Australian beef has replaced U.S. supply in China since Donald Trump returned to the White House, funnelling hundreds of millions of dollars that have in previous years gone to the U.S. cattle industry into Australian pockets.
U.S. shipments to China, worth around $120 million a month, collapsed after Beijing in March allowed permits to expire at hundreds of American meat facilities and as Trump unleashed a tit-for-tat tariff war.
Other U.S. farm exports to China, the world’s biggest food importer, have also suffered since Trump retook power. On soybeans alone, U.S. farmers have lost out on shipments worth billions of dollars during the current harvest season.
now imagine for a moment - go back to that post-9/11 period - and imagine that our standing in the world and our economic dominance are both failing not because of some new innovation from our competitors, or climactic disturbance in politics or crops, no, it’s all falling to shit because, and only because we elected a conman to lead the country, twice, and it’s gone terribly both times.
oh and gwb iraq didn’t really set things up for greatness, but damn, ten years of trump has run this country right into the ditch.
impressively rapid descent into shitocracy.
Idk feels more like the Dems and Biden failed the US. Obama, for all his faults, managed to turn things around despite the poor gwb years.
your feelings were easily manipulated.
https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/feb/06/whats-the-economic-state-of-the-union-under-joe-bi/
Or they didnt care about money? People can have different priorities and values, and I can think Biden was bad and you think he was good and that both be valid.
valid, but the context of this discussion was economics. cybersteel thinks “Idk feels more like the Dems and Biden failed the US” - in many contexts this can be valid, but in the specific context of the article posted, the economic impact of silly tariffs and self owns - the biden admin did fine by the economy over all, and the numbers are there on poltifact.
you’re certainly entitled to whatever opinions but if you tell me “Idk feels more like the Dems and Biden failed the US. Obama, for all his faults, managed to turn things around despite the poor gwb years.” in a discussion about economics, while I don’t laud the guy, the admin managed to turn the economy around 180 from trump - that’s based on data easily discernable (and with cited notations) on the poltifact article.