And the other part of this is Trump was correct... that there would be short term pain but in the end things would be way better. Unfortunately that is the situation for China, not the US. If China is smart they will use this trade war fiasco to break away from living off cheap exports and importing high tech parts like Nvidia AI devices and work to stimulate consumer demand and work even harder to develop home grown equivalents to our best tech. If that happens, China will indeed become the world's dominant economy and "empire".
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No doubt and will be well deserved. But just for now, (really the foreseeable). Nobody stays on top forever.
Trump broke it. Now the U.S. owns it. Staggering incompetence at its worst.
Telling the truth isn’t a bad agenda.
Trump thinking of Xi has Carly Rae Jepson's "Call me Maybe" playing 24/7 at the WH. LOL. I hope he isn't holding his breath. And the truly sad thing about all this is that Trump can never admit he is wrong so desperately needs a face saving off ramp... that isn't going to come. So, where does that leave us? Not in a good place.
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Agree 100%!
Like I said before…Putin has Trump on a leash. He knows things about him, that he can use whenever he feels comfortable. Ofcourse Trump knows.
His legacy from when his business was financially rescued by oligarchs.
And this is not some conspiracy theory…it can all be found easily by anyone taking the effort to look into this.
I’ve seen red caps with “Trump2028” on it. After 2 terms that seems impossible, but he’s already heating up things. By that time it will be an accepted possibility and if he can continue to break institutions/ laws/ legal systems like he does now, then that will certainly happen.
If not him (he might not be alive anymore by then), then some of his cronies will happily take over.
It says that US citizens like their freedom. Too many seem to like this freedom so much, that they freely voted a fascist, dictatorial leader as their president. Too stupid to realize that this can be the the end of their “freedom”.
I really wonder if someone or some movement in US society can stand up, draw a serious line and push back all the madness from this Trump sect.
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My comment stands for general policies as well. Since when is trying to end wars, bring manufacturing and fair trade, and enforce laws not “normal.”
Everyone had to have most of their goods made in China, that’s exactly the problem (especially Apple)— due to the U.S. giving up our manufacturing base. Thank you for proving my point. 😉👏
Ending wars is easy…just drop a nuclear bomb on a defenseless state and you’re ready…war ended.
That’s what you mean, right?
Fair trade?? Sorry, but🤣🤣🤣. Look in the mirror.
And enforcing laws?? You mean bending laws, ignoring laws, challenging laws, changing laws, etc.
Look around you and see what goes on!
It’s so hilarious when people call democratically elected leaders fascist for enforcing laws that are on the books. Do you hear yourself?
Obama deported people, put kids in cages, and separated families. Was he a fascist as well?
And the oligarchs comment is also hilarious when Alex and George Soros own the Democrat party.
As for the “Putin owns Trump” narrative, I can’t believe that sad MSM story is still around. The proof is in the pudding as they say: Obama gave away Crimea; Biden let Putin invade Ukraine. Trump was the only one who didn’t give up part of that country (first one to give them Javelins).
Huh? This first part of this post makes no sense.
Enforcing existing immigration law is being blocked by the courts.
WTF are you talking about? I am not sure where you get your news from but I am assuming it's FOX. Trump is not giving up part of Ukraine? Have you bothered to read the proposals for a peace "agreement" coming from your supreme leader?
This is like a Seinfeld episode. Trump (George) says to Xi: you can't break up with me, I've got hand! Xi says: and you're gonna need it!
How does one "enforce laws" by breaking laws and violating the constitution multiple times a day?
That pesky "blocked by courts" type of stuff is one reason why the Trump administration arrested a judge today.
If you can't see it yet, you're going to eventually.
You're supporting an authoritarian takeover and full dismantling of the country you've known your entire life.
If the president isn’t above the law neither is a judge.
The country isnt being dismantled nor taken over.
You're vastly misreading what's going on, at your own peril.
Have you read the complaint against the judge? The individual that DHS was attempting to arrest has nothing to do with any of the current judicial orders.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wied.111629/gov.uscourts.wied.111629.1.0.pdf
Unfortunately, you're misinformed and mistaking laws and norms for an authoritarian takeover.
The judge was arrested for allegedly aiding and abetting an illegal immigrant escape arrest. Illegal immigration is...(wait for it)...illegal.
Everyone used to agree on that in this country. The fact that you don't is outside the norm.
The fact that you have no problem with the same justice system being used to prosecute a leading political opponent by the previous administration is outside the norm.
The fact that you had no problem with the Federal gov't coercing social media companies to censor Americans, violating the First Amendment, is outside the norm.
The fact that you had no problem with the same system of justice being used to circumvent illegal immigration laws by the previous administration (allowing tens of millions of people across the border) is outside the norm.
Eventually, you will realize that you have been supporting a subversion of the norms that have existed in this country for 250 years and that this is just a return to normalcy.
Eventually, you'll realize it. But not yet.
Not really. The judge allegedly aided and abetted an illegal immigrant, which is illegal
FBI arrests a Milwaukee judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities
Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers says the Trump administration is trying to “undermine our judiciary” following the arrest of a Milwaukee judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities.
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Angry much? They may be "nuclear" economic measures to you, but perhaps you ought to think more about the American workers who keep seeing jobs being shipped overseas and now have to have 2-3 jobs to make ends meet. We need better trade deals and it's really simple to anyone who understands economics.
And:
How about all the illegal immigrants who crossed the border without any form of due process while the previous administration ignored almost all enforcement? Have you ever thought about that?
How about all the hundreds of thousands of immigrant children who were "misplaced" by the previous administration?
How about the censorship that occurred by the previous administration coercing social media companies?
How about the same administration prosecuting people for memes?
(Those are a few really good questions for you.)
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Themistocles Wall (@themistocleswall.bsky.social)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has been on this story seems ICE had no warrant or at most an admin, not judicial warrant👇🏼 seems like Dugan was protecting her courtroom & the integrity of judiciary against predatory incursions (pun intended) of ICE...
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Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social)
So to sum up the Wisconsin arrest issue: ICE didn't have a juridical warrant. They only had an administrative warrant. The DOJ has not convened a grand jury to indict the judge. They only got a criminal complaint before a magistrate judge. This is ridiculous.
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Arresting judges is all kinds of new bad territory