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Idiocracy 2024

Bender said:
The trade war is blatantly illegal under USMCA. The fact that they can make up any rationale as an emergency is idiotic, considering the scale between what happens at the Canadian border and the Mexican border are worlds apart, let alone the fact that we have a crapton of cocaine and guns coming in through the States. They're a much bigger threat to our security than we are to them. They have to say it's about fentanyl once in a while to make the emergency order seem kosher when it so clearly isn't.
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I read an article about violating USMCA, and basically if there’s a violation, there’s a dispute mechanism that can be used, but there’s also an appeals process and there’s also no way to enforce it.

It’s a toothless agreement. I’ll see if I can find that article.
 
Joe S. said:
I read an article about violating USMCA, and basically if there’s a violation, you can take it to an independent arbitrator but any judgement isn’t enforceable by any legal body.

It’s a toothless agreement. I’ll see if I can find that article.
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Do any laws realistically apply to Trump?
 
Joe S. said:
I read an article about violating USMCA, and basically if there’s a violation, there’s a dispute mechanism that can be used, but there’s also an appeals process and there’s also no way to enforce it.

It’s a toothless agreement. I’ll see if I can find that article.
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1000% it's toothless, but you have to wonder if anything the U.S. does can be trusted, including something as simple as a trade deal. Amazing how instead of rather than being the de facto superpower and pulling all their allies together to attack China, they're creating conditions where all their allies want to attack them back.
 
Zee said:
"The only person in the UNIVERSE that could end this war!" Do these idiots even listen to themselves?
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Clearly not, when they keep repeating that fentanyl garbage, and everything else they spew.

And yeah I laughed out loud when he said ‘universe!’

What’s hilarious are all these interviews with maga supporters who have no idea how tarrifs work. All of them believe the exporting countries are paying these levies.

They’re just so… stupid.
 
The way the market is up and down you can't convince me Trump's pals aren't making a killing by selling short.

He's manipulating the market big-time.
 
lamajama said:
The way the market is up and down you can't convince me Trump's pals aren't making a killing by selling short.

He's manipulating the market big-time.
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For the life of me I’ll never understand why his base love him so much, I guess other than the overt racism. He clearly doesn’t give a solitary shit about them.
 
Joe S. said:
For the life of me I’ll never understand why his base love him so much, I guess other than the overt racism. He clearly doesn’t give a solitary shit about them.
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Authoritarian/Autocratic regimes wipe out the education systems first for a reason.

For the proletariat, he just says what they want to hear, which resonates with their lives: everything sucks (and truly it does in many respects), and here's the reason why (points at transgendered people, or immigrants, or whoever) because of the Democrats doing this thing. Repeat ad nauseum. That's all they hear because that's what they want to hear.

Now when the policies are announced and implemented, there's not enough experience or critical thinking to see the implications. Or if they did see it coming, they thought it would only affect the immigrants or whoever is to blame, not them, the right people.
https://twitter.com/x/status/1903567620839804936

For the wealthy: again he says what they want to hear - more wealth for you when he cuts taxes and strips away regulatory bodies and enforcement; all they have to do is pay up a bit and they can inject whatever policy they feel like.
 
herman is pretty bang on. I work in the steel manufacturing world. Much of our business relies on the coal industry and manufacturing jobs. The people that work these jobs look at the trends and see their jobs disappearing. Therefore, they can't feed their families. Trump plays to those fears and naturally gets their votes. I can tell you that there's not many of my coworkers on the US side that didn't vote Trump.
 
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