Tesla is down 14% today, it’s down almost 50% since Jan 21st. Maybe this is trump trying to get rid of Elon?
I’m slow to buy into conspiracy theories but the fucker is doing everything I could think of to revert America to an economic backwater.
There was a senator that literally asked someone trying to be confirmed, if Trump was a Russian plant, what would he do differently? They kept trying to deflect.
It is actually incredible how even the most bipartisan bills are getting axed, like the CHIP act. I always knew he loathed Obama-Biden so much he would cancel any and everything they did but, man, it’s just sad to see he doesn’t have an ounce of decency.
Kind of, if Yanis Varoufakis has it right
Interesting article, thanks.
I am, however, having a very hard time attributing this level of planning and sophistication to a man who can barely put a coherent sentence together, or read more than one page of text. I can’t say I find his administration to be all that much better in those regards.
I’m leaning more towards total improvisation. But what do I know? I’m certainly not an economist.
I wouldn’t mind the stock market exploding if the economy didn’t also follow suit
It’s absolutely bull that the entire country has to deal with this shit when the stock market drops while only the rich benefits when the stock market does good.
Pretty sure he’s a closet accelerationist, they’re trying to bring the country to it’s knees so they can reshape it in their image.
I promise you, the greatness of the US was never found in its stock market.
A damn shame what he is doing to the States. It’s up to us europeans to defend freedom and democracy now
First thing is first… make sure fElon is not in your country.
If you’re gonna start “defending freedom and democracy” the way the US does it, I’ll ask to please keep that shit to yourselves this time around.
Oh absolutely, I don’t mean in the way they invaded other countries for ‘democracy’ but rather in the way they acted as a shield for europe etc against Ussr/russia
See, that’s the problem, last time they acted as a shield against the USSR, here they organized a coup against a democratically elected president, and funded the following dictatorship for 20 years or so. And honestly that was nothing compared to what they did in, say, Cambodia and Vietnam (France, I’m looking at you too).
But tbh it’s not like I expect them to stop doing this kinda shit once the hegemony is shattered, so I’m rambling for nothing
Fair enough. May I ask where here is? I guess what I’m saying is that europe has to defend their own freedom now. American Democracy was outdated anyway. And I agree, I don’t see an authoritarian USA being less imperialistic than they have been until now. I suppose it’s a good thing we won’t be helping them with it anymore
Like how EU did in Romania after they pressured Romania to invalidate the election and bar Călin Georgescu despite him winning the first round of elections and him polling at 40% per opposing parties’ polling companies?
Now Romania looks like this.
Yep exactly. We can’t have anti-democratic Russia stooges. F that
As opposed to anti-democratic EU stooges? They are literally having Romania redo the elections and bar the winner until desired result is achieved.
Perhaps if they don’t want this guy in office, they can do it democratically by actually appealing to their constituents.
The Constitutional Court annulled the results due to Russian Election interference. So he didn’t win shit
Except he did, even opposing parties’ polling companies placed him at 40%.
If they let a little alleged social media campaign hurt their prospects of winning the election, perhaps they should actually appeal to their constituents.
He never once said who he was maki g islt great for…and it’s no any of you americans. It currently costs 5m for those that wish it to be great again.
He did though. He specified that America was the greatest in 1870-1890. That was the Gilded Age, when a small group of people known as the Robber Barons owned all of the wealth and means of production. The oppression of the working class ended with unification, strikes, and the creation of unions.
Well, that makes sense because it sure feels like we’re in another Gilded Age with new Robber Barons.
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America has never been great.
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That’s why they didn’t say “again.”
But they did say “undoing its greatness”, which implies there was greatness to begin with.
Same greatness there as you find with “great bowel movement” or possibly “great white shark” - referencing it’s massiveness, not it’s quality.
The MAGA movement (often referred to simply as MAGA, or Make America Great Again), was founded on the belief that the United States was once a “great” country but has lost this status owing to foreign influence, both within its borders (via immigration and multiculturalism) and without (via globalization, or the increased integration of multiple national economies). MAGA members think that this fall from grace can be reversed through “America first” policies that would provide a greater degree of economic protectionism, greatly reduce immigration, particularly from developing countries, and encourage or enforce what MAGA members consider to be traditional American values.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/MAGA-movement
Why are you whitewashing this?
