re: Trump imposing tariffs on all steel, aluminum imports; exempts Mexico and Canada for now

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You questioned the national security aspect of the tariffs

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and am exactly right to do so. the offer to exempt the largest and 4th largest foreign supplier is kind of a clue that low domestic production of this material isn't actually a national security crisis at all

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China has engaged in undermining us while propping up NKor, who threatens us with nukes. We are building a damn wall to keep Mexico and Latin America from undermining our economy by shipping untaxed monies out of our borders

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haha, what a pathetic stretch

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Then you make some stupid shot at him wanting to renegotiate NAFTA, by using the tariffs. As if he isn't capable of doing both things, at the same time

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if the tariffs are a legitimate must for national security, he obviously wouldn't be offering them up as a bargaining chip

an offer which mexico laughed at publicly, and pre-emptively, i might add