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01-21-2019 , 11:50 AM

#4301

Koss

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Quote:

Originally Posted by realDonaldTrump

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But if you are from a ****hole country stay out.

01-21-2019 , 11:54 AM

#4302

lozen

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Quote:

Originally Posted by realDonaldTrump

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My god not your other 1200 fake gods.

01-21-2019 , 12:22 PM

#4303

otatop

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Quote:

Originally Posted by realDonaldTrump

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From ~1999 to ~2010 manufacturing shed about 6 million jobs but hot dog you guys, President Donald J. Trump has [yrl=https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/ceshighlights.pdf]added 491,000 manufacturing jobs in 2 years[/url], he must be a ****ing magician! If he can keep those numbers up we'll be back to where we were in 1999 by 2029!

01-21-2019 , 12:47 PM

#4304

lozen

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Quote:

Originally Posted by otatop

You realize Automation has shed many manufacturing jobs

01-21-2019 , 01:27 PM

#4305

otatop

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Of course, that was what Obama's whole "magic wand" comment was about. Meanwhile Trump's crowing about adding 20,000 jobs per month as if it's some great achievement.

01-21-2019 , 01:46 PM

#4306

realDonaldTrump

WITCH HUNT!

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01-21-2019 , 02:04 PM

#4307

grizy

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Trump is toxic even in legal circles it seems.

https://abovethelaw.com/2019/01/law-..._hsmi=69143125

TLDR: Kasowitz’s firm couldn’t get law students to show up to a networking event.

01-21-2019 , 02:31 PM

#4308

whosnext

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'no matter the place of their birth' -- "howthehell did that get in there?"

01-21-2019 , 03:47 PM

#4309

alazo1985

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Today my flat-Earther MAGA boss called the admin into his office and asked her if she bad ever heard of this “Mussolini” fellow, and said with a straight face he thinks he might not have been that bad

01-21-2019 , 04:01 PM

#4310

whosnext

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Can I guess who he asked about in a follow-up question??

01-21-2019 , 04:05 PM

#4311

otatop

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It's weird that so many MAGA-types are also pretty big fans of America's former enemies. They're probably just trying to show the left how to move on from past grievances.

01-21-2019 , 04:34 PM

#4312

uDevil

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Quote:

Originally Posted by realDonaldTrump

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He was there long enough to get footage for a tweet.

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1087387479294935044

01-21-2019 , 04:49 PM

#4313

El Rata

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Quote:

Originally Posted by uDevil

He was there long enough to get footage for a tweet.

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1087387479294935044

inspiring

01-21-2019 , 05:16 PM

#4314

John21

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Quote:

Originally Posted by otatop

Our current trade deficit accounts for 4 million domestic manufacturing jobs. And while we can’t get all those jobs back, we can realistically shoot for 2 million. Couple that to a multiplier effect - where every $1 increase in domestic manufacturing creates $3-4 in economic activity, some of which are in manufacturing especially automation related manufacturing – getting back to 15-16K is doable in ten years.

01-21-2019 , 05:27 PM

#4315

microbet

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Quote:

Originally Posted by John21

I'll never be POTUS, but the loss of manufacturing jobs due to trade deficit is not a problem. The GDP per capita in China was $300 in 1980 and it's $9000 now. China is still poor (US is $60K), but it's come a hell of a long way and the overall good of the shift of manufacturing to China has been immense.

01-21-2019 , 05:38 PM

#4316

stringbettor

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Quote:

Originally Posted by John21

What is the basis for the 2 million jobs that are able to be retrieved?

01-21-2019 , 05:42 PM

#4317

alazo1985

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Quote:

Originally Posted by otatop

It's weird that so many MAGA-types are also pretty big fans of America's former enemies. They're probably just trying to show the left how to move on from past grievances.

Failure of our education that apparently legit never heard of Mussolini

01-21-2019 , 05:52 PM

#4318

superleeds

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I don’t believe he actually made the trains run on time either

01-21-2019 , 05:58 PM

#4319

realDonaldTrump

WITCH HUNT!

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( twitter | raw text )

01-21-2019 , 05:59 PM

#4320

John21

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Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

Well “overall good” for whom and by what metrics is a big issue. But in an economic sense China is screwed. Their only out was to monopolize the tech market; after their “China 2025” plan leaked out, fat chance of that happening. Everyone is fixated on what the right hand is doing but take a glance at what the left is up to:

Remarks by Vice President Pence on the Administration’s Policy Toward China
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings...-toward-china/

01-21-2019 , 06:02 PM

#4321

John21

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Quote:

Originally Posted by stringbettor

What is the basis for the 2 million jobs that are able to be retrieved?

About 1 million that were follow-the-herd bad decisions that the firms doing so would take a mulligan on. Another million due to China’s increasing costs of production and our increasing technology.

01-21-2019 , 06:07 PM

#4322

tomdemaine

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Quote:

Originally Posted by realDonaldTrump

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Art of the deal distilled

1. **** X up

2. Say "I am the only one who can fix X"

3. Say "give me Y or I'll leave X ****ed up"

4. Apparently make several billion dollars.

Capitalism, it just works!

01-21-2019 , 06:08 PM

#4323

Namath12

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I've read second hand that some firms are moving production from China back to the US because they're tired of their tech secrets/IP being ripped by China but I don't recall the numbers or any specific names.