Featured Trump tariffs put the US auto industry in disarray

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  1. ETC(SS)

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    we could ask the tasmanians
    (crickets)

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    To segue back to tariffs, it's got to be killing the "Nazi pejorative name callers" that the tariffs appear to be working pretty well. Not that this will stop Chicken Little from screaming, 'the sky is falling'.
     
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    What would be the relevance of such question? Is a partial genocide better than a total one?
     
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    I think using the label "socialists" in this context is needlessly inflammatory and pejorative.
     
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    fixed it & put the pejorative ironically & hypocritically where it belongs.
    yes - allways willing to try & be more sensitive

    in any event, how about those tariffs!?!
    the big beautiful tariffs seem to be working! contrary to the hope & presumption & to the chagrin of the minority of voters
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    Well, that puts you into the "radical" category for me.
     
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    I commend those who make an effort to see both sides.
     
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    I try to see both sides. But as a result, those on one side say I'm biased towards the other and those on the other side say I'm biased towards the first.

    No one is happy unless I either scream that tariffs are the best thing ever since sliced bread or that they are more evil than the Devil himself.
     
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    how are the tariffs working? what positives have resulted?

    seems a bit premature to proclaim victory, or defeat
     
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    I tend to put some weight on the opinions of economists who have earned their stripes,
    like Jeffrey Sachs, who have come out strongly against the tariffs, and warned of their destructive effects.

    If I were to discount his opinions as leftwing propaganda, I'd worry about my own objectivity.
     
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    To imagine that Trump's 34 felony convictions were some sort of Democrat plot against an innocent man, is hard to conceive, even for the most delusional conspiracy cynic, that one can imagine.
    If the US system were truly that corrupt, it would be a third world country.
     
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    How about in the actual state of Palestine? We're not talking about inside Israel. You honestly think 60k dead civilians is just the unfortunate biproducts of "war"? You do know that the vast majority of Israeli's want them wiped off the map and take that land for the resources right? They admit it in interviews, gov't and citizens alike..they hate them. That's 100% Genocide with the intent behind it.
     
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    Ask the Armenians, the Jews 1940+, the Cambodians, Bosnians, Rwandans, or maybe the Holodomor Famines that Stalin implemented that killed 4-7 million Ukrainians.
     
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    "How about, what about;" it sounds like an effort to derail the discussion, something called, "Whataboutism."
     
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    You just what-abouted Trump's supposed felony convictions.

    What about tariffs and if the auto industry is in disarray or not?
     
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    Despicable.
     
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    Wow a liberal Canadian that supports Isreal's Genocide. Just when you thought you saw it all. This is quite the group of Prius owners we have here.
     
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    Liberal Canadian? You feel good about applying incorrect labels?
    How do I support, what? SMH,
     
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    Actually?
    It's pronounced Dee-PLORE-ah-bull.
    Not all Canadians are liberals, and not all liberals are Canadian.
    Mr. Gregory presents as a bit of a 'mudge but I would not insult his (or her) intelligence by slandering him (or her) as a liberal.
    BESIDES, as you yourself alluded to, it's a sliding scale.
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