It's obvious that he's the enemy of the west (and the west includes the United States itself). I'm seeing other headlines that say Trump's policies are most likely to result in a recession....
It's obvious that he's the enemy of the west (and the west includes the United States itself).
I'm seeing other headlines that say Trump's policies are most likely to result in a recession. Actually, that's the best possible outcome, as long as it affects enough of his supporters to wake them up.
Hardcore MAGA voters yes, but there’s a contingent of swing voters (around 5-10%) that decided the election for Trump, and didn’t vote for him in 2020. Only a small percentage of them need to get...
Hardcore MAGA voters yes, but there’s a contingent of swing voters (around 5-10%) that decided the election for Trump, and didn’t vote for him in 2020. Only a small percentage of them need to get fed up for a Dem to win in 2028.
I really hope you're right. If dems don't take control of the house next cycle, I genuinely fear that Republicans will refuse to certify a Democratic president in 2028 unless it's an absolute blowout.
I really hope you're right. If dems don't take control of the house next cycle, I genuinely fear that Republicans will refuse to certify a Democratic president in 2028 unless it's an absolute blowout.
I keep hearing more and more people use phrases along the lines of "I've always voted Trump and largely agree with his ideas" and then they fall into a sort of template that includes things like:...
I keep hearing more and more people use phrases along the lines of "I've always voted Trump and largely agree with his ideas" and then they fall into a sort of template that includes things like:
"X policy makes no sense."
"I expected him to do A, B, C but not X."
"I'm not DEI and should not be subjected to X policy."
"X policy affects me/someone I know in a very bad way."
And then there might be the flickers of some class solidarity in realizing everyone is in the same boat. Or there's the more pathetically sad thing where Trump just doesn't know and we need to take the I95 to Washington and make sure he gets this most important news.
I'm not the biggest Wizard of Oz fan, but wasn't the point that the Wizard didn't just know about the problems of the land, but was the cause of it.
I didn't particularly enjoy Wicked, but it was pretty on the nose that the big powerful wizard was branding and he's just a little conman fleeing judgement, and was silencing and othering minorities to distract from his misusing the levers of power for personal gain. This isn't even a deliberate Trump allegory, just a common sense cautionary tale for children. The guy literally plasters his name all over the balloons as branding, he just takes the most appealing form and sells the illusion of magically solving all your deep seeded personal problems. Its so obvious that its grade school set work.
This will be good for cohesion in the EU - nothing quite as unifying as an external threat, and Trump is quite an unsympathetic one at that. Trump saying "the EU was formed to screw the US" is...
This will be good for cohesion in the EU - nothing quite as unifying as an external threat, and Trump is quite an unsympathetic one at that.
Trump saying "the EU was formed to screw the US" is even a sort of praise for any self-interested Europeans who don't care about hurting the US. it's also hypocritical after all the "America first" blather, but that's not new.
As a Canadian, I think he's shaking all of us out of complacency. So long as authoritarian states don't see this as a chance to pounce too hard, a little short term pain for long term self...
As a Canadian, I think he's shaking all of us out of complacency. So long as authoritarian states don't see this as a chance to pounce too hard, a little short term pain for long term self actualization might be a good thing
I still remember the debt crisis being a major challenge of the EU. Now, after Brexit, Trump's first term, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the industry of Europe basically needing the EU, and now...
I still remember the debt crisis being a major challenge of the EU. Now, after Brexit, Trump's first term, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the industry of Europe basically needing the EU, and now NATO being dead on all but paper it seems impossible for some EU-like framework not to exist.
It's still highly flawed, and everyone wants it to look different but in different ways, but the EU is slowly being cemented in existence due to outside pressure.
From my observations of what's going on in the EU, I don't think that's a realistic outcome. Vance's speech at the Munich Security Conference were actually right, no matter how much I root for him...
This will be good for cohesion in the EU - nothing quite as unifying as an external threat, and Trump is quite an unsympathetic one at that.
From my observations of what's going on in the EU, I don't think that's a realistic outcome. Vance's speech at the Munich Security Conference were actually right, no matter how much I root for him to be wrong. European countries are themselves lurching to the right and by trying to ignore and firewall the rising extreme right parties, I fear that they will only end up emboldening them. European center and left parties need to take a serious look at what is driving support for the far right and change tactics to answer the concerns of those voters. Any party or person who really thinks the majority of far-right support can be boiled down to racism and misinformation are blind to what is really going on and that blindness, however unwilful or not, will only allow the problem to metastasize.
Country politics are mostly irrelevant to the EU apparatus. It's a worry some fool will initiate another brexit like vote, but it's unlikely. Even the staunch anti-EU parties in my own country...
Country politics are mostly irrelevant to the EU apparatus.
It's a worry some fool will initiate another brexit like vote, but it's unlikely. Even the staunch anti-EU parties in my own country have quietly put a lid on it after seeing Britain's decline.
Vance was right in one thing: showing the EU that his country can't be trusted any longer.
And if anything it took a lot of wind out of the sails from many populist parties. Once shit really, truly hits the fan in the US there's a good chance they'll change their tunes again. Because...
And if anything it took a lot of wind out of the sails from many populist parties. Once shit really, truly hits the fan in the US there's a good chance they'll change their tunes again. Because the shit hitting the fan this time is going to be bloody.
After lay offs of the veteran crisis line(which will increase suicides), passing a budget destroying health care even more(some people will die without medication), removing federal park rangers(hello forest fires), hastily trying to rehire nuclear experts(do I even need to spell this one out?), and doing next to nothing about preventable diseases(nor this one really)... it's not a question of whether there will be chaos, but how much, how quickly, and how bloody.
Now, even if it's a full swoop peaceful revolution in one go I doubt that all from the MAGA cult will just go away. So a far-right insurgency is a possibility. Though, I should probably not go further in possibilities because really, who knows what'll happen to the US.
In any case, we'll have to see how countries in the EU are going to react to this. But the ticking time bomb could really hurt the far-right.
Personally, I don't think we should expect anything coherent from Trump at all. He acts along with what strokes his ego, and is as such manipulated like puppet by those around him. Which is going...
Personally, I don't think we should expect anything coherent from Trump at all. He acts along with what strokes his ego, and is as such manipulated like puppet by those around him. Which is going to cause destructive problems as the 'alliance' that build up his support have many conflicting interests.
Fortunately, the new EU commission already considers it's main job this time around to safe out industry, and ideally within a renewable framework. It's going to be challenging given how some...
Fortunately, the new EU commission already considers it's main job this time around to safe out industry, and ideally within a renewable framework. It's going to be challenging given how some regulations are different in each country and more, but this push may just be what will fester the political will for it to occur.
It's obvious that he's the enemy of the west (and the west includes the United States itself).
I'm seeing other headlines that say Trump's policies are most likely to result in a recession. Actually, that's the best possible outcome, as long as it affects enough of his supporters to wake them up.
While I agree with you in theory, I also have very little confidence that his supporters would actually place any blame on him or the right.
Yes, anyone who's thinking "surely this will definitively demonstrate to Trump's voters that he's bad!" hasn't been remembering the last 10 years.
Hardcore MAGA voters yes, but there’s a contingent of swing voters (around 5-10%) that decided the election for Trump, and didn’t vote for him in 2020. Only a small percentage of them need to get fed up for a Dem to win in 2028.
I really hope you're right. If dems don't take control of the house next cycle, I genuinely fear that Republicans will refuse to certify a Democratic president in 2028 unless it's an absolute blowout.
I keep hearing more and more people use phrases along the lines of "I've always voted Trump and largely agree with his ideas" and then they fall into a sort of template that includes things like:
And then there might be the flickers of some class solidarity in realizing everyone is in the same boat. Or there's the more pathetically sad thing where Trump just doesn't know and we need to take the I95 to Washington and make sure he gets this most important news.
I'm not the biggest Wizard of Oz fan, but wasn't the point that the Wizard didn't just know about the problems of the land, but was the cause of it.
I didn't particularly enjoy Wicked, but it was pretty on the nose that the big powerful wizard was branding and he's just a little conman fleeing judgement, and was silencing and othering minorities to distract from his misusing the levers of power for personal gain. This isn't even a deliberate Trump allegory, just a common sense cautionary tale for children. The guy literally plasters his name all over the balloons as branding, he just takes the most appealing form and sells the illusion of magically solving all your deep seeded personal problems. Its so obvious that its grade school set work.
This will be good for cohesion in the EU - nothing quite as unifying as an external threat, and Trump is quite an unsympathetic one at that.
Trump saying "the EU was formed to screw the US" is even a sort of praise for any self-interested Europeans who don't care about hurting the US. it's also hypocritical after all the "America first" blather, but that's not new.
As a Canadian, I think he's shaking all of us out of complacency. So long as authoritarian states don't see this as a chance to pounce too hard, a little short term pain for long term self actualization might be a good thing
I still remember the debt crisis being a major challenge of the EU. Now, after Brexit, Trump's first term, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the industry of Europe basically needing the EU, and now NATO being dead on all but paper it seems impossible for some EU-like framework not to exist.
It's still highly flawed, and everyone wants it to look different but in different ways, but the EU is slowly being cemented in existence due to outside pressure.
From my observations of what's going on in the EU, I don't think that's a realistic outcome. Vance's speech at the Munich Security Conference were actually right, no matter how much I root for him to be wrong. European countries are themselves lurching to the right and by trying to ignore and firewall the rising extreme right parties, I fear that they will only end up emboldening them. European center and left parties need to take a serious look at what is driving support for the far right and change tactics to answer the concerns of those voters. Any party or person who really thinks the majority of far-right support can be boiled down to racism and misinformation are blind to what is really going on and that blindness, however unwilful or not, will only allow the problem to metastasize.
Country politics are mostly irrelevant to the EU apparatus.
It's a worry some fool will initiate another brexit like vote, but it's unlikely. Even the staunch anti-EU parties in my own country have quietly put a lid on it after seeing Britain's decline.
Vance was right in one thing: showing the EU that his country can't be trusted any longer.
And if anything it took a lot of wind out of the sails from many populist parties. Once shit really, truly hits the fan in the US there's a good chance they'll change their tunes again. Because the shit hitting the fan this time is going to be bloody.
After lay offs of the veteran crisis line(which will increase suicides), passing a budget destroying health care even more(some people will die without medication), removing federal park rangers(hello forest fires), hastily trying to rehire nuclear experts(do I even need to spell this one out?), and doing next to nothing about preventable diseases(nor this one really)... it's not a question of whether there will be chaos, but how much, how quickly, and how bloody.
Now, even if it's a full swoop peaceful revolution in one go I doubt that all from the MAGA cult will just go away. So a far-right insurgency is a possibility. Though, I should probably not go further in possibilities because really, who knows what'll happen to the US.
In any case, we'll have to see how countries in the EU are going to react to this. But the ticking time bomb could really hurt the far-right.
Didn't Trump say he liked EU's policies on agriculture whilst signing executive orders lol
Personally, I don't think we should expect anything coherent from Trump at all. He acts along with what strokes his ego, and is as such manipulated like puppet by those around him. Which is going to cause destructive problems as the 'alliance' that build up his support have many conflicting interests.
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Fortunately, the new EU commission already considers it's main job this time around to safe out industry, and ideally within a renewable framework. It's going to be challenging given how some regulations are different in each country and more, but this push may just be what will fester the political will for it to occur.