Trump Administration Predictions (8 Viewers)

[The_Doc_Man]

Just as a bit of corroboration for something I said earlier about the way China doesn't play by the rules, here is someone who understands business and who believes that China isn't a good trading partner.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/shark-tank-star-kevin-o-223713911.html

 

[AccessBlaster]

Gordon Chang is another person who knows China very well.

 

[Steve R.]

Five years ago I made the humorous remark:

Walmart, a wholly owned retail subsidiary for China, Inc.

Trump is now escalating the trade war with with China. So what happens to Walmart?
The DOW Jones index (at the time of this post) is down by almost 900 points. Yet, the stock price of Walmart has moved up by approximately $1 today! I would have expected the stock price of Walmart to decline precipitously. Unexpectedly, the stock traders still seem perceive of Walmart as being a good investment.

Gordon Chang is another person who knows China very well.

Yes. He says the Chinese economy is in deep trouble.

 

[RogerCooper]

Just another way to say we don't need American labor workers. That should be the new Democrat slogan for 2026 and beyond.

There are few factory workers in New York City, but it is a wealthy place because it has many high-paying service jobs. Moving low value-added manufacturing work to other countries has improved America's standard of living by allowing Americans to work in services and high value-added manufacturing.

As for stocks, I will go gradually back in if things stabilize. Only half the losses were recovered yesterday and the Trump's pissing match with Xi will still cause economic problems. Stock prices are still high relative to earnings and revenues.

The courts may eventually halt this nonsense. The IEEPA does not give the President any authority to levy tariffs. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1702

 

[Mike Krailo]

The courts may eventually halt this nonsense.

They won't be able to trump Trump. Not even one iota. It all goes back to democracy of being elected into a powerful position. The guy is going to get the job we elected him to do done. Nonsense is an unelected opinion that has zero weight in the grand order of things that are constitutional. The constitution provides a huge amount and trust into the commander in chief. That IEEPA is what in the constitution? Nothing.

 

[Steve R.]

Considering the escalation of the trade war, what prompted China to take this action?

China Threatens the Free World with the Ghost of Murderer Mao Zedong

The Chinese Foreign Ministry posts footage of Mao Zedong, founder of the Chinese Communist Party - and the worst mass murderer in history.

www.breitbart.com

Recall the story "Wag the Dog" were a foreign war was initiated to distract the populace from domestic issues?
Gorden Chang raised that very issue in regards to China. Their economy is in bad shape. Xi Jinping may seek a war as a means to further consolidate his power and to distract the public from current economic woes which trade war escalation will only further exacerbate China's economic problems.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Not only does China have economic issues but they have demographic issues that will only make their economy worse. Their former "one family, one child" policy - plus the sudden surge in Chinese amniocentesis exams to determine gender - plus a surge in abortions to choose the gender of the one child they were permitted to have - all have combined to cause a radical population shift. At the moment, China has 116 males for every 100 females when the rest of the world is more like 107/100. (Pew Research Center is my source. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-r...as-one-child-policy-shift-its-boy-girl-ratio/ )

China is no longer the world's most populated country. India is now the country with the highest population, and that happened in 2022. Worse, their labor force is aging out. Their 60+ population is now 28% of their total. When THEIR health-care requirements start hitting hard, they will either have to ignore their old folks or will have to re-balance their wartime economy.

 

[Thales750]

Nah, I'm fine. It's the left who's panicked, I'm just pointing it out.

Everyone should be concerned. If you're not you are a cool aid drinker waiting for the mother ship to come pick you up. As current event show, I didn't need any more data to be call it accurately.

All the here people calling me names, is to cover their shame. Trump will be the worst thing that has ever happened to this country.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Trump will be the worst thing that has ever happened to this country.

The Biden/Harris presidential candidate bait-and-switch is ALREADY the worst thing that has happened in this country (politically) since the nation was founded. Of if it is not the worst, it is a top-5 contender for that honor. DJT has a VERY high bar to cross in order to earn the particular accolade you offered.

 

[Pat Hartman]

Moving low value-added manufacturing work to other countries has improved America's standard of living by allowing Americans to work in services and high value-added manufacturing.

Who cares if China makes cheap chotchkes for Walmart. A country that cannot manufacture its own drugs or bullets or ships is doomed. China is ramping up to invade Taiwan. Their window to annex Taiwan is closing rapidly. Right now they have an excess of military age males due to their one child policy. Excellent for war. And they have economic problems that a war would mask - way too many old people. China has in the past threatened to not make drugs for us. If they would stop making fentanyl, that would be excellent but antibiotics, not so much.

Why do you think manual labor is less valuable than intellectual labor? Personally I think that paying actors and athletes obscene salaries is a crime. My plumber gets paid an hourly wage that far exceeds what the average office worker earns. He does a dirty job but he is a necessity to society as we know it. Why would you devalue his contribution to society? It is that elitist attitude that convinced a couple of generations of our children that they had to incur tens of thousands/hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt to go to college to study basket weaving. Now they're working as baristas and living in their parent's basement because they have no marketable skills.

 

[AccessBlaster]

Everyone should be concerned. If you're not you are a cool aid drinker waiting for the mother ship to come pick you up. As current event show, I didn't need any more data to be call it accurately.

All the here people calling me names, is to cover their shame. Trump will be the worst thing that has ever happened to this country.

Watch the EXACT moment Bernie Sanders realizes that he's NEVER going to see another Democrat win in his life!

 

[Thales750]

The Biden/Harris presidential candidate bait-and-switch is ALREADY the worst thing that has happened in this country (politically) since the nation was founded. Of if it is not the worst, it is a top-5 contender for that honor. DJT has a VERY high bar to cross in order to earn the particular accolade you offered.

Keep the faith. Ignorance is bliss.

 

[Pat Hartman]

The Biden/Harris presidential candidate bait-and-switch is ALREADY the worst thing that has happened in this country (politically) since the nation was founded.

I think using the autopen to sign for Biden when he was not able to think for himself is probably worse. Talk about a soft coup. And it wasn't even the VP who was running the country. It was Dr. Jill or some 3rd level undersecretary who was signing bills into law and pardoning members of the Biden Crime family.

 

[AccessBlaster]

Exactly, most corrupt administration in our life time.

 

[Steve R.]

Ignorance is bliss.

You must be exorbitantly joyous as you validate your ignorance with each post.

 

[Thales750]

You must be exorbitantly joyous as you validate your ignorance with each post.

You people have been calling me an idiot for 30. I was correct then, I'm still correct.

Trump is about taking from the middle and giving to the rich.
I hope you will eventually see that.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

While it is a broad-brush activity, sniffing out and exposing (and eliminating) waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer money is surely not solely targeting the wealthy. Though it IS true that they already are taxed at quite a high rate. (I know, not enough for you...) You remind me of the 1040 tax return spoof that someone did some years ago when discussing a flat tax.

Line 1: Enter your total income for the year.
Line 2: Taxes owed (copy from line 1.)

 

[Thales750]

While it is a broad-brush activity, sniffing out and exposing (and eliminating) waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer money is surely not solely targeting the wealthy. Though it IS true that they already are taxed at quite a high rate. (I know, not enough for you...) You remind me of the 1040 tax return spoof that someone did some years ago when discussing a flat tax.

Line 1: Enter your total income for the year.
Line 2: Taxes owed (copy from line 1.)

I don't expect you to be able to change your views. The ship is sinking, and it is the fault of the Captain. In this case entirely.
Bad ideas followed up with poor execution, then lies to cover it up, and then blame it the Dems.

You cannot even admit that trickle down is killing the middle class, and not for just us, but for future generations. We are on the verge of the a Greater Depression. These idiots you worship are doing exactly the same crap they did in the lates 20s -early 30s that made the great depression last as long as it did. Fixing the budget deficit is important, we just don't need and insane and stupid President to oversee it.

And the brainwashed masses following Trump are cheering it on.

 

[Pat Hartman]

Bad ideas followed up with poor execution,

So you think
-Illegal immigration is good?
-Deporting criminal gang members rapidly is bad?
-Fraud, waste, and abuse in government programs is good?
-Being cheated by our trading partners is good?

Objecting to methods is certainly rational but objecting to the actual end goal and rooting for the plan to fail is really anti-American.

Every one of these things impacts the amount of tax the government needs to take from taxpayers no matter what their income strata.

 

[Thales750]

So you think
-Illegal immigration is good?
-Deporting criminal gang members rapidly is bad?
-Fraud, waste, and abuse in government programs is good?
-Being cheated by our trading partners is good?

Objecting to methods is certainly rational but objecting to the actual end goal and rooting for the plan to fail is really anti-American.

Every one of these things impacts the amount of tax the government needs to take from taxpayers no matter what their income strata.

I'm as sick as anyone about the failures. You think I like being right?


As usual, you throw in things that have no real value. Keeping the world economy from starving the middle class to death should be the real goal here.

Even you must be a little apprehensive about your guy.

Being cheated by our trading partners? American billionaires designed the system, and you cheer it on, thinking you have the only truth.