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Trump's Second Term

carlosy said:
The US don't need to shoot a single bullet to really hurt Europe.
Trump just needs to order Microsoft and AWS to stop all services with regards to european customers and governments.
Well, in terms of AWS, he only needs to ask, since Bezos is one of his buddies.
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Hmm. How realistic is it for him to tell those billionaires to just shut down a huge chunk of their businesses because he wants to harm their customers?
 
carlosy said:
The US don't need to shoot a single bullet to really hurt Europe.
Trump just needs to order Microsoft and AWS to stop all services with regards to european customers and governments.
Well, in terms of AWS, he only needs to ask, since Bezos is one of his buddies.
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The resulting economic chaos would also really hurt the USA too.

The suggestion to sell US debt doesn't work as a counter attack either because the Fed can simply buy it all and credit the bond holders accounts with US$. This would weaken the dollar, making foreign imports to the US even more expensive and boost US exports. I.e., it would have precisely the opposite effect than intended.

In summary there are no economic measures that in the foreseeable future don't hurt the USA and much of the rest of the world simultaneously.

If the EU gave up individual nation states and became a federation with a proper single currency and a large federal budget, then it could become an economic and military superpower that the USA would have to take seriously. Hopefully it would learn from the mistakes the USA has made.
 
Donald Trump: “NATO is nothing without America.”

Meloni: “Perfect. Then Europe will close the U.S. bases, tear up the sweetheart trade deals, and, just to make the message land, boycott McDonald’s too.”

That is the blunt reality: if Washington wants to talk like protection is a one way favor, Europe can answer like a partner with leverage, not a dependent begging for permission.

And honestly, that tone is long overdue. When someone says “you are nothing without me,” the correct reply is not gratitude. It is boundaries.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2013931070350045542
 
Tero said:
They should let demented Trump ramble in Davos as long as it takes. The world needs to see he is not well. What topics will he cover? 1 Greenland 2 Eight wars he ended 3 His Nobel demands. What else?
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I'd expect a greatest hits performance. Sending the water down from the Northwest. Tiny fish. His daughter's graduation ceremony being cancelled, supposedly over some global pandemic but really it was just to annoy him personally. 8 wars he can't name. Irrelevant stuff like that.
 
Andy_Ross said:
And honestly, that tone is long overdue. When someone says “you are nothing without me,” the correct reply is not gratitude. It is boundaries.
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Even if 'you are nothing without me' is actually true?
Which it is, in terms of military and digital power and autonomy.
 
Safe-Keeper said:
I absolutely love that we've managed to piss him off this bad🥰😍🤩.

Heck, it didn't even take that many of us, just the peace Prize committee😅.

Eta, they should start handing out the peace prize more often. Like four times a year, and never to Dump.
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"This week's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to..."
 
Tero said:
Trump: We're going to have so much rare earth. It's actually not that rare. There's a lot of earth around, I can tell you.
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I think Trump and Kari could work out something together. If anyone has his cell phone number, I can help these two to get together for a plan.
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Andy_Ross said:
Donald Trump: “NATO is nothing without America.”

Meloni: “Perfect. Then Europe will close the U.S. bases, tear up the sweetheart trade deals, and, just to make the message land, boycott McDonald’s too.”

That is the blunt reality: if Washington wants to talk like protection is a one way favor, Europe can answer like a partner with leverage, not a dependent begging for permission.

And honestly, that tone is long overdue. When someone says “you are nothing without me,” the correct reply is not gratitude. It is boundaries.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2013931070350045542
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Weren't the Trumpistas claiming Meloni was on their side a few days ago?
 
Darat said:
The only "law of the land" in any country is who can enforce their laws.
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I refuse to believe that. The Constitution is supposed to be a guiding principle. Most people in law do believe that, and the arc of American history has tended towards bending in that direction. The SCOTUS is traditionally the one branch that has usually consistently upheld the Constitution. Not all of the time, of course, especially with more recent Court decisions. But history is almost always two steps forward and one step back. 4 years in the total life of a nation is nothing. I do think that, once this administration is over, there is going to be quite a bit of fall-out for many of those who have broken so many of our laws and who have violated the Constitution in innumberable ways.
 
Jack by the hedge said:
Hmm. How realistic is it for him to tell those billionaires to just shut down a huge chunk of their businesses because he wants to harm their customers?
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Do you mean how realistic is it to expect them to comply, or how realistic is it for Trump to make such a demand? The demand would be insane so I think it's highly probable Trump would make it. I think it's highly probable Trump would eat a lightbulb if someone told him Obama said he couldn't.
 
China has wind farms but they don't really use them.

Trump: "There are windmills all over Europe. There are windmills all over the place. And they are losers. One thing I've noticed is that the more windmills a country has, the more money that country loses, and the worse that country is doing. China make almost all of the windmills, and yet I haven't been able to find any wind farms in China. Did you ever think of that? They put up a couple big wind farms but they don't use them, they just put them up to show people what they could look like. They don't spin, they don't do anything."

https://twitter.com/x/status/2013974917423710561
 
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