Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany?

They're not, gumishu, trust me! I live in the US and all the tariffs are doing is making Chinese imports more
unattainable for millions of poorer working class Americans who need medicines, food stuffs etc. from countries such as
China and India, on whose services we so desperately depend.

sorry to be so nit-picking, but what kind of foodstuffs does America import from China or India?

Spices, rice, certain types of seafood.
Trump claims he wants to encourage "Made in the USA".
However, he has has a history of outsourcing native born staff
and hires solely Hispanic labor at Mara Lago.

well, yeah, I was thinking rice - anyway these are not essential if you ask me (in the sense you can live without them - after all Inuits managed to survive without any kind of grains)

True enough, however, the more pressing issue really should be medicines such
as Tetracycline along with other drugs and antibiotics which are imported and which
might be weakened if they contain cheapened ingredients!

F all!

well, I never thought about it - actually it never crossed my mind that the US might not be self-sufficient in terms of some medicines

Rice isn't essential at all. There are even negative effects when a poorer society starts importing it, and of course America has a lot of poor.


There's no need to buy such items from China.

Unfortunately, gumishu. we aren't and, as usual, it's the poor who will be, indeed who are, most affected!
Just remember, the only crime in the US is that of being poor.

I used to have a small free-lance translation firm and before we sold out to a larger competitor,
we typically would allow our support staff to help themselves to note pads, paper clips, other incidentals
which might help out those not in charge, but still in need of such basic supplies.

Other businesses often did the same. However, far too many, above all law firms, would typically
fleece millions from their clients, while penalizing by firing needy employees for "taking" one legal
pad from the supply closet.

This is where I draw the line.

@jon, I agree! Trump doesn't.

Spot on.

And if we have to, it's proof that we are managed from irresponsible morons who rely on an enemy for what is critical to life only because it's cheaper.

I have an idea...We should import ICBMs and the nukes. They are cheaper in China and Russia.

maybe, in theory, there isn't - but realities on the ground may be such that there are no current facilities in the US that are able to produce various kinds of antibiotics - and launching one probably takes more than a couple of weeks or even months

You must be kidding me. We have more rice than we can consume, which is why China, Japan, India, and others impose the highest tariffs on rice, making it impossible to sell American rice. Tariffs are as high as 700% in some cases. Seafood is a different story. Sales of tilapia should be outlawed and classified as poison.
so what else do we need from them. Take a cold shower, relax, and come back tomorrow, when the swelling of the brain subsides.
So, what else do we desperately need from them?

You launch now. Produce the first batch in a couple of month. Next day, you ban imports. Simnple.

Except for some super rare metals, we need nothing.

Actually, everything. If you look around, everything says Made in China, but Made in USA is not written on anything, not even on products from American companies.

That may be true (and is a sign as good as any of how capitalism should never be allowed to dictate a country's manufacturing policies), however they were of course invented and first made by Sir Alexander Fleming in hospital bedpans.
Although there's not much profit in making them (hence US pharmaceutical companies buying from China), there are plenty of countries that can and do make them and there's only a relatively small number of antibiotics that can't be substituted for others.

They can but in the rarer ones, and set up not-for-profits or workers' cooperatives domestically to make the rest.

True also that there's a lead time in setting up production however Donald Trup didn't really think things through and is of course racing to do stuff before the midterms, after which he'll be a lame duck.

@Przylotnyptak,
No one is more against rogue outsourcing than I am! Trump, as with many Republicans,
and not only MAGA/MAGGOT, wants to screw the middle class by farming out homegrown
work opportunities to cheaper labor countries in order to keep the profits for themselves
instead of paying out to the expert, quality professionals who deserve to be paid well for their
services.

Study the Kondraiev Wave and read up on the the "soft money" vs. the "hard money" cycle.
Not long after WWII, Americans were able to pursue careers in areas both interesting as well
as modestly profitable such as traditional publishing, advertising and college teaching. This was
the case until roughly around the advent of the Reagan Era, during which time, the "hard money"
cycle slowly began to take effect and those aforementioned professions began to give way to
high tech fields, leaving those skilled in language communication in the dust, save for those who
could either bribe, cajole or con their way into making a career for themselves which would allow
them to do more than live from paycheck to paycheck:-)

Yours truly was clever, more than skilled, enough to follow suit.

Simple. Gradually jack up tariffs to 1000% and every damn thing sold here will have "Made in USA" on it.

The same with foreign students...You want to study here and raise hell over Palestine? Cool. Your visa fee is $100,000.

I wonder about these foreign students.....when became Harvard such a breeding place for anti-semitism?

I've seen a video with students gathering and waving Pali-Flags.....WTF???

middleeastmonitor.com/20250416-palestine-flags-raised-during-harvard-graduation/

maybe I can answer your question: think: levelling of Gaza city by Israel (and maybe the deaths of more than 40 000 thousands civilians in the process also influenced those people)

As much as I hate that institution up North, have to stand up for them here...

They survived the King of England and the American Revolution. They are older than the country itself. The level of disrespect, to what is an American engine of excellence - is disturbing.

Today they are anti-semites. Yesterday they were Communists. They have this right - so long as they do not betray America.

Is supporting Palestine a betrayal of America?

Where were the Israel flags after the October massacres, huh?

That excuse is not working!

Those crying over every pali baby gave a **** about the jewish baby nearby.....so spare me!

I keep wondering how many of those loudly crying Gazans have danced and cheered and humiliated and spit on the hostages led through the streets of Gaza...remember Shani and her dead, bloody, broken body driven around like some trophy? Somehow no tears will come now!


Yeah...they should start to rethink this tradition....it's not successful, they are always losing!

maybe it's not working for you - for me it actually does - in my opinion the leaders of Israel decided to have their own brand of Endlosung (which they were persuaded from by more civilized countries fearing millions of Palestinian refugees from Gaza in the region and in Europe)

If it ends all the Hamas terror coming regularly over the borders, avoiding the next October massacre...good for them!

told like a true German, indeed

wow it should read: spoken like a true German - you learn all life it seems

Yeah so unsuccessful - that it's the best f"*cking university in the world. The smartest kids in China and in India are ready to disembowel themselves for a chance to study there - and America does not see this as an all-powerful weapon.

Idiots.

This will do much more damage to America, over the long term, than any tariff will.

Targeting Harvard kids is not the same as deporting strawberry pickers from Texas.

Sure...as if you cried about Dresden, or the "Vertreibung" of so many Germans from newly-polish territory....all for revenge and lasting peace, right?

What makes the Palis so different, huh? Why no punishment for them, no land loss, no re-education? I tell you, because they murder Jews...that's fully okay, isn't it!

...please spare me!

revenge? no
lasting peace? more so

Yeah....anti-semitism and communism are not seen as very successfull...I dunno why a universtity would let that flourish, for what?

well - last I checked Israel invaded Gaza multiple times since 1990's - no land loss? Palestinians lost most of their land compared to 1940's - do I commend or approve of Palestinian terror? no - is Palestinian terror a threat to the very existence of the state of Israel? in my opinion: no

No land loss back then, because Israel always got back and left Gaza alone, which was the big error which allowed Hamas to grow and spread.
Big error!
Had Israel acted before and overtook Gaza Shani and all the others would still be alive, the hostages all free...the massacres never happened!