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" Richard Michael Blaber (@rmblaber1956.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy) April 21, 2025 at 10:28 AM

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China thinks it's more popular and has more pull than the US?

Good thing our president hasn't alienated friend and foe alike in his three (!!?!?) months in office.

#1 | Posted by censored at 2025-04-21 04:29 PM | Reply

No worries. Trump is folding like a wet kleenex.
Xi must have gotten advice from the taliban.

#2 | Posted by northguy3 at 2025-04-22 10:35 PM | Reply

With any luck, Trump is going to cave, like a bitch, which of course is the right thing to do.

Today, Trump said in a press conference he is not going to play hardball with China.
Trump also told reporters he would be very nice in negotiations with Beijing.
www.reuters.com

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-22 10:45 PM | Reply

I do now and have for a very long time that free trade is the best way to insure peace. Antagonizing Chiba with excessive tariffs is just nore stupidity from Trump who is hardly knowledgeable about world economics.

#4 | Posted by danni at 2025-04-23 12:46 AM | Reply

I do now and have for a very long time that free trade is the best way to insure peace. Antagonizing Chiba with excessive tariffs is just nore stupidity from Trump who is hardly knowledgeable about world economics.

#4 | Posted by danni at 2025-04-23 12:46 AM | Reply | Flag:

Free for who? Everyone else, but not the US?

China wouldn't have a pot or a window if it weren't for us. They're thieves and they use slave labor, but you're just fine with Latinos and the Chinese being slaves - just as long as it isn't a black person FFS. The Chinese also steal intelectual property and copyrights/trademarks. They're dishonest, inhumane schittbags and I hope Trump sinks them. And I hope he does this while you raetards bitch and gripe over deported ------------------- violence criminals who you think should be able to freely walk the streets of our country. bEcAuSe dUe pRocEsS!!!
That alone, is going to ensure that your party stays clear of any high office for at least a decade.

Imagine being so inflamed with anti-Trump fever that you cheer for the same people that pulled off the Tian'anmen Square massacre.

#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-04-23 01:12 AM | Reply

"Free for who? Everyone else, but not the US?
China wouldn't have a pot or a window if it weren't for us. They're thieves and they use slave labor."

Your entire mentality is that you are a victim.

But America has had the strongest economy on the planet for your entire life, until a few weeks ago.

Why can't you just accept that fact?

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-23 01:57 AM | Reply

"Imagine being so inflamed with anti-Trump fever that you cheer for the same people that pulled off the Tian'anmen Square massacre."

Tiananmen Square, got anything from this century?

Are you anti Israel because of the USS Liberty?

Still boycotting Jane Fonda?

Bitch, you'd cheer for a Tian'anmen Square massacre if it happened to George Floyd protesters.

Imagine still thinking Republicans are good on the very issues that stir your soul, when it was a Republican who opened trade with China in the first place.

Every time you open your mouth, all the sadnesa and disappointment that makes up your life comes out. Did you know that?

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-23 02:05 AM | Reply

"China wouldn't have a pot or a window if it weren't for us."

Same thing could be said about Germany and Japan. Fact is entrance into the exclusive club of economically successful nations should not be restricted by ideology. If the Chinese required 50 years of Communism to escape thousands of years of feudalism then that's what it took but today theu are jist compeditors and America would be smart to meet competition head on not be so frightened by competition that we feel the need to hobble them with tariffs. Let trade be free and let consumers choose whose product they will buy!
In truth, I don't think American CEOs even want tariffs b4cause American ptoducts are still desirable. If antthing tariffs make American products less desirable because we need tariffs to protect them from foreign competition when inventiveness, engineering and design should be the pathways to success. Build a better product....they will come! Realize protectionism just allows businesses wighout new ideas to exist a few more years before they die. Business cannot hide behind protectionism and still be on the cutting edge.
In the end tariffs are simply a hrdge against newer, smarter ideas and products.

#8 | Posted by danni at 2025-04-23 02:23 AM | Reply

Pearls before swine Danni.

I don't know how you did it but congrats on no more typos.

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-23 02:26 AM | Reply

"China wouldn't have a pot or a window if it weren't for us"

You sound like that prancing boy in eyeliner they call JD Vance.

You think China owes you a Thank You.

Nobody owes America anything.

We're not special. We're not even top tier any more since our President can't formulate a trade policy any better than he can control his bowels.

You're supposed to be HAPPY the world is abandoning America, it's what you've always wanted.

You wouldn't have a pot or a window if it weren't for America.

But the concept of being grateful for what you have is completely lost on you.

You'll miss it when it's gone. You missed it when you had it too. Just endless sadness and regret emanating from you.

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-23 02:35 AM | Reply

"Bitch, you'd cheer for a Tian'anmen Square massacre if it happened to George Floyd protesters."

Your projection is through the roof. JFC. And you keep your status as Hall of Fame for false equivalencies.

I really want to attribute it to you being dumb. But I don't believe you are dumb. So it's you being disingenuous and malicious.

#11 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-23 02:38 AM | Reply

Snoofy is now a CCP loving supporter?

Color me NOT surprised.

#12 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-23 02:39 AM | Reply

Your comment makes no sense JeffJ.

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-23 02:40 AM | Reply

Sure it does.

#14 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-23 02:50 AM | Reply

Remember Bush doing nothing after Tienanmen Square?

Remember how you applauded our Republican leadership of not making any rash decisions that might upset his New World Order?

Remember how human rights has taken a back seat to global commerce at least since Carter?

Remember how Capitalism has lifted the third world out of poverty?

I guess you dummies don't remember any of that.

Because now you want to start a trade war with China.

Because you're mad and pouting about the past fifty years of free trade with China. You think USA got scammed by China.

Well that only happened because some Republican called President Nixon went to China in the first place.

So who really scammed you? The Republicans you've been voting for your whole life.

Republicans know you are so stupid and so indoctrinated you will never accept that Republicans created our trade situation with China.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-23 02:53 AM | Reply

"Free for who? Everyone else, but not the US?"

Free for the American consumers to but whatever oroduct they prefer at the best price offered. Understand? Tariffs tell the world, very loudly, that our manufacturers can't compete with theirs. Is that "Winning!"?

#16 | Posted by danni at 2025-04-23 03:09 AM | Reply

I think Amrtica is about tired of "Winning!"? and wants some reality in economic policy. America became rich because of ingenuity and invention not because of protectionism. Tariffs are Ptotectionism. You actually have to decide; either you believw in free trade or you don't! I do, Trump does not.

#17 | Posted by danni at 2025-04-23 03:16 AM | Reply

Imagine being so inflamed with anti-Trump fever that you cheer for the same people that pulled off the Tian'anmen Square massacre.
#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds

You think Tianmen Square was a bad thing? Because it destroyed democracy in China?

But you and the other MAGATs have no qualms about supporting Trump, the insurrectionist leader who attacked democracy in our own nation and is handing over Ukraine, a democratic nation, to Russia's midget thieving dictator.

#18 | Posted by censored at 2025-04-23 05:17 AM | Reply

The people that believe donny doll hands is an expert negotiator have got to be the dumbest people on the planet.

Donny has relied his entire life on being able to force small contractors into accepting payment for a fraction of the contract price by refusing payment and then using his wealth to pay lawyers to drag lawsuits out until small businesses were on the verge of bankruptcy.

He can't do that with other nations.

He has picked a fight with the entire world and thinks he has the upper hand.

Japan keeps asking for what he wants out of the negotiations and he refuses to tell them. petapixel.com

It's almost like the elderly sundowning grandpa befuddlepants end game is just to break ---- and have no plan to fix it in order to destroy the United States.

Good job magats.

#19 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-04-23 07:18 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"But America has had the strongest economy on the planet for your entire life, until a few weeks ago.
#6 | Posted by snoofy"

The US still has the strongest economy on the planet and has now set China back 20 years or more in their economic development.

#20 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-23 09:16 AM | Reply

"I really want to attribute it to you being dumb. But I don't believe you are dumb. So it's you being disingenuous and malicious."

My irony meter just exploded.

But I'll keep this quote for the future.

#21 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-23 11:30 AM | Reply

China has stuff we need.
The only thing America has that China needs is consumers.
It wouldn't take much for Xi to create a consumer driven economy three times the population of America.
And Rubio is busy retreating from Africa and Asia, leaving room for China to expand trade.
Mao called America a paper tiger. Trump is making that the reality.

#22 | Posted by northguy3 at 2025-04-23 03:22 PM | Reply

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