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Trump 'hereby orders' companies to seek 'alternative' markets to China as markets plunge

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"hereby ordered" The idiot-in-chief is seriously deranged.


Donald J. Trump


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....better off without them. The vast amounts of money made and stolen by China from the United States, year after year, for decades, will and must STOP. Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing..


Donald J. Trump
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....your companies HOME and making your products in the USA. I will be responding to China’s Tariffs this afternoon. This is a GREAT opportunity for the United States. Also, I am ordering all carriers, including Fed Ex, Amazon, UPS and the Post Office, to SEARCH FOR & REFUSE,....


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9:59 AM - Aug 23, 2019


Donald Trump says he has 'ordered' U.S. companies to avoid China trade
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So much for dispensing with big government picking winners and losers, now you get ORDERS from your "commander" instead.
So okay, they will follow those so called "orders" and pick Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, or any other third world sweatshop haven, and of course they will also pick up a tidy tax offset to cover the cost of moving, AND SIMULTANEOUSLY pass along those same costs to the consumer.

And anything that does come back here will be 99% automated, so there's that.

So much winning!
 
Even more evidence that Trump has lost his mind.

(So called "conservatives" supporting this lunatic with his "hereby ordered" bit should be here in 5... 4... 3...)
 
BWG said:
"hereby ordered" The idiot-in-chief is seriously deranged.
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Trumpy and his crew had better hope the Capitalists and their fellow travelers don't ever take over Congress.
 
The sad truth is America can't do that.

China can do it, it's not a democracy. They can also do things like tell stock holders not to sell their stocks.
 
BWG said:
"hereby ordered" The idiot-in-chief is seriously deranged.
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What I want to know is where are all the "conservatives" who support Trump, on this? Why aren't they screaming about the free market and how gubmint has no right to order a private company where and how to conduct its business.

Change the name to "Barack Obama" and they would be in here soiling their adult diapers and crashing the DP servers with their posts of rage.

"Hereby ordered". Just when I thought I saw it all, then there was this.

I hope Mitch McConnell is sitting home right now weeping in his Corn Flakes. He has allowed Trump to wreck the party and wreck the country.
 
BWG said:
"hereby ordered" The idiot-in-chief is seriously deranged.
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He should start with his sons who run his businesses and his daughter who runs her own business.
 
The leader of the Republican Party 'ordering' private American companies....

Move over Bernie, the Republican Party is now the party of socialism...
 
Remember "trade wars are easy".

Sure DonDon as if you had any earthly idea what you were talking about.

Now he has boxed himself in. He is causing too much pain already to take half a loaf in a China deal and as of now, the two country's are not even dealing.

Never mind how much consumer pain there has or has not been. I said it a year ago in these pages. Ultimately, corporations would not be able to plan...allies would not be able to plan and the inability to plan leads to gridlock. DonDon can blather all he wants to...that is cannon fodder for the idiots.

Trump has really boxed himself into a battle he can't win. Best he gets is a tie and he is unwilling to accept that.
 
jnug said:
Remember "trade wars are easy".

Sure DonDon as if you had any earthly idea what you were talking about.

Now he has boxed himself in. He is causing too much pain already to take half a loaf in a China deal and as of now, the two country's are not even dealing.

Never mind how much consumer pain there has or has not been. I said it a year ago in these pages. Ultimately, corporations would not be able to plan...allies would not be able to plan and the inability to plan leads to gridlock. DonDon can blather all he wants to...that is cannon fodder for the idiots.

Trump has really boxed himself into a battle he can't win. Best he gets is a tie and he is unwilling to accept that.
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---I remember you talking about corporations being caught in the middle and not able to extricate themselves from uncertainty, and I hope you remember when I too was talking about how manufacturers would err on the side of caution, as they always do.

I see them choosing the nearest depressed third world country over our own, because they are aware of the fact that we have little to no supply of workers skilled in robotics, demand-driven supply logistics or even factory floor level artificial intelligence of any kind.

They also won't know if it is even safe to pull out of China at all to begin with, due to Trump's mercurial whims.
They're expecting to deal with reality, while Trump manufactures reality TV instead.

I think that ultimately we will witness a new kind of stalemate that eclipses a Mexican standoff, and which ultimately leads to serious consumer supply shortages. Picture Walmarts with empty shelves and idled workers. How much would it take for China to make a move that triggers that kind of situation over here?
For a hint, think of the Saudi Oil Embargo of the 1970's. China would not need to cut the chain entirely, just apply the brakes enough to stagger shipping delays and slow walk inventory response times.
Remember, all our "big box store" economics operate on a "just-in-time" supply chain system now.

A little bit of Chinese "red tape" would go a very long way in triggering multiple supply chain crises across the country.
But it might not be enough to signal to corporate to pull up stakes altogether.
 
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