China Just Stopped Exporting Two Minerals the World's Chipmakers Need (cnn.com) 289
China's exports of two rare minerals essential for manufacturing semiconductors fell to zero in August, a month after Beijing imposed curbs on sales overseas, citing national security. China produces about 80% of the world's gallium and about 60% of germanium, according to the Critical Raw Materials Alliance, but it didn't sell any of the elements on international markets last month, Chinese customs data released on Wednesday showed. In July, the country exported 5.15 metric tons of forged gallium products and 8.1 metric tons of forged germanium products.
When asked about the lack of exports last month, He Yadong, a spokesperson from China's commerce ministry told a press briefing Thursday that the department had received applications from companies to export the two materials. Some applications had been approved, he said, without elaborating. The curbs are indicative of China's apparent willingness to retaliate against US export controls, despite concerns about economic growth, as a tech war simmers.
Nobody ever said weaning ourselves off the CCP would be easy, Schwit1 adds.
China has weaponized neoliberal/libertarian flaws (Score:5, Interesting)
One of the fatal flaws of all of the free trade arguments is that free trade just doesn't work when you have a trade partner whose government is actively engaged in nationalistic industrial policy. China realized a long time ago that the idiot Clinton Democrats, Reaganite Republicans and lolbertarians were so far up their own asses in analyzing the critically flawed assumptions around free trade that they could easily kick our asses by engaging in open, naked Socialism of the old school variety in areas where we are weak.
The only way out for the US and its allies is to bite the bullet and retaliate in kind. That would mean standing up a state-owned corporation, possibly with joint Japanese and Australian ownership, that would act as the "arsenal of rare earth miners for democracy." Subsidize it, never require it to turn a profit.
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They are also the source of these materials because they gladly pay the environmental costs involved in their removal.
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They are also the source of these materials because they gladly pay the environmental costs involved in their removal.
Gallium doesn't have much in the way of environmental cost. It's a byproduct of aluminum refining, also zinc, but in relatively low concentration. The price isn't high enough that any of the big aluminum producers sees much profit in refining it out.
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The smelter dross from Aluminum production from bauxite in the US and Canada contains gallium. The cost (largely in energy) to extract the gallium has always been more than the gallium was worth. If that changes
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How about you start. Stop buying Chinese crap.
Oh, wait, no, that would require you to do something. And gasp inconvenience yourself!
No, we can't have that. Instead, let's suggest something someone else would have to do.
Dishonest rhetorical bullshit right here... (Score:2)
You know damn well that in 2023 that means living an Amish lifestyle given how much stuff is manufactured there.
But hey, let's reverse that. Maybe much of the developing world should stop buying American agricultural goods if they don't like our policy. Just stick it to the American Man, even though many developing countries would face famine if they did that.
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You know damn well that in 2023 that means living an Amish lifestyle given how much stuff is manufactured there.
Oh look, we identified the problem. But even if we had domestic production, it would instantly collapse because it's impossible to compete with China in terms of pricing, and since that's the only thing people give a fuck about anymore, either because they're greedy bastards or because they just can't afford anything that costs more than 2 Mars bars, that problem also has no solution.
Re: Dishonest rhetorical bullshit right here... (Score:2)
The real problem there is that thanks to insider trading Congress is profiting from the current situation so they won't lift a finger to change it.
Congresscreeps need to be forced to divest or use a trust. Glwt, I know.
We could solve the problem with a carbon import tariff but they don't want to.
We could also address it with a slave labor tariff but the Republicans are bringing back child labor right now so presumably slavery for more than convicts is next.
Re: Dishonest rhetorical bullshit right here... (Score:2)
Come on, do you even know what insider trading is... it's as much about selling at the "right" time as buying. It doesn't go in one direction. Sell, announce new regulation. Buy, announce new deregulation.
Congressional insider trading doesn't have anything to do with CHI-NA.
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How about you start. Stop buying Chinese crap.
That may be easier said than done. About 64% of US consumers buy something at Walmart each month [1] and 70-80% of Walmart's inventory comes from suppliers in China [2] -- noting that some of this latter data is old.
[1] Nearly Two-Thirds of Consumers Shop in Walmart Stores Each Month [pymnts.com]
[2] FACT SHEET: Walmart’s Made in America Pledge [americanma...turing.org]
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I don't know about how gallium or germanium is mined but for a long time there's been calls for changes to USA mining regulations to make it profitable to mine rare earth metals in the USA. In spite of the name rare earth metals aren't all that rare, they are just a bit difficult to mine.
There was considerable mining of rare earth metals in the USA but when the rules changed on what was to be done with the thorium that exists in the same ore as the rare earth metals that made it impossible to compete with
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It's not that they're difficult to mine, it's that they're difficult to refine. That *is* a significant difference. Most of the "rare earths" have chemical reactions so close to each other that refining the one you want out of the mix is a real problem. (In other words, expensive.) I think (not sure about this one) that also most of the ores are pretty dilute.
But we had rare earth mines in the US until China started selling the stuff to us cheaper than we could sell it to ourselves. And who's going to
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We can implement protectionist or mercantilist policy without resorting state ownership.
We certainly don't have to retaliate in kind either. We can very simply and unambiguously tie our tariff book to Chinese behavior, enact legislation with triggers that banning the use of Chinese parts and materials in consumer products when other even if completely unrelated trade conditions occur.
We can tell the WTO to STFU. We CAN do these things we just have to want to!
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We can implement protectionist or mercantilist policy without resorting state ownership.
We certainly don't have to retaliate in kind either. We can very simply and unambiguously tie our tariff book to Chinese behavior, enact legislation with triggers that banning the use of Chinese parts and materials in consumer products when other even if completely unrelated trade conditions occur.
We can tell the WTO to STFU. We CAN do these things we just have to want to!
So you retaliated against them in the first place because you just don't like them.
Then they retaliate against that.
And now you want to retaliate against their retaliation.
This is just a fucking mess and you are both bringing the whole world down around you.
Fucking grow up the both of you.
Re: China has weaponized neoliberal/libertarian fl (Score:2)
China already doesn't comply with WTO IP restrictions so what exactly would we lose?
You know the WTO also forbids lots of other stuff China does as SOP like forcing foreign companies to partner with Chinese companies and not permitting them to own property right?
The WTO is not helping here because China is allowed to be a member without having to follow the rules.
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Libertarians were occasionally useful idiots for globalists, who were useful idiots for Pooh. The US was kow-tow-ing to Davos ideology and influence since the 90s, till Trump/Biden.
PS. even though Kissinger kicked off the problem, I don't think he was a globalist perse. He just seems convinced that he can win at diplomacy at all times and there is not a lot of room for diplomacy in total isolation, so nothing for him to win.
Re: China has weaponized neoliberal/libertarian fl (Score:5, Insightful)
The USA is a Randian fantasy. Corporations control everything and the only merit that matters is money. This is what libertarianism actually looks like. When you let money make the rules, you are ruled by those with money.
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I think part
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One of the fatal flaws of all of the free trade arguments is that free trade just doesn't work when you have a trade partner whose government is actively engaged in nationalistic industrial policy.
Eg how the USA imposes sanctions?
The world is an interlinked web of dependencies. No one country can control it. This isn't the days of the Roman Empire and the USA isn't Rome, nor even the Mongols.
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Yeah, Biden's decision to welcome Modi with open arms is not going to age well. I could have told him that and I don't have access to the classified briefings he gets. :(
Ditto his reconciliation with MBS. We needed to decouple from Saudi Arabia before they started murdering journalists. There's a giant hole in Lower Manhattan that tells me all I need to know about Saudi Arabia and what we get out of engaging with them.
There's realpolitik and then there's shooting yourself in the foot. I personally thi
Re: China has weaponized neoliberal/libertarian fl (Score:2)
Free thinking terrifies Republicans. That's why Nixon's war on drugs targeted hippies and why Reagan's war on education targeted an educated proletariat. You know, the presidents they love so much they're still getting tattoos of them?
Re: China has weaponized neoliberal/libertarian fl (Score:2)
"Do you do ass to mouth?"
Sure, open wide, here I come.
You do know that when you guys resort to this level of childishness that everyone knows you just got owned, right?
Time to get local...ish... (Score:3)
China commands such a vast amount of the market by having no brakes on their metal mining at all, and precious few controls. Other countries could make it, but to make a dent they have to apply a similarly ruthless strategy.
Canada exports gallium and germanium, but ramping up production of it might cause the Canadian contribution to global CO2 to increase from 1.5% to 1.52%... better fire up the indignation-meter... can't let that go unaddressed.
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China is running out of people. Well, running out of people young enough to work and raise families.
There's a number of people talking about the demographic problem in China, and perhaps the most prominent is Peter Zeihan. Zeihan has talked about how China has been under reporting birth rates for five years, making them coming up short on their reported population by millions. The local administrators got away with this deception because there's no real verification on births until the children are old e
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Demographics take long time to have effect, also western countries are way ahead in the aging process, so it won't matter.
A quick trip over to Wikipedia tells me that the one-child policy was in effect from 1979 to 2015. I'd call that "a long time to take effect".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
As a refresher on what defines the different generations that's like seeing the population of Millennial and Gen Z generations cut nearly in half what they are in much of the West. A Millennial would be born between 1981 and 1996, Gen Z from 1997 to 2012.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Just because it is permissible to have two or m
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https://www.canadaaction.ca/al... [canadaaction.ca]
#5 - Canada was the world's fourth-largest primary aluminum producer following China (1), India (2), and Russia (3) as of 2020. (NRC)
#6 - By utilizing hydroelectricity and other technologies, Canadian aluminum producers have one of the lowest carbon footprints in the world compared to other large producers, with a world-leading average of 2 tons of CO2 equivalent per megatonne of production. (NRC, AAC)
#7 - As of 2020, Canadian aluminum miners had 10 active smelters: one in K
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China is copying what we did during our industrial revolutions. Largely unrestricted mining, resulting in terrible pollution, and big profits. Our economies grew fast, before we decided to de-industrialize a bit and move more towards service based economies.
China is due to hit peak emissions around 2025-26. Mining is already cleaning up, so it's not clear if it will decrease by 2030 or if it will just stop emitting so much CO2. It's bad for the environment in other ways, and the Chinese government has shown
this will damage China (Score:2)
China had already stained its reputation as a global trade partner, this will take it farther. No exports of any materials made there can be considered reliable at this point.
That's it, no more pandering to the Chinese! (Score:3)
We'll build everything back here now! And mine the Gallium and Germanium we need ourselves!
Erh... uh... do we have to? I mean, imagine what this means. Remember back when we had an industry that built our own TVs, radios, computers and all that crap over here? I do. Back in the 1980s we did have manufacturing. Remember what a TV cost back then? I do. It was about as much as my dad earned in 2-3 months (I didn't earn anything... except maybe a spanking now and then).
Who is willing to drop 5000 bucks on a TV (and I don't mean one with all bells and whistles that gives you a blowjob while cooking your coffee, but a simple, ordinary, can-maybe-tune-into-the-next-football-game-if-the-weather-is-right TV)? Who would pay 15 grand for a computer? 2000 for your washing machine?
Moreover: Who could even afford that?
Wanting autarky is one thing. Being able to afford it is a totally different story.
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They probably wouldn't. But they also could not compete with Chinese cheap crap. I would expect them to cost about 20% more than Chinese gadgets. And 20% more for essentially the same product is already a no-go. It doesn't have to cost 10 times more.
On the upside, we'd have domestic manufacturing, which would please a lot of people. First and foremost, of course, there would be jobs for people who could otherwise only get jobs where the catchphrase "you want fries with that" is a key element. Then there is
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I would expect them to cost about 20% more than Chinese gadgets. And 20% more for essentially the same product is already a no-go. It doesn't have to cost 10 times more.
That's around the same number I would expect as well. The biggest difficulty would be replacing the labor force. There aren't enough workers in America to replace all the labor done in China, at any price.
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Yes and no.
It would maybe even cost less once production is up and we have people with enough money again to buy them. The labor force isn't that big of a problem, considering that we currently have a substantial amount of people in null-jobs like "Walmart greeters" and the like. I think there's more capacity than we expect, provided the wages are right.
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Washing machines are already $2000
but more generally this export ban is mostly just for show:
The Chinese government's decision to impose export controls on gallium has been made after careful consideration. On the one hand, it can majestically respond to sanctions imposed by Western countries and Japan, and on the other hand, it will not cause much negative impact on the industry supply chain. After all, China has a comprehensive strategic deployment in the compound semiconductor industry.
(https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20230711PD201/gaas-gan-china-supply-chain.html ) (yes that's from July ,not just now, but generally the article discusses how it's relatively unlikely that disruption will happen)
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You buying industrial ones for your laundromat? The average washing machine goes for 300-400 over here. 500 if you want something fancy.
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Don't forget the pedestal!
You're right that $2k is more likely a price for a set, but BestBuy has some consumer grade LG's that are $2k for just the washer just for the washing machine without even a pedestal. And several between $1500 and $2k.
list sorted by price DESC:
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/w... [bestbuy.com]
And this is BestBuy, a middle market retailer with generally reasonable prices, not some specialty place.
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A modern CPU now contains all the logic that in a 90s PC was spread on simpler chips on the motherboard and the graphics card was a full size card with a lot of IC on them. I feel also that build quality has fallen somehow: even comparing the same brand the quality of products they made 30 years ago was better than the one
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It's less that build quality per se dropped, we just grew smaller and faster than we could keep up with our ability to produce quality. We're still producing with (almost) the same margin of error that we did back in the 1990s, only that a nanometer left or right didn't matter back then while today it's the difference between a CPU that works and one that fails at 60% of calculations.
The problem is that we produce the same quality that we did 30 years ago, but the fault tolerance of our products became smal
Biden stopped us from mining our own (Score:2)
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Ah yes clickbait. Did you actually read what you posted? Of course not.
Biden banned access Tuesday to nearly 514,000 acres of public lands, including a new national park in Nevada, Avi Kwa Ame.
The rest of the article is an op-ed piece. I'm happy public lands aren't being mined.
Re: Biden stopped us from mining our own (Score:2)
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Just FYI. That site has over 200 different plants that, if we mined the lithium there, they would be extinct. That said, I let "is it a fair price to pay" argument to whoever. Just wanted to forward why the Bureau of Land Management had recommended such. Also, this location has zero of the things that were brought up in the parent story. So why the fuck are you bringing it up? Lithium is not gallium or germanium, just saying.
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How quicky you people forgot that biden stopped us from mining out own rare earths.
There's plenty of people aware that rare earth mining in the USA is nearly impossible under existing regulations. This has been going on for a long time due in large part to how naturally occurring thorium in the mining tails is treated under current regulations. We had a market for thorium in the USA but that was largely destroyed by rules controlling disposal of radioactive elements. Thorium is radioactive but more like substitute salt (the potassium salt sold in grocery stores for people with low sodi
Fear of Radiation (Score:2)
They can take my vaseline glass when they pry it out of my cold, dead hands.
The problem with G and G (Score:5, Interesting)
You generally get both gallium and germanium as side effects of mining vastly greater quantities of other metals. You don't mine them directly. You mine bauxite or zinc, and get them, sort of as a side effect.
Gallium is 50 grams per metric ton in bauxite, germanium is about 30 in zinc ore. For reference, this makes them more plentiful than gold (in density, not in general) in similar masses of ore, but you still need to move a whole lot of material to get them. And the price they command isn't nearly as good as gold.
So what has to scale is metal mining in general, and to vast quantities. China has that going on already - it's why they're top of the export heap.
Payback (Score:2)
...is a female dog.
Gee. Who the hell could have seen this coming? (Score:2, Insightful)
Gee (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Trump's fault (Score:4, Insightful)
You say that like it's a bad thing.
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You say that like it's a bad thing.
Stick around.
Re:Trump's fault (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, he led on some things. A few good, lots and lots bad. Weaning us off China was the best thing he did, by FAR. That took some real balls and I am super glad Biden has continued and extended those policies, but then he was always very protectionist. A union property, for sure.
Re: Trump's fault (Score:2)
I remember how he tried to spin it like any president wouldn't have done operation warp speed, or like it was his idea, and then a bunch of people acted like he was right.
I remember because you're still doing it, and it still doesn't make sense.
I also remember how Trump said it would be "a beautiful thing" if everyone got vaccinated.
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Most people don't have favorite politicians. That is what is wrong with MAGA people (Not all Republicans). You shouldn't be a fanboy of anybody. They either work in the direction you want or you don't vote for them. That should be how people decide who to vote for. It's astonishing how many people vote against their own interests by voting Republican because they haven't woken up to the fact that the party has changed dramatically over the last 40 years.
Naturally life isn't that simple and we have to make
Growing pains (Score:4, Insightful)
China has been growing larger and more Soviet-like over time. This was kind of inevitable. When they were smaller, they were not a significant military threat nor a supplier risk.
Xi is also more dictatorial than past recent leaders. He even removed term limits for himself. China had added term limits in the past to avoid getting over-dictatorial. That's now out the window, just like a Putin enemy.
Further, the pandemic highlighted the problems of depending too much one one country. Ricardo's "comparative advantage" principle was taken too far.
Joe didn't make them grow and change that way. Stop blaming every unpleasant change in the universe on Joe.
Re:Growing pains (Score:4, Insightful)
Stop blaming every unpleasant change in the universe on Joe.
Personally, I feel that the stance towards China is about the only thing the current administration has gotten right. Is it OK if I give him credit for it?
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Re:Growing pains (Score:4, Interesting)
Those who dislike Biden will blame him for every problem in the world, the same way those who dislike Trump blame HIM for every problem in the world. They will never stop, no matter how often you might ask. It's just what people do.
And if you don't like either... (Score:2)
Those who dislike Biden will blame him for every problem in the world, the same way those who dislike Trump blame HIM for every problem in the world.
Re:Trump's fault (Score:4, Interesting)
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The problem, which Biden knows (Trump was oblivious) is you can't confront China alone. Killing the TPP [wikipedia.org] made some domestic constituencies happy, but that was the vehicle meant to be used as a counterweight to China. Hillary did the country no favors by distancing herself from it during the campaign. Anyone with half a brain knew she supported it, but she wouldn't come out say that, much less articulate the case for it. In the end she made nobody happy. A non-zero number of voters are persuadable if you
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There's politics and ambitions and positions, and then there's "oh fuck we need to do something about this".
Re:Trump's fault (Score:5, Funny)
At this point, Biden could literally walk across the Michigan lake and their only reaction would be "Some president he is, can't even swim".
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At this point, Biden could literally walk across the Michigan lake and their only reaction would be "Some president he is, can't even swim".
Hell, I'd be impressed he could find Lake Michigan.
Re: Trump's fault (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, let's let Russia swallow Ukraine and monopolize the sunflower oil market along with taking on a considerable portion of other crop markets. That sure is gonna cost us a lot less and will not have any relevant impact on our position in Africa where food equals power.
Good idea.
Well, if you're Russia. If not, it's probably the worst idea since the appeasement politics of Europe in the late 1930s.
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This [nationmaster.com] is why you should be worried.
Russia and Ukraine together make up about 2/3 of the worldwide sunflower oil production. Can you imagine what happens to the price of our favorite frying oil if that is suddenly the same hand?
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That's nice for you, but not an option for the makers of salty snacks who sure as all hell won't risk lawsuits because someone allergic to peanuts ate some of their stuff and croaked.
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I have to admit, I've heard people earnestly tell me that wars are all about access to oil... I just didn't realize the oil was sunflower oil.
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Nah nah. They're just salty because the Biden administration led us into a proxy war with Russia. That's all.
Sorry who invaded their neighbours putin or biden, I don't think you really wanted to suggest that the US stood by and let ukraine be steamrolled by a third rate army riddled with corruption anf feiliding equipment that where decades ild, and winning just because the had enugh of the junk and soldiers (well ) conscripts with hardly any training to just walt in an say, "this is russia now and you can du f,all about it" what kind of precidend would that set. Oh hold on you just cashed your cheque from the
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Sorry who invaded their neighbours putin or biden
Which scores the most political points against my political rival?
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OK Neville.
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I'd already be happy if he managed to raise a point without looking like the class clown, let alone anyone dead.
How the hell that goofball has the following he has is beyond me. Over here in Europe, we tend to elect politicians because we think they're smarter and know how to run a country, it seems in the US, voters are more interested in voting someone in who they consider a totally worthless, bumbling fool that can't harm them.
Make you wonder what people think about their government to be honest.
It's a b
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Ursula von der Leyen
Hey, I didn't say the system is perfect. Besides, Urschl vom Leiden is more some sort of collateral damage for voting for someone else and she happens to tag along, much like the snooty little brother who your mom insists you have to take with you whenever you want to have some fun. So what they did was the sensible thing, send the little pest somewhere where it's no longer in the way of you having fun and someone else's problem.
Re:Trump's fault (Score:4, Insightful)
Biden didn't call Republican Georgian election officials and ask them to swing the election.
He didn't start an insurrection.
He didn't stand next to Putin and say I believe this guy not my own Govt.
He didn't set back the fight curb CO2 emissions several years.
He didn't want to gas people exercising lawful protest..
He didn't politicise the Justice Dept.
He didn't pardon his co-conspirators.
And he didn't get impeached twice.
You could pick a random person off the street and they'd still be a better President than Trump.
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Because being a deeply-corrupt hatemonger who attempts a coup against the US doesn't make the distinction clear enough for you?
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They're all crazy, they're all stupid, and they're all addicted to their hatred and have lost the ability to live without it.
Only the vocal minority on the fringes. The vast majority of us, those of us that lean slightly to either side, just want both extremes to STFU and go away. But "boring and effective" isn't a great platform to run on, mainly because the rabid media doesn't make money on boring.
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In much the same way Trump could have literally raised the dead, and the left would damn him for desecrating a corpse.
There's no difference between the left and right any more (if there ever was). They're all crazy, they're all stupid, and they're all addicted to their hatred and have lost the ability to live without it.
That's a completely false equivalence and you surely know it. If you had said that same thing about George W. Bush you'd have a point. Trump? The man who finds redeeming things in a white supremacist rally? Who thinks rule of law is optional? Who incited a riot in a desperate attempt to cling to power? Who wholeheartedly endorsed a credibly accused child molester for the United States Senate? Those are just the extreme disqualifiers. I won't bore you with an exhaustive list of the other horrible t
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Trump is not a decent human being. He's a sociopath utterly incapable of empathy. He can't even fake it in a prepared speech after a national tragedy. Everything is about him. You wouldn't do business with him; he doesn't pay his bills. You wouldn't want him to date your daughter; he raw dogged a porn star while his wife was pregnant. You wouldn't even want to have a conversation with him because he'd do 99.9% of the talking and it'd be stream of consciousness me-me-me nonsense.
This. Plus Trump expects absolute loyalty from others, but is himself loyal to exactly nobody. Why would anybody respect that? He is a whiny little man who probably could have used a few good smacks upside the head earlier in life to make him less of a douche, but sadly now he gets secret service protection so cluing him in like you would a petulant child is probably no longer possible.
Now why so many people grovel at the feet of such a asshole, who really does not give a fuck about them or anyone els
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You wouldn't do business with him
I ask Trump supporters what Trump character attribute would you like your children to emulate. Crickets or they will blurt out "be rich".
Re:Trump's fault (Score:4, Insightful)
or they will blurt out "be rich".
Fun fact about his fortune, if he had just taken the seed money his rich father gave him, tossed it into an S&P 500 index fund and done absolutely nothing for the rest of his life, he'd be worth significantly more today than even the almost certainly inflated upper estimates of his net worth.
That's all you need to know about Trump's business acumen. He underperformed the market.
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That video never should have had the chance to come out, "I like people who weren't captured" ought to have destroyed his entire political career.
I weirdly thought that POWs and Gold Star Families were off-limits and commanded universal respect/admiration.
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I don't hate him, I pity him, he's a broken human being. If, for the sake of the argument, I did hate him, it would be far from irrational for me to do so. You can't dispute a single horrible thing I said about him so you're going try and flip the script and make it about me.
Enjoy your false equivalence echo chamber.
Re:Trump's fault (Score:5, Insightful)
You can't live without your irrational, blind hatred.
It is not blind hatred but an observation.
If you can't see the difference between Trump and other leaders and think of Trump is just more the same you are not paying attention. His malignant narcissism, prodigious continuous lying, dishonesty, raging hypocrisy, corruption, extreme transactional relationships, his fascination with despots and desire to be the first American despot is all too obvious to even to a casual uninterested observer. His former CoS Gen John Kelly called him the most flawed human he has ever met. Trump right now is crying about election interference and weaponizing the DOJ when he routinely and openly pressured his DOJ to arrest his opponents and people he didn't like.
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You can't live without your irrational, blind hatred.
None of what the poster posted is hatred, it's an direct replication of a public record and a 100% rational assertion that Trump is not a decent human being. The fact you turned it into an appeal to emotion is a problem with you, not with the parent poster.
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blind hatred
"Blind" would imply there is no rhyme or reason for an opinion. They listed a number of very specific and accurate reasons why they hate the man. Seems to me that their opinion is the exact opposite of blind.
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In much the same way Trump could have literally raised the dead, and the left would damn him for desecrating a corpse.
Trump and Republicans would have bigger problems as they've taken a strong stance *against* dead people voting ... On the other hand, they might look around and prefer to be dead. No guarantee they'd vote for him anyway, and he'd be really bitter about that:
All those dead people I resurrected, and they won't even vote for me. So ungrateful, so ungrateful.
[Apologies for the correct spelling and lack of extraneous exclamation marks and random words in UPPER-case.]
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That's what you get for electing politicians that have zero incentive to do anything that matters 20 years down the line, because it's almost certain that they'll be pushing daisies by then.
It reminds me of the latter stages of the Soviet Union. Back then it also was one old doddering geezer after the other. Want some jokes of that time?
"What is the main difference between succession under the tsarist regime and under socialism?" "Under the tsarist regime, power was transferred from father to son, and under
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Something as complicated as a country can be good in some ways, and bad in other ways, at the same time. The same goes for individual people, for that matter. So it is natural that our evaluations of things will be just as varied.
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Is there an echo in here?