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Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

-hh wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

On 8/19/25 07:20, NoBody wrote:

On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:11:43 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K.
Sherman) wrote:

| China learned a valuable lesson in US trade talks: the
| value of its leverage

| China Is Choking Supply of Critical Minerals to Western
| Defense Companies

|
| A Nation of Lawyers Confronts China's Engineering State
|
| As the Chinese economy surges forward, the U.S. has lost
| its capacity for physical improvement.
| ...
<https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/china-america-tarif >>>> fs-trump-economy/683895/>

--bks

So you're complaining that the US can't produce but complain when
Trump tries to move production back to the US.

Where is there any actual evidence that Trump is actually working to
move production back to the USA?

Because on again / off again TACO'ing tariffs don't do it.

Nor does imposing tariffs on things that we literally can't
economically ever make in the USA, such as coffee, bananas, sugar...

So where's there any proof that these aren't just old school Mafia
style "protection racket" and shakedowns for his own personal profit?

After all, hasn't he already been 'gifted' a Boeing 747-8?

<https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/trump-told-norwegian-minis
ter-he-wants-nobel-prize-newspaper-says-2025-08-14/>

"Out of the blue, while Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg was
walking down the street in Oslo, Donald Trump called," Dagens
Naeringsliv reported, citing unnamed sources.

"He wanted the Nobel Prize - and to discuss tariffs."

In a comment to Reuters, Stoltenberg said the call was to
discuss tariffs and economic cooperation ahead of Trump's call
with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Stoere. "I will not go
into further detail about the content of the conversation," he
added.

Several White House officials, including U.S. Treasury
Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson
Greer were on the call, Stoltenberg added.

He'll be chewing on his own penis once he's out of office.

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