NBC is 1000% Fake News

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[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

He's trying to backtrack on his record of supporting China's economic development and handing control of trade around the pacific rim that he did by sinking the TPP when he was in office.

It might work, but the reality is that the damage he did to American production, including automotive production will extend into the coming century.

[–]YoMamma 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

True - and anyone in a union or who supports unions (as I do) will hopefully remember the dual photo-ops last September by Trump with a non-union auto parts factory in Michigan, whilst Biden supported a UAW strike (perhaps a 1st for a president), and proudly mentioned it in the State of the Union speech. In recent weeks, Trump would have had to depend on members of the UAW and other unions to forget last September.

[–]WoodyWoodPecker 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

In Michigan, they can only sell cars made in Michigan which brought the factories and jobs back to Michigan. Trump's idea was to bring the factories back to the USA.

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Removing competition, and making the purchase of a vehicle fleet more expensive for businesses in Michigan. Driving jobs away from Michigan.

A better way would be to get free trade access to the other countries of the TPP, and leverage the economies of scale from the vast American supply chain and market, to make vehicles not just for Michigan but for Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam.

But Trump fucked that up, didn't he?

Biden bests Trump on overall job growth, manufacturing jobs, GDP growth, and exports, because he has policies that aren't beneficial to China and hostile to the USA.

[–]YoMamma 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yep - and reminds me of Trump's trade war with China, when China responded by putting tariffs on American-grown soybeans, with disasterous effect on US farmers (and a 75% drop in US soybean value in trade abroad), resulting in improved China/Russia relations when Russia could sell 10x of its soybeans to China [c. 2019, and by 2022 Russian soybean sales to China ($339M), United States ($31.3M), Kazakhstan ($20.7M), South Korea ($7.84M), and Turkey ($2.81M)]. I wonder if Trump was instructed to set up the trade war for Russia's benefit.

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah. It's tricky to guess which of Trump's disasters for the USA were just him being dumb, and which he took bribes from our enemies for.

My guesses are:

Taking military secrets to mar a lago: to sell them.
Withdrawing from the TPP: just dumb.
Withdrawing from the Paris Accord: he took money.
Trade war with China: just dumb.
Meeting Kim Jong Un as an equal: He took money.

But his relationship with Putin is overly sycophantic. Perhaps there's money behind it.