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/AlsoInteresting 1d ago edited 1d ago

He just wants the bribes for the sale of the lots or the mining licences.

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u/Trap_Masters 1d ago

Ah so the very corruption that Maga screams about everyday yet willingly turn a blind eye to trump blatantly doing it in front of them

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u/TempleSquare 1d ago

That's what we figured out in Trump 1.0. whatever he accused his opponent of, it was because he wanted to do it first. (And he's too dumb to realize that other people may have different plans)

"You are a puppet of Putin" -> I am a puppet of Putin

"They want to rig the election" -> I want to rig the election

"Lock her up" -> Don't lock me up!

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u/Shadowrak 1d ago

Projection is the one thing that when it clicked for me, it blew my mind how difficult it was to convince others of its predictive nature.

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u/mark3grp 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes the personality disorders seem to run on rails. It is hard to get people to understand . It’s like you can hardly believe it yourself… but you can’t ignore the facts!

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u/biebiep 15h ago

You can quite easily get the hang of it by intentionally trolling a few obvious assholes on reddit.

If you control the narrative with proper arguments, they will follow it but spew their issues out as if they were pointing out issues in your factual arguments. (Lol, no, 1+1=2)

Nope. You've just admitted you're a fucking fraudster that would offer me up to the gestapo first chance you got.

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u/ApplianceHealer 1d ago

Ironically, all you have to do is flip the pronouns around.

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u/iamjimmyz 1d ago

too bad they’ve been told to ignore all pronouns

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u/Jillstraw 1d ago

I think you’ve gotten to the real bottom of the pronoun controversy

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u/CliftonForce 1d ago

Lack of empathy. He can't contemplate that others are not doing what he would do in their place.

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u/Itsmyloc-nar 14h ago

This is an old Soviet intelligence trick. He must’ve learned this from Putin.

Accuse your enemy of whatever you’re doing

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u/manimal28 1d ago

With conservatives literally every accusation is a confession.

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u/DrDerpberg 1d ago

Yeah, must be a day ending in -y.

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u/Silidistani 1d ago

If Republicans and the MAGA Reich didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards.

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u/Darkdragoon324 1d ago

Because it was never about stopping corruption, it was about making sure the right people are profiting off the corruption.

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u/coskibum002 1d ago

Every MAGA accusation is actually a confession.

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u/wongl888 1d ago

They said drain the swamp, but they didn’t say where they will drain the swamp into (MAGA).

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u/MyCatIsAnActualNinja 21h ago

Yep that's what we've been dealing with since 2016 and I'm exhausted

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u/kore_nametooshort 12h ago

The tariffs alone create a massive opportunity for corruption. Every ceo in America will be coming to Trump willing to do anything for an exemption for their supply chain. And Trump has the unilateral power to provide those exemptions.

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u/rugbyj 1d ago

Yeah he'll sell it off to the highest bidder and pump the money into his third term campaign and general Trumpfund.

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u/activoice 1d ago

Like it makes me wonder if he realizes that he's 78 and inching closer to the grave every day?

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u/sigep0361 1d ago

I don’t think that matters. Elon had half a trillion dollars and it wasn’t enough. They always want more.

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u/Wings_in_space 18h ago

It would be nice if he ran for the first time in his life....

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u/activoice 1d ago

Like it makes me wonder if he realizes that he's 78 and inching closer to the grave every day?

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u/DoubleBaconQi 1d ago

and the bribes from American companies in return for exceptions to the tariffs.

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u/topinanbour-rex 1d ago

He already sold the artic road.

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u/Silidistani 1d ago

Ding ding ding, this is the answer.

The sooner everyone starts recognizing that everything Trump does is either something he is being required to do by those who control him or is a stupid short-sighted scheme to make as big a buck as quickly as possible regardless of legality or morality or whether it can come back to hurt anyone including himself down the road, the better equipped we'll be to counter his actions or anyone else like him who the Republican Party of Traitors foists upon a weakened America as soon as they're done with this traitor.

He is not capable of thinking far ahead, everything is about his immediate impulse gratification, and all those impulses are around stroking his ego - which he does a lot of by trying to get money however he can scheme for it.

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u/National_Total_1021 1d ago

Just wait till you see the price of tariff exceptions