Posted on 04/29/2011 7:16:11 PM PDT by RobinMasters
Via Mediaite, which has excerpts from last night’s F-bomb cavalcade. One of our commenters in Headlines watched the clip and observed that Trump is basically a leftist caricature of Republicans brought to life. Precisely — but with the caveat that something like 20 percent of the GOP wants to embrace the caricature. (That number might already be slipping.) He knows he’s too compromised on conservative principles to get traction with the base so he overcompensates with tell-it-like-it-is populist bravado aimed at framing himself as the ultimate regular-guy outsider. Calling the Chinese MFers is the logical extension of that; if he can’t address economic anxieties with a serious policy solution, at least he can do it with rhetorical empowerment. That’s why Reagan, who did have a serious Cold War strategy, didn’t have to say “Tear down this motherf***ing wall” instead.
Just to follow up on the point about leftist caricature, though, I’m intrigued by this tidbit from his trip to New Hampshire:
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
No but Communist dictatorships are notoriously stable and their slaves are well brainwashed.
We will only be destitute if we continue playing by the globalists’ rules. We don’t have to continuing doing that.
“We will only be destitute if we continue playing by the globalists’ rules. We don’t have to continuing doing that.”
Sorry, that argument may have held back in the 90s, but we’re far, far, in too deep now to get out of this without a crash. Just wait (a short while).
Not all of us.
Some of us are tired of crap products and spend a lot extra to get good stuff WHEN it is available.
Trump called the ChiComs motherfu@@ers. So what? The ChiComs are much worse....The Chinese Communist leadership is downright evil. So no, Trump does not offend me with his language.
I honestly do not know the answer to that question. I don't know if there is, and what the %, a require co-partnership with a mainland factory.
I do know that in Guangdong/Guangzhou province, one of the main factory city areas for Taiwan manufacturers, there are certain huge city areas that are basically Taiwanese cities.
And the concept of Taiwan management who work there are quite well-known for having "Little Wives", that is marrying mainland women to be their wife while they are over there. Although, its losing acceptance among the Taiwan wives...gradually...but it is not as accepted as it was even 5 years ago. And there are a lot of Taiwanese wives whose husbands work on the mainland. Divorce is not as big a 'loss of face' as it used to be here.
I agree. Move to commie-ville if you like it so much there. You’ve already gone native. You seem quite simpatico with the lifestyle over there where you can live like an mini-emperor. What’s you business over in China? Do you import from there by any chance? Perhaps a Trump style import tax of 25-100% would put a crimp in your lux lifestyle
That's the truth. China has such a cheap slave labor advantage over US workers that we need tariffs too. If the EPA and OSHA disappeared tomorrow we would still need tariffs if we want to rebuild US industry here at home
The alternative is to continue down our path of economic oblivion. Why does the Federal Reserve keep trying to gin up asset bubbles? Because over the years the core of a healthy balanced economy has been cut out and sent to Japan, Korea and now China. First we had the dot com bubble. Then the real estate bubble. Now we have QE1, QE2 and probably QE3
That was likely the crawfish from Louisiana....LOL ;)
hahahahahaha..... :)
Odd....whenever people speak well or things positive of a European or a Western nation, no one ever becomes offended or put off by it. Or told that if the person thought it was so great, they should give up their US citizenship and move to that said country.
HOWEVER..............whenever someone speaks well of a non-Western country, the flags go up, people are insulted and indignant, etc. and ..... the ol "if you think its so great, then why the f%#%k don't you move over there" comments come up.
Your comment proves to me, that many Americans still have this Eurocentric view of the world.
I remember a few years back when Japanese autos were making inroads into the US auto market (back in the 80's). Many Anglo Saxon types spoke often of German engineering. It rolled off their tongues like fish stories. Yet, try being Asian and speak well of Japanese cars and their quality and reliability lest one is considered traitorous. And to some degree, its still politically incorrectly to do so whereas speaking well of German Engineer is almost like discussing mom's apple pie.
And you know what was so ironic about the animosity towards Japanese autos into the US? Most of the Japanese imports came at the expensive of the US auto market already lost to European imports. Ever hear of Fiat? Peugeot? Remember the Volkswagon Bug, etc.? It was these autos that lost their market share to the Japanese.
So, therefore, I fault no American, when they see some positives in China. This does not mean they have to move there if they point out certain strengths in China. Nor should it be an affront to the US to highlight strengths about China. God knows all the negatives are pointed out again and again by neo con pundits and many freepers.
Next time the Queen of England comes to America or her grandson with his new bride, watch all those young Americans wave those British flags.
If you are calling me a racist give it up. The Chinese are COMMUNIST! Get it. Go away commie lover traitor.
And when the chicoms yank all of their money out of our treasuries, what is going to happen?
Knee jerk thoughts at best....
I didn't use that term, you did. Why is it when one uses the term Eurocentric, the assumption of accusation of rascism comes up? I'm not implying that. What I am implying, is a partiality towards giving those of European descent the benefit of the doubt. And that many with Eurocentric views and a feelings of kindship towards Europe does not disqualify a person of patriotism. But a feeling of kinship towards a nonEuropean nation does indeed disqualify a person of patriotism. And not given the benefit of the doubt.
The Chinese are COMMUNIST! Get it.
That's another piece of propaganda. All throughout the Cold War, the wealth of the Western world was attributed to free market while the former USSR, while a superpower militarily, was in the minor league as a commercial power. This relegation of the former USSR to the minors as a commercial power was due to her lack of free enterprise.
Fast forward decades into the future to today, and China's growing commercial power is somehow attributed to Communism. Ironic isn't it? So, no, I don't get it. I don't get how Communism can be associated with poverty for so long, yet somehow, the Chinese figured out how to be good at making Communism work. I don't know how China can send so many people to Harvard business schools, and train them to be good communists, etc. China is either using free market tools, or they are so crafty so as to make communism succeed in a free market world.
Go away commie lover traitor.
There are many Chinese Americans, who conduct business with China and are loyal to the US. Some of their fathers have even fought for this country. Yet you would associate their actions, along with mine as "traitorous commie lovers". Rather, many Asian Americans are merely changing the paradigm of the US. It doesn't have to be Eurocentric. I'm familar with the pledge of alligence. I don't ever recall that people have to maintain a Eurocentric paradigm for America.
Its fine and all, that many Americans love the Queen of England, taken in by the royal couple, i.e., Prince William and Kate Middleton, etc. This is an old paradigm. But I believe America is big enough for more than one paradigm. I for one see China in America's economic future. One in which there will be many Chinese plants on US soil employing American workers. And ironically, they are likely to be in red states ;)
I understand Cathay Pacific flies non-stop to China. What's stopping you?
How many hours per day do you spend calling for the dissolvement of the United States and namecall most of your fellow Americans as commies and traitors?
Lets see, all Dems (52% of the voters) are automatically commies and traitors. All northerners (50% of the population) are automatically commies and traitors because you spend every day preaching secession from the northern states. All free traders are commies and traitors because its all because of them that China et al are selling toasters to us (55% of voters I’m guessing)(nevermind 37 years of LBJ-style liberalism, regulation and corporate taxation, I guess that had nothing to do with it). If I add all these percentages up I bet it would be that the people you find worthy to be your countrymen would be about 2% of the population. And you tell others to get out of this country? On a conservative message board, where we have a lot more in common than with those that would never consider agreeing with anything we say? Are you sure you belong in this country? Maybe its you that needs to find his 2% and build some utopia somewhere.
This country has problems and I’m angry at the taxers and spenders, the EPA lovers, all that voted for Obama, etc., but if I thought that 98% of my fellow countrymen were my enemy I’d live on an island somewhere.
Accusing someone of [pulling "the race card"], that is another one of those politically correct statements here on the FR that gains alot of traction.
Because the Chinese also makes capitalism work here is well ;)
Don't kid yourself, not every American whose family have been here for generations contribute to the technology and entrepeneurial spirit of America. There are large swaths of American living in trailer parks whose offsprings are addicted to meth (yet, you guys like to talk about the crack houses in the inner cities).
There are new kids on the block in places like Silicon Valley. Unfortunately, the folks out in the trailer parks seem to take all the credit for America's continued progress and blame others for any shortcomings.
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