Donald J. Trump (For everyone else)
I assume it's still acceptable to have a Trump thread in a Politics forum?
So this is an obvious lie - basically aimed at
Anyone else find it weirdly creepy and deeply telling that not only does Leon constantly parade his kid with him, he's got like 70 of them but it's always the same one whose name is a bunch of numbers and letters for a name
I'm sure Trump has no tolerance for the kid being around and thinks Elon is a freak and the kids names are stupid and the not wearing a suit is lame...but $300m goes a long way.
The leopards are everywhere!
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/13...
Venezuelan voters in Florida have become critical to Trump’s Latino base, who turned out for his town halls and campaign stops in Miami last year. Venezuelans are the fastest growing Latino group in the U.S., and they number in the hundreds of thousands in South Florida. In the majority Venezuelan enclave of Doral, known to locals as “Doralzuela,” Trump won upwards of 60 percent of the vote.
The leopards are everywhere!
The people (Trumpers I mean) assuming this was a Democratic voting block were dumb.
I am neither an economist, nor a historian of tariffs, but its seems logical that exiting an unsustainable trade war could be rocky for the "protected" industries.
I think of tariffs and the inevitable responses from targeted countries as a subsidy to certain domestic industries that domestic consumers end up paying for in the form of higher prices. If the tariffs are in place for a long enough period, I imagine that the protected industries adapt by adopting business practices that are more suited the protectionist environment. (That could mean different things in different industries, of course.) In a sense, they become addicted to the protectionism. And if the tariffs become economically unsustainable or politically nonviable for whatever reason, "detoxing" can be painful for the protected industries. If the trade war is brief, and the tariffs are rolled back before there is a significant shift in business practices, then the phenomenon I am describing of course is less relevant.
Is what I wrote above consistent with actual history and basic economic theory?
Is this real life?
I am neither an economist, nor a historian of tariffs, but its seems logical that exiting an unsustainable trade war could be rocky for the "protected" industries.
I think of tariffs and the inevitable responses from targeted countries as a subsidy to certain domestic industries that domestic consumers end up paying for in the form of higher prices. If the tariffs are in place for a long enough period, I imagine that the protected industries adapt by adopting business practices that are more sui
Alexander Hamilton's notion was infant industry protection and the idea was for it to just allow an industry to mature. At the time USA manufacturing was not competitive with English, but it grew.
And in general, USA tariffs went down to almost zero as USA became the most developed economy in the world. Later, South Korea and others followed similar models.
Hey what's the overall explanation for how Trump can perform a Trump coin rug pull, but if Obama did that, there would be calls for his head?
How does a president manage to actually do that and nobody really talks about it?
Alexander Hamilton's notion was infant industry protection and the idea was for it to just allow an industry to mature. At the time USA manufacturing was not competitive with English, but it grew.
And in general, USA tariffs went down to almost zero as USA became the most developed economy in the world. Later, South Korea and others followed similar models.
With significant (usually non-economic) exceptions. For ex Japan has a tariff-free quota for rice (worldwide), which was only imposed because it was in violation of WTO rules (and that was the compromise solution), but any quantity above that (and they import a lot above that) is taxed at a lump sum per kilogram which corresponds to around 400% vs current international prices (it was 700-800% 20 years ago).
S. Korea is in a similar position, there is a tariff-free quota (at like 5%) , and the rest is taxed at like 500%.
Hey what's the overall explanation for how Trump can perform a Trump coin rug pull, but if Obama did that, there would be calls for his head?
How does a president manage to actually do that and nobody really talks about it?
People talk about it but it's sort of a twisted "bigotry of low expectations".
When you say for months Trump is literally Hitler and he only ends up as a buffoon that creates a non-sense economic problem , it's hard to go allin against him, after all he is performing far better than Hitler right?
Crypto is one of many irredeemable cancers upon society and should not exist. Trump is just another scumbag taking advantage of the same type of people who buy lottery tickets they cannot afford. At least the lottery operates the scam as advertised. Crypto is digital snake oil. Come at me.
Hey what's the overall explanation for how Trump can perform a Trump coin rug pull, but if Obama did that, there would be calls for his head?
How does a president manage to actually do that and nobody really talks about it?
Lots of people talk about it. Its a really big deal in the crypto sphere
The issue is that crypto largely revolves around twitter and is loaded to the brim with the demographics that watch Andrew Tate. IE: they all fell victim to propaganda (see housenuts)
There is just now starting to be a push back from twitter accounts that bull posted Trump for 6 months straight
But ultimately hes the crime president. Most people are desensitized to the point that doing a hamfisted Tesla ad on the white house lawn is semi-normal
Hey what's the overall explanation for how Trump can perform a Trump coin rug pull, but if Obama did that, there would be calls for his head?
How does a president manage to actually do that and nobody really talks about it?
Part of it is it's just one of a litany of scams coming from the king of scammers. It's become normal. Part of it is the people that would yell the loudest for Obama's head are his cult. Part of it is he's doing a lot worse things right now.
Sounds like a "legit" skirting around campaign finance laws. Putin can "buy" Trump coins.... right?
Spoiler
Money goes in Trump's pocket, pro-Putin desires come out of Trump's actions
With significant (usually non-economic) exceptions. For ex Japan has a tariff-free quota for rice (worldwide), which was only imposed because it was in violation of WTO rules (and that was the compromise solution), but any quantity above that (and they import a lot above that) is taxed at a lump sum per kilogram which corresponds to around 400% vs current international prices (it was 700-800% 20 years ago).
S. Korea is in a similar position, there is a tariff-free quota (at like 5%) , and the res
Food security is another thing. A country might wish to be food secure even if they are a developed economy and towards that end they might tariff food imports or subsidize domestic agriculture.
Hey what's the overall explanation for how Trump can perform a Trump coin rug pull, but if Obama did that, there would be calls for his head?
How does a president manage to actually do that and nobody really talks about it?
Since 2016, this kind of stuff has become desensitized through normalization.
Crypto is one of many irredeemable cancers upon society and should not exist. Trump is just another scumbag taking advantage of the same type of people who buy lottery tickets they cannot afford. At least the lottery operates the scam as advertised. Crypto is digital snake oil. Come at me.
Trump needed a way to move big money from some entity to himself. That coin didn't get to $15 billion in a day just from toothless Trumpers. Probably Barron came up with the idea to use meme coins for the transfer. Old ladies and other Trump cucks got caught in the crossfire is all.
Sounds like a "legit" skirting around campaign finance laws. Putin can "buy" Trump coins.... right?
Spoiler
Money goes in Trump's pocket, pro-Putin desires come out of Trump's actions
Even more convenient and larger amounts of money than renting out floors in his hotels or buying membership in his clubs.
Sounds like a "legit" skirting around campaign finance laws. Putin can "buy" Trump coins.... right?
Spoiler
Money goes in Trump's pocket, pro-Putin desires come out of Trump's actions
This is a bit misleading. There are ~650,000 unique holders of trump coin. You can't just dump money into the coin and its like a hand off to Trump.
There are things that could be done, like loading up the LP and then draining the LP but thats all on chain and transparent
Like, it was extractionary, scummy, scammy, possibly illegal, and horrificially improper, but this quid pro quo narrative is somewhat nonsense
There are a million different ways to pay someone crypto more anonymously
ruh roh
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pro...
The organization Jewish Voice for Peace livestreamed the sit-in, showing hundreds of demonstrators packed into the building's lobby. Some held signs that read "Fight Nazis not students," "Free Mahmoud free Palestine," and "You can't deport a movement."
Sham!
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/13...
U.S. District Judge William Alsup described the mass firings as a “sham” strategy by the government’s central human resources office to sidestep legal requirements for reducing the federal workforce.
Trump sez he thinks the US will annex Greenland after all.
Trump sez he thinks the US will annex Greenland after all.
The NATO Secretary General politely demurred, and the incoming prime minister of Greenland says, 'We don't want to be Americans,' so although President Trump has some words, big words, beautiful words, the best words, it's basically not going to happen.
The NATO Secretary General politely demurred, and the incoming prime minister of Greenland says, 'We don't want to be Americans,' so although President Trump has some words, big words, beautiful words, the best words, it's basically not going to happen.
"You know Mark, we need that for international security. We have a lot of our favourite players cruising around the coast and we have to be careful."
Mr Rutte responded saying: "When it comes to Greenland, joining or not joining the US, I would leave that outside... this discussion because I do not want to drag Nato into that."
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Yes, I think that's NATO diplomatically refusing the support that Trump was asking for.
