Trump has pulled the plug on TPP. It must have been good, after all. Shit.
Also reinstated the global gag rule.
https://twitter.com/CecileRichards/status/823582504036794368
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In this case, Trump is siding with virtually all liberal Democrats (except Obama and Hillary), and against most Republican politicians, in opposing “free trade.” Part of the goal of the TPP was to prevent China from pushing America aside as the predominent trading partner with Asian countries, and canceling the agreement will strength China at America’s expense. Bad move on Trump’s part!
On the other hand, Trump will probably side with the Republicans on completing the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines, which are valuable components of America’s fossil fuels energy program. We’ll see.
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“In this case, Trump is siding with virtually all liberal Democrats (except Obama and Hillary), and against most Republican politicians, in opposing “free trade.””
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This (Global gag) also highlights what a tragic blunder it was of the clinton campaign to paint trump as something other than a bog standard republican. That actually made him attractive to so many blue collar people (and others) who had grown tired of the republican establishment.
It pissed me off to no end to see clinton singing paeans about Saint Ronnie Reagan and how he would’ve been turning in his grave to see the republican party hijacked by this guy. Such a laughable idea.
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Yes… IIRC Sanders was anti TPP as well.
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Whatever Trump’s failures, officially disposing of the TPP is a really good thing.
An agreement drafted in secret, enshrining corporate power, that steals our own culture from us via draconian copyright rules and restrictions, is not something anyone should be in support of.
I’m sure there’s a lot Trump is going to completely bungle and bodge, but this will save quite a lot of American jobs over the long term and stall the creeping copyright expansion at least for a little while.
No one should countenance support for agreements negotiated in secret that large corporations cheer on nearly unreservedly. The TPP was bad for everyone except (surprise) large corporations.
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You were for him the entire time, weren’t you?
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