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.
DeleteHow do you reconcile Trump's supposed dementia with his accomplishments? E.g., using the threat of tariffs to get a big boost in American manufacturing.
DeleteAmerican job numbers are indicative of an economy that is in decline. A part of this is due to the capricious and arbitrary nature of the orange Jesus's tariff policy which has made it very difficult for the business community to plan. The geniuses behind the tariff equation that was used to calculate reciprocity could not do the math properly, were told that they had not done the math properly, and made no corrections to their erroneous work. This is how morons go about things. Unemployment in the young workforce is over 9%. Chipotle's stock is down 19% today as management indicates that the young consumer is not spending because of current financial hardship. Consumer goods prices are inching up and expected to continue to do so as Trump's tariffs are passed on to the buying public. The fed lowers interest rates during a government shutdown based on assumptions without the usual data. Trump's approval rating in regard to his handling of the shutdown is at 25%, with the public blaming republicans over democrats at a 2:1 ratio. Yeah everything is going well and we have Trump and his enablers to thank for it. Hungry children and old people, and tens of millions who will see their health insurance skyrocket is the price to be paid for giving billionaires tax breaks.
DeleteSpeaking of demented old fools, I give you fascist David.
ReplyDeleteI don’t want him.
DeleteI love him.
Delete“A longtime former employee at one of President Donald Trump's golf clubs was mistakenly deported to Mexico, The New York Times reported — sending U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement into a mad scramble to correct the error and bring him home.
ReplyDelete"Alejandro Juarez stepped off a plane in Texas and stood on a bridge over the Rio Grande, staring at the same border that he had crossed illegally from Mexico 22 years earlier," reported Luis Ferré-Sadurnà and Hamed Aleaziz. "As U.S. immigration officials unshackled restraints bound to his arms and legs, Mr. Juarez, 39, pleaded with them. He told them he was never given a chance to contest his deportation in front of an immigration judge after being detained in New York City five days before."
Why the scrambling for an illegal who was transported to his correct side of the border? Because he has special status conferred by Trump, is that it?
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