People will not fight for a return to the status quo, the USA needs a vision for the future it has none. The US seems lost rather than tired.
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People will not fight for a return to the status quo, the USA needs a vision for the future it has none. The US seems lost rather than tired.
You can be reasonably confident that the EU will not bend the knee with regards to regulatory coercion less confident that the US will believe the EU will not bend the knee.
The real danger is that those around Trump who wish the EU only harm will see this deal as EU weakness. It is only a matter of time before they will whisper in the ear of Trump and convince him the EU is once again cheating on the US and the whole clown show will start again.
It is oddly ironic that not only would the revolution be televised but that the revolution would in part rely on the American people sitting comatose on their fat arses watching and listening to a cacophony of bullshit as their democracy was simply taken way.
Trump is the epitome of tastelessness. I would be disappointed if this was not reflected in the White House
Getting wet because you chose to stand outside in the rain is one thing complaining that your getting wet because those inside wont give you an umbrella is another.
Have no idea how the stock market works, best I can come up with. Some belladonna, mugwort, a bats wing, a toads butt hole, a lock of hair from a virgin, boiled together to create a potion that allows one to predict the present. Will also help with constipation.
Russia does not want peace it wants time and Ukraine. It will wish to convince Trump (easily done) that peace requires the lifting of sanctions and for Ukraine to cede territory. It will continue to undermine Europe's resolve to support Ukraine. Russia is our enemy.
The real danger is that those around Trump who wish the EU only harm will see this deal as EU weakness. It is only a matter of time before they will whisper in the ear of Trump and convince him the EU is once again cheating on the US and the whole clown show will start again.
The UK is so not joining the EU if this is the plan.
The optics from the outside fall between insanity and lunacy. The US would need to reduce its public sector to almost zero, its citizens would need to happily continue to buy more costly imported goods and our understanding of how inflation worked would not only be wrong it would be back to front.
Very much doubt if the sea is that picky about what its coming for.
I would suggest how absurdly easy it was to get the people to collaborate with the elite against themselves.
Agree, Brexit was just a manifestation of a destabilization that was being mainly pushed by the right and the far right. It would and it could only add to that destabilization.
I would expect little more then some frantic news channel hopping and then to continue watching some series on Netflix.
USA democracy seems to rely more on the incompetence of those trying to overthrow that democracy rather then any inherent strength within that democracy.
I think the mistake being made with Farage and Trump is that the morons who vote for them do not care. It maybe time to accept that many voters are at best xenophobic at worst racist and millions more are when it comes to politics as thick as a 2x4.
And yet millions voted for this human vomit, there is no road back, Trump like the picture of Dorian Gray is revealing the true nature of large parts of the USA to the rest of the world.
“Throughout history, Britain’s relations with Europe have always been best when semi-detached” It is this nonsense that convinced the UK to leave the EU in the first place, never a team player, never at the centre of Europe, never fully committed to the EU, never us together but always us and them.
While Trump has little concept of anything other then himself the road others are on is the overthrow of the state, the remaking of a USA that is at odds with (would hope) what most Americans believe the USA is. Does not end well.
Anyone with half a brain would have understood that not only would your reputation be compromised you would likely become complicit in illegal acts. A quagmire that you could not escape from and would pull you deeper in until it became a matter of survival.
So an imaginary trade agreement that is not worth the paper it is written on with a clause that says its not worth the paper it is written on.
Imagine they would, the EU will want a serious trade negotiation and since it will be mainly about non-trade barriers such as food regulation the best that can be achieved is that the EU (the only adult in the room) can figure out a soother for the orange baby. Or maybe just leave him to cry.
Can 99.9% Guarantee that Trump thinks Europe is only paying 2% and even if you could convince him otherwise (0% chance) he would still lie (100%).
Having doubts myself, could he actually be one of the greatest morons alive today.
I would suggest that in general the right have gone well beyond shifting the narrative and instead are focused on creating alternative realities that fit with their agenda.
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I imagine it would be Europe, UK and whatever the third thing was.
Indeed not a great fan of the excuse its only Trump its also 77M brainless hateful US citizens who voted for the orange turd.
Jesus wept what type of joke country are ye running over there, Trump seems to have the power to simply dismantle the state by executive order something even a medieval king would struggle to do.
Clegg appears to be reimagining the EU but with a single market that behaves like a single market but seemingly without that which makes it a single market. And something about the EU listening to the worries of people who voted to leave the EU because they disliked freedom of movement.
At best he is asking for a type of SM\CU that does not include FoM which would mean asking the EU to agree to a new type of SM\CU that the UK could then join. Effectively asking the EU to remake itself to suit the UK, file it under not going to happen.
And this is why it will take the UK decades if ever to be part of the EU.
Nobody knows anything and Trump knows less than that. The USA (up to a point the world) is now subject to the whims of a 9 year old simpleton who is a liar and a fraudster but above all a towering moron.
Suspect US ask (if they even have one) will be so onerous that even the UK will baulk.
6\ Stock market grasps at new straw. 7\ Talks with China. 8\ Another straw. 9\ No talks with China. 10\ Running out of straws. Conclusion Trump was remains and will in the future be a moron.
1\ Impose nonsense tariffs on everyone. 2\ Crash stock market. 3\ Pause tariffs on everyone except China. 4\ Stock market grasps at straw. 5\ Suggest there is a queue of countries wanting to sign trade deals with the USA.
The latter creates its own truth its own reality, black becomes white, democracy cannot function in this type of environment.
We seem to have gone from changing the narrative to creating alternative realities, the former was still rooted in a common understanding of what is the truth and while politicians could spin they could not outright lie.
Putin Trump and Farage are opportunists that have all aligned with each other by chance.
Disagree. The real culprit\threat is from a right wing libertarian ideology that wishes to weaken and reduce the ability of the state to regulate, to collect taxes, that wants to undermine government and its institutions in the mistaken belief that less government means greater freedom.
Agreements? As in trade agreements? with who? the USA? Trump? ChatGPT?
Considered? I suspect Trump has already got his cut.
4\ The system that capitalism (unfettered) will create is a kleptocratic system. 5\ A kleptocratic system is hierarchical and authoritarian. 6\ The USA is in the authoritarian phase. The only Good fortune is that Trump (the great leader) is a moron.
Continuing to muse to myself. 1\ Capitalism (commerce) is a force that will adapt to whatever the system is. 2\ If unfettered it will adapt the system to itself. 3\ The Supreme Court's 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission created the conditions for 2.
The USA has simply reached the kleptocratic stage of a largely unfettered capitalism and may in fact be heading now towards a totalitarian system.
Would suggest that capitalism unfettered is a kleptomaniac and when unfettered will shape society in the direction of a kleptocratic model, that Russia and China are not kleptocratic models but remain totalitarian systems.
US citizens can either get out on the streets in their millions and end this or live for the rest of their lives in fear of being kidnapped and deported to El Salvador. Must say I never thought the revolution would be televised and it would be by fascists.
The USA will attempt to undermine the single market.
The USA just like the UK think its negotiable it is not. The EU is a single market and 27 different countries at the same time, in any talks the primary agreement is the one between the 27, it cannot be undermined by any agreement with a third country (USA).
Not that you can really make any sense of Trumps trade policy it is clear that the USA want the EU to reduce its non-tariff trade barriers something that is politically impossible so not going to happen. US more powerful than the UK but a similar misunderstanding of what the EU single market is.
The USA has much bigger problems, its republic is being undermined the above are merely symptoms of that undermining.
Does it even matter? 1\ Is it just the sudden pause\reversal of a stupid policy by a moron. 2\ Is it market manipulation by those close to a moron. 3\ Was the moron involved. Nothing will\can be done and off we go on another pointless wild goose chase.
Trump is ruling by executive order and is effectively ruling like a king, the rule of law has become worthless meaning the USA and the world have now become subjects to the whims of a moron.
Simply put the USA relies on congress doing its job, in a two party state if one of those parties surrenders its role because it is literally afraid of the president then the republic becomes a monarchy.
Let me get this right the USA is going into trade talks with 75 Countries at the same time, lets hope DOGE did not fire all the US trade negotiators. Beginning to feel that moron does not reflect the true stupidity of Trump or that of his supporters.
There is not going to be much left after this moron is finished, best of luck USA you deserve every bit of harm coming your way.
Trump the moron has targeted everything and everyone an amazing act of stupidity and a fundamental misunderstanding of how a tariff works. Slow and steady seems the best option at present.
A tariff is meant to reduce imports by inflicting punishment (Tax) on your own citizens you can negate the negative effect on yourself and maximise the negative effect on the exporter by carefully targeting goods or services that you can either replace or produce yourself.
Fruitless unless it gives Trump the opportunity to claim a victory. You cannot realistically negotiate with any country that thinks the real problem is a deficit between the USA and the EU. Trump makes the Brexiteers look like geniuses.
Trump did not just become a moron Trump was always a moron and now that moron is for the second time thanks to millions of other morons the most powerful moron in the world. The only plan if any is a mishmash of extreme right wing libertarian morons intending to dismantle the power of the state.
At this stage the EU just discussing the level of their tariffs would be enough to have the US markets go into a tailspin.
It is both intentionally vacuous and broad as to be meaningless, you could use it to describe an era but that would be the human era. Utter tosh.
More seriously this lazy s**t really annoys me. Regardless of what woke actually means it has become a right-wing political buzz word that is meant to indicate anything that the right-wing do not like.
Post-woke era? Was there a woke-era? A pre-woke era? I now feel I may have slept through the Mesozoic the late and the early Paleozoic eras.
Why not the obvious, Trump is a vindictive malicious moron, surrounded in his second term by a collection of loons and sycophants supported by a rotting corpse of a political party. This outcome could be seen from space and yet the American people apparently wanted it.
Hmm by some miracle the US army escaped the dysfunction affecting the rest of the country and will uphold the constitution? More confidence that Wile E. Coyote would catch the Road Runner.
I must admit I am in awe of the American peoples willingness to pay more taxes so that billionaires can have tax cuts.
Tariffs do produce revenue for the government but they do so by taxing the American importer and ultimately the American consumer. For that revenue to be maintained it requires that the American consumer is willing to keep on buying importer goods even if they are more expensive.
100% guaranteed Trump will prove he is a moron sometime today and again tomorrow.
Trump is malicious but also vindictive above all a moron, history is full of stupid people who had powerful positions but never with this much power. This is a guy who stored top secret documents in a golf club toilet, a guy who boasted about passing a cognitive test = on button is working.
If Trump tried to tank the economy it would likely boom. Go with what is in front of your face, he is a moron now surrounded by other morons.
An old-fashioned term that we use, moron. I use it a lot these days. It’s such an old-fashioned term, but a beautiful term, moron. It sort of says a brain but with nothing in it.
Backing down is an existential threat to the EU, the EU has little recourse but to respond. The danger is that the Trump will not understand that backing the EU into a corner means it must respond, Trump will retaliate. But here we are, this is what happens when you elect morons.
Labour did nothing, the UK got a 10% tariff because the US method for calculating tariffs concluded the US had a trade surplus with the UK. Suggests the US gave little thought if any to what the UK did.
Its a miracle people believe in miracles. More importantly ghosts, you would think there would be a lot more considering the growth of the human population, what is going on?
Trump or Brexit are not the real problems it is the rise of authoritarian capitalism that wishes to dismantle and weaken the role of governments and by extension the power of people. The weapon of choice is misinformation and the creation of what can only be described as an alternate reality.
Prince Eugene of Savoy if that counts
Well if you can convince a people that its greatest enemy is its own government someday they will happily elect a government that proves them right. Amazed it took so long for the USA to burn their own house down.
The Commonwealth is just the husk of an empire it would more beneficial economically to form a relationship with countries who are all members of chiropodists international or like the spice girls.
How does this end? US troops ordered to size Greenland? Utter madness thuggery of the highest level. Everyday my disgust my contempt for the USA increases I despise these people and those who elected them.
They hate what Europe stands for, go as far to say they hate the 21st century and will drag us back to the past if given the chance.
Millions of Americans are parochial conservative and believe the state and its institutions are a threat to their freedoms. You may think that the Amish are quaint religious sect but look around, you will quickly realise that half of the USA lives in an imagined version of the 19th century.
Oh no a community note fact-check! run for the hills.
Me just venting.
Trump represents a part of the USA that is parochial ultra conservative equally as ignorant and vindictive, always existed and intends to reshape the USA in its ugly likeness. It is succeeding and unless US citizens fight back it will consume everything the USA keeps telling itself it stands for.
The USA elected for a second time a 9 year old malicious vindictive moron, a person whose ignorance is only matched by his pettiness. The USA chose a fraudster and a rapist who in turn chose an administration of sycophantic liars supported by the rotting corpse of a political party.
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We are facing a right wing libertarian ideology that pushes the belief that less government ( institutions) means greater freedom, it is a lie and one that will inevitably lead to a form of authoritarianism.
Brexit was an attempt to weaken EU institutions within a geographical region of the EU, Trump and his minions are attempting to weaken and destroy institutions within the USA.
Strong governments with strong institutions can do great good strengthen and protect democracy. Strong governments with weak or cowardly institutions can do great evil weaken or destroy democracy.
My use of term back door was on reflection wrong. I agree the UK negotiated as if it was still a member of the EU, Davis was off to talk to the German car makers and May was asking Merkel what the EU would give the UK, idiots the lot of them.
I think the EU was briefly confused by this until they realised the UK had no idea what it was doing.
Yes you go out the front door and you must go round the side to the back door and ask for something new with the EU. Convinced the UK never understood that once article 50 was triggered they were standing outside the front door.
Just point out that libertarianism has a high probability of turning into authoritarianism and why would that be I hear you ask. Because dimwits the most powerful benefit the most from less government less regulation less taxes and will use that extra power for themselves.
