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@gt12 said in US Politics:
I think he's done well - or looks like he's done well, but that tweet above is not much of a win. The tariff before this war was 15% and the major makers all have joint ventures there with almost no exporting to China anyway.
Biggest winner from this is Tesla given their manufacturing still just in California, and China by far the world's biggest EV market.
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Also related to past FDI regulations (I think) that required partnership with a local company?
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... a cartoon depicting the late president flying in to meet his wife, who passed away in April, and their young daughter, who died from leukemia at age 3 in 1953
Source: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12170527
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@no-quarter said in US Politics:
As you can imagine Twitter is having a field day with this.
That is glorious. What a deluded clown.
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@antipodean
Couple of replies worth reading.After consulting with my family and at their request, I've decided not to become a 50-year-old supermodel. I do not make this decision lightly. I make it out of respect for anyone who has to see me in a bathing suit. But for their concerns, I still wouldn't try to be a supermodel
After consulting with my family and at their request, I've decided not to run the New York marathon in a Mankini. As an overweight man, I do not make this decision lightly. I make it out of respect for anyone who would have to see this. But for their concerns, I would run...
After consultation with my family and at their request, I have decided not to seek the position of Grand Oompah Loompah of the Moon in 2020. I do not make this decision lightly - I make it out of respect for my family, the impossibility of the feat, and my lack of a spaceship.
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@jc said in US Politics:
@jegga is it just me or have other people warmed to Bush Jr in the past few years? Seems like a decent and genuine bloke. Quite witty too.
Yeah I agree, Obama was raving about how much he liked him in the media today . I don’t think he ever got credit for giving more aid to Africa than any other previous president or the work his administration did to slash the numbers of homeless either .
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@jc said in US Politics:
@jegga is it just me or have other people warmed to Bush Jr in the past few years? Seems like a decent and genuine bloke. Quite witty too.
I think his entire legacy is tarnished because of Iraq. His Statesmanship in never criticising Obama speaks volumes to the same principles he was clearly raised with.
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No it is all to do with media bias. Every single republican president or republican presidential candidate is evil and stupid. Once they are no longer a threat, they are treated fairly.
What is amazing is the retards in the world who keep falling for the propoganda. Look at how Trump is treated despite doing a great job in every way that matters
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@antipodean said in US Politics:
@jc said in US Politics:
@jegga is it just me or have other people warmed to Bush Jr in the past few years? Seems like a decent and genuine bloke. Quite witty too.
I think his entire legacy is tarnished because of Iraq. His Statesmanship in never criticising Obama speaks volumes to the same principles he was clearly raised with.
Some of the people like Cheney that he surrounded himself with did him no favours either, the 2000 election got him off to a pretty shitty start too. You can argue about Florida but Gore didn’t even win his home state , what does that say about him?
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It's rather hilarious hearing and reading these glowing tributes to McCain and Bush Sr from people who regarded them as one step removed from Hitler and the KKK when they were poltical or ideological rivals. And now Bush Jr is OK? He was the devil incarnate a decade ago.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in US Politics:
It's rather hilarious hearing and reading these glowing tributes to McCain and Bush Sr from people who regarded them as one step removed from Hitler and the KKK when they were poltical or ideological rivals
Yep. Particularly Obama, who made great play in the 2008 campaign of the way McCain held his hands, using it to suggest McCain's body-language proved he was dishonest and lying. He and his campaign knew that McCain's hands were injured when he was tortured as a PoW in Vietnam and that McCain would simply ignore it, as he had long refused to make made a big thing of any "war-hero" status.
Speaks volumes about the statemanship and morality of the two men.
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@jc said in US Politics:
@jegga is it just me or have other people warmed to Bush Jr in the past few years? Seems like a decent and genuine bloke. Quite witty too.
Google PEPFAR - Bush's African AIDS programme. It will tell you why he is so admired in Africa. E.g, last year year the 2 mllionth baby in Africa was born HIV-free to infected mothers thanks to Bush's AIDS programme.
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@victor-meldrew said in US Politics:
@jc said in US Politics:
@jegga is it just me or have other people warmed to Bush Jr in the past few years? Seems like a decent and genuine bloke. Quite witty too.
Google PEPFAR - Bush's African AIDS programme. It will tell you why he is so admired in Africa. E.g, last year year the 2 mllionth baby in Africa was born HIV-free to infected mothers thanks to Bush's AIDS programme.
Thanks for that . Jimmy Carter was similarly the butt of jokes and derision for years and his foundation effectively eradicated hookworm in Africa too.
https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2016/1/8/10735108/jimmy-carter-guinea-worm
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@jegga said in US Politics:
Thanks for that . Jimmy Carter was similarly the butt of jokes and derision for years and his foundation effectively eradicated hookworm in Africa too.
https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2016/1/8/10735108/jimmy-carter-guinea-wormThanks, I'll read that.
The more you read, the more you realise what Bush achieved in Africa was staggering. How he achieved it - by out-of-the-box thinking which challenged assumptions that Africans wouldn't take drugs, by using every channel possible to get the drugs to the people that needed them and paying licence fees so African pharma companies could make HIV drugs cheaply - was stunning.
Hard to believe Obama and the Democrats tried to kill the program on the basis that the groups distributing the drugs were Christian aid groups who opposed gay marriage.... (yes, really)
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@victor-meldrew said in US Politics:
@jegga said in US Politics:
Thanks for that . Jimmy Carter was similarly the butt of jokes and derision for years and his foundation effectively eradicated hookworm in Africa too.
https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2016/1/8/10735108/jimmy-carter-guinea-wormThanks, I'll read that.
The more you read, the more you realise what Bush achieved in Africa was staggering. How he achieved it - by out-of-the-box thinking which challenged assumptions that Africans wouldn't take drugs, by using every channel possible to get the drugs to the people that needed them and paying licence fees so African pharma companies could make HIV drugs cheaply - was stunning.
Hard to believe Obama and the Democrats tried to kill the program on the basis that the groups distributing the drugs were Christian aid groups who opposed gay marriage.... (yes, really)
But lots of presidents do important stuff after they retire. Obama himself is writing his book, which is critical to his receiving a $65m cheque.
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