Trump was just served a rather humiliating defeat by China.

[Lacessit]

17 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Trump is rich. Not a pensioner.

Are you in some kind of competition for the most utterly irrelevant post on this thread?

[SunnyinBangrak]

8 minutes ago, CanadaSam said:

I forsee a LOT of walking back on Trump's stupid ridiculous statements and actions in the future.

 

Wait until the common people feel the full force of increased costs for almost everything.

 

I wouldn't be surprised to see a civil uprising and/or impeachment.

How it started.

 

The left - Trumps tariffs are causing crazy inflation, we're all doomed.

 

How its going.

 

"Consumer prices rose less than expected in May as President Donald Trump's tariffs had yet to show significant impact on inflation, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday.

The consumer price index, a broad-based measure of goods and services across the sprawling U.S. economy, increased 0.1% for the month, putting the annual inflation rate at 2.4%. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for respective readings of 0.2% and 2.4%."

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/11/cpi-inflation-may-2025.html

 

🤣😂😅

[ThreeCardMonte]

41 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

No, I leave that to you pros.

That certainly is a correct statement.

 

I’ve never read any truth in any of your posts.

 

This is a first.

[DezLez]

23 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Trump is rich. Not a pensioner.

We know he is a pensioner but we do NOT know how rich, if he is, at all.

[ThreeCardMonte]

44 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Facts of life:

 

China mines 70% of the world's rare earths.

 

It processes 90% into useable form.

 

The US military is dependent on rare earths for advanced weapons technologies.

 

America only has one operating rare earth mine. It sends its production to China for beneficiation.

 

Putting it bluntly, Xi has Trump's testicles in a vice.

These weren’t the “facts of life” I heard growing up.

 

Regardless, you left out they invented and released into the world one of the deadliest viruses known to man.

Fact of life.

Like your other supposed facts and figures, I don’t believe a word you post.
 

[ThreeCardMonte]

16 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Are you in some kind of competition for the most utterly irrelevant post on this thread?

The competition is fierce when you post.

[BLMFem]

11 minutes ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

That certainly is a correct statement.

 

I’ve never read any truth in any of your posts.

 

This is a first.

Wow, self-awareness is so rare in you MAGA guys. Well done and good luck finding all the pearls - don't forget to look under the sofa!👍

[BKKKevin]

4 hours ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

 
Right here with his beautiful wife 

 

 

They saw Trump has replaced Melanie with robot clone… 

[LosLobo]

1 hour ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

These weren’t the “facts of life” I heard growing up.

 

Regardless, you left out they invented and released into the world one of the deadliest viruses known to man.

Fact of life.

Like your other supposed facts and figures, I don’t believe a word you post.

But let’s be honest—though I know that’s asking a lot in your case.
 

The facts of life—America’s legacy of misery.

• The Spanish Flu — the deadliest pandemic ever recorded, originated on U.S. soil.

• The Great Depression — the worst financial collapse the modern world had seen, driven by U.S. tariffs and economic arrogance.

• The Global Financial Crisis — the 21st century’s most catastrophic market collapse, fueled by U.S. greed and deregulation.

• Donald Trump — the most unpopular U.S. president on the world stage in modern history.

Turns out “American exceptionalism” really just means exceptionally catastrophic—for all of us who have to live with the consequences.

[TedG]

4 minutes ago, LosLobo said:

But let’s be honest—though I know that’s asking a lot in your case.
 

The facts of life—America’s legacy of misery.

• The Spanish Flu — the deadliest pandemic ever recorded, originated on U.S. soil.

• The Great Depression — the worst financial collapse the modern world had seen, driven by U.S. tariffs and economic arrogance.

• The Global Financial Crisis — the 21st century’s most catastrophic market collapse, fueled by U.S. greed and deregulation.

• Donald Trump — the most unpopular U.S. president on the world stage in modern history.

Turns out “American exceptionalism” really just means exceptionally catastrophic—for all of us who have to live with the consequences.

There is nothing good to talk about? 

[LosLobo]

7 minutes ago, TedG said:

There is nothing good to talk about? 

There’s good and bad in everyone and everything — the Middle Path, Siddhartha circa 500 BCE.

[ThreeCardMonte]

1 hour ago, LosLobo said:

But let’s be honest—though I know that’s asking a lot in your case.
 

The facts of life—America’s legacy of misery.

• The Spanish Flu — the deadliest pandemic ever recorded, originated on U.S. soil.

• The Great Depression — the worst financial collapse the modern world had seen, driven by U.S. tariffs and economic arrogance.

• The Global Financial Crisis — the 21st century’s most catastrophic market collapse, fueled by U.S. greed and deregulation.

• Donald Trump — the most unpopular U.S. president on the world stage in modern history.

Turns out “American exceptionalism” really just means exceptionally catastrophic—for all of us who have to live with the consequences.

Fact of life.

 

You’re a clone of @Lacessit

 

As inaccurate as he is. 

[ThreeCardMonte]

3 hours ago, BLMFem said:

Wow, self-awareness is so rare in you MAGA guys. Well done and good luck finding all the pearls - don't forget to look under the sofa!👍

Oh dear, you’re having another meltdown.

 

Your best one yet.

 

 

 

[Lacessit]

3 hours ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

These weren’t the “facts of life” I heard growing up.

 

Regardless, you left out they invented and released into the world one of the deadliest viruses known to man.

Fact of life.

Like your other supposed facts and figures, I don’t believe a word you post.
 

No-one knows whether coronavirus was accidental or the result of an experiment gone wrong. It certainly did not do the Chinese economy any good, entire cities were in lockdown.

 

You seem to be confusing me with someone who gives a rat's rectum for your ignorant opinion.

[ThreeCardMonte]

11 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

No-one knows whether coronavirus was accidental or the result of an experiment gone wrong. It certainly did not do the Chinese economy any good, entire cities were in lockdown.

 

You seem to be confusing me with someone who gives a rat's rectum for your ignorant opinion.

We all know where it originated, except you.  
 

There’s a reason it’s called the “China Virus”.  Not the American, Australian, Italian, Cuban, Mongolian Swedish or Egyptian.

 

Have you considered becoming a Chinese Permanent Resident?  You should.  They would appreciate your loyalty and propaganda favoring the state.

 

I’m not confused.  It’s crystal clear who is interested in my accurate opinion.  You are.  That’s why you replied.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[JAG]

15 hours ago, cdemundo said:

I've heard of Trump, who is "the great man" you speak of?

Oh he is certainly a great, one might say, persuader! He has managed to persuade a significant proportion of the population of the US ( "con" is the slang term) and persuade (bully) much of the establishment and media that a fat, narcissist, compulsive liar with limited understanding of economic and international affairs, subject to wild mood swings and a total ignorance of, or contempt for, the rule of law and matters constitutional is the solution to any and all of the United States many problems.

 

Through his buffoonery, incompetence and narcissm, (tariffing penguins and boasting that International leaders are queuing up to "kiss his arse") he has managed to remove the US as a powerful player in world trade. He has dismantled much of the federal government which existed for the benefit of the country, and to help many of its poorer and less fortunate people's. He has co-opted the agencies of the state in an attempt to suppress and intimidate his political opponents.

He has alienated many allies.

 

In summary he has managed to massively diminish the United States in so many ways, and in a remarkably short time.

 

So yes, in these respects he is a "great man", although perhaps not in the way some, and he himself, would consider!

[Yagoda]

Another copy and paste without attribution by the OP. Reported. Theft is wrong

[JAG]

56 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Another copy and paste without attribution by the OP. Reported. Theft is wrong

I presume you can provide a link to the material which you allege  @spidermike007 copied and pasted? After all, what is it they say, sunlight is the best antiseptic? Come on, reach down from the moral high ground!

[Yagoda]

2 minutes ago, JAG said:

I presume you can provide a link to the material which you allege  @spidermike007 copied and pasted? After all, what is it they say, sunlight is the best antiseptic? Come on, reach down from the moral high ground!

Yeah have you tried it yourself? Excersize some effort? Notice he doesnt deny it, ever?

[spidermike007]

15 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

How it started.

 

The left - Trumps tariffs are causing crazy inflation, we're all doomed.

 

How its going.

 

"Consumer prices rose less than expected in May as President Donald Trump's tariffs had yet to show significant impact on inflation, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday.

The consumer price index, a broad-based measure of goods and services across the sprawling U.S. economy, increased 0.1% for the month, putting the annual inflation rate at 2.4%. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for respective readings of 0.2% and 2.4%."

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/11/cpi-inflation-may-2025.html

 

🤣😂😅

Complete and utter nonsense, these are fake government numbers and the real inflation numbers are likely closer to 21% . I travel back to the US 2 to 5 times a year, I have businesses back there and every time I go back there, every 6 months everyone of my staples is 10 to 15% higher.

 

Everyone that I talk to in the US is constantly moaning about the increase of prices, which has barely slowed down at all. Inflation is out of control, the economy is doing poorly, and consumer confidence is at an all-time low. 

[spidermike007]

47 minutes ago, JAG said:

I presume you can provide a link to the material which you allege  @spidermike007 copied and pasted? After all, what is it they say, sunlight is the best antiseptic? Come on, reach down from the moral high ground!

It's best to just ignore him, when he has nothing to say (most of the time), he just reverts to the same old nonsense. As you and I know there are a handful of posters on here that are best ignored completely. 

[JAG]

53 minutes ago, JAG said:

I presume you can provide a link to the material which you allege  @spidermike007 copied and pasted? After all, what is it they say, sunlight is the best antiseptic? Come on, reach down from the moral high ground!

 

49 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Yeah have you tried it yourself? Excersize some effort? Notice he doesnt deny it, ever?

We'll take that as a "no" then shall we!

[Yagoda]

22 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

“We have no idea what the rules are,″ said Rick Woldenberg, CEO of the educational toy company Learning Resources, who is part of a lawsuit challenging Trump’s authority to impose the tariffs. “The U.S. found it needed to back off the restrictions it had thought would generate leverage,” he said, “and in exchange, they get merely a promise by the Chinese to dole out critical minerals a bit more quickly.”

 

https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2025/jun/12/trump-says-progress-made-on-china-trade/

 

I dont feel like looking for more. He doesnt deny the fact that he regularly steals other folks intellectual property

[Lacessit]

11 hours ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

We all know where it originated, except you.  
 

There’s a reason it’s called the “China Virus”.  Not the American, Australian, Italian, Cuban, Mongolian Swedish or Egyptian.

 

Have you considered becoming a Chinese Permanent Resident?  You should.  They would appreciate your loyalty and propaganda favoring the state.

 

I’m not confused.  It’s crystal clear who is interested in my accurate opinion.  You are.  That’s why you replied.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have you ever got tickets on yourself. Like Peter Sellers, you probably look in the mirror several times a day, and say " My God, but you're lovely".

 

As far as China goes, I am a realist. The stranglehold on rare earths is not propaganda, it is fact.

 

Opinions are only accurate based on fact, the origin of coronavirus is still a mystery. It's a great topic for the tin hat brigade to chew on.

[candide]

16 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

How it started.

 

The left - Trumps tariffs are causing crazy inflation, we're all doomed.

 

How its going.

 

"Consumer prices rose less than expected in May as President Donald Trump's tariffs had yet to show significant impact on inflation, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday.

The consumer price index, a broad-based measure of goods and services across the sprawling U.S. economy, increased 0.1% for the month, putting the annual inflation rate at 2.4%. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for respective readings of 0.2% and 2.4%."

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/11/cpi-inflation-may-2025.html

 

🤣😂😅

From your source: 🙂

 

"In an effort to pare down the federal workforce, the administration has instituted a hiring freeze that has coincided with the BLS restricting its data collection and expanding a process called imputation, in which it uses models to fill in incomplete data."

[Rimmer]

An off topic post has been removed

[ThreeCardMonte]

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Complete and utter nonsense, these are fake government numbers and the real inflation numbers are likely closer to 21% . I travel back to the US 2 to 5 times a year, I have businesses back there and every time I go back there, every 6 months everyone of my staples is 10 to 15% higher.

 

Everyone that I talk to in the US is constantly moaning about the increase of prices, which has barely slowed down at all. Inflation is out of control, the economy is doing poorly, and consumer confidence is at an all-time low. 

 

 

More BS from the King of BS.

 

Still waiting for proof of “Trump’s humiliating defeat from China”?

 

Just more:

 

 

 

 

 

[BLMFem]

15 hours ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

We all know where it originated, except you.  
 

There’s a reason it’s called the “China Virus”.  Not the American, Australian, Italian, Cuban, Mongolian Swedish or Egyptian.

Ever heard of the Spanish flu, buddy?😂

[ThreeCardMonte]

4 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

Ever heard of the Spanish flu, buddy?😂

I have.

 

And your point is????? (drum roll)

 

 

[BLMFem]

15 hours ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

Oh dear, you’re having another meltdown.

 

Your best one yet.

Oh, Monte. Ever heard of the expression "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to post lame deflections and remove all doubt."?

It was me buddy, although I borrowed heavily from Mark Twain. Maybe you should listen, okay?👍