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Welp, there goes the economy. I don't know how you guys are so happy with your bottom lines, I have no idea how any of you are still somehow laughing all the way to the bank, and with what money? As far as I can tell, everyone is losing money, and I mean everyone. I know I am. The last time I saw my brokerage account this red was during the covid crash.

Let's make America recession again! Goddamnit. If all this was to push us towards nuclear armageddon, I might be okay with it, cause at least we'd all die together relatively quick. But a financial armageddon so we can all die slowly from starvation and homelessness? What's the point of that? Why are so many Americans so damn happy about a crashing economy? Make it make sense!

Top White House Adviser Indicates Offers From Trading Partners Won't Convince Trump to Retreat.

Peter Navarro, a senior White House trade adviser, defended President Trump's tariffs, but the Treasury secretary said the USA Might be ready to negotiate.

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Peter Navarro, right, a trade adviser to President Trump, defended the administration's tariff policy on Monday. Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, is at left in the Oval Office last month. Credit. Eric Lee / The New York Times.

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April 7, 2025.

Peter Navarro, a senior White House trade adviser, on Monday defended the sweeping tariffs President Trump has imposed on foreign nations and indicated that other countries' offers to drop their own tariffs on American products would be insufficient to convince the president to retreat.

Mr. Navarro, who has been the architect of many of President Trump's trade plans, said on CNBC that the United States was facing a national emergency based on chronic trade deficits, and the only fix would be foreign countries removing trade barriers that had hindered the flow of American goods.

The European Union offered Monday to drop its tariffs on American cars and industrial goods to zero if the United States did the same. But Mr. Navarro criticized the bloc for its value-added taxes and restrictions on American meat exports, as well as systematically higher tariffs.

"You steal from the American people every which way is possible," Mr. Navarro said. "So, don't just say we're going to lower our tariffs."

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Mr. Navarro also targeted Vietnam, which has appealed to the president in recent days to have its tariffs reduced. He accused Vietnam of dumping products into USA Markets, engaging in intellectual property theft and killing industries like shrimp, kitchen cabinets and others.

"When they come to us and say, we'll go to zero tariffs, that means nothing to us, because it's the non-tariff cheating that matters," Mr. Navarro said.

But Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who, with Jamieson Greer, the United States trade representative, was put in charge of negotiations with Japan, signaled in an interview later in the day that Mr. Trump is ready to negotiate.

"President Trump, as you know, is better than anyone at giving himself maximum leverage," he said.

Mr. Bessent said he had suggested that foreign officials "keep your cool, do not escalate and come to us with your offers. " he added: "And at a point, President Trump will be ready to negotiate. ".

In the CNBC interview in the morning, Mr. Navarro said that tax cuts were forthcoming, as well as other benefits for Americans, like deregulation, lower energy prices, lower interest rates and the restructuring of manufacturing.

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"We're going to get to a place where America makes stuff again, real wages are going to be up, profits are going to be up," he said, adding, "the market's going to find a bottom. " Stock markets closed slightly lower Monday, following two days of punishing losses last week.

He was also asked about Elon Musk's very public criticism of tariffs and of Mr. Navarro specifically over the weekend. Responding to a social-media post praising Mr. Navarro, Mr. Musk on Saturday mocked Mr. Navarro's Ivy League degree as useless, and then said Mr. Navarro had not "built" anything.

On Monday, Mr. Navarro said that Mr. Musk was "not a car manufacturer" but "a car assembler," mentioning that Tesla's plant in Texas imported batteries, electronics, tires and other parts. "he wants the cheap foreign parts, and we understand that," he said.

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;2995462]I remember clearly awhile back, you were writing just the opposite LMFAO.

That giving province girls jobs in factories diverted them away from providing services you love so much and for so few THB.

And of course that was all Our Lord and Saviors fault LOLOLOL.[/QUOTE]The Chinese factories that Trump insisted on being built in Thailand the first time around aren't going away and the relationship with China will only grow stronger.

As it will between China and every other country that doesn't want to risk idiot MAGA voters installing an idiot, blithering, know nothing Repub in the WH every 4 years and / or an idiot, blithering, know nothing Repub majority in Congress every 2 years.

[QUOTE=NewtonYork;2995501]Welp, there goes the economy. I don't know how you guys are so happy with your bottom lines, I have no idea how any of you are still somehow laughing all the way to the bank, and with what money? As far as I can tell, everyone is losing money, and I mean everyone. I know I am.![/QUOTE]Sorry, Newton, I am in bonds with part of my portfolio and a net short. Portfolio has been way up the last few days. I am still not sure the market crash is going to follow through. As of now, there is too much media hype on the tariffs and too little on how many countries want to negotiate. When you have an overall market PE in the 30's, that is about a 3% yield. When stock yields are 1 to 2% higher than treasuries, the market is way overpriced.

More than half of all stock moves are not due to the stock itself but the overall market. To me, that happens when the Fed or government has the cash spigot on. Biden had the cash spigot on as wide as it could go while the Fed tried all it could to hold it back.

The way I do things is to do the best I can with valuation. If something is overpriced, I avoid it or short it. When it is underpriced, I buy it. When it is fairly priced, I sell it. And no, I do not think there is any other way to succeed in the market than that. Be honest. Why did you buy Nvidia? Because it was undervalued or because you thought it was going to go up?

So how many people had on their bingo card on November 1 that the stock market was going to go down because Trump would get elected and impose crippling tariffs? Anyone who says they did is full of shit.

So I could go on about how smart I am and how dumb other people were, but say I did that and Trump takes away all the tariffs, and then the market rallies? Then I look like an idiot. I only knew the market was overvalued. I did not know why or how or when it was going to crash.

And your POV reflects arrogance. You assume everyone is like you. You need to understand why Trump is doing what he is doing. The lower 50% of Americans are in debt and own no stock. Unless they lose their job, they just saw the interest on their debt go down. Furthermore, the lower 50% have seen their jobs shipped off overseas or businesses hire illegals. In fact, we have had to listen to these idiots here brag about what a great job the illegals do while American citizens suffer. In the end, the bottom 50% will benefit because many of the jobs that have been shipped overseas will return here.

As of now, the fundamentals of the economy have not crashed yet. They will. You cannot quit working for 2 years like we did with Covid and NOT have an economy crash. I am so fucking sick of these idiots who think we can get by with economic manipulation AKA a free lunch. Oh yeah, we can just print up money and take 2 years off with a virus with a 0. 2% mortality. That is fine. Nothing will happen. We can all the federal debt with the stroke of a pen. AI will save us. Give me a fucking break!

Quit telling me how fucking great the economy is when you are racking up record numbers on your credit card.

I would have to assume many countries are champing at the bit to get in a room to negotiate a new "deal" with Donald Trump. After witnessing how Xi wiped the floor with him, got everything he wanted and gave up nothing in 2018 and 2019, as Putin is still doing with his Ukraine War negotiations with Trump, who wouldn't want to renegotiate a deal with Trump where all you have to do is complement his hair and you get a much BETTER deal than you had before?

Other countries know however much they rape Trump and America in a newly negotiated deal, Trump will always tell his MAGA suckers he just won a great victory for The American Working Men and Women, The Greatest Deal of All Time, Nobody Has Seen Anything Like It, and those MAGA numbskulls will believe it. LOL.

He did that the first time around with his renegotiation of NAFTA, which he called a terrible deal agreed to by idiot presidents before him, mostly just rebranding it with a different name. Then he just trashed HIS OWN renegotiated and rebranded NAFTA deal, calling it a terrible deal agreed to by idiot presidents before him. LOL. Yeah. HIM! LOL.

And, sure enough, his numbskull MAGA Cult Followers didn't even notice. As he knew they wouldn't.

We really have no other conclusion to draw about a Trump "deal negotiation" but that he hasn't got the slightest clue what the deal really is, how or why it is good for America. And that when he says it is a "terrible deal" he only means it has not been negotiated to specifically favor himself, his Crime Family and any other cronies that have slipped a few bucks into his pocket at the great expense of everyone else in America. That is how all of these deals will be renegotiated.

And aside from those Trump Crime Family and Cronies Carve Outs, the rest will favor the country on the other side of the table "the likes of which nobody has ever seen"! LOL. Count on it.

Oh, and then there is this along the way:

[B]Mortgage rates slingshot higher as tariff uncertainty roils markets[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/08/mortgage-rates-higher-tariff-uncertainty.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

[QUOTE]A swift rise in mortgage rates this week wiped out any advantages of last weeks decline for homebuyers.

Mortgage rates are now about where they have been for the past six weeks.

Homebuyers are now more concerned with the state of the economy and employment than they are with rates.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2995553]The Chinese factories that Trump insisted on being built in Thailand the first time around aren't going away and the relationship with China will only grow stronger.

As it will between China and every other country that doesn't want to risk idiot MAGA voters installing an idiot, blithering, know nothing Repub in the WH every 4 years and / or an idiot, blithering, know nothing Repub majority in Congress every 2 years.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.bworldonline.com/top-stories/2025/04/08/664536/southeast-asian-countries-may-need-to-ramp-up-their-us-purchases/[/URL]

The Great Mongering Restoration for Americans in SEA has begun.

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Stop Freaking Out. Trump's Tariffs Can Still Work.

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Last week's "Liberation Day" marked a kind of the-Day in the effort to reorder the international economic system. That reordering is desperately needed to address the system's imbalances, which have led to deindustrialization and annual trillion-dollar trade deficits for the United States. But remember, far from striking World War II's decisive blow, the-Day was just the start of the European campaign. Eleven months of vicious fighting followed, with more than 100,000 Americans killed before victory was secured. With the tariffs, too, success or failure depends on what happens next, and the nation will have to bear real costs while the outcome hangs in the balance.

The breadth, speed and severity of President Trump's actions, which he finalized only shortly before the Rose Garden announcement, sparked immediate panic across markets and among allies. The airwaves filled with dire predictions as people scrutinized the sources and sizes of the numbers, the strategy and even the legal authority. Amid the hysteria, fair concerns have also emerged about what the plan lacks: time for companies and governments to respond, permanence for those tariffs intended to shift investments and a clear vision of the goals and how to reach them. But there are simple steps the administration could take now to correct course and move from its embattled beachhead into a sustainable forward position.

The 10 percent global tariff — a foundational permanent policy, which has already taken effect, and which carries a tolerable cost — is the right starting point. Congress should vote it into law as soon as possible. That would confirm its permanence and also provide substantial tax revenue that could help Capitol Hill solve some of its budget math problems. A bill to this effect, the Built USA Act (which I have championed), was introduced in January by Representative Jared Golden, a conservative Democrat.

For the higher, country-specific tariffs that Mr. Trump calls "reciprocal," the first priority should be to scale them up more gradually, to give markets and allies time to adapt. Throwing supply chains into maximal disarray and imposing the highest burdens faster than companies could possibly move to avoid them leads to excessive costs with few attendant benefits. A second priority for the White House should be communicating the president's ultimate vision and his plan for getting from here to there, so that everyone can have confidence in the direction and act accordingly. Some opacity may help in preserving leverage, but America's core demands of its allies should be plain for all to see.

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Among targets of the reciprocal tariffs, China belongs in its own category. Having already raised tariffs on China to 20 percent across the board since taking office, above other tariffs already in effect for some products, the president added 34 percentage points on "Liberation Day" and on Monday threatened an additional 50 percentage points if China didn't back down from its retaliation. The new base line of 54 percent, absent retaliation, approximates the 60 percent tariffs for China on which he campaigned and is best understood as permanent. That's the right move if the goal is, as it should be, to disentangle the American and Chinese economies. In his first term, he sought to make a deal with Xi Jinping. Now Mr. Trump is, rightly, walking away.

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But going from 0 to almost 60 so fast is unnecessary and unwise. The most determined company could not shift production so quickly. A better approach would be to raise the tariff in three steps — 20 percentage points now, in a year, and in two years — and for Congress to legislate this by revoking China's permanent normal trade relations status, as was the bipartisan recommendation of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and the USA -China Economic and Security Review Commission in 2024. Legislation already exists for this, cosponsored by Marco Rubio (now Mr. Trump's secretary of state) when he was in the Senate and accompanied by a bipartisan bill in the House. That legislation envisions tariffs on strategically important goods rising in steps over five years.

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Finally, Mr. Trump has the reciprocal tariffs that he has set country by country in proportion to their trade imbalance with the United States. These appear to be temporary in nature, intended as leverage to make other countries adopt policies that promote balanced trade. Few expected these tariffs would be set so high, especially atop the global 10 percent. Among allies who have expressed openness to negotiating but are still unsure what they have to do, these are a source of understandable consternation.

The high reciprocal tariffs appear structured to maximize the credibility of the president's commitment, to ensure that every country take his threat seriously, but his previous actions, along with moves toward permanent global and China tariffs, accomplish that aim. There is a limit to the costs the American people and American allies will bear, especially without constant reminders of a coherent long-term vision. The president should want to minimize the short- and medium-term harm to businesses and supply chains that must survive disruption if they are to thrive in the long run.

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For the many trading partners that have come forward to negotiate, little would be lost and much saved if Mr. Trump thanked them with a six-month grace period in which to bring their best offers to the table. Those who fail to deliver could be hit with half the Rose Garden tariff rate and be given six more months to get it right before the full weight lands. Businesses would have time to assess their risk and plan accordingly, facing a landscape in which the obvious imperative is to start investing in the United States.

Whatever path he chooses, Mr. Trump could greatly increase the odds of successful negotiations and the largest possible USA -led economic bloc by explaining exactly what he wants. The United States gains nothing from refusing to articulate a vision clearly.

So what is the goal? Based on the administration's public remarks, it is to eliminate large trade imbalances within a USA -led bloc that excludes China, other nonmarket economies and any country determined to continue running large surpluses at the expense of its partners. In remarks on Monday, Stephen Miran, the head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, emphasized that the administration also sees security commitments as indelibly tied to economic ones.

If those are the contours, Mr. Trump should say so, outline the kinds of concessions he expects from allies seeking to rebalance trade and detail the common policies toward China that all members of the bloc must adopt. (Mr. Miran's remarks, which answered the question "what forms can that burden sharing take?" with five different suggestions, were an important step in the right direction.) Then the president can sit back and await best offers. Thanks to early actions against our closest neighbors, renegotiation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement will begin soon. A successful new deal would establish a strong North American core for any future bloc and signal clearly what the United States expects from others.

Finally, Mr. Trump's administration needs to get serious about other policies necessary to support reindustrialization. If the United States is going to reduce its trade deficit quickly without painful cuts to domestic consumption, it's going to have to increase production capacity just as quickly, either to expand exports to other markets or to substitute for imports at home. This requires industrial policy akin to what the CHIPS and Science Act has already achieved for semiconductor manufacturing, with help from new forms of public financing and accelerated permitting. New infrastructure will have to be built and new sources of energy brought online. Perhaps most critically, enormous resources must be poured into work force development.

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China's combined two (2) largest solar farms arrays, will supplant and annually save 680,000 tonnes of [i][b]dirty methane nat.gas[/b][/i] or 1.36 million tonnes of dirty coal fossil fuels.

[b]Chinas CNNC begins work on 2GW offshore solar farm in Jiangsu[/b]
The facility will save 680,000 tonnes of standard coal and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 1.77 million tonnes annually. [url]https://www.power-technology.com/news/cnnc-construction-2gw-offshore-solar/[/url]

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Meanwhile, the American MAGA Fuhrer's "drill-baby-drill" and "...beautiful clean coal/gas" economy, has recently lost $6 trillion dollars in 2-days, the most in U.S. 2-day market history and [u]$11 trillion since inauguration day,[/u] again the worst start of any president in U.S. history.

[QUOTE=The Guardian][b]Trump expected to sign order to allow coal-fired power plants to remain open.[/b]

Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders on Tuesday aimed at reviving coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel that has long been in decline, and which substantially contributes to planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions and pollution. [url]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/trump-executiver-order-coal-power-plants[/url][/QUOTE]

More boneheaded MAGA Fuhrer, neanderthal moves, to plunge Americans backwards, into a "burn-baby-burn", hellscape, not seen since George W. Bushs presidency and the dot-com crash!

Yet another fine example of Repub's being so called "better at the economy", than Dems [i][b](...kkkk!)[/b][/i]

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2995564]Sorry, Newton, I am in bonds with part of my portfolio and a net short. Portfolio has been way up the last few days. I am still not sure the market crash is going to follow through. As of now, there is too much media hype on the tariffs and too little on how many countries want to negotiate. When you have an overall market PE in the 30's, that is about a 3% yield. When stock yields are 1 to 2% higher than treasuries, the market is way overpriced.

More than half of all stock moves are not due to the stock itself but the overall market. To me, that happens when the Fed or government has the cash spigot on. Biden had the cash spigot on as wide as it could go while the Fed tried all it could to hold it back.

The way I do things is to do the best I can with valuation. If something is overpriced, I avoid it or short it. When it is underpriced, I buy it. When it is fairly priced, I sell it. And no, I do not think there is any other way to succeed in the market than that. Be honest. Why did you buy Nvidia? Because it was undervalued or because you thought it was going to go up?

So how many people had on their bingo card on November 1 that the stock market was going to go down because Trump would get elected and impose crippling tariffs? Anyone who says they did is full of shit.

So I could go on about how smart I am and how dumb other people were, but say I did that and Trump takes away all the tariffs, and then the market rallies? Then I look like an idiot. I only knew the market was overvalued. I did not know why or how or when it was going to crash.

And your POV reflects arrogance. You assume everyone is like you. You need to understand why Trump is doing what he is doing. The lower 50% of Americans are in debt and own no stock. Unless they lose their job, they just saw the interest on their debt go down. Furthermore, the lower 50% have seen their jobs shipped off overseas or businesses hire illegals. In fact, we have had to listen to these idiots here brag about what a great job the illegals do while American citizens suffer. In the end, the bottom 50% will benefit because many of the jobs that have been shipped overseas will return here.

As of now, the fundamentals of the economy have not crashed yet. They will. You cannot quit working for 2 years like we did with Covid and NOT have an economy crash. I am so fucking sick of these idiots who think we can get by with economic manipulation AKA a free lunch. Oh yeah, we can just print up money and take 2 years off with a virus with a 0. 2% mortality. That is fine. Nothing will happen. We can all the federal debt with the stroke of a pen. AI will save us. Give me a fucking break!

Quit telling me how fucking great the economy is when you are racking up record numbers on your credit card.[/QUOTE]Warren be is sitting pretty waiting to buy back in.

[URL]https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-03-14/real-cause-market-selloff-recession[/URL]

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2995553]The Chinese factories that Trump insisted on being built in Thailand the first time around aren't going away and the relationship with China will only grow stronger.

As it will between China and every other country that doesn't want to risk idiot MAGA voters installing an idiot, blithering, know nothing Repub in the WH every 4 years and / or an idiot, blithering, know nothing Repub majority in Congress every 2 years.[/QUOTE]Quite the double entendre.

Nobody wants to be a friend of Xi and the CCP.

Not even the 1. 5 billion miserable slaves of CCPland.

[URL]https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/04/08/schweizer-4-things-to-consider-in-tariff-panic-week/[/URL]

[URL]https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/08/nolte-55-of-leftists-believe-its-justifiable-to-assassinate-trump-thanks-to-apps-like-bluesky/[/URL]

Numbskull President Musk The Liar apparently just figured out that Numskull Liar Trump is a Tariff-Happy lunatic that since the mid 1980's has been obsessed with the power of Tariffs as a tool to make him and his Crime Family wealthy at the great expense of everyone else in America and that is why he DID act on that obsession as soon as he possibly could.

So now China Xi Elon is calling out former convict Navarro, fellow convicted Felon Trump's top financial / Tariff advisor, for the fellow Repub Numbskull he obviously is.

And other top Numbskull Repub donors are finally figuring it out and joining in on the fun:

[B]GOP megadonor Ken Langone is latest billionaire to blast Trumps tariffs.[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/07/trump-tariffs-live-updates-stock-market-crypto.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

[QUOTE]Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone is blasting Trumps tariffs, calling the 46% import duties on Vietnam [b]bullshit[/b] and describing the 34% tariff rate on China as too aggressive, too soon.

I dont understand the goddamn formula, the veteran Republican political campaign donor says in a new interview with The Financial Times.[/QUOTE]And now the cognitively incapacitated presidential assistant Trump has blathered out one of the greatest Freudian Slips of all time by calling for Open Borders to fix the economic mess he made! Lolol.

[B]Confused Co-POTUS Trump: 'We Need Open Borders'[/B]

[URL]https://crooksandliars.com/2025/04/confused-co-potus-trump-we-need-open[/URL]

[QUOTE]Donald J. Trump supporters say that he tells it like it is, but then they inevitably, with slavish devotion to their hero, try to tell us what he really meant. Donald launched a tariff rant during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office Monday.

A reporter asked the co-president about "mixed messages from your administration. [B]You're talking about negotiations, and yet others in your administration are saying these tariffs are actually permanent."[/b]

"Well, it can both be true," he said. "There can be permanent tariffs, and there can also be negotiations because there are things that we need beyond tariffs. [B]We need open borders."[/b][/QUOTE]Remember, Trump hasn't got the slightest clue what actually is or isn't in those existing trade deals. Not a clue. He has never had the least bit interest in what is actually in them or how every one of them produce a net benefit to America.

He is now and has always been only interested in renegotiating special carve outs in them to make sure he, his Crime Fsmily and a few close cronies are made wealthier at the great expense of everyone else in America. And as long as that gets put into the final deal, Xi and whoever else is on the other side of the negotiation can take everything they want in exchange for absolutely nothing in return to America.

Then Trump will launch into the usual bullshit blather about how he just negotiated the "greatest deal of all time. Nobody has seen anything like it. MAGA"! Knowing full well his MAGA suckers will swallow every drop of it with a great big lunatic smile.

[B]It is NOT going to save the regular person![/B]

Only if they are extremely competent and educated (self) in the technical aspects of the technology.

What is missed on a consistent basis is that POTUS wants manufacturing returned to the Dis-United States of America because he want the factories there. He wants the infrastructure there because he knows once the factories are built AI paired with robots are going to eliminate the factor worker. Think I am joking. Goto DOHA and check out the baggage handling system. Only humans that touch the bags are when the are put into the system and taking off of the carts and loaded onto the planes. The entire system is monitored by less than 20 highly skilled workers in a control room. With a small crew of maintenance people to handle faults in the system.

[B]Workers are going to be replaced[/B] If those factories are not in the Dis-United States of America under the NEW WORLD ORDER being dictated by the current administration is literally up a creek without a paddle.

The Dis-United States of America cannot match the level of ship building production of China if all hands on deck shooting war was to break out. They better let Japan back into the Naval Aviation game if Dis-United States of America wants to go toe to toe with the Chinese Navy. Because the Chinese Navy is not a blue water Navy. They are fighting close to their homeland. The Dis-United States of America need to allow the Japanese war dogs out and let them get at them!

China's combined two (2) largest solar farms arrays, will supplant and annually save 680,000 tonnes of dirty methane nat. Gas or 1. 36 million tonnes of dirty coal fossil fuels.

Chinas CNNC begins work on 2 GW offshore solar farm in Jiangsu.

The facility will save 680,000 tonnes of standard coal and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 1. 77 million tonnes annually. [URL]https://www.power-technology.com/news/cnnc-construction-2gw-offshore-solar/[/URL].

As previously reported:

China Activates Worlds Largest Offshore Floating Solar Installation.

[URL]https://cleantechnica.com/2024/11/16/china-activates-worlds-largest-offshore-floating-solar-installation/[/URL]

Meanwhile, the American MAGA Fuhrer's "drill-baby-drill" and ". Beautiful clean coal / gas" economy, has recently lost $6 trillion dollars in 2-days, the most in USA 2-day market history and $11 trillion since inauguration day, again the worst start of any president in USA History.

More boneheaded MAGA Fuhrer, neanderthal moves, to plunge Americans backwards, into a "burn-baby-burn", hellscape, not seen since George W. Bushs presidency and the dot-com crash!

Yet another fine example of Repub's being so called "better at the economy", than Dems.

On Monday's broadcast of CNN's "AC360," CNN Senior Political and Global Affairs Commentator, former USA Ambassador to Japan, former Chicago Mayor, and former Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel stated that "you can't get tariffs high enough for me" on China due to their intellectual property theft and economic spying. (and Former because for ScumBag Bubba funny they left that out).

"Just take one part of the world I'm very familiar with in Asia, China, you can't get tariffs high enough for me, because they steal intellectual property, economic espionage, they take our AI, etc. ".

Quit fluffing our adversaries, you may soon find yourself receiving a knock on the door for your treasonous behavior.

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Now I lay a lot of the blame, as does Ralph nader, of our descent into fascism at the feet of the Democrats. We have truly dropped the ball by embracing neoliberal economic policies starting with Bill Clinton and of course the insane identity politics. It's time to get back to pro working class, pro union, anti-corporate policies that will bring the working Man back into the fold. Democrats should stand firm on universal health care, four weeks paid vacation, excellent pensions at a reasonable age, paid education through University and tech school, clean energy, the food supply devoid of pesticides and antibiotics, excellent public transportation, etc. You know, make the US a truly develop nation.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/08/trump-proud-to-be-the-president-for-the-workers-and-middle-class/[/URL]