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If Trump wants to get tough on China, great but I don't think having a bunch of people in his ear telling him to nuke the chinks is the best strategy

He rejected Pompeo and hasnt made a pick i liked since

I don't like the social media drip feed thing they're doing

I think it's retarded

the more people talk about his picks, the more they'll be unhappy with whoever we end up with

like, the put that retarded dog hunter in-charge of DHS

I think Leg is right saying they do it to test the waters

according to Trump Jr they are actually getting the team of 6 together and discussing all of these appointments

not all at the same time necessarily though

yeah Polar, but I think that's retarded

Trump should pick who he wants, if it's a game of favors just rip the band-aid off and drop all 30 notable positions at once

rather than this game of people tearing everyone down

this is I think his worst pick so far

this woman is R E T A R D E D

I'd rather he just pick one of his daughters appak

that's another that I don't think has been confirmed officially

I think the issue is, the people who stuck by Trump after he lost were the griftiest grifters

he got some good people as the campaign went on

but it's weird to be giving so many real appointments to these fucks, rather than ceremonial positions that politicians normally give

though, ngl, Biden did the same thing

his cabinet is full of his retarded friends first and foremost

idk why i was optomistic that he would learn from his frist time in office

it's weird to make the same mistake again

when you REALIZED what went wrong the first time

either way, hope they prove me wrong and turn out to be secretly competent lol

Nothing ever happens

honestly, as long as RFK is there

I have a lot of faith in shit getting done

if the cost of that is we genocide a few countries and fumble WWIII, oh well

I'm not that concerned about a war actually happening

So I don't really give that much of a shit about these picks

>he doesnt know

lol

I mean, it would be us just blowing up more shit in the middle east and sinking some ships in China

does national security advisor have a department?

it's not like there will be a war on American soil

Well yeah

the NSC Leg

there will never be one on american soil but china and taiwan shit will happen soon

true!

make Israel a US state and suddenly we get war on US soil

we need 10 different departments to manage the exact nuance of how we blow up foreigners

I have it on good authority than nothing ever happens

Therefore Taiwan isn't happening

I'm sorry

I think the open question is why and how much do we care about Taiwan

they're kinda only out ally to spite China, and when China moves to take the island back

we care because they have made it illegal to move the cutting edge nm scale processor tech off the island

someone (Trump) gets to decide how many Americans die as an ineffectual show of force

can I say it's their fault for joining the military, sure I'm not trying to baby them

But if that becomes a decade of hawkish bluster and anti-China fixation by retards

I'm going to be pissed

1) we don't need to be spending $$$ overseas 2) we don't need to feel that every self-interested foreign government is our mortal enemy

that's my position

now back to real politics

watch out @Phijkchu_Pikachu

we're releasing the Detroit reserves to come get you

lol

I am less mad about this than Trump selling the artifacts from the smithsonian

Stoner told me this so non-reliable, but doesn't Taiwan have a lot of materials for chips/processors

Its not just a lot of materials

they are the supply chain

Ok what i assumed but never looked into it

intel is scrambling to make fab shops so we are not 100% dependant on them

but that costs trillions and will take years

Yea, I figured the main reason we don't want China pulling a Ukrain was for the chips and not for muh freedom

The entire supply chain, as explained to me by Spooky, is taiwan, I think they go to the US, and the Netherlands makes a specific component

iirc

If China is taking Tiwan, they will scortched earth the factories which will set the world back probably 10 years on computing manufacturing

But it is better than China having 100% control over all technology

we really should have been preparing to make our own chips much sooner

As disappointing as some of his picks have been so far the border czar guy is actually great

the cia guy is my favorite personally

I know nothing of him other than that he basically guaranteed he's releasing all the big shit immediately

So he seems good as far as I know!

trump has now announced 3 envoys and ambassadors before secratary of state

China is utterly dependent on the Taiwan chips as well, even though they have stopped getting most of their chips from them, most advanced tech requires the Taiwanese chips. Look at the phones the Chinese companies make and they are only as advanced as the iPhone 8? The chips are also just recycled or stockpiles from earlier purchased products. The thought of china going into Taiwan and blowing it up would hurt china more so because then no one in the world is able to produce the chips they themselves need. China wants the technical know how, the economic power, and the factories to reproduce the chips for themselves.