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https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1915826567017631942

This analysis from Ryan Grim is pretty funny.

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[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 14 points 11 hours ago

Lmao this country finally elects "a businessman" despite decades of everyone knowing their bosses just sit around taking calls acting like it's "work" and then when they ask the president what he's doing he goes "I took a bunch of calls in my office."

We fuckin deserve him. We really do.

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 3 points 12 hours ago
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[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 22 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Are the trade deals in the room with us right now?

[-] NuraShiny@hexbear.net 17 points 23 hours ago

The lies don't have to be good, they just have to be believed. This in turn means that bad lies are actually more powerful and useful, because believing them reinforces the ingroup. Questioning dear leader?! That's grounds for a shunning!

[-] dead@hexbear.net 50 points 1 day ago

Dear Xi, I wrote you, but you still ain't calling
I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom
I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not have got them
There probably was a problem at the post office or something

[-] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

Damn didn’t realize trump had bars like that

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So those of us who want to continue living in a shared and objective reality can just go fuck ourselves, I guess?

[-] frogbellyratbone_@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago

there's zero chance Trump and Xi are talking. neither of these two have any idea how any of this works to the degree/level required to come to a trade deal with one another.

when there are legit trade talks it's going to be entire teams of people over the course of weeks/months with extreme technical understanding of commodities, manufacturing, currency, supply chains, etc.

[-] Pentacat@hexbear.net 9 points 18 hours ago

I’m not sure the US has people like that.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 31 points 1 day ago

when there are legit trade talks it's going to be entire teams of people over the course of weeks/months with extreme technical understanding of commodities, manufacturing, currency, supply chains, etc

On the American side, those people have all been fired

[-] dead@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

neither of these two have any idea how any of this works

I'm not sure who you are referring to. Ryan Grim is a good reporter and he created DropSiteNews with Jeremy Scahill. Ryan Grim is making fun of Trump.

The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said yesterday and today that there have been no negotiations. Xi has made no comment because Trump hasn't talked to Xi.

Trump told Time magazine that he had called Xi and that negotiations were happening.

[-] frogbellyratbone_@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

wdym Ryan Grimm literally just posted that he's regularly talking to President Xi ahaha

Trump and Xi. They are not talking. Zero chance. Trump is clearly lying.

[-] dead@hexbear.net 6 points 23 hours ago

Ryan Grim was being sarcastic when he said that he called Xi. It's a joke.

[-] frogbellyratbone_@hexbear.net 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

no way he's serious super serious :)

dude lol. i know. i knnnnow. go reread my comments <3

[-] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 54 points 1 day ago

Donald Trump has entered the Canadian girlfriend phase of his trade war with China

😂

[-] frogbellyratbone_@hexbear.net 30 points 1 day ago

I too speak regularly with Chairman Xi. He says I am amazing and am the pride of the proletariat. ... Do not attempt to confirm this with Xi, he said he would deny it.

orly

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