I'm actually glad China has been so tough on us. I'm pretty tired of world leaders letting that moron claim victory and save face so we can more smoothly go back to normal. The more he's humiliated, the less likely anyone will try to campaign on this kind of stupidity in the future.
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Spoiler: the WSJ article does no "dunking" whatsoever and soft-pedals the barest pushback on this demented rapist's latest attack on America.
The question going forward is whether Mr. Trump is internalizing these economic and political lessons or merely pausing to fight his trade war another day. We doubt even Mr. Trump knows the answer, since so much of his decision-making is ad hoc. He’ll keep his universal 10% tariff in any case.
That's the harshest paragraph in the whole thing, and it's a reason I don't like to see so many Huffpo and DailyBeast articles - especially if the comm isn't going to allow Wonkette for 'not being a true news source' because those publications are just hype and click farms.
Good news: the journalists are finally giving up on running stories where someone got 'slammed' just by being talked about behind their back.
Bad news: to do it they just replaced the phrase 'slammed' with 'dunked on'
Wow the people who actively promoted fascism for decades have now written one article critical of fascist economics?!?!?! DUNKED ON!!!!
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WSJ Owned by Bezos, Criticism is performative if their at all. Ignore the outlet running stories that seek to normalize child labor in the public zeitgeist by legitimizing it through Billionaire controlled propaganda pieces. Look Beyond.