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Trump did not fully usurp dictatorial powers to impose his tariffs…. However, his actions, particularly his use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and other emergency powers, have raised significant concerns among critics, legal scholars, and some members of Congress that he is pushing the boundaries of executive authority in ways that could be seen as authoritarian or dictatorial. Grok

Meet The New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

We just learned that the world’s most powerful person, Donald Trump, has a boss: the bond market.
He may not have acknowledged this to himself, but the global financial tumult he caused…. has locked him in a fiscal prison. ….He is totally in hock to the goodwill of bonds investors….

He has also handed a loaded gun to his perceived enemy, China, and his supposed ally Japan…. The loaded guns they have are the… more than a trillion dollars of US Treasuries and China not much less. If they were to sell those bonds, or even if they chose not to refinance maturing bonds, that could be a disaster for Trump. Because it could cause another potentially crippling spike in bond yields.

Here is the measure of Trump’s debacle. He may well have trashed America’s single most important financial competitive advantage, namely that investors have traditionally bought the dollar and US Treasuries at a time of economic and political uncertainty. No more – because he personally has become the world’s source of economic uncertainty and anxiety. So, as I say he is now in a fiscal prison. And if bond investors, including Japan and China, see him imposing tariffs or cutting taxes in ways they don’t like,… they have the means and power to stop him. Robert Peston@Peston

Why have the markets responded so erratically to Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcement?

Investors don’t like uncertainty. Uncertainty breeds fear, fear breeds panic, and panic breeds crashing markets. Trump’s sudden imposition of sweeping tariffs triggered the fear that fundamental changes in global trade would produce higher inflation, slower growth, disrupted supplylines, and escalating conflict with America’s trading partners. These are the anticipated outcomes that put investors on edge and sent markets plunging.

Trump has tried to allay investor fears by presenting his tariffs as an essential part of his “America First” policy. He is trying to convince his supporters that these new duties will “liberate” working Americans from what-Trump-calls “unfair trade practices.” (In a speech “he compared the tariffs to a declaration of economic independence drawing parallels to other historic US milestones.”)

What can we extrapolate from this?

First of all, that (in Trump’s mind) the United States has been the victim of abusive treatment by allies and rivals alike. As Trump put it: “They are ripping us off”. This is the basic mindset that energizes Trump’s “Liberation Day” philosophy, a philosophy that the rest of the world should be punished for America’s deficit-generating over-consumption and its $36 trillion ocean of red ink. That is everyone else’s fault, not ours. And mainly it is China’s fault because China opened its country to the voracious American corporations who moved their industries to take advantage of China’s cheap labor. According to Trump, China should be blamed for that as well.

The problem with “America First” economic policy, is that other countries are going to defend their own economic interests, too. So, if someone like Trump tries to arbitrarily scrap the current system of international trade and impose his own version, he’s going to encounter stiff opposition. (which he has.)

Even so, Trump’s announcement has had a calamitous effect on the global financial system triggering a convulsive flight from US Treasuries. This, in turn, has prompted many analysts to speculate that Trump’s trade war will fundamentally change the manner in which international trade is conducted. That, of course, has set off more alarms while ratchetting up investor anxiety to new highs. Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishhnan summed it up like this:

This is the end of an era… The architect, the master planner, the developer of the rules-based system of economic integration has decided that it now needs to engage in a full-scale demolition of the same system that it created.

He’s right, isn’t he? The era of integrated markets in a globalized system is over. The world is being redivided into warring blocs by an administration that believes that the country that borrows and consumes more than any other country in the history of mankind is being unfairly exploited by low paid workers around the planet. The idea is laughable.

To fully grasp the extent to which Trump’s underlying theory depends on the belief that “They are ripping us off”, we’ve excerpted this short clip from a post by Arnaud Bertrand commenting on a speech by Trump’s Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Steve Miran:

The gist of Miran’s argument is to reposition the global reserve currency status of the dollar not as an exorbitant privilege… but as somehow a “burden” that the rest of the world needs to compensate the US for bearing. As Miran explains it, having the dollar as a reserve currency “has caused persistent currency distortions and contributed, along with other countries’ unfair barriers to trade, to unsustainable trade deficits” which “have decimated our manufacturing sector.”

So, he wants to give up the reserve currency status of the dollar, right? Wrong. He wants to have it both ways. He says that America’s “financial dominance cannot be taken for granted; and the Trump Administration is determined to preserve [it]” but this same financial dominance “comes at a cost” and “other nations” need to pay for it….

Let’s pause a moment here to contemplate the sheer insanity of this: the U.S. is literally suggesting that countries should mail checks to the US Treasury as tribute for the ‘privilege’ of maintaining the dollar as a global reserve currency, when it is this very reserve status of the dollar that is the cornerstone of US power. Arnaud Bertrand

WTF? So, Miran thinks that overconsumption and deficit-spending is so indispensable to the global economic system, that other countries should pay the US to continue its shameless freeloading?

Indeed, that is his position. And the belief is not limited to Miran either. In fact, this is the ideological cornerstone upon which Trump’s trade philosophy rests. ‘We will spend; you will pay. We will take; you will give. We will rule, you will follow.” Get the picture?

Oh—and just to add insult to injury—we also regard ourselves as the ‘victim’ in this relationship. (“They’re ripping us off.”) It boggles the mind.

Trump’s whole scattershot approach to international trade speaks to this unbounded arrogance. And that appears to be the driving force behind “Liberation Day”, the immutable belief that the rest of the world exists only to serve US interests. Am I wrong?

I am not wrong. Just look at the markets. Investors are voting with their feet. They’re headed for the exits. Their panic is a referendum on Trump’s trade policies. This is not a “financial crisis”. This is a “tariff-induced run on US risk assets” that is attributable to one man alone: Donald Trump. No one else caused this.

Trump’s signature economic program (reciprocal tariffs) is based on the wrongheaded view that the rest of the world is supposed to function as America’s personal ATM. But investors don’t ascribe to this belief; they think the tariffs are going to trigger a firesale of US financial assets and crash the market. And that’s what the plummeting Treasuries market is telling us, too. This is from an article at Politico:

The sharp sell-off in government debt securities that underpin the global financial system pushed President Donald Trump to pause for 90 days his plans to slap punishing tariffs on dozens of trading partners….

Investors often treat government bonds as a haven during times of market stress. Now, the opposite has occurred. Hedge funds and other investors have dumped Treasury securities even as stocks plunged, pushing up yields that are used to benchmark everything from mortgage rates to corporate loans.

The 90-day pause has done little to quell the market’s fears. …. If trade policy uncertainty continues to rattle bond investors and drives up borrowing costs, it would saddle Trump with a lethal mix of high interest rates, elevated inflation and slow or even negative economic growth….

There’s little clarity right now on the extent to which bond market jitters are driven by general market turmoil — some investors are selling Treasuries because they need cash — or whether it might signal something more ominous, such as less confidence in U.S. assets as Trump upends the global economic order…. The fact that the dollar and Treasury bonds are sinking even as stocks crater reflects broader questions about “who is going to finance continuous deficits. Where is the capital going to come from to support U.S. assets in general?” Bond market motion sickness in Trump’s economy, Politico

The situation is dire which is why Trump threw in the towel and lifted the tariffs on 90 countries excluding China. His plan to use tariffs as a means of inflicting pain on trading partners was derailed by an unexpected flight from US debt that he never saw that coming.

The incident speaks to the supreme importance of US Treasuries in the global system. The $28 trillion Treasuries market—which is the most liquid and well-capitalized market in the world—plays a special role in the global economy. The yields on the 10-year and 2-year notes, serve as a benchmark for pricing other financial instruments worldwide, including corporate bonds, mortgages, and loans. When Treasury yields rise or fall, they influence borrowing costs globally. In other words, U.S. Treasury yields “set the tone for global monetary conditions”, and when the market becomes volatile—as it has following Trump’s tariffs fiasco—everything goes haywire.

It’s no overstatement to say the US Treasuries market is the cornerstone upon which western-style Capitalism rests and any cracks that appear in that foundation are likely to have catastrophic impact on the world economy. That is why Trump gave-way quickly and eased the policy on everyone but China.

As for China, the country is now effectively under a US embargo that has been imposed willy-nilly without congressional approval and in clear violation of WTO rules. Here’s a short blurb from Grok:

The WTO sets out a framework for international trade (which includes) the prohibition of arbitrary or unjustifiable trade barriers… (tariffs) cannot be used to discriminate unfairly between trading partners. Trump’s tariffs violate WTO rules… as they appear to breach MFN, non-discrimination, and tariff-binding commitments without clear justification under WTO exceptions. (The Tariffs also) lack sufficient justification under national security exceptions and are seen as discriminatory and protectionist. (Grok)

It’s also worth noting that the countries that Trump has imposed tariffs on are being asked to align with U.S. national security goals. This is an issue that the media has failed to cover in any detail, but the implication is that the administration is using economic coercion to enlist an anti-China coalition that will join the United States in its efforts to sanction, isolate and encircle the PRC.

Also, “Trump has invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to justify his tariffs, including those announced as part of his “Liberation Day” policy and earlier actions. According to Grok:

A White House fact sheet from April 2, 2025, states that Trump declared a national emergency due to “foreign trade and economic practices” creating a threat to U.S. national and economic security, and it mentions using the IEEPA to impose “responsive tariffs” to address this emergency….

The IEEPA, enacted in 1977, allows the president to declare a national emergency in response to an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to national security, foreign policy, or the economy that originates outside the U.S. Once declared, the president can block transactions, regulate imports/exports, and take other economic measures….

….Conclusion

Yes, Trump has invoked the IEEPA to justify his tariffs, including those from the Liberation Day announcement on April 2, 2025, and earlier actions in February 2025. He declared national emergencies under the IEEPA to impose both the baseline 10% tariff on all imports and the higher reciprocal tariffs, framing trade deficits and related issues as threats to U.S. economic and national security. (Grok)

Question—Has Trump used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to avoid getting congressional approval for his trade policy?

Yes, Trump has used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to avoid the need for congressional approval for his tariffs, including the Liberation Day tariffs and earlier 2025 actions. By declaring national emergencies related to trade deficits, drug trafficking, and migration, he claims unilateral authority under IEEPA to impose tariffs without legislative consent, exploiting the law’s broad emergency powers

Question—Does Congress have the legal authority to oversee the imposition of tariffs?

Yes, Congress has the legal right to oversee the imposition of tariffs under the Constitution and federal law (Article I, Section 8), as it holds the ultimate authority to regulate foreign commerce and impose duties. However, Trump’s use of IEEPA to declare national emergencies allows him to bypass this oversight temporarily, relying on broad executive powers that don’t require congressional approval.

Last question for Grok: What do we call a political leader who usurps Congress’s legitimate constitutional authority and accrues all state power to himself?

A political leader who usurps Congress’s legitimate constitutional authority and accrues all state power to himself is most commonly called an autocrat, dictator, or tyrant in extreme cases…. For Trump specifically, the labels depend on perspective: critics see his IEEPA use as authoritarian, while supporters see it as bold leadership.

I blame Congress as much as Trump but—however you look at it—we’re in uncharted waters.

 
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  1. anon[228] • Disclaimer says:

    Just make a BRICS dollar, created by the BRICS bank, for international trading that mimics the US dollar… pegged 1-to-1 to the USD. Think it through, and you’ll see how it would work. Countries would exchange their currency for it at the going exchange rate for the USD, and do trades in it. They could get their own currency back at the going exchange rate for the USD. It would effectively be backed by the USD married to the immovable peg (no gold or oil backing needed), without having to be tied to the USD, and there’s nothing the Western Rothschilds bankers could do about it. After a couple years, when the USD starts fading away, then you could de-link the BRICS dollar from the USD and let it float on its own.

    • Agree: JonRay
  2. Voltarde says:

    Fentanyl tariffs?


    Old China Trade

    https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Old_China_Trade

    “In the 1820s, they [U.S. trading companies] attempted to compete with the British opium trade that monopolized crops produced in India by trading for Ottoman opium.

    Massachusetts General Hospital, McLean Hospital and the Boston Athenæum, the Bunker Hill Monument, many factories, mines, the US’s first railroad, university buildings, high schools, public libraries, and an orphanage were built with the proceeds of opium smuggling. The opium trade was profitable for American traders and some of these profits were reinvested to support the industrial revolution.

    • Agree: Biff
    • Replies: @Carlton Meyer
    , @ltlee1
  3. Capital flight that America just experienced reflects poor fundamentals of the American economy. American economy is similar to Tesla stock price. If not for Tesla/Musk fanboys, Tesla stock would be trading at 10-20 lower price. If not for other countries’ faith in USD and US treasuries, the American economy would be many times smaller than it is today.

    I’m surprised there ins’t more capital flight. Trump and his team are talking about devaluing the dollar. Why would investors continue holding dollar-denominated assets if their investments are going to be devalued relative to the rest of the world? A 10% drop in the value of US treasuries together with a 10% of the USD is effectively a 20% loss for investors, all that just after one week of MAGAnomics.

    • Replies: @nokangaroos
    , @anon
  4. Great article. Expect the unexpected.
    Uncharted waters ” is where we seem to be.
    For years we were hoping some one would do something… and now, here” we” is. Let us hope “they” know what “they’re” doing. Still, should “he” … sit, and do nothing? Quite possible that “fate, is not without a certain sense of irony”. We shall see. Many more moves to be made. … ?

    • Replies: @Sailor Sam
  5. @anon

    The Chinese are already issuing, on a trial basis, dollar-denominated bonds
    of their own and their yields are lower (!!!) than the Fed´s;
    of course this means the Orange One must have another world war;
    the more intelligent Americans better pray they “lose” this one, and big –
    Solzhenitsyn was right on this being the only path to social change.
    Unfortunately Murkans have been marinated from birth in the kick-ass rah-rah
    narrative – “sure we are shooting ourselves in the clit but look at how the others
    are suffering!” – and to a degree they did profit from the racket.

    • Agree: JR Foley
  6. @Anonymous534

    Tesla is a nice example – the stock was next to worthless until they cooked up
    the “Diesel scandal ™ ” (Volkswagen had just perfected the three-liter car);
    (((somebody))) made quite a killing.
    Without devaluation the US economy is an empty sack held upright by hot air –
    which the Orange One is providing in copious amounts.
    With devaluation – actually the waters are not all that uncharted,
    just look at Little Britain from 1908 but further underwater.

  7. Darkwing says:

    Wake the frell up people, Trump has made himself “Dictator in Chief”

    • Replies: @Pythas
  8. A123 says: • Website

    Even so, Trump’s announcement has had a calamitous effect on the global financial system triggering a convulsive flight from US Treasuries.

    This never happened.

    • The numbers show that foreign buying of Treasuries is up.
    • The “word on the street” is that some highly leveraged hedge funds were caught out badly and forced selling taking place.

    It is only calamitous to the few elites who volunteered to be steamrollered. Once this temporary issue is resolved, Treasuries will head back to ~4.0% driven by market fundamentals.

    Trump Used ‘Emergency Powers’ to Impose His Tariffs. Should We be Concerned?

    Trump is acting to undo the damage caused by decades of Globalism. It is both necessary and justified. It would be much more concerning if he did nothing.

    How concerned were people when Team Biden declared an emergency to shutdown the economy and force experimental mRNA jabs?

    There seems to be a double standard. Trump inherited the same freedom to act as the prior regime wielded. Leftoids wailing and gnashing their teeth for “executive restraint” should have acted while Team Biden occupied the White House. It is far too late for them to carve out such a position now.

    PEACE 😇

    • Agree: Eric135
    • Troll: John Trout
  9. Ron Unz made this comment on the tariffs, noting that placing tariffs on all the other countries of the world was tantamount to imposing sanctions on ourselves. He notes that we imposed sanctions on Russia as a punishment, and now Trump is stupidly punishing the US.

    But Trump’s new tariff proposal amounted to implementing exactly the same extreme economic sanctions against his own country, and doing so across the entire world with no exceptions.

    But as Mike Whitney has pointed out in other posts, sanctions have worked out well for Russia. Sanctions forced the Russians to develop their own industries, right?
    And isn’t that the point of tariffs, for the US to (re)develop its own industrial base?
    Trump’s sudden and mercurial implementation may be stupid, but long-term why not have tariffs? We could abolish the income tax while we’re at it.
    And as for Trump’s sudden stupid implementation, what choice does he have? The American elite are against all of his policies. The Deep State will not allow an orderly, rational implementation of any popular policies. Only the American voters support him. He has to rule like an autocrat to enforce the will of the people, i.e. democracy.

    • Agree: Eric135, Franz, theRealHun
    • Disagree: N. Joseph Potts
    • Replies: @Henry Ford
    , @Rex Little
  10. Why is anyone surprised? The US “breaking” agreements and/or treaties, whether WTO, FTA, NAFTA, USMCA, or the UN, is nothing new. The only difference this time is that the entire world has been targeted.

    • Replies: @Anonymous45
  11. Notsofast says:

    national security, the catch all for imposing any draconian, totalitarian violation of our supposed constitutional rights and civil rights:

    the “patriot” act, passed after 9/11 and the patriot act 2.0 passed last year.

    the a.u.m.f. of 1991 and 2002 that took us into iraq, then afghanistan, then back to iraq, and on to libya, syria in our global war of terrorism.

    labeling u.s. citizens as enemy combatants sending them to guantanamo holding them indefinitely without trial.

    the army searching houses in boston door to door, after the boston marathon bombing, in violation of posse comitatus.

    obamba ordering the extrajudicial murder of a u.s. citizen with a drone.

    now deporting greencard holding permanent residency for exercising their first amendment rights, by labeling them supporters of terrorism.

    declaring the occupation and annexation of greenland a matter of national security.

    threating to seize the panama canal, again in the name of national security.

    just today trump is meeting with bukele of el salvador, to discuss dropping tariffs in exchange for housing u.s. prisoners in salvadorian gulags.

    the list goes on forever and it all comes down to national security/terrorism. but wait there’s more, now with the anti-semitism awareness act we can add anti-semitism to the list as well, forget canada as the 51st state, israel is now our new district of corruption, as we merge into the perfect totalitarian police state.

    • Agree: Daniel Rich
    • Thanks: Son of a Jedi, Quinn
    • Replies: @Jim H
    , @24th Alabama
  12. @nokangaroos

    Was the Diesel Scandal false, or invalid in some other way?

    Was Tesla stock at the time extensively held by Jews?

    Did Jews in some way “cook up” the Diesel Scandal? Maybe media coverage? Resultant criminal charges? Having shorted VW stock?

  13. Franz says:

    In 1933, Franklin Roosevelt declared a State of Emergency because the Depression was failing to go away. In the argot of economists, the economy was not “self-correcting”.

    In the postwar years many of our teachers baldly stated that FDR ruled as a dictator from then on. Which in his case meant he was president for life.

    If FDR fought the bankers as Trump fights the deep state, what’s the difference if Trump just says the hell with it and calls for his own State of Emergency?

    I mention these things with awareness that FDR had some grave shortcomings. Trump is no boy scout either

  14. Notsofast says:

    trump seems to be purposefully destroying the economy and the dollar. this is disaster capitalism at its finest. create the disaster then profit handsomely off of it. trump crashed the market with his blitzkrieg of tariffs. then told us, it’s a goodtime to become rich, as he then totally reversed his policy and he and his billionaire friends profited off the insider trading, buying low to spark a reinflation of the market bubble becoming even richer in the process.

    vance even campaigned on devaluing the dollar, which will spike the bitcoin wallets of he and elon. bukele is another bitcoin advocate, as well as milei and he devalued the peso, to attract “foreign investors”. he is the anti-robinhood, stealing from the poor to give to the rich. i fear the same is in store for us. everything trump is doing is hurting the working class. those tariffs he is “imposing” on foreign governments, come out of our wallets.

    as far as i can see, he is purposefully attempting to destroy the dollar, which explains the bizarre demands, he is placing on the world. this all seems designed to force the world away from the dollar as a reserve currency. with a 36 trillion dollar debt, we are living in an economic house of cards and it’s increasing at 3 trillion a year, collapse when it comes, will be fast and furious.

    main street is almost dead, in the 5 years since they released their covid 19 bioweapon, almost 40% of small businesses have closed. pre covid they employed over half the people in the country. small businesses were what drove america after all the manufacturing jobs and plants were shipped overseas, what’s going to fill the void when they are gone?

    so no, trump isn’t stupid, he’s just devious and larcenous, if he destroys the dollar, he destroys the debt. he and his bitcoin gang will protect their liquid assets by driving bitcoin to ever more ridiculous levels, with larry fink telling us once regulations are relaxed, bitcoin will hit $700,000 per “coin”. they will become trillionaires and buy up every hard asset they can get their greedy hooves on.

    thank god the russians and chinese are there, with real cultures, societies, economies and governance, i would hate to think these bastards would end up controling the entire world. hopefully the greedy fucks will end up pulling their financial temple down upon themselves.

  15. @rebel yell

    I think Ron is assuming no one or nation volunteers to be poor. Russia didn’t ask for sanctions they dealt with it well when forced into it. Plus Russia wasn’t living high off of the reserve currency. Trump and his supporters will go down in history as the only people that didn’t want the privilege of being able to print money and have others produce and sell assets for it , and then willingly throw it away.

    Intelligent leadership , if they really wanted manufacturing back would of used the reserve currency to buy the material and products to build the infrastructure and factories back again ,then talk of tariffs could happen. Infrastructure is falling down in this nation and with the reserve currency we can’t maintain it. Somehow we believe infrastructure is going to get rebuilt and a new manufacturing base after we lose the reserve currency. Yeah

    • Agree: Passing by, Dnought
    • Replies: @Liosnagcat
    , @Anon
  16. @Notsofast

    I agree with everything you say even have nations with real culture and societies. The only thing in my opinion it is stupidity. The people that emerge on top in a democracy are big mouths and have an amazing way like teflon where the bad decisions they make in life don’t stick to them. In a better society they don’t have the intelligence to make decisions that will effect the nation now and a hundred years.

    They’re intelligent in politics but stupid when it comes to reality. I don’t believe they want American to collapse like the Soviet Union and have a Chinese led world in the future. They just really don’t know what to do but extort the citizens. Trumps family wouldn’t of converted if the plan was to purposely collapse America.

    • Replies: @Notsofast
  17. @Notsofast

    Trump does not strike me as someone with a vision who intends to go down
    in history as the Orange Samson who brought down the Temple on guilty and
    innocent alike, to take his place beside Hoover (the difference being Hoover
    was the last POTUS to not belong straight to the gallows).
    The alternative is kill the dollar (the sooner the better less painful)
    or start WWIII (which will only buy two decades at best); I doubt the
    Orange One realizes that – he just wants to extort more.

    No empire ever could resist the temptation of reserve currency and overspending,
    and none has survived it; so far the Chinese are refusing – funny to think that
    they should have invented paper money, but a tael is a tael.
    They seem to have a fundamentally different outlook.

  18. @Voltarde

    Massachusetts General Hospital, McLean Hospital and the Boston Athenæum, the Bunker Hill Monument, many factories, mines, the US’s first railroad, university buildings, high schools, public libraries, and an orphanage were built with the proceeds of opium smuggling. The opium trade was profitable for American traders and some of these profits were reinvested to support the industrial revolution.”

    Opium also funded some of Harvard and “Skull and Crossbones”. It became a problem drug for the New England elite for years, as RFK Jr will attest.

    Opium was legal in the USA until 1914, so there was no smuggling into the USA back then, although China had made it illegal so Britain and the USA launched a war against China.


    Video Link

    • Thanks: nokangaroos
    • Replies: @The Real World
  19. Trump has also ignored court orders and had his black-masked goons abduct people to ship them to foreign prisons and refused to return them. If you’re not worried about Trump’s behavior, you’re an idiot.

    It would be one thing if this was a person who has proved they had the interests of our nation and people at heart. Trump has proven the opposite. He is entirely a puppet of a group that hates us.

    • Agree: Jim H, Harold Smith
  20. chris says:

    First of all, that (in Trump’s mind) the United States has been the victim of abusive treatment by allies and rivals alike. As Trump put it: “They are ripping us off”.

    I think that this type of event shows how Trump’s mind functions.

    He doesn’t actually “believe” his own bombast, he’s a lot more like the editor of the NY Daly News in packaging everything in explosive, headlines whose purpose it is to grab attention and become easily rememberable.

    So it is with China; what’s he going to say? That the US voluntarily off-shored its manufacturing there, which he and everyone in the world knows to be the truth? No, instead, he taps into the anti-China psy-op, fueled by the “intelligence community” for a decade and throws in the red meat even if that is a boldface lie. This is the psy-op which has been prepared for him or for a demagogue of similar caliber.

    The same exact technique he then used on the Palestinians, pretending that they somehow received their land from the mistaken benevolence of Yahoo’s equally psychopathic predecessors.

    Everyone knows that this is a ridiculously lie but the years of propaganda and the funnel of conformity make it an acceptable perspective for self-delusional, opportunistic mid-wits.

    • Replies: @nokangaroos
  21. epebble says:
    @anon

    There is a much better currency for international trading – XDR. It is much more stable, rational, not tied to gold or commodities. It already exists and infrastructure to use it would be trivial.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_drawing_rights

  22. Chaskinns says:

    He’s USian. Hence, a buffoon and moron like 98.7 percent of the US empire. Why is this any surprise?

  23. Quinn says:

    LOL. As I stress over being a complete tax cow this past weekend, getting triple taxed on some capital gains… I just have to LOL. Should we be worried?? Hahaha. This nation is completely F’ed! Emergency powers?! There are a hundred such warning signs flashing red. We are cooked!!

    • Replies: @Chaskinss
  24. Who could have predicted that the next Davos WEF would be a conference of the poor,
    the hungry and the homeless to plot against their benefactors?

  25. Anon[227] • Disclaimer says:

    …… Miran thinks that overconsumption and deficit-spending is so indispensable to the global economic system…..

    40 some years ago in my MBA program ( Columbia) ; there was an obsession with using debt and high leverage to grow one‘s enterprise. The sub-text was Moar Debt Good.

    One suspects this attitude is deeply ingrained among our leadership.

  26. maskazer says:

    A well-coordinated strategy by BRICS is pushing Trump, who represents the Zioglobalist neoliberal system, to adopt a series of rash measures that ultimately harm Western economies more than anyone else. BRICS member countries now control the majority of the world’s population, resources, energy—including oil and gas—strategic sea and land corridors, manufacturing, technology, skilled labor, and other critical factors.

    Essentially, whether it’s Trump or the next U.S. administration, there is no choice but to decouple from neoliberalism and Zionism altogether and begin substantial structural reforms. This process should start with transforming the U.S. Federal Reserve System into a fully-owned public entity, rather than the hybrid private-public structure it is today. This is the real challenge America must address—and the sooner, the better.

  27. @Notsofast

    Of course, Trump’s policies will end in economic disaster, but the
    failure will be blamed on the victims, who somehow always hire
    the wrong public relations experts.

    Such is the way of the world.

    • Agree: Notsofast
  28. @Henry Ford

    Intelligent leadership , if they really wanted manufacturing back would of used the reserve currency. . .

    . . . would HAVE. . .

    • Replies: @24th Alabama
  29. Sachs says we have one-man rule.

    No, Trummy is just a puppet doing the bidding of Zion.

    Yellow Peril is the next distraction from the real power.


    Video Link

    • Agree: Quinn
    • Thanks: Ron Unz
  30. 1951 says:

    The Supreme Court could rule Rump has exceeded his authority. Congress is useless. Look at the low approval rating of Congress. Do these bribed idiots even begin to understand how much contempt the public has for them?

  31. Chaskinss says:
    @Quinn

    And as a USian you have to complete your own taxes unlike most of the world whereby tax declarations are prepopulated, free, and relatively easy. The govt actually HELPS their citizens.

    Lackey USians have to complete tons of nonsense forms or pay a for profit capitalist to do it for them.

    Yes, USians are indeed clowns-tax cows for the genocidal imperialistic war machine-business enterprise masquerading as a “country”.

    • Agree: Quinn
  32. Maybe some acknowledgement Mike that your previous analysis, claiming Trump’s decisions were 4 d chess intentionally destroying the world market in order to ‘decouple’, was not accurate?

    Maybe that’s too much to hope for.

    The only way to reach the stated goal of ‘re-industrialization’ is Social Democracy, long term planning and state investment in education, infrastructure, energy, and high tech value added manufacturing, and an elimination of the FED and the private banking sector.

    That ain’t going to happen. So the stated goal is not the real goal.

    The real goal? It seems to be push push push for more executive power, the power used to 1) Please Jewish Zionist Billionaires/Israel 2) Please High Tech Billionaires in General 3) Please the military industrial complex.

    All the above paid by the US working and middle class and any countries not powerful or brave enough to resist.

    Note: there are massive contradictions in what seem to be the ‘real goals’ also.

    So now we can watch THE PUSHBACK. Who dares to Push Back, domestically? Trump did not deserve to be impeached in his first term, he deserves to be impeached now. But the fake opposition will not do it. They are counting on ‘the midterms’ and they are quite pleased Trump is increasing the rate of baby killing in Gaza.

  33. Zerohedge has a recent article covering China’s actions to prop up its economy, including selling US treasuries to buy Yuan, buying up their own stocks and limiting sales of Chinese stocks. They compare that with what the US Fed is doing – nothing except blame Trump. Bessent says he will start buying back US bonds if the Fed doesn’t. They also claim China will run out of US bonds to sell in a few weeks.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/china-limits-stocks-sales-maintain-impression-stability-bessent-hints-boosting-treasury

  34. @1951

    The Supreme Court is mostly stacked with paid-off Trump-Zioshills. The only hope to end this nightmare regime is the military or a lone wolf. Alas, both of those are known to work for the Ziocrats as well.

    • Agree: John Trout
  35. Anon[408] • Disclaimer says:
    @Henry Ford

    We have 4 years, not decades to get this done. As soon as Trump took office, the clock was ticking. It’s a war between Trump, time, and how fast the liberal media can convince people every last thing Trump’s doing is wrong. Also, once the U.S. acquires these “materials” how do they get divvied out? The government doesn’t create anything, nor does it build factories, and the reason most critical infrastructure hasn’t been updated is because of red-tape policies. It’s interesting to see the liberal mind at work, they think it’s just one big game of Minecraft where “stuff” magically appears with no work or timeline involved.

    -Rooster

  36. Trump = America stops the Woke Communist Rot

    Harris = The continuation of Woke Communist Rot

    America chose wisely and the Communists don’t like it.

    Fine, move to North Korea, Cuba or the CCP and be happy.

    The tariffs are China’s problem. Maybe as a retaliation, they murder another 50 million of their expendable serfs as Mao did. Screw them.

    • Replies: @迪路
  37. anon[360] • Disclaimer says:

    This fellow is no different to any other tin pot dictator anywhere else. He comes up with irrelevant and redundant rules and regulations from decades ago to do his thing.

    He also repeats the same shite over and over in different rants and even in the same rant.

    Personally, I am not in the least concerned. After living in Africa and Latin America, I have realized it is wise to have few possessions, fuck you and fuck off money.

    That way when things go over the edge a backpack and airline ticket or a bus to the border is a sure fire remedy.

    These days anything can go down and being mobile is not paranoia but insurance. A retreat with your balls intact is more prudent than being a wannabe Rambo or Audie Murphy.

    Who would ever have believed the US would become like this ! Eat healthy, be reasonably fit, be mobile and have cash for a year overseas. There is an avalanche of shit coming down from the DC crowd and you dont want to be in the way.

    If you are prepared you can be unconcerned about what’s next, otherwise you may be fucked.

  38. @Same old same old

    According to the Trump Trend, at some point in the not so distant future a famous, highly reviled anti-semite, a citizen, will be plucked from behind his keyboard, frog marched publicly, and, with barely a shade of due process, will be sent to Guantanamo or El Salvador for the crime of anti-antisemitism. Few will dare to defend him because there will be public ‘proof’ of pedophilia or some other kind of sex-crime.

    • Agree: Old and Grumpy
    • Replies: @The Real World
  39. @1951

    Do these bribed idiots even begin to understand how much contempt the public has for them?

    They do, but they also know this statistic:

    Despite their 15% approval ratings they just keep getting reelected anyway.

    • Replies: @ltlee1
  40. anastasia says:

    Am I wrong in saying that European countries and China have been violatingthe WTO framework in
    imposing the high tariffs they had imposed on imports from the US?

  41. Anon[354] • Disclaimer says:

    No, think it through. Put yourself in our fearless leaders’ place… no, not the flailing puppet ruler Trump but the junta in CIA DO that rules with impunity and arbitrary power, Cariens, Corsell, Kilbourne, O’Shea, Purcilly, Blee, Casey, Tarbell, Terry, Vannell, all those guys in the pool.

    They lost a war with an underdeveloped statelet in Afghanistan, collapsed like Nam ⏭️ ⏭️. But you know, fall off the horse, get back on again! – they started a war with a country one-fourth their size. They did it safely, sneaky coward style, let’s-you-and-him-fight using brainwashed Nazis in a Ukie satellite state. But that country had competent economic management and complex-systems knowhow, and CIA got all of NATO’s ass kicked. The bloc shot all their weapons off, disarmed themselves by accident. Abject bloc humiliation.

    But hey, Pick yourself up, 🎵dust yourself off, start all over again!🎵🎵 So CIA tried to start a war with a country four times their size. And found out if they do, the big country will say, No moah inputs for you, Bignose! And the world war will just go pffft. They will have to throw rocks, it will be the shithead intifada. Uh oh.

    But you can’t keep a knuckledragging ASVAB waiver down! CIA DO said, we don’t want your stupid old inputs anyway. Our friends around the world will buy them from you, and sell them to us! So there!

    So that’s the state of play. In the great game. Well, the Special-Olympics great game for CIA loser cowards. Until we get Kennedy standing on a tank like Yeltsin shelling the shit out of the NHB. We got to wipe these DO fuckers out.

  42. Anon[737] • Disclaimer says:

    Remember the Emergency legislation for Covid Vaccines?

    Norman Finkelstein: Israel Is ‘A Nation Of Murderers’

    Doesn’t this also apply to the US and all of Israel’s allies?

    https://www.youtube.com/live/bqrDB2Q8hYc

    Same Gang of Criminals are at it.

    Remember 911 Terror?

  43. Jim H says:

    ‘In a speech “he [Trump] compared the tariffs to a declaration of economic independence.”‘ — Mike Whitney

    Total economic independence, meaning no trade with the outside world, is called autarky.

    Countries such as North Korea and Cuba approach the autarkic model most closely. By no coincidence, they are poor, backward, and ruled by dictators.

    April 2 was Enserfment Day. The Orange Emperor is tearing down the US economy. None dare call it treason.

  44. China needn’t embark on militarization given they were making money from their trade imbalances with almost every nation. And Taiwan, which I believe, belongs to China proper, would have eventually been united with the mainland but the sabre rattling has alarmed the world in general and the US in particular which has lead to this artificial trade war culminating in, most likely, a hot war from which neither side nor the humanity will come out winners. I wonder what Master Sun Tzu would say to the Xi Jing Ping in these perilous times!

    • Replies: @dogbumbreath
  45. Jim H says:
    @Notsofast

    ‘now deporting greencard holding permanent residents for exercising their first amendment rights, by labeling them supporters of terrorism.’ — Notsofast

    Here is the latest US permanent resident arrested for Palestinian sympathies:

    A Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University was arrested Monday at a Vermont immigration office where he expected to be interviewed about finalizing his U.S. citizenship, his attorneys said.

    Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident who has held a green card since 2015, was detained at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, his lawyers said.

    The attorneys said they do not know where he is. They filed a petition in federal court seeking an order barring the government from removing him from the state or country. The petition describes him as a committed Buddhist who believes in “non-violence and empathy as a central tenet of his religion.”

    As a student, Mahdawi was an outspoken critic of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and organized campus protests until March 2024. He co-founded the Palestinian Student Union at Columbia with Mahmoud Khalil, another Palestinian permanent resident of the U.S. and graduate student who recently was detained by ICE.

    https://apnews.com/article/immigration-palestine-protest-trump-deportation-columbia-fca7e73fe2cbd616c1eacf3bdececdbe

    These secret-police style arrests are being carried out at the orders of the She-wolf of the Heimatland SS, Kristi Noem. Like the Orange Emperor, she’s an abject puppet of the Jew Lobby, eviscerating our civil rights in the name of combating antisemitism.

    Israel is our misfortune.

    • Thanks: Notsofast
    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
    , @HdC
    , @John Trout
  46. ltlee1 says:

    Lawsuits coming. US check and balance would be tested.

    “Trump’s Tariffs Get a Legal Challenge
    A Florida company says the President is violating the Supreme Court’s major questions doctrine. It’s a strong case.
    The Editorial Board
    April 4, 2025 5:39 pm ET

    Might the Supreme Court stop President Trump’s huge tariff-tax increase? Here’s hoping, and now comes a lawsuit from a small business that argues his tariffs violate the High Court’s major questions doctrine.

    Simplified, a stationery company in Florida, on Thursday challenged the President’s earlier 20% tariffs on China, though its legal arguments also apply to this week’s Liberation Day blitzkrieg. Simplified imports goods from China and says the tariffs have forced it to pay higher costs, resulting in financial harm.

    Mr. Trump justified his tariffs on China, as well as this week’s tariffs, under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The sanctions law gives the President authority to address an “unusual and extraordinary threat” if he declares a national emergency. Mr. Trump in February deemed fentanyl and other drugs such an emergency.

    Simplified isn’t challenging the emergency declaration. Instead, it argues “there is no ‘necessary’ connection between the across-the-board tariff and the opioid problem” and that “IEEPA does not authorize a president to impose tariffs.” …”

    https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-tariffs-lawsuit-ieepa-simplified-supreme-court-83cd70f9?

    • Replies: @Harold Smith
  47. Somebody has to break things. The US has been out of control for a long time. If Trump’s “chaos” causes the system to collapse, that’s a good thing.

  48. @anon

    Discussions as these require some greater perspective gained by a higher order of thinking exemplified by this title to the link below:

    On a Basket of Hard Commodities: Trade without Currency
    By- Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

    ….. Trade without currencies you say?!

    https://larouchepub.com/lar/2000/lar_commodities_2730.html

  49. I can’t access my Gab account.
    Thanks Yvette rapefugees welcome hag cooper!

    ATTENTION: UK Visitor Detected
    The following notice applies specifically to users accessing from the United Kingdom.

    UK Flag
    “Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”

    John Milton (Areopagitica, 1644, on free speech)
    Access Restricted by Provider
    After receiving yet another demand from the UK’s speech police, Ofcom, Gab has made the decision to block the entire United Kingdom from accessing our website.

    This latest email from Ofcom ordered us to disclose information about our users and operations. We know where this leads: compelled censorship and British citizens thrown in jail for “hate speech.” We refuse to comply with this tyranny.

    Gab is an American company with zero presence in the UK. Ofcom’s demands have no legal force here. To enforce anything in the United States, they’d need to go through a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty request or letters rogatory. No U.S. court is going to enforce a foreign censorship regime. The First Amendment forbids it.

    Ofcom will likely try to make an example of us anyway. That’s because the UK’s Online Safety Act isn’t about protecting children. It’s about suppressing dissent.

    They’re welcome to try. The idea that a British regulator can pressure a U.S. company that’s IP-blocking the entire UK is as farcical as it is futile. If anything, it proves our point: censorship doesn’t work. It only reveals the truth about the censors.

    We proudly join platforms like Bitchute in boycotting the United Kingdom. American companies should follow suit. The power of the UK’s parliament ends where the First Amendment begins.

    The only way to vote against the tyranny of the UK’s present regime is to walk away from it, refuse to comply, and take refuge under the impervious shelter of the First Amendment.

    The UK’s rulers want their people kept in the dark. Let them see how long the public tolerates it as their Internet vanishes, one website at a time.

    This domain has been blocked for UK visitors

    • Thanks: Jim H
    • Replies: @meamjojo
  50. @Priss Factor

    Agree with your statement. However the youtube video is a whole other matter. We’ve been played India for awhile. Just wish Trump sanctioned their export of people. OK I would settle on a halt of spam calls, now mail.

  51. I might be worried by Trump’s emergency power use, but I survived four years of a secret cabal making executive orders in a name of a mush brained Biden. Not one journalist or pundit asked who was running the dictatorial show then. The Republic arguably died in1913, and democracy never works. So here we are. We really need to decommission the nukes and biologicals.

    • Agree: Bro43rd
  52. Agent76 says:

    Chronology of the USA PATRIOT Act, 2001

    October 26: President Bush Signs the USA PATRIOT Act into Law in a Rose Garden Ceremony.

    https://www.britannica.com/topic/USA-PATRIOT-Act

    Oct. 30, 2001 Patriot Act — a remedy for an unidentified problem

    PRESIDENT BUSH signed the Patriot Act last week. The new anti-terrorism law has its critics. Some object to the law’s intrusions on civil liberties. They cite the provisions for extended detention, new powers to spy on
    Americans, a lack of controls on use of information, a greater ability to freeze and seize assets and an overly broad definition of domestic terrorism.

    https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/patriot-act-remedy-unidentified-problem

    • Replies: @epebble
  53. @Jim H

    Although I understand the sympathies here and the principles involved, these are abstractions. Practically, a person visiting a country by permission for what ever reason should not expect and should not over extend himself in political agitation and animated advocation. It just isn’t smart.

    Show me one country on the planet who would look askance or ignore such protestations. Do note, that I make no value judgements or disapproval of his actions. One has to live in the World largely as it is, with its imperfections and faults.

    His actions – let’s be honest – will have no effect on the Palestinian/Israel conundrum.

    It’s falls under Risk/Reward Analysis.

  54. @nokangaroos

    VW could not meet US regulations on AdBlue so falsified data and made it software

    It had German Government in Loop fully aware. It was Audi that dreamed it up and Bosch went along for the ride.

  55. @Carlton Meyer

    Just FYI….Skull and Bones is a nasty Yale Univ club, not Harvard.
    What a sick bunch of pricks….helping lay the groundwork of where we are today.
    And, still ACTIVE.

    https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/10014198

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones

  56. @WingsofaDove

    ….because there will be public ‘proof’ of pedophilia or some other kind of sex-crime.

    That’s a CIA and FBI tactic from waaayyyyyy back. Nothing new at all about that scam.

    Although, it’ll be hard to know if any evidence was planted or is real because there is *so much* rotten filth roaming our land in this era.

  57. There is an analogue for everything; and using analogy, parallel, and related phenomenon can greatly aid in understanding certain things, that while extended logic, syllogisms, history, tradition, precedent, etc., can also – and in the West are prevalently used – I submit the following:

    In a dichotomy of useful/unuseful, works/does not work/, efficacious/declination, I think of the poor, unfortunate law enforcement officer who is forced and confined to inferior armament from inferior and inadequate supervisors, administrators, etc. So, frequently they are outgunned by criminals, especially those related to drugs, who do not have any limitations [including financial] toward purchase of firearms.

    Like the foreign student above, his fate was sealed because he chose an ineffective path, where tragedy for him and his family, due to deportation, will be tragic, if not catastrophic. I would say, “In high stakes poker, chose your play and betting carefully, and take advantage of all in your favor. Hence, back to firearms.

    Rather than willfully putting yourself at a disadvantage, the cop should see personally that he is a peer regarding weapons. To wit:

    Full auto: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hyNId0ep-_c

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y6lz24K8g4M

    These green card academic dormitory hands type people are ill-equipped for Real World Action or Measured Effectiveness. They are mainly descriptive, Adjective People, Advisors, and Petitioners, who rely on others [movers and shakers] to make meaningful changes.

    They are beat and patrol cops with an inferior force influencer called the semi-automatic 9 mm.

    https://blog.cheaperthandirt.com/history-beretta-9mm-handgun/

    Otherwise known as a “pop gun”.

  58. Dr. Rock says:

    Let’s face facts-

    This wholly jewish central banking, casino stock market, enormous federal debt (and the associated bonds) is a completely BULLSHIT SYSTEM! And it’s no small wonder that they have been able to prop it up this long, without it burning itself to the water line, long ago! Recessions, Depressions, Interest (usury) Rates, Quantitative Easing, Modern Monetary Policy, Federal Reserve Overnight Lending to Banks… How do people refuse to notice that it’s the biggest, fakest, dumbest house of cards ever constructed!?!?

    To even try to discuss it seriously is mind-boggling, because it’s utterly insane!

    And people tend to talk about it, like it’s sacrosanct! It’s NOT! It’s a bullshit system, with bullshit rules, bullshit outcomes, and a hyper-bullshit premise, re-enforced like it’s all REAL.

    “Economists” are sent to school, to be taught this nonsensical religion, and then they run about, trying to make it make sense, to normal people, ignoring the fact that it’s the biggest, and most hollow, faith based system ever created.

    It’s bigger than any of the deity based religions.

    And while we may have been able to play this silly game of rigged monopoly for a couple of centuries, (a blink in the eye of time) it cannot last.

    The whole planet is in debt to the sound of hundreds of TRILLIONS! To whom? The Universe? We’re all just “borrowing money” from “the future”, and acting like that’s a real system?

    I’m serious- the entire monetary system is headed for a crash, because it’s the fakest, gayest, stupidest shit ever conceived!

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    , @peterAUS
  59. America is under a zionist dictatorship, with the real control held by messianic zionists and their front men like Trump and Biden and Obama and GH Bush and Clinton, etc., etc., elections don’t mean jack shit in this zionist/communist ZUS, they all promise to end the various wars that the zionists have going, but the minute they are POTUS, it all is forgotten, and they get on board the zionist war train to hell, this goes on every time, every election cycle, we are being destroyed by the zionist satanists.

    • Replies: @Bro43rd
  60. @ltlee1

    Apparently multiple lawsuits have been brought against the fat orange bastard’s tariffs:

    https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-administration-sued-over-tariffs-us-court-international-trade-2025-04-14/

    I hope they succeed, but even if they do, the fat orange bastard’s mindless lawlessness (along with the tacit approval of the feckless, utterly corrupt congress) has probably done serious damage to the dollar and the U.S. economy.

  61. anon[491] • Disclaimer says:

    just have ai write the entire thing and fuck off with your claptrap driveling already

  62. HdC says:
    @Jim H

    I am an absolute believer in free speech, no ifs or buts.

    However, if I am a guest in someones home it behooves me to adhere to my hosts wishes.

    In a foreign country it is the government that is your host. If you wish to aid a protest, contribute funds or very low-key anonymous efforts if you must.

  63. ltlee1 says:
    @Voltarde

    “In the 1820s, they [U.S. trading companies] attempted to compete with the British opium trade that monopolized crops produced in India by trading for Ottoman opium.

    History is history.
    At present China has no reason to see Americans likewise fall prey to addictions and got themselves. Afterall, Americans bought a lot of made in China.

    The real puzzle: No REAL evidence on fentanyl precursor being exported from China.

    Question: How much fentanyl precursor for how much fentanyl?
    Answer (from Foxnews): “starting from a single precursor valued at $200 in China to more than $1 million in revenue on the streets of the U.S. …”The rest of the precursors can be easily found or obtained in Mexico or anywhere in the U.S. The important one is the piperidone,” a high-ranking Sinaloa Cartel operative told Fox News Digital.”

    With the cost/profit of $200 to $1 million, are Mexican drug cartels really so dumb that they can’t make locally with some chemistry majors? Unlike opium coming from tens of hundreds of acres of opium plants, they only needs a small lab to make as many as they need. No reason to import China or elsewhere.

    Again, if precursor chemicals were from China, where is the news that such precursors sent from China were seized?

  64. @Same old same old

    I would draw a distinction between harassing international students who are legally here & protesting the Gaza atrocities, & illegal alien gang bangers who are wanted for real, serious crimes back in their home countries.

    Just two simple questions, on what authority do the Supremes or any other element of the federal judiciary have to micromanage Executive Branch actions? In our Constitutional system we have separation of powers. Didn’t the illegitimate Biden regime constantly flout court orders, on matters as wide-ranging as his student loan forgiveness scheme, tech company censorship of anyone opposing the COVID scamdemic agenda up to & including the flagrantly unconstitutional COVID lockdowns & shot mandates?

    I will agree that in many respects we are living in a post-constitutional order, but this is beside the point in the context of this discussion.

    Even more onerously, what is the basis for their jurisdiction over President Bukele in El Salvador? I truly love this guy, & the way he handled that vapid CNN ding-a-ling!

  65. A decision was made from on high in the 1970’s, by powers way above the pay grade of any U.S. President, to end the autarky-based system of our economy & take us off the gold standard. This was truly when the U.S. Dollar began to morph into a fiat currency.

    This policy shift was was manifested by the likes of the 1976 Jamaica Accord, MFN for Communist China, NAFTA, & the acceleration of open immigration policies initially codified by the Hart-Cellar Immigration Act of the 1960″s.

    The truth is real wages & purchasing power have not kept up with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) since the early-to-mid 1970’s.

    This has resulted in a race to the bottom that has only benefited the international bankers & the Globalist oligarchs.

    All this being said, & as I’ve stated in comments on other TUR posts, I’m not 100% comfortable with Trump’s tariff agenda.

    Just look around your home & do a random survey of where your household items are made. I would bet $5 to a donut that 70-80% of everything is made in China. All these products will soon cost 25-50% more. This would be another devastating blow coming off the heels of the stagflation imposed by deliberate Biden regime politcies.

    The truth is we’ve allowed ourselves to become a nation of consumers & not producers.

    And has been stated in this essay, accurately, If China were to dump it’s U.S. Treasury holdings this would really wreak havoc=on what is left of our economy.

    • Replies: @迪路
  66. @A123

    The Jew who calls himself A123 along with other jews really hate the US.
    In a few more years the apartheid colony will disappear and the cancerous cells will spread to all corners of the world. We should stay vigilant and kill the cancer wherever it metastasizes.

    • Agree: John Trout
  67. @Dr. Rock

    The monetary system can be fake and gay.

    But that doesn’t validate Trump’s actions.

    Trump is causing more problems than he is solving.

    If you start a bunch of trade wars and crash the economy then your tariff revenue will be a net loss.

    He is in fact pushing us back to the same old US style recession where we have “no choice” but to borrow more for the year….cause recession….but just this time….pinky swear.

    The guy does not know what he is doing. He and the other China obsessed Republicans didn’t seem to realize how much agriculture is sent to China. They just imagine poor Whites buying Chinese crap from the dollar store. This is classic limited information conservative thinking. They didn’t look at our exports to China and consider what would happen if the Chinese decided to hit back. There is now “talk” of helping farmers but you can’t do that overnight. What is the solution? Pay them off? Well great now we are writing checks again.

    Republicans are just plain full of shit. They claim to care about the deficit but in every budget talk it is clear that they favor the wealthy and Israel over actual Americans. They spend all day on Fox talking about welfare but never the military budget. We have massive bases overseas where we pay soldiers to drink beer and hit on foreign chicks.

    Supporting Republicans for not being Democrats only hastens the demise of America. We are not going to solve our problems with dishonesty or blind patronage to either establishment party.

    • Replies: @nokangaroos
  68. Bro43rd says:
    @Desert Fox

    Exactly why we don’t need government as it currently exists. Voluntary systems are the answer. The time of the pigs (animal farm) ruling by coercion and violence should end. But as long as we allow our children to be brainwashed by the state it’ll be an uphill battle.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    , @Desert Fox
  69. Anonymous[223] • Disclaimer says:

    https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-bombing-hospitals-yemen-history-war-crimes/289368/

    American deliberarely and intentionally bombing hospitals to rubble. Once again you see that american and british are just primitive and sick animals, who are only able to terrorize and murder children, women and elderly in hospital beds, nothing else. Their weapons cant kill real men and american and british terrorists are scared to face real men directly and openly. These coward and sick animals just run away and hide when they get hit.

    • Agree: John Trout
  70. epebble says:
    @Agent76

    Meet 2 U.S. Citizens Detained at Airports: A Police Chief and a Lawyer Who Sued Trump Administration

    We are travelling abroad this week. I am curious what our experience will be when we return. Previously, it had always been a simple welcome home. We are not carrying any burner phones as some are advising.

    Traveling Internationally? Why You Might Consider a Burner Phone When Entering the US
    https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/traveling-internationally-why-you-might-consider-a-burner-phone-when-entering-the-us/

    • Replies: @theRealHun
  71. Notsofast says:
    @Henry Ford

    politics and reality, really aren’t related, they are antithetical in nature. this is why we have a reality show billionaire “elected”, as a man of the people. this is the exact same reason we have a t.v. comedian “elected”, as a “servant of the people”.

    once we establish the parameters of reality, we can then see how much of a chance we actually have, of effecting change in that political system. it’s easy to see who are the actual leaders and who are the larpers, merely by their demeanor but also outcomes of their policies as a whole.

    they call putin and xi dictators, while exclaiming our great “leaders” to be glowing examples, of our democracy, that is the only free system of governance on the planet. look at the entirety of the western democratic system, can you name one leader that isn’t a total fraud and puppet of monied interests? even if you can think of one, they are outweighed 534 to 1, in favor of the frauds.

    as far as these parasites not wanting america to collapse like the soviet union, imho, that is exactly what they want, to loot the whole country, just like they looted 1990’s russia. all parasites know how to do, is suck blood and they will suck the host dry, if there are enough of them. i for one, have had more than enough of them.

  72. @Jim H

    These secret-police style arrests are being carried out at the orders of the She-wolf of the Heimatland SS, Kristi Noem. Like the Orange Emperor, she’s an abject puppet of the Jew Lobby, eviscerating our civil rights in the name of combating antisemitism.

    Israel is our misfortune.

    The jews, who infest the high echelons of every government department including the Pentagon, have abrogated the USA Constitution simply by ignoring it.

    One day, when the USA gets responsible government, the zionists will be called to account. They will not be able to flee to the safe haven that, as Hitler pointed out, is removed from the scrutiny of other governments because it will not exist.

    • Thanks: Jim H
  73. @Bro43rd

    Exactly why we don’t need government as it currently exists. Voluntary systems are the answer. The time of the pigs (animal farm) ruling by coercion and violence should end. But as long as we allow our children to be brainwashed by the state it’ll be an uphill battle.

    The government isn’t the problem. White men created the concept of the government and should not allow it to work against them.

    The problem is that White men get roped into Con Inc which is really just fake opposition led by a profit driven minority. It depicts America as burdened as godless socialists that can’t stop spending but when in office our Con Inc Republicans do the same damn thing. They also routinely pass tax cuts for the rich while telling us that poor Whites can’t have health care because it wouldn’t be financially responsible.

    It’s just a load of bullshit.

    The government is not the problem. The Romans and Greeks built the structure of government that we have today and they weren’t talked into abandoning their own creation due to inept politicians. Con Inc has talked White men into believing that the government should be abandoned but it’s fine if other racial groups use the government for their benefit. It’s a movement that talks White men into twiddling their thumbs as Rome burns.

    Con Inc doesn’t even recognize White men as existing. They follow the liberal order that says Whites don’t exist but Blacks can exist and can group collaborate using the government if they so choose.

    Con Inc/Conservatism is submission to liberalism. The “muh tax cuts” and minimal government bullshit is just part of the ruse.

    • Replies: @anon
  74. Author failed to mention that the IEEPA act is unconstitutional. The constitution gives congress , not the president, power to enact tariffs. If congress wants to transfer that power to the president, then there must be a constitutional amendment. It can’t be done by statute.

    • Agree: Jim H
  75. @rebel yell

    And isn’t that the point of tariffs, for the US to (re)develop its own industrial base?
    Trump’s sudden and mercurial implementation may be stupid

    “Mercurial” is a key point here; also unilateral. No one is going to make a long term investment in US industry when everything Trump does will be cancelled on January 21, 2029.

    • Agree: A_Hand_Hidden
  76. @Bro43rd

    Agree, but the first thing that needs to be done is to abolish the zionist privately owned central bank aka the FED and their graduated income tax aka the IRS, which are 2 of the 10 planks of the communist manifesto which put America under zionist communist control in 1913, if we get rid of these 2 zionist tools, we will be on the way to freedom and the zionist wars will end, as they will have lost their ability to fund them.

    • Replies: @V. K. Ovelund
  77. @epebble

    “In one case, a French scientist entering the US for a conference was reportedly detained and denied entry after messages critical of the Trump administration were found on his phone.”

    This smells like bullshit.

    • Replies: @epebble
  78. epebble says:
    @theRealHun

    U.S. Says Decision to Turn Back French Scientist Had Nothing to Do With Trump
    The Department of Homeland Security said the academic was denied entry because he had “confidential” data from an American lab, not because of his views on the president’s policies.

    The Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. A French scientist had information from the lab on an electronic device, a spokeswoman said.Credit…The Albuquerque Journal, via Associated Press
    Aurelien Breeden
    By Aurelien Breeden
    Reporting from Paris

    March 21, 2025
    The French government’s claim that a scientist was denied entry into the United States because of an opinion he expressed about the Trump administration is “blatantly false,” a U.S. official has said.

    Even as the authorities in France continued to call the case a concerning violation of academic freedom, the U.S. official, Tricia McLaughlin, who is a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said the scientist had been turned away for reasons unrelated to his personal beliefs.

    “The French researcher in question was in possession of confidential information on his electronic device from Los Alamos National Laboratory — in violation of a nondisclosure agreement — something he admitted to taking without permission and attempted to conceal,” Ms. McLaughlin said late Thursday.

    Philippe Baptiste, the French minister for higher education, said this week that the scientist, who has not been publicly identified and who specializes in outer space research, was traveling to a conference near Houston earlier this month.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/world/europe/us-france-scientist-entry-trump.html

    Now, which one seems credible? Immigration inspector finding unflattering comments on Trump’s view on climate change or the traveler carrying ‘confidential’ information from a lab?

    Also, what would be the likely probable cause to do a deep inspection of the visitors phone?

    • Agree: nokangaroos
  79. @Liosnagcat

    “Wouldof, Couldof and Shouldof ” are the true and honored vernacular
    of the American people, but I did threaten to shoot my dear Mother
    if she uttered those words one more time.

    • Replies: @Notsofast
    , @anon
  80. meamjojo says:
    @Sir Jacob Rees-Dogg

    Here is another story on this. Surprised Britain hasn’t blocked TUR.

    New UK Internet Policing Law Targets US Online Forums
    Britain’s Online Safety Act may block U.S.-based forums over noncompliance; however, sites such as Gab and Kiwi Farms are refusing to comply.

    By Owen Evans
    4/3/2025

    Online forums based in the United States that rely on First Amendment protections are getting caught up in internet regulations in the UK, where they now risk being blocked under recent legislation.

    Hailed by the British government as the world’s first online safety law, the Online Safety Act (OSA) became law in October 2023, but the duties related to the regulation of so-called illegal content took effect on March 17.

    The law requires online platforms to implement measures to protect people in the UK from criminal activity, with far-reaching implications for the internet.

    Gab, an American social media network, positions itself as a champion of free speech.

    Gab CEO Andrew Torba said in a March 26 social media post that the UK government has demanded that it submit to “their new censorship regime under the UK Online Safety Act.”
    ….
    https://www.theepochtimes.com/tech/new-uk-internet-policing-law-targets-us-online-forums-5834291

  81. anon[828] • Disclaimer says:
    @John Johnson

    youre a fucking moron

  82. @HdC

    However, if I am a guest in someones home it behooves me to adhere to my hosts wishes.

    Whereas the U.S. “government” (and/or its associates and/or willing servants) will routinely invade other peoples’ homes and break things and kill them without any reasonable justification.

    In a foreign country it is the government that is your host. If you wish to aid a protest, contribute funds or very low-key anonymous efforts if you must.

    What about when the “government” of the foreign country is openly lawless and evil and is directly responsible for causing suffering and death in visitor’s country of origin?

  83. Ed Case says:
    @Same old same old

    These people belong in jail, but the U.S. Courts are corrupt so they’re not being locked up. Trump solved the problem.

  84. ltlee1 says:
    @Anonymous534

    Despite their 15% approval ratings they just keep getting reelected anyway.

    The reflects the limit of US electocracy.

    Candidate need financial contribution to win, constituents do not have lot of influence on what the successful candidate could or should do. All other considered equal, incumbent officials have a huge advantages for 2 reasons.

    1. They have a larger war chest.
    2. They are likely to have established positions in the ruling hierarchy. Meaning, in comparison to new candidates, incumbents are likely to bring in more federal fund to the districts they represent.

  85. @Proteus Procrustes

    And Taiwan, which I believe, belongs to China proper, would have eventually been united with the mainland but the sabre rattling has alarmed the world in general and the US in particular which has lead to this artificial trade war culminating in, most likely, a hot war from which neither side nor the humanity will come out winners. I wonder what Master Sun Tzu would say to the Xi Jing Ping in these perilous times!

    Master says Taiwan will 100% reunite with China. The issue being debated in China is not re-unification BUT rather how Taiwan will be governed. Will it be one country one system (mainland) or one country two systems (Hong Kong, Macau)? I think it will be the later.

    The war mantra is for US domestic consumption and to maintain MIC sales overseas as this segment comprises a significant portion of US Manufacturing (2.49 Trillion total).

  86. @Curmudgeon

    JCPOA, that telling tale of Trump’s treachery and total obedience to Israel, is missing from your list.

    • Agree: Jim H
  87. Armedream says:

    Kate Bush – Army Dreamers – Official Music Video
    14 years Ago

    • Replies: @Cloudwalker
  88. Foto Matt says:

    I dunno. Was the old system sustainable for much longer? I mean, Bretton Woods only lasted 27 years (1944 – 1971). We’ve been in pure fiat currency la-la land for 54 years and counting. We keep printing greenbacks and buying stuff from foreigners with them while we let our industry disappear. Yeah, I guess it’s a privilege but it’s like feeding your kid chocolate cake for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Great sugar high but the letdown is a bitch. How much longer was that system going to continue? Another 54 years? I doubt it. By that time, China would be an ultra-superpower and we’d be some raw material third-world backwater for them. (We’re practically there already – have you looked at demographics lately?)

    Related:

    https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

    • Thanks: Jim H
    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  89. peterAUS says:
    @Dr. Rock

    It’s a bit more complicated than that.

    At least you are one of very tiny minority of people who felt something was so wrong with the system that you’ve tried to understand it.

    It’s not about “them”; it’s also about “us”.
    The system itself couldn’t have been so resilient if it hadn’t, somehow, resonated with human nature.

    Anyway, this isn’t either place or time to, again, regurgitate about it.

    “They” know the system is in crisis and they are, on the fly, trying to replace it with something else.
    “We” simply don’t even want to think about it, let alone try to understand it. God forbids trying to offer some alternative.

    Enjoy the ride. It will get bumpy rather soon.

    • Agree: V. K. Ovelund
  90. Anon[318] • Disclaimer says:

    American loosers are now loosing yet another war against Yemen. Its all about propaganda and spreading lies, turning their every defeat into “a victory”. Vietnam, Korea, Afganistan, Iraq etc. have all been lost wars of american and british.

  91. muh muh says:
    @HdC

    I am an absolute believer in free speech, no ifs or buts.

    However, if I am a guest in someones home it behooves me to adhere to my hosts wishes.

    Right, but until Trump took office, the nearly century long position of American government was to uphold the constitutional rights of those living under its aegis.

    As such, the ‘host’s wishes’ were always seen as an allowance of the kind of political expression in which pro-Palestine demonstrators have engaged.

    Until now, of course.

    I think Khalil’s case is going to reach SCOTUS, regardless of who wins the next few rounds of adjudication.

    And I don’t think the conservative majority is going to bail Trump out on this one. Too important insofar as first amendment rights are concerned.

    Of course, we’ll have to wait and see.

    • Agree: V. K. Ovelund
    • Replies: @Jim H
  92. Your article is better researched and more cogently written than most other articles on the topic here have been. However:

    To fully grasp the extent to which Trump’s underlying theory depends on the belief that “They are ripping us off”, we’ve excerpted this short clip from a post by Arnaud Bertrand commenting on a speech by Trump’s Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Steve Miran….

    You would do better to read Miran’s remarks directly, rather than to relay on Bertrand’s slant on Miran’s remarks. One might argee or disagree with Miran, but Miran makes more sense when directly heard than when interpreted by a hostile critic.

    Miran’s remarks are clear and fairly brief. It does not take long to read them in the original.

    • Replies: @aspnaz
  93. Most of the establishment economists are garbage and are elevated further on every failure. Failing upwards to fame: publishing gigs, TV appearances, speeches, etc.

    The real reason for the decline in US manufacturing is simple: “Factors specific to our domestic arrangements: the power of finance over industry that has oligopolized industry after industry, central to which is the buyout game whereby private equity moguls use the target firm’s assets as collateral to purchase the firm, and then force it to disgorge all surplus, leaving nothing for long-term investment or job creation—our equities are overvalued for such structural reasons; the total dismantling of labor power; the fortifications of the professionals, the power of corporate lobbies, and the attendant proliferation of rents in the system; and so on and so forth.”

    https://policytensor.substack.com/p/debunking-the-pettis-miran-hypotheses

    [MORE]

    How exactly did it come to this? How did we get here? As I have argued many times before, there is a very simple recipe for any policy-induced catastrophe: you think the world is a certain way, but it is not so, and grand schemes based on misperceptions of world lead you straight into the ditch. In Vietnam, American elites thought that they could break the will of the adversary through violence; not appreciating the price that the adversary was willing to pay to prevail and the attendant unfavorable balance of resolve. This directly led to the collapse of the midcentury order at home and military humiliation in Asia.

    Or take a more recent instance. The Biden team, in retrospect, a paragon of competence, believed wrongly that clever tactical suppression of Chinese technological progress could arrest the growth of Chinese power. The chips escalation that emerged from this misunderstanding led instead to an acceleration of Chinese technological progress, not just in chips and AI, but in their whole tech-industrial ecosystem.

    The Jake-Schmidt stratagem backfired spectacularly because it was based on an incorrect assessment of the conditioners of technical progress. The main conditioner was not access to TSMC chips; it was the sheer scale of human capital at China’s disposal, and the will, the strategic vision and the competence of the Chinese government. Recall that China practically leads the world in average cognitive ability, and it has more STEM graduates than the US has graduates of all stripes; it’s STEM PhD production is already much higher; and it’s high-quality research output by now surpasses that of the United States. Chinese advantage is especially pronounced in engineering and technology, and the physical sciences—the fields most relevant to the balance of power.

    American manufacturing wasn’t really gutted by NAFTA. It was already in steep decline (see graph in embedded hyperlink in below excerpt (at Substack)

    What about the folk idea that NAFTA and the so-called China Shock gutted American manufacturing? The graph below is from Kyle Chan. Definitely see his excellent note and references therein. It shows very clearly that neither NAFTA, nor the so-called China Shock had any discernible effect on US manufacturing employment. I have also previously debunked the Autor et al. hypothesis in my China policy note. See especially the references therein.

    Look, as I’ve shown you, manufacturing employment has declined across all incumbent industrial nations. Why is it only the American working class that has suffered so? Baldwin suggests that the reason is the lack of a real, Western welfare state. And that is true to a degree, certainly. But I believe there is much more important factors at play; factors specific to our domestic arrangements: the power of finance over industry that has oligopolized industry after industry, central to which is the buyout game whereby private equity moguls use the target firm’s assets as collateral to purchase the firm, and then force it to disgorge all surplus, leaving nothing for long-term investment or job creation—our equities are overvalued for such structural reasons; the total dismantling of labor power; the fortifications of the professionals, the power of corporate lobbies, and the attendant proliferation of rents in the system; and so on and so forth.

    Skill-biased technical change happened everywhere: why is the American working class suffering so? Why the hell isn’t the Danish working class suffering from the same hour-glass economy? After all, manufacturing employment has declined even more precipitously in Denmark! Or pretty much anywhere else beyond the US and the UK? That is the question that must guide the search for reform. When we pick up the pieces after.

    How did Stephen Miran, a strategist at a hedge fund, whose sole contribution has been a note to investors that strategized how tribute could be better extracted from US protectorates, become the chief economic advisor to the president? Was it not because his note was pumped up by Gillian Tett and others at the FT and beyond? Did Trump even know of his existence before?

    How did the ideas peddled by Michael Pettis and Matt Klein become mainstream, despite being known to be empirically challenged? Was it not because of the extraordinary acreage afforded to him in our prestige media?

    How did Brad Sester, who has not proven a single claim in his entire professional career become so influential? Why did Adam Tooze, a former historian who has since emerged as a Davos whisperer and general purpose intellectual—a man who was afraid enough of me to ask me not to show up for the seminar where he discussed the global financial crisis, because I was the one who taught him how finance actually worked and might prove embarrassing given that I am not afraid to correct anyone in public—champion this fake economist and others like him?

    How did these fake economists—all of them, without exception—gain influence in America and lay the basis for the American suicide? What happened to the real economists? Did we run out of them? Contrary the bullshit peddled on at the Verso Loft, we did not run out of serious economic thinkers; nor is economics in crisis. It is, in fact, in great health. What happened is that our media elite started pretending that idea men perched at think tanks and so on were the intellectual equals of actual economists who have made real contributions to the economic literature.

    Stephen Miran has not published a single paper in any journal, forget about the big five. I have more publications than him. Brad Sester has not published a single paper in an economics journal either. Same goes for Matthew Klein, who is a good number cruncher, but hardly an actual economist since he has contributed zero papers to the economics literature. How many has Michael Pettis published? Zero. How many has Adam Tooze published in anything outside history? Zero.

    These are all fake economists in a strict sense and demonstrably so, by any criterion of professional expertise. Why has the media been pretending for years now that these are real economists? That their ideas are to be taken seriously? Because a major part of the reason why have landed in the soup we have is because we have lost track of how to tell bullshit from real thing in our public discourse.

    The reasons for their celebrity is not hard to discern. First, they are saying things that make good copy—just like Trump made for good TV in 2015. Second, what they are saying often aligns with the agenda of the powerful. After all, this fraud was perpetuated on the American people long before the present administration. In particular, with the entire American media-political elite signed up for a Cold War against China, some major crime of the Chinese had to be seized upon. Everything was tried. From inflated claims about Uyghur enslavement, to pumped up charges of technological theft, spy balloons, Chinese students and scholars, and so on and so forth, ad nauseam. The one that really stuck was the cooked-up panic over China’s trade surplus and industrial subsidies.

  94. Chris Moore says: • Website
    @A123

    Trump is acting to undo the damage caused by decades of Globalism. It is both necessary and justified. It would be much more concerning if he did nothing.

    Trump is acting to undo the damage of decades of the international jew, who profiteered from Globalism, wars for Israel, and “aid” (free money) to the Judeofascists state. Now that the jews have secured their Judeofascist state, they’re pulling the rug out from under Globalism (just as they pulled the rug out from under Marxism) and gearing up for a world war that will establish Israel as Fed/Ponzi central.

    And Judas Class commander in cheat Trump is helping them, same as soulless Joe “I am a Zionist” helped them. Same as the Silent Gen/Boomer-tards helped them.

    Christendom First! Marxist-Zionism to hell!

    • Agree: John Trout
  95. @Desert Fox

    I think this is facetious?

    Agree, but the first thing that needs to be done is to abolish the zionist privately owned central bank aka the FED and their graduated income tax aka the IRS, which are 2 of the 10 planks of the communist manifesto which put America under zionist communist control in 1913, if we get rid of these 2 zionist tools, we will be on the way to freedom and the zionist wars will end, as they will have lost their ability to fund them.

  96. Notsofast says:
    @24th Alabama

    also acceptable, wudda, cudda and shudda.

    • Replies: @24th Alabama
  97. aspnaz says:

    Trump is obviously courting Putin, who has shown in the past that he is susceptible to western faux pretense of wanting to talk. The US government has determined that this is the best way to get Putin on side and to isolate China.

    The success of Trump’s decoupling from China will depend on Russia’s willingness to dump China; is Putin a western stooge, willing to be whipped by the west yet also coming back for more, or is he really Russia first. Still in doubt, especially after he helped the west take over Syria.

    It astonished me to see that the USA and Russia are planning on playing ice hockey matches against each other again; simultaneously, Putin tells us that American soldiers are killing Russian soldiers and helping Ukraine to attack inside of Russia. Do the families of the dead Russian families and, for that matter, the families of dead Ukraine soldiers, do they get any respect, any acknowledgement of their huge sacrifice? They obviously have no voice on Russian media, it will be interesting to see how this plays out.

    Putin looks like Xi’s weak link.

    • Agree: John Trout
  98. @Priss Factor

    Message to the world.

    Don’t get played by Dr. Sachs.

  99. I am going to step out on a limb. The reason that the financial system is doing what it is doing has little to with trade tarriff’s and more to do with the underlying faults that players have been riding for more than fourty years. They can now hide behind the tarrif issue as fault as opposed to the unhealthy and manipukative practices to bolster market’s bubble ever at risk of exposure,

    No a data analytics — just a suspicion.

    The US leading munitions producer just sold out tyo a hedge fund that has no idea how to produce manitions.

    Mr. Wikoff, thinks its a triumph to suggest a robust economic relationship with a closed system in Russia whose entire economy boast 1.7 trillion dollars and has launched a war it cannot afford, in the hopes that their friend in the WH will bail them out.

    Sorry, I don’t buy the issue is tarriffs. More than likely, what the tarriffs reveal is “something rotten in Denmark” — if Pres Trump succeeds at nothing else, he succeeds in lifting veils.

  100. aspnaz says:
    @V. K. Ovelund

    Make more sense? The USA is posturing that it is the world’s policeman and that we should therefore pay for that police force, even if that police force attacks us and we have no representation regarding the control of the police force; i.e. the police force is actually a mafiaesque protection racket.

    This is the same as Nazi Germany telling the Jews that they were killing them for their own good; we have seen this sort of bullshit line from the USA many times; invade Iraq to bring democracy etc … for their own good. It would not be worthy of comment if not for the fact that the “police force” is still likely to turn up at your door and knock it down because you told Trump to fuck off.

    The problem with that assertion is that the world has no control over that police force, and countries like Vietnam, who are being asked to pay, were attacked by that police force. The USA people spend money on that police force because it extorts money from smaller, weaker countries, not because it applies some form of univerally agreed laws. Just look at the USA and the UN, Israel can commit as many crimes as it likes and the “police force” protects them as if they were all criminals together.

    Miran’s thinking is akin to a baker delivering a loaf of bread to your doorstep and demanding that you pay for it. When you say that you don’t eat that type of bread, and anyway, his bread is crap, he attacks you and takes your money anyway saying “you have to buy my bread or I will break your legs”. The baker then blames you for being the beligerent in the “deal”, for not handing over you rmoney quietly. Of course, this is deliberate twisting of the situation, the beligerent is the baker, he is extorting money and he is making out that he is the victim.

    It is tempting to think that Miran seems to have lost the power of logic, the essence of cause and effect. But this is not the case as it means that all of Trump’s admin have lost their marbles together, so this twisting of the essence of cause and effect is obviously their negotiating strategy. It is obviously leaning heavily on the “we are the victims” lie, backed up with a “we will break your legs if you don’t pay” threat.

    It only makes sense as a threat, everything else is lies.

  101. Pythas says:
    @Darkwing

    You wake the hell up. Trump has not made himself “Dictator in Chief,” the anglo-zio shit banker boys are still in charge. So when you want to post know what the hell you are talking about…

  102. anon[828] • Disclaimer says:
    @24th Alabama

    @Liosnagcat not u bama

    it’s would have or would’ve not wouldof or would of or would off you illerate hooked on phonics ebonics illiterate niggers! .. . and eeeengiriish aint even my first langiage and i still use it on a daily basis better than you, whose supposed family has been speaking it for the past thousawfucking years. .cocksucking filth..you see how you got nothing? not even your K”language”.

    jfc you cant type in ur own tongue. but the rest of the world including Lil shitbags in indonesia can code in it. you cant even speak in it let alone type in it!

    engrish is my 3rd language

    but…MAGA!

    .

  103. 迪路 says:
    @John Galt III

    Pretty good.
    This is the first time I’ve heard the number hit 50 million. It seems that there was a lack of reference to the rigor of the data when you made up your lies.
    By the way, what if it was American farmers who starved to death?
    I think soon soybean farmers will enjoy this.

    • Replies: @Franz
  104. Uncle Jon says:
    @anon

    “….there is nothing the Western Rothschild bankers can do about it…..”

    Really? Just ask Adolf Hitler.

    First they ask you politely to stop doing what you are doing.
    Then, they will start smearing you in the media.
    Then, they will start a embargo and sanction campaign against you
    Then, they will try to coup you in your own country by subverting your elections, buying off your political opponents, etc.
    Then, they will concoct a regional war against you.

    If that all fails, a world war should take care your ambitions.

    But this go around is all about semi-conductors. Whoever rules that domain, rules the future.

    • Agree: John Trout
  105. 迪路 says:
    @Ulises Landis

    I have a different point of view. I don’t think our government would choose to sell US Treasury holdings.
    It would also cause great damage to our government.
    From what our government has been doing, they’re actually exchanging long-term bonds for short-term bonds and using the dollars they trade to issue their dollar bonds.
    This means that in the end, the government may not reduce its holdings of US Treasuries in the form of selling, but demand dollars in the form of maturity.
    Given that Trump is a scoundrel and often bankrupt, he could simply empty the US Treasury, making the debt unpayable, and the US government could simply go bankrupt.

    • Replies: @24th Alabama
  106. Chris Moore says: • Website
    @aspnaz

    This is the same as Nazi Germany telling the Jews that they were killing them for their own good;

    If you think Nazi Fuhrer Adolf Shiklgruber was in anyway an enemy of “the Jews” (other than by having Judeofascist Zionist vermin crawling all over his party and killing the lowly, stupid, brainwashed jews to engender “Israel”), you’ve got a lot to learn.

    Anglo-Zionists, Nazis, Marxist-Zionist Judeofascists… all of their father, the Devil. All Synagogue of Satanists. All out for the blood of humanity.

    Russia is officially going to war with “international Satanists”.
    http://www.judeofascism.com/2025/04/russian-lawmakers-move-to-ban.html

    Christ is tightening the noose on his eternal enemies. Christendom will follow his lead, whether it wants to or not.

  107. @Notsofast

    If the U.S. were serious about the War on Terrorism it would have declared war
    on itself and Israel. Muslim terrorism exists mainly as a reaction to American,
    European and Zionist intrusions into the Middle East and Afghanistan.
    But, after it started extremism took on a life of its own and brought in new
    generations who were not content to only defend Islam.

    • Replies: @Notsofast
  108. @aspnaz

    Well, if that’s how your countrymen feel, then your country should probably reject Miran’s offer. Perhaps some other countries will also reject it. Perhaps most countries will reject it, although I doubt it.

    Foreign countries will probably act in what they deem to be self interest. Meanwhile, I do not believe that Miran’s policy requires much foreign cooperation to succeed.

  109. Franz says:
    @迪路

    American farmers DID starve in the Great Depression of the 1930s.

    Russian demographic experts put the number at about seven million.

    Information about Americans in the Dust Bowl and elsewhere are not well-documented. It could be less than 7 million, more, or no idea.

    Washington really wasn’t happy when Russian scholars brought it up. There was a lot of silence on the US side, which continues to this day.

  110. @迪路

    The U.S. Gov. is active in the currency and bond markets, aggressively buying or selling to keep markets within a predetermined range. When Soros “broke” the Bank of England, governments learned to play hardball with the currency raiders, and now they unite to defend currencies against major attacks.

    Don’t worry. Trump is not allowed near the Gov. bond
    and currency trading desks.

    • Replies: @迪路
  111. aspnaz says:

    When you look at progress over the past 50 years, especially in western countries, what you notice is that more and more people have been moved from productive work – such as fixing the roads – to political work. What I mean by political work is that each billionaires of the world has their projects to run the world their way, to implement this, they have started up thousands of foundations, think tanks, etc etc. All of them are aimed at changing the world in the way that benefits them, all of them lie continuously about what they are doing, all of them claim to be the source of truth, fighting to save the little person from disinformation and the like. In the UK there must be hundreds of thousands of people working in such companies/charities.

    It looks like the future of the world will involve all of us working for some billionaires, each working on projects to enslave people or force them to live our way. All material needs will be met by automation, so the only jobs will be working in the authoritarian fascist blob. I call it fascist because it is so obviously run and funded by the billionaire class and their corporates.

    Look at the UK, their government policy has been controlled by billionaires for my entire life. I have never voted because I can see that both parties have the same basic agenda, only the PR changes. I think it is not as bad in the USA, but it is still bad, with whole industries, such as medicine, being uncontrollable by government. The industry is so entrenched into the government that there is no clear division.

    Tariffs is about bringing production back to the USA, but all modern production – of any high tech or high value product – is done by automation. Bringing production back to the USA is not for the benefit of the people, they will be enslaved somewhere else, it is solely for the benefit of the billionaire class. The emergence of automation means that billionaires do not need to worry about wages any more, they do not need to worry about people any more, so now they want that automation to be located in places where they have control over the government and the regulatory environment; the USA.

    MAGAtards think this is Trump trying to help them; this is actually Trump using them while trying to help his billionaire friends. You can see how much ne cares about the average Joe by watching how much he cares about the people of Gaza. People are becoming worthless in the eyes of the billionaires, we always knew this day would arrive, but it looks like it is here already. Without a need for each other, why encourage society, they will instead want to control society and use it for other purposes.

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  112. Jim H says:
    @muh muh

    ‘until Trump took office, the nearly century long position of American government was to uphold the constitutional rights of those living under its aegis’ — muh muh

    John Locke’s philosophy on natural rights significantly shaped the minds of the Framers of the U.S. Constitution. Locke believed in innate, inalienable rights that individuals possess simply by being human: life, liberty, and property.

    These rights were not granted by a government or an outside entity; they were inherent.

    https://www.usconstitution.net/philosophical-roots-of-u-s-constitution/

    One might regard tourists on a 90-day visa as subject to expulsion for undermining civil order. But sanctioning permanent residents for engaging in free speech is a wholly different matter.

    The constitution does not authorize gradations of natural rights. If you’re here legally, you enjoy the same natural rights as everyone else. Until the second regency of his imperial excellence Donnie J Fubar, that is.

    • Agree: V. K. Ovelund
    • Replies: @EliteCommInc.
  113. @aspnaz

    There are two possible futures for the ‘useless eaters’ that the Davos/Bilderberg mob fret over. Massive wealth redistribution and a life of leisure and self-actualisation, or the bio-warfare route. The first requires the global parasites to relinquish their stolen wealth, the second just involves creating enough robotic corpse disposers to get the clean-up job done quickly. Guess which one the parasites are actively planning for.

  114. @Franz

    Gorbachev brought up the case of Leonard Peltier in 1986!! Peltier rotted in pokey for ANOTHER thirty-eight years! USA! USA! USA!

    • Thanks: John Trout
    • LOL: Franz
  115. anon[359] • Disclaimer says:
    @Anonymous534

    Don’t forget about AI high frequency trading.
    Most of the stock market is bought and sold through AI, and it can read the headlines. That’s why some call it “fake news”, because they are manipulating the market with the news.
    They have also implemented AI HFT into the crypto market. The regular guy can’t compete with these bots.

  116. @Foto Matt

    When our proto-type Blairites, Keating and Sabbat Goy Ultra Hawke, floated the AU dollar in ’83 or whenever, the lying Rightists ‘economists’ averred that it would soon find its true value, thanks to ‘The Magic of the Market’, and our trade account would come into balance.
    Happily, the South Pacific Peso has oscillated wildly since, sinking low so that the Yanks could buy up our share-market on the cheap, then high, thereby euthanising what was left of manufacturing. The trade account has been in deficit for c.90% of the time. And a ‘Liberal’ regime sold all our gold at the VERY BOTTOM of the market!
    Oddly enough, political economists, old Marxists like Ted Wheelwright, predicted what ACTUALLY happened pretty well. Most transactions ie c.90%, in the money markets were purely speculative, and the SPP became the fifth most actively traded global currency. Various parasites waxed very fat indeed. Fortunately all ‘Political Economy’ departments were purged from academia about that time.

  117. @Notsofast

    No! You’ve gone too far. Some adherence
    to the King’s English must be maintained.

    • Replies: @Notsofast
  118. @aspnaz

    Like everyone else, Putin has learned that Trump will betray
    anyone but the Jews, but if he does backstab the Zionists
    his other sins will be forgiven.

    The Sino-Russian alliance is solid and will endure.
    Your wishful thinking is transparent.

    • Agree: John Trout
    • Replies: @John Johnson
  119. 迪路 says:
    @24th Alabama

    The problem I actually see is that nobody wants to buy US debt. That seems to be true with or without Trump in office. The reason why the Trump administration needs crazy layoffs is also to reduce the burden of US debt on the government.
    However, you have seen the negotiations, with both Japan and the European Union putting out a message that the American offer is unacceptable.
    If it’s unacceptable to an ally, it’s less likely to be acceptable to anyone else.
    It would be American banks that would end up buying Treasurys, but that would mean yields on dollar bonds could go negative, like Japan’s.
    Foreign investors are even less likely to buy Treasuries in this situation… Us Treasuries will lose their safe-haven status and become risky, triggering panic selling.
    Since the United States has restricted the use of the dollar, and the establishment of American factories has cost a lot of money, the dollar has nowhere to use, and will gradually become a pile of waste paper.
    Another concern is whether U.S. banks have enough money to buy U.S. Treasury bonds.
    If US banks are in a cash crunch, like Silicon Valley banks, the consequences will be even greater. In fact, as you can see, the failure of Silicon Valley banks has something to do with the fact that they bought too many U.S. Treasury bonds.

    • Replies: @24th Alabama
  120. @John Johnson

    Who are you, and what have you done to the real Jayjay?!
    That actually makes sense 😁

    • Replies: @Notsofast
  121. @HdC

    Completely irrelevant drivel since Trump is already going after US citizens and US institutions for their speech.

  122. Notsofast says:
    @24th Alabama

    the king is dead, long live mark twain! and by the way, the rumors of his death have been greatly exaggerated.

    • Thanks: 24th Alabama
  123. Notsofast says:
    @nokangaroos

    now you can call him jayjay and you can call him vajayjay, but don’t you ever call him johnson.

  124. International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and other emergency powers

    I haven’t been aware that creating new Executive powers via legislation is a valid Congressional power in itself. Whomever Mike is quoting there seems to be trying to validate the idea of an all-powerful executive.

    It’s pretty easy, apparently, to make the unconstitutional appear to be constitutional for the purpose of fooling the public.

  125. Notsofast says:
    @24th Alabama

    “muslim terrorism” is created by the west, either through direct funding, like israel and their “isis” (israeli secret intelligence service) terrorists and other wahhabist head chopping stooges, like al-qaeda.

    if not directly funded, than predictable blowback from our murderous military adventurism. they are the boogie man we need to justify our endless wars, from 9/11 on.

    • Agree: 24th Alabama
    • Replies: @24th Alabama
  126. @Notsofast

    Mindless aggression requires an explanation,
    but “making the world safe for democracy”
    has worn thin.

  127. @aspnaz

    Do the families of the dead Russian families and, for that matter, the families of dead Ukraine soldiers, do they get any respect, any acknowledgement of their huge sacrifice?

    It’s been pretty obvious from the start that Putin has no respect for its fallen soldiers. They don’t even care about the wounded. A wife of a Russian soldier recently said that he wasn’t given a medic kit on the basis that they are pointless. He was told that they aren’t going to be evacuated so there is no point in trying to fix a wound.

  128. @24th Alabama

    The Sino-Russian alliance is solid and will endure. Your wishful thinking is transparent.

    You are the one engaging in Russian alliance fantasy just like Pepe.

    China is the top drone supplier for both Ukraine and Russia. They will happily sell weapons to both sides.

    Hey remember the Russian-Syrian alliance? We were also told that was solid until Putin decided to betray Assad.

    The idea that China cares about any European country is extremely naive. China would prefer to see all of Europe turn third world and that includes Russia which was never fully first world.

    • Replies: @24th Alabama
    , @Cloudwalker
  129. @迪路

    The Silicon banks did commit suicide by loading up on low- yield bond and treasuries, and when interest rates rose sharply they took huge losses, making them insolvent.

    Take a look at the US Dollar Index DXY, a measure of value versus other major currencies.
    On 1-13-25 it hit a one-year high at 109.96. and began a sharp decline the next day, a week before Trump became President. Obviously, someone had a very lucky hunch or a “money dream,” and
    began dumping many billions of dollars on the currency markets. On 4-17-25 the DXY closed
    at 99.61, so if you sold the DXY on 1-13 and bought it back on 4-17 you made a tidy 9% in just 3 months.

    As economists have said, the markets can only be fully understood by working backwards, but,
    money is made by trading ahead of the crowd. It’s clear that Trump intended to drive the dollar
    down to help American exporters and make imports more expensive, and that was before the
    tariff threats, so it would appear that insiders may have had a “heads up.”

    • Agree: 迪路
  130. @Franz

    American farmers DID starve in the Great Depression of the 1930s.

    To death?

    It could be less than 7 million, more, or no idea.

    No, sorry, but every American of my generation, when young, personally knew many, many persons that had lived through the Great Depression. Not one of those persons ever mentioned anyone in the United States starving to death.

    The U.S. had no internal passport controls during the Great Depression. Americans of the 1930s rode trains or drove automobiles wherever they liked. It’s not like they wouldn’t know.

    A handful did starve to death in the Donner Party a century earlier but, during the Great Depression, the number was exactly zero as far as I know.

    • Replies: @24th Alabama
  131. @V. K. Ovelund

    As a student and teacher of American history my impression was that most high school
    textbooks minimized the suffering of the poor during the 1930’s Depression.
    Remember, that the U.S. Gov. early in the Depression was small and lacked any means
    or motive to collect accurate statistics. The “Red Scare” had already had an effect on
    the elites, including the media owners, and they had every reason to minimize the
    the plight of the poor.

    My guess is that the deaths directly attributable to starvation were in the low hundreds,
    but since the immune system is severely weakened by malnutrition, the long term
    deaths were likely in the low millions. The mental and physical damage to children
    caused by malnutrition were not measurable, but certainly were in the tens of millions.

    • Agree: Franz, John Trout
    • Thanks: V. K. Ovelund, Notsofast
    • Replies: @Franz
  132. @John Johnson

    Do you have any evidence that China is providing Ukraine with drones?
    And, have you forgotten that you previously doxxed yourself as a Jew
    living in the Boston area? I am getting a bit weary of reminding
    you of who and what you are. Give me a break!

    • Thanks: Cloudwalker
    • Replies: @John Johnson
  133. @24th Alabama

    Do you have any evidence that China is providing Ukraine with drones?

    Most drones are made in China
    https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/16/ukraine-russia-war-drone-warfare-china/

    And, have you forgotten that you previously doxxed yourself as a Jew
    living in the Boston area?

    LOL is that the latest theory? I’ve been accused of all kinds of things including being Lindsay Graham, a Canadian Ukrainian and a Pharm agent. In fact during COVID I had multiple posters that were certain I worked for Johnson and Johnson until I pointed out that I came here from the Kersey blog and that my nick predated the virus.

    I live in middle America and I’m not Jewish.

    You are probably thinking of how I talked about my friend giving rides to Jews in Boston during the witching hour.

    I have all kinds of stories from multiple cities. Most of them are from a city that I don’t name and rarely visit. But you can dig through my Kersey posts and try to guess. I don’t live there anymore but have quite a few stories involving urban White liberals.

    • Replies: @24th Alabama
  134. @John Johnson

    The U.S has bought drones from all over and shipped them to Ukraine,
    and we make our own also. The CIA has refused my requests for data
    on this, but I’m sure they have a drone purchasing agent. Drones have
    become a commodity, shipped, transshipped and frequently modified
    by the user country.

    You doxxed yourself and won’t admit it. VERDICT: Boston Jew.
    SENTENCE: Just Be You.

    • Thanks: John Trout
    • Replies: @John Johnson
  135. Franz says:
    @24th Alabama

    As a student and teacher of American history my impression was that most high school
    textbooks minimized the suffering of the poor during the 1930’s Depression.

    There seems to be a lot of “indirect” evidence—or, in any case, denial—of the amount of pain.

    My uncle, much older than my dad, was able to secure an income as a traveling projectionist during the late Depression. His 35 mm projector became a family heirloom.

    He told my dad that he was showing a copy of The River, a half-hour documentary of how bad conditions had gotten. He told my father that audiences of Republicans routinely laughed during the runtime. They thought it was just more of FDR’s BS.

    After my dad retired with a fairly good pension, he made it a point to obtain a copy of The River and showed it to the family every year around Thanksgiving. It was his way of keeping the facts alive. No one else seemed especially interested. (He retired during the Reagan years, when the same sort of Republicans were in charge.)

    THE RIVER, 1937

    • Thanks: 24th Alabama, Notsofast
    • Replies: @nokangaroos
  136. @Franz

    [Hah!!! He said “Gulf of Mexico”! 😆]

    Beautifully made, thanks; the TVA has long been Repugs´bête noire – because
    it worked (Socialism!!!); never mind that Hoover started it, and the scope
    was secular.

  137. @24th Alabama

    The U.S has bought drones from all over and shipped them to Ukraine,
    and we make our own also.

    The Chinese will sell anything to anyone.

    Is that really news for you? You think they will sell the world fentanyl by the ton but wouldn’t sell Ukraine hobby drones out of some type of principle?

    Maybe you also didn’t catch that China abstained from the UN vote on the Russian invasion.

    They also didn’t vote with Russia on Crimea.

    They abstained just like the Chinese mini mart owner abstains from local politics. He just wants to sell Blacks their 40s or Whites their chewing tobacco.

    You doxxed yourself and won’t admit it. VERDICT: Boston Jew.
    SENTENCE: Just Be You.

    Well show everyone the evidence.

    Show us that you’re not crazy and imagining this in your head. Shouldn’t be hard, just search my history for Boston.

    Show everyone that a Putin defender isn’t mentally unstable like his associates.

    • Replies: @Notsofast
    , @John Trout
  138. Remember, how ignorant you were when you came on TUR, two years and
    two thousand lies ago. You didn’t know jack, but I was patient and educated
    you in the hope that a learned troll might provide more amusement than a
    typical dumb-ass, Hasbara serf. But, I can’t tell you everything.

  139. Notsofast says:
    @John Johnson

    stfu donkey boy, way to shit all over a very interesting thread, guess you’re just doing your job.

    thanks to 24th and franz for their insights and understanding of the depression, my father was born in 1923 and was greatly effected by it, i remember tales of kecthup and water soup for dinner. i hope this country won’t have to go through anything like this again but fear that’s exactly where we’re headed. these people aren’t ready for this.

    • Thanks: 24th Alabama
    • Replies: @John Johnson
  140. @Armedream

    Off topic

    Prime Kate is fire, I’d pin her down mown the bush

    Can’t blame GenZ getting frustrated, nothing around is a keeper not even the bgm inside cafe

  141. @Jim H

    No. You don’t. If you are an immigrants, the rules governing your stay in the US are listed in the 1952 immigration legislation. And perhaps, as long you don’t violate those rules, you enjoy the same rights, but clearly that legis;lation, not yet ruled unconstitional – can limit certain conducts that a US citizen enjoys.

    “John Locke’s philosophy on natural rights significantly shaped the minds of the Framers of the U.S. Constitution. Locke believed in innate, inalienable rights that individuals possess simply by being human: life, liberty, and property”

    But the founders did not believe that. Not did they enshrine said belief in the cionstitition. It is not universal depite its treatment as such. One of the failures of liberal education is to treat US principles as though they apply internationally — they don’t. The founders wroth the Constitution for US citizemns and their descendencts not every person who set foot on US shores. Your hopscotch from lock to US law has merit only in theory — not actual application.

    And no, people here illegally are granted a process, but they are not entitled to it.

  142. @John Johnson

    The idea that China cares about any European country is extremely naive.

    The idea hoping some other sovereignty countries to ‘care’ you above diplomatic, humanitarian and economical sense is extremely naive and feminine.

    China would prefer to see all of Europe turn third world

    Again this is JJ’s typical self-projecting on what Chinese would do,
    in fact China didn’t know the existence of European countries, let alone the U.S. founded much later; the few limited interactions were through traders, craftman and priests,
    there were no evidence Chinese orchestrated a mafia-like guidance such as ‘Protocols of Elders of Zion ‘ dedicated to bringing European White civilization to total destruction, as Chinese’s ultimate goal.

    Quite in contrary, China helped some European countries such as Romania, Serbia and Greece during hardship and under direct Zog pressure, when in your lala world politics,
    Chinese could have just kicked can and backstabbed those small states, but they didn’t

    At least China want Europe to stay as an economic zone with self respect to their cultural heritage, millions of Chinese tourist went to Rome, Lisbon, Hamburg proves that, there is zero-to-little Chinese spitting on Christ statue(imagine that in Tel aviv), or vandalizing European heritages, historical leader statues like niqqer chimps doing across the U.S.

    Find a job JJ, fed is running thin on that propaganda team

  143. @Notsofast

    Well he wasn’t able to back his strange accusation and here you are suggesting that I am undermining the thread by calling out his bullshit.

    You and 24th are holding out for Russian glory and you both don’t like dissenting views.

    Well Russia just attacked with a squad of e-scooters. The kind I see teenagers riding to the mini mart. What a glorious 2.5 day operation.

    Kharkiv is only 30 minutes from the border and still hasn’t been taken by Russia.

    The usual pro-Russian bloggers told us the war was over when it started and here we are on day 1,152 and Russia is using e-scooters to attack Ukraine.

    You grit your teeth over me posting and yet the alt-right pro-Russian bloggers have been wrong from the beginning.

    Maybe consider the possibility that conformity of opinion isn’t good for the MSM or alternative media.

    thanks to 24th and franz for their insights and understanding of the depression, my father was born in 1923 and was greatly effected by it, i remember tales of kecthup and water soup for dinner.

    Were they able to afford capital letters?

    If we get a depression it will be thanks to Trump and his bigley genius trade wars that he didn’t run by congress. Trump is proving that the founders were correct to have shared power and limit presidential authority on foreign affairs. They were correct to be concerned with the douchebag king scenario.

  144. @John Johnson

    I see you are carrying out your SENTENCE.

    • LOL: 24th Alabama
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