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[Ryuu96]

shavenferret said:

Ryuu96 said:

There's 2 Scenarios.

1. Typical Trump bluster, he makes threats and big demands, so the country or company come to the table to talk to the baby, they give the baby a minor win but the baby sells it to his dumbass fanbase as a major win when in actual fact, not much has changed at all, his fanbase claps like seals and shout loudly about how much of a genius he is.

2. He's a bigger idiot than we all possibly imagined and is about to utterly destroy America's economy and make everything extremely expensive for everyone, it takes literally years, upon years, to build chip factories, none of which will be felt in his term but what will be felt is him destroying America's economy to the average person.

Lets hope it is #1. I still believe the Canada and Mexico tariffs might be, hence why he didn't issue them on day one but set a date of Feb 1st. I still believe there's a chance he will be like "Guys, I got an amazing deal with Canada and Mexico, the best deal you've ever seen, the issue is resolved" and his dumbass fanbase won't bother questioning or looking too deeply into it and believe him as per usual but in actual fact, nothing much has changed but Trump loves stroking his ego more than anything else so he loves this "create a fake issue, fix the fake issue" scenarios.

If it's #2 then God help America, Lol.

I'm in the middle on this between complete lunacy/idiocy on one hand, and a complete win for America.  The move just seems odd given Trump's repeated insistence that China is the new big and growing threat towards America.  I think that he is wanting America to start building more chips, but this is a poor way to accomplish that.  He should be giving generous subsidies and so forth, not fighting against a weak nation that may get destroyed by China in the future.  

There is nothing wrong with wanting to bring chips manufacturing to America but this solution is like someone shooting themselves in the chest so they can see a doctor about a broken finger, Lol. It's so dumb it's unreal, it takes years to build chip factories, to scale them up, and you need the expertise as well. Taiwan is the best in this regard by a distance and America isn't catching up in Trump's term.

Someone told Trump about tariffs and now tariffs is his solution to everything. Whoever that person was needs a slap, Lol.

Better hope the idea is plan #1 and it's typical Trump bullshit to stroke his ego.

Though I do have a fear that once enough chips manufacturing moves out of Taiwan, America will abandon Taiwan in an instant, I don't believe America will defend Taiwan against China if Taiwan didn't have the world by the balls in chips manufacturing and my fear is that once that vanishes, nobody will be coming to Taiwan's rescue.