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What is this guys obsession with magnets?
"Magnets don't work when wet" "Nobody knows what magnets are"
Does this obsession stem from the fact that he repels every decent person?
Advisors are telling him how important rare earths are and their importance in magnets. Since China has curtailed (if not halted?) exports, the rest of the world's industries are in rather deep shit.
This is where all the mumble-fucking about magnets is coming from. Trump's trying to say they're not important, they suck, we don't need them, in order to head off supply issues. Same reason he was telling our Navy that we should replace the magnetic plane and ordnance lifters and go back to steam power. No shit.
He also seems to think America can spin up our own rare earth supply, but acknowledges he basically begging and threatening Xi in the meantime.
Anyway, today's rant finally tied it all together for me.
this would all be a lot funnier if I wasnt living through the nightmare personally
To be fair america could, rare earths aren't actually that rare. The main thing is that mining them is the environmental equivelent of pouring fuel everywhere and setting the place on fire. That stops most countries which is why China has the market so cornered but with how the US feels about the concept of breathable air these days they could totally secure a domestic supply.
You could mine them in environmentally sound ways it's just that doing so would be expensive and China doesn't care so they just go with open cast mines, and render the environment uninhabitable.
But you could dig a mining shaft and do it that way but as I said that's expensive and dangerous, which needs even more money to mitigate the danger.
Thank you, never thought about it that way.
I thought it's just part of his general weirdness or a symptom of his dementia when in reality it's his hubris making him think he can talk the US out of rare earths usage.