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He negotiates in bad faith. No deal is final. He will change the terms to meet his whims. The Chinese understand. Notice how there are no soybean purchases fro

He negotiates in bad faith. No deal is final. He will change the terms to meet his whims. The Chinese understand. Notice how there are no soybean purchases from China this year. They do not trust the US on important things like food.

JumpCrisscross 1y ago
> He negotiates in bad faith Plenty of great negotitors across history did, too. Trump gets played. Repeatedly. Predictably. His political instincts have been sharp enough that I'm increasingly chalking this up to age, but maybe he just had a better team around him the first time around.
- defrost 1y ago
  > increasingly chalking this up to age I've always had high regard for Trump as a talented scumbag grifter of note. He's been noticeably and increasingly off game since it seemed he was only campaigning for re-election to avoid a mountain of looming bad legal outcomes. Much of his early second term "wins" I've marked as momentum success from having a ready to go game plan care of the Project 2025 crowd. His carry through on tariffs, dodging Epstein complications, handling free speech issues, etc. have been more chaotic than cunning.
- dboreham 1y ago
  No. It's explicitly self-destructive. He gets off on setting things on fire, including himself.
- Prickle 1y ago
  He singlehandedly annihilated the US soybean market. That's not a good thing. Lots of farmers going bankrupt now.
  - jrs235 1y ago
    But his crony buddies stand to benefit from farmers going to bankrupt. Makes it difficult to understand if this is incompetence or intentional malice at play...
  - ZeroGravitas 1y ago
    > He singlehandedly annihilated the US soybean market. Again... He's done this twice now.
3eb7988a1663 1y ago
I assumed the soybean thing was more about sending a message. Soybeans are the number one US export crop. Shutting down the market is a big financial blow, makes the trade deficit worse, and angers farmers who otherwise would have happily sold to the Chinese.

JumpCrisscross 1y ago

> He negotiates in bad faith Plenty of great negotitors across history did, too. Trump gets played. Repeatedly. Predictably. His political instincts have been sharp enough that I'm increasingly chalking this up to age, but maybe he just had a better team around him the first time around.

defrost 1y ago
> increasingly chalking this up to age I've always had high regard for Trump as a talented scumbag grifter of note. He's been noticeably and increasingly off game since it seemed he was only campaigning for re-election to avoid a mountain of looming bad legal outcomes. Much of his early second term "wins" I've marked as momentum success from having a ready to go game plan care of the Project 2025 crowd. His carry through on tariffs, dodging Epstein complications, handling free speech issues, etc. have been more chaotic than cunning.
dboreham 1y ago
No. It's explicitly self-destructive. He gets off on setting things on fire, including himself.
Prickle 1y ago
He singlehandedly annihilated the US soybean market. That's not a good thing. Lots of farmers going bankrupt now.
- jrs235 1y ago
  But his crony buddies stand to benefit from farmers going to bankrupt. Makes it difficult to understand if this is incompetence or intentional malice at play...
- ZeroGravitas 1y ago
  > He singlehandedly annihilated the US soybean market. Again... He's done this twice now.

3eb7988a1663 1y ago

I assumed the soybean thing was more about sending a message. Soybeans are the number one US export crop. Shutting down the market is a big financial blow, makes the trade deficit worse, and angers farmers who otherwise would have happily sold to the Chinese.