@CKCapitalxx Trump has announced new tariffs but no one seems to be talking about this, throw on top that the war seems to be heating up and the market was already over extended it’s not a surprise really.
Israel has used American-supplied munitions to kill tens of thousands of innocent civilians.
America is morally obligated to end support of Israel’s devastation of Gaza and its people. I’m cosponsoring the Block the Bombs Act to limit the transfer of offensive weapons to Israel.
@ZackPolanski 💯 the time is coming where politicians are going to create a fake conscience to appease the public’s outrage on this eg @wesstreeting but we know which side they have been on all along.
@DadCub1970@MAGACult2 We don’t hate every American, in fact we feel for those that didn’t vote for this. But we do blame you for not doing enough to stop it. You had 1 term of it so you knew what was coming, except this time there are no guard rails. You are ALL to blame.
@theworldisnotrl@MAGACult2 It’s the people that vote in the government, so I’m afraid it’s very much representative of your people. You will have your wish, ask the people in North Korea how much they enjoy being ‘independent’.
There is a well-documented pattern to the first Trump administration. The people who worked in it stayed quiet while employed, then the moment they were fired, sat down and wrote a book. Bolton. Esper. Mattis. Tillerson. The consistent theme: the man wanted to bomb things. Iran. North Korea. Venezuela. Mexico, on at least one occasion that we know of. The adults in the room spent considerable energy preventing a nuclear confrontation because the President had seen something on Fox News.
That was Term One. Term Two is different.
The adults are gone. What replaced them is a collection of individuals who in any previous era of American governance would not have been trusted with the photocopier code.
Picture the scene. The President announces he has an idea. He is enthusiastic. He uses hand gestures. The people around the table look up from their shoes and think, in unison: sure, sounds great.
Nobody pushes back. Nobody has a map. Nobody asks what happens to global oil supply when you bomb the Persian Gulf, or what Mexico does when American special forces cross the border, or whether Greenland’s population has any opinion on being purchased against their will.
Nobody knows, because the hiring criteria for this White House had nothing to do with knowing things.
In Term One, the grownups bought time. They slow-walked the paperwork. They prevented catastrophe through sheer bureaucratic friction.
In Term Two, there is no friction. There is only nodding. And under the table, at least three senior officials are quietly Googling “where is Iran” on their phones. One of them has spelled it “I-ron” and is now reading a five-star review of a steam iron on Amazon. He finds it very informative.
He is the Secretary of Defense.
@theworldisnotrl@MAGACult2 Ha ha and there you have it folks - that right there is your issue. Your government and its dumb actions impact the whole world, you may not care yet but believe me, it’s coming and you will be ON YOUR OWN.