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Trade should not be a weapon

“Trade should not be a weapon,” Buffett said at Berkshire Hathaway’s shareholder meeting, an annual gathering in front of thousands in Omaha, Nebraska. “I do think that the more prosperous the rest of the world becomes, it won’t be at our expense, the more prosperous we’ll become, and the safer we’ll feel, and your children will feel someday.”

Trade and tariffs “can be an act of war,” added the legendary investor. “And I think it’s led to bad things. Just the attitudes it’s brought out. In the United States, I mean, we should be looking to trade with the rest of the world and we should do what we do best and they should do what they do best.”

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8 minutes ago, lickin_starfish said:

You poor thing. I'm sorry that you hurt so bad.

Do alternative views on this scare you? It’s ok to admit.

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1 minute ago, lickin_starfish said:

You want mommy to bring you a binky? It'll be okay.

You should stick to cutting and pasting stupid memes from Facebook.

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I wonder how many factories Buffett has closed then relocated overseas.

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2 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

I wonder how many factories Buffett has closed then relocated overseas.

If you want to go this route to be critical of the person rather than looking at what they say Trump’s family biz is investing billions in the ME as we speak.

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He weighs a lot. 

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1 hour ago, thegeneral said:

Trade should not be a weapon

“Trade should not be a weapon,” Buffett said at Berkshire Hathaway’s shareholder meeting, an annual gathering in front of thousands in Omaha, Nebraska. “I do think that the more prosperous the rest of the world becomes, it won’t be at our expense, the more prosperous we’ll become, and the safer we’ll feel, and your children will feel someday.”

Trade and tariffs “can be an act of war,” added the legendary investor. “And I think it’s led to bad things. Just the attitudes it’s brought out. In the United States, I mean, we should be looking to trade with the rest of the world and we should do what we do best and they should do what they do best.”

While the bolded sounds good in the liberal world, it is what led us to a world with China as a major threat.  Do you feel safer from China than you were 30 years ago?  Prosperous maybe, with all the cheap stuff from slave labor factories. :dunno: 

It's also the same mindset that wants to give Iran just enough nuclear capability to build a reactor, but not a weapon.   I'm sure they'll keep their word.  What could go wrong?

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2 hours ago, thegeneral said:

If you want to go this route to be critical of the person rather than looking at what they say Trump’s family biz is investing billions in the ME as we speak.

Buffett has spent a lifetime proving that he knows how to make money but he and the establishment wing of both political parties, have never shown any regard for American workers nor the communities affected by plant closures. That's a big reason why Trump won vast majorities of the blue collar vote, and through them, all the swing states in 2024. Good luck winning those voters back by telling them they should support open borders that drive down wages and squeeze local budgets, men in girl's sports, and turn over their jobs to 50 cent an hour workers in third world countries in order to enable people who push paperwork and don't make anything to save $1 when they go shopping for artificial dog poop.

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35 minutes ago, jerryskids said:

While the bolded sounds good in the liberal world, it is what led us to a world with China as a major threat.  Do you feel safer from China than you were 30 years ago?  Prosperous maybe, with all the cheap stuff from slave labor factories. :dunno: 

It's also the same mindset that wants to give Iran just enough nuclear capability to build a reactor, but not a weapon.   I'm sure they'll keep their word.  What could go wrong?

Like it or not our economy is built largely around consumption. We aren’t returning to many things being produced here. It just isn’t happening. This isn’t getting reset by a few months of tariffs. Donald can nibble around the edges of this, just like this DOGE bullshit, and then say he won. Then we move on. If some production moves to India or Vietnam fantastic. Who cares?

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2 hours ago, Voltaire said:

Buffett has spent a lifetime proving that he knows how to make money but he and the establishment wing of both political parties, have never shown any regard for American workers nor the communities affected by plant closures. That's a big reason why Trump won vast majorities of the blue collar vote, and through them, all the swing states in 2024. Good luck winning those voters back by telling them they should support open borders that drive down wages and squeeze local budgets, men in girl's sports, and turn over their jobs to 50 cent an hour workers in third world countries and enable people who push paperwork and don't make anything to save $1 when they go shopping for artificial dog poop.

Buffett the person has made the vast majority of his wealth by investing, buy and hold. He showed again he’s the best moving money in late 2024 and early 2025. 

Politically speaking it is definitely shrewd to take advantage of the fact that many manufacturing jobs have left. Politicians have been talking about this for decades. It’s reality that these jobs aren’t coming back, people are not going to be working on assembly lines like they did in the 70’s.

The border and trans in sports are easy pickings. The Dems have left themselves totally vulnerable there, they have no one to blame but themselves. Carnival barker Don is shrewd enough to lean into that. If he keeps up the tariff war - he won’t it will be done by late summer - but say he does, these issues are all we will hear about because the economy will be hosed. 

 

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1 hour ago, thegeneral said:

Buffett the person has made the vast majority of his wealth by investing, buy and hold. He showed again he’s the best moving money in late 2024 and early 2025. 

Politically speaking it is definitely shrewd to take advantage of the fact that many manufacturing jobs have left. Politicians have been talking about this for decades. It’s reality that these jobs aren’t coming back, people are not going to be working on assembly lines like they did in the 70’s.

The border and trans in sports are easy pickings. The Dems have left themselves totally vulnerable there, they have no one to blame but themselves. Carnival barker Don is shrewd enough to lean into that. If he keeps up the tariff war, he won’t it will be done by late summer, but say he does, these issues are all we will hear about because the economy will be hosed. 

 

The point, which seems to escape you, is not that Buffett isn't a genius money manager that has hit again and again over a lifetime in investments. He's proven himself. Its that when he comes to trade, his record is rats' ass as to concern to the American worker as is aparently yours. Oh, the jobs went, who cares, they aren't coming back, fock 'em. Somebody else's problem, what's my portfolio look like?

And both parties played that game. Then Trump came along and took the concerns of labor seriously and won all the swing states. He's been talking about this very thing since the 80s and is even risking his presidency on an economic gamble to restore these jobs. This is also JD Vance's native language, whereas people like you and Kamala don't care.

I would welcome the Democrats to ahead and sell their whatever / who care's / rats ass /"jobs aren't coming back so don't bother trying" in the upper Midwest again in 2028. I think it's a great message for them to embrace. They can package it with DEI, trannies in the girls room, open borders, banning oil production,  importing gang bangers as campaign issues, and whoever runs in 2028 for the GOP is a homophobic, sexist, racist threat to democracy that's worse than Hitler and Trump combined again.

 

 

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3 hours ago, thegeneral said:

Dude is mid 90’s and still dominating. We could all be so lucky.

Luck has nothing to do with it.   Indeed 

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5 hours ago, Voltaire said:

The point, which seems to escape you, is not that Buffett isn't a genius money manager that has hit again and again over a lifetime in investments. He's proven himself. Its that when he comes to trade, his record is rats' ass as to concern to the American worker as is aparently yours. Oh, the jobs went, who cares, they aren't coming back, fock 'em. Somebody else's problem, what's my portfolio look like?

And both parties played that game. Then Trump came along and took the concerns of labor seriously and won all the swing states. He's been talking about this very thing since the 80s and is even risking his presidency on an economic gamble to restore these jobs. This is also JD Vance's native language, whereas people like you and Kamala don't care.

I would welcome the Democrats to ahead and sell their whatever / who care's / rats ass /"jobs aren't coming back so don't bother trying" in the upper Midwest again in 2028. I think it's a great message for them to embrace.

 

 

You can yell at the clouds, think about how great things used to be 40 years ago, but by and large we aren’t returning to that type of economy. It’s a side effect of Capitalism. 

I’d say the point that escapes you, is not that Trump isn’t a great politician. It’s that he’s a master bullshitter.

Things can be tweaked, there’s certainly some trade deals that can be shifted a bit around the edges. To think we are going to return to the disco era is just not realistic. 

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Let’s say Trump gets his wish and all of a sudden we’re manufacturing textiles, consumer electronics, etc. 

What are the odds these jobs offer a living wage and benefits? Labor unions are the reason those jobs used to be valuable but Trump is anti-union. And is Trump going to ask Americans to pay more for US manufactured goods after campaigning on lower prices? Tariffs don’t reduce costs.

These are rhetorical questions. The Reality TV POTUS doesn’t GAF about manufacturing or jobs, he’s just an attention ho playing a game.

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7 hours ago, thegeneral said:

Trade should not be a weapon

“Trade should not be a weapon,” Buffett said at Berkshire Hathaway’s shareholder meeting, an annual gathering in front of thousands in Omaha, Nebraska. “I do think that the more prosperous the rest of the world becomes, it won’t be at our expense, the more prosperous we’ll become, and the safer we’ll feel, and your children will feel someday.”

Trade and tariffs “can be an act of war,” added the legendary investor. “And I think it’s led to bad things. Just the attitudes it’s brought out. In the United States, I mean, we should be looking to trade with the rest of the world and we should do what we do best and they should do what they do best.”

So, you're saying that a guy who's made his fortune off of the market, is speaking out against something that's causing the market to go down?  Holy crap!  That's amazing!

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Bankruptcies filed:

Trump: 4.

Buffet: 0.

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3 minutes ago, TBayXXXVII said:

So, you're saying that a guy who's made his fortune off of the market, is speaking out against something that's causing the market to go down?  Holy crap!  That's amazing!

He set himself up to get much richer by safe guarding against Don’s predictable terrible policies.

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7 hours ago, thegeneral said:

If you want to go this route to be critical of the person rather than looking at what they say Trump’s family biz is investing billions in the ME as we speak.

Pee guy weighs in. :banana:

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21 minutes ago, easilyscan said:

A+ Voltaire.

 

 

Thegeneral gets smoked and all he can say is... yelling at the clouds.  Skyscreamer says yelling at the clouds.  🤣🤣🤣

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14 minutes ago, BeenHereBefore said:

I'm a huge fan of his music since the the 80's. Was never a fan of Warren but do like me some Warren Zevon though.

 

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41 minutes ago, Horseman said:

Thegeneral gets smoked and all he can say is... yelling at the clouds.  Skyscreamer says yelling at the clouds.  🤣🤣🤣

👆Another one who thinks we will start manufacturing Zeniths in Toledo because conman Don says it will happen.

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1 hour ago, thegeneral said:

👆Another one who thinks we will start manufacturing Zeniths in Toledo because conman Don says it will happen.

Remember when the Republicans were convinced we could invade Iraq and use it to promote democracy in the Middle East?

They haven’t gotten any smarter.

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13 hours ago, thegeneral said:

He knew Andrew Gillium was a meth head and gay as Fock, on the down low? lol. Nice call shitthead. 💯🤣

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11 hours ago, gas said:

Remember when the Republicans were convinced we could invade Iraq and use it to promote democracy in the Middle East?

They haven’t gotten any smarter.

Remember when almost all of the democrats voted for it? Biden and Hillary never said no to a war. Not once. 

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9 hours ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

He knew Andrew Gillium was a meth head and gay as Fock, on the down low? lol. Nice call shitthead. 💯🤣

Who did that guy think he was the pastor from a mega church!

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On 5/3/2025 at 10:21 AM, thegeneral said:

Trade should not be a weapon

“Trade should not be a weapon,” Buffett said at Berkshire Hathaway’s shareholder meeting, an annual gathering in front of thousands in Omaha, Nebraska. “I do think that the more prosperous the rest of the world becomes, it won’t be at our expense, the more prosperous we’ll become, and the safer we’ll feel, and your children will feel someday.”

Trade and tariffs “can be an act of war,” added the legendary investor. “And I think it’s led to bad things. Just the attitudes it’s brought out. In the United States, I mean, we should be looking to trade with the rest of the world and we should do what we do best and they should do what they do best.”

So all of the tariffs and trade barriers enacted by other countries and in place for decades were acts of war, provocations unresponded to.  Now, however, when we respond, primarily but not wholly reciprocally, we are the ones engacged in acts of war.  I submit that response to acts of war is self defense.

 

That is not to say that I agree with the methods and practices of this particular response which I find haphazard, chaotic, and in many instances childish or irrational.

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13 hours ago, BeenHereBefore said:

Love it!!! Hank Jr's ain't bad but prefer his.

The whole album is great.   

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26 minutes ago, Engorgeous George said:

So all of the tariffs and trade barriers enacted by other countries and in place for decades were acts of war, provocations unresponded to.  Now, however, when we respond, primarily but not wholly reciprocally, we are the ones engacged in acts of war.  I submit that response to acts of war is self defense.

 

That is not to say that I agree with the methods and practices of this particular response which I find haphazard, chaotic, and in many instances chuildish or irrational.

This is fair.

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