Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Locked thread
Beepity Boop
Nov 21, 2012

yay

China's response to US sanctions: They're putting sanctions on 128 imports from the U.S., including pork and fruit. As these tariffs are explicitly a countermeasure to the steel/aluminum tariffs (not the $50 billion from a couple weeks back), the trade war is both officially on and only getting started.

Meanwhile, White House officials "have routinely discounted the likelihood" of the Chinese simply buying stuff from places besides America.


Edit: VVVVV :rimshot:

Beepity Boop fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Apr 2, 2018

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Beepity Boop
Nov 21, 2012

yay

Third World Reggin posted:

And here I wanted chaos and destruction, not this weak crap.

This was for the first set of tarrifs, not the second, there's still hope for there to be no hope.

Beepity Boop
Nov 21, 2012

yay

facialimpediment posted:

I've been wondering: why raid Cohen over Trump stuff? Trump is notoriously tech-averse, so he doesn't email, he mostly just talks on the phone. So, it stands to reason that Cohen wouldn't have any emails or anyth-


Lordy, there are tapes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBdGOrcUEg8

Beepity Boop
Nov 21, 2012

yay

CommieGIR posted:

And that's before we even get into that there is a reason almost no actual worthwhile lawyers want to touch Trump.

No one wants to touch Trump; the last person who did got paid $130,000 for it.

  • Locked thread