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Last week Beijing threatened to take action against any corporation seen as working against the interests of the state. This week communist Beijing begins doing exactly that.
The response is predictably authoritarian. All western businesses engaged with China are now at risk of retribution from the communist state.
All China is doing by retaliating against US companies is showing the political risk of doing business in China. What China is doing is exactly what Trump wants them to do, make themselves less attractive for foreign investment.China is counting on the prior western investment being so significant that a corporation will be reluctant to withdraw.
It creates a downward spiral. If any corporation is perceived as working against the interests of the state, the state will take control of the corporate interest. What western business interest would want to do business within China when that reality is the landscape of every economic decision?
Meanwhile, GM and Volvo, both with major financial investments in China, have requested relief from U.S. tariffs. This has been rejected by the Trump administration.
Trump only has to position U.S. policy to benefit non-engagement with China (see Huawei); and China will respond by harming or destroying any affiliated business they view as participating in, or supporting, the adverse policy [see Fed-Ex]. Beijing cannot help itself.
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This has to be in the top ten #TDS:
Florida woman stabs self, tells police she was âtired of living in Trumpâs countryâ
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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
This has to be in the top ten #TDS:
Florida woman stabs self, tells police she was âtired of living in Trumpâs countryâ
Ha, love that you aren't saying 'Peak' TDS. Might have a few peaks to go yet.
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Business interests who don't trust the Mexican government to deliver on the new promise will now use the 90-day window to reposition or exit.
Those who cannot withdraw (Ex. BMW); or those interests who choose to put their trust in Mexico to deliver (likely against the advice of risk mgmt); will now start a process of engagement w/ Mexico requesting/demanding promises they will follow through.
Who will the Chamber of Commerce powerful lobbying groups now pressure ? - the Mexican govt.
Multinational banks and corporations that will now start calling Lopez-Obrador and his ministers demanding concrete assurances of their follow-through. This puts massive pressure on Mexico to comply with the agreement.
Failure of the Mexican government to follow-through, isn't as simple as breaking a promise.... [Another broken promise etc. etc.] This time if Mexico doesn't follow-through, and if Trump does follow-through in 90 days, their financial economy will collapse overnight.
The 'Trump Doctrine' is primarily using economic strength as leverage to achieve national security objectives.
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Field is wide as a Melbourne Cup.
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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
Field is wide as a Melbourne Cup.
Fake Latino O'Rourke should give up now. He's even getting pummelled by Biden in Texas.
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513 DAYS TO GO:
2008 Dem: Clinton led by 8.8 points.
2008 GOP: Giuliani led by 9.5 points.
2012 GOP: Romney led by 11 points.
2016 Dem: Clinton led by 47.5 points.
2016 GOP: Bush led by 0.2 points.A loooong way to go. Last time around Trump launched his campaign on June 16th. There'll be more Dems added to that list.
Most of those names I think are running to boost their profile. It helps with book deals/cable tv contracts
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@MN5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Did Trump have a shit in this guys cornflakes or what ?
What a sad, pathetic article.
Anyone who writes a âlook at me everyone, Iâm telling the leader of the free world what I think of him â article accusing anyone else of being a narcissist.
Why itâs like raaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiin on your wedding daaay ...... -
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@MN5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Did Trump have a shit in this guys cornflakes or what ?
What a sad, pathetic article.
Anyone who writes a âlook at me everyone, Iâm telling the leader of the free world what I think of him â article accusing anyone else of being a narcissist.
Why itâs like raaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiin on your wedding daaay ......Look I'm no fan of Trump but by christ whiny pussy shitcunts like that do the anti Trump cause absolutely NO favours at all with articles like the one I stupidly read.
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@MN5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@MN5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Did Trump have a shit in this guys cornflakes or what ?
What a sad, pathetic article.
Anyone who writes a âlook at me everyone, Iâm telling the leader of the free world what I think of him â article accusing anyone else of being a narcissist.
Why itâs like raaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiin on your wedding daaay ......Look I'm no fan of Trump but by christ whiny pussy shitcunts like that do the anti Trump cause absolutely NO favours at all with articles like the one I stupidly read.
He's the same tool that "just happened" to be at RNZ when they interviewed Molyneuax and Southern and when they left the studio he started ranting at them . I sure rather than walking away thinking they had been enlightened as to the errors of their ways they were thinking "who was that fuckwit and how did he make it past security?".
Oddly enough I think Stuff has improved a bit lately , their longform articles are good, so are their podcasts and they had an article about hunting in the weekend that was pretty nuanced by their standards and presented both sides. Then you remember they still employ Alison Mau whos #metoo crusade produced basically nothing apart from a video that got so little traffic that it basically cost Stuff $1000 a view and they give column space to a window licker like Phil Quin. -
â...he is dumber than the dumbest person I know...â
Makes it all the more amazing how heâs a real-life Lex Luthor who concocted the Crime of the Century stealing an election and bettering the FBI, CIA, NSA and every intelligence agency in the Western World. But yeah, sure darling, heâs dumber than the dumbest person that any Stuff editorialist has ever met. Theyâre a MENSA crowd over there.
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@Frank said in US Politics:
Andrew McCarthy.
Could it be, that the FBI and CIA ALWAYS KNEW it was garbage and they conspired to undermine a sitting President ???????????????????????????????
Surely just a conspiracy - right??????
That whole commentary is excellent. For starters (quoting):
Could former Obama-administration intelligence chiefs run any faster from the Steele dossier? âPseudo-intelligence,â scoffs former national intelligence director James Clapper in his new memoir â after having arranged for the dossier to be included in a briefing of then-president-elect Trump, ensuring it would be published by the media. John Brennan, the former CIA director, belittles the dossier as uncorroborated reporting never refined into an authentic intelligence-agency product â and hopes we donât notice his behind-the-scenes stoking of the dossierâs explosive allegations during the 2016 campaign. âSalacious and unverified,â sniffs former FBI director James Comey â after his bureau repeatedly relied on the dossier to obtain surveillance warrants from a federal court.
Even the principal author himself, former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, no longer stands behind his work. He touted it plenty ahead of the election he told colleagues he desperately wanted Trump to lose. Later, though, when he was sued for libel in Britain and had to answer questions under oath, the dossier disintegrated into âunverifiedâ bits of âraw intelligenceâ that he had passed along because they âwarranted further investigationâ â not because they were, you know, true.
By any objective measure, Steeleâs dossier is a shoddy piece of work. [...]
(Dodgier than Dodgy.)
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Too many truth-bombs about illegal immigration and itâs drain on the American economy from this minority professor, so youâd better believe the sjw lynch-mob wants him silenced and unemployable.
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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
â...he is dumber than the dumbest person I know...â
Makes it all the more amazing how heâs a real-life Lex Luthor who concocted the Crime of the Century stealing an election and bettering the FBI, CIA, NSA and every intelligence agency in the Western World. But yeah, sure darling, heâs dumber than the dumbest person that any Stuff editorialist has ever met. Theyâre a MENSA crowd over there.
I think it really gives the far left snowflake some sort of bizarrely misguided and inaccurate moral high ground by pointing out how supposedly dumb the US president is.
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