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kleinbl00  ·  2648 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: President Trump has officially withdrawn the US from the Trans Pacific Partnership

    "This TPP sets the gold standard in trade agreements to open free, transparent, fair trade, the kind of environment that has the rule of law and a level playing field," (Hillary Clinton) said in Australia in 2012. "And when negotiated, this agreement will cover 40 percent of the world's total trade and build in strong protections for workers and the environment."

- Hillary Clinton

You're right in that negotiations had failed. At the same time, the TPP grew out of ACTA and was the 2nd or 3rd whack by the Obama administration to pass something similar.

I'm sure he'll kill net neutrality in a similar way tomorrow, but one benefit of having an isolationist dilettante for president is you don't have to worry about this particular bit of globalist overreach coming back under another name.

(knocks on wood)