Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/11/13/jina-jina-jina-oink-oink-oi.html
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I am ok with this only because more Pork and Pork products makes me happy.
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I support balanced trade not stupid trade.
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$240,000 is hardly “corporate welfare at its worst”.
That is a vanishingly small amount of money compared to what the oil industry gets.
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Or the $12 Billion that the farm belt is currently getting.
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But I thought trade wars are easy to win! 
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The fucking irony that Trump keeps calling the tariffs a “tax paid by China.” Both elements of that description are wrong, but now it turns out it literally involves US tax money going to China…
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Or the subsidies and tax breaks other big companies get (Amazon, MS, Facebook, etc.)
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But Smithfield is a single company, not the entire pork industry.
And aren’t Republicans supposed to be against the federal government picking winners and losers?
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I’m still waiting for my bailout.
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That’s not irony; he’s just really stupid.
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Tariffs are easy?
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HAHAHAHA!!!
I’m pretty sure in the USA, we practice a form of capitalism known as “Crony Capitalism” – and it’s been that way for a long, long time! At a crescendo these days.
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It’s odd how there always seems to be a resurgence of crony capitalism when the Republicans are in control.
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Trade wars are easy to win.
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Oh, you think we get the discount? Let me know how that works out, bro.
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Presumably the purchased pork will be fed to the US military?
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There is a reason the word ‘pork’ in political terms means excessive, misappropriated funds, paid for by our taxes.
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Yeah, its called kleptocracy and oligarchy. Any resemblance to capitalism or democracy is purely in passing.
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