I almost say do it, triple-double-multiplier tariff added on everything! From water to bathroom visits to minutes of watched television, sodas to butter, corn to newspapers, even icecubes must not escape tariffs to make the country great again…
Then I give it 6 months, after which I suspect personal hells will open up…

Say, what about sales taxes eh? Seems those remain, hmm, so it’s actually a tariff on top of taxes?

They did more than influence the past election, and have plans to do the same in the upcoming ones… so ofcourse any regulation against these plans must be taken away.

It’s kind of ironic … by electing Trump again the US immediately fell off the “ladder of influence”.
Putin taunts the US and controls its leader, Chaina fully resists the bullshit and looks down upon America, Europe no longer trusts its ally and is the one doing what is right.
Iran smirks and does its own thing, especially after Trump now is scrambling to undo his own torpedo’ing of the Nuclear accord in his first term.
Israel is going berserk on Gaza with approval by Trump, thinking it is setting an example against a Nuclear attack from Iran, assuming other Muslim states will forget about Gaza.
Meanwhile the Republicans have almost gleefully shown the world they crippled the American lady justice, made her homeless and ignore her plight to uphold the laws and constitution of the land.

Is this how Trump makes America great?

Alas, the protests so far are smirked at and largely ignored. I do hope the protests gain traction and become a force to reckon with…

Just send Trump a bill for decades of non payment of use of the grounds on which the bases are located.
To use Trump’s own business-tactics against him: it was prime real estate ground worth billions that the bases blocked the development of … no exclusive reason those troops only had to be on land, could have kept a fleet on standby in the ocean or something.

He must accelerate, the faster he cements all power the better.
The slower the process goes the higher the chance that openings are left open for opposition to step in and take away power to do something.

Sea Of Thieves has amazing ocean effects. The fog sometimes also is very atmospheric with how it seems to occlude sounds etc.

“Weekend at Elon’s”

Yes, I think this is a first test to see how far they can stretch things with the law and deport people without justification at all.
By extension it tests the current regimes ability and efficiency on how easily they can remove people. When it is clear there are no legal roadblocks and delays the shipping containers and “train transports” will come out…

Also, I don’t think he’s dead, might have been beaten and barely fed.
But they most likely will have no knowledge about his status or direct whereabouts at all, might even be handed over to El Salvador’s prison anonymously. Regimes in such prisons usually strip all identity anyway.

I am a bit curious to where this will go, I agree it looks to be what you say, an opportunity to throw the case and get a ruling that will fortify things against a breakup.

On the other hand Musk despises the Zuck and is petty enough to work towards breaking up Zuckerberg’s empire behind the scenes. He would love to buy up chunks of it.

I can hear Trump laughing and snickering with his cronies

It’s a get lost payment, not a welcome to the USA bonus …

10k to get lost, it’s unspoken but the money is to leave the country because that is then owned by Trump.

This is a typical Trump deal, Trump gets what he wants and the other side gets ripped off. There never will be equal footing between trading partners in a Trump deal.

In his mind he actually does think all his businesses were successful, because he himself got away unscathed when they one by one failed spectacularly, and he always blamed someone else…

It also shows why he boasts to never have gone bankrupt … indeed personally he never has, just his whole entrepreneurship floats on top of a lake of bankruptcies and fraud.

Isn’t Ozempic already mad expensive in the US compared to Denmark where it comes from?

Perhaps he thinks Ozempic actually is harvested in Greenland? :-D

What really needs to stop is the obscene bonus culture. It is quite disgusting to keep reading a company needs to lay off 500 people only to then give some CEO a bonus of 15million. Or banks running a deep 9 digit number loss in a year but still the higher ups get a bonus for some reason or a vague years old contractual promise. The top should feel loss first before it “trickles down”, and honest pay for honest work should include the top as well.

And while I am at it, senseless management jobs should be allowed to be contested, no more “manager toiletpaper” who only shows up once a week to make an order, yet makes 5x the wages of people under him.

Hahaha

This whole presidency is raised for maximizing CEO income and no taxes for everyone at the top.

It will be interesting if Trump actually manages to pull it off, because he’ll make the US swap places with China:
No one trusts the country anymore, but if it has low enough wages and proper production capability it will produce everything cheaply just to export it all overseas where the luxury goods will be sold. Of course all profits will be made overseas, not in the US because hardly anyone can afford the luxury items no more.

Meanwhile the production states will get deep smog clouds and intense small coal particle pollution in return. And the need for face masks will be back…

It requires people who eventually jump off the roof of the building…

Already most international trust is gone, it will be at least a decade before that comes back.

If everything stays on the current track the US will self impose as much of a full isolationist policy as it can within this “presidential” term, this is to fully focus on the internal situation and destroy any option of rebellion and dissent.

Police/National Guard will be strictly enforcing presidential decrees and oppressing the American people .
Their armored personnel carriers and gatling guns will come in handy now.

In a few years workers will be forced into (cheaply bought up) government/factory housing because their own properties will be too expensive to keep.
And with the upcoming low wages the need for 4 jobs just to be able to buy groceries will keep them locked in fear of losing any pay they have or the house they may rent.

By the time the things inside the US are fully locked in, the tax breaks have fully caught up, losses of foreign trade incomes and loss of military sales all stack up.
So the US is declared bankrupt by the outside world because the trust is gone a long time now and the US makes it clear there is no intention to pay its debts.

This will cause the US to look outward again, not to make allies but to conquer lands for products/goods that it still has a (growing) shortage of.

If there was no moment for a true WW3 before this, it will be the moment it starts:

The US will declare war on multiple countries and attack them in small scale skirmishes. Meanwhile China has massively invaded Taiwan, the US will not be able to stop it. Crazy Kim launches missiles at Japan and South Korea just to join the chaos, Iran openly attacks Israel with backing of multiple other Islamic states, they have not forgotten Gaza’s destruction. And Russia profits by invading eastern Europe unimpeded. Armies of 80.000 Europeans are no match for a force of 1.300.000 Russian cannon fodder.

This all sounds like futuristic doomspeak, but it all could happen within 8 years. China has been preparing for a large conflict to happen around 2030, even moving its industry deep inland. Trump is well on his way to demolish in 2 years any international trust that the US will do the right thing or can be called upon for help. He will leave/dismantle NATO and be excluded from a new NATO variant that buys its weapons elsewhere. Putin has proclaimed he expects to fight whomever within 4 years.

It is 2025 now, and things are very clear that Trump’s hunger for power will be the catalyst accelerating everyone to a very destructive WW3.

He’s going to demand the EU must buy the chlorine washed chickens and growth hormones laced beef… the fact that they do not want them has been bothering him for years and in his mind it is a willfull trade deficit.