Hope this falls through. Any trade deals that allow the US to circumvent Trumps policies and thus keep his regime going is bad. The big crash needs to happen before people are motivated to fight back. The slow frog boil is what led us here to begin with.
Don’t care about the grand casino lines and neither should you, unless you look at the fancy lines you personally invested in.
The bigger coming bomb will be when those tariffs actually catch up with domestic consumption (going down hard because no one has money anymore to pay for all of this), leading to mass layoffs, leading to even more reduction in consumption because even less people have money, leading to more layoffs, leading to… Mass austerity that will eat up the savings reached by dismantling the government, because of the brutal tax losses for the remnants of said government.
And 37% still approve of his “economic leadership”?
“You know, I saw MadMax back in the day and it seemed like the lads were having a lot of fun.”
Edit: Since this is not a meme sub: You know as well as I do that this many people genuinely believe Trump when he says this is somehow good for the US. The quote I’ve commonly read in connection with this is “finally the other countries will be paying their fair share!”.
Switzerland was so proud of avoiding the face eating leopard for so long. But the leopard found out how delectable Swiss faces are.
I’m sure China would send us those for free.
You guys seen the entire list?
This is the king demanding tribute from ALL his vassals.
Yeah my understanding of the ID situation in the US is certainly flawed. It seems labyrinthian to me at times due to all the different state ordenances. Although nothing compared to the US health care system. Jesus Christ. One thing I’ve learned here is that freedom certainly isn’t free.
“Leave” from public view. That is all people on the right ask of Musk. They are okay with his interference and interventions. He just makes himself too much of a target by being publicly visible.
You can’t be the shadow government when you’re exposed to sunlight. Then again, the brain behind the entire operation never stepped out of the shadows and will remain there. Peter Thiel.
Thanks for typing out the percentages, so far I’ve only seen emotional news reports about it without any detailed info.
Are these tariffs on ALL goods from a certain country? Eg, does 34% on China mean 34% on ALL Chinese goods or just certain ones like cars?
Well, one of two things will happen now.
The US economy will recede by roughly 30% over the coming years (classified by economists as “catastrophic collapse”)
It will turn out that trade was “fake and gay” all along and autarky is the way to go, despite centuries of historic lessons to the contrary.
Take your pick.
Also non-american here who lives in America now though. I was also confused about the backlash to voter ID back then (this is a VERY old issue) as in Germany you are required to show your ID when voting.
It has been explained to me that most Americans do not have ANY form of identification other than their drivers license. There is no personal ID you are required to possess like in Germany. The vast majority of Americans does not have, nor will ever have, a passport. Driver’s licenses are cheaper to obtain than in Europe, but you still have to provide a host of documents many poorer people might not be able to provide + you need to pass a driver’s test of course to get it. There are a lot of people who for one reason or another can not do that.
In other words, if you don’t pass a driver’s test in the US, you might as well not exist. There is still the “social security number”, but that one is NOT MEANT to be a form of identification, plus immigrants without citizenship can also obtain them (I should know, I have one). I don’t think a common driver’s license counts for voter ID’s purposes under that proposal, so the way to identifying yourself as a citizen is even more limited. There is a REAL ID program in some states, but not others. You also get that from the DMV, which again is just the motor vehicle office. It’s really fucked up here. All of it. A solution would be to require citizen ID’s like its done in Europe, but the government doesn’t want to pay for that and Americans are usually against something like that (“government overreach wah wah what’s next, chips in my skin???”). So…hm.
That’s a Tekken character.
You’re thinking of Martian law.
Like in the olden days. You raid a village with the boys and rape.
Obviously joking, though keep in mind that warfare and the subsequent rapes was usually how nations kept populations up. Plus, families have more children the poorer and more devastated an area is for some reason. So…good news! We will all have a goth GF in post-apocalyptic America.
There there. We will recover, brother. 😔
Yeah. The captain and the sailors would just laugh and underestimate it. “Let it get closer boys, don’t shoot at it. Looks really cute, take some pictures before we sink this museum piece hahahaha”.
Ram crashes down, rips into stored ammunition that blows half the ship apart, angry romans engage in brutal melee combat with confused and dazed marines.
1940: Big Chungus was created
1941: Avid film collector and Disney enjoyer Herr Hitler sees the episode
December 1941: Hitler declares war on the US despite objections from his entire military staff and without explanation.
That battle caused a mass-extinction event among the Total War community.
Frontal cavalry charge without any follow up
Siege engines positioned outside the fortifications against a mobile enemy
Projectile forces unsupported outside the fortifications
Melee infantry inside the castle, watching and picking their noses
My wife told me to shut up multiple times during that episode as I was screeching like a monkey. The wrong side won that battle that night.
I’ve never used twitter or facebook or tiktok and left reddit and 4chan. I don’t want to be part of the problem.
I want to be the ENTIRE problem.
Had to google her, don’t recognize her. Here’s my thrown stone. Don’t look at the glass castle behind me.
I think my body would have given out long before I ran out of things to say about Trump. I would have started with Plato, and ended with a litany of insults, everything that could possibly conceived by mankind. A 20 hour “Zaporizhian Cossack’s response to the Sultan”, but even more scathing.
Every person over the age of 18 dancing on a social media sites frequented by kids is immediately suspect.