Of all the staffers in Trump 2.0, I find Caroline Leavitt orders of magnitude worse than any of her predecessors. The way some of the statements are worded/spoken in the press conferences feel very brazen.
The Trump Presidency : Part 2
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Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) discuss United's fantastic win away against Athletic Club in the semi-final of the Europa League.
They also pick out the positives of United's 4-3 loss away at Brentford, and Nik reviews a day out at Old Trafford watching Manchester United Women qualify for the Champions League.
Nope & why would they?
China is playing the long game, while Trump is a temporary speed bump. Plus Trump is pissing the world off with this stuff & China can come across as the reasonable partner. Not to mention the facts that China has the 2nd largest domestic market in the world and has much more control over its population than the U.S.
And the worst thing is that these immigrants are legal. It was never about immigration. It’s about making the US as white as possible. This is a template that will be followed by far-right parties in Europe.
Economy rules of scarcity will make sure yhe goods from China entered US eventually, via subsidiaries or thousand of loopholes.
It's a no win game.
Tarrif is a very sensitive instrument which should be used with extreme cautions. It's not something you can bandied around like dick
This will hurt China? Maybe and definitely. It surely wont help the US any bit.
It's a no win game.
Tarrif is a very sensitive instrument which should be used with extreme cautions. It's not something you can bandied around like dick
This will hurt China? Maybe and definitely. It surely wont help the US any bit.
You read an article analyzing the potential impact of tariffs written 3-4 days ago, and it feels years ago.
Under Trump, we truly live in a surreal world, where what happens on Monday become very old by Tuesday morning. His impact on our psyche is profound. I’ve never seen people around me talk about the U.S. president this much, even when a Republican was in office. This is beyond anything that we have ever had.
Under Trump, we truly live in a surreal world, where what happens on Monday become very old by Tuesday morning. His impact on our psyche is profound. I’ve never seen people around me talk about the U.S. president this much, even when a Republican was in office. This is beyond anything that we have ever had.
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Unfortunately for America and the world in general, that means more to him than anything else. All about the ratings.
Peaceful protests against Israels genocide = being an antisemite supporting Hamas, a terrorist organisation, foreign students are deported, enemy of the state and all that.
Storm the capitol while heavily armed, something that resulted in fatalities and where a lot of police officers were injured, causing a shitload of damage overall, because you think an election was rigged = making america great again, get pardoned.
The Dollar is in free fall - its down 10% vs the CHF and high single digit vs the EURO. Trump supporters are saying that the factors to drive dollar depreciation were already in place before the Tariffs but while there may be truth to it, these things are driven by sentiment and triggers. Trump's tariffs have provided the trigger.
The credit market also continue to decline.
Trump has bitten off much more than the US can chew. I think this is heading towards something pretty nasty unless Trump can make good with his trading partners and slowly disappear into inaction.
The credit market also continue to decline.
Trump has bitten off much more than the US can chew. I think this is heading towards something pretty nasty unless Trump can make good with his trading partners and slowly disappear into inaction.
She was 19 when Trump first got elected and will have watched those predecessors. For her this is normal in a way it couldn't even be for anyone 10-20 years older. Honestly think she is as convinced of the nonsense she spreads as a Kremlin or Pyongyang spokesperson.
Scary.
It really is. I think it (indoctrination really) plays a big role in Trump/Musk going with so many young staffers in a lot of key roles. It gets even worse once one thinks about the average age in the military, easy to see people like her in senior roles sooner than later.
Older people like Navarro are strict outsiders completely beholden to Trump too (besides being unhinged).
Trump and the general American public's misdiagnosis of the US' problems looks increasingly likely to accelerate the empire's economic decline.
Instead of thanking the world for giving you the possibility of a luxurious life by doing the dirty work and providing you with cheap goods and raw materials, then paying you for the benefit via debt + asset purchases and consuming your services, you mock and blame the developing world.
I don't think most Americans realise they are throwing away such an amazing deal in the name of fairer trade.
With lower US trade volume, most of these countries are going to hold fewer dollars and will start to invest more in their and other like-minded economies. This is what we're seeing manifest in the American financial markets.
It's probably going to take a hard crash for Americans to sort out their wealth distribution, flagrant spending and general work ethic.
Instead of thanking the world for giving you the possibility of a luxurious life by doing the dirty work and providing you with cheap goods and raw materials, then paying you for the benefit via debt + asset purchases and consuming your services, you mock and blame the developing world.
I don't think most Americans realise they are throwing away such an amazing deal in the name of fairer trade.
With lower US trade volume, most of these countries are going to hold fewer dollars and will start to invest more in their and other like-minded economies. This is what we're seeing manifest in the American financial markets.
It's probably going to take a hard crash for Americans to sort out their wealth distribution, flagrant spending and general work ethic.
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I’m not optimistic that they will draw the right conclusions if a crash did happen. A large chunk of the population is primed to blame immigrants and other countries. They will never ever learn.
They don't sell them in the US, presumably due to protectionism.
Sadly I think you're right. Dark days ahead.
Eerily reminds me of V for vendetta - intentionally let things go to shit and use that as cover to consolidate power and put draconian laws in place
Call me selfish but I'd be happy to see that if it means the contagion of stupidity and brutality is confined within that landmass.
But it clearly doesnt.
It's absolutely not though hence the rise of fake news and populism and totalitarian ideologies spreading around the world, especially in Europe.
quite sad what that country has turned to. Now, you group the US among the countries you don’t take seriously. What is this?
The US are firmly in dystopian territory in terms of language, messaging and systematic lying to everybody at all times. Even if just 10% of all the bullshit they come up with day in day becomes normalised after Trump the world will be a much worse place than before him. That will be his legacy, and his supporters will be okay with it, as they just want everybogy else to be unhappier.
You say “countries” but it’s actually very hard to think of any other country which has senior state officials talking such abject and obvious bollox. North Korea, I guess? Although, to be honest, I’m not too familiar with their output.
In terms of the western world the US have become a massive outlier. The one and only clearly mental country. It’s so strange.
Jesus, makes Iraq's comical Ali sound subjective.
He saw the bonds and 'paused' the tariffs for 90 days. In the end it's gonna be 10-20% for all countries (mostly at 10%) outside of China I guess. So much bloodbath in global stocks market because of this unstable man. What he's after is China. It's so obvious now.
Baghdad Barbie.
This is truth.
There are issues everywhere, and the U.S. had issues in the past. But, America post 2015 is unrecognizable. Mental, as you say.
Yep. Thanks, Obama.
Yep, it's white man's rage.
https://www.military.com/daily-news...include-banned-subjects-women-minorities.html
Army Enlisted Academy Bars Students from Writing About Women and Minorities
Crazy. Question is, how much of this comes forced from above and how much is welcome by the troops.
Hegseth is seemingly a full-on racist if his book and public comments about Gen CQ Brown last year are anything to go by. He's probably full-on Trump's dick in this DEI attack. The US Army is around 54% white, 20% black, 17% Hispanic, 7% Asian-Pacific Islander, 2% all others. I'd imagine a significant percentage of the component is not taking kind to this garbage and it will ultimately impact retention. IMO, when they're saying they want to rebuild and strengthen the armed forces it conveys an undertone that minorities are lazy and unworthy and it takes white men to make it strong. They have confirmed a retired 3-star general as the JCS, who is unqualified by law for this position, and is white of course.
Yeah, it’s wild how normalized the madness has become over there.
I've also seen serious articles and experts starting to refer to the US government as a regime now. It's crazy how fast this is moving.
worryingly the US is only 3 months into this clown show
goodness knows how long it will take for the US to turn itself around post Trump
I can’t begin to imagine how much damage will be done by 2028. The hope is that a strong midterms by the democrats can put some sort of guardrails in place in 2026. I honestly believe that with the media as it is, social media as it is, voter suppression worsening and the very real chance they have compromised voting equipment, we could see the Republicans increase their majority.
Bold of you to assume he understands a lot of that.
Yeah, wouldn’t surprise me if most of what he does is just impulsive than any kind of real analysis (like when he lashed out at Zelensky).I probably overanalyzed it, I’m no expert or anything. But it felt like an "oh shit" moment from the orange man. When the 10Y bond was approaching 4.5% https://www.tradingview.com/chart/VPa3StJm/?symbol=TVC:US10Y, he pivoted and paused the tariffs. Maybe he’s scared of high borrowing costs tanking the U.S. economy. He managed to get it to 4.5% in the space of 3 days and had to fix his own mistake, well done. Pretty sure his friends and family benefited a lot from that... to buy stocks before he announced the pause.
So far, he seems to want to keep bond yields and the DXY low. But I don’t really get what kind of magic he’s expecting… like, yeah, borrowing costs might be low, but if businesses are getting wrecked by a broken supply chain from the China trade war… what are they even gonna borrow money for? Also, he didn’t really need to slap tariffs on countries that had nothing to do with China, especially those with minimal exports to the U.S. compared to China. Yet he did it anyway… and wrecked the global stock market in the process.
Ladies and gents, the President of the United States...
(I hate him)
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Sorry for the late response. I'm not actually questioning that. Even the wiki article notes that doctors and dentists want more fluoridation in European water. I always assumed fluoridation was ubiquitous but the data seems to show the US ahead of Europe on this, which surprised me.
Given the US obsession with teeth it shouldn't be a surprise, that said I think much of Europe did fluoridation at one time but the improvements in dental hygiene and water quality made them deem it unnecessary
Beware the Fiendish Flouridators
Its all part and parcel of the almost North Korean communication style Trump revels in. If you saw the cabinet meeting the other day where each cabinet secretary were fawning over his "excellent leadership" (even Musk), it's all part of the public spectacle Trump relishes.