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Trump wants to take over the world. All he's succeeding in doing is remaking the world into one that doesn't need the US. And indeed has no use for us at all.
It makes complete sense if you work from the angle that Trump is a Russian plant working to destroy America from within.
Definitely a Russian asset. I think that's more or less clear at this point. But the acts he's taking seem more...stupid than calculated right now. I don't think it's his goal to destroy America (though it's certainly possible that his handlers want that); I think it's his goal to enrich himself, and he's just not too bothered by the prospect of destroying America in the process.
He's the greatest example of a useful idiot in history
He's like a 4-year-old king being used by his regent to consolidate power.
It took the USA about 80 years to build the soft power that let it influence much of the world. trump is destroying all of that in less than 6 months.
It feels longer than that to me (weren't people talking about America's influence when discussing our entry into the world wars?), but you're absolutely right: it took decades to accrue, and it'll all be frittered away in weeks.
Of course, Trump's no stranger to bankruptcy caused by mismanagement.
Its been more than 100 years since they started building the power, but you could argue that it hasn't grown much over the last 20 or so
Fair point.
With china's rise usa power fell
"Rome was not built in a day, but it sure as fuck burned in one."
-- Biggus Dickus
I don't think Trump cares about much outside maintaining his social position (being upper class, not going to prison, having media attention).
the nefarious fucks behind him (Putin, Musk, Thiel, etc) are the ones who want take over the world and reshape it into a technofascist dystopia where they have total control
the end result is largely the same, but Trump is just along for the ride as a useful idiot
"Take over the world" might be a bit of hyperbole. I'm talking mostly about his desire to take over Greenland, to take back Panama, to annex Canada, to be put in charge of Palestine, etc. Of course, this too is Trump trying to enrich himself; how many Trump properties would end up being built in Greenland if the US ended up with it? How much would shipping companies pay him in kickbacks if he took the Panama Canal and offered them priority passage? How much money would he and his cadre make by decreasing regulation in Canada, or getting access to Canadian oil fields? And, of course, you've already heard of his plan for the "Palestinian Riviera."
He wants to "take over the world" in the sense that he wants to rule over more swaths of land and extract the value from them, and in the sense that he wants to tell Keir Starmer to jump and hear him say "how high, sir?"--but yeah, I agree, he doesn't seem to have the desire to actually do any ruling.
“Art of the Deal”
“Shart of the deal”
I keep having this one dumb thought, but the longer all this idiocy goes on, the more I feel like I might be right:
Trump's obsessed with Hitler, right? A big part of Hitler's ultimate rise to ultimate power was the German people facing hyperinflation. What if Trump and his clown car are looking at that like less of a challenge Hitler faced and more of a checkbox or a milestone. Like, "Gotta have hyperinflation if I wanna be a real Hitler!"
A key difference is that Hitler didn't cause the hyperinflation.
I am irrationally hopeful that even most dumbasses who voted for him will realize that his policies fucked them, and can't save them
I think my comment must be confusing that people think that I'm saying that Hitler faced hyperinflation as part of his reign vs that Hitler ascended to power by being attributed as the only one who could successfully face hyperinflation.
Kinda like people were saying, "these are crazy times, we need a crazy leader."
Yeah, I totally get it! Very big difference to anyone with half a brain. But the current GOP could easily be seeing it as a checkbox instead of a huge reason for his winning the 1932 election
Hitler got into power after hyperinflation though, he wasn't the one who caused it. It was the failure of the centrist government on the economy which led to the rise of the far right and far left in Germany.
Yes, that's the clown car part I was describing. That this administration is so obsessed yet unable to discern causality, that they're like "hyperinflation gave Hitler power! Ergo, if I want Hitler's power, there must be hyperinflation!"
I think it's probably more like they know that a destabilized government makes taking complete control easier. He has Musk and company dismantling all the checks/balances, and his economic yo-yo is working on crippling the masses financially, which in the end means less resistance when he moves against the courts with force instead of social media.
I've had a similar thought, though not quite to hyperinflation levels where people are burning piles of $1,000 bills to keep warm or anything. But say he reduced the value of a dollar a hundredfold: suddenly people saving for retirement with a million out two dollars would have the equivalent of ten or twenty thousand. Meanwhile, Elon would still have the equivalent of a couple billion dollars. Everyone would be poor except the ultra rich. That would enable big business to compete with China in terms of wages paid, which is the only real way to bring manufacturing back to the US. Seen that way, making America great again is about making it a manufacturing base again by turning the whole country into sweatshop laborers.
Gold is going to go through the roof soon. Probably last chance to get any before it becomes unaffordable completely.
It's already 3200+/oz. Paper gold ain't gold.
Important distinction as well. If you don't hold it, you don't own it. "Paper" gold is 100% useless in any kind of crisis.
"I'll gladly pay you Tuesday!"
Time to get into backyard electronics scrapping