Trump at war with Russia and India

[multivita-man]

No idea of whom you're talking about. I suspect you have little inkling either.

BRICS. If you knew anything about global politics, you'd know that.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Trump appointed Powell, he admits he got bad advice.
Trump will appoint Powell's replacement next May.
He will also appoint a few other Fed governors as their terms expire.

Why do you say congress is corrupt?
It has a tiny GOP majority, and the BBB should end up with a balanced budget....major progress.

Countless other nations all throughout history have done very bad things to servants caught stealing.

Congress has operated a perfect grift machine: taxpayers > spending bills > awardees > fund Congress directly through contributions and indirectly through NGOs and insider trading

C Austin Fitts tells us $21 Trillion has been “redirected” aka stolen to fund off the books projects and DOGE discovered that there was criminally negligent accounting in until trillions of government spending

 

[multivita-man]

Trump appointed Powell, he admits he got bad advice.
Trump will appoint Powell's replacement next May.
He will also appoint a few other Fed governors as their terms expire.

Why do you say congress is corrupt?
It has a tiny GOP majority, and the BBB should end up with a balanced budget....major progress.

Nope.

 

[Hollie]

World leaders know that Trump is essentially a child, and that his words are little more than loud and temporary rhetorical grunts and tantrums. They're aware of the always-possible TACO.

Now that he's moved his reality TV show into the global macroeconomic space, each of these world leaders will have to react in the best interests of their countries, and we already know that all of them are looking for, and creating, alternatives for the long term.

Trump's "you need us more than we need you, so nyah nyah nyah" foreign policy is changing global macroeconomics indeed, but not in the way he ignorantly thinks.

That child has forged major trade deals.

Your Biden corpse was too busy hunting cannibals to do anything worthwhile

 

[SeaMajor7]

Higher tariffs on them simply means MORE (tariff)taxes on us, that you and I and all Americans will have to pay for the imported products at the store.

You like higher taxes?

Stop listening to Chuck Schumer, PLEASE!
That's not TRUE.

 

[Meathead]

BRICS. If you knew anything about global politics, you'd know that.

An alliance, of sorts I guess, with the cohesion of a post it note. If you knew anything about politics, you would know that.

 

[multivita-man]

An alliance, of sorts I guess, with the cohesion of a post it note. If you knew anything about politics, you would know that.

Yes, they're lacking cohesion now. They don't do nearly as much inter-BRICS trading as they could, but that is changing.

BRICS was created for the purpose of hedging against the US dollar-dominated global economic system. This movement really got started circa 2009-10 in part because there's been a growing global consensus that the US is financially irresponsible and unstable and that it will inevitably collapse because of its own political and economic incompetence and that other powers need to be prepared so as not to get sucked into the undertow.

Weaponization of the US dollar through its various sanctions schemes has led to greater cohesion. Countries have seen how the US has used its alliances to engage in crippling economic warfare whenever they behave in ways the US doesn't like and they've decided that ain't gonna be them. That's a reaction to sanctions.

The threat of additional tariffs and sanctions are not going to change the outcome in Ukraine. Russia is going to defeat Ukraine because they have more manpower, more hardware, and more resources. Punishing India and China or any other country to the tune of additional 50-100% sanctions is going to give BRICS more cohesion.

The US has a debt-GDP ratio of more than 100% and rapidly spiraling out of control. Moreover, this is true of the US's main allies in Europe and Japan. Further still, the US is actually imposing sanctions on its allies, eroding the cohesion of its own alliance and simultaneously strengthening the cohesion of its adversaries.

 

[kyzr]

A country that has $37 trillion debt (with no end in sight) and fighting its own allies to force them to abandon free trade is not in the best position to take on an alliance of more than half the world's population and an alliance that controls or has easier access to a lion's share of the world's most critical resources.

1. The BBB should end up balancing the budget.
2. Our allies took advantage of "free trade", now its "fair trade".
3. You think BRICs has the advantage? I think you are wrong. Its GDP that matters not population.

 

[kyzr]

Countless other nations all throughout history have done very bad things to servants caught stealing.
Congress has operated a perfect grift machine: taxpayers > spending bills > awardees > fund Congress directly through contributions and indirectly through NGOs and insider trading

True. The Convention of States is trying to impose term limits on congress (12 years) to cut down on grift.

Convention of States Action

Article V offers the only constitutional solution as big as the problem. Together, we can end federal overreach.

conventionofstates.com

C Austin Fitts tells us $21 Trillion has been “redirected” aka stolen to fund off the books projects and DOGE discovered that there was criminally negligent accounting in trillions of government spending

We do need DOGE to audit the Fed. Here are examples of democrat theft

$375B EPA slush fund handled by John Podesta gave billions to charities founded only months earlier

By Isabel Vincent The Biden administration funneled at least $20 billion dollars into environmental groups, most of which had only recently been founded, The Post has discovered. In one case, forme…

www.climatedepot.com

Administrator Zeldin Terminates Biden-Harris $20B 'Gold Bar' Grants | US EPA

EPA News Release: Administrator Zeldin Terminates Biden-Harris $20B 'Gold Bar' Grants

www.epa.gov

Feds investigating Stacey Abrams-linked group’s ‘insane’ $2B EPA grant, Zeldin says

The massive grant was awarded to Power Forward Communities in April 2024 from environmental spending in former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

nypost.com

The $42 billion internet program that has connected 0 people

The federal BEAD program makes little sense with the rate of private markets providing internet access.

www.washingtonpolicy.org

 

[Correll]

Optimizing trade relationships is always a good, solid and defensible idea. Always.

But you don't do it like a spastic, ignorant caveman. We're dealing with intelligent, stable, professional people here.

I don't know why this has to be so difficult to understand.

The "grownups" had 60 years to do that. What were you waiting for?

 

[Correll]

A country that has $37 trillion debt (with no end in sight) and fighting its own allies to force them to abandon free trade is not in the best position to take on an alliance of more than half the world's population and an alliance that controls or has easier access to a lion's share of the world's most critical resources.

"free trade" policy failed to deliver. Time to change it.

 

[kyzr]

Nope.

OK, here is my "proof"

The CBO analysis/scoring of the BBB was $3.3T added to the debt over 10 years

Republican Senate tax bill would add $3.3 trillion to the US debt load, CBO says

The changes made to President Donald Trump’s big tax bill in the Senate would pile trillions onto the nation’s debt load while resulting in even steeper losses in health care coverage, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in a new analysis, adding to the challenges for Republicans as the

apnews.com

That equals a deficit of $330b a year

But the CBO assumptions are flawed. Here are the real numbers based on more realistic assumptions:
1. Tariffs will add about $300b of new revenue annually (almost balancing the budget itself)
2. The GDP will be 3% or more, not the CBO's assumed 1.8%, generating more revenue $330b?
3. The Fed will lower interest rates saving $150b to $300b a year on interest payments
4. If congress implements the DOGE recommendations $190b a year can be saved
5. If Ted Cruz' Bill is passed the Fed will not pay $100b a year in interest on bank reserves (back to old policy)
6. If congress "claws-back" the $400b of democrat theft, that revenue is saved

Added together could be $900b or so a year of surplus to start paying down the debt.

 

[IDIOCRACY]

World leaders know that Trump is essentially a child, and that his words are little more than loud and temporary rhetorical grunts and tantrums. They're aware of the always-possible TACO.

Now that he's moved his reality TV show into the global macroeconomic space, each of these world leaders will have to react in the best interests of their countries, and we already know that all of them are looking for, and creating, alternatives for the long term.

Trump's "you need us more than we need you, so nyah nyah nyah" foreign policy is changing global macroeconomics indeed, but not in the way he ignorantly thinks.

I could never imagine we'd have Bob Barker, do-right, and 10 pound balls too in the White House. If only he had Reagan's charisma and Washington's battle presence, I think he'd be suited to sit at the table with the likes of Ben Franklin, Einstein, Aristotle, Moses, Shakespeare and Jesus. **** off if you don't think Ben earns it, I'd like to smoke a joint with that dude most.

Imagine getting high with Einstein. Shut the **** up already, I don't know WTF you're talking about, you're high again.

 

[Mac1958]

I could never imagine we'd have Bob Barker, do-right, and 10 pound balls too in the White House. If only he had Reagan's charisma and Washington's battle presence, I think he'd be suited to sit at the table with the likes of Ben Franklin, Einstein, Aristotle, Moses, Shakespeare and Jesus. **** off if you don't think Ben earns it, I'd like to smoke a joint with that dude most.

Imagine getting high with Einstein. Shut the **** up already, I don't know WTF you're talking about, you're high again.

 

[IDIOCRACY]

I'll say one thing for Indians as people, at least contracts with gov., there are a bunch. They're often the best employees and programmers overall, and know how to do shit free of American pampering inflicted by woke shit and stupid. Of at least 50 I worked with, just one played games, and he was a poor programmer too. The rest awesome, though another sweat profusely, not sure he even showered. They can sure be different for certain. One asked me to check his place out for landscape, with a tall ass hill you could barely climb about 15 feet from their house. That hill was maybe 70' wide, and 45' deep, with no retention. When I arrived it was very quiet, they had made hot tea and wanted to host in the living room first. Then I hightailed it out of there. I think they wanted me to just do it. Their food is awesome, wow, better than Mexican, IMO.