F*** this s***

Also super helpful, gonna do a deep dive on this the next few days/weeks

A perfect example of the leader for peace and freedom

yay trump will let me be canon fodder in the canadian american war

The reward is putting a pause on tariffs only to make your country's economy go back to s*** 90 days later?

Secret: there's no reward

i don’t get what trump means when he says the US is a victim. we’re the only empire in history that’s exported debt for decades.. there’s nothing else like it. our biggest export is just debt/money, and in return we get a flood of cheap s***. yeah, we should definitely bring back production of important stuff like semiconductors, medical supplies, transportation and weapons, but we don’t need to be making temu phone cases here.

it feels like this whole “victim” narrative is just political rhetoric aimed at deindustrialized areas. in reality, it’s the opposite. the US built the global system around its own liquidity. the world runs on our money. if anything serious happens to US debt, the entire global economy collapses with it.

these people are victims of greedy multinational corporations and wall street not the Chinese. China devalues their currency to boost exports, but we created the game they’re playing. who lobbied to move all these jobs to India, Mexico, China etc? wall street and multinational corporations.

it's like playing a board game you rigged and then being mad other people are trying to use the rules (you made) to their advantage.

Condom Eyes coded

Why would any country f*** with America after this

If you make people feel like they are a victim and you are their savior, you get loyal people willing to accept anything and do anything for you. There's cults based on this, and is the backbone to religions

Trump has been doing this since 2015 and the whole idea of make America great again boils down to "you are all victims don't you wish you weren't a victim like in the good ole days"

yeah i don't disagree and that's how fascism generally works

you take some truth "these people are victims of someone" which is true but then you just redirect them to another target like "the Chinese & Latin Americans" so they don't put the pieces together

i'm sure this and our facilitation of genocide in Palestine will be the catalyst for the rest of the world turning to China more over us

maybe for support with weapons or products but almost no one trusts the Chinese financial system over ours lol

they are worse

the real threat is something like Bitcoin or Gold replacing the US order

the way things use to work

Yes, and people will be willing to accept insane things if it's in the name of being saved.

9/11 did the same thing, people liked and cheered for the invasions and stripping of American rights.

Hitlers whole thing was being the savior of Germany, we all know it wasnt all "following orders" from all the people involved.

Fear is the most powerful political strategy to exist, followed by hate and schadenfreude.

is what trump did not market manipulation lol

wasn't bitcoin tanking along with everything else though?

yeah but that's pretty standard in a liquidity crunch. when things tighten up, everything that's not Dollars gets sold as people rush to safety. even Gold, which is probably the safest long-term asset in these conditions, dropped because of that.

i'm talking about a much longer time frame—like 10 to 30 years out. if Bitcoin ends up being used for trade instead of Gold, it would be because it's seen as a neutral, trustless system. right now, bitcoin is still viewed as a hybrid. part store of value like Gold, part high-risk tech asset. so it sells off when tech stocks do too.

this kind of shift wouldn’t happen overnight. and honestly, if countries never see Bitcoin as legitimate, Gold might just replace the Dollar. the way things use to work before the US Dollar order but if enough states do start using Bitcoin as trade collateral, that would change everything.

You know what would be funny? If DJ Akademiks and his mom both got reported to ICE and they both get deported back to Jamaica.

After riding and sucking on Trumps d***

Yes it is

There were clearly buy ins before the announcement.

no that would not be funny

So funny that he’s getting hyped about the way the Stock Market is doing when it’s been down around 2% over the last month (it’s even down in the last 5 days overall)

tf is the matter with you

Guy I know told me his Chinese friend that’s doing a PhD at Dartmouth got his visa terminated today because he got a speeding ticket 2 years ago

genuinely interested in what life will be like here without imports from China. terrified, but interested. i also wish i could get a copy of a school history book written 30 years from now and read about both of Trump's presidencies