What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[LaCroix]

Trade is about economic interests, not about personal feelings.

BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- Delegates from China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) discussed goods and services trade and investment as they met in Beijing on Wednesday for the 11th round of trilateral free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations.

Vice Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen led the Chinese delegation, the Ministry of Commerce said in a statement.

Since their launch in November 2012, China-Japan-ROK Free Trade Agreement negotiations have been carried out.

The three parties agreed that the establishment of a trilateral FTA will help give full play to their advantages, unleash the economic vitality of the three countries and boost regional prosperity and development.

In November 2015, leaders from the three nations reiterated in a joint statement that they should accelerate the FTA negotiations.

China is the largest trading partner of Japan and the ROK. The three countries, whose combined GDP accounts for around 20 percent of that of the whole world, would constitute one of the three largest economic blocs, along with the European Union and North America, both of which already have FTAs among themselves.

yeah, I've read about that. doesn't mean japan will side with china against the trump's US

[11B4V]

The GOP does not have any ideas for a replacement of Obamacare but on the other hand they are also not sure how to repeal it first. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/behind-closed-doors-republican-lawmakers-fret-about-how-to-repeal-obamacare/2017/01/27/deabdafa-e491-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html?utm_term=.cf7b8bfb7ffd

[citizen k]

"Doesn't look like anything to me." 

What doesn't? Maple syrup?

It was a Westworld reference. 

[FunkMonk]

International systems are easier to destroy than build.  I wouldn't underestimate the amount of damage that someone like Trump could due in 4 (or 8!) years especially if allowed to operate unchecked.

china could do some power play and become a Good Guy and convince the world to abandon the US and look to it as a shining example of world leadership, but that seems very doubtful in a four-year timeframe

50 years from now the democratically elected leader of the Chinese Co-Prosperity Sphere will praise the fall of the great border wall while Barron Trump, last in a long line of Trump presidents, stands aside and allows the empire to crumble.

[CountDeMoney]

Not that you'll be around to see it, Mr. Ground Zero. 

[LaCroix]

50 years from now the democratically elected leader of the Chinese Co-Prosperity Sphere will praise the fall of the great border wall while Barron Trump, last in a long line of Trump presidents, stands aside and allows the empire to crumble.

e or bravo really needs to do a reality show on that kid

life of a barron: american royalty

[11B4V]

50 years from now the democratically elected leader of the Chinese Co-Prosperity Sphere will praise the fall of the great border wall while Barron Trump, last in a long line of Trump presidents, stands aside and allows the empire to crumble.

e or bravo really needs to do a reality show on that kid

life of a barron: american royalty

phh, more like Joffrey Baratheon

[FunkMonk]

Not that you'll be around to see it, Mr. Ground Zero.

Good. 

[FunkMonk]

50 years from now the democratically elected leader of the Chinese Co-Prosperity Sphere will praise the fall of the great border wall while Barron Trump, last in a long line of Trump presidents, stands aside and allows the empire to crumble.

e or bravo really needs to do a reality show on that kid

life of a barron: american royalty

PBS' The American Experience: TRUMP!!!

[LaCroix]

also,  just at the media running stories about damaged US-mexico relations. mexico is completely at our mercy. wtf would they do. do they even have internet down there?

[Valmy]

also,  just at the media running stories about damaged US-mexico relations. mexico is completely at our mercy. wtf would they do. do they even have internet down there?

They are the 15th largest economy in the world.

They are the world's second largest consumer of American goods. And now those could have a retaliatory tariff attached. Which is what they could fucking do.

You are trolling us surely.

I kinda doubt the vast majority of germans would approve sticking with china over the western hemisphere in the long run

I don't know what 'sticking with' means here.

china could do some power play and become a Good Guy and convince the world to abandon the US and look to it as a shining example of world leadership, but that seems very doubtful in a four-year timeframe

Ok. What exactly are you talking about? This is about the US abandoning and undermining its own system and how that can hurt us, not about everybody being interested in leaving us.

[LaCroix]

You are trolling us surely.

I don't know what 'sticking with' means here.

Ok. What exactly are you talking about? This is about the US abandoning and undermining its own system and how that can hurt us, not about everybody being interested in leaving us.

I don't aim to upset anyone or elicit any particular type of response

"sticking with" = aligning with

the US might abandon and undermine its own system for four years, but meh, it happens. my post was in response to the notion the world would abandon the US during these four years and permanently find new powers to side with. "new powers" means china, because there's literally no other country that could even hope to replace the US. and even then, china would be an hilariously poor substitute for anything the US can offer

[grumbler]

the US might abandon and undermine its own system for four years, but meh, it happens. my post was in response to the notion the world would abandon the US during these four years and permanently find new powers to side with.

So, you were responding to your own strawman.  How completely unexpected.

[LaCroix]

So, you were responding to your own strawman.  How completely unexpected.

if you'd like, change words around until they mean whatever it is you're arguing

[Ed Anger]

Lindsey Graham Cowers Behind Tree Trunk As Trump's Hunting Dogs Close In


Exhausted and barely able to stand, Sen. Lindsey Graham can only listen in terror as the yelping from President Trump's hounds grows louder and louder.
NEWS January 25, 2017
VOL 53 ISSUE 03  ·  Politics · Politicians · Donald Trump · Lindsey Graham
GREENVILLE, SC—After 36 hours on the run through the woodlands of South Carolina, a bloodied and exhausted Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reportedly cowered behind the trunk of a willow tree Wednesday as President Donald Trump's vicious hunting dogs closed in on him.

According to sources, Graham has spent the past day and night wading across frigid creeks, slogging into fetid swampland, and crashing through thickets of thorny brambles in an effort to evade Trump's pack of hounds, but he has not been able to shake the president's determined hunting party.



"Please, God, let me make it out of here alive," the 61-year-old senator whispered to himself, trying to quiet his ragged breathing as the animals frantically searched the ground just above the hollow where he lay hiding. "Please."

"If I can just make it to Virginia, [former Rep.] Scott [Rigell] will help me—he has to," added Graham, apparently unaware the same dogs had ripped the recently retired Republican congressman to pieces a few days prior in reprisal for calling Trump a "con man" during the presidential campaign.

Local sources said the chase began early yesterday after Graham was tipped off that Trump was approaching his Greenville congressional offices with a retinue of valets, who were seen struggling to control two dozen baying foxhounds as they strained at their leads in a frenzied bloodlust.


Trump's dog handlers reportedly rubbed a necktie belonging to Graham under the animals' noses, with one of the valets commenting that the dogs were particularly agitated, having already "gotten the taste of blood from Jeb."

After bolting for the nearby woods, Graham was said to have evaded Trump's dogs for several hours by slicing open his own hand with a sharp rock, smearing his blood on a tree, and scrambling up an embankment in the opposite direction to throw the animals off his trail. However, reports suggest the hounds were able to pick up Graham's scent again after discovering a torn piece of the senator's suit pants on a shrub into which he fell after tripping over a tree root and badly twisting his ankle.

Now hobbled, Graham is believed to have spent several freezing hours sleeping fitfully under a rocky overhang, only to be awakened by the sound of the dogs' sudden approach. Sources confirmed the senator has not been able to escape the range of Trump's retinue since that time, and has begun to see flashes of the commander-in-chief's red field jacket between the trees as the sound of his hunting horn comes ever closer.

"I said I'd vote to confirm [Secretary of State nominee] Rex Tillerson!" Graham shouted into the woodland shadows as he tried to hide his figure behind the tree trunk. "I gave you that! What else do you want from me, you bastard?"


At press time, Trump's dogs were reportedly charging toward Graham, who, standing at the crest of a waterfall and seeing no better option, leapt into the deadly rapids hundreds of feet below.