But when you add Putin into the mix then it all makes sense.
Yeah, I think this is the correct angle.
People (e.g. mainstream press) are responding to these events as if Trump were actually trying to accomplish something useful for the US - as if he were well-intentioned but incompetent.
But (1) Trump is a compulsive liar, so his talk about “Make America Great” should be treated with suspicion, and (2) Trump is owned by foreign interests (Russia, China, Saudi Arabia) who will benefit from the US having weakened international relationships.
From this point of view, it makes sense that Trump is alienating our allies.
Trump is a fool who is being used by hostile powers to sabotage the USA and its allies. But he’s also a bitter, vindictive, petty little man who wants to sabotage his country anyway.
The US is not, and never will be, “his” country.
You also have to consider that any time Trump refers to America, or the American people, he’s actually referring to himself. Substitute the word “trump”, and the statements make much more sense.
Yes, I think that Trump considers the USA to be “his country” - not in the patriotic sense, but in the “my property” sense.
Couldn’t agree more. It’s the narcissism.
Legit question, why and how is he owned by Russia, China and Saudi Arabia?
Speaking for the Russia part, he owed 400 million to Deutsche Bank (https://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-secret-ugly-breakup-with-deutsche-bank-revealed-2022-10) which was his biggest single lender and which just happens to be the same bank which also funneled billions of Russian dark money offshore (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/29/deutsche-banks-10-billion-scandal). Just a coincidence no doubt.
To add to this, the FBI has been trying to prove his connections to Russian crime organizations forever. I wanna say since the 70s. Russian criminals have major stakes in Trump Towers - including actual real estate - and he’s been “gifted” everything from private planes to yachts by them. The FBI has never been able to get anything to stick, however.
Whenever You start a sentence with “Trump”, it will probably end with “dumbest in history”. You actually only need one more word, “Trump is dumbest in history”. Simple, tells the story.
They don’t get to say shit, as they were directly involved with electing this shitstain.
Yes, we know. But if the established, non-broligarch folks realize that they won’t be in the winning end after it’s all done, they might do something about it. Not until all the brown people are exported and the government is drowned in the bathtub, though. Those were the WSJ’s priorities all along. if they get upset, it will only be because Elon jumped the line in front of them for the cash.
I agree, but the guy literally said this was what he was going to do, and they were all for it then.
We can parade around and yell “we told you so” or we can welcome anyone who wants to add to the resistance. It’s up to us. That said, I don’t know if WSJ will ever be of any meaningful value to the resistance.
Dumbest trade war in history…so far
Doesn’t matter, he doesn’t read. His aides might, but they won’t tell him for fear of getting fired.
Trump’s tariffs are going to hurt businesses. It is very likely that his policies are only going to help his selected cronies and his own family. As we can see, the stock market also went down after announcing the tariffs.This is why oligarchs are up in arms.
That being said, the good news is that agitated oligarchs could move against Trump and support someone more business friendly. Harris before the elections has been endorsed by economists as being good for the economy. Oligarchs could endorse someone more moderate after Trump’s presidency (if there will ever be another election).
Just fyi to everyone, I am not saying that oligarchs are good overall. I am just saying that the US is an oligarchy for all intents and purposes, and since Plato mentioned that oligarchy is not a unified group, they still each have their own interest and that could be used to advantage.
They can make money on market downturns; especially if they know it’s going to go down beforehand. Also, during extreme downturns, the rich buy up everything for cheap.
The tariffs is going to affect the American economy as a whole in the long term. This will definitely make the rich angry.
I mean it makes perfect sense there WSJ, the journal that tacitly endorsed this fuckwit, he’s a massive fuckwit that doesn’t understand how anything works.
And you guys backed him, your editorials proved that regardless of your “no endorsement” fuckery, so fuck you feigning shock when a moron does moronic things.
It’s not about being smart for America, it’s about being smart for Putin. Trump’s going to do that with every single decision until we’re completely destroyed.
I hear that again and again, but I don’t quite understand the endgame anymore.
There was the theory Russia had compromising material on him to get him to play along, but the MAGA crowd is so committed and reverent that I’m not sure anything could shame him anymore.
Russia could show a tape of him porking his 7-year-old daughter on the Times Square Jumbotron and the GOP would rally to lower the age of consent to 6. If the Russian financial authorities showed incontrovertible proof that Trump was broke, Congress would declare he had a bazillion FreedomBux ™ to magically settle his debts.
Why would he bother listening when there’s no leverage left?
It’s more chilling to think this is pure domestic terror with no evil-other boogeyman to blame. The far right got all their best and brightest in one place, and thry couldn’t dilute their paranoia and hate enough to serve their greed.
There is no endgame for these clowns, only opportunism.
Yes, any kompromat the Russians had is completely useless now. Even if people believe it to be true, he apparently wouldn’t lose a single vote.
Trump is a coward and Putin has a long history of causing bad things to happen to those who cross him. Even if kompromat is no longer necessary, that doesn’t mean Russian leverage over Trump no longer exists.
There are just so many upper storey windows with poor latches on them. Anything could happen.
I don’t know if I think it’s Kampromat so much as simply business. Republicans have been flying to Russia to suck dick for years now, even on American holidays, just so Putin can show the world they’re bought and paid for dogs. I think it’s as simple as that - whatever endgame there is is part of whatever contract they made with another country’s leader in exchange for him getting them in power and them letting him weaken and destroy the country. In the end, they all get to be lords of the ashes, and that suits all their interests just fine.
It’s dumb, it’s Trump.
You must go and get this trademarked under your name. Either you make money by exploiting this trademark or by selling back to Trump and his acolytes so you can’t use but either way you make bank!
It makes sense.
If the goal is to create a crisis so bad, it requires unitary executive power “to solve”.
In case of US it probably also makes sense as a tax since US is so deep in debt and tarrifs are probably the only acceptable tax for trump voter base .
The revenue is like a drop in the bucket, maybe not even a gain at all if it reduces economic activity.
We will need more taxes on the not-rich.
