re: U.S. Announces Reciprocal Tariff Exemptions for Chinese Smartphones and Computers

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It's like none of you have ever engaged in smaller scale versions of the same kind of activity a thousand times in your own lives. We always hope our opponent will just roll over and kiss our arse but normal people anticipate the fact that that's probably not going to happen and react accordingly as the situation calls for

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In sales the rule is; after presenting the deal, the first person to speak loses.

I'd say presenting your tariff plan and then exempting a huge chuck a couple days later is similar.

*You people that hate negotiating for cars should remember that rule. See how long the salesman can stay silent.

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If he makes no exemptions then he's playing hardball, if he makes exemptions then it's a show of good faith. The man can do no wrong!

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Exactly. Opening bid in negotiating down to zero tariffs each way.

Sit back and watch the master negotiator at work...

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In sales the rule is; after presenting the deal, the first person to speak loses

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I am quite familiar because this doesn't just apply to sales

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I'd say presenting your tariff plan and then exempting a huge chuck a couple days later is similar

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Two things. First you have no idea what discussions are occurring you're just seeing the steps. But to continue running with your sales example. If you're a Salesman and you don't speak but the person you're trying to sell to presents an objection you then have to attempt to overcome the objection. And if the sale you're trying to make has more than one ending that you would consider positive for yourself it might look a lot like what you're seeing. I mean sure it's not like selling a car but it's probably a little more fricking complicated than that too

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*You people that hate negotiating for cars should remember that rule. See how long the salesman can stay silent

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I don't negotiate for cars. It's silly in today's world. You know pretty much exactly what they have in them. I suppose if you went to nine different dealers you might see some slight variation and how far down you could dig them. But the difference would be very slight. Now I guess if you're one of these old school people who goes into the dealership not knowing a damn thing then yeah you probably better negotiate cuz you have no fricking idea where the bottom is

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If this is what you got for my post then I firmly suggest you seek the help of a mental health professional to find out how bad your learning disability is

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Oh my bad. I should never question Trump again. This is all working out perfectly.

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You have no idea what discussions are occurring you're just seeing the steps.

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Neither do you. However, there has been no mention of China talking. That would be hard to keep quiet and frankly the Trump admin would have zero reason to keep that from the press. In fact, they would want that to be the case as it would show China to be bending and this move to be responding. Eliminating all the talk of Trump folding.

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I don't negotiate for cars. It's silly in today's world. You know pretty much exactly what they have in them.

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Good for you. Beat your chest some more.

btw-Trade in is always ignored in these discussions. They can be highly variable dealer to dealer no matter if you "know" the price of the new one. But then I'm sure you knew that...

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Trumpkins: bending the knee is brilliant!! Winning!! Yall don't understand the plan!!!

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Yeah, well, come back when you go look up and let us know how that clueless Trump's tactics worked out for the EU and all the rest of the world racing to bend the knee.

Does this mean iPhone prices won’t go to 300k?

Because a few white dudes for Harris told me 300k.

"Trump is killing our economy with tariffs!"

"Trump lowered tariffs. He caved!"

You people bounce from one thought to the next in your futile quest to "get Trump" without so much as even the slightest consideration for what you said before.

You don't care about tariffs. If you did, you would be happy, not using it in a lame attempt to denigrate Trump. Like the democrats, your thought process doesn't extend beyond opposing Trump. The worst part is that you've actually convinced yourself that you're not the same as the pink hats, trannies, and MSM.

This narrative that Trump compromising in any way is "bending the knee" and not negotiations is childish. It once again shows how the TDS crowd has to resort to absolutes.

You have to pretend victory is all or nothing because otherwise you would be forced to admit that Trump is improving the country. You can't stand that, so you resort to claiming his accomplishments aren't really accomplishments because they aren't as great as they hypothetically could have been. You guys have to twist yourselves into pretzels to downplay Trump's accomplishments, and each time makes you look more ridiculous than the last.

This is winning, baby, winning.