r/worldnews • u/Significant-Colour • 1d ago

China strikes back at Trump with 34 percent tariff — bans rare earth exports to the U.S.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-strikes-back-on-trump-tariffs-bans-rare-earth-exports-to-the-u-s
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u/Much_Guava_1396 1d ago

Trump doesn‘t give a shit about them. He already got their vote. They’ll get the middle finger.

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u/woakula 1d ago

PBS was reporting last Wednesday that because the farmers got bailed out in 2018 they are feeling peachy because they fully expect to get bailed out again this time around as well.

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u/Much_Guava_1396 1d ago

Sounds a lot like socialism to me.

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u/Log12321 1d ago

No socialism is only when people I don’t like or who aren’t me get help. When I get help it’s not socialism! /s

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u/app257 1d ago

This is very unfortunately incredibly accurate.

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u/AtraposJM 1d ago

Especially when you consider that probably a large majority of republican voters are on some kind of government assistance. Republicans tend to be less educated and more religious than Democrat voters. Most of them are in poor areas.

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u/PM_ME_UR_CREDDITCARD 1d ago

Oh, hi there, Ayn Rand!

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u/genericTerry 1d ago

You sound like Major Major’s father!

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u/WorkJeff 1d ago

Get rid of those freeloaders on Obamacare, not my ACA coverage!

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u/zookytar 1d ago

If you put quotes around that you could pretty much remove the /s

Edit: use subjunctive tense

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u/LocalMexican 1d ago

That's an affront to what "socialism" means.

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u/corgi-king 1d ago

No no. Socialism is supposed to benefit everyone, equally. This is just hand out for whoever is the loudest and his base.

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u/DonutsMcKenzie 1d ago

More like buying votes. Trash the economy and then throw out a lifeline to his own voters to keep them in line.

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u/TIGHazard 1d ago

Yeah but he needed votes for a second term in 2018. He doesn't need votes anymore.

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u/Zombatico 1d ago

Except it was mostly the corpo farms that got those 2018 bailouts, not the family farms.

Family farms go bankrupt, corpo farms use the bailout to buy them out. More monopolization. Cool.

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u/haterofslimes 1d ago

The GOP does however give a shit that they vote for them in the future.

They will make sure to bribe them for their future votes.

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u/SerDuckOfPNW 1d ago

That’s cute that you think future votes will matter

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u/onefst250r 1d ago

"Elon really knows those voting machines"

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u/Johansenburg 1d ago

Didn't help in Wisconsin where he pumped a lot of money in only to have his candidate lose the supreme court vote.

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u/OrigamiOctopus 1d ago

I agree with you completely, I just think it's cute that you think that for a guy worth hundreds of billions, 20/30 million is 'a lot of money'.

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u/onefst250r 1d ago

Whats the difference between a million and a billion?

About a billion.

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u/Johansenburg 1d ago

Aww, isn't that cute. BUT IT'S WRONG!

20/30 million is a lot for someone to spend in a state's supreme court election. I never said he spent a large portion of his wealth. A lot is relative to everything, but you certainly misunderstood what I meant.

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u/haterofslimes 1d ago

If they won't matter then go give up somewhere.

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u/namjeef 1d ago

A 30B bailout was already approved.

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u/JoJo_Embiid 1d ago

I think somewhat he does if he’s serious about the third term thing

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u/shicken684 1d ago

Trump bailed their asses out last time. Why wouldn't he this time?

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u/Repulsive-Lie1 1d ago

In 2018 a third of farmers income was bailouts.

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u/SelfSufficientHub 1d ago

I dunno, he’ll probably want their vote again in four years

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u/RWDPhotos 1d ago

They’re getting bonus subsidies due to this. Not only is it costing us more we buy it, but now we’re paying extra for produce even when not buying it.