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brooklynite

(94,571 posts) Fri Aug 23, 2019, 05:12 PM Aug 2019

BREAKING: Trump threatens raised tariffs on China

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BREAKING: Trump threatens raised tariffs on China (Original Post) brooklynite Aug 2019 OP

Think he has any friends that are shorting the market on Monday? NightWatcher Aug 2019 #1

"Trade wars are good and easy to win" The_Casual_Observer Aug 2019 #2

Keep digging, brains njhoneybadger Aug 2019 #3

GMTA we can do it Aug 2019 #6

I once had a Texas Cichlid in my aquarium Dirty Socialist Aug 2019 #4

Thank you for your attention on this matter! underpants Aug 2019 #5

Technical difficulties. Please stand by. Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2019 #8

The Simpsons covered this underpants Aug 2019 #9

should've known Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2019 #10

He has no idea @ all of what he is doing either that or he is trying to crash the US economy ... Botany Aug 2019 #7

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)

1. Think he has any friends that are shorting the market on Monday?

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Fri Aug 23, 2019, 05:17 PM

Aug 2019

He seems out to tank it on purpose.

The_Casual_Observer

(27,742 posts)

2. "Trade wars are good and easy to win"

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Fri Aug 23, 2019, 05:17 PM

Aug 2019

How much more Peter Navarro & Robert Lighthizer are we going to have to endure?

njhoneybadger

(3,910 posts)

3. Keep digging, brains

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Fri Aug 23, 2019, 05:24 PM

Aug 2019

we can do it

(12,185 posts)

6. GMTA

Reply to njhoneybadger (Reply #3)

Fri Aug 23, 2019, 05:26 PM

Aug 2019

Dirty Socialist

(3,252 posts)

4. I once had a Texas Cichlid in my aquarium

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Fri Aug 23, 2019, 05:24 PM

Aug 2019

He was highly aggressive. He had a curious habit of repeatedly ramming his head against the side of the tank. Trump reminds me of the cichlid.

underpants

(182,803 posts)

5. Thank you for your attention on this matter!

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Fri Aug 23, 2019, 05:24 PM

Aug 2019

He didn't write that. He ends declaring victory for future events.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,346 posts)

8. Technical difficulties. Please stand by.

Reply to underpants (Reply #5)

Fri Aug 23, 2019, 05:29 PM

Aug 2019

Will we get that message when the nice young men in their clean white coats come to take him away? Will twitter play Muzak and a test pattern like old tv?

underpants

(182,803 posts)

9. The Simpsons covered this

Reply to Hermit-The-Prog (Reply #8)

Fri Aug 23, 2019, 05:41 PM

Aug 2019

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,346 posts)

10. should've known

Reply to underpants (Reply #9)

Fri Aug 23, 2019, 05:44 PM

Aug 2019

Botany

(70,504 posts)

7. He has no idea @ all of what he is doing either that or he is trying to crash the US economy ...

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Fri Aug 23, 2019, 05:27 PM

Aug 2019

.... because that would make Putin happy. We are looking right into the eyes of big recession
or even a depression. This is insanity. His words and ideas are pure gibberish.

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