EPTOn the jobs side, I don't see how he can come out looking good. He promised the sky, and the measures he wants (e.g. 35% tariffs) would probably do a lot of harm both here and abroad. If in addition, he crashes the peso so hard that even with the tariffs it's still more efficient to manufacture in Mexico, we could wind up with the worst of both worlds, with all blame landing squarely on Trump.
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ChristianS
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On the jobs side, I don't see how he can come out looking good. He promised the sky, and the measures he wants (e.g. 35% tariffs) would probably do a lot of harm both here and abroad. If in addition, he crashes the peso so hard that even with the tariffs it's still more efficient to manufacture in Mexico, we could wind up with the worst of both worlds, with all blame landing squarely on Trump. | ||
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Karis Vas Ryaar
United States4396 Posts
On January 22 2017 06:14 ChristianS wrote: Interesting that Trump's singlehandedly crashed the peso, and that it makes many of his campaign issues he wanted to solve actually worsen. On illegal immigration you could imagine it helping him politically; problem gets worse, people retroactively think he was right to focus on it. On the jobs side, I don't see how he can come out looking good. He promised the sky, and the measures he wants (e.g. 35% tariffs) would probably do a lot of harm both here and abroad. If in addition, he crashes the peso so hard that even with the tariffs it's still more efficient to manufacture in Mexico, we could wind up with the worst of both worlds, with all blame landing squarely on Trump. nbcnews had an article on that. but yeah cost to build a plant in mexico has fallen almost in half. and even if the Mexican economy tanks that means that more people will try to make it to the US and their likely to get mad and elect a hardliner in 2018 presidential election. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
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A crack in an ice shelf in Antarctica grew by six miles in the past few weeks, British scientists say, and now measures more than 100 miles long. Once the crack is complete, a giant iceberg larger than Rhode Island will break or "calve" off of Antarctica. The iceberg would be one of the biggest on record. The break "will fundamentally change the landscape of the Antarctic Peninsula," according to Project MIDAS, a British Antarctic research project that's tracking the crack. Only a final 12 miles of ice now connects the future iceberg to its parent ice shelf. Ice shelves are permanent floating sheets of ice that connect to a land mass, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Most of the world's ice shelves hug the coast of Antarctica. The Larsen C shelf is on the Antarctic Peninsula, the portion of the continent that juts out toward South America. If the iceberg did break off, it wouldn't contribute to sea-level rise since it's already floating, said Ted Scambos, a scientist with the data center. (If a chunk of ice that big did drop into the sea, it would raise sea levels about 1/16 of an inch, he said.) However, once that iceberg breaks off, land ice that had been blocked by the berg would plop into the sea. It's that ice that would eventually raise sea levels, NASA scientist Thomas Wagner said. "Ice shelves serve a critical role in buttressing ice that's on land," he said. There is not enough information to know whether the split is a result of climate change or not, but there is "good scientific evidence" climate change has caused thinning of the ice shelf, the British researchers say. Once the iceberg sheared off, it would float along the coast of Antarctica, then head out into the Southern Ocean. "As it moved north, ocean temperatures both at the surface and at the base of the berg would begin to thin it and erode it from the edges," Scambos said. It would eventually break apart into smaller chunks that would melt into the ocean. Source | ||
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Doodsmack
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zlefin
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On January 22 2017 07:28 Doodsmack wrote: Hope trumps voters are tracking his promises. Yesterday he added eradicating all radical Islamic terrorism. From what I can tell, he uses a very different speaking style, where words don't mean what they are. I wish they had someone assigned to translating what he says into normal speak or academic speak, so we could know what he was trying to say. | ||
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
On January 22 2017 07:29 zlefin wrote: From what I can tell, he uses a very different speaking style, where words don't mean what they are. I wish they had someone assigned to translating what he says into normal speak or academic speak, so we could know what he was trying to say. That's what Rick Perry, Ben Carson, and Betsy DeVos are for - executing on his promises. | ||
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Doodsmack
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On_Slaught
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Expect a lot of lies from Trump's twitter is the take away message. | ||
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IyMoon
United States1249 Posts
On January 22 2017 07:45 On_Slaught wrote: So Trump has officially declared war on the press. Such is expected. What happened? | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
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Introvert
United States4894 Posts
On January 22 2017 02:25 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: That reminds me of the whole "If it's a legitimate rape, the body will shut down the pregnancy without need for an abortion" statement of Todd Akin lol. So embarrassing, but is apparently a reasonable argument for some Republican leaders. Which Republican leaders? The ones who called on him to drop out or who pulled his funding? | ||
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Karis Vas Ryaar
United States4396 Posts
On January 22 2017 07:45 On_Slaught wrote: So Trump has officially declared war on the press. Such is expected. Expect a lot of lies from Trump's twitter is the take away message. well that's sure to go well. didn't mark Twain say something about that. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
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On_Slaught
United States12190 Posts
He said that while you (the press) hold Trump accountable we (the administration) are going to hold the press accountable. He implied that Trump will bypass the middle man and go straight to the people via twitter. All of this was said in a decidedly angry speech. The whole thing about the crowd sizes was just waxing Trump's ego and entirely random and inappropriate. | ||
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
On January 22 2017 07:47 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: Kind of shows how desperate the Corporate Press is for the appearance of validation. Meanwhile the online press keeps growing. Corporate Press is making bank FYI. | ||
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Doodsmack
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Euphorbus
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Of course Trump is already calling the media 'liars, fake news sad!' for not claiming there were 1.5 million at his inauguration. "There is nobody that has more respect for [x] than..." "I have heard many great things..." We really have to endure 4 years of that nonsense? | ||
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xDaunt
United States17988 Posts
On January 22 2017 07:45 On_Slaught wrote: So Trump has officially declared war on the press. Such is expected. Expect a lot of lies from Trump's twitter is the take away message. Trump is entirely correct to treat the press as the enemy. The press has no interest in doing Trump any favors in its coverage of him. They declared their biases long ago. Trump is merely reciprocating. This is only big deal because Trump is the first GOP politician to actually fight back. | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States23622 Posts
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/20/us/politics/trump-inauguration-crowd.html Looks like the press sec is just going to double down on Trump's petty ego inflating lies. | ||
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