Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

Yeah I get you. It'd make you wonder why the US made itself so reliant on a cold war adversary in the first place.

Would it not have been better to have more of that cheap labour in places like south east Asia (excluding china), India especially and maybe even Africa?

Do you lads reckon the dollar will drop further? It suits me for some purchases I make the weaker it gets Vs the Euro. Bought $100 of credit today as the rate is good. Should I hold off a few weeks before buying more?

Dollar is taking a beating. The utter stupidity of this is very hard to comprehend. Looking forward to how he tries to spin it as a win when he pauses the tariffs on China. Surely this cannot go on much longer!?

Same way as brexit spun it? Its makes their exports more affordable!

Xi smells blood with Trump.

Both sides will suffer damage but the USA is far more exposed and Trump's also isolated himself right from the beginning.

A lower dollar would make it harder for a conscientious boycotter like yt (I would boycott them "just" for physically threatening Canada and Greenland.)

What have they got worth buying?

By the way what is this fixation with iphones? I never had one .Are there things you can only do with one of them rather than an android phone to jusify the huge difference in price.?

It feels sick wishing for China to come out on top but maybe that is a short term fix for fixing dumb.

As they say ,no winners here.

I feel sick wishing China well in a confrontation with America because they are a constitutional dictatorship and have noone's best interests at heart either at home or abroad.

Their revolution was justified but they have not returned power to the Chinese people and remain a blight on the political landscape -a status America aspires to and is working towards.

China may seem to be the "good guy" within limited parameters here but,just an example Ukraine says it has captured a Chinese fighter and estimates some 150 more at large.

China raises tariffs on US goods to 125% as it slams Trump for 'defying basic economic laws and common sense' 

Isn’t that a great quote from China- just simple, calling it for what it is. Trump can’t go forward with his plans when he gets a response that even a 6 year old kid would understand

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14598461/China-raises-tariffs-US-Trump-defying-laws.html

Pardon my ignorance here, but does this mean that grok has been scraping personal data from twitter users accounts?

If that's the case, I'd imagine that would be a big no no under EU rules?

150 mercs from a country the size of China is nothing really.

Did you blame Ireland as a country when a couple of Irish people got caught doing Merc work for dodgy fekers ?

Nobody is fooled by China but I have noticed a lot of tutting and faux outrage the last few days because they are embarrassing Trump.

After decades of doing well off the Chinese economy of scale that no one else could provide now we have people parroting Trump about being the victim.

duplo is about the only phone the US can make now.

When America’s only friends are Russia and a few dictatorships in South America you know the writing is on the wall for this administration