kameido Shoes in Sichuan province can continue to supply shoes for the Ivanka Trump brand as it has in the past. It's currently bidding for a new contract to manufacture 140,000 pairs of shoes for Trump's company, a spokesman told The South China Morning Post.
Hangzhou HS Fashion in Zhejiang province also said it's filling orders for orders for the G-III Apparel Group, which supplies shoes to Trump's brand.
At this point I'm convinced Trump knows how terrible these tariffs are and has only enacted them to screw over people he doesn't like because he can.
Edited by PhysicalStamina on Jul 10th 2018 at 9:51:58 AM
i'm tired, my friendAnd there's no particular reason for Moore to have any favor with Trump, while horrifying the idea of his nomination to the Supreme Court was more or less impossible (or so implausible to have no functional difference).
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
Probably not. Net neutrality isn't something enough senators and their most vocal constituents understand, care enough about, and in the former case, are willing to stake their careers on.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Oregon cattle ranchers Dwight Hammond and his son after both were convicted on arson charges, sparking the 2016 occupation of a wildlife refuge, according to a White House statement.
Ahead of Trump's visit to the U.K., the song "American Idiot" has been topping UK charts.
Maybe we should try to do that here as well.
Edited by megaeliz on Jul 10th 2018 at 11:57:03 AM
If we're looking for historical similarities to Trump, look no further than Theodore G. Bilbo
, famed advocate for segregation and using very similar rhetoric.
Examples:
Edited by TheWildWestPyro on Jul 10th 2018 at 9:15:38 AM
There's a thing that slightly confuses me. If I understand the financial contributions to NATO correctly, making all the member states increase their military budget wouldn't actually be of any aid to the USA's finances unless Americans used it as incentive to lower their own military spending in turn. We all know suggesting cuts to military spending is basically blasphemy to the GOP, so... in concrete terms, what exactly does Trump expect to gain from making the NATO countries increase military spending?
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He's making that argument out of a sort of misplaced "we shouldn't be paying for other countries" logic. Of course it's ridiculous, but that's Trump for you.
There are actual arguments to be made for NATO countries increasing spending, but they're completely detached from anything Trump has said on the subject.
They should have sent a poet.I'm behind the curve, but that news story from a few pages ago about the Trump Administration halting billions in Obamacare payments to the insurance companies...how stupid are these people? That one move took a massive chunk out of the profits of those companies and it's likely to get the companies to, at the very least, suddenly get a lot less helpful to the Republicans. That is, the ones that weren't smart enough to realize that Obamancare was actually a really good deal for them.
Trump expects other NATO countries to pay America. As in, write a check and put money into US's bank account. Coz he has no idea how NATO works and his closest mental model is paying membership fees in a club (or a protection racket, take your pick).
His line to Merkel about her owing him a trillion dollars makes perfect sense in this context.
Edited by nightwyrm_zero on Jul 10th 2018 at 1:49:23 PM
https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1016642192616706050?s=19
