The US has honest to goodness gosh grievances against the Chinese that were not addressed by the Short Fingered Vulgarian's Processor.  I do think the Mango Mussolini is going about it all wrong, though. I think the thing to do with the Chinese was to use back channels and fairly private communications to get the point across.  His brazen diplomacy by Twitter has caused Xi Jinping to loose face, and the Chinese are all about face.  He can't negotiate, he'll loose that much more face.  He has little choice but to retaliate, or he'll appear weak. But in retaliating he appears strong, and it gets good internal consumption, making him that much more popular.

Xi Jinping is ruler for life, which means the only way he's going to stop being ruler is if he dies.  If he appears weak those who would like to supplant him are going to try and arrange just that, and he knows it.  One needs to look no farther than Libya to see the fate of dictators who loose control of their fates, and no farther than Syria to see the lengths dictators will go to to keep from losing control.  I think these sorts of autocrats needs to handled carefully, something for which a Secretary of State and fully functioning Department of State can be a big help.  A pity Trump savaged the latter.

I’ve always wondered why America is supposed to give two shits whether or not a communist “leader” loses face, when you and your fellow socialists live for the day when you can get Trump and other Republicans to lose face. You could see the attempted set up with Chuck and Nancy in the Oval Office. They failed miserably, because they didn’t expect Trump to take responsibility for a partial government shutdown. But it is game on, 24/7, with the democrats.

Fuck the shit horn dictators. Lose face, kill yourself, I couldn’t give two shits.

I’m SO tired of the US being told we must conform to some foreign cultural standards, when the same is not offered to us.

I’m glad Trump doesn’t give a shit either. He knows EXACTLY how to negotiate.

Voting for a democrat is racist.

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Most people who call themselves liberals probably don't but half the country votes Democrat and right now the Democrat party has been taken over by the radical minority who do believe those things. Thank God a lot of liberals and Democrats are waking up and realizing they've been supporting the wrong side.

I *hope* that what is happening is that people are waking up and realizing that supporting one side or the other consistently is abdicating the responsibility to think for oneself. Thinking for oneself usually entails reaching some conclusions that agree with one side, and others that agree with the other side. Then comes the hard work of prioritizing the issues and deciding which candidate agrees with your own positions in the most areas that you consider high priority, regardless of party.

I used to reflexively vote Democratic because I didn't want to be bothered with doing that work, and because most Democratic candidates were at most center-left. The party has now, as you put it, been taken over by a radical minority to the point where I need to know a lot more about a Dem candidate before I will consider voting for them. That doesn't mean I won't vote for a Democrat, but it sure won't be a default choice.

I haven't walked away from the Democratic party; I was never a registered member anyway. But they've sure walked away from me.

I’m not sure how any of you can be so certain this was not someone on the right.  Both left and right have deranged folks on their side.  And to say that the right isn’t violent is simply not true.  Neo nazis, KKK, abortion clinic bombers, abortion provider killers, thugs who beat up gays, etc. are all examples of people on the right who are and have been violent.  Do they represent a mere fraction of folks on the right? Absolutely!  But it’s the same with the loonies on the left.

We know with certainty that these are coming from the left. It has all the tell-tale signs of Democrats and their operatives. The prime indicator is that none of them actually work.

my immediate suspicion is that this is from someone on the Left.  The right has not been known to be violent. 

This so sloppy that I am suspicious of it. 

What I fear is that they have set up someone who looks like they are on the right and we'll find that out in mid Nov.