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Got some links you can share?

So before when the numbers favored Trump, the information was gathered by neutral means? But now,when the numbers don't look so good, it's being gathered by an unhinged and raging rainbow person?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/270277/mining-of-rare-earths-by-country/

You can label what I've said how you like. What you apparently can't do, is offer counter arguments based on reasoning and evidence. You've got nothing.

You're making an excellent point here. Clearly the that Putin is ex KGB, has engaged in a brutal war of aggression against a neighboring country, has that journalist murdered, has troop stationed in neighboring countries against their will, and outlawed any serious criticism of Russia's conduct in Ukraine war, clearly makes it unlikely that he would ever condone engaging in this kind of sabotage and terrorism. Basically, he's a big pussycat.

Even if that were the case, it wasn't my words that are in question.

Had your read past the first paragraph, you might have learned that the article wasn't just about the IKEA attack. And it's kind of weird how selectively right wingers and fake socialists get all heated up about terrorism.

First of all, one of the marks of someone who has nothing is they put words in someone else's mouth, so to speak. Really, oh you got to offer is a harangue. Nothing at all about remedies for the specific problems at hand. And the reason for that is, there really are none. And what is it with your obsession with emojis?. I rarely use them and mostly only the positive ones. Persecution complex much?

Your arguments come gift wrapped with an American Flag. But when you open the package, all you find is nothing. To put it another way, maybe you think cheerleading is a form of rational discussion. Or more likely, you invoke it because you've got nothing.

Complacent much? U.S. investors, Big Pharma race to find new medicines in China U.S. investors like Bain Capital Life Sciences and large pharmaceutical companies like Merck are increasingly looking for new medicines in China. Almost 30% of Big Pharma deals with at least $50 million up front came from China last year, up from 20% the year before and 0% only five years before, according to data from DealForma. The global supply of pharmaceutical raw materials China is the leading exporting country and in some branches has a dominant position on world trade https://www.pricepedia.it/en/magazine/article/2024/10/15/the-global-supply-of-pharmaceutical-raw-materials/ China’s EV giants are betting big on humanoid robots Technical know-how and existing supply chains give Chinese electric-vehicle makers a significant head start in the sector. https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/14/1111920/chinas-electric-vehicle-giants-pivot-humanoid-robots/

Does it? Amazon, Google and Wish have removed neo-Nazi and white-supremacist products being sold on their platforms following an investigation by BBC Click. White-supremacist flags, neo-Nazi books and Ku Klux Klan merchandise were all available for sale. All three companies told the BBC that racist products were prohibited on their platforms. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53518008 If so, inadvertently. Can the same be said of X?

Until 2012, China imported nearly half of its soybeans from the US, according to USDA data. However, in the last decade, Brazil emerged as the largest supplier of the product to China and the world. In 2024, China's total soybean imports reached a record-high 105 million mt, with Brazil accounting for nearly 70% of the supplies and the US accounting for roughly 20%, the latest data from the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China data showed. https://www.spglobal.com/commodity-insights/en/news-research/latest-news/agriculture/020625-us-farmers-could-permanently-lose-key-markets-amid-trumps-tariffs-diplomacy-trade

"We have the precedent from the trade war in 2018. At that time, one out of three rows was going to China, and after all the dust is settled, we have never gained back that full market share that we had. We’ve lost about nine percent of U.S. production that used to be exported to China that now isn’t, and our competitors in South America, mainly in Brazil, have filled that spot. China has partnered with them and invested in infrastructure and ports and rail and roads and bridges, and we’re not likely to get that back.” https://www.sfntoday.com/2025/04/09/soybean-farmers-fear-losing-more-chinese-market-share/

Right. San Francisco and Silicon Valley have been major contributors to America's decline. If it weren't for the contributions of states like Mississippi and North Dakota, America would be doomed.

As the US learned in Iraq, it's always wise policy to have contempt for your enemies or competitors: "China’s global lead extends to 37 out of 44 technologies that ASPI is now tracking, covering a range of crucial technology fields spanning defence, space, robotics, energy, the environment, biotechnology, artificial intelligence (AI), advanced materials and key quantum technology areas.1 The Critical Technology Tracker shows that, for some technologies, all of the world’s top 10 leading research institutions are based in China and are collectively generating nine times more high-impact research papers than the second-ranked country (most often the US). Notably, the Chinese Academy of Sciences ranks highly (and often first or second) across many of the 44 technologies included in the Critical Technology Tracker. " https://www.aspi.org.au/report/critical-technology-tracker

Keep wriggling. In the post of yours I addressed you cast shade on the statement that there was a shortage of engineers. Now you're making all kinds of claims about volunteerism, or the potential of minority youth, environmental hypocrisy, and workers' rights. Everything except the fact that China has a huge advantage over the United States in actual existing engineering talent. Now maybe you've got a magic wand and you can, with a wave, turn all those minority youth into engineers. But other than that, you've got nothing but deflections to offer.

By pausing some tariffs for dozens of countries for 90 days, he also gave away something to his main rival, the Chinese leader Xi Jinping, with whom he has engaged in a game of chicken that risks decoupling the world’s two biggest economies and turning the global economic order upside down. Mr. Xi learned that his adversary has a pain point. As reckless and ruthless as Mr. Trump may seem to some parts of the world, in Mr. Xi and China he is squaring off with a leader and a party state that have a long history of single-minded pursuit of policies, even when they resulted in economic and human catastrophe. https://archive.ph/eOtrK#selection-4425.0-4425.54

Maybe the can. But the issue isn't what they can do but what they actually are doing.

You sure about that? How a Ukrainian Teen Became a Suspected Foot Soldier for Russia The teenager faces terrorism charges in an arson attack on an IKEA store in Lithuania. Investigators say it was part of a Russian sabotage campaign. Shopping malls, warehouses, undersea cables and railways in Europe have all been hit over the past two years in what the Center for Strategic and International Studies describes as a drive to sow havoc led by Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU. The number of covert Russian attacks nearly tripled between 2023 and 2024. https://archive.ph/usVWU#selection-4591.0-4603.74

Could you be a little less precise?

Thank you for your reasoned and fact-filled rebuttal. You make an excellent point. Everybody knows that to be the world's number 1 manufacturing power, the last thing that you need is engineers. Basically all you have to do is plant seeds and the designs for the products and the machines that make them just sprout.

I found a direct link to yougov which gives all kinds of details. But doesn't compare this report to the previous one: https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/51986-donald-trump-declining-popularity-tariffs-third-term-the-economy-april-5-8-2025-economist-yougov-poll

Here's a link https://www.yahoo.com/news/young-people-quickly-abandoning-team-163712123.html

You also didn't address the question of why so the 20th century ended so much wealthier than it began.

You should know better than to quote that ignoramus. In 1890 Republicans passed the Tariff Act. It resulted in massive inflation and resulted in them being thrown out of power in the 1892 elections. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinley_Tariff