Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Trump lifts metal tariffs on Turkey as currency falls" video.

  1. I think it was Liz Claman's last-second "But he lifted them in North Korea," as the rebuttal to a claim she didn't like. Facts are about halfway in between. Trump OFFERED to lift sanctions, if NoKo did certain things. But really, it's a specious point the "expert" is making. Trump's wielding sanctions like a sword, to be sure, but he IMMEDIATELY got some assurances that things would change, sooner rather than later, and he immediately extracted some trade concessions that did some of our farmers some help opening-up markets the Europeans had closed through impossible tariffs and outright bans on certain products. No, Trump hasn't lowered any of the tariffs he's raised. Now is the difficult time, where you have to be patient and SIT on them long enough for them to realize that a U.S. President actually means what he says, and is perfectly willing to take the heat long enough to get the concessions he REQUIRES from them. They're not used to that. They're used to hearing "Red Line," followed by dithering. Trump makes threats that are realistic and nonviolent, and he's perfectly willing to wait them out. I'm really hoping to see Britain and/or the E.U. crack, before the midterms, so Trump will have something substantial to show for his strategy, and can then lower the tariffs to reasonable, FAIR levels for both sides of the Atlantic. Merkel's posturing, but she's really quite impotent. E.U. will either change their ways, from NATO obligations to trade practices, or they'll be feeling real pain. They've been enjoying trade surpluses with the U.S. for a long time, largely due to protectionist practices of their own, to which the U.S. has never responded in any substantive way. If she lays ANOTHER big hit on the E.U. economy just to make US hurt, she's going to lose her controlling coalition sooner, rather than later. She's already walking the razor's edge, with a powerful nationalist populist movement that's winning in the polls. And that movement has already swept many E.U. nations, with BREXIT in Britain, and some frankly regressive laws being passed in Denmark, Austria and Hungary aimed DIRECTLY at the Muslim immigrants that E.U. technocrats have Opened their Borders to. Merkel also got caught out by Trump, for making a HUGE deal with the Russians for their oil, making them richer, while allowing the U.S. to defend Germany from..... the Russians! She's 100% committed to the deal with the Russians, so she's damned if she doesn't and a totally dishonest hypocrite if she does. She's counting on that oil.
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  2. Frank Nash  : Hannity's full-on Trumpster. The rest are all over the map. What I don't like is when they go all Victorian, and say that Trump should stop Tweeting. But regular folks LOVE the short and sweet plain speech. The fake shock/distaste for his pithy remarks. Real folks LOVE THAT. Heck, real people, talking to their friends, let loose with far WORSE than Trump. I love that Trump is so openly and persistently critical of CNN in his statements, without actually using the powers of the Presidency AGAINST the press (not beyond his bully pulpit), weaponizing his offices against reporters, like Obama did. Obama was truly scary when it came to stuff like that. He didn't care if he had the right or the mandate. He just cared that he had the power, and I'm SO glad Hillary didn't follow in his footsteps, because all the pieces were in place, with cronies and fellow travelers all up and down the government. I think we're going to come to find out that Hillary already had the people she wanted, up and down the bureaucracy, and the power to appoint all THEIR bosses is simply terrifying. Her brand of corruption plus her blatant incompetence and disregard for the law and for other human beings (especially if you cross her!) are horrific. I As far as its being beneath his dignity as President, in the current climate, if he DOESN'T get down in the dirt and roll around a little (or a lot), he'll be drowned out by the insane attacks. That's a fact of politics. The only thing worse than "swinging down" at a detractor is to "take the high road" and ignore the detractor. That's a KNOWN recipe for electoral failure. When they're slingin' mud 24/7, you're gonna get dirty, regardless. Might as well land in a few good shots. The only thing certain is that you will lose if you don't fight back, just as hard or harder. Trump really flipped the question, and I love that. Rather than spend all his time with lengthy refutations, he'll plant a counter-meme with a Tweet that took him (and his crew) 5 minutes to compose, or a one-liner in a speech that has everybody appalled, and controls what people are talking about. He forces his opponents to make it all about him, and the minute they do that, they make it about themselves, and it's hilarious how they're trapped, and keep making the same awful mistake in order to somehow "win." Can't win for losin'.
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  3. Yeah, I'm no expert, but countries DO devalue their currency all the time, in order to dump their products on us. We want a strong dollar and a strong Turkish Lira and Russian Ruble. And we don't want our people to lose THEIR jobs, because some other country, through fiscal and monetary mismanagement (or manipulation), inflate their currencies. Beyond that, why should we reward a country for stealing its people's savings by such mismanagement? Screw those leaders. Get your financial house in order, start treating your people right, and we'll be your best friend and most honest trading partner. I actually LOVE the fact that Trump is aggressive with economic sanctions and refrains from force of arms. You don't have to be rooting for Assad or Putin to know that it's a bad idea to support ISIS rebels in Syria, _like_our_last_president_did_. I'm SO happy Hillary didn't get elected. Her epitaph will be "We came. We saw. He died." shudder T
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