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So they are using this for the same exact reason Trump is yet liberals support the EU doing it. I'll spell it out for you so even a DR lib kid should be able to understand (not that it matters as all they will do is resort to name calling and demonizing because they can't deny it).

Trump saw that other countries were taking advantage of the US in trade deals, and have been for decades. So his plan is to modify them so that it makes more sense for America to produce what it can produce and only import what it needs that it can't make on its own or doesn't make sense to make on its own. If you read the article, that's exactly what EU is doing now. Now that the trade deals with the US aren't as lucrative and beneficial to them for the sake of the US, they are not looking at what they can produce and only import what they need that they can't make on their own or doesn't make sense to make on their own. And there is nothing wrong with this. But liberals still for some reason cling to the idea that they want other countries to take advantage of the hard work Americans have done for 250 years to become economic power we are today.

All it takes is like a little bit of reasoning skills. A little bit of critical thinking. It doesn't take much. But, the first step you have to take to EVER be able to recover from your problem, and it is a problem, is that you have to get rid of your partisan blinders and learn objectivity. Now, objectivity doesn't mean you have to agree with everything, all it means is you don't hold beliefs so ingrained in your psyche that you are incapable of seeing from other valid perspectives. So it's not attacking your ego, which is a liberal's food these days in politics.

Based on how liberals have handled this war, we now know they want to continue to enable the war machine profits over actually trying to end wars. If liberals actually listened to what they said instead of just saying whatever it is that opposes the other political party, they would actually be objective enough to see this. Liberals praised Biden's sending of military supplies only AFTER Reps started trying to block them...before that, it was just a typical response and neither side really held any strong opinion.

Since Reps fought so strongly against sending aid (and not for the right reason, so don't get me wrong in thinking I'm supporting them), Dems couldn't just think critically and logically and determine the right response. Instead, they just immediately went to whatever the opposite was of Rep support.

Now that we have a long enough trend, it is every easy to logically conclude that liberals want corporations who manufacturer these supplies to continue to do so. Which is odd considering not that long ago and for decades prior, liberals fought against the rich getting richer and especially against how much the US's defense budget is (to spell it out for the DR lib kids, the budget is what includes the buying of military supplies). Yet, now they are all about being the world's supplier of military supplies which just enables the rich and enables the US war machine.

Trump comes along and wants to stop the actual problem, which is the war. Unfortunately, being the idiot he is, he of course did it in the most blowhardest way of any blowharding in history, but that doesn't mean he was wrong. Liberals may not agree but many others do agree that they would rather have the war stop, and in a peaceful manner. So Trump tried that route first, whereas Biden did not even make an attempt (and any effort he did make was squashed because while Trump may be a blowhard, Biden is a submissive who can't be taken seriously by any world leader). Yet, Trump trying to end the war peacefully was met with hate from Dems.

Go ahead and try to argue it all you want that anything I've said above isn't accurate and doesn't follow sound logic based on the empirical evidence publicly available to us all. It doesn't change the logical conclusion. You just have to be objective enough and take off your partisan blinders to actually understand.

Extremists on both sides are a huge problem. Unfortunately, libs and cons are too busy whining about only half of them (that don't support their narrative) and giving the other half a full pass (those who do agree with their narrative) on their extremist that nothing will ever change.

"Last time Trump was in the White House, he did the same thing, tried to enlist an army of the emotionally disabled, people who struggle with logic and need to have a strong leader to help them get through their day."

I'm sorry, have you missed the "safe spaces" of the emotionally fragile, the inability to live life without being called a certain pronoun, not understanding the logic behind why defunding those who protect you is bad, etc. of the last decade? Everything you just said describes liberals waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than cons, and there is AMPLE, VAST, and any other word meaning absolutely enormous amount of evidence that proves that.

I'm no fan of most Reps but your statement is by far one of the most absurd I've heard in a long time. Liberals can't even use enough logic to know the definition of a woman and which bathroom to use, and that's not conjecture, that is pure fact regardless if you don't like it. Again, there is an almost infinite amount of evidence to prove my case that you can't deny it.

So, that just means you are choosing to spread misinformation and hate just because your ego and vanity makes you have to get everyone to believe you for some reason. In other words, your need for validation basically just describes yourself in your own statement.

And this is no more or less dangerous and stupid than Dems hiring scientists who refuse to ever hold any different opinion about climate change even when there is peer-reviewed, empirical evidence in front of them that proves them wrong.

There is a level of anthropogenic climate change. There is also a level of nature correcting the situation itself, but not fully. Yet, if you bring up anything that says climate change isn't perfect science and there is a lot of fear-mongering over biased science, liberals go nuts. Just like cons do if anyone tries to say anthropogenic climate change doesn't exist.

So, how will this play out? That is very easy to predict. What will happen is, eventually, climate change will significantly negatively impact humanity and humanity has the ability to lessen the impacts, but we will be too busy fighting each other over whether or not it's real to actually do anything meaningful about it. That's all we do is argue back and forth over the idea and do nothing at all to actually address the problem. Spending so much time and resources on biased science keeps us from spending more of that on medical research, helping the needy, etc. And ignoring the issue completely as if liberals are just making up the good, non-biased science that does exist is equally as dangerous and stupid because it will be too late for us to do anything when the impacts cause people a lot of pain.

But hey, it's more important that liberals and conservatives whine and cry at each other constantly for decades, amirite?

Hilarious so many people who don't understand economics are spouting opinions as if they are relevant. This entire article is a war against investments. What it doesn't articulate, and something the average person who isn't rich doesn't understand, is that those investments aren't just sitting there. Those investments are being used to support the entire economy. If a billionaire like Elon has 1t invested in TSLA, that money isn't just sitting there. TSLA is using it to do all sorts of things, almost all of which are mechanics of our economy. Maybe they use part of that investment for R&D which allows them to vastly increase the viability of electric vehicles (didn't think about that, did you?), or maybe they use part of it to subsidize the costs of providing childcare to TSLA workers, etc.

It's no different than a bank. It's why Elon can't just decide to liquidate all $1t. Instead, TSLA would have to make him wait so they can liquidate other assets to pay him his money. It's because the money isn't just sitting there. It's moving. It's shaking. In fact, billionaire investments are a big portion of our economy. Without them, we would still be in 1980s economy and probably not be the world power anymore (China would have vastly surpassed us by now).

I'm not saying there isn't a better way to make those investments help non-rich people. In fact, I have an entire plan whereby we could use the profit they make from those investments (capital gains at time of sale, dividends, options/futures profit, etc.) and help the average person. But, of course, there is no way I can know all of the logistics of making it happen so it's just a thought...but something I wish I could shop around.

What many of you need to hear is this...yes, rich people make a lot for doing little. Yes, what they are taxes, while not disproportionate, impacts them far less than the average person. But, the saying "fight fire with fire" is not just cliche. The money is out there to be taken. There are many legit ways to improve your station just by using investments, even with nominal amounts. I've done it. It took a ---- of a lot of work and trial and error but I was able to do it and I come from section 8 housing when I was 19. I'm not rich but I actually have a date for retirement now, when just 20 years ago I was still clinging to the idea I was going to die in my office because I had nothing to retire on.

It's out there. You can either whine about it and try to fight the system, or you can join in. Dr. Dre has one of my favorite lines about this principle..."I'm eating steak while they struggle to break the slave mentality". Sure, you can play the victim and that will get you so far. Or, you can change your mentality and reap the benefits. You can never know until you try.

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