Is Trump Going Soft on China?

[Donga]

On 12/19/2024 at 1:51 PM, Lacessit said:

It means the people who voted for him are not as bright as him.

Bit like in Oz - what the Yes referendum luvvies thought of the No voters - either misinformed or racist. Vast majority were neither. Just wide awake to the inane righteous narrative from the inner cities and activists, backed by most media, gullible big business and celebrities. Similar to the recent US election.

Trump is a narcissistic, unpleasant chap in much of what he says, but he's not dumb. He'll be a short snippet showman, doesn't care what mainstream media thinks as he realises that to his target audience and swinging voters they are largely distrusted and irrelevant.

In long interviews he displays a good understanding of what ails the US. The country needs industry humming again, and a dramatic overhaul of some of their institutions. 92% Dem vote in DC says a lot, is unhealthy and it manifests with overzealous regulations and soft Left leanings in academia, judiciary as well as environment. Ditto Canberra.

What's more, key leaders around the world, particularly in the Middles East and Europe, either respect him, fear him or both -  especially compared to Biden and shudder to think how laughing hyena, Harris would have gone down with the likes of Putin and Xi Jinping. Trump also doesn't like his people having to go to war, which is a refreshing change.

[mikebike]

On 12/19/2024 at 10:32 AM, Thingamabob said:

Trump has not assumed office yet however the pathetic anti-Trump snivellers on here are already droning on. After a year or two of his presidency will be the time to assess his performance, not now.

Uuhm, aren't you forgetting the 4 years we can already judge him on? Why will this time be any different?

[Hawaiian]

On 12/19/2024 at 12:31 AM, Lacessit said:

Too bright to be conned.

So bright that they were convinced, or to use your term, conned she could win. 

[Thingamabob]

1 hour ago, mikebike said:

Uuhm, aren't you forgetting the 4 years we can already judge him on? Why will this time be any different?

Not at all forgetting his first presidency. No worse than some of his predecessors, and better than many.

[mikebike]

4 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

Not at all forgetting his first presidency. No worse than some of his predecessors, and better than many.

Well, that's not the point, is it? You said we couldn't judge him until 2 years from now 🤣 

[Thingamabob]

6 minutes ago, mikebike said:

Well, that's not the point, is it? You said we couldn't judge him until 2 years from now 🤣 

Yes indeed. Difficult to judge a presidency before it's started. How early on would you want to pass judgement ?

[mikebike]

1 minute ago, Thingamabob said:

Yes indeed. Difficult to judge a presidency before it's started. How early on would you want to pass judgement ?

By analyzing his FIRST term, why would anything change? Same guy, same policies, same management style, but 8 years older... Do you expect change 🤣🤣

[NanLaew]

On 12/19/2024 at 10:03 AM, thaibeachlovers said:

He has a load more money than you and he gets to fly on AF 1, and have world dignitaries grovel to him.

I could do with being that not bright.

 

Don't be too hard in yourself. You're doing just fine over there in the shallow end.

[NanLaew]

On 12/19/2024 at 5:31 PM, Lacessit said:

On 12/19/2024 at 1:32 PM, hotandsticky said:

 

 

....and those that voted for the 'losers'?

Too bright to be conned.

 

Good. Very, very good 

[oxo1947]

On 12/19/2024 at 8:25 AM, GypsyT said:

Every time I see Donny boy next to China's XI or Russian Putin he seems to be out of their league.

 

At least he is awake when he is with them---how can you judge the other guy who falls asleep as they are talking to him..

 

 

 

 

[metisdead]

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[Hawaiian]

3 hours ago, NanLaew said:

 

Good. Very, very good 

Being too bright, or being conned? 

[NanLaew]

1 hour ago, Hawaiian said:

4 hours ago, NanLaew said:

 

Good. Very, very good 

Being too bright, or being conned? 

 

Being too bright to be conned.

 

Hope this helps.

[Hawaiian]

3 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

 

Being too bright to be conned.

 

Hope this helps.

Guess you missed my previous post about them being conned into to thinking Kamala could win.

[NanLaew]

17 minutes ago, Hawaiian said:

Guess you missed my previous post about them being conned into to thinking Kamala could win.

 

Never you mind about what you think I missed, you just carry on focusing on what you love.

[Hawaiian]

1 minute ago, NanLaew said:

 

Never you mind about what you think I missed, you just carry on focusing on what you love.

I love not being conned.

[Thingamabob]

6 hours ago, mikebike said:

By analyzing his FIRST term, why would anything change? Same guy, same policies, same management style, but 8 years older... Do you expect change 🤣🤣

Fair question. I can only answer by saying, wait and see...

[candide]

Just a reminder...

China spent millions at Trump properties while he was president

https://www.ft.com/content/15673a34-0863-4426-8d58-ebf60b947354

[Hawaiian]

2 hours ago, candide said:

Just a reminder...

China spent millions at Trump properties while he was president

https://www.ft.com/content/15673a34-0863-4426-8d58-ebf60b947354

Yet Trump was the first president whose net worth decreased while in office.

[candide]

44 minutes ago, Hawaiian said:

Yet Trump was the first president whose net worth decreased while in office.

He was lucky he had the CPC as loyal customer! 

 

Joke apart, the value of real estate significantly decreased during the pandemic, so it's not surprising that his net worth decreased.

[thaibeachlovers]

On 12/22/2024 at 2:04 AM, ericbj said:

Some ramifications of the US-China trade war:

 

"US price tag for China's gallium export ban: $602 billion and new monopolies for Huawei"

 

https://youtu.be/Qp4DNpJjHSs

Rare Earth isn't actually rare. It is just really polluting to refine. The US will, if not already, find some other country to pollute to make up the shortfall, IMO.

[thaibeachlovers]

17 hours ago, NanLaew said:

 

Don't be too hard in yourself. You're doing just fine over there in the shallow end.

Do I suspect a whiff of an unwarranted sense of superiority?

 

[illisdean]

Trump's America first mandate, agenda, etc puts America first just as he promised in his campaign and he WILL do whats necessary to further the interests of America and the world knows it. Trump is tough as nails and nobody to mess with unlike the mentally challenged puppet in office until Jan 20 next year. MAGA is on the march to make America dominant again. Anyone not on board including Cn, the woke, the haters, the disillusioned DEI pronoun obsessed muppets,  Just GTF outta the way. Trump will redefine your attitude and concept of allegiance thru strength and leadership that democrats and Biden can't articulate.

 

 

[Will B Good]

43 minutes ago, illisdean said:

Trump's America first mandate, agenda, etc puts America first just as he promised in his campaign and he WILL do whats necessary to further the interests of America and the world knows it. Trump is tough as nails and nobody to mess with unlike the mentally challenged puppet in office until Jan 20 next year. MAGA is on the march to make America dominant again. Anyone not on board including Cn, the woke, the haters, the disillusioned DEI pronoun obsessed muppets,  Just GTF outta the way. Trump will redefine your attitude and concept of allegiance thru strength and leadership that democrats and Biden can't articulate.

 

 

 

Love your posts.....they make reminisce about those little spats we all had in primary school when children fall out with each other. 

 

I wonder...how big is your dad?....555

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

So then...

Will Taiwan soon fall like HK?

 

[EveryG]

On 12/19/2024 at 10:01 AM, thaibeachlovers said:

Still crying that he won then? 😪

This just demonstrates that Trump world is completely incapable of engaging real issues. This is what happens when a generation of Hulk Hogan fans find a new hero in politics. You may as well find a forum of fake athletes and go argue who has the best finishing move 

 

Of course Donald has backed off of Tic Toc and he told us why:

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“I think we’re going to have to start thinking because, you know, we did go on TikTok, and we had a great response with billions of views, billions and billions of views,” Trump told the crowd at AmericaFest, an annual gathering organized by conservative group Turning Point. “They brought me a chart, and it was a record, and it was so beautiful to see, and as I looked at it, I said, ‘Maybe we gotta keep this sucker around for a little while’,” he said.

Don Sr is easily understood-his only parameters are his malignant narcissism. He has no moral compass. He has no policy positions. He has no ideology. Donald is about himself and he is incapable of being anything else. 

[illisdean]

3 hours ago, EveryG said:

Donald is about himself and he is incapable of being anything else. 

Except for, lets start what you missed, ie, "Donald" as you mention, is that President Donald Trump perhaps...? The same Donald that just LANDSLIDED the feckless pathetic democrat un-elected loser candidate on 11/5? That Donald?? 

 

Have you perhaps heard the "Trump Effect"? Since I am such a fair minded lad, I'll share some with you. But, please share some of the "Biden Effect" and try to stay away from his trademark gaffes, afghan failures, border failures and the national security and humanitarian crisis's created by the "Biden Feckless Effect"., don't forget the effect Biden had on empowering Iran after send them cash & ending Trump sanctions. If not for Biden, illegal aliens would not be burning people on the NY subway. Thats a great biden effect, wouldn't you agree? Now do Biden or if you prefer the Kamala effect.

 

Trump Effect:

 

 

Trump Effect -Axios

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Will B Good]

11 minutes ago, illisdean said:

Except for, lets start what you missed, ie, "Donald" as you mention, is that President Donald Trump perhaps...? The same Donald that just LANDSLIDED the feckless pathetic democrat un-elected loser candidate on 11/5? That Donald?? 

 

Have you perhaps heard the "Trump Effect"? Since I am such a fair minded lad, I'll share some with you. But, please share some of the "Biden Effect" and try to stay away from his trademark gaffes, afghan failures, border failures and the national security and humanitarian crisis's created by the "Biden Feckless Effect"., don't forget the effect Biden had on empowering Iran after send them cash & ending Trump sanctions. If not for Biden, illegal aliens would not be burning people on the NY subway. Thats a great biden effect, wouldn't you agree? Now do Biden or if you prefer the Kamala effect.

 

Trump Effect:

 

 

Trump Effect -Axios

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

President elect.....not president.

 

Biden shipped out more illegal immigrants than Trump ever did.

 

Who is 'excited' about the Trump effect....the already extremely wealthy.

[Paul Catton]

18 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

So then...

Will Taiwan soon fall like HK?

 

I believe, Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon peninsula after being ceded to Great Britain, were given back to China when the lease on the New Territories expired.

Taiwan on the other hand remains a province of mainland China with unresolved issues between the PRC & ROC governments. 

IMO  Western governments should keep their sticky beaks out of the equation. 

[EveryG]

5 hours ago, illisdean said:

Except for, lets start what you missed, ie, "Donald" as you mention, is that President Donald Trump perhaps...? The same Donald that just LANDSLIDED the feckless pathetic democrat un-elected loser candidate on 11/5? That Donald?? 

 

Have you perhaps heard the "Trump Effect"? Since I am such a fair minded lad, I'll share some with you. But, please share some of the "Biden Effect" and try to stay away from his trademark gaffes, afghan failures, border failures and the national security and humanitarian crisis's created by the "Biden Feckless Effect"., don't forget the effect Biden had on empowering Iran after send them cash & ending Trump sanctions. If not for Biden, illegal aliens would not be burning people on the NY subway. Thats a great biden effect, wouldn't you agree? Now do Biden or if you prefer the Kamala effect.

This has nothing to do with what I posted. Plus, I'm not a democrat, and never said a nice thing about Biden on this forum or anywhere else.  You are incapable of following a simple line of thought and show your colors by going off on some irrelevant tangent. Donald is a malignant narcissist and nothing you posted contradicts that.