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They're about to enter an ultimately pointless trade war and production will be lowered through the ICE raids

I'm no expert but it will weaken short term
 
shakahislop

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neoliberalism is comprehensively over. the 2000s are dead and buried. trump is creating the first post-neoliberal state
 
hmg

hmg

Victory lap
wg- said:
They're about to enter an ultimately pointless trade war and production will be lowered through the ICE raids

I'm no expert but it will weaken short term
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Short term, the euro is approaching parity with the dollar 🤑

Medium to long term though, I think you're right. The dollar will likely weaken, bitcoin will soar.
 
Clinamenic

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
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There's a sense of Trump having reversed the old tragedy/farce sequence. The first time around was mass hysteria, a clown show. This time the mood feels very different: resigned and sombre on the liberal side, stern and ruthless on the conservative.

I'm wondering whether this could ultimately play in the Dems' favour. If they can sit back, let him make mistakes, then he may well dig his own grave. The alarmist approach has utterly failed.
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This is what I’m optimistically suspecting could happen. I do think this could plausibly turn out pretty well: Trump over-capitalizes on popular disillusionment and ends up overplaying his hand with gutting public institutions, and pushing the Overton window back toward the center (just like we libs overplayed our hand with the social justice cultural policing and pushed the Overton window to the right).
 
shakahislop

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Turns out HMG was right! said:
Sorry, no. The more corruption and outright treachery that is uncovered by the dissection of, for example, USAID, the worse it looks for libs.
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international aid is full of messy compromises. i'm sure they'll find a million things that they can shine a negative light on. ripping up USAID and starting again isn't such a bad idea in itself, it was never exactly a paragon of how to do aid. it was always quite far behind in fact. but obviously given who's in charge what comes next is probably likely to be worse. and doing it in this abrupt way is, without exaggeration, murderous. but then aid and humanitarian work is always life or death, the stakes are always very high
 
shakahislop

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the idea of elon musk being anywhere near aid policy, let alone in charge of it, is one of those strange feelings of falling into a parallel universe. impossible things coming true.
 
version

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Turns out HMG was right! said:
Sorry, no. The more corruption and outright treachery that is uncovered by the dissection of, for example, USAID, the worse it looks for libs.
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How will we ever know whether it's genuine corruption and outright treachery though? Trump, Musk and the rest of the GOP are completely untrustworthy.
 
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Recently I've been following some people who write about Yemen to try and understand it a bit more and some think it is a net positive as it will invariably reduce US influence in the regions.

Seems to me that it is quite politically naive to cut the knees off the regime change machine and potentially relinquish power bases for short term gain. These types of things are CIA facilitation tools as much as anything? Plus a way to launder money back into the economy through American consulting and construction. Perhaps our NGO mind can tell me if I am wrong on that

In terms of the superpower leverage surely a bit of Chinese solar/fusion influence and investment could really reshape the global game if they're not careful

Very insular looking America all of a sudden
 
luka

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vershy versh said:
There's a sense of Trump having reversed the old tragedy/farce sequence. The first time around was mass hysteria, a clown show. This time the mood feels very different: resigned and sombre on the liberal side, stern and ruthless on the conservative.

I'm wondering whether this could ultimately play in the Dems' favour. If they can sit back, let him make mistakes, then he may well dig his own grave. The alarmist approach has utterly failed.
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this is what the experts are saying
luka said:
"a lot of people say, Howie, if you're so sure Biden's election was a fix, then how come he didn't fix it a second time?
and you know, it's a great question. If 'they' were so keen to prevent Trump that they subverted democracy once, why roll
over and let him win next time around?
Well I'll tell you why. They didn't discredit Trump by having him lose. They didn't make the people turn against him. In
many ways they only made him stronger so here's what I think is the plan this time around
They let him win in order to destroy him. They'll be things happening, certain things, that they hope will discredit
him in the eyes of his supporters and they wager that that is the real way of defeating Trump."
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Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
vershy versh said:
How will we ever know whether it's genuine corruption and outright treachery though? Trump, Musk and the rest of the GOP are completely untrustworthy.
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Why are you even asking him? He's been chugging the kool-aid these past eight years. He's a fully signed up member of the cult.
 
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