Buy American to avoid Trump trade war, says Christine Lagarde
ECB chief takes aim at claim that tariffs will ‘make America great again’ — but calls for negotiation, not retaliation
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Christine Lagarde has urged Europe’s political leaders to co-operate with Donald Trump over tariffs and buy more products made in the US, warning that an acrimonious trade war risks wiping out global economic growth.
The European Central Bank chief said in her first interview since Trump won his second presidential term that the EU needed “not to retaliate, but to negotiate” with a president-elect who has threatened a blanket tariff of up to 20 per cent on all non-Chinese US imports.
This is why centrist liberals are losing elections. They actually get intimidated and take conservative bullshyt at face value. This is the EXACT kind of response he hoped for, thus justifying using tariffs as a threat. This dumb bytch just told him that he was right to do this stupid shyt.
It's the same reason Joe Biden kept the China tariffs in place instead of meeting with China to draw up new deals. The reason prices are higher is because of the Trump tariffs. But because he's taken it at face value that the country making most of our shyt is somehow an enemy, he kept those dumbass tariffs in place and it ruined people's trust in him when it comes to the economy. All because he didn't want to he seeing as being "soft" on China. The country which--I repeat--makes MOST of our shyt. Absolutely insane. I feel like I'm living in a world run by fukking morons.
This is what keeps happening:
Republicans claim something is happening with no evidence.
Democrats adopt republican framing and react accordingly.
They lose anyway+Republicans paint them as being soft on the issues despite evidence to the contrary. They fell for this same shyt with Iraq in 2002.
The solution for dealing with a bully isn't to let him hit you and hope he got what he wanted and leaves you alone. It's to show him that there are consequences for fukking with you so that he doesnt bother you the next time. Who the fukk wants to support people who are so spineless?