***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[elpablo21]

 

[Sharpshoeter13]

Mueller HBO mini-series will be

I mean, it will be based entirely on fake news. But filthy America-hating libs are crafting an award-winning script for us.

I'M ALL IN FOR THIS

Clooney as Mueller?

 

[elpablo21]

Also reported in the WaPo article

 

[Belgium]

Here we go again
http://time.com/5227104/trump-tariffs-50-billion-chinese-electronics-imports/
Trump Proposes Tariffs on $50 Billion in Chinese Electronics Imports

The Trump administration on Tuesday escalated its aggressive actions on trade by proposing 25 percent tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese imports to protest Beijing’s alleged theft of American technology.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative issued a list targeting 1,300 Chinese products, including industrial robots and telecommunications equipment. The suggested tariffs wouldn’t take effect right way: A public comment period will last until May 11, and a hearing on the tariffs is set for May 15. Companies and consumers will have the opportunity to lobby to have some products taken off the list or have others added.

The latest U.S. move risks heightening trade tensions with China, which on Monday had slapped taxes on $3 billion in U.S. products in response to earlier U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

“China’s going to be compelled to lash back,” warned Philip Levy, a senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and an economic adviser to President George W. Bush.

Indeed, China immediately threatened to retaliate against the new U.S. tariffs, which target the high-tech industries that Beijing has been nurturing, from advanced manufacturing and aerospace to information technology and robotics.

Early Wednesday in Beijing, China’s Commerce Ministry said it “strongly condemns and firmly opposes” the proposed U.S. tariffs and warned of retaliatory action.

“We will prepare equal measures for U.S. products with the same scale” according to regulations in Chinese trade law, a ministry spokesman said in comments carried by the official Xinhua News Agency.

The U.S. sanctions are intended to punish China for using strong-arm tactics in its drive to become a global technology power. These include pressuring American companies to share technology to gain access to the Chinese market, forcing U.S. firms to license their technology in China on unfavorable terms and even hacking into U.S. companies’ computers to steal trade secrets.

The administration sought to draw up the list of targeted Chinese goods in a way that might limit the impact of the tariffs — a tax on imports — on American consumers while hitting Chinese imports that benefit from Beijing’s sharp-elbowed tech policies. But some critics that American will end up being hurt.

“If you’re hitting $50 billion in trade, you’re inevitably going to hurt somebody, and somebody is going to complain,” said Rod Hunter, a former economic official at the National Security Council and now a partner at Baker & McKenzie LLP.

Even representatives of American business, which have complained for years that China has pilfered U.S. technology and discriminated against U.S. companies, were critical of the administration’s latest action.

“Unilateral tariffs may do more harm than good and do little to address the problems in China’s (intellectual property) and tech transfer policies,” said John Frisbie, president of the U.S.-China Business Council.

Even some technology groups contending directly with Chinese competition expressed misgivings.

“The Trump administration is right to push back against China’s abuse of economic and trade policy,” said Robert Atkinson, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation think tank. “But imposing tariffs on producer goods will inadvertently hurt Americans through reduced capital investment and lower productivity growth.”

At the same time, the United States has become increasingly frustrated with China’s aggressive efforts to overtake American technological supremacy. And many have argued that Washington needed to respond aggressively.

“The Chinese are bad trading partners because they steal intellectual property,” said Derek Scissors, a China specialist at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

In January, a federal court in Wisconsin convicted a Chinese manufacturer of wind turbines, Sinovel Wind Group, of stealing trade secrets from the American company AMSC and nearly putting it out of business.

And in 2014, a Pennsylvania grand jury indicted five officers in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army on charges of hacking into the computers of Westinghouse, US Steel and other major American companies to steal information that would benefit their Chinese competitors.

To target China, Trump dusted off a Cold War weapon for trade disputes: Section 301 of the U.S. Trade Act of 1974, which lets the president unilaterally impose tariffs. It was meant for a world in which much of global commerce wasn’t covered by trade agreements. With the arrival in 1995 of the Geneva-based World Trade Organization, Section 301 largely faded from use.

Dean Pinkert of the law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed, found it reassuring that the administration didn’t completely bypass the WTO: As part of its complaint, the U.S. is bringing a WTO case against Chinese licensing policies that put U.S. companies at a disadvantage.

China has been urging the United States to seek a diplomatic solution and warning that it would retaliate against any trade sanctions. Beijing could counterpunch by targeting American businesses that depend on the Chinese market: Aircraft manufacturer Boeing, for instance, or American soybean farmers, who send nearly 60 percent of their exports to China.

Rural America has been especially worried about the risk of a trade war. Farmers are especially vulnerable targets in trade spats because they rely so much on foreign sales.

“Beijing right now is trying to motivate US stakeholders to press the Trump Administration to enter into direct negotiations with China and reach a settlement before tariffs are imposed,” the Eurasia Group consultancy said in a research note.

“The next couple of weeks will be very interesting,” says Kristin Duncanson, a soybean, corn and hog farmer in Mapleton, Minnesota.

 

[elpablo21]

 

[Sharpshoeter13]

Dude boasted his Nixon collection on his Netflix special

pimpjx1 - new NT password

 

[elpablo21]

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[biggie62]

So sick of winning. I’m honestly getting bored.

 

[noskey]

What positive success stories does Scott Walker or the Wisconsin GOP have to brag about? Literally can't think of one thing that lame has accomplished.

 

[Rootin4EverybodyBlack]

What positive success stories does Scott Walker or the Wisconsin GOP have to brag about? Literally can't think of one thing that lame has accomplished.

Making poor people poorer.

 

[RustyShackleford]

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Da Wave is coming

 

[blastercombo]

Is conservative not just another word for white and those who want to be white? Or is it more along the lines of I wish it was 1950 again?

 

[boris]

 

[aepps20]

Biblethumpers at it again
"Nonini is a

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[dragicon]

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Scott walker is such a piece of ****.

 

[RustyShackleford]

Together Sam Harris, Andrew Sullivan, and Jordan Peterson now represent the Three Musketeers of White, So-Called Intellectual, Buffoonery.

A center-left liberal, center-right moderate, and a right-wing conservative. All I need now is to find a leftist clown to make the cypher complete.

But that will be hard because while I do have beefs with white leftist, they generally don't do dumb nonsense like defend Charles Murray, and they treat justice for African Americans as something that needs to be addressed with policy, as opposed something interesting to discuss on a podcast.

 

[milestailsprowe]

Robert isnt gonna touch Trump till his has a mountain of evidence to go on. You only get ONE shot at the king but his lackeys are all fair game.

 

[Nawzlew]

my mans said "driven by anger & hatred"

 

[big panda]

Robert isnt gonna touch Trump till his has a mountain of evidence to go on. You only get ONE shot at the king but his lackeys are all fair game.

 

[Based Jesus]

Smell that? You smell that? Tariffs son. Nothing else smells like that. I love the smell of tariffs in the morning

 

[RustyShackleford]

China seems to be targeting industries that will not only screw America as a whole but screw over the regions that voted for Trump.

That soybean tariff is going to hurt hard.

To all the liberals, leftist and smart conservatives that didn't vote for this clown and will be directly hurt by this; my heart goes out to them.

To everyone else.....

Elections have consequences. Remember that Trump Stans

 

[RustyShackleford]

China knows exactly what they are doing. This isn't about hurting America; it is about screwing Trump....

 

[northoaklandfc]

At the end of the day of course I want a vibrant and healthy U.S. economy across all regions and industries but I can't help but laugh at the stupid hicks who will be hurt by this. They deserve whatever stress and ill comes their way 10x over.

 

[Benny Hinn]

China knows exactly what they are doing. This isn't about hurting America; it is about screwing Trump....

4D Mahjong

 

[frink85]

4D Mahjong