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@#6 ... you're all liars....repeating a GD lie ...
Yeah. Reminds me of this tune ...
Beat Farmers - Happy Boy (1985)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
...
I was walkin' down the street on a sunny day
Hubba hubba hubba hubba hubba
A feelin' in my bones that I'll have my way
Hubba hubba hubba hubba hubba
Well, I'm a happy boy, happy boy
Well, I'm a happy boy, happy boy
Oh ain't it good when things are goin' your way, hey hey?
My little dog Spot got hit by a car
Hubba hubba hubba hubba hubba
Put his guts in a box and put him in a drawer
Hubba hubba hubba hubba hubba
Well, I'm a happy boy, happy boy
Well, I'm a happy boy, happy boy
Oh ain't it good when things are goin' your way, hey hey?
I forgot all about it for a month and a half
Hubba hubba hubba hubba hubba
I looked in the drawer and started to laugh
Hubba hubba hubba hubba hubba
Cause I'm a happy boy, happy boy
Well, I'm a happy boy, happy boy
Oh ain't it good when things are goin' your way, hey hey?
...
@#6 ... you're all liars....repeating a GD lie ...
Two comments ...
1) it is good to see that your current trolling alias seems to have noted the difference between ~EVERY comment here is based on a gd lie~ ( drudge.com ) and ~you all are liars.~ Congrats on that.
2) please be specific about the "GD lie" that is being repeated. And also, for bonus points, why your current alias thinks it is a lie.
thx.
@#30 ... China has been the clear loser. ...
While I agree China is going through tough times, I do not agree that toughness is the result of trade wars.
China's big problems are real estate.
OpEd: China's Economy Is in Deep Trouble (February 2025)
www.newsweek.com
... "China's economy is confronting a crisis unlike any it has experienced since it opened its economy to the world more than four decades ago," the New York Times reported in September.
Why is the crisis so severe? For starters, China is currently having its 2008 downturn.
In 2008, China's President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao decided they would not allow the economy to suffer, so they embarked on perhaps the biggest stimulus program in history.
The result was historic overbuilding, and the country now has too much of almost everything. For instance, He Keng, a former senior statistics official, in 2023 publicly revealed that China had enough vacant apartments to house the entire population of 1.4 billion people. He noted that some believed that empty homes could hold three billion.
To deal with the severe imbalance, some Chinese localities are demolishing newly completed but vacant apartment buildings. Yet this is only a temporary fix. After all, destroyed buildings cannot produce revenue to pay for their construction and demolition. ...
But ... how does that affect the exports the US seems to be so reliant upon?
Trump Lays Out Economic Plan " Everything From Cutting Taxes, Paying Off the Debt to 'rill, Baby Drill' (August 2024)
www.usnews.com
... The former president promised that inflation would go away and taxes would fall, while energy and electricity costs would be cut in half.
Donald Trump laid out a promise of a broad economic agenda that included drilling for more American energy, lowering taxes, eliminating inflation, sending migrants back home, saving Social Security and Medicare, and keeping the U.S. out of World War Three.
In what was billed as a serious discussion of economic policy, Trump focused heavily on inflation and the higher cost of living that has ensued during the past three years. And he laid the blame for that squarely at the feet of Vice President Kamala Harris.
"We will drive prices down and make America affordable again," Trump said to a full crowd of about 2,500 at an indoor arena in Asheville, North Carolina.
Trump served up a smorgasbord of red meat to the friendly audience " from promising to "drill, baby drill" and increase U.S. energy production that is already at record levels to cutting government regulations and removing taxes on tips and Social Security.
He even promised to pay off the national debt, now running at $35 trillion and to which he added nearly $8 trillion while he was president. But he honed in on inflation and talked about it in simple terms, while laying the blame on President Joe Biden and Harris.
"A lot of people are devastated by this economy," he said. "Our country has become a third world nation ... a banana republic in so many ways." ...
@#24 ... No, US consumers will not pay the tariffs. ...
Yawn.
Do try to troll better.
What are tariffs, who pays for them and what can they do to the economy?
www.colorado.edu
Who Pays Tariffs? Americans Will Bear the Costs of the Next Trade War
taxfoundation.org
Trump's tariffs are here --" here's who pays for these import taxes and how much prices could rise
www.bankrate.com
What else yer current trolling alias got?
@#24 ... BARRETT joined the three commie females..... ...
What does your current alias think about the FACT that ALL NINE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES agreed and said that Due Process is required?
Supreme Court Rejects Trump's Claim That He Can Summarily Deport Anyone He Describes As an 'Alien Enemy'
reason.com
... The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously agreed that alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua have a due process right to challenge President Donald Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to summarily deport them. ...[emphasis mine]
A Unanimous Opinion.
@#2 ... jeebus ...
Yah.
This news comes on the heels of other news ...
USS Carl Vinson Sails Through Malacca Strait, Chinese Carrier Operating in the South China Sea After Taiwan Intimidation Drills (April 4, 2025)
news.usni.org
... The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group sailed through the Malacca Strait on Friday as it makes its way to U.S. Central Command.
Meanwhile, Japan's Joint Staff Office reported the People's Liberation Army Navy Shandong CSG sailed back into the South China Sea on Thursday after participating in PLA drills against Taiwan on Tuesday and Wednesday.
AIS data, along with photos from ship spotters, showed the Carl Vinson CSG, comprising aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) with embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2, cruiser USS Princeton (CG-59) and destroyer USS Sterett (DDG-104) transiting the Singapore Strait on Friday morning Singapore time. Subsequent data showed the CSG sailing north up the Malacca Strait later that day. Destroyer USS William P. Lawrence (DDG-110) deployed with the CSG when it departed the West Coast in mid-November and operated with the CSG until late March, but appears not to be following the CSG to the Middle East. ...
Things looking more tense near Taiwan ...
@#15 ... Orders are orders ...
Not true in the US. Maybe true in your current alias' country, though.
In the military in the US, the oath sworn is not to blindly obey orders, but to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." ( www.army.mil )
So, what happens when an order is given that runs counter to the oath sworn?