Yeah, that is quite convincing. Did you think about getting into politics? 
As I have been told by he who shall not be named, calling someone you disagree with a dumb cunt is not considered very persuasive so its not really my calling.
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I dunno, seems to be the general level of discourse these days.
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Trump: Department of War sounds better than defense. I donât want to be defense only. We want offense, too.
Tragicomic.
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I would agree with you.
But I am not sure. I mean, I would LOVE to agree with you and right now I do. But Americans are fucked in the head. Like really fucked in the head (my slang vulgar language a choice here, because I am talking about simplistic people).
I would not vote for anyone who ran campaigns like Newsom is doing now. Itâs vulgar and unworthy. But if vulgar and unworthy is the only thing that works on these fucked up people, then I assess that it is quite possible that I am wrong.
I would like to read more recent sociological research on American voters and their relationship to media, what kind of stature and bearing they expect and respect from a leader etc.
I worry they may actually be fucked up enough that vulgarism is particularly effective.
But I donât know (well I do know that a major segment likes and respects it, thinking it âbasedâ, obviously, but I am not sure how exactly large that segment is, and even less how large a segment think it highly unattractive, infantile and unworthy). My knowledge of US politics and voter groups and what they respect , is some what outdated from when I studied political science, that has been clear since 2016 and Bidenâs very narrov win in 2020 (narrow due to how disastrous Trump was proven to be, not narrow normatively in US politics).
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Trump: The war between Ukraine and Russia turned out to be a big personality conflict. We are going to stop that, too.
Of course, it has never been a personality conflict, except in Trumpâs brain; since this is how he views international relations, even including something as ultra serious as full war.
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Where is that puke emoticon when you need it? 
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Also tragicomic. I am never sure if rolling my eyes or laughing grimly, is the correct response.
https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1960011946713088439
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More American soap opera
https://x.com/platinombrero/status/1960131539024408744
Coming from the clown who thinks he should get the Nobel Peace Gong,seems yet another indication he is unaware what day it is,wanting a War Dept seems at odds to peace.
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They may as well revert to calling it the war department, seeing as the US has been overtly or covertly involved in so many wars over the years, none of which could have been described as in the actual defence of their country.
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Isnât he ashamed of how he comes across, so naive and unwitty? Has he even any kind of self-awareness? It doesnât look like that to be honest.
I really donât know how he comes away with all this bullshit. Anyone else but him would have been hounded out of the oval office since long.
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And heâs now done the thing. He was previously told that Powell could not be fired from Fed so he has now announced the firing of his deputy, Lisa Cook, which is still not in his authority to do. But he and his people know this is the path to earning the court approved authority to get rid of PowellâŚthey test the ruling with someone less senior that powell allowing the courts to pretend to believe in a new argument that says âyou know, he might actually have the authority to do this.â And then once he does it, they apply the argument to Powell and the court is âforcedâ to agree.
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Also, somehow this Intel thing has come completely under the radar. He has announced an agreement to nationalize a portion of the company and there has barely been a blip on the right, or among the serious centrists who have spent so much time and effort condemning support for the Marxist Mamdani.
Remember, 95% of all complaints in politics are not coming from first principals, but tribal arguments based on what ever needs to be argued in that argument for their side to win.
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Not much reaction to it in the near-term on either the exchange or debt markets, but if the US no longer has an independent central bank that will change soon.
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No, I donât think so. I think he is emotionally and mentally unable to feel such shame, due to psychiatric diagnosis that he should have had; such as narcisism and sociopathy.
Usually, narcisism isnât that bad as in Trump though. Most narcisists have some limits. But if you add on the more dangerous sociopathy and/or psychopathy, itâs explosive. But I am not a psychatrist, but like many psychiatrists have said, there are few test subject on earth that you have more data on than Trump regarding putting a diagnosis on someone, and well, it is an open secret, isnât it ? But of course, usually one should be extraordinary careful with diagnosing others, even as an expert, which I am not. But really !!!
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The irony of the United States nationalising strategic industries and sectors, amuses me.
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1960314557693301202
I chuckle a bit seeing the MAGA regiments on Twitter, defending this. 5 years ago they were busy hating on âSocialistâ Europeans who had some national ownership in some minor segments of their strategic sectors.
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