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		By: Reflex		</title>
		<link>https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/05/15/is-trump-lying-or-just-clueless-about-tariffs/#comment-101734</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Reflex]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2019 13:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/05/15/is-trump-lying-or-just-clueless-about-tariffs/#comment-101728&quot;&gt;Tsc Admin&lt;/a&gt;.

It&#039;s a lawyers job to defend a client, and good lawyers often defend the worst clients because the process is important to them.  Often those clients have little or no money, there is a reason public defenders exist.

And yes, its ludicrous to support someone who has literally done the opposite of everything you claim to support in the belief that they will somehow do a 180.

Happy to be on your block list.  Your mind does not seem to be reasonable at all.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/05/15/is-trump-lying-or-just-clueless-about-tariffs/#comment-101728">Tsc Admin</a>.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a lawyers job to defend a client, and good lawyers often defend the worst clients because the process is important to them.  Often those clients have little or no money, there is a reason public defenders exist.</p>
<p>And yes, its ludicrous to support someone who has literally done the opposite of everything you claim to support in the belief that they will somehow do a 180.</p>
<p>Happy to be on your block list.  Your mind does not seem to be reasonable at all.</p>
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		By: Tsc Admin		</title>
		<link>https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/05/15/is-trump-lying-or-just-clueless-about-tariffs/#comment-101729</link>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2019 13:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/05/15/is-trump-lying-or-just-clueless-about-tariffs/#comment-101721&quot;&gt;Jeff Ryan&lt;/a&gt;.

Tariffs are such a bad idea that every country has them on almost every product imported by almost every other country.  Oversimplifications like what you just said are extraordinarily unhelpful.  Almost as unhelpful as the word &quot;stupid&quot; is in polite conversation.

If tariffs are &quot;stupid&quot; then that must make you smarter than every nation in the world.  Or perhaps the situation is much less simple than &quot;tariffs bad, orange man bad&quot;.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/05/15/is-trump-lying-or-just-clueless-about-tariffs/#comment-101721">Jeff Ryan</a>.</p>
<p>Tariffs are such a bad idea that every country has them on almost every product imported by almost every other country.  Oversimplifications like what you just said are extraordinarily unhelpful.  Almost as unhelpful as the word &#8220;stupid&#8221; is in polite conversation.</p>
<p>If tariffs are &#8220;stupid&#8221; then that must make you smarter than every nation in the world.  Or perhaps the situation is much less simple than &#8220;tariffs bad, orange man bad&#8221;.</p>
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		By: Jeff Ryan		</title>
		<link>https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/05/15/is-trump-lying-or-just-clueless-about-tariffs/#comment-101733</link>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2019 11:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/05/15/is-trump-lying-or-just-clueless-about-tariffs/#comment-101729&quot;&gt;Tsc Admin&lt;/a&gt;.

&quot;Stupid&quot; is a perfectly appropriate word to describe a bad policy. I didn&#039;t use it to describe you, though I might rethink that. I didn&#039;t realize you were such a snowflake.



They are the opposite of free trade, something Republicans, for example, seem to have forgotten. Then again, ideological and economic consistency have been left behind by current Republicans, who today are more of a cult than anything else. This is because they are in thrall to a strongman. The upside of that, to the extent there is one, is that once Trump is gone the party will likely disintegrate. Strongman regimes rarely survive the death or removal of the strongman. The downside is that it takes a long time for a country to recover from the damage done, if it can recover at all.


If you like protectionist, anti-trade, and harmful economic policies, then great. If you want to damage or destroy American farmers, then you will be very pleased with tariffs.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/05/15/is-trump-lying-or-just-clueless-about-tariffs/#comment-101729">Tsc Admin</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;Stupid&#8221; is a perfectly appropriate word to describe a bad policy. I didn&#8217;t use it to describe you, though I might rethink that. I didn&#8217;t realize you were such a snowflake.</p>
<p>They are the opposite of free trade, something Republicans, for example, seem to have forgotten. Then again, ideological and economic consistency have been left behind by current Republicans, who today are more of a cult than anything else. This is because they are in thrall to a strongman. The upside of that, to the extent there is one, is that once Trump is gone the party will likely disintegrate. Strongman regimes rarely survive the death or removal of the strongman. The downside is that it takes a long time for a country to recover from the damage done, if it can recover at all.</p>
<p>If you like protectionist, anti-trade, and harmful economic policies, then great. If you want to damage or destroy American farmers, then you will be very pleased with tariffs.</p>
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		By: Tsc Admin		</title>
		<link>https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/05/15/is-trump-lying-or-just-clueless-about-tariffs/#comment-101728</link>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2019 07:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/05/15/is-trump-lying-or-just-clueless-about-tariffs/#comment-101726&quot;&gt;Reflex&lt;/a&gt;.

Hillary defended a rapist during her business career - does that make her pro-rape, or did she just do it for money?  

&quot;That is ludicrous&quot;  Actually it&#039;s rational, and you just disagree with it.

&quot;Yes, I believe anyone who thinks Trump, who did the exact opposite throughout his entire business career, running on the ticket of a party that opposes everything you stated, would do those things is a fool.&quot;

Then you are blocked.  I&#039;m not wasting my time carrying on discussions with incredibly bigoted people who have yet to learn that reasonable minds can disagree.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/05/15/is-trump-lying-or-just-clueless-about-tariffs/#comment-101726">Reflex</a>.</p>
<p>Hillary defended a rapist during her business career &#8211; does that make her pro-rape, or did she just do it for money?  </p>
<p>&#8220;That is ludicrous&#8221;  Actually it&#8217;s rational, and you just disagree with it.</p>
<p>&#8220;Yes, I believe anyone who thinks Trump, who did the exact opposite throughout his entire business career, running on the ticket of a party that opposes everything you stated, would do those things is a fool.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then you are blocked.  I&#8217;m not wasting my time carrying on discussions with incredibly bigoted people who have yet to learn that reasonable minds can disagree.</p>
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		By: Tsc Admin		</title>
		<link>https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/05/15/is-trump-lying-or-just-clueless-about-tariffs/#comment-101725</link>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2019 05:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/05/15/is-trump-lying-or-just-clueless-about-tariffs/#comment-101720&quot;&gt;Reflex&lt;/a&gt;.

Her husband had all the leverage in the world with the Most Favored Nation status he granted China to get minimum wages through there and he didn&#039;t.  So it is not at all &quot;weird&quot; as you put it for me to suspect his closest associate would not bother either.

The unfair part about your statement wasn&#039;t your reaction to someone ignoring something, but rather the use of telepathic powers to know the internal thought processes of others, to know what facts they ignored rather than weighed differently than you.  It&#039;s not fair to use telepathy on people who can&#039;t use it back.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/05/15/is-trump-lying-or-just-clueless-about-tariffs/#comment-101720">Reflex</a>.</p>
<p>Her husband had all the leverage in the world with the Most Favored Nation status he granted China to get minimum wages through there and he didn&#8217;t.  So it is not at all &#8220;weird&#8221; as you put it for me to suspect his closest associate would not bother either.</p>
<p>The unfair part about your statement wasn&#8217;t your reaction to someone ignoring something, but rather the use of telepathic powers to know the internal thought processes of others, to know what facts they ignored rather than weighed differently than you.  It&#8217;s not fair to use telepathy on people who can&#8217;t use it back.</p>
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