Ironically, a president causing a world-historic economic crash at the outset of his term and allowing roiling public fury to build over the course of the following years is something we actually do have a precedent for.
If they do, they will simply blame it on the "Marxists" & "globalists", the MAGA base will buy it, and the GOP will go along with the ride. Fun times ahead!
dipshit survived impounding foreign aid for political favors, a complete clusterfuck mismanagement of the largest casualty event in america since the civil war, and a coup attempt. i'm not sanguine for how the captured gop is going to handle this.
Once the economy crashes hard and real protests start, I predict an Executive Order that permits any law enforcement officer to “shoot on sight” anyone who the officer thinks might possibly be “disturbing the peace” or be an “illegal”.
I mean, it's capable, but not going to. The real test will be if a sufficient number of Americans will get off the couch and protest (the threat of which was what really removed Truss).
between tariffs, alliance-damage forcing people to redirect money towards defence and look for US product replacement, supply chain carnage, and debt-financing a trillion-dollar bitcoin heist, they are going to fly the economy straight into a cliff.
Like it genuinely hasn't sunk in for most people (especially in DC yet) that this admin, unchecked, is not a center-right country where numbers go 2% one way instead of 2% the other. This isn't playing with fire at home, it's playing with fire at the refinery.
I said it in another thread a bit ago but like… I live in metro DC, and if they take away the livelihoods of tens of thousands? hundreds of thousands? of federal employees and contractors at once, idk man, I feel like that’s a recipe for learning the hard way why regimes mostly don’t do that
I hope you're right, but somehow I doubt it because the news has yet to report this with headlines other than "The Government canceled some scientific meetings"
what i find fascinating about this is that there's like multiple different blocs at play here much like Neumann's theorizing in BEHEMOTH - DOGE, Vought, Miller, Claremont/Heritage guys, etc
I have told my boss that if he ever puts me in a room with a DOGE commissar, he will—at minimum—have to fire me, and that’s if I don’t leave in handcuffs.
Ah, hell, someone just say it. We're getting a new Great Depression by the end of the year, the whole world is feeling it, and there's no place that gets you out.
He’s nuked-pretty much the entire us innovation and technical advantage in the course of a fucking week. We’re going to be so far behind the rest of the world if this shit keeps up.
Is it wrong to see this as a kind of best case scenario because it’s the only thing that has a chance of really stopping all the other world historically terrible shit they’re otherwise gonna do?
Yeah, I’ve been thinking this too. I also don’t think a good section of his base would stand for it. Tons are honest to god Christian nationalists,don’t get me wrong, but a lot just want more money in their pockets. And if he doesn’t give that to them, they’re also all armed.
I wouldn't count on Trump's base revolting against him. If Trump tells them it's all Democrats' fault, I think they'll turn on the Dems in their own neighborhoods.
I also saw that they are proposing/floating getting rid of like a third of our army (like the soldiers), shutting down dod schools for the kids of service people, and getting rid of all commissaries. Moral would be taaaaannked.
tbf,. even honest to god christian nationalists are goinbg to be real pissed when they realize being a christian nationalist doesnt insulate you from the economy being lit on fire
I wonder if this is what happened:
- 74% of economists predict recession by end 2021
- tech bros negatively polarized into cheering for it
- they see that recession could boost crypto, kill competitors
- no recession
- Trump is nominee, realize they could engineer a real recession
Yep. Remove taxes, hope tariffs and inbound industry makes the difference. It won't and if it did it will take decades. Very Cambodia Year Zero, or Chairman Mao Cultural Revolution, or USSR five year plan. S&P and Moodys can be bought off to protect credit ratings. Will mkt forces allow it.
In all seriousness - how close is the US to a total collapse right now? Like is it coming within a month? Six months? A year? Because from here it looks like trump has pulled every government agency's teeth, covered the citizens in gasoline and started playing with a zippo.
We are definitely going to find out just how effective the various proposed, uh, Truss-removal methods are. So far several of them have been tried and they’re not batting too good
The critical weakness in the US constitution is the lack of a provision for a snap election. The fixed congressional terms are a disastrous overcorrection to the abuse of rump parliaments.
The particular one about removing a sitting PM was already in place. Lord North was voted out by Motion of No Confidence for, um, losing the Revolutionary War
I feel like he's even more obsessed with people liking him and also less of a charismatic leader, so the infighting is gonna be even worse than it is now.
[one month from now]
"The terms are simple, good people of the Fired Fed Army: Drive every Republican from DC, and then we can restart the checks and restore your titles and pensions."
I figure he's so weak and charmless that either he
a) tries to act normal Republican, to soothe the forces that installed him.
b) channels the worst person on his Twitter timeline and finds himself ripped limb-from-limb by a bipartisan mob inside a fortnight.
Right, he tries to act "normal republican" and MAGA tears him limb from limb, he goes the other route he the limb from limb tearing is bipartisan. It's just a matter of if he wants the limb tearing to happen from everyone or just one group.
Yup, after months of the Financial talking heads saying lower taxes and regulation would be great and that aside from that no great difference between Trump and Harris. How many black swans is Trump going to create? Trade, Destruction of rule of law, of NATO... place your bets!
Underrated that, while 2022 was a bad year for British politics, it was a good one for the British constitution, with MPs (eventually) removing two deeply unsuitable Prime Ministers, plus a monarchical transition to boot.
Hm, they were looking for loopholes in our constitutional practices way before that, Cummings/Johnson/Rees Mogg, proroguing Parliament to try and railroad some Brexit stuff.
Bingo the tech bros AND trump are all in on the pump and dump crypto BITCOIN schemes. And the tech bros are ideologues who want a crypto economy that they can benefit from.
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...nothing except blind faith and stupidity.
https://bsky.app/profile/tadaaa.bsky.social/post/3lgryqlgzj222
He just wants to play golf and make a few billion dollars.
That's a genuinely good reminder that I should be careful about how I post about alcohol and drinking
We don’t have a project 2029 either.
Senate dopes are having a presser today addressing workshopped phrases about Last Weeks Jan 6 releases?
Wtf?
nobody comes out of this unscathed
- 74% of economists predict recession by end 2021
- tech bros negatively polarized into cheering for it
- they see that recession could boost crypto, kill competitors
- no recession
- Trump is nominee, realize they could engineer a real recession
He could be removed
The question is:
Will the ones capable of this, actually do it?
In the first administration if enough people got mad and started shouting at him, he had the good sense to back off.
We will soon find out if that is still the case.
"The terms are simple, good people of the Fired Fed Army: Drive every Republican from DC, and then we can restart the checks and restore your titles and pensions."
a) tries to act normal Republican, to soothe the forces that installed him.
b) channels the worst person on his Twitter timeline and finds himself ripped limb-from-limb by a bipartisan mob inside a fortnight.
This may not be the case here, given what’s happening with farm workers.
Speak out against them and they will withhold tfe social credits do you can’t get food.