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Yes, I agree with you. - Edit 2

Before modification by Legolas at 18/03/2024 05:46:14 PM

As you said elsewhere, Trump says more than enough stupid shit - including in that very same speech, in fact, including in that sentence - that it's unnecessary and counterproductive to deliberately misinterpret / misrepresent his words.


View original postWhat do those cars and massive factories have to do with a call for violence?

View original postA little context (god forbid). Trump was speaking about the factories China is building in Mexico to manufacture electric cars. The intent is to flood the US market while avoiding import fees. Now Japanese and German companies have done the same but their factories are located in the US and employ American labor. Factories in Mexico obviously would not.

View original postImmediately prior to the above quote, Trump said if he wins the election, he will impose a 100% tariff on the Chinexico cars to prevent this from happening. Followed by the above.

View original postConclusion: the "bloodbath" will be the consequences to the American auto industry, and the reactions from the opposition is typical election hyperbole and negative spin.

It's still complete nonsense, mind you. First article I got in Google informed me that:
- Mexico currently exports about 3.3 million cars per year, most of them to the USA. However, at the same time it imports cars for its own domestic market from China.
- The new factory that a Chinese car maker is considering to build would make 150 000 cars per year, intended first and foremost for the local Mexican market.
- Potentially they might also consider export to the US in the future, but as the Mexican expert quoted in the article immediately adds, 'it will not be so easy for Chinese assembly companies to enter the U.S. market on a large scale because they have many protection measures for their national producers'.

In short, he's making up scare stories about something that is already happening today without anything like the impact he describes (ok, the Mexican factories exporting to the USA aren't currently owned by Chinese companies, that part might change, but what does that matter for American jobs?), then then making grandiose claims about how he's going to solve this non-existing problem, while pretending that Democrats wouldn't do anything if in fact anything remotely like this happened.

After all, Biden is making the same protectionist comments as Trump in the whole Nippon Steel situation - reminding me of a similar controversy back in the Bush presidency, then about an Emirati company wanting to take over American ports. As always, Americans from both parties are in favour of free trade when it involves American companies expanding abroad but dead set against it when it involves foreign companies expanding in the US. Though of course most large countries globally are just as hypocritical or even more so on that topic.

View original postMore interesting to me by far was this phrase: "Now if I don’t get elected." Note, he didn't say, if the election is stolen. Nor did he say, if they claim I didn't get elected. He still hasn't acknowledged the results in 2020, yet he says this? What's that about?

One imagines that for a minute there he actually listened to the army of consultants telling him that until the election actually happens, he needs to make people think their vote for him will make a difference and is sorely needed, hence the scare stories about what will happen if they don't turn out to vote for him. Then afterwards if he loses, he can start talking about it being stolen again.

China in the Mexican car market

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