Trump might be fighting with China just to see if

Partially true, but we’re not really exporting the war criminals. We seem to make them here and they don’t leave.

We export Oil/gas and other fuels. We also export a lot of machinery, electrical equipment and cars. I know there’s more than that. The USA exports around 2 trillion annually.

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That’s a huge part of the problem.

Or in the fields picking food or doing landscaping work around the country.
And more and more they won’t work in the construction industry, building houses, installing roofs, etc… 20 percent of those in the construction trades in this country are here illegally.

The construction industry in the United States relies significantly on the labor and expertise of immigrant workers, particularly undocumented individuals. These workers are desperately needed to fill the 500,000-worker shortage in construction, yet they face severe challenges of economic exploitation, increased safety hazards, and a hostile political atmosphere.

An estimated 1.6 million immigrants work in the construction industry nationwide, comprising 20% of the industry’s total workforce. In certain states and locations, this percentage can be much larger.

Art of the Fold

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:yawning_face:

Op Mockingbird induced TDS spin and the sheeple lap it up. SAD.

Speaking of TDS…

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Stephen Bloch

“When you negotiate you’re wise to leave the other guy with his dignity intact. Trump doesn’t do that.”

That’s true if you’re a normal businessman, for whom the best deal is one in which both parties feel like they won, because then they’ll want to do another deal, and another…

But in Trumpland, everything is zero-sum. If you feel like you won, I must have lost, and I have no intention of losing. I’m a winner; it’s who I am. I always win, and the other guy always loses. If you go into negotiations with me, we both know that I will win and you will lose. I will not only beat you, but humiliate you publicly, because that proves to all onlookers that I’m a winner and they won’t be able to beat me either. If you beat me, I won’t admit it, because that would damage my reputation for always winning, and without that I’m nothing.

This explains other things about Trump. In a zero-sum world, if immigrants are making themselves better-off by coming to America, they must be making America worse-off, and we can’t allow that. If there’s no such thing as a win-win deal, then one solution can’t be objectively better or worse than another; it’s either better-for-me-worse-for-you or better-for-you-worse-for-me.

A “true” statement is not better than a “false” statement — indeed, the distinction is uninteresting, when we all know what really matters is whether the statement helps or hurts me. Anybody who accuses me of “saying things that aren’t true” is missing the point: why would I care whether things are “true” as long as they’re in my interest? But such a person is obviously insufficiently loyal to me, and is therefore my enemy, whom I’m obligated to crush and humiliate, lest people forget that I always win.

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As America works very hard to ensure Trump loses, and we lose, mostly due to TDS and the sky is falling, China has some serious issues. The reciprocal tariffs have a very clear objective, none of which the media will report.

Here is another perspective:

I am curious what you all think of his perspective.

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