Yup, democrats are losers.
“The US has collapsed as a superpower under this man”
Good?
Yeah more likely than not this is the fall of the Empire. We can wring our hands all we want, but the real question is whether or not that’s a good thing?
I suspect for the actual people living in this country it’s a very good thing. We’ve been paying for global economic development on a scale never seen before through trade (which I would argue has been a net good thing for the world), we’ve been paying a huge % of the global military budget, and we’ve been paying for a huge % of the global healthcare budget… and a significant amount of all three was wasted.
Saw a report this morning about how limpdicked Trump’s proposed “sanctions” are, and how none of them will affect Erdogan if enacted.
Yet the press dutifully makes this today’s headline
Please explain how the US “pays for the economic development of the world through trade”.
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Not when worse actors, that have oppressive dictators, fill the vacuum left behind.
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If you’re talking about Assad and Ergodan, well, let’s let the people who actually live there sort things out. We don’t need the US imposing its will on places we don’t live and don’t understand. If you’re talking about PUTIN then that’s just Maddowian neo-cold war scaremongering. Russia has a smaller GDP than Canada. The amount of influence Russia can exert is limited. Why do we need to oppose them?
I’ll answer this when I have time to write multiple paragraphs. I’m on very firm footing here though.
Is this a First Citywide Change Bank reference?
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Maybe but who knows. I’m reminded of when I was watching Pat Buchanan on some argument cable show years ago. He said something like the US is basically being paid by the rest of the world to be the global policeman, and the mechanism by which this is done is the world sort of implicitly agrees to accept the USD as the global reserve currency. And so the rest of the world funds the US military by buying whatever bonds the US government issues. Endless war bonds, essentially. Everyone on the show and myself had a hearty laugh at Pat’s conspiracy theory. But then I was all…wait…is Pat right? Who knows. It’s plausible anyway.
That the real joke of Christianity
Let’s just assume the Bible is right and Jesus will come again
The same people would snap murder him again.
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That seems to be the major threat - the loss of the dollar as the reserve currency. Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, gave a speech a few months back where he was basically saying because the US is not reliable any more then it was inevitable and it would be sensible for national banks to plan for a replacement. Essentially that’s the problem that Europe has in circumventing the sanctions on Iran, it can’t handle payments without involving US banks or companies that rely on US banks.
I’m no economist, as can probably be seen from the above paragraph (though I am married to one), but it seems as if this would be a big loss to the US.
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Aww what’s the matter Donnie Dum Dum? Mad you don’t know what Fiona Hill said behind closed doors?
Not gonna lie
Donnie Dum Dum makes me laugh
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It’s more than plausable. It’s correct. You can argue whether the benefits outweigh the costs (whether they do or not depends totally on how you weight different factors and these have shifted back and forth in importance over time ) but the US has hardly been giving the ROTW a free ride since WW2
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