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Trump started out as a clown. He may end up actually starting World War III.
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quickymart: President Donald Trump gave himself an “A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus” grade on the economy...
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President Donald Trump gave himself an “A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus” grade on the economy...
What the hell. If how he sees things now as "A+++++" Christ only knows what he'd say during a recession!
'A' stands for ass.hole.
No, gotta take that back. Anuses are useful; something that Pumpkinhead will never be.
Trump crowned? No faux King way!
Interesting article from a Canadian at a big NATO-sponsored government/military conference. I'll have to munge the URL a bit because it has a bad word in it but it is well worth a read: https://www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurney-we-will-never-f***ing
But before I could worry about it too much, a senior military officer from a major (non-American) allied nation drove a stake right through the heart of the matter.
America has blown 80 years of accumulated goodwill and trust among its allies, our American moderator was told. A rock-steady assumption of allied defence and security planning for literally generations has been that America would act in its own interests, sure, but that those interests would be rational, and would still generally value the institutions that America itself worked so hard to build after the Second World War. America’s recent actions have destroyed the ability of any ally to continue to have faith in America to act even within its own strategic self-interest, let alone that of any ally.
The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.
Because “we will never f***ing trust you again.”
The Americans at the table seemed somewhat startled by the heat of that pronouncement. I agreed with it entirely. So, it seemed to me, did most of the non-Americans.
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quickymart: President Donald Trump gave himself an “A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus” grade on the economy.... What the hell. If how he sees things now as "A+++++" Christ only knows what he'd say during a recession!
"Most biggest and beautiful recession the world has ever seen! Everyone loves me and loves everything I do!" 🙄
The USA is only realising the dystopian crises and situations that Hollywood brought to the cinema in numerous films, in which the protagonists saved the world. That's why Donald sees himself as a kind of ‘Superman.’ Fortunately, I have already travelled to many different regions, because the USA will probably never see me again (but also because there are still other countries to visit).
Every time I see yet another article beginning with the T-word its rapidly followed by the thought - whats the idiot done now...
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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gzt: EU fines Twitter €120 million for transparency breaches
"The European Union is not democracy - rule of the people - but rather bureaucracy - rule of the unelected bureaucrat!"
and
"The EU should be abolished, and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better better represent their people."
quickymart: US President Donald Trump's administration is planning to order visa-exempt foreign tourists, including Australians [and Kiwis], to disclose their social media histories from the past five years before entering the country.
Jerome Powell the head of the Federal Reserve, his term ends in May. The hot favourite is Trump's chief economic advisor who is a staunch MAGA ally. So... the FED who is independent, and Powell has shown that, will now see Trump as the defacto Fed Reserve head. Interest rates will drop to his desires on any given day. Inflation will rise.
China who has a large trade surplus with the US was hit by tariffs to reduce that. But, China's exports to the US are at record highs. Not working, but the US will garner millions in tariffs, partly paid by China exporters (as they manufacture/produce cheaper so can wear some of that) and US residents. Another loss
gzt:Applicants would also have to submit other "high-value data fields" including phone numbers from the last five years, email addresses from the past decade, personal details of family members and biometric information.
With that level of information it's likely there will be many false positives and holidays ruined at the point of entry. Many tourists will choose to go elsewhere, almost anywhere else.
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gzt:Applicants would also have to submit other "high-value data fields" including phone numbers from the last five years, email addresses from the past decade, personal details of family members and biometric information.
With that level of information it's likely there will be many false positives and holidays ruined at the point of entry. Many tourists will choose to go elsewhere, almost anywhere else.
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As gzt said, they will go elsewhere. Tourism revenue drops, as will employment in that sector. Friendly countries will benefit. As Rachel Hunter once said, it wont happen overnight but it will happen. Add the preference to not buy US goods, it will go on and on. And when we have another POTUS, GOP or Democrat, the trust is gone, so the greater world will avoid the US as and where it can, as I recall I stated a good while back here
Friends hang out with friends. Or in the global sphere where there are always issues, they hang out where the resistance is less
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