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Why do people keep helping him???
Why does the rest of the world keep rolling over to his idle fucking threats???
There are a lot of reasons, most of them suck.
Short answer is he's just the front man for a much larger demographic and he's got a lot of financial systems held hostage because of almost 100 years of the US working to make the dollar the global currency. He's everyone's problem.
No, no, no, haven’t you seen the posts all over? He’s America’s problem and it’s their mess to clean up.
There’s absolutely no global impact on the rise of far right ideology and it’s certainly not trending up in pockets around the world.
The puppet regime that is the Trump administration isn’t an indicator of a larger global oligarchy problem at all.
He's the responsibility of the US. He's a global problem though.
Forget that, the USA are a global problem. He's just the band's leader.
He’s the American symptom of a global problem that is humanity’s responsibility.
The rest of the world ain't gonna throw him out. The USA have to handle this. The only country regularly invading others to change their governments is... well, you get it.
If you want Americans to throw him out, don't help his team just before election.
This move not only telegraphs that Europe + Canada and Japan wants him in power but also makes them release the supply that they will need.
If you think Trump is the problem your not paying attention. He’s just a puppet of his oligarch masters and they are feeding far right movements all over the globe.
He's A problem. Relax a little my friend, we share basically the same opinion.
Old but still true. “But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education SUCKS, and it’s the same reason it will never, ever, EVER be fixed. It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it, be happy with what you’ve got. Because the owners, the owners of this country don’t want that. I’m talking about the real owners now, the BIG owners! The Wealthy… the REAL owners! The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice! You have OWNERS! They OWN YOU. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want: They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that! You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shitty jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this fucking place! It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it! You, and I, are not in the big club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care! Good honest hard-working people; white collar, blue collar it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means, continue to elect these rich cock suckers who don’t give a fuck about you…. they don’t give a fuck about you… they don’t give a FUCK about you. They don’t care about you at all… at all… AT ALL. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth. IT’S CALLED THE AMERICAN DREAM, BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO BE ASLEEP TO BELIEVE IT.”
George Carlin
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At least it's a little harder everywhere else because most people haven't devolved into a political system of only A and B. That shouldn't make people elsewhere feel safer. It just means you have more time.
I used to think the EU was pretty solid but I've been seeing the ratcheting effect over there in recent years. With one or two bad actors completely stalling out protections. They better watch out.
Agree. ‘The most uneducated buffoon in history stands at a podium, bloated with self-importance, lips pursed like a carnival barker ready to sell turd milk to the unsuspecting. He grins a grotesque smirk stretched across his face as he scrawls his name onto a hollow decree, a sham celebration of the dismantling of knowledge itself. The Department of Education falls, not with a bang, but with wheezing verbs, suffocated under the weight of his own staggering ignorance. Surrounding him are the usual suspects: cowards in expensive suits, servile sycophants clapping like trained seals, and racist opportunistic ghouls picking clean the bones of democracy. Liars, fools, and thieves all parasites fattening themselves on the hardships of the many. They stand in rigid formation, dead-eyed and soulless, their allegiance sworn not to country, not to principle, but to power, and the dark, festering rot that clings to it. And there he is the convicted wrong, the living embodiment of septic tank spew, his voice a noxious fog of grift and grievance. He lectures the world on right and wrong, irony clawing at the walls, desperate to escape the grotesque theatre of his moral void. The stomach turns, the air curdles, and for a moment, history itself recoils watching, in horror, as the great American experiment teeters on the precipice, led by a man who couldn't spell "precipice" if his life depended on it.’
They are not helping out of their own volition. It's extortion. Europe imports 50% of its Diesel from the US. If we say no, not only the consumers will suffer, but the economy as a whole. Massively.
Didn't Europe learn anything for the past 10 years? If it somehow benefits him he will do it anyway.
I doubt he would do it though as this would actually increase prices in US as well.
The reason for it is that US doesn't have infrastructure to deliver diesel everywhere on its territory. Manny states import it, because that was more economical way. They likely would continue importing after experts are closed (as the only other way to deliver it is via diesel consuming trucks which is very expensive).
Now, because all of the produced diesel cannot be consumed, the refineries would have to reduce production which would further reduce the supply and increase prices.
That whole thing would also be a massive loss to his billionaire friends who own oil companies as for them this high price situation is a good mine.
The only time I see him ban experts is if Vlad would ask him to.
Also it's just on paper, like the agreement in summer last year where the EU agreed to buy more gas from the US than they actuallly produce, or invest a certain amount without any way of enforcing it.
It's just for the headline, nobody has any intention of following up, trump is just too dumb to realize that.
You smile, while you massively uspcale and speed up all the processes of untangling dependencies, building sovereign capabilities in areas that previously relied on the US etc. France is one of the best examples for that.
I just hope this is true. I really think America needs a good 20 years in the wilderness to contemplate what they did by voting in that corrupt, morally bankrupt, buffoon. I hope he rots in jail for all he has done.
What he's done is what they've always done, just more grotesquely and evidently.
This is factually untrue, at least in this case. If Donald had done what presidents always do, we'd still be in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In his first term he pulled the US military out of Syria and negotiated the withdrawal from Afghanistan. His record was consistent with the position he took in his campaign not to start forever wars.
The American people had good reason to believe we wouldn't be involved in another forever war and were also lied to.
And this is coming from someone who hates him as much as you do.
Everything he did somehow benefited Russia. He pulled from Syria right after US displaced mercenaries called Wagner. Russia took US positions.
He pulled from Afghanistan, freed captured Taliban soldiers and turned Afghanistan to Taliban. Taliban has friendly relationship with Russia and regularly visits Moscow.
He withdrew from Iraq, Iraq is helping Iran.
He started war with Iran just when the price of oil was so low that Russia was selling oil at a loss, then immediately removed sanctions on them (which doesn't increase supply, only allows Russia to sell at higher price)
Or was done to spite Democrats.
All of the good byproducts of Donald's presidency have been unintended. I fully agree. (And just making it clear, that's not sarcasm.)
Ignore all evidence and believe the lies repeated on fox news entertainment 24/7
Respectfully, you're the one ignoring the evidence here. It's a matter of historical record that, in Donald's first term, he got the US out of forever wars. So at least on the issue of war, it made sense for people to expect him to do the same in this term, because the pledge was consistent with his historical political actions.
That's false. At the end of the day it was Biden who is recorded in history as having withdrawn from Afghanistan though it is fair to say Trump wanted to make that happen and did some things to work towards it. It was also pretty clear that his support for Israel was more unquestioning and he actually contributed significantly to the destabilization of the middle east during his first term. He was also already doing some of what he's really been doing in a much bigger way to NATO and allies back then, another obvious destabilizing thing that may well lead to further conflict.
The least understandable mistakes people who bought that he'd be some kind of a force for peace did were to think his extremely divisive attitude could not extend to war and thinking he could be trusted on anything he says.
Yes. He had to adhere to the agreement negotiated by the prior administration. He still did everything in his power to fuck it up because he wanted the US military to remain there and keep filling the pockets of his Virginia war profiteering golf buddies.
Yes. Like every US president.
Nothing you're saying adequately contradicts my reply, nor does it support the original replier's thesis. The American people had reason to believe that Donald wouldn't start another forever war because his record was that of a president disentangling us from them. You can blame Donald voters for a lot of things, but you can't blame them for Iran, unless you're comfortable making yourself look stupid.
I made a different claim that you have not replied to, no doubt because you know you'd lose on the facts.
They absolutely did not and your reply that doesn't even try to address my arguments certainly does not convince anyone of it.
There's in fact a lot of reasons you could see Iran coming already from Donnie's earlier policy choices. You won't necessarily figure it out by just watching Fox News like it sounds you've been mostly doing though.
You're right, of course. Anyone who was a functioning adult for Trump's first term should remember that he almost started this BS with Iran then, when he proudly assassinated General Sulemani.
Thank you for the discussion. I hope you have a nice Sunday.
In this case? Because if Trump issues an export ban, gas prices in the EU are going through the roof.
It's extortion. Plain and simple.
They are already through the roof. Fuel costs more than 3 times as much as it did 20 years ago, and wages (at least in my country) have stagnated completely.
Inflation is not the same as price hikes due to shortages.
Because he weilds a lot of power :(
Nukes, most likely. He's been itching to use one.
Keep your head up. There's always the possibility that his next stroke will take him out.
This comment deserved more attention. He is going to go nuclear before his term is up. He needs to use that power, it’s in his dna to want to touch that stove.
I really don't see it, even with Trump
People have been saying this exact thing about him for ten years and he keeps violating it.
Because theyre not idle threats he really will tariff the fuck out of you if you don't comply.
The thing is, it was this b type of hubris that b for him into this mess and it's not going to get b him out of it