Trump's Ideas Just Keep Getting Stupider and Stupider
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (189833)
Boise, Idaho
November 27, 2024 5:28pm CST
In the news I am seeing the weirdest things concerning Rump's transition and what he wants to do when he takes the helm. First, his picks don't make any sense. Take Pete Hegseth for instance. His pick for defense secretary. Come on. He was a weekend newscaster. What a joke! If his choices for the cabinet aren't idiotic enough he goes even further. Now he is taking to his social media platform to tell us he will be putting into action some tariffs for Mexico, Canada, and China. A 25% tariff with an added 10% for China. So now our cost of healthy vegetables will skyrocket price-wise wise and the price of pharmaceuticals, plastics, lumber, metal, machinery, cars, fertilizers, and so much more will be going up also. All because he wants retaliation and "it will continue until drugs and all illegal aliens stop this invasion into our country." Why attack them? I can see coming down hard to get things done but...? Is that the way to treat Canada which buys more from us than the UK, France, Japan, and China put together? Whatever happened to diplomacy and cooperation? Working it out together? This just means a trade war and being at odds with what used to be our closest allies. I guess we will see just how much of this really takes place in January.
What are your thoughts on these serious issues?
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@Juliaacv (56257)
• Canada
27 Nov 24
That is interesting.
I suggested to my husband that I get him a few pairs of Levis jeans before they rise in price, as they are from the US, but he told me that they are manufactured in China, and suggested that I could check the tag.
So where will that leave them and other companies that have the parent company in the US yet the manufacturing occurring elsewhere?
The same will hold true with the oil from the Alberta Oil Sands, our iron, lumber and a few other items that we trade regularly with the US.
He is going to hurt people on both sides of the border with those tariffs.
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@kaylachan (84785)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
28 Nov 24
He's striking fear in those who present the biggest threats to the boarder. It may not be conventional, but sometimes you have to threaten something extreme to get someone's attention. Which is what he wants, their attention. You haveto understand that we, the U.S. have the ability to make things like plastics. We have farms that can grow more than enough healthy veggies that aren't being utilized because we import where we don't have to. He's taking the risk of a trade war, so that we stopp illigal imigrents from walking freely into our boarders as they please. Because one of the things we need is better boarder security.
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@celticeagle (189833)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Dec 24
Yes, I do agree. I wish he could be more diplomatic.
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@celticeagle (189833)
• Boise, Idaho
2 Dec 24
@kaylachan ......I doubt he has it in him anyway.
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@kaylachan (84785)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
2 Dec 24
@celticeagle He could, but it may not have gotten results.
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@LindaOHio (222417)
• United States
28 Nov 24
Doing that to our friends in Canada is criminal.
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