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Fine. But when you say that the market clearing wage is functionally a minimum wage, you come across as silly and unserious. Because those are literally opposite concepts. Well, maybe not pure opposites, but almost.'Why don't you try again, and ditch the whole "functional minimum wage" stuff? Try a different approach."
Pass. This started as a simple question to cford and has morphed into something that is not worth continuing.
They are going to launch strikes in Mexico and Central and South America, aren’t they?
"He did not provide a date for announcing those duties and said he wanted to provide some time for drug and chip makers to set up U.S. factories so that they can avoid tariffs."25% price hike on a Lexus or an Audi, etc should be fun.
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Trump to introduce 25% tariffs on autos, pharmaceuticals and chips
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he intends to impose auto tariffs 'in the neighbourhood of 25 per cent' and similar duties on semiconductors and pharmaceutical imports, the latest in a series of measures threatening to upend international trade.www.cp24.com
This is what I think. I feel that after Trump is gone they won’t be able to hold together. People will be coming out of the woodwork claiming to be his heir and they are the trumpiest politician there is. There has already been plenty of fighting among the factions in MAGA and the GOP. With him gone, there will be no one to coalesce around.
I believe it was this one. I listened to two on the drive in.Could you share the podcast episode?
They are going to launch strikes in Mexico and Central and South America, aren’t they?
deporting illegal immigrants with criminal records is now torturing brown people?Whee!!! Torturing brown people is fun!
Yeah, I don’t see it that way, at all. You may see Vance as malleable, I see him as cynical and calculated. For all the “Thiel is his puppet master” I think there’s equal chance Vance is using the tech lords for his own devices, which more aligns with Heritage Foundation, and I suspect has from the start.If Vance succumbs to the ChristoNationalists rather than the Techbroligarchy, that helps make my point about Vance. He’s completely malleable and easily manipulated. He has no core beliefs.
People claiming Trump acted illegally does not mean they are “sympathetic to the cartel” although that’s the kind of bullshit right wing news loves.If mexico won't do anything about the cartels, trump said during the campaign he would. I'm just very interested to see that if he did attack a cartel with a drone, how many on here would be sympathetic to the cartel.
I could care less about the well-being of the cartels but am concerned about launching attacks inside the sovereign borders of our allies in the region without their consent or cooperation. What if Mexico or Canada decides to start bombing gun manufacturers in the United States because we do little to nothing to stop them from supplying weapons to the cartels? Sure, that seems unlikely but using force in the region without cooperation from the governments of the applicable countries has typically been a bad approach to U.S. foreign policy.If mexico won't do anything about the cartels, trump said during the campaign he would. I'm just very interested to see that if he did attack a cartel with a drone, how many on here would be sympathetic to the cartel.
Nobody. The reason to be terrified of that complete idiocy isn't because we are sympathetic to cartels. It's because a) those types of strikes more often that not hit innocents and miss the supposed targets; and b) it would hurt Americans as it would put an enemy on our southern border. If Trump attacks cartels inside Mexico, it would almost certainly mean the end of Mexican cooperation on immigration and drug enforcement. It would undoubtedly make the problem worse, not better.If mexico won't do anything about the cartels, trump said during the campaign he would. I'm just very interested to see that if he did attack a cartel with a drone, how many on here would be sympathetic to the cartel.
How someone as smart as that poster appears to think he is doesn’t understand this is bewildering.I could care less about the well-being of the cartels but am concerned about launching attacks inside the sovereign borders of our allies in the region without their consent or cooperation. What if Mexico or Canada decides to start bombing gun manufacturers in the United States because we do little to nothing to stop them from supplying weapons to the cartels? Sure, that seems unlikely but using force in the region without cooperation from the governments of the applicable countries has typically been a bad approach to U.S. foreign policy.
Which can't happen, because the cartels don't just hang out in large corporate campuses with adequate signage.I could care less about the well-being of the cartels but am concerned about launching attacks inside the sovereign borders of our allies in the region without their consent or cooperation.
The proper response: cool, but please do not drone strike into territory controlled by other countries, especially our allies.