Attention seeking behavior, the coup de gras, he goes golfing while the world worries, cut him off world, a narcissist can’t handle being dismissed, form new alliances, most have, ignore him, does not get along well with others, countries will trade goods like they always have with or without dumpy
Not risk, it is stupidity. This is the equivalent of economic “bleach” in its stupidity, lack of strategy, absence of logic, and expense to Americans. Call it what it is - it is the work of child!
You could also translate it as "no damned idea what he's doing", "eagerness to watch the world burn", "retaliatory executive action from sundowning manchild"
Why wouldn't he be about risk? He's a lame duck, has virtual presidential immunity, won't be impeached, managed to avoid any criminal trials for his previous "presidential" acts, & has a gang of thugs ready to carry out anything & every demand he's now making.
They can't bring themselves to state the true, the obvious, the necessary. It's almost as if the people in charge are afraid of Trump OR are benefitting and profiting from kissing his ass. Hmm. What are the odds?
as incredulous as it seems, yes, the world bows or he’ll tantrum, last time they hurt his wittle feelings, he’s found the power, whatever the fallout for US,doesn’t matter, it’s all about getting them, the big man with the power, the world will manage without him, new alliances formed already
I saw that headline this morning and wanted to vomit. He's not risking anything. He's just fucking around to see who he can bully like he always does. When things go south, it won't hurt him personally. It'll just hurt us, and he couldn't give a shit about us. He's not president because he cares.
As usual, @nytimes.com headline writers bending over backwards to make Trump sound like some visionary, misunderstood genius. I guess such flexibility is easier when you lack a spine.
People are getting this wrong. This is a power and control scheme by Trump to get corporations and governments to bend the knee in exchange for special exemptions. This is what dictators do gain and keep control and loyalty. Extortion is another way to put it.
'Appetite for risk'... come on, NY Times. Every once in a while you face the awful truth about the orange menace you helped elect via 'sanewashing' his dementia during the campaign. Don't give his econ-wrecking ball the same treatment.
In business, he would just declare bankruptcy. Running the nation, (Oh, can it be true that this sex abuser & convicted felon is actually POTUS (Pestilence of the United States again?) he will just allow the national debt to increase to weaken America as part of Putin's plan.
Follows his "instincts"? Are they fucking kidding? He's insane, these are his fantasies, delusions, not instincts. He doesn't understand what he doesn't understand.
How? A simple formula: our trade deficit divided by the amount we import from that country, divided by two. The bigger our deficit with a country, the higher the tariff. Bizarrely, the White House insisted it had not done this—while releasing equations showing that’s precisely what they had done.
I know tariffs are a tax, is that because,
When the Gov't taxes imports
The companies who import goods are charged
So they raise prices on goods to still make profit
So then when it gets to the consumer the price is raised
Then that making the sales tax higher?
Which gives the Gov't more money?
The companies that import goods are taxed to cover the tariffs. They raise prices of tariffed goods to cover their increased costs due to paying the tariff tax, which means the everyone downstream of them is effectively paying the tax, just indirectly.
Yep. The thing is he doesn’t think it’s a risk. He thinks it’s simple and he doesn’t understand why nobody has done this simple obvious thing before. The press continues to ascribe waaay too much brainpower to him.
He’s not a master chess player. He’s an idiot without a clue. How many of his own businesses did he see come to ruin? Why does he get the benefit of the doubt over and over again?
Other high profile people with "appetites for risk" include but are not limited to:
Charles Manson
Dennis "BTK Killer" Rader
Timothy McVeigh
Osama Bin Laden
Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez
Bernie Madoff
etc.
Read these books by Dr. Bandy X. Lee: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump and her follow up book: The More Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. Psychiatrists discuss his severe mental illness. He is unhinged and can’t function in the real world. What Trump is doing is madness. Please tell people!
That's a fair description of all 3 old man leaders of the nuclear superpowers. What makes these such dangerous times isn't so much the risk of nuclear war (though it's definitely there), it's that when they rage they're pretty much unstoppable.
Also worth mentioning that this isn’t risky behavior to trump. In his mind that’s just how he operates, and he always gets away with it. He has no filter, no self control and no intellect. He can’t be any other way. We need to be rid of him.
I hope that you are right. Decent Americans support none of this. Honestly, we’re rooting for Canada and the EU and the rest of our former allies. The ones who can are leaving to move there.
We're still going to hurt depends on how long it takes to get trade deals turned around I feel sorry for the good people of the USA there going to find out what it was like in the 30s but the non voters and Mega no sympathy they brought it on themselves I didn't think it was going to hurt them bad
They are to news as Columbia is to academia and Skadden, Sidley et. al. are to law. They really think they can burrow in to the New Order as the semi-official organ of the managed opposition.
It's working for them so far, but it won't protect them from the inevitable purges.
The New York Times dumbassery never ceases. Trump's appetite isn't about risk, it's his appetite for universal destruction of the American way of life. Get that through your fucking NYT heads, you stupid mother fuckers!
Came here to say this - they’ve lost their way - Trump winning the election kept him out of jail - that and the SCOTUS treatment means he has zero risk of anything besides rebellion really - even a blind man could see that
Taking risks is fun when you, yourself, will suffer no ramifications after things go wrong. You'll live in one of your luxurious country club estates for the rest of your life. It's EVERYBODY ELSE who bears the risks you take.
WTF? “Appetite for risk” would be him ordering salad… what he is doing is not risk, it is mindless destruction of this country (while inflicting as much pain as possible on our allies). There is no alternative motive or some kind of bright goal… inflicting pain is the only reason.
I opened the Times app, saw this headline at the top of my feed and was awed. Such marvelous sanewashing. Do they have, like, a situation room where editors huddle after each insanity to make a plan of non-attack?
If we REALLY want to hit Trump where it hurts we don’t need to add tariffs to OJ or Harley Davidsons; what we need to hit hard are the 8 or 9 internet and tech moguls that sat with Trump on inauguration day.
They are the source of his power and wealth - knobble them and you hobble him.
Risk implies a potential upside you psychopaths @nytimes.com not-the only possibility is recession, global isolation, mass unemployment, hunger, shortages,homelessness. The times is so broken
The Lying King says tariffs are good for the economy!
But what he is doing is illegal that’s the homily!
The stock market is plummeting thanks to him!
The only one making money is Muskrat, The Lying King and their friends!
Sorry to be blunt: there is no risk - for he is not going to relinquish power. There are no future elections on his agenda. It’s the authoritarian playbook 101. If you think it’s impossible, just sit and wait.
Just come out and call him a not too bright sociopath who just dropped a device of mass destruction on the world economies - and our own. And he still has access to nukes. Clear and Present Danger.
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Trump = president.
Musk = the Nazi
Canceling SSA contracts for political revenge violates:
5 CFR §2635.101 (ethics),
18 USC §242 (rights abuse),
APA (arbitrary action),
Hatch Act (political misuse of office)
Exposes USA to fraud & civil rights claims.
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When the Gov't taxes imports
The companies who import goods are charged
So they raise prices on goods to still make profit
So then when it gets to the consumer the price is raised
Then that making the sales tax higher?
Which gives the Gov't more money?
The result last time was The Great Depression.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Smoot-Hawley-Tariff-Act
Thank you for clarifying
“Ego driven insanity” wrong.
Charles Manson
Dennis "BTK Killer" Rader
Timothy McVeigh
Osama Bin Laden
Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez
Bernie Madoff
etc.
Military arrest him before we are bombed by our enemies.
Also worth mentioning that this isn’t risky behavior to trump. In his mind that’s just how he operates, and he always gets away with it. He has no filter, no self control and no intellect. He can’t be any other way. We need to be rid of him.
It's working for them so far, but it won't protect them from the inevitable purges.
Wow. Just wow.
RISK
eff the nyt
They are the source of his power and wealth - knobble them and you hobble him.
@nytimes.com
“Grok, write an article hypernormalizing The Great Depression for our readers.”
But what he is doing is illegal that’s the homily!
The stock market is plummeting thanks to him!
The only one making money is Muskrat, The Lying King and their friends!
I don't know why so many people refuse to see the obvious.