have to agree, this flavour of populism is just growing every day. Canada's Trump-lite is hosting "huge" rallies. There's nothing more uniting than highlighting all the problems and offering to fix it. Especially when you have the media on your side doom and glooming any sort of constituent. Politics used to be hey we all want the same thing and disagree with the best way to get here, this is a good middle ground. Now its lines drawn in the sand, and whoever gives off the best vibes is the winner. Trump leaves, somebody will do the exact same thing. Power is a tasty drug.
China missed an opportunity to tweak Trump's nose. They should have announced a 35% tariff. That extra 1% probably would have made no difference to their economy, but it would have sent Trump ballistic because their number was bigger than his number.
Canada has entered the chat.
What part of, "It is a technicality in the case of the last election, but Trump would not have been president to begin with with one person, one vote." was not clear?
I've previously argued that Trump is quite possibly the first President in a long time, perhaps ever, who is actually representative of the majority of Americans. He's the quintessential American.
Dunno, but you prolly want to move this to the domestic thread before @herko seizes the opportunity to slather your face in Tyranny Yellow™.
Which "moderate" Republicans?
Markets depend upon trust, predictability and fair play. Adam Smith noted that—observing how difficult it was for economic growth in Medieval Europe due to this. If Trump starts playing games with the markets like he has with other dealings, he's risking stability of the Dollar. Warren Buffett warned about this in his recent annual report. Once the US losses dollar hegemony, it's game over.
Right. Maga will MAHA itself to death. There will be a mass die-off of these guys as they shun vaccines and modern medicine in favor of vitamin A and drinking bleach.
Trump deserves to be removed one way or another. Impeachment doesn't seem likely, nor does the 25th amendment. Hopefully he does choke on a mcdonald's burger one evening. Hegseth doing a coup on Trump? Can we dream?
The EU has accelerated free trade agreement negotiations with both India and Mercosur, aiming to close both this year, and then there's things like this:
Nepal. Holy shit. That's not letting the vampire past your door or anything.
In traditional lore, vampires could enter a house only when invited inside. Tigas used a metaphor to say that Nepal invited the vampire in its home to take the place of USAID.
It is quite weird because the noise we are making—I guess it is soft power?—is demands that countries basically can’t acquiesce to. Canada as a state. Give us Greenland. Countries don’t give up territory sovereignty willingly.
I don't think the USA asks anything in return for USAID that's commensurate to what China did to Tibet, just next door to Nepal.
He "wasn't loyal enough" - to Trump. He'll be replaced with somebody whose prime qualification is telling Trump he's right about everything.
The democratic system relies on voters having good information about candidates.
Yep. It's all still, "What if (insert terrible fascist thing) were to happen? That would trigger a Constitutional crisis." where the thing in the blank has already happened a bunch of times.
I'm more than a little scared the Murdoch empire is global (saved it) and find myself wondering which democracy will be the next to self-immolate. I'm not convinced the US will be the only one.
