That’s fair…

America will withdraw from anywhere without a direct financial benefit to the administration. This creates a vacuum and blind spots that will be filled by the US’s adversaries, creating an even more opaque playing field for the US.

Heavily tarrifed sales to the US will be paid for by the US citizens while at the same time non US companies will see their sales in the US decline. If he removes income tax, this might be a bump in take home, but won’t offset the rise in prices, especially not if US companies will just raise their prices to as close as possible match the non US alternatives making record profits.

Trump will demand countries pay for us protection, but having shown to be unreliable, this might mean some short term income for the US, the countries will scramble to be independent from the US and the US MIC as they cannot be trusted either (the us might stop sales, or even turn of supplied weapons).

The same for Ukraine, most likely Trump will just tell Europe to poney up the money and as long as the EU has no alternative they will have to, or they will allow Ukraine to fall, blaming it on trump. Regardless the relationship between the US and the EU will dramatically sour.

Since the EU is in an energy crisis, most likely Trump will try to price gouge the EU here as well… on the other hand, drill baby drill could mean cheaper energy overall giving him severe leverage over countries in the middle east.

I even spoke to american friends about the issues, but the propaganda was too strong.

Maybe a warning for future generations about what is apparently acceptable discourse now.

The “economy” does not help people pay their bills. And the unit of measurement only says something about the whole. The fact that a small portion of the people actually profit from this better economy is the issue, the unit of measurement has no bearing on normal people.

And now, we will see what trade tarrifs will do, and gutting the administration and filling it with partisan players (loyalty > capability). And what gutting protection and health agencies will do.

Now that it’s done I personally am morbidly curious what Trump, Vance, Kennedy and Musk can do to America in the next term (and possibly beyond). I really wonder if this will be as dark as it can be… but the project 2025 ghouls are scary as fuck.

What is the over under on a national abortion ban in the US?

If you got skills, pick a country and go to their immigration website. They will happily walk you through the process.

20 million people did not stay home over Palestine. People aware of that issue are also acutely aware of the fact Trump would be worse.

Apparently a lot of apathy among dem voters, or they also think a strongman for a while would be OK.

Yeah…

Carlson is a pathological liar who has burned all his “normal” options for income, so the only stream of revenue left is the conspiracy nut jobs. He has started drilling into the Alex Jones type follower crowd, to grift them. No more, no less. He’s not more insane than he was, he is just pandering to a more lunatic crowd now.

Never attribute to malice what can just as easily be explained by incompetence.

So he’s an industrial scale scab.

Counting and addition a methodology?

The only thing might be the “red mirage / blue wave” from 2020 caused by the fact Trump told his followers to only vote in person and the Dems told people to vote by mail as there was a pandemic going on. This caused the mail in ballots to be predominantly dem and the in-person ballots to be predominantly rep. The mail in ballots in some states can only be counted after the polls close… creating the illusion of impropriety if you don’t understand what’s going on. Trump and his team pushed on this specifically to their uninformed voter base.

The language they speak is also not a Slavic language but closer to Italian.

In the Netherlands we also had a specific windfarm canned because they could not mitigate the impact on a specific NATO radar system. There was an option to put a high tower for the radar system, but these windmills are so damn huge.

Thanks. Voted for them.

Why would they send anything? They sold them the mercenaries, Russia needs to arrange the rest.

The aoldiers will be paid as north Korean soldiers meaning a few dollars per month, the signing bonus and actual monthly salary Russians pay their mercenaries is pocketed by the Kim family.

So? Technology moves forward. So of you have a phone no longer compliant you need to get a replacement.

It’s time the plastic branch is legally made responsible for recycling. Only they can do it. If you make it you are responsible from cradle to grave.

Yes, the phones are non compliant and need to be barred. This is good. Everyone must be able to access emergency services in times of crisis. The fact some manufacturers make phones that don’t use 4g for this means their phones rely on outdated tech and standards and will be excluded.

Railing against this is just weird.

Whoa… TIL.