Acosta's tweet makes it look like this was a serious response to an interview question.
Trump was sitting at a dinner table with a bunch of other people and there are interviewers shouting questions across the room.
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Don't get me wrong, Trump isn't the sharpest crayon in the box, and I'd never vote for him, but this isn't news. It's reaching for news to stir the pot.
I literally dont understand what the point of this is. I don't support Trump, but I'd generally like to hope most world leaders would think twice about engaging in wars.
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That aside, there's literally nothing noteworthy going on in this post and I don't know why this Acosta person thinks this is important. Been over two weeks since I've heard anything about that giant child sex ring Epstein was involved in, but stop the presses! Donald Trump is talking about thinking!
I’m going to agree with the others by and large, and question why famousone got downvotes. A person in power who isn’t psychopathic, completely dense, or who isn’t completely apathetic will have second thoughts on many decisions. Look at the memories of most any “great” figure who wasn’t near batshit insane or otherwise convinced of a divine destiny and listen to them opine how they may even occasionally wonder to the end if they made the right choices.
Almost always there’s a cost and consequences or repercussions to a decision. The closest a wise person gets in all but the most black and white choices is to say they made the best or only choice they could at a time based on what they knew. That said the comments presented here are a bit out of context to boot. There are plenty of legitimate gripes about the current commander and chief and enough foolishness that one doesn’t need to resort to the type of “dirty pool” in painting him as a bafoon etc. that upsets people when he does it to others.
There really are some bad things happening to China because of this trade war. Their economy is down 30%, they even had to break open strategic food reserves just to push back mass starvation. Nevermind the business they're permanently losing to countries like Vietnam.
Wow it's that bad? Wonder if that explains why they wanted Hong Kong under their thumb so badly all of a sudden. Or maybe I have my timelines skewed up
Honestly, it's probably worse. If Trump is reelected, or whoever is keeps his policy with China, they're fucked.
Guess they should've thought twice before starting the trade war decades ago.
Yeah. We have the best economy in decades while China is permanently losing business and had to break into strategic food reserves. There's only losers, no winners.
You have the best economy in decades and the highest national debt of all times. How long do you think that's gonna be working out. If this is winning for you I highly recommend reading about basic economy.
China needs us to buy from them. We don't need to buy from them.
Gotta look at the long game, get rid of the trade deficit, then deal with domestic BS.
Ah, so you just don't want to buy from China? Because other countries will be doing all the production strickly in the benefit of the US economy? And besides, yes, you are in need to buy from them. What products of daily use and/or raw materials are not from China? And it is mostly your companies producing there, which is making the hole thing even more obscure.
Oh no, no country with any self-respect will ever act solely to another's benefit. But China started this bullshit trade war/ theft campaign decades ago, that it took us 30-odd years to properly respond reflects badly on us, but hardly puts them in the right or entitles them to our business.
Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, etc. Plenty of others are scrambling to fill the void China left by refusing to play fair, and most of them are even offering mutually beneficial deals in good faith.
For all the kids in class I’m gonna give a little history lesson. It’s hard to picture to the 20 and under crowd but Japan was our China before China. China wasn’t as industrial, still unstable from WW2 and their civil war etc- and communist. Hard communist. Japan long ago was a source of cheap labor and what were often considered sub par consumer goods. A combination of things but most notably the gas crisis in America made fuel efficient Japanese cars popular here. Through the 80’s japan continued to improve their technical abilities, and strive to offer high quality at a lower cost than American companies as well as innovations. That’s how Japan became a world name in quality electronics and cars, and how they went from being a cheap labor source to a power economy.
As consumer confidence in Japan rose as did recognition and appreciation of Japanese brands- to the point many would prefer certain types of Japanese products over those of other traditional leaders in those fields, Japan could charge more. They also had to as their infrastructures grew and so did future debts from things like retirement of workers. The “quality of life” as a developed nation also sky rocketed in Japan taking it from its pre war position in between a “modern” and “traditional” country to a full fledged beacon of development and technology.
China has been working to the same goal. Most countries- if war etc. don’t stop them, tend to have the same goal. Get rich, get powerful, be on top. America is heavily reliant on China because China has relatively high resources, has been pretty stable, and has a large population and land base to provide cheap labor and mass produced goods. As China transitions more and more to a higher standard of living etc- we lose the primary reason for doing business with them- cost. At this point the cost savings are largely based around human rights violations you can’t get away with in the US- which is a huge part of how we choose many of our business partners. Countries that allow businesses to do things they can’t do to American workers.
So clothing for example in the US can commonly be found being made in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Philippines, etc. We also get goods from many East Asian countries as well. China provides heavy manufacturing and technology manufacturer that requires large and expensive infrastructure that you don’t find often in less developed or poor nations- and is prohibitive to invest in where countries are unstable or at high risk or sporadic war which would endanger such facilities and production.
So really- dumping China would prove a short term set back, but there are still plenty of countries where the dollar is strong that US interests can set up boom economies for such production. China is convenient because its well suited for such work and already has a strong infrastructure. But part of the mechanisms by which this whole thing works are consumerism.
Japan faces a bubble economy in the 90’s which still has repercussions today. Modern “velocity model” business of mass consumerism requires an exponential increase of business to function. Countries must manage their populations to ensure that as a general rule- you have 2 young people entering the work force for every 1 older person leaving it. Otherwise you begin to not only run into problems with being able to care for retiring populations (not a huge problem of you don’t care about what happens to people who can’t work in society- but Chinese culture and law have a strong center of family caring for their own elderly), but also to continue to supply labor and have consumers to pay for said goods and labor.
The United States is the worlds largest consumer of just about everything. The worlds biggest customer and the ultimate “Karen.” The argument is less one of wether the US can do alright without China (it’s not like we don’t have options,) it’s more one of morality- where China is attempting to reach a point where it perhaps could treat workers better and could share wealth better with its citizens- and has been making improvements there for the last several decades, but those improvements mean rising costs for the US. So basically what is being said is that we don’t actually care about conditions in China- we just want a good deal whatever the cost to them.
That may seem racist or whatever else- but we do it at home too. Reports from places like the Amazon warehouse or by Rode share drivers and retail workers are often grim. In our own country we argue over wether or not service workers deserve to make enough money to live off of, or wether they should even get medical care. We have laws preventing your job from working you too many hours and saying they have to provide medical if you work too many hours etc- but a person can work 4 jobs a day circumventing all these protections and end up making far less than would legally be owed were they to work a single job with that intensity.
So it isn’t prejudice. We are just cheap. We went to China because China was cheap. If China doesn’t want to or cannot provide goods and services for cheap- there’s always someone else to exploit.
Trump was sitting at a dinner table with a bunch of other people and there are interviewers shouting questions across the room.
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Don't get me wrong, Trump isn't the sharpest crayon in the box, and I'd never vote for him, but this isn't news. It's reaching for news to stir the pot.
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That aside, there's literally nothing noteworthy going on in this post and I don't know why this Acosta person thinks this is important. Been over two weeks since I've heard anything about that giant child sex ring Epstein was involved in, but stop the presses! Donald Trump is talking about thinking!
Guess they should've thought twice before starting the trade war decades ago.
Gotta look at the long game, get rid of the trade deficit, then deal with domestic BS.
Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, etc. Plenty of others are scrambling to fill the void China left by refusing to play fair, and most of them are even offering mutually beneficial deals in good faith.