What leadership has anyone in congress or executive branches shown? Right now they are just parroting trump and trump is just doing what putin wants. Musk is just enriching himself. It’s sycophants all the way down.
Everything you buy with wood aluminum and gas will increase by 25%. No less. Domestic suppliers will hack their prices up because the price customers are willing to spend is a part of every business’s pricing model. It becomes the normal price and bam, the tariff is a sales tax in everything but name. Much fiscally responsible. Very moral. Wow.
Americans being able to buy less is hurting them. Families need food to eat. This takes that food away.
The argument you are getting and setting here seems to be a domestic one primarily, but I think from a foreign policy perspective it becomes much clearer, especially given what this post is about.
US global hegemony after WWII rests on a several aspects, a few key ones of which are free trade with US dollar as the world reserve currency, a system of international alliances, and resulting from that the ability to have bases all over the world for immediate power projection anywhere.
Trump is practically giving all of that away for no discernable reason whatsoever. He basically just publicly announced to all of Americas allies that your word, like as a country, is worth nothing.
It has damaged your reputation as a country. It hasn’t damaged you domestically (yet), which is why I advised looking at it from a foreign policy perspective.
And make no mistake, just giving up on global hegemony will hurt you domestically as well in the long run. Not that I’m opposed to it, on the contrary actually, it just strikes me as utterly misguided since it’s done for selfish, and I think foolish, reasons.
Exactly by what Trump and Musk are doing. Are you not keeping track of all the shit your heroes are doing? Damaging regulations, education, research, environment, consumer protection, security, immigration, freedom of press, etc. Social security and Medicare are next…
Zelensky is a better leader than all of the GOP puppets put together.
Yeah but, I mean that bar is so low is non existant
Yes, faint praise to be sure.
nah
What leadership has anyone in congress or executive branches shown? Right now they are just parroting trump and trump is just doing what putin wants. Musk is just enriching himself. It’s sycophants all the way down.
same thing that happened when we had a democrat president too
Underwhelming, sure. I don’t think it’s the same thing as actively damaging the country on behalf of Russia.
And how are we going to be actively damaged exactly?
Everything you buy with wood aluminum and gas will increase by 25%. No less. Domestic suppliers will hack their prices up because the price customers are willing to spend is a part of every business’s pricing model. It becomes the normal price and bam, the tariff is a sales tax in everything but name. Much fiscally responsible. Very moral. Wow.
Americans being able to buy less is hurting them. Families need food to eat. This takes that food away.
We’ll be fine. You act like this is a major hardship.
The argument you are getting and setting here seems to be a domestic one primarily, but I think from a foreign policy perspective it becomes much clearer, especially given what this post is about.
US global hegemony after WWII rests on a several aspects, a few key ones of which are free trade with US dollar as the world reserve currency, a system of international alliances, and resulting from that the ability to have bases all over the world for immediate power projection anywhere.
Trump is practically giving all of that away for no discernable reason whatsoever. He basically just publicly announced to all of Americas allies that your word, like as a country, is worth nothing.
And how has any of that damaged us? Give me some real world examples, not theory. What has changed? How are we damaged?
My day isn’t any different. I’m doing and feeling awesome. What damage has Trump caused?
Classic conservative thought, i am not affected therefore nothing is wrong.
It has damaged your reputation as a country. It hasn’t damaged you domestically (yet), which is why I advised looking at it from a foreign policy perspective.
And make no mistake, just giving up on global hegemony will hurt you domestically as well in the long run. Not that I’m opposed to it, on the contrary actually, it just strikes me as utterly misguided since it’s done for selfish, and I think foolish, reasons.
Exactly by what Trump and Musk are doing. Are you not keeping track of all the shit your heroes are doing? Damaging regulations, education, research, environment, consumer protection, security, immigration, freedom of press, etc. Social security and Medicare are next…
I like what they are doing so far. And so are the people who vote them in. They were voted in to do this stuff. It’s great.
What have they done so far?
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