Aw yeah rolleyes! Let's do this!
The main reason that either of those is or was even in question is Trump and his Administration's moves to stir up trouble with them.
Both of those nations have a longstanding policy of stirring up trouble all day every day. For decades, US presidents have had to walk a fine line between pressuring them to knock it off, and avoiding costly escalation even in a good cause. I think Obama's nuke deal with Iran swung a little too far towards avoiding escalation. Trump's withdrawal corrects that oversteer. Iran's had a little tanty over it, but it looks like it's not going to escalate any further right now. Trump and his administration have had more than enough excuses to keep escalating, over the past few weeks. They haven't. Your guess about their intentions is contradicted by events.
To what end, exactly? Trump's trying to use tariffs to demand that China... change its overall form of government, pretty much. If it was about limiting China's influence, that's pretty much what the TPP was intended for.
Even Clinton didn't like the TPP.
Congratulations, you've earned a good, hard slap for that comment and the dishonesty and irresponsibility that pervades it.
Ah yes. A personal attack combined with a violent fantasy. Tell me more.
If only. Why would he be at all motivated to do that, though, when Trump's been employing lots of them? Similarly, Republicans employ a distinctly disproportionate number of the illegal immigrants, which has meant that it's Republican representatives that have likely done the most to sabotage enforcement in general, even while frequently employing rhetoric to cow the illegals and people who can be "mistaken" as illegals. Going further, Republicans use it as a major issue to rile up their base and don't want to lose the issue. I could likely go on, but... that's enough for now. In short, I really, really don't trust Republicans on that issue because of both
their actual actions and the presence of a number of reasons to discourage actual action being taken to move things in a good direction.
No argument from me there. I agree we can't trust Republican lawmakers to take serious action about illegal employers. Nor is Trump likely to do so. This is the kind of damage I see Trump doing so far, and the kind of damage I see him likely to continue doing for another six years. If we re-elect Trump, we're going to continue to have serious border problems, due in part to a failure to crack down on illegal employers.
If one of the Democratic candidates for president seems serious about cracking down on illegal employers, I will seriously consider voting for them. Do any of them come to your mind, in this capacity?
Aw yeah more rolleyes!
Tell me more.
Perhaps. If only the concerns were limited to irrational or minor concerns, it would be wonderful. Sadly, that's not even remotely the case.
Actually, I think that being obsessed with irrational or minor concerns is the worse scenario. Having real, serious concerns and taking them seriously is actually the reasonable and responsible scenario. But it's called a derangement syndrome for a reason.
Your deployment of the rolleyes suggests that you think the decision not to support transgenders in the military is a minor concern. Is this actually something we agree on? Six more years of this policy aren't a major problem?
Which would be all the more reason to get them or better back into place and let them move the needle. The situation is... already quite bad because of all the procrastination, delays, and long-term deliberate misinformation and disinformation that's been spread by the industries that would directly suffer financially from action being taken to address the situation... misinformation and disinformation that's been embraced by GOP politicians and propagandists, unfortunately. The damage will only continue to rise ever more quickly the longer things get delayed.
Oh, right, and AOC was citing
a UN report.
How many degrees of global temperature would those policies have reduced over the next twelve years, if left in place?
Enh. It's mild hyperbole. Feel free to form your own impressions about the effect of developing nations on global climate change, and how much they'd need to dial back their own industrial activity, in order for US policy to have a noticeable effect. In the next twelve years.
A lot, by the look of it?
Like what. What else can you think of, that wouldn't be tolerable for another six years, if it comes to that?
