• ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Oh I live in Maryland. I just think it’s hilarious that he decided that the one of the things that we’ve actually been subsidizing against free trade principles(local technology manufacturing, particularly chips) is what he’s exempting. They’re not sending their brightest to the white house.

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      Not only that, this was his whole argument for tariffs. China didn’t even “negotiate” like all his supporters said they would. He just did it because the economy is fucked because his big brain move turned out to be awful for safety of the economy. Which wasn’t working for all of us anyways, but is certainly better than working for literally only the .01%.

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        It’s just very amusing, because we already blocked their cars before this even started. Supposedly we want to import chips and locally produce trash homegoods and sweatshop clothing. But we’re also going to ban the immigration that we used back when we produced sweatshop clothing. It’s just so dumb it’s hilarious. A grade schooler would produce a better protectionist plan. At this point it’s too incoherent to even be called protectionist.