Thread: President Donald Trump

she is a Russian call girl, what do you guys think ?

probably a former KGB agent

^^Yugoslavian, not Russian; model, not call girl.

she is serb and orthodox, speak perfect Russian, and is culturally Russian

Serbs were pro-Russians during the Kosovo war,

and she is not a model, she is a call girl. In NYC, all models are part-time call girls.

Do you really think a sucessfull working model would settle with someone like Trump when she would have a lot of other candidates ?

KGB have been recruiting a lot of girls in Serbia, they are particularly attractive and in the canon of the Russian ideals

they are also very tough and have strong personality, and not stupid

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

sucessfull working model

Once again, she's not, and never has been, Russian. I never said she was a "successful" model. And Trump is/was a pig, but is/was a very rich one.

she is not Russian per se, she is culturally Russian

when you travel to those countries, the Russian influence is still present, and culturally it is still there

Serbia is definitely a Russian satellite, and their population is culturally Russian

all those models in NYC are part time call girls for rich men, they fuck for cash

and I am pretty sure Trump bought a few nights before she settled for a long time contract with him

nothing wrong with that, it's done all over the world, even third world countries like India

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

all those models in NYC are part time call girls for rich men, they fuck for cash

Yes, every last one.......or ur fullla shit as usual

Originally Posted by uncle junior

Yes, every last one.......or ur fullla shit as usual

you obviously never lived in NYC, and went to the nice place

full of them, even more so in the late 90s and early 2000s, where tons of Russian hot models would come in without a penny, all for sale

they crashed the market of "average" models with their cheap rate, and I speak from direct experience in the field

^ lol

The rust belt is being sold a lie – China has funded US spending
Larry Elliott


The president’s bizarre solutions to the US trade deficit threaten to send his country into recession


Sun 3 Jun 2018 12.10 BST Last modified on Sun 3 Jun 2018 13.21 BST


First it was Europe, Canada and Mexico. Now Donald Trump’s focus has switched to the real target for his trade war: China. Wilbur Ross, the US commerce secretary, is in Beijing for talks aimed at reducing America’s $30bn-a month-deficit. Exports of Chinese high-tech manufactured goods are top of Ross’s list.


Make no mistake: Trump’s strategy is a sign of weakness not strength. Countries that resort to protectionism normally do so for one of two reasons: to assist the development process when they are on the way up and to slow the pace of decline when they are in relative decline.


In America’s case, it is certainly the latter. Hefty tariffs of 40% on imported manufactured goods helped the US to build up its industrial power in the second half of the 19th century. By 1945, the US was by far the most powerful economy in the world, and supported trade liberalisation because it needed to find overseas markets for its goods.


Protectionist tendencies never really went away. They resurfaced in the 1980s, when there was a panic about the threat posed by Japan. And behind the Trumpian bombast is a deep-seated fear that America’s hegemony is threatened by China’s rapid economic transformation over the past 40 years.


If the struggle between the US and China merely leads to a trade war, the world can consider itself lucky. Historically, when a rising power challenges the existing top dog it has more often than not led to bloodshed.


That’s not remotely in prospect currently. In terms of the measures that count – technological sophistication, military clout and income per head of population – the US remains streets ahead. But China has been catching up fast. The first phase of its development, moving people out of the fields and into low-cost manufacturing, is over. A second phase, in which investment in higher education allows the economy to compete in sectors hitherto the preserve of the developed west, is well under way. China is not remotely interested in an international division of labour where the west does the clever stuff and it is left with the cheap end of the market.


Trump’s action sums up what Rebecca and Jack Harding are talking about in their new book, the Weaponisation of Trade (London Publishing Partnership). They argue that trade is a strategic concern; it is not just a matter that governments are happy to leave to market forces, decisions made in the boardrooms of multi-national corporations and by technocrats hammering out trade liberalisation deals at the World Trade Organisation in Geneva.


“Trade is more than an economic concept; and trade wars are not just protectionism,” the two Hardings say. “Strategic trade is one way in which countries can build their influence and power globally, and trade can be used in part as a substitute for direct military intervention.”


This marks a shift from the dominant political ethos in the decade that followed the collapse of communism, when the global economy boomed and protectionist pressures waned. Yet the notion that the world would be a better place if it were run in accordance with the free-trade beliefs of Adam Smith and David Riccardo did not survive the financial crisis of a decade ago.


Even before the arrival of Trump, trade barriers were quietly going up, with 7,000 protectionist measures introduced since the financial crisis.
Simultaneously, higher transport costs and security fears post 9/11 have made companies less keen on having long supply chains. There has been a tendency to localise rather than globalise production, which has chimed with a political mood that has prioritised national action over multilateral co-operation. Trump’s America First approach is just one expression of the new mood and he will be confident that his tough-guy stance will go down well in the rust belt states that helped to elect him in 2016.


That looks possible, even though the idea that the size of the US trade deficit is simply due to China abusing international trade laws is nonsense. To be sure, Beijing has been able to grow its exports by keeping its currency competitive. No question, there has been theft of US intellectual property rights.


But the prime reason why the US is running such a sizeable trade trade deficit is that the opening of the global economy has allowed US corporations to outsource production to where it is cheaper, which is why the rust belt has been hollowed out.


Low-cost imports from China led to lower inflation, which in turn meant interest rates were lower than they otherwise would have been. American households could load up on cheap credit to buy cheap Chinese imports. The US consumed more than it produced and spent more than it saved.


China has funded America’s spending habits by investing in US companies, US property and US Treasury bonds. The fear that Beijing could pull the plug on the US economy at any time by dumping its US holdings made previous US administrations nervous. Trump has decided that the time for dithering is over, although his solutions seem somewhat bizarre.


Tax cuts will encourage consumer spending while tariffs will raise the cost of domestic production. Higher inflation will mean a more rapid policy tightening from the Federal Reserve, which will slow the economy. A recession would certainly bring down the trade deficit.


The communities that saw their guts ripped out by de-industrialisation will welcome anything that offers hope of revival, but have been sold a lie. “They’re closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks,” Bruce Springsteen sang in My Hometown more than 30 years ago. “Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain’t coming back.” Sadly, he was right.


https://www.theguardian.com/business...ing-sold-a-lie

Originally Posted by uncle junior

Occam's razor

Exactly...

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

she is not Russian per se, she is culturally Russian

when you travel to those countries, the Russian influence is still present, and culturally it is still there

Serbia is definitely a Russian satellite, and their population is culturally Russian

She's Slovenian not Serbian.

former slovenian prostitute or former serbian prostitute...who cares.....the real question is, where is she?

it's been 22 days since she's been seen in public.

did he beat her and she needs time for bruises to heal?

did she just flat out leave him?

is she back on the game?

Originally Posted by buriramboy

She's Slovenian not Serbian.

Yes, but if she *were* Serbian....

Originally Posted by buriramboy

She's Slovenian not Serbian.

same same

it's the same fucking ethnic group spread around several micro countries,

Originally Posted by raycarey

former slovenian prostitute or former serbian prostitute...who cares.....the real question is, where is she?

it's been 22 days since she's been seen in public.

did he beat her and she needs time for bruises to heal?

did she just flat out leave him?

is she back on the game?

she is reporting to Putin, and she got outed by the CIA

currently sitting in Guantanamo bay,

Remember when the right-wing whackjobs used to drone on that Obama was a Commie-Socialist-Marxist-Muslim in disguise and wanted to set-up himself as some sort of US Regent with absolute power in perpetuity?

Yeah well Drumpf's lawyers are now arguing that Drumpf can't break the law because he is the law and is therefore above it:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/new...ectid=12064200

Right-wing whackjobs: *Crickets*

She so nearly invisible that I hadn't noticed she was missing. Appears to have skipped out on a family Camp David retreat, and will also skip Fat Boy's two upcoming appearances abroad. Never wanted to be First Lady, was happy with her life (other than her owner)......feel sorry for her.

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

.feel sorry for her.

not like she didn't know who she was marrying.

Indeed. But I doubt she expected the high visibility First Lady part of the deal.

And she has to deal with the very public embarrassment of her husband paying at least one porn star to not talk about not having sex with him.

^Bet that romantic moment impressed Stormy. "Oh Donald, it's so cute! It looks just like a little miniature dick."