– Very interesting article about the closing of Northern State mental hospital in the 70’s and the consequences going forward.
– But crisis care is still a way off in King County.
– SPD officers harassing bus drivers. Man, fuck. All the discipline. Imagine being a commuter and the driver gets pulled over for honking at a bad driver who happens to be a cop. I would be so pissed if it was my commute. Not to mention the bus driver.
– Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
It was just yesterday that Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit made this very stupid claim:
…Trump rarely if ever gets over 43% in national polls,
He’s been proven wrong six times, now, in the last nine days.
Most recently:
General Election: Trump vs. Biden
NPR/PBS/Marist
Trump 48, Biden 50
Trump lost the NPV in 2016 by 2.1% but still won more than 300 electoral votes.
National poll results are irrelevant but I’ll still use them to make you guys soil your shorts and Queen YLB soil her panties.
If Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit gave a shit about how often he is proven wrong he wouldn’t do it dozens of times per week.
He stopped wiping his ass before the new Millenium. Once Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit lost the ability to achieve erection he gave up on everything else, too.
Bad news for Team Biden:
Not once in the battlegrounds does Biden come out on top in this poll. Not once.
The last thing that Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit wants me to point out @ 1 is that Trump is above 43% in each and every one @ 3 of the state poll results I listed.
Ah, who am I kidding? Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit doesn’t give a shit about his reputation. Being proven wrong is just his proof that someone, somewhere pays attention to him. People in his household stopped doing that a couple of decades ago.
Not just a river in Egypt.
It wasn’t long ago that Queen YLB was leading the cheering for 7 rate cuts by the Fed in 2024. Those rate cuts, she promised us, would enable Biden to sail to re-election.
Not so much, it turns out.
MARKETS
Atlanta Fed President Bostic sees only one rate cut this year, occurring in the fourth quarter
Also from CNBC, merely three minutes ago:
FEDERAL RESERVE
Fed’s Powell emphasizes need for more evidence that inflation is easing before cutting rates
PUBLISHED WED, APR 3 202412:10 PM EDT
What a mess! Our main choices are Biden or Trump, and the third party candidates don’t look so hot, too.
What a mess!
@ 5
“No, he’s not! … It’s obvious that Joe will win!” 😬
What’s obvious is that Joe will shit himself in public before all of this is over.
@ 7
The DNC convention will be brokered, and you’ll have other choices.
The problem is, you’ll pick #CrookedHillary, who will immediately be called out by the losing Momala camp as a racist white woman, the same way that they called out Biden as a racist white man.
As a result of yesterday’s election in Wisconsin, outside money like Zuckerbucks, widely reported to have preferentially aided Biden in 2020, are no longer permissible.
Liberals can kiss Twitter’s thumb on the scale goodbye, too.
@1 & 3
That continues to only work if you focus on strictly head to head polls.
You are quite aware there are three other candidates one of whom is still being treated as a contender?
@ 11
You are quite aware there are three other candidates one of whom is still being treated as a contender?
Why, yes. Yes, I am.
Not a whole lot of difference, is there? Aside from Wisconsin, Trump is still up in each state. And instead of leading outside the margin in one state head-to-head, adding in the other candidates Trump is leading outside the margin in two states.
Thanks for bringing it up.
Walked right into it:
“Trump rarely gets 43% in polling…”
39, 38, 39, 42, 37, 41, 38
@ 13
Hey, neither does Biden, if you dilute it that way.
In fact, Biden did even worse. Quite a bit worse.
The inevitable bankruptcy begins.
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B
On that second one, sounds like the defendants have a signed contract. That’s a good Idea when doing any business with a Trump. Get it signed. Get it notarized. They will literally try to fuck anyone out of their money.
“Buy a Bibble. No one knows Jesus Chris the way I know Jesus. It’s got your savior’s name in gold embossed lettering right there on the cover, Donald J. Trump.”
Oh look, somebody pulled the string on the talking doll. It’s awake early today, too.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4572293-jose-andres-israel-world-central-kitchen-aid-workers/
Now convince me this was “fog of war” and not premeditated murder carried out to deprive noncombatant civilians of food and water in order to “FINISH THEM!” so Gaza can be cleared of Gazans to make room for Israeli settlements and real estate developments.
Yeah?
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-immigrants/
Rep. Scott Perry, a prime suspect in the plot to overthrow the 2020 election, submitted an affidavit in Jeffrey Clark’s bar disciplinary hearing vouching for Clark’s integrity and character, which is quite a trick because Clark doesn’t have any of either.
I guess it’s admissible as legal argument or summation; it shouldn’t be admissible as evidence of the matters asserted therein because (1) it’s opinion, and (2) it’s not subject to cross-examination. But, as the hearing officer noted, it doesn’t deserve much if any weight. If you ask me, this is like a crook vouching for his partner in crime.
https://www.rawstory.com/jeff-clark-scott-perry/
Maria Bartiromo is a liar, and Fox is still broadcasting lies:
https://www.rawstory.com/debunking-bartiromo-no-biden-order-doesnt-allow-illegal-immigrants-to-vote-2667674415/
Bartiromo was once a respected financial reporter, but after her antics at Fox, she’ll never get work as a journalist again.
What needs to happen is track down the anonymous callers, sue them, and take everything they own.
https://www.rawstory.com/north-carolina-black-book-store/
“Documents related to Donald Trump’s $175 million bond were ‘returned for correction’ after his lawyers reportedly forgot to attach a financial statement,” as follows:
No comment necessary; this speaks for itself. Hire Trump’s lawyers at your own risk.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-bond-2667675522/
According to charging documents, Mr Macartney, who lives in the US state of Virginia, is accused by prosecutors of collecting funds from his chat groups and distributing videos depicting the “torture, murder, and sexually sadistic mutilation of animals, specifically juvenile and adult monkeys”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68716467
Anyone surprised by Torture King’s promotional photo?
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/6364/production/_130144452_dsc04028-3-4.jpg.webp
If this keeps up the GOP may run out of potential candidates for Senate races.
Two-term congresswoman? Check. Republican? You betcha, check! Conservative? Check! Born in Ukraine? Uh-oh … PRIMARY HER!!
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/new-litmus-test-rises-gop-primaries-ukraine-aid-rcna146039
Employed?
Shit, he married one.
Paid off her trafficker. Put an anchor baby in her. Got her registered to vote even.
Classic Trump!
@23 “If this keeps up the GOP may run out of potential candidates for Senate races.”
They’ll always have people like this to fall back on:
https://www.rawstory.com/derrick-evans-west-virginia-2667661905/
Today’s “Dumber Than A Box Of Rocks Award” goes to …
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/sovereign-citizen-jan-6-rioter-gets-seven-years-leading-mob-assault-of-rcna146215
Alabama CTE sufferer Tommy Tuberville is accusing the Democratic Party of being in league with Satan.
What’s this “in league with” bullshit?
Motherfucker,
I AM SATAN! 🔥😎🔥
@28 Apart from the hate and division this promotes, and the political violence it instigates, it’s just plain stupid on a level even most Republicans don’t achieve:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/maddow-blog-tommy-tuberville-accuses-dems-of-being-part-of-a-satanic-cult/ar-BB1kWW81
This guy gets it right when he says Tuberville probably is “about the least qualified Senator ever elected to the United States Senate.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69Tq4L_b0_s
But what can you say? This is the same moron who undermined our military. Alabama elected him. It’s one of the places that will be made uninhabitable by the climate change they insist doesn’t exist.
Every single “Grindset” billionaire on earth under age 30 inherited every cent. None of them worked for it. None of them built their wealth. It was handed to them.
@10
Widely reported by Newsmax.
It’s also widely reported that some precincts in GA in 2020 had more votes cast than registered voters.
It’s not true at all mind you but it’s widely reported.
Y’all are still butthurt Facebook decided not to allow Ivermectin as a cure all and ‘It’s just the Flu’ to be treated as factual.
@31 Conservatives sue outfits like Facebook for the “right” to have their lies published.
https://www.rawstory.com/did-trump-sell-nuclear-secrets-to-saudis/
This is readily explainable as (1) a Logan Act violation, (2) foreign interference in a U.S. election, (3) influence peddling, or all of the above.
@ 33
This is readily explainable as (1) a Logan Act violation, (2) foreign interference in a U.S. election, (3) influence peddling, or all of the above.
Knowing that arguing that Biden won the national popular vote while so badly losing the Electoral College vote will get him nothing but mockery, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit casts about for alternative excuses.
That’s OK. President Trump can replenish it at $50/barrel in the Fall of 2025.
US Cancels Latest Oil Reserve Refill Plan Amid High Prices
Meanwhile, having depleted our SPR my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president exposes the US to price manipulation intended to further weaken our national security. Thanks, Joe!
Grandpa can’t keep even basic names, facts, and dates straight.
Hillary is the one who lost the electoral college. It was eight years ago.
You never won a Nobel Prize.
And Ivanka is not your wife’s name.
Meanwhile, having depleted our SPR
Translation: troll is butthurt that noun, verb, Chicago didn’t work in the face of lower oil prices.
Thank you Joe!
@ 36
Grandpa can’t keep even basic names, facts, and dates straight.
It was a comment about 2025.
Hey, girly girl @1. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 34, 35, 38
Triggered much? You should be. Before this is over, you’re going to hang for treason.
@ 39
Before this is over, you’re going to hang for treason.
Before this is over, you’ll be cursing the 2025 inauguration of President Trump.
Which one of us is more likely correct? I know the answer.
Moreover, so do you. Cry more.
Didn’t the dumbfuck girly girl always dismiss all RV polls? And this RV poll has only 600 respondents.
Such desperation must be an awful, even terrible thing. Especially for a cowardly girly girl like our dumbfuck troll.
Before this is over, you’ll be cursing the 2025 inauguration of President Trump.
Girly Girl isn’t going to be ready for The Pain
Is the Girly Girl ready to talk about why she wants an authoritarian fascist state to replace our democracy? Of course not. She’s too much a fucking coward.
Our stupid Girly Girl will rue the day that his Orange Jesus repeatedly called for violence and she didn’t denounce him. After all, what goes around comes around. Amirite, Girly Girl?
Trump’s Ugly Calls For Violence Laid Out In Chilling New Supercut Video
The SPD must have learned from Toronto Police on how to weaponized their jobs against Transit operators.
https://www.blogto.com/city/2023/11/cop-tickets-ttc-streetcar/
Interesting that in that example, that particular route, the streetcar should not have been blocking the intersection anyway, it was a Transit Priority Corridor, which the cops rarely enforced, although after the bad press, motorists traveling in the streetcar lanes, were getting ticketed left and right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Street_Transit_Priority_Corridor
“Grandpa?
This is the year 2024. Okay?
Should we call Mom for you, or what?”
No longer effectively oriented to time and place.
Trump looks around, orangely.
😎
Even Karl Rove hates our stupid Girly Girl troll, her Orange Jesus and their cosplaying grandmothers.
‘Why Trump Has Done This Is Beyond Me’: Fox’s Karl Rove Goes Scorched Earth on Ex-President’s Pledge to Pardon Jan. 6 Defendants
“And what those people did when they violently attacked the Capitol, in order to stop a constitutionally-mandated meeting of the Congress to accept the results of the Electoral College, is a stain on our history,” Rove continued. “And every one of those sons a bitches who did that, we oughta find them, try them, and send them to jail.”
Lesson learned for Girly Girl. Next time she tries to end our democracy she’ll send cosplaying grandfathers.
Biden needs to have a discussion with the following people:
1. Professor John Mearscheimer
2. Professor Jeffrey Sachs
3. Colonel Douglas MacGregor
4. Major Scott Ritter
5. Judge Andrew Napolitano
6. Matt Hoh
7. Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski
Get these seven people in a room with Joe Biden, and we might be able to avoid a nuclear war.
Porsche took the criticisms and consumer feedback on its Taycan EV line and created a truly great car with all of the precision styling Porsche has masters with Gen 2 Taycan.
Elon gave everyone an update that included fart noises and a larger HUD screen.
This is why the smart money is fleeing Tesla. The cult of Elon can’t hide that they’ve done nothing to improve the vehicle or the build quality over the decade plus since release.
They had a seven year head start that they’ve squandered and the legacy brands are about to eat them alive.
https://jalopnik.com/the-2025-porsche-taycan-is-excellence-through-engineeri-1851382370
@48 All of them are intellectually above you, and most of them shouldn’t be listened to, so where does that put you?
48,
Major Scott Ritter the convicted criminal pedophile?
You should stop hanging out with people like that.
It’s not good. Try to do better.
kreepshit is soiling its depends in spew after spew..
why?
hint: its own babbling about interest rate cuts.
knock, knock, knock…
@51 Half of them are on Russian payrolls.
53,
Well, maybe Shortbus or whoever that is at 48 is a loyal, patriotic Russian striving to serve.
At least that is understandable.
Russians can be very patriotic.
But pedophilia? That’s not understandable. That’s just horrible. Pedophiles like Ritter are monsters. He’s a very sick, very broken person who preys upon children for gratification. Why even a Russian like 48 want to get involved with someone like that?
And why would they expect us to share their sick interest?
The court rejection of Trump The Rapist’s $175 million appeal bond means that unless he responds and corrects the bond filing with the required information and documentation he forfeits his right to appeal. And once that happens James may immediately begin to seize and liquidate.
What Trump’s strip mall lawyers “forgot” to include in their appeal bond filing was any financial information demonstrating to the court that the bond surety has access to funds and has the legal authority to secure the bonded amount.
This is standard boilerplate stuff for bonding companies. They operate like insurance. And so at any given time they may be potentially obligated on paper for far more than they can ever cover. So like insurance companies they hold reserves and they have financial statements that can demonstrate how the held reserves exceed the risk of default.
The fact that such documentation was omitted from the filing is bizarre. And it’s very reasonable to suspect on that basis that the proposed surety is not qualified, either legally or financially.
Seeing as how my girly girl has embraced RV, low response polls, she’ll love this one.
Joe Biden Crushes Donald Trump in New Swing State Poll
Anew poll shows President Joe Biden holding a double-digit lead over former President Donald Trump in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania seven months before the general election.
It’s comforting, isn’t it, knowing that US support for Israel is bipartisan.
The hopes of the GOP flipping AZ back and Kari Lake becoming a Senator are already over.
Even Fox News knows it.
All those Pro-Abortion Trump supporters are going to come out of the woodworks?
My girly girl can hardly wait to go back to hating Jews again.
Jews will not replace us!
@ 57
Sure, as long as you’re willing to believe that 43% of Pennsylvania voters hold a college degree.
The number’s really only 33.8%, but hey, it’s only a poll.
When Darryl starts his quadrennial aggregates, will he be “embracing” RV polls, too?
My girly girl was so supportive of Jews that he decided it was best not to leave a single comment on this thread.
Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!
by Darryl — Friday, 8/11/17, 11:32 pm
Probably a good call on his part to hide for a few days, what with him being a loyal Nazi and all.
Imagine the sensations of failure and regret that must accompany this for Republicans.
To have terrible events like these come along overseas, triggered by shameful acts of barbaric terrorism, and now daily levying a gruesome toll in innocent human lives abetted by this Democratic President, but to have already settled on a nominee to oppose that President who is unable to leverage any of it to political advantage.
Try as they might to find it, there is simply no message and no candidate available capable of persuading even a single swing voter alienated by Democrat’s support of Israel to cast a ballot for a Republican.
They know that, faced with a miserable choice between a man-made mass starvation event and glass parking lot apocalypse, the choice is easy. Because Republicans forgot to offer anything better.
Republicans fucked themselves on women’s reproductive freedoms.
They fucked themselves on free and fair elections.
They fucked themselves on “law and order” and “Black Crime”.
They fucked themselves on immigration.
They failed in every effort to stop President Biden from ending the pandemic and rescuing the economy.
And when terrible fate hands them a political life ring they find themselves swimming madly in the opposite direction.
Shorter 61:
“Potential survey design defects revealed in survey cross tabs are only an issue when they disadvantage my party’s candidate.”
Also, AP VoteCast measured the most recent Penn Presidential in 2020 at 28% some college, 22% college grad, and 14% grad with post grad.
Strong post. /s
Club for Growth announced it will spend $4 million on a TV ad targeting five anti-school voucher Texas House Republicans.
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/03/club-for-growth-texas-house-legislature/
“You can no longer consider yourself a conservative if you oppose school freedom,” McIntosh said.
This would allow public dollars to follow Texas students to private and religious schools and allow the parents to keep their kids from being exposed to non conservative ideas and minority kids.
>> Abbott’s voucher bill was rejected last year and so Abbott vowed revenge.
Abbott’s voucher bill was rejected last year and so Abbott vowed revenge.
It’s increasingly the case in “conservative” politics that policy, messaging, and spending in support of those are custom built around the narrow interests of a cult leader. Whether that’s Abbott, or Trump The Rapist, or Fat Midget, or Kari Lake, or even Governor Sweater-Vest in Virginia, the party is too weak to advocate for broader interests that include candidates farther down the ballot facing more moderate or skeptical constituencies.
The cult is all that matters.
Just shut the fuck up, drink this grape Kool Aid, and wait for the divine flying saucer to rapture the believers.
Trump The Rapist filed his “corrected” appeal bond about an hour ago. It now is accompanied by corporation documents for the surety in California and Delaware and a financial statement from the surety dated to December 2023 showing assets of about $2 billion with about $50 million in cash, liabilities of about $1 billion with about $800 million in claims reserves.
Attorney General James has already filed a response objecting to the surety being outside of state jurisdiction and holding no licenses or corporation within the jurisdiction, citing state code and giving ten days to cure.
A criminal investigation has now been launched into the deliberate destruction of hundreds of texts messages of DHS Secret Service agents assigned to the White House from the period of January 5th and January 6th 2021.
“Requesting immediate authorization to sedate Orange Baboon.
Repeat.
Requesting immediate authorization to sedate Orange Baboon.
He just tried to seize control of the limo. Also requesting Diaper Team standing by upon arrival at the residence. ETA in 12. Please have air freshener available.”
What the GOP’s War On Women™ is really about is forcing women into having families:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/04/opinions/birth-control-disinformation-republicans-campoamor/index.html
Why would they do that? Several reasons. First, they fear powerful women, and don’t want to be supervised or managed by women bosses. Second, the U.S. birth rate has fallen below the replacement rate, which means our population will shrink without immigration, and they went a source of cheap labor that doesn’t rely on immigrants. Third, because they want to control other people’s lives. So it’s about white male power and cheap labor.
@66 Well at least it isn’t mango flavored. But they need a strong flavor to cover the cyanide taste.
No Labels noped out today, leaving hysterical, science denying political elitist with running mate Google billionaire as the only viable spoiler.
Biggest loser is Trump The Rapist, of course.
No Limits has suspended its 2024 campaign.
“altered traditional gender roles and weakened the patriarchy.” That’s a healthy choice.
Only the most emotionally broken of women would willingly become “wives” to conservatives. Thus conservatives have to trap and force more women into unpaid servitude.
The really uppity ones will be sent to the trump camps for re-education lest they infect good women with bad ideas.
Fox News is lying again:
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4574115-fox-news-white-house-easter-egg-roll-policy/
Who wants these sovereign citizens in the army, anyway? They’re unreliable, and won’t follow orders.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/04/israel-ultra-orthodox-jews-haredim-benjamin-netanyahu-court-military-conscription-gaza-war
In Second Amendment news, a customer threatened a Burger King worker with a gun because he thought the food prices were too low.
https://www.rawstory.com/burger-king/
Republicans are to blame for putting a gun in this man’s hands.
Noteworthy that in their own words a “strong” “traditional” family is one in which women of any age are denied control over their own reproductive organs.
Appliances for men.
@61
Another reason to suspect Dumbfuck doesn’t know shit about fuck. Data from the PA Census and Employment numbers about 25% of the total population of PA is under the age of 18.
So now ponder why the percentage of registered voters with degrees might be a scoche higher than the entire population of the entire state.
Here, I’ll help you. I’ll even round to make it easier for you. If PA has a population of 13M and 33% have a college degree that’s 4.3M people with a degree. Then you remove the 25% that are under 18, you’re left with a population of 9.25M.
Just for the people who never got used to doing percentages beyond Algebra 1, 4.3m/9.25m = x/100.
The percentage of people with degrees among the voting age population of Pennsylvania is actually 46.5%.
Maybe in a likely voter poll the number would be closer to 34ish% but in an RV poll that 43% number is right below the money.
What a dumbfuck.
2022,
What I have is so valuable that it is a premium feature. Only those that are willing to pay a subscription can have the coveted blue check. I will not be making any effort to verify accounts impersonation someone that pays can have a blue check. I’ve got this thing and it’s fucking golden.
2024,
Okay we are so great and we are doing so well financially and like no one has left so we’re going to give the blue check to anyone with at least 2500 followers. You get all the formerly paid subscription features too if you have a big enough audience. No, this is not me capitulating I’m building a brand here and to do that we need celebrities making the funny like they are doing over on BlueSky.
“A legal panel made a preliminary determination that former Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark violated rules of professional conduct and should be professionally disciplined after a hearing on his efforts to overturn the 2020 election on Thursday.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jeffrey-clark-january-6_n_660f0394e4b078af1447e2db
@78 Well, we know he can’t do law, and his early retirement implies he can’t do medicine, so is it surprising he can’t do statistics?
81,
Interesting observation is that nearly all students admitted into US medical schools have exceptional math scores and demonstrate undergraduate math aptitude and comprehension in the 99th percentile.
75)Will need more Arab Volunteers to make up for the ones who are exempted.
Meow!
I agree, kitty. It looks like the dumbfuck has no mojo. Sad!
@82 As far as I know, it’s never been established that he graduated from a U.S. medical school.
“Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) slammed New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s (D) invitation to stay at a migrant shelter in New York during his visit to the Big Apple, calling it a ‘gimmick’ in an interview on Thursday.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4575904-abbott-responds-to-nyc-mayors-invitation-to-spend-the-night-in-a-migrant-shelter/
Coming from Gov. Gimmick, that’s a laughable response. Made even more laughable by the fact Gov. Gimmick is in New York for a GOP fundraiser, but can’t be bothered to poke his head in a shelter to see how migrants he sent there are doing.
Having an education does not preclude one from being stupid. McFuckhead proves that with every post.
88,
Doesn’t preclude you from worshiping a convicted criminal pedophile.
And you’ve been stupid enough to have come on here and admit to that.
Ew.
What Republican fiscal management looks like:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/04/south-carolina-state-bank-account-mystery
In today’s legal news,
and,
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/04/migrants-lawsuit-marthas-vineyard-desantis
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/04/tennessee-abortion-ban
“In an article published by Rolling Stone on April 4, reporter E.J. Dickson describes some of the wild conspiracy theories that Infowars’ Alex Jones and others on the far right have been promoting about the eclipse. ‘Our knowledge of eclipses predates our knowledge of gravity, algebra and toilet paper,’ Dickson explains. ‘We are well aware of their existence, and we are well aware of what causes them…. What the ancient Assyrians could not have possibly predicted, however, was the singular stupidity of the current incarnation of the American right.'”
https://www.rawstory.com/misinformation-alex-jones-eclipse/
-Richard Grennell speaking at CPAC
This is Trump The Rapist’s former acting Director of National Intelligence and former ambassador to Germany tapped to be his Secretary of State in a second term articulating the core guiding principles of a Trump foreign policy.
It amounts to this: “Diplomacy and fostering negotiations in conflict zones is a waste of time. Just make trade deals. Our entire foreign policy should be built around making more and more trade deals. Money fixes everything.”
That’s not actually a broadly America First policy.
It’s a “global trade first” policy.
Just do deals. Remove all other considerations about anything “political” like human rights, democracy, national sovereignty, or global environmental protection.
Notice that all of those things are “inefficient” from a conventional, laissez faire 18th century economic point of view, wherein slavery would be the most “efficient” way of organizing human capital, for example.
If your foreign policy is built exclusively around unrestricted expansion of global trade, and if “unrestricted” really means “anything goes”, then systems that aggressively pursue slavery, dictatorship, foreign conquest, and decimation of the environment come out ahead as winners every time in all your “trade deals”.
That might put America’s global corporations first.
But it promises to make American workers into either slaves or soldiers sooner or later.
Tesla has finally announced that it is scrapping plans to develop an entry level EV, ending forever it’s claims to become a global mass-market player.
This was foreseeable and foreseen.
But not by those giddy, childish fanboy investors mindlessly caught up in fabricated “Tony Stark” mythologies surrounding Elmo.
#findingout