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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44610010
I can’t quite wrap my brain around how the world has almost normalised the fact that the President of the U.S.A. sends out adolescent rebukes, complete with name-calling, to anyone whom he perceives to have crossed him.
The guy has the emotional maturity of a nine year old, and I don’t mean that as an exaggerated insult - he really does have the emotional maturity of a nine year old.
....and he is in control of 4,000 active nuclear warheads.
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youTrump set up tariffs on imported goods to "protect American jobs." The E.U. has responded with tit-for-tat tariffs on selected American goods entering Europe. H-D proposes to sidestep these obstacles to trade by sending Europe motorcycles built in its plants outside the United States.
How exactly does this protect American jobs?
Eight.
Eight.
Eight and three quarters, then.
Trump and co, like much of the right at the moment, can't seem to grasp that the internet has changed the world forever, and that global trade will not be stopped by governments. No amount of protectionist, isolationist policies like daft import tariffs will change that, and if anything, will actually accelerate the end of the industries they're trying to protect.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youGuitars haven't been targeted. The reason that motorbikes have been targeted is because Harley are based in Wisconsin, which is a swing state that Trump only won by 25,000 votes (0.8%) of the population.
A lot of the other EU tariffs have been targeted in similar ways. For all the corruption and bureaucracy in the EU, no-one has ever accused that slimeball Juncker of being thick.
He will say "We protect American industry, therefore jobs, but companies move production elsewhere. They are harming America"
Trump and Brexit have damned so many: the left/Remainers, other parts of the political process (eg House of Lords), the judiciary, other politicians. To turn on businesses themselves is far riskier because it's rather hard to make the case that Harley Davision are libtard Fake News pro-Hillary arseholes, or that Airbus are funded by Soros and therefore EEEEEEEvul. Those companies are there to make money first and foremost. In the end it may well be large corporate interests that manage to puncture both Brexit and Trump far more efficiently than any other factor.
One of the reasons for Brexit, and a lot of Trump's stuff, is that large corporate interests have too much power.
The votes for Trump and Brexit (and the rise of Corbyn) are evidence that people are utterly fed up with this. Yet the mainstream politicians are in the pockets of big business. Look at last night's idiotic vote in favour of having more planes coming in to land over a densely populated area.
Eventually it will all catch up to him, but by then he could be long out of office and happy to blame the next president.
He is scarily like my mother in law.
Sometimes all this moving stuff around the world and importing it from all over because of cheap labour isn't actually a good thing. If we are trying to reduce CO2 emissions then surely we should be building motorbikes here rather than carting them halfway around the world.
All this stuff from BMW and Airbus shows similar problems. Why are BMW carting car parts half way across Europe? If we want to reduce CO2, then the manufacture should be as localised as possible.
The only reason that Airbus wings are being made here is because of political silliness. It would make far more sense to make everything on one site. Given the way Airbus seems to be in financial trouble with the A380, they won't be a great loss anyway long term.
The way the whole world economy is based on moving huge amounts of goods over vast distances is just wrong. Eventually it will all come crashing down anyway. Chinese wages will catch up with ours, and Chinese goods will get too expensive. Generally, things should be manufactured close to where they are needed. The whole thing needs rebalancing.
I'm not sure that Trump is going the right way about it, but these big corporations running the world is definitely a bad thing.
Trump rages about specific corporate interests whilst maintaining a close relationship with specific corporate interests: he isn't anti-corporate per se in the manner of an Occupy protester. It's the same as the anti-globalist ticket he ran on. How exactly can a man who owns golf courses in Scotland whilst his signature range of ties gets made in China be anti-globalist as a whole? He isn't but the impression is given.
In this modern era I don't believe there are many people who voted Corbyn because of anti-corporatism. Anyone with a mobile phone or a laptop is supporting a corporate company, anyone who signs up to Netflix is doing likewise. It's close to impossible to live without supporting a corporate company. Where this is a protest in this country at least is over a perceived lack of unfairness, that the largest companies are helped out by the political system far more than the smaller ones.
Now that does come under the backdrop of last night's vote which was idiotic as you rightly say. Some of the now deleted pages from Theresa May's personal website make for hilarious reading. Rolling over for corporate interests indeed... one has to wonder if a dose of reality over Brexit regarding our finances post-leaving means that the hierarchy now thought that they had to go for Heathrow expansion.
That's the danger once he starts fighting industries and companies. Going against the very companies that employ the Average Joe voter runs the risk of shitting in the back yards of those who had previously been blind to his ways.
Interesting parallels with post Brexit trading position and what will count as "locally produced" to avoid tariffs (if we choose to implement them under WTO) - I know that "local content" often comes in to play but I can see manufactures shipping over some goods to have final assembly completed in U.K (bolting wheels on for example) just to circumnavigate the issue. I can recall that Ford used to do similar things in New Zealand many moons ago, sending complete cars in "kit form" for local modular assembly.
One article I read said that it would take 9 to 18 months for Harley to ramp up the production elsewhere, so it won't be overnight.
On the Brexit front, I'm sure that there will eventually be a deal that covers cars and car parts, whatever else happens. We are too important a customer for the German car industry.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!