It is fun to watch liberals squirm in their own hypocrisy. Trump has literally forced them to decide whether they want cheap products or they want good labor laws for workers. Either they want jobs in America which will provide the protections American workers are privileged to have or they want kinds in China working 12 hour days, adults living in bunk beds in tiny rooms with very limited freedoms (even contractually stating as such), etc. etc.

Is it as bad as the media makes it out to be? No. Is it proportionally bad? It definitely is. These things are happening. There is plenty of evidence to prove it and the only evidence China provides otherwise are just documents with no actual tangible evidence.

The products will either have to be made in America or other countries that offer all of the entitlements and privileges liberals fight for for workers which incurs the higher costs, or liberals are just being hypocrites and only care about workers near them and don't care about workers who make their cheap products.

Generally speaking, the liberal responses to the situation has already illustrated which they choose, and it isn't the workers.

"Why should Walmart eat economic losses to preserve Trump's political capital?"

OH MY FREAKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD! So many liberals are so clueless. Here, let me make a similar post:

"Why should Walmart eat economic losses to preserve Democrat's tax increases on businesses and the rich?"

It's the same freaking thing. No matter when happens, when a corporation's bottom line is impacted, prices are increased. When a rich person has his networth impacted, he lobbies and does shady things to pass on the impact to workers. Yet, liberals want corporations to pay more more more more more more. That more more more more will be passed on to consumers. This isn't conjecture, there are decades and decades of history that prove this.

Tariffs may not be the answer. But neither is ANYTHING that liberals have come up with. If you really think it's a problem. If you really are sick of corporations not paying their share, do something about it that doesn't have the same freaking impact of anything someone else is trying to do. How is this not complete common sense? How has your party sheeped you so thoroughly? How has hypocrisy become your new ideology above your principles?

"Wishing all the best to a fine, principled, ethical man, who puts his (actually) Christian beliefs in action."

"Biden is an ethical man and a patriot."

"I can still think offshoring was stupid and that we need to rebuild a manufacturing base here in the US. Doesn't mean I have to agree that tariffs are a good idea or a POTUS trying to bully corps into eating the cost of his reckless policy."

This is the problem with American politics, or at least the two-party system. Biden and Obama did nothing to solve the problem. They put band-aids on stuff just like Reps do but nothing was actually done to a) identify where the country can do better (efficiencies, FWA, etc.) and b) analyze incoming vs. outgoing and figure out what level of income is needed to ensure we have more than what is outgoing.

I loved when Obama campaigned on using a scalpel to go through government programs to identify all of the FWA. Liberals ABSOLUTELY loved it. But he never did it. Then DOGE comes along to do EXACTLY what Obama wanted and all of a sudden liberals completely disagree with doing it. When, in reality, we should ALL not care about who does it and just ensure SOMEONE does it. But the two-party system doesn't work like that. In fact, the two-party system has gotten so bad and corrupt that, even when billions in savings is realized, the party not doing it actually tries to get everyone to believe that those savings aren't actually beneficial. And I mean the real improvements. I'm not saying everything DOGE has done was done the right way or cause more expenses downstream than the fix. But there ARE still billions of dollars being saved that were 100% FWA and liberals are trying to convince this country that that is a bad thing (and DR can't deny it at all since you have actively put multiple articles on this site about this very topic).

So, when you say you agree with rebuilding manufacturing in America, then you are saying one of two things in your statement...a) you feel inaction is better than an action you do not agree with or b) you feel only your side should ever be the one who fixes anything, even when they don't. Either way, both of those options are why America never fixes anything anymore.

Yeah, it's easy to see how the parties change over time like this. Reps today are more for what Dems were for in the 90s, including immigration, wanting changes, etc. Liberals today are all about keeping things the way they've always been and catering to big business.

This occurred in the 70s too. After the liberal movements of the 60s, the 70s saw them become much less about freedom and more about controlling the masses based on moral grounds.

Yep, just more evidence that Trump's loud mouth and absurd perception of reality is no different than the activist judges who are opposing everything he does.

And yet, both sides cheer them all on based on ideologies.

And America just gets worse and worse for it.

I was hoping to come to the comments to see balanced conversations, or at least some comments with logic. But, alas, it's just not possible on DR.

I think it's freaking hilarious that if you were to get rid of any partisan language at all, the detractors of this would seem Republic and the supporters would see Dem. The billions involved in the fluoride industry and the buddy-buddy system used to determine which companies profit from adding it to the water due to the government forcing it is right out of the Republican handbook...yet here we are, liberals doing everything they can to protect big business hypocritically because partisan politics is much more important to most of you than actually clinging to your principles.

Try to deny it. I can probably do 5 minutes of research on DR alone that would yield hundreds of examples of liberals demonizing every single legislation passed by Reps that mandate something and calling out the profits made by the companies who benefit from the mandates. Liberals didn't believe their own hypocrisy when Biden started mandating EV and EV infrastructure, mostly just ignoring how much money liberal-owned businesses were standing to make from the mandates. But here is another shining example that you can't deny.

But, going down the illogical rabbit hole liberals tend to go to when you call out their hypocrisy and they can't do anything to deny it, the most obvious rebuttal will be that liberals only do it when it's morally right...such as ensuring people get what they need for healthy teeth. But, the easy response to that is simple, you are FORCING it on people. You are removing freedoms from people because you feel it should be forced on them. Just like when Reps FORCE liberals to not be able to get abortions. You liberals whine and cry about that and say how it's the woman's body and the government shouldn't be able to control it. Well, welcome to inconvenient reality...it's my body so you forcing me to ingest something I don't want to ingest means you are trying to control my body.

Then, even more down the rabbit hole, liberals can say "Well, you can always drink bottled water and not be forced to drink the fluoride in tap water." Which is a double whammy on your side since 1) that also caters to big business and 2) that disproportionately negatively impacts lower income people.

So, please, enlighten us how this entire article and your viewpoint isn't the EXACT same thing Reps do. But because it is a Rep who supports it, you all of a sudden don't. Not because of any logic or principles, no. It's solely because your ego must be stroked at all costs and you can't stand when someone doesn't agree with everything you say and do.

Thus, saying your actions are not what is best for America is more accurate than any argument you have given so far. And this isn't an indictment of just Dems, this is both sides. It's just that this example is a shining one that exposes how bad partisan sheep are for this country.

This is the problem with campaigns and people basing their opinions on what someone says during a campaign and not what they have actually gotten accomplished in their career. For example:

"Trump ran on a platform that he would he end the war in Ukraine quickly (in 24 hours), arguing that he was the only one with the gravitas and strength to handle the Russian leader."

Biden ran a campaign saying he could fix the covid situation in a month. Yet, it took him almost a year to get it to a manageable point.

Campaigns are useless considering 90% of the people already know who they are going to vote for just based off of party ideology. Anyone who believes anything a candidate says they are going to do immediately is just a sheep. The candidates started getting smart to this and started using EOs to try to make their quick promises, but now voters are fed up with that and being predictably hypocritical and loving EOs when it is their party doing them but demonizing them when it is the other party doing them.

In other words, being surprised by a candidate not meeting exaggerated campaign commitments is a you problem.

No matter which side it is, it always makes me sad when one party demonized anything good that comes from the other party. America was never founded on this predication and anyone who celebrates it is just hurting everyone.

But my serious issue I have is with liberals and wanting to cheap prices in trade for worker oppression. This is exactly what liberals are mad with the China situation. Liberals are crying that prices are going to go up, which is true. But, the reason for it is solely because to produce things ourselves, it costs more. And it costs more due to labor. Labor isn't the only reason but it is such a significant portion of ANY costs of production that it will always be a factor. So, liberals are turning a blind eye to worker oppression in the name of cheap products. They don't seem to care about the lack of child labor laws, fair pay, worker conditions, etc. as long as it isn't happening in America. And that's just sad.

What makes it even harder to understand is that liberals have been on the "America is a rich nation" for quite a while now. Liberals say there is no reason we can't provide a living wage. There is no reason we can't provide a basic income. There is no reason we can't take care of illegals. Etc. Etc. So, if America is so rich that we can do all of this, why can't we absorb higher prices in the name of workers' rights? I don't like that costs have to go up but I'm willing to trade it to ensure the people making the products are treated humanely. And, while the situation may not be as exaggerated as some outlets make it out to be, China DOES oppress a very large portion of their manufacturing jobs. They work in conditions and for wages in which liberal heads would explode if America were doing it.

This is my only gripe with the tariff opposition that liberals have. You can make up all the excuses you want but, in the end, supporting China and the trade relations we have with them today means you are supporting kids working 12 hours a day, people sleeping in bunk-bed cots in tiny rooms between shifts, etc. This isn't made up. This is all real. Continue to ignore it all you want but if you feel we are rich enough to give everyone money for nothing, then you inherently agree that we are rich enough to spend a few more dollars on products (unless you actually realize that Biden already increased inflation so much that our rich wiggle room has run out).

It's hilarious to watch Trump say he's so sick of waste but then turns around and does something so meaningless that requires a lot of costs. It's not weaponized liberal hypocrisy bad, but it's almost just as stupid.

"Thank God there's nothing else for house republicans to focus their attention on.
How much are they getting paid to sit back while Trump runs this nation through executive orders?"

Almost EXACTLY word-for-word what Reps were saying about Biden his first week in office. I knew it wouldn't take but a few seconds to find a prime example of that weaponized liberal hypocrisy.

Again, if you don't like a POTUS abusing EO privileges, stop your own side from doing it and THEN worry about other people. Or, will you put money on the table right now that when a Dem is voted in the POTUS seat again that he/she will not use EOs? You can't have it both ways.

"I'll bet you already say "Gulf of America"."

I think it's a ridiculous waste of time and money. But, yeah, proving my point above, you make up arguments and assumptions just to have something to whine about.

"You gonna volunteer for the invasion of Greenland?"

Calling out things that aren't debatable because of the ample evidence that is out there doesn't, in any way even tangetially, provide any evidence that that statement applies to me. Again, more proof you just make up things to argue instead of answering to reality.

I really would love to say it's not your fault because the Dem party has groomed you so well, but it is. My turn to make an assumption...you are probably someone who has an IQ over 50 and can make reasonable conclusions when partisan narratives aren't involved. You should do that more instead of immediately name calling and demonizing someone who brings up a point that doesn't fit well with yours but has plenty of evidence that proves it is a fair statement. It may not be 100% perfect or apply to every perspective, but it's demonstrably a fair statement.

"Immigrants have a higher rate of violent criminal activity than Citizens is an ideological purity test for Republicans."

Unfortunately, it's your own myopic, incorrect logic that is making that point. For Republicans, the idea is that if those illegals (remember, Reps are against illegals, not immigrants like you keep trying to incorrectly elude to) weren't here in the first place, the violent crimes wouldn't be committed. So, let's say Americans commit a random number of violent crime, like 10%. Then, you add in just 1% from illegals, that makes it 11%.

So, in a Rep's mind, whether you agree or not, the thinking is that the 1% wouldn't even exist if the illegals weren't here. There is no purity test or random, made-up litmus you try to put into the conversation just because of partisan hate and no real logic or anything. It's the simple fact that if illegal A, who committed rape and then killed a girl, weren't here...that crime never would have happened.

In essence, all liberals are doing is trivializing these violent crimes done by illegals. In fact, liberals fight waaaaaaaay more for the innocent person who may be arrested incorrectly than they do for getting rid of the illegal who committed rape, murder, etc. And this isn't even debatable, it's ALL OVER the media in every outlet, not just partisan outlets.

So, as usual with people who are blinded by partisan hate that they can't understand bad logic, you are making up an argument and then debating it yourself instead of actually listening to the other side, understanding where they are coming from, and then forming logical conclusions. In the 1990s, this was a huge problem with Reps. The pendulum has shifted very far to the left now.

What is the most hilarious part about all of the tariff stuff is that liberals are inherently now agreeing that credit card companies should be able to charge whatever interest they want. Because, hey, you depend on them so you can buy stuff and you are OK that they then charge whatever they want in an unfair relationship because you want stuff.

Democrat logic is so hypocritically myopic that it's a wonder they can make it out the front door every day. I mean, it's easy for people like Sanders who are wealthy to have Democrats love him but hate wealthy people so it's not wonder their hypocrisy is the Democrat party's guiding light now.

It's incredibly sad that Reps are now proving they are the sane people of this country. That's how far the liberal party has devolved. I know the pendulum will swing the other way at some point but this is the longest in my lifetime I've ever seen it swing to one extreme side for so long that I'm starting to get worried.

So, what number are we at now? I think it's definitely above 1000 in a row at this point, which is the number of things that California and liberals blame on everything and everyone else but themselves. I haven't seen a liberal take any true credit for why something went bad, especially in CA.

And, as a person in the middle, all I can say is that even if liberals are right about many of them not being their fault, once you desensitize the country to believing that you will not take blame for anything then everything is suspect. There are good and bad to anything either side does. Liberals, because vanity owns their souls, just can't accept that everything they do isn't perfect. Again, another reason why Trump was able to voted in twice.

Omg, we get it liberals. Everything protestors do that meet the liberal narrative is absolutely OK. This includes the looting and rioting done by BLM (and violence against others for just being there with a sign, btw). This includes the blocking of students trying to get to classes. And everything else.

As long as a group is protesting what liberals agree with, there are no laws. It is all fair game. The First Amendment doesn't matter.

And since there is ample evidence to prove all of that, it's not even debatable. If you don't like it, do something about it instead of supporting and encouraging it.

It's funny to watch liberals celebrate discrimination because it's a type of discrimination they agree with.

You mean like the Dem party backing prominent leaders who have spewed hate against several different races for many years now?

Just because you are OK with racism that fits your narrative doesn't mean that being hypocritical against racism that doesn't meet your narrative is OK.

Kind of a stupid argument. Using this logic, EVERY country in the world that doesn't spend money they don't have on this topic is then also killing the world's poorest children.

But yeah, America bad. Dems have gone so far off the deep end that it's no wonder they are fighting their own now. The fact that moderate liberals haven't broken away from them is amazing. It happened to Reps and the Tea Party came along and disrupted things that caused the Rep party to swing back moderate. Unfortunately, it was right after that the Dems became extreme but, so far, there hasn't been a correction back to moderate. And, because of that, a guy like Trump is able to be elected not once but freaking twice.

"Fun fact...executive orders are not laws."

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh man. I've been waiting to see this from liberals. Especially from the same liberals who demonized Reps for not wanting to follow Biden's EOs. Man oh man is it satisfying to see the squirming. Although it's terrible for the country, so there's that. But from a personal level, seeing either side eat their own crap is just satisfying.

If you don't like EOs. If you don't think EOs should be followed. If you hate on someone for putting EOs out. THEN STOP YOUR OWN FREAKING SIDE FROM USING THEM! On day one, Biden signed several EOs that went against the law and Reps whined like babies. Clinton signed over 300 EOs. Obama did over 200. And for every one of them, liberals were happy. Then all of a sudden someone else does it and boooooo hoooooo whine whine whine cry cry cry.

It's just like the filibuster issue. Dems did it extensively when W was in office. Then Reps started doing it just as much and Dems cried like wittle fwuffcakes.

Do any of you ever get tired of being wrong in terms of your hypocrisy? Do you even care? If you are one who actually thinks that you aren't being hypocritical to a degree that is hurting our country, you don't count. You are just as bad as any politician you dislike in America.

Some of you are so myopic that you can't even understand basic logic. Trump said Ukraine has no cards. Trump just gave them a card. Ukraine is much better off for it. It helps both countries.

This strategy is what makes true allies. Liberals have no idea what that means based on how terribly they want to treat our closest allies so I'm not really surprised by the comments here. But it's still sad to see.

This is going to happen more and more and liberals have only themselves to blame. When you fact check others but ABSOLUTELY REFUSE to accept fact checks on yourself, it's going to ruffle feathers. Hypocrisy does that. Since liberals are weaponizing hypocrisy now, and then coming up with stupid articles like this, it's so easy to see their strategy. A 5th grader could see this tactic for what it is.

Regardless of partisan politics, what I find mostly hilarious about all of this is that Biden had huge stock market dips in his term and liberals went nuts on cons for even trying to make it an issue. It used to be fun to watch the parties do this. Now it's just sad considering we are so deep in debt and liberals want us to keep accumulating debt...or at least that's what their actions are saying.

"Everything else is and will be Biden's fault per Trump and his sycophants."

Kind of like Biden and Harris blaming Trump for everything wrong with the economy THREE YEARS AFTER HE WAS NOT IN OFFICE ANYMORE. And Obama blaming W EVEN DURING HIS SECOND TERM (but even more hilariously he kept and even extended most of W's legislation regarding the economy during his terms)!

These statements are not hypothetical; they are easily researched and proven. So many of you are so hypocritical beyond any debate and still do it which just provides more evidence you are doing it on purpose and weaponizing hypocrisy. And you will just cry but, but, but orange man bad...Reps don't agree with us so they bad...wah wah wah...this is different because waaaaaah. Just remember, no matter how much you cry about it, it doesn't change reality.

""By placing Krebs and SentinelOne in the crosshairs, the President is signaling that cybersecurity professionals whose findings do not align with his narrative risk having their businesses and livelihoods subjected to spurious and retaliatory targeting, the same bullying tactic he has recently used against law firms," the letter reads.

And the SAME bullying done by liberals who destroy businesses, loot and riot (and cause violence against people), and go to judge's houses and cause any number of violations and disruption. I mean, let's not just stop at what fits your narrative. Let's be real and honest here and call out everyone that matches your exact intent.

"America's efforts to remove immigrants at all costs is putting us under the control of a surveillance state run by tech companies who have heavily donated to the Trump administration for the privilege."

No, not it's not. More fearmongering by the party in power to try to convince everyone that the country is bad when it's no better or worse than the last time Dems were in power. In fact, the only thing that is really devolving our nation are the partisan fearmongerers that think everything that happens they don't agree with is the devil's work.