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Has Trump outsmarted everybody?

One person isn't everyone, but that guy shouldn't be deported. He belongs in Prison. If he were deported, chances are he would not go to prison.
 
I looks like we are now in a full-blown trade war with China. All reciprocal tariffs on other countries (not sure about Canada) have been paused for 90 days while the U.S. concentrates on China. China and Canada were the only two nations who said they would not negotiate with the U.S. over tariffs and will fight to the end. Both countries run a huge trade surplus with the U.S., so will lose more in a trade war than they will gain. I don't know what thee purpose of doing this at this time is, but perhaps Trump knows something we don't, like Xi is tottering on the edge. It may be an attempt to collapse the Chinese government, or, for some reason, to force them to war with Taiwan or some other country. Pausing the reciprocal tariffs has sent the stock market upward, recouping half the losses of of the past weeks in one day. We'll see what happens.
 
I think that this is similar to what President Reagan did with Russia way back when, and it worked. As you mentioned, @Don Alaska , selling to the US is important to China.
We probably buy more from China than any other country does, and they need our business to survive financially.

On the other hand, we do not want to help build up China’s arsenal by spending any more money there than necessary, plus their standards of quality control are terrible, and some of the products we buy from them are not even safe to be using.
Many of their food products (fish, seafood) are grown in human waste, and when we see what it looks like , it is awful. We need to make our own medications, because people’s lives depend on those being made correctly.

Another thing that i have been reading about , is that we are going to take back the land that China owns here in the US, and we may end the visas for Chinese students, some of whom are basically spies, anyway.
If China does not start realizing this, they will soon wish they had. President Trump is Mr. Nice Guy until you punch him, and then he is going to punch back harder.
Trump will hold the line until he gets what we need for America.
 
The majority of the polls I take interest in are the polls that are segmented into categories such as:
The border
The illegal immigrants, / gangs
DOGE in reference to its finding fraud, corruption, mishandling of taxpayer money
etc, etc.

I may dislike one thing Trump is doing but might like 3 things or visa versa.
To throw everything into a pot and call it a poll is simply asking for an inaccurate generalization.

I mean, I can’t say that I totally approve of what a friend does so how can I do that with someone in office?
 
Some media sources do that a lot. That's why I call the Fake News. They wouldn't know the truth if it bit them on the butt. By the way, Peter, no websites I've seen have any news about that at all.

YouTube is crawling with Fake News and totally false information, and some of it is so far fetched it's pathetic. Some YouTubers want us to believe such nonsense as "NOBODY LIVES IN THE WESTERN STATES..." Blah blah blah. I live in a western state and my name isn't Nobody.
 
Yvonne Smith said:
There are at least two different kinds of deportation happening, and I think that this is why people are wondering about what is happening. Many people who came here just came across the border, or were helped across by the coyotes. Some of them were criminals in their own country and some were not, but ALL of them arrived here illegally, and need to leave. It they self-deport back to wherever they came from, then they cam come back with a green card like the people do who come here legally to work or go to college.

Most of the people who are gang members have criminal records both in their home country and here in the United States . Those people will either be shipped back to their own country or put in prison if they have charges here in the US.
Either way, they are probably going to end up in prison in some country. These people are often ones who were arrested for felony offenses, like rape and murder, but were released by the Biden administration rules. Now, ICE is finding and arresting them, and getting these criminals off of our streets, one way or another.

Also, ICE has made it plain that if people are sheltering a criminal that they arrest, anyone who is sheltering that criminal will be deported right along with the criminal, even if they have no criminal record. This is similar to how a person can be arrested for harboring a criminal , and family members can be arrested for doing that.

Some of the people that Biden allowed to just come across the border used an app that the Biden administration made to help them come across, and ICE has now revamped the app to make it a self-deportation app.
This gives illegals the chance to take their family, their belongings, and whatever money they have, and leave without being arrested, and gives them the option to come back legally; so many of the illegals are now doing that.
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Dangerous criminals should be deported to that prison. The rest should not be given any more freebies until they show up for their court hearings as asylum seekers. IMHO
 
Yvonne Smith said:
I think that this is similar to what President Reagan did with Russia way back when, and it worked. As you mentioned, @Don Alaska , selling to the US is important to China.
We probably buy more from China than any other country does, and they need our business to survive financially.

On the other hand, we do not want to help build up China’s arsenal by spending any more money there than necessary, plus their standards of quality control are terrible, and some of the products we buy from them are not even safe to be using.
Many of their food products (fish, seafood) are grown in human waste, and when we see what it looks like , it is awful. We need to make our own medications, because people’s lives depend on those being made correctly.

Another thing that i have been reading about , is that we are going to take back the land that China owns here in the US, and we may end the visas for Chinese students, some of whom are basically spies, anyway.
If China does not start realizing this, they will soon wish they had. President Trump is Mr. Nice Guy until you punch him, and then he is going to punch back harder.
Trump will hold the line until he gets what we need for America.
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I really don't understand why Canada is standing up to Trump when most of the world is willing to talk. Xi has to look tough, but he is risking his economic well-being. Neither China nor Canada would be better off if they stopped trading with the U.S.
 
Jacob Petersheim said:
It sounds like there was a media-fueled psyop intended to produce panic selloffs and a "Black Monday" to undermine Trump. Globalist profiteers are getting desperate.
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It seems that Trump knew the market would tank. He apparently wanted to punish the top 1%. They were the ones hardest hit. Apparently it stabilized the banking system and helped the government. The ones hit hardest were the wealthy. Some took a hit on the IRA/401K or other retirement accounts, but that will be transitory. We needed a correction.
 
Don Alaska said:
I really don't understand why Canada is standing up to Trump when most of the world is willing to talk.
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I look at it like some folks don't like being threatened and pushed around. And since the Easter US is highly dependent on Canadian energy, Trump should remember that. Specially since some of his richest friends live there.
 
Yvonne Smith said:
We probably buy more from China than any other country does, and they need our business to survive financially.
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It's been that way since the 1980's, and Americans have been contented buyers. Many people still are.

Yvonne Smith said:
Another thing that i have been reading about , is that we are going to take back the land that China owns here in the US...
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I don't think that would happen. Chinese American's have a huge block of votes. You said, "...the land that China owns here in the US..." It's not the Country of China that owns that land, it's Chinese Americans. They bought it in good faith, they pay property taxes on it, etc. If it's not a slum, that might prove hard to do. Just because they have Chinese ancestry doesn't mean a whole lot when it comes to justification for that sort of thing.

Yvonne Smith said:
...and we may end the visas for Chinese students, some of whom are basically spies, anyway.
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And your evidence of that is...?
 
Axel Slingerland said:
One person isn't everyone, but that guy shouldn't be deported. He belongs in Prison. If he were deported, chances are he would not go to prison.
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If he was sent to El Salvador he would be in prison but we would be paying for it. I’m not sure if that is possible but if it is that prison would be worse than here and he deserves as bad as possible, IMO.

Jacob Petersheim said:
It sounds like there was a media-fueled psyop intended to produce panic selloffs and a "Black Monday" to undermine Trump. Globalist profiteers are getting desperate.
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There are several reports that Japan started selling off US bonds and the Trump admin could not allow that to spread.

I have seen reports that we are looking at Chinese students as well as Middle Eastern students. Trump has alread placed a hold on government funds going to the universities that are supporting activities that undermine the US and our allies.

States are stopping land sales to China. Of course this will likely be only red states. The first link is Politico, not always a reliable source.


www.wral.com

Bills would ban sale of NC military, farming land to US adversaries

Similar bills have been introduced in a number of other states -- as well as unsuccessfully in North Carolina -- in recent years.
www.wral.com www.wral.com

www.lawyer-monthly.com

Ohio Moves to Ban Property Ownership by China and Russia

Ohio considers new laws to restrict property purchases by foreign entities from adversarial countries like China and Russia, citing security concerns.
www.lawyer-monthly.com www.lawyer-monthly.com


apnews.com

Georgia governor signs bill into law restricting land sales to some Chinese citizens

Georgia has a new law that limits the ability of some Chinese citizens to buy land in the state. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed SB420 into law on Tuesday.
apnews.com apnews.com
 
Axel Slingerland said:
It's been that way since the 1980's, and Americans have been contented buyers. Many people still are.


I don't think that would happen. Chinese American's have a huge block of votes. You said, "...the land that China owns here in the US..." It's not the Country of China that owns that land, it's Chinese Americans. They bought it in good faith, they pay property taxes on it, etc. If it's not a slum, that might prove hard to do. Just because they have Chinese ancestry doesn't mean a whole lot when it comes to justification for that sort of thing.


And your evidence of that is...?
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If a Chinese person is an American citizen and owns their home, pays the taxes, then of course, they will get to keep it (unless they were found out to be a spy); but the fact that Chinese corporations own land here so close to our most important military bases is just not something we can continue to allow, and we need to take this land back.

This map shows where the Chinese-owned lands are at, and this is not just areas where Chinese Americans are living, and if they are choosing to live next to our military bases, then that in itself is suspect, (in my opinion , of course).
Not every base is pointed out on this map.
I can see a red area in eastern Washington State where Spokane is at, and there is a military base near Spokane as well; just not one of the main ones, and also near Yakima, which is the red area in the center of the state.

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Jacob Petersheim said:
How deep do China's strings reach within Canada though?
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China owns a lot of Canada. I remember interacting with Canadian folks in the Yukon some years back. They were lamenting that most of the territory had been sold to the Chinese and the Germans. A remark made was, "The Germans are not so bad. They get the lifestyle here. The Chinese, however, are just nasty people who have no respect for our country or its people". Just as "The Biden Crime Family" and the "Clinton Crime Family" were/are indebted to the Chinese, so, too, are the Carneys and the Trudeaus, who look at Canada as a "post nationalist state". They kinda view Canada as a distant part of China.

Also, it is not generally Chinese-Americans who own the land in the U.S.; it is Chinese citizens who live in the U.S. or Chinese companies that are entirely under the control of the CCP. Same is true in Canada.
 
Come on, Don. Let's be realistic here. What about "The Trump Crime Family"? He owes China millions. Politics is a dirty game no matter where you live...
 
He seems to be pretty hard on China. Never saw others put massive tariffs on the CCP. Clinton got laundered money, but the Bidens just got cash brazenly, then tied to hide behind shadows. I don't see any evidence that China financed Trump's campaign for the Presidency. Not all politicians get funding from foreign governments, illegally usually, but Biden was by far the biggest offender and that is just based on what has been made public.
 
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