Last edited by ~Rocktar~; 11-29-2024 at 11:12 PM.
I asked for neither your Opinion,
your Acceptance
nor your Permission.
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis." Dante Alighieri 3
"It took 2000 mules to install one Jackass." Diamond and Silk Watch the Movie
Hummmm, more work than Biden as done and he isn't even inaugurated yet.
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau visits Trump at Mar-a-Lago amid steep tariff threats: report
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/can...threats-report
I asked for neither your Opinion,
your Acceptance
nor your Permission.
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis." Dante Alighieri 3
"It took 2000 mules to install one Jackass." Diamond and Silk Watch the Movie
I love that you act like that's a bad thing.
P.S. Sevin Dust is a non-chemical based insecticide that works on both plants and animals. You will want plenty of that around for your new tomato garden and chickens. If you need anymore slave free living ideas, I'm happy to give you all the information you need.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ~ Marcus Aurelius“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984
During the adult lives of every person in this forum, the Republican Party has strongly, openly and stubbornly opposed protectionism, until Trump came along. That's partly been true for the Democratic Party. In fact, calls for "free trade" grew louder and louder from around the 1930s until reaching a high point during the presidencies of Reagan, who proposed NAFTA, and Clinton, who brought it to fruition. During this period, international demographic changes weakened the political clout of labor unions, which supported protectionism, to the point that they were ineffective. Reversing international demographic changes today point toward a tighter labor market in the U.S. As a consequence, labor union influence should regain its former power. Perhaps Trump's tariff stance is a leading indicator.
Protectionism is the purposeful stifling of competition. In the short run, it can protect threatened industries. In the long run, it slows innovation, limits consumer choices and increases consumer prices.
Actkuly, many of us, who were alive during the starting of NAFTA, were opposed to it because we knew what would happen and amazingly, it has. I am not hugely for protectionism, I AM for equal and reciprocal tariffs for those who are are competitors and who are hurting us as a nation due to unequal tariffs and trade practices.
When Canada can sell dairy products in the US at less than then their cost of production because their government props them up, that's a problem. When we can't sell rice in Japan because of insane tariffs, that's a problem. Americans will meet and beat almost any other producer in the world, IF you get the hidden finger off the scale. When we can't produce our own minerals because the cost of regulation and enviro-whacko lawsuits, but you can buy diamonds mined by slave kids, lithium mined by 12 yr olds and so on in countries with no regulation, fuck that.
For all the cries about environmentalism the Left is such hypocrites by arguing for sending work overseas where it's done by slave kids in some of the most polluted places on the planet all so the Left can say "Hey look, the air and water in the US is clean, we did such a great thing.
Fuck off.
OH and the Democrats were big on selling it all too.
Last edited by ~Rocktar~; 11-30-2024 at 08:37 PM.
I asked for neither your Opinion,
your Acceptance
nor your Permission.
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis." Dante Alighieri 3
"It took 2000 mules to install one Jackass." Diamond and Silk Watch the Movie
What are you talking about?
I wrote in Perot specifically because I knew NAFTA would do what it has done, it was the first time I ever voted Republican.
I'm still a classic liberal, you people are liberal in name only. I want people to own fully auto weapons, say whatever the fuck they want and despise any war where our homeland hasn't been attacked. I basically have the same political ideology as Hunter S. Thompson.
Also, Lugers are complete trash, though, they look cool AF.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ~ Marcus Aurelius“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984