Can you imagine the conversations happening in other government admins right now. They have actual intelligent people figuring out how to fuck over the U.S. tremendously right now
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Our president a delusional, semi-literate, Putin worshipper, and our “business elites” are now exposed as cowards who can’t summon the backbone to defend their own interests.
When Gorby tore down the wall and broke up the USSR there was a lot of enthusiasm and investment made in Russia entering the world economy. But with Putin it ultimately fell back to a failed state, a third-rate economy with nuclear weapons. Pretty much what's happened to the US
They are going to start grabbing the absolute cream of the intellectual crop in the coming months. Europe is going to completely dominate STEM going forward thanks to this.
As others have said Americans keep looking at everything through the lens of zero sum enemies or 'adversaries' but in reality the world is mostly just thinking about how to prevent YOU from fucking us, both intentionally & accidentally. Trump is the biggest threat to peace and stability in history.
In the case of Canada, there isn't really time or appetite for doing anything that isn't focused directly on rescuing our own economy and sovereignty. Schadenfreude and vengeance are luxuries for those who aren't facing existential threats. The appetite for empowering our own idiots has evaporated.
I think this is one reason China moved quickly to retaliate to the GOP tariffs. They wanted to send a message to the rest of the world that a big power intends to resist, which makes it easier for smaller powers to do the same and hope the US is forced to back down in the face of global outrage.
Canada is the perfect example. They have the only person to have led the central bank of two different nations crafting their response. We have the guy who filed for Chapter 11 six times leading us.
Yeah, don't envy us our bank weasel. While the US is a dumpster fire, shit is fucking terrible here and he's not going to do fuck all to help those struggling.
He's a billion times better than the fascist, but he's still a bank weasel.
Indeed. I'm rooting for a boring-yet-competent technocrat that I trust to do precisely none of the things that matter to keep us all from burning in a self-induced climate oven because the other legit option is a semi-closeted Christofascist. This is not what I was wanting for my aging years.
This is the thing we should be working on, not just continuing to vote in this fucked system where nothing will EVER improve. We NEED to make it so other parties can actually get seats and we can see some real change in this shitty country.
Re: good points made in the replies, it’s not even about intentionally fucking the U.S. over but rather that in protecting themselves the U.S. will be further fucked over by itself
Yes, this is it. My sense in Canada is that the mood is to figure out our plan first. I don’t get a sense of vengeance. There is an existing trade agreement between our countries that needs addressing and all parties are aware of the legal issues of breaking CUSMA.
Yeah, I've detected what maaaay be attempts to decouple global economics from the dollar because it's been a common canard that if it goes down, the global economy goes down.
Now would be a good time for the rest of the world to de-emphasize us, though that is a big task.
@ min 38: Most cogent synopsis of both the risk of crypto to US power (based on dollar as global reserve currency) and the Broligarchs project for undermining it 🙏🏼
The US is forcing two options onto the rest of the world: either capitulate and give the US a positive trade balance, or stop doing business with the US.
Obviously, that’s not how it works. The US imports basic materials for cheap and exports expensive refined goods and services. 🧵
If you’re exporting 3 units of basic material that can be made into 9 units of refined product, but you’re only getting paid enough to buy 1 unit of refined product, then obviously a trade surplus isn’t sustainable.
So they’ll refine products themselves, or find other customers.
I wouldn't go so far calling it like a group that have on their agenta to fuck over the US.
It is more like how to handle the idiot in the white house.
Here in Denmark, the government is very diplomatic in their statements.
The news are more harch reporting..
But, no one is bad talking you guys
Amd pure enemy within who riles us with criminal intent is taking his revenge on us by turning his actions against our outside allies onto us by them too
We are surrounded by enemies internal and external because of one man who hates us ALL, including his own cult fans
with a few exceptions, their goal isn’t to fuck over our country but apply enough pressure to make the trump admin blink, for their own countries’ sakes if nothing else
only our country is 100% dead set on fucking others over
it’s really important we don’t think of them as our enemies. none of them want to do this. they’re not against us. they’re against the trump admin, but even that they’d have left go if he’d stop fucking with their own livelihoods.
they want what benefits them which would be normal trade
i was talking to my dad about the tariffs and he acts like china is always our enemy and thats why its bad they make our pharmaceuticals, to the point that he is worried they'll poison us. like 1. only 2% of our pharma products even come from china and 2. THEY LIKE MONEY TOO. WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT?
No, because I'm stuck in U.K and we're obsessed with being Americas bitch, so ours are just trying to figure out which way Trump would like us to bend over.
We're tied to U.S, it goes down, we go down too, but hopefully I'll have managed to leave or die before then, cos it's gonna be ugly.
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He's a billion times better than the fascist, but he's still a bank weasel.
And also, yes
This is the thing we should be working on, not just continuing to vote in this fucked system where nothing will EVER improve. We NEED to make it so other parties can actually get seats and we can see some real change in this shitty country.
There's a reason Glitch sided with the dems trying to overturn the Canadian tariffs. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Now would be a good time for the rest of the world to de-emphasize us, though that is a big task.
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Obviously, that’s not how it works. The US imports basic materials for cheap and exports expensive refined goods and services. 🧵
So they’ll refine products themselves, or find other customers.
The US has no empathy or understanding for the rest of the world, and so that is reflected back onto the US.
This is blowback, and it happened the first time around too.
There’s also a podcast titled that too.
We've gone backwards enough that America gets slavery back (those deportation camps WILL be coming home for "camp labor" on this trajectory.)
It is more like how to handle the idiot in the white house.
Here in Denmark, the government is very diplomatic in their statements.
The news are more harch reporting..
But, no one is bad talking you guys
We are surrounded by enemies internal and external because of one man who hates us ALL, including his own cult fans
only our country is 100% dead set on fucking others over
they want what benefits them which would be normal trade
none of these countries are our enemy
even china is not our enemy. frenemy, i’ll give you.
If Trump was working for Putin with the aim to destroy America forever, how would anyone tell the difference?
The CIA used to overthrow Russian-controlled dictatorships, why are they waiting?
I have not touched a can or bag of GOYA since 2017 since they cheesed all over Trump.
Nor there choc-pudding
A lot of Americans do not understand that there will be no recovery at the fundamental level of retail abroad for American goods.
I mean this admin. is the most incompetent ever
It will take so long to undo this damage. And that's assuming this administration doesn't completely burn America to the ground.
They’re too busy to be worrying about some failed state.
We're tied to U.S, it goes down, we go down too, but hopefully I'll have managed to leave or die before then, cos it's gonna be ugly.