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Comment by dgellow

3 days ago

Damn, that’s pretty much all of them

It couldn't happen to a more deserving act of vengeance.

  • Apologies, but I'm having a hard time parsing your sentence.

    What exactly are you saying?

    • The GP is using a snowclone of the original: "It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy".

      For example, if your boss is very rude and disparaging, but then he gets fired, you would say, sarcastically, "It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy", implying there's some element of karma at work.

      By analogy, GP is saying these tarrifs were an undeserving act of vengeance. I assume "undeserved" in the sense that it wasn't deserved by those on the receiving end.

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    • Free trade is leftist now?

      I thought a minute ago "communist China" was the protectionist one and "free capitalist America" was the one in favor of free trade.

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    • We already knew that Trump didn't care what the courts said, America is pretty much dead with trump, so nothing shocking, your deserved vengeance wasn’t delivered.