Knicks · OT: Politics Thread (page 125)

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Wow...That's a tough one..He needs time in the pokey..Only if he gives up Trump and Pence..

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http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/20...

Mexico is threatening to use the power of corn to fight Donald Trump's tough talk on trade:

As President Trump threatens Mexico with drastic changes on trade, its leaders are wielding corn as a weapon. Mexico’s Senate is considering legislation calling for a boycott of U.S. corn, and the government has begun negotiating with Argentina and Brazil to import corn from those nations tax-free. The threat of a boycott is Mexico’s latest and perhaps cleverest attempt to fight back against Trump, whose threats to pull out of free trade agreements and slap a 20% import tax on Mexican products have shaken confidence in Mexico’s economy.

And apparently it's working:

The Trump administration is signaling to Congress it would seek mostly modest changes to the North American Free Trade Agreement in upcoming negotiations with Mexico and Canada, a deal President Donald Trump called a “disaster” during the campaign.

....The draft, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, talks of seeking “to improve procedures to resolve disputes,” rather than eliminating the panels. The U.S. also wouldn’t use the Nafta negotiations to deal with disputes over foreign currency policies or to hit numerical targets for bilateral trade deficits, as some trade hawks have been urging.

....Jeffrey Schott, a trade scholar at the Peterson Institute for International Economics...noted that a number of the proposed negotiating objectives echo provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation trade pact among Pacific Rim countries. Mr. Trump campaigned heavily against the TPP.

Do not underestimate the power of corn! Alternatively, maybe corn has nothing to do with it. Maybe Trump was just blathering all along and never really had any intention of getting tough with Mexico. In the end, he'll build a few more miles of fencing, make a few modest changes to NAFTA, and then call it the greatest boon to the working man since the Wagner Act. I've also read a few pieces recently about China, and apparently all those Goldman Sachs folks Trump hired have talked him into backing down on a trade war there too. I guess Goldman Sachs has to be good for something.

Anyway, having given up on Mexico and China, now Trump is going after the ultra-conservatives of the House Freedom Caucus:

I'll bet they're scared shitless. Trump is demonstrating that his talk may be big, but he can't make it stick. In his first two months, he's failed on his immigration order and his health care plan, has no chance of building his wall, and has backed down on Mexico and China. His bark is unquestionably worse than his bite.

The health care bill would have flamed out in the Senate anyway. The HFC did everyone a favor by getting it off the agenda quickly so Congress could move on to important matters like cutting taxes for the rich.

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On Thursday afternoon, the Senate voted to pass a bill allowing states to withhold federal family planning funds from abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood. Once again, Vice President Mike Pence provided the tie-breaking vote. The bill now goes to President Donald Trump for his signature.

holfresh wrote:I wonder how the Trump supporters feel now that this is about to explode??Are they still defending this crook????

they are pretty tired from all the winning.

in terms of what comes out of all this russia stuff? maybe flynn and manafort take the fall but twitler and his racist buddies will go unscathed.

djsunyc wrote:

holfresh wrote:I wonder how the Trump supporters feel now that this is about to explode??Are they still defending this crook????

they are pretty tired from all the winning.

in terms of what comes out of all this russia stuff? maybe flynn and manafort take the fall but twitler and his racist buddies will go unscathed.

No way Manafort take the fall with all those millions in the bank...They don't have enough money to pay him off...

holfresh wrote:I wonder how the Trump supporters feel now that this is about to explode??Are they still defending this crook????

Of course they are- they are invested in him because if he's exposed as the worst, most crooked president of modern times, it makes them look stupid, because it was obvious what he was all along.

holfresh wrote:

djsunyc wrote:

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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

correct me if i am wrong but he's already looking a little older than when he first took office

holfresh wrote:These hypocrites...

Bill O’Reilly and Fox News pay $13 million to settle sexual harassment suits from five women..

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bill...

Hired someone who worked with Bill Clinton to be a kind of "reputation defender."

Karma is always a B.