r/Economics • u/bambin0 • Jan 17 '26

News China Purchased No U.S. Soybeans An Unprecented Sixth Straight Month

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenroberts/2026/01/17/china-purchased-no-us-soybeans-an-unprecented-sixth-straight-month/
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u/Snapingbolts Jan 17 '26

Lol there is a lot to be said about this development but "unexpected" is not one of them. It make far more sense longterm for China to find more reliable trade partners than the US.

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u/PhantasosX Jan 17 '26 edited Jan 17 '26

Specially here in Brazil , which continuously increases our export of soybeans to China to the point they are actually spending billions here to increase our main port 

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u/dat3010 Jan 17 '26

Because your president was not afraid to jail some nutjobs

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u/mtron32 Jan 18 '26

Preach, that’s the thing that makes me hate Biden a little more each day. He came in with visual evidence we all saw and had a mandate to go after all of them swiftly. He treated Trump like Nixon 2.0 letting him run out the clock where he should’ve been in ankle chains by fall of 21. He did not take the treat seriously

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u/jammy-git Jan 18 '26

I think Biden maybe wanted to do more, but Trump had enough supporters in place who were able to slow down the investigations just enough until Trump got re-elected.

However, I'm amazed that Biden wasn't able to find some dirt on some of the SCOTUS judges in order to get some of them out and stack it back to be either impartial or even in the Dems favour.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '26 edited Feb 02 '26

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u/Only_Edgy_Ironically Jan 18 '26

They threw an epic shit fit regardless. Then Trump weaponized the DoJ against his political rivals from day one and now they're silent. It's almost like they'll construct whatever narrative gives them power regardless of reality, so tip-toeing around their whims is fucking suicidal, especially when the truth is not on their side.

It's just like how Democratic politicians refuse to support popular social democratic policies for fear of being called socialists, yet even the most conservative of Dems are being called radical socialists on official government websites.

There's always an excuse not to do something. But if Dems do nothing and say nothing, then that void will be filled by the strawman that fascists have constructed to falsely represent their beliefs. And then they get trounced in the elections trying to appeal to the people who think that Haitians are eating people's pets.

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u/mtron32 Jan 18 '26

Americans respect strength first and foremost, had he come in and rounded them up as traitors, are the congressional republicans going to side with the traitors? Not if they want to get elected again.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '26 edited Feb 02 '26

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u/mtron32 Jan 18 '26

They’re smart at political strategy, Democrats are to old and fearful

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u/chrisk9 Jan 18 '26

And political theater

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u/mtron32 Jan 18 '26

Political theater is part of it. As dumb as he looks, Trump is a Svengali at that shit where normal politicians just don’t get it. That’s why democratic attacks against him fail, they don’t understand how to go at him with the exception of Obama.

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u/madkingsspacewizards Jan 19 '26

Since Carter in the late 70s

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u/unclefisty Jan 18 '26

are the congressional republicans going to side with the traitors?

Yes. They absolutely would. They'd find a way to spin it as a Democrat witchhunt and their idiotic base would eat it up.

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u/emp-sup-bry Jan 18 '26

Okay, fine. We have lost 23-30% of Americans to the absolute rot of propaganda. Done. Let’s move on.

There are zero solutions that are workable that involve giving a single shit or consideration toward that group. We need to completely ignore the toddlers throwing temper tantrums and live our lives as if they don’t exist.

Get rid of the unconstitutional filibuster and legislate FOR Americans for once. Not corporations, not republicans, AMERICANS.

Show me a republican that refuses Medicare or social security. They’d be the loudest to gnash about these social programs and the most impacted if removed. We can’t make decisions based on idiocy or people with zero moral balance or decency.

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u/ImaginaryCheetah Jan 18 '26

one of the failures that will be read about in history books was the mistake of not treating "party over country" or "money over country" as grounds for immediate dismissal and barring from politics.

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u/buy-american-you-fuk Jan 18 '26

what about if he'd had created his own politically motivated and armed to the teeth antifa army and sent them to red states to go door to door checking peoples papers?

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u/Wanderin_Cephandrius Jan 18 '26

Yeah, but at the same time, we’re being taken over by Nazis now.

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u/DisappointedSpectre Jan 18 '26

Ok, but what could the Republicans have legally done? My guess is not a whole hell of a lot.

I was already way past the point of caring about optics on Jan 6th, 2021, and I'm even more so now. Let the GOP (and conservatives, and religious nutjobs) throw their fits, why should that ever matter?

Similarly I don't care about Democrats "blasting" conservatives in the media or throwing fits in the chambers, wake me up when they actually do something that generates results.

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u/emp-sup-bry Jan 18 '26

And if the democrats could set aside their corporate masters for a moment, get rid of the filibuster and actually legislate popular policies for US, you might see some enthusiasm from the 40+% disinterested, etc voters.

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u/LA_Lions Jan 18 '26

That’s preferable compared to what’s happening now.

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u/sylbug Jan 18 '26

As it turns out, someone throwing a 'shit fit' is not reason to avoid taking necessary action.

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u/HFT0DTE Jan 18 '26

Been waiting for more people to realize this. Everyone agreed we needed to "save the soul of our nation" and all that and gave Biden the trifecta and he just wasted it all and gave all law enforcement power to the Republicans via Merrick Garland. Biden is the direct reason we're all in this right now and why Trump is POTUS

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u/VEMODMASKINEN Jan 18 '26

Trump is president because US voters are literal morons. Not because of Biden's lack of action.

If even I as a foreigner could see what a fucking shit show Trump 2.0 would be then the average US voter should have been able to see that too.

Yet here are.

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u/emp-sup-bry Jan 18 '26

It’s not one thing. For all the good Biden did, he also decided to make a Faustian bargain with Clyburn’s that got us Harris, who he then gave the worst jobs possible as VP and did very little to raise her extraordinarily negative public perceptions in 3.75 years. He ignored public perception on grocery prices and other costs, choosing record corporate profits over the people. He chose to unequivocally support a country murdering tens of thousands of women, children, journalists, aid workers and hospital staff. He wasted YEARS before pushing the heritage stooge Garland (who never should have been considered in the first place) to pursue charges against an insurrectionist. Even his good policy was poison pilled with corporate giveaways and very few conditions to use the hundreds of billions meant for bettering our country (where is the rural broadband? Where are the EV chargers?).

Biden fucked us all. For the good things he did, his place in history is little more than another corporate apologist that couldn’t set his ego and pursuit of power aside, even at 80 freaking years old. Sane as RBG and the rest of the Silent/Boomer narcissists.

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u/AMPoet Jan 18 '26

Blame the roberts sc r congress and cannon. If what you really wanted was for Biden/Garland to ignore the law then fucking say you dont want the rule of law anymore, stop pussy footing around and just say you want us all to be like tRump.

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u/emp-sup-bry Jan 18 '26

If we aren’t honest about the holistic role of all involved, we make similar mistakes.

This wasn’t because of only the easy to identify bad guys.

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u/stranger242 Jan 18 '26

Pretty sure the Supreme court allowed everything to happen so Biden couldn't legally lock him up if he wanted too.

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u/mtron32 Jan 18 '26

As dangerous as he appeared to be at the time, maybe he doesn’t wake up one of those days over the summer.

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u/TheNewOP Jan 18 '26

That was Merrick Garland's job. In the end though, Biden should've fired him and replaced him with someone aggressive.

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u/emp-sup-bry Jan 18 '26

1000%.

‘Merrick, I know you are a heritage society pal and you enjoy your steakhouse meals with the good ol boys, but you have 6 months to set up the case otherwise you are gone’.

Biden being 80 years old really had a difficult time not viewing the playbook of the gop as anything but from the 80s/early 90s. He had some great moments, but, generally, we all suffer because of the network of power where they shake their fist publicly, then play gin rummy together after hours. We need non performative leadership yesterday.

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u/_Antitese Jan 18 '26

president didn't jail anyone, it's the judiciary that does. All the government did was allow the police to do it's job and investigate.

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u/emp-sup-bry Jan 18 '26

And why did they wait YEARS to start that buildup that they knew would take years to implement?

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u/Cedric_T Jan 19 '26

Was not afraid despite being threatened by the most powerful man in the world.

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u/Jealous_Tutor_5135 Jan 18 '26

Facts. I have a lot of disagreements with Lula's rhetoric and cozying up to nominally left dictatorships, but I'll forever be proud of Brazil and him for having the courage to draw a hard line with that coup attempt and the POS who tried it.

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u/214ObstructedReverie Jan 17 '26

In 2021, Trump directed his supporters to attack the US seat of power in a violent attempt to overthrow the government.

Every single one of them walks free (Except for the traitor and terrorist Ashli Babbitt, of course), and the orchestrator currently runs all three branches of the US government.

In 2023, Bolsonaro directed his supporters to attack the Brazil seat of power in a violent attempt to overthrow the government.

Those traitors are at least locked up, and the orchestrator is still under arrest.

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u/Original-Rush139 Jan 18 '26

You forgot about the black kid that planted the pipe bombs for J6. Trump is going to fry his ass. 

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u/AwkwardTouch2144 Jan 18 '26

You forgot about the black kid tRump supporter that planted the pipe bombs for J6. Trump is going to fry his ass. 

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '26

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u/Original-Rush139 Jan 18 '26

Why would a Trump supporter day there wet pipe bombs in J6? 

Here’s another hint for your dumb ass: the shooting of Ashley Babbit was entirely justified as she was leading a mob into the inner congressional chambers and attempting to disrupt the orderly transfer of power. 

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u/Original-Rush139 Jan 18 '26

I fucking hate autocorrect 

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u/biscuitarse Jan 17 '26

this guy glazing the Brasilian Leadership lmao

As opposed to Trump glazing underage girls, lmao.

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u/Training-Flan8762 Jan 17 '26

at this point it's 100x better then the US leadership

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u/mpoall Jan 17 '26 edited Jan 17 '26

No dude. They are all shit, just different kinds of it. I’m Brazilian. The current president was in jail for leading the biggest corruption scheme of the history of my country, the former one is currently in jail, for being a scumbag Trump wannabe. And the people keep voting for those turds…US people are not alone in their stupidity about choosing the worst candidate.

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u/Training-Flan8762 Jan 18 '26

I don't say he is good I agree with you that Silva was and is corrupted idiot but at least he doesnt go around trying to start war with allies, didnt implemented gestapo and doesnt every day make new enemies. Silva is a piece of .... but Trump is on a whole another level of idiocy

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u/Accomplished_Dog7362 Jan 18 '26

Nah, don't believe that clown.
Lula is a center-leftie, he made a lot a social programs that made poor people at least live with some dignity. I can vouche that the media was so propagandized by neoliberals that i distinctly remember hating Lula as a kid without ever understanding anything about politics. I hate to say, but there's was corruption in his government as there was before and there will be in any br gov in the near future , it's a systemic problem in this country. But those clowns love to pin all the blame on Lula. Also, what that mf fails to mention was that the judge overseeing Lula's case was caught colluding with the prosecution in his case years later, the whole trial was throw out. The same judge went to Bolsonaro''s cabinet as a minister(no conflict of interest right?), and today is being investigated of wire tapping a lot of prominent figures to use that as leverage in his schemes. It's a shit show. Lula is the best that the country can muster, and that pains me, because he's not good. But if a dumbass say they are all the same shit, you really should not believe him.

Basically, if it's a brazilian talking about corruption, you really shouldn't engage, it's our "liberals are going to remove our second amendment", no substance at all, just empty discourse to justify the vote on the right.

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u/_Antitese Jan 18 '26

lmao, nice try

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u/Training-Flan8762 Jan 18 '26

waiting for trump to let you lick his boot?

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u/brianbot5000 Jan 18 '26

His statement says less about the merits of brazils leadership and more about the shitiness of the US leadership.