Today In Biden Land

[Kirkland Laing]

Some bits and pieces:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...der-trade-deal


and

https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status...06773626699776


keep scrolling with that one.



https://twitter.com/marceelias/statu...67512886751232


This is going on in states all over the country. Could easily be the beginning of the end of democracy in America. Note the bloke in Georgia who defied Trump is going to be primaried and replaced with some fucker who will campaign on guaranteeing to overturn an election if the Democrats win.


https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/stat...36116904632323

Keep scrolling with that one too. Very informative.

China is well behind on the two-year targets set in its trade deal with the U.S., having purchased only about a third of the goods it said it would buy so far.
Total purchases of U.S. agricultural, manufactured, and energy goods were $123 billion in the 14 months since the trade deal was signed in January 2020, according to Bloomberg analysis of official Chinese data. That was 32.6% of the target of $378 billion for 2020-21.




Is that the USCMA Act they're talking about?

USMCA is the new name for NAFTA. It's 96% the same as NAFTA. America won some concessions over car production which will now be slightly more in America but gave some concessions as well. There'll be no change in overall employment numbers and the only change Americans will find is that some new cars will be more expensive than under the previous agreement.

The China agreement isn't even an agreement. China made a promise to buy more American goods that of course they're not keeping and Trump sold it as a game changing trade deal that would bring jobs and business flooding back to America. The trade deficit with China has gone up since they made the promise they haven't kept.

[Kirkland Laing]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/men-loo...er-11616624482

[palmerq]

https://www.bbc.com/news/56531137


Was listening to this whilst at work I think Biden is not the best at press conferences he stumbles pretty bad at times, the 120 years ago thing was clearly a joke I thought but that's they way it is :S... the old git does seem to know what he's talking about though, he certainly went into great detail about things which is nice, I'm not an expert at all that stuff thiugh so I'd need to look into his claims. Looks like biden brain still works and he seems like an alright guy, good for him, it's a shame hiw some people react to him.