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âconstitutional dementiaâ
@12:35 in the video:
"You guys are all blaming China, youâre blaming us but itâs really your own fault and America now needs a revolution. They rob you blind and you thank them for it, thatâs a tragedy, thatâs a scam, thatâs why Iâm saying this right now. Americans you donât need a tariff hike, you need a revolution.
For decades your government and oligarchs will ship your job to China, not for diplomacy, not for peace but to exploit cheap labour and in the process they hollowed out your middle class, crashed your working class and told you to be proud while they sold your future for profit and yes China made money but we used it to build roads, fund healthcare, raise our living standard, we reinvested in our people, my family also benefited from it.
What did your government, itâs elites and oligarchs do? They bought private jets and mansions with golf courses. They manipulate markets and poured billions into endless wars and you get stagnated wages, crippling healthcare cost, cheap dopamine debt. They pick your pocket. For 40 years both China and the United States benefited from trade but only one of us use that well. This isnât Chinaâs fault, this is your governments fault, you let this happen. They made you fat, poor and addicted now they blame China for the mess they made. I donât think you need another tariff increase, you need to wake up, you need to take your country back."
Any chance someone could threadreaderapp it?
No, too many different comments, but you can find lots of articles about it.
I suppose it is possible for Vance to make a bigger goose of himself but he is boxing himself into a corner fast.
Talk about a ship of fools captained by the village idiot.
https://x.com/admcrlsn/status/1912336854227038631
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https://x.com/jurgen_nauditt/status/1912397702433808733
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How does he want to do it then? By taking arms and shooting the lot?
True, Iâve been told that there are a lot of firearms everywhereâŚ
Appreciate it!
I was just wondering if there was particular insight in the thread that wasnât in other articles.
I wonder at what point countries around the world decide that China is a more reliable partner than the US.
Wasnât that five months ago, when the results of the US election were known? 
They should have, but looking at the way things are with the number of countries caving and kowtowing, doubt they actually have.
Ezra Klein had an interesting conversation on his podcast this week with Thomas Friedman. Friedman is one of those people paid to have smart opinions who writes in stupid metaphors and a condescending tone to tell you how the world really is, but is almost always wrong in his big pronouncements without his status as serious opinion haver ever being challenged. Yet in this conversation I found myself agreeing with much of what he said.
His take is that most US attitudes to China are wrong not because it is a bad policy but because it fundamentally misunderstands who modern China is. Most attitudes are stuck in the 00s, thinking of China as a place that makes cheap crap cheaper than we can make it here. Whereas what it has become over the past 10-15 years is a place of technological and engineering excellence that requires you to go there because no one else can do what they can do. Tim Cook has repeatedly made the point that no one seems to hear, that he goes to China not because its cheap but because they can fill stadiums with a level of engineering excellence that youâd struggle to fill a room with if you rounded up all the comparable people in the US. This has huge implications for things like protectionist policies because it is not really the cost that is stopping those industries being led in the US.
So what to do about this? What do you do when you find yourself agreeing with someone who you also know is almost always wrong? (look up the concept of a Friedman Unit and then laugh, and then cry when you realize how damaging that thinking was).
Confusing times @Limiescouse confusing times.
No amount of serious research can answer much in these crazy horrible times.
I was lucky that despite all my research the correct response to Trumpâs weight problem was solved simply by the police. 
It was a lie all along. 
His 64" waistline was a big clue to contradict his medical report :0)
Look at this
A new LLM that outperforms even Deepseek and does so without having to use any of the supposed mission critical NVIDIA chips. The criticality of NVIDIA chips in making progress in AI was so unquestioned that entire foreign/trade policy was being formed around it. Now?
How is it Iâm reading about a new LLM for the first time on TAN of all placesâŚ