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Should be a wild four years.

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Please Trump, I'm fucking begging you. I DO NOT WANT TO EVER HEAR ANOTHER FUCKING SMELLY STREET SHITTING PAJEET WHEN I CALL CUSTOMER SERVICE! I would literally do fucking anything to see this happen.

I'm so beyond exhausted at hearing the disgusting sound of an indian talking on the phone line with a heavy accent
 
but I would damn well not bet against Donald Trump being a special guest for the retirement of John Cena.
"and Jyohn, today, we've got a very special guest, one of the bravest soldiers in are armed forces, the best. He was captured, for a long time, many years, terrible, but he's been freed, rescued just in time, thank gyod, to see you, finish the fight..."
 
but the pace suggests that it’s extremely urgent that we get these problems solved quickly
It's extremely urgent regardless of what China is planning, though. Trump has 2 years (or 4 if the midterms go well) to undo half a century of intentional self-sabotage that the government has poured trillions of dollars into facilitating. He's also very old and rather fat. I don't know jack shit about Taiwan or China, but I don't think you need some sort of WW3 event to explain why Trump is striking while the iron is hot.
 
>weighing
Someone will show Trump the profits that foreign slave labor accumulates and he will forget about this entirely. There is still no solution for indians undercutting domestic wages by an enormous amount. Until it becomes more profitable to hire people born in the United States, indentured servitude will stay appealing.
Just pray Trump is petty enough to do it anyway just because Modi treated him like shit.
 
If Trump actually flushes the poo, I'll wear the burger suit for the rest of his term, because never in my wildest dreams did I believe he would go after "Elite Human Capital".

Also, Beanie Man made a video about how many supposedly America First accounts on X are just fronts for the IDF (India Defense Force).
 
If Trump actually flushes the poo, I'll wear the burger suit for the rest of his term, because never in my wildest dreams did I believe he would go after "Elite Human Capital".

Also, Beanie Man made a video about how many supposedly America First accounts on X are just fronts for the IDF (India Defense Force).
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tqxuWCRD2vA
Where indian americans actually a key voting bloc or is this just astroturfing?
 
My pet schizo theory: I’m pretty sure like 90% of the stuff this admin has done so far is because they’ve gotten info that the CCP is guaranteed to attack Taiwan within the next few years. Rebuilding manufacturing. Creating public sentiment against “legal” immigration so they can be rounded up when the time comes. Sealing the border. Trying to pull out of Ukraine. All of this stuff is great and should have been done no matter what, but the pace suggests that it’s extremely urgent that we get these problems solved quickly. And I can’t think of any other reason why.

If I had to guess why China chose to act? There’s a host of chickens coming home to roost. Their birth rate is abysmal even for East Asians, it’s estimated at around 0.8. Plus 30% youth unemployment. They’ve stopped publishing data entirely (see picrel). In other words, they’re pushed into a corner.

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This doesn't seem likely for a few reasons.
  1. China's military is defense-oriented by design. This allows them to have elaborate military parades showing off their model rockets and sail into oceans they aren't meant to be in. "Appear strong when you are weak." Could China be a threat to its neighbors? China says 'yes', experts say 'probably not.' Nonetheless this will-they, won't-they regarding Taiwan is more advantageous than making a move and revealing China isn't even a paper tiger, it's just paper.
  2. india is an untrustworthy nation of swarthy scammers, but they are also flesh and blood. Having india in the region is playing a game China is receptive to. In other words, if China is preoccupied with trying to sway a nation toward "their side" while that nation continually plays with both the U.S. and China in secret (again: nation of scammers) that's a lot of time and effort wasted on China's part. Meanwhile all the United States has to do is keep spending money.
  3. The most recent example of a large nation deciding to invade a smaller nation (Russia, Ukraine) was not smooth sailing. Even if Russia will probably claim some land, Ukrainians as an ethnicity are functionally extinct, it was extremely expensive for Russia, and the entire area will be a guerilla nightmare for the foreseeable future. America now has extensive experience with building up a proxy nation to make its rivals suffer. The CCP dislikes bold moves and dislikes fights that don't guarantee a high chance of success.
  4. Taiwan will probably stop being the epicenter of chip production sooner rather than later. It makes more sense (for China) to wait for the United States to begin producing a comparable product domestically, stop caring whether or not Taiwan exists, then peacefully claim Taiwan in a similar vein to what was accomplished with Hong Kong.
 
You talk to Trump like a business man and be honest with him.

Literally that is all it takes. The countries that came to him in good faith and basically said "This is how much we produce, this is how much we buy, this is our traffis, etc. What can we do so that both our countries can profit?" got the best deal. Trump knows he has the biggest stick. The smaller countries knows he has the biggest stick. Trump knows that they know he has the biggest stick. But if you try to work out a deal where every one wins (even if the US takes less profit) he'll sign and stick too it.
GTA V pretty much covered this in one line.

"Never hustle a hustler."

Trump knows all of his cards, including the entire deck he stashed up his sleeves that he will pull out and slap on you before you can even begin to call bullshit, and he knows how to play the game from PR to backroom deals. He's not perfect, but he is the guy most experienced at this game who's currently in power right now, and by a not-insignificant margin either. You are not going to hustle Teflon Don. So just don't. Know your role, play ball, and FFS at least try to get on his good side. He'll probably appreciate it, maybe use you for a variation on the, "I have a black friend," kind of argument, and he'll play nice.
Where indian americans actually a key voting bloc or is this just astroturfing?
Indian Americans, no. Tech bros in the industry though, yes. Though whether supporting poo in the loo is something they'll still stick on after Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy flamed out over H1B visas is a very open question right now...
... which at no point necessarily negates that India's straight up paying shills.
 
"ICYMI - ICE deported 145,419 illegal immigrants from detention centers in six months, including self-deportations, according to official data from a FOIA request covering deportations through July 31, 2025."
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I thought we deported like a million already, not just 145k. Huh. Is this just removals, or people caught?
 
Where indian americans actually a key voting bloc or is this just astroturfing?
The Indian government is smart enough to realize the only thing they have is people so they send Indian far and wide as locust to drain other countries economy's and send money back home.

That and general Indian arrogance that their caste is the best.
 
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