THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2025
Young voters may not be buying: These have been very tiring days. Meanwhile, according to Mediaite, there he has gone once again:
WH Mocks Jeffries and Schumer With New Sombrero Meme After Taco Lunch for Capitol Police
‘He Is a CRIMINAL!’ Trump Calls for Jack Smith to Be Jailed in Jaw-Dropping Truth Social Post
Trump Fumes Chuck Schumer’s Criticism of Prez’s Asia Trip Is ‘Almost Treasonous’
By now, this sort of thing has all been thoroughly normalized. We'd love to hear from medical specialists about an impulse of this type.
Meanwhile, the New York Times is adopting a skeptical stance with respect to the ballyhooed China deal:
NEWS ANALYSIS
Trump’s China Deal May Avert a Crisis of His Own Making
The Trump administration is hailing a potential deal that may return the U.S.-China relationship to where it was before the president began a trade war against Beijing.
NEWS ANALYSIS
The Art of Letting Trump Claim a Win, While Walking Away Stronger
By withholding soybean purchases and rare-earth exports, China extracted relief from U.S. tariffs and delayed export controls, without conceding much in return.
Opinion column, Nicholas Kristof
Trump Lost the Trade War to ChinaWhen Trump rashly announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs in April, he badly miscalculated. He seemed to think that China was vulnerable because it exported far more to the United States than it purchased. He apparently didn’t appreciate that much of what China purchased, like soybeans, it could get elsewhere—while Beijing is now the OPEC of rare earth minerals, leaving us without alternative sources....
It soon became obvious that President Xi Jinping of China had us over a barrel, for the United States economy depends on Chinese rare earths far more than China depends on American soybeans.
So it says in the New York Times. And according to a new Economist/YouGov poll, young people have largely stopped buying:
Trump Craters With Young Voters in New Poll—Whopping 63-Point Swing in Net Approval
Without any question, it's only one poll. But we live in a very strange time.
Xi: "My offer is...nothing!"
ReplyDeleteTrump: "I win!"
I don't even have to read the NY Times article, although I will, to know that Trump got nothing. In the end, China may still go for their soybeans elsewhere, and the US will still depend on China for the rare earth minerals.
ReplyDeleteMore importantly, the power to impose tariffs does not belong to Trump. That's the part that should not be normalized.
Somerby has nothing positive to say about Trump’s poll numbers cratering.
ReplyDeleteThat's because he's promoting the right-wing talking point that -- well, what? That today's youth hate Trump's guts?
DeleteMost liberals are happy that Trump’s numbers are cratering. Why not Somerby?
Delete1. If the US gets nothing from the China trade negotiation, Trump's efforts there didn't lose anything.
ReplyDelete2. Trump's trade efforts were terribly successful in a number of other areas. In the net, Trump's tariffs yielded a result that is terrifically beneficial to the US. It will be a big boost in domestic manufacturing.
3. People rooting against Trump re China are rooting against the country
"People rooting against Trump re China are rooting against the country"
DeleteNo. Take me for instance. I'm playing the long game.
Far more important in the long run than any advantage gained by a trade deal is that we never again have as a President a murdering liar like Trump.
So I root for him to fail all the time, so that his party and policies will be discredited. To help the country.
They're trying to make Trump a one-term President. Like the Republican Party tried to do to Obama, by calling for austerity---as Americans suffered through the worst economic crisis in 70 years.
DeleteYou know. The one where we had to bailout the economy, due to massive fraud on the part of " the job creators"?
It was a thing for a minute.
My mistake.
Delete"we had to bailout the economy" should be "the government had to bailout the economy"
One-term president? Trump is in his second term.
DeleteI don't think he remembers the first term so it's like two first terms for the demented old fool.
DeleteSpeaking of demented old fools, I give you fascist David.
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