That’s basically what Schumer’s spokesman said.
Mexico shut down Trump’s claims that they’d pay for it like an Israeli beauty pageant contestant. Or, more bluntly: Vincente Fox sums it up in one sentence.
So I guess the coal miners in Pennsylvania are going to be paying for the wall with the jobs that Trump is going to make up for them. This is what prosperity under the Trump administration will look like. Reagan had the Laffer Curve; Trump is just inhaling laughing gas.
Stranger
That’s one of the things that kept showing up during the campaign - he doesn’t understand multilateral deals nor the need for them. He kept saying that he wanted to meet with each country separately - which just doesn’t work on the international stage.
I also don’t see how it could work when building a building or constructing a golf course. Maybe his staff just lies to him about how the buildings get built?
Apparently, a favoured management tactic of his is to set up competing factions and play them off one another. This strikes me as horrendously inefficient; on the other hand, he is a failure as a businessman.
By all accounts, he’s kept that preference, which explains why his administration is such a clusterfuck.
I think he’s hoping to play one country off another, but as you say, it just doesn’t work that way anymore.
Oh good; I get to post this oneIt seems that this is normal for US officials now to just make things up and declare them as facts. Is there a single cabinet member who hasn’t done this since taking office just a few months ago?
Speaking of the Laffer Curve, Wikipedia has this to say:
What’s the explanation for the firing of Surgeon General Vivek Murphy? Too pro-vaccine? Too concerned with gun violence? Was it just the ethnic forename? Or did Trump just want a female in the slot for more pussy-grabbing fun?
I love Vincente Fox. Can he be our President?
Oh.
The Master Dealmaker blows it again. Go Vincente!
Yes. This is now normal.
His last name is MURTHY–nice try at making him Irish. 
Well, the guy isn’t very white, is he? Born of Indian parents in England. Married to a Chinese-American woman (also a doctor). They were married in a “multi-cultural ceremony”–harrumph, probably not even a Christian. He’s a vegan who practices yoga every day. Disqualified! He and his family have been deeply involved in promoting world health-- screw that: we 'Murricans don’t care about world health anymore.
The foregoing is irony, people, in case anyone misses it. Actually [URL=“12 Things You Must Know About The First US Surgeon General Of Indian Origin - The Better India”]Vivek Murthy](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FACT_CHECK_SESSIONS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-04-22-21-29-23) sounds like a fantastic human being. Can’t wait to see what white guy Trump ultimately appoints to replace him.
Hannibal Lecter.
I saw a picture of a sign from a recent march, “Only atoms are allowed to make up stuff”.
This is the same approach to governance and the delegation of authority that we saw 75 years ago:
"Top officials reported to Hitler and followed his policies, but they had considerable autonomy. Officials were expected to “work towards the Führer” – to take the initiative in promoting policies and actions in line with his wishes and the goals of the Nazi Party, without Hitler having to be involved in the day-to-day running of the country.[7] He often deferred making decisions, avoided clear delegation and allowed subordinates to compete with one another, especially in the pre-war years. The government was not a coordinated, co-operating body, but rather a disorganised collection of factions led by members of the party elite who struggled to amass power and gain the Führer’s favour.[8]
The system of government was formed whereby leading Nazi officials were forced to interpret Hitler’s speeches, remarks and writings on government policies and turn them into programs and legislation. Hitler typically did not give written orders; instead he communicated them verbally, or had them conveyed through his close associate, Martin Bormann.[9] He entrusted Bormann with his paperwork, appointments, and personal finances; Bormann used his position to control the flow of information and access to Hitler.[10] Hitler’s cabinet never met after 1938, and he discouraged his ministers from meeting independently.[11]
Hitler’s leadership style was to give contradictory orders to his subordinates and to place them into positions where their duties and responsibilities overlapped with those of others, to have “the stronger one [do] the job”.[12] In this way, Hitler fostered distrust, competition, and infighting among his subordinates to consolidate and maximise his own power.[13]"
Not corrupt enough. Also, fictional.
It will be some high-level executive from either the sugar or tobacco industries.
Fuji --wow. That is spooky.
The point of making separate deals with everybody secretly is that you get to fuck everyone exactly as hard as they’ll possibly take - which varies from country to country ; or promise them all the same thing which you can only give once (an exclusive right or what have you). Dealing with them in bulk, where they can support each other and present unified demands/arguments greatly lessens the total amount of economic fucking that can be doled out.
Since Trump’s sole understanding of or metric for economic prowess is “stiff as many people as you can, run away with the money before the wheels fall off”, it makes sense to him. Since everybody else understands that *real *commerce is about mutual benefits, they tell him to go piss up a rope.
I would just like to state that I think we should remove “in the making” from this thread title.
Which is exactly the same reason that so many employers dislike unions, too!
I realize several of you guys were just quoting Stranger, and that the English form of the name is Vincent, but I promise Mr. Fox’s firstname is Vicente. One n.
And Vivek Murthy does sound like a great human being indeed.
That’s hilarious! Even got Boss Hogg in there.
And that creepy Deliverance banjo kid.