deuceiswild

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Sure. I've said that from the outset. If the point of the tariffs was to force other countries to drop them, sure, fine. But number one, that hasn't happened.

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That doesn't mean it won't happen. Tariffs aren't a catastrophic economic event that moves things in a week or a month. Plus, countries have ways they can try and offset or fight them or lessen their effects. It takes a while to sink in.

You may turn out right in the end. But I'm not ready to say they're a failure yet.

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A competent administration would have provided companies incentives over time to make moves abroad before being hit with tarrifs.

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There may be some truth here. I mean, Clinton definitely provided incentive the other way for manufacturing to leave, and it only took a couple decades for us to become a service and tick-tock economy. We make nothing anymore.

The refining industry all along the gulf coast came into being largely because of Venezuelan oil. It's why those refineries exist. They're built for that type of crude oil.

I can't imagine how one could misunderstand my words. I think it's obvious I'm against this bill. It infuriates me, actually.

I'm not asking to debate the merits of the bill, as there are none.

I'm asking if it can work out in republicans favor by merely having it in the news. I don't even think it has a chance of being sent to the president.

I don't believe for a split second those republicans who support this bill are smart enough to play this sort of chess game.... but immigration was the single biggest issue that got Trump elected.

Even after the deportation fiasco in Minneapolis, support for mass deportation is still high, even among democrats. Secure borders is still massively popular. I'd have to think that any sort of amnesty would be massively unpopular based on that. Even among democrats.

Trump will never sign it, and I doubt he even gets a chance to veto it. But simply having this bill in the news seems like not a good idea for those who truly would like to see it passed. I think it can help Trumps cause in the midterms. Probably not enough if we're gonna be honest... but I don't see this bill being in the news hurting him.

Or am I missing something?

Maybe I am wrong on the magnitude, but it cannot be argued that competition has hurt the USPS.

And it doesn't bother me at all that the postal service is hurting. It's another in a long list of govt failures.

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A lot of these people have spent 10 years in the pro-Trump lane, and at this point there is only so much engagement left in posting the same old “Trump was right” or “look how great he’s doing” message. That gets applause from your own side, but it does not create a firestorm.

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I agree they're making money off their about face... but I don't agree with the above statement.

The left has maintained the same playbook forever and it's working fine for them.

Additionally, it takes at least some amount of principle to pull off such an about face. Whether we think they're right or wrong. You rarely see leftists criticize their own because they have zero principle or standards.

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The American Indian had small gardens before the colonists arrived. But they never invented irrigation. So their encampmentes were built along rivers or lakes. The Caddo Indians had teepees along the Red River. So, their village discovered by the white settlers was a mile long and about 20 feet wide.

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I don't disagree with you at all, but The history I'm referring to predates Europeans arriving in North America by a very long time. It was agriculture that ultimately led the their ability to build ships and come here.

Simply put, agriculture ended Europeans need to live a nomadic lifestyle as the whole world was doing at one point. They could grow and store their food, rather than constantly move and fight in tribes to find it. It allowed them to settle down. To secure themselves. Not having to find and fight for food allowed more "down time" so to speak. And that's what led to idle minds to think and invent better ways of doing even more things.

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The MSM is losing revenue due to its agenda

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We can only hope RFKJr is successful at removing pharma companies from TV advertising.

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Prices aren't inflation, they are a result of inflation, and are non-linear.

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It baffles me that some people don't understand this, even though they see it every single day of their lives.

Unless we're talking about commodities or a few other very specific goods, prices never come down. But inflation does.

Everything can be traced back to gardening, believe it or not. Agriculture.

White people in Western Europe did it first, and more or less were able to conquer the world because of it.

It's a fascinating story.