Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

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^ worth the read. gives a good sense of what about the US is about to fuck up in its trade relations with Canada.
60% of oil, 90% of potash, 66% of aluminum etc etc
 
Trump 2017 inauguration:

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Trump today:

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Inauguration Day 2025:

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Growing up there were always television shows which featured a neighborhood blowhard who thought he knew everything and had the solution to every national problem and was very loud and obnoxious about it, but who in actuality didn't know shit outside their chosen field of work. And in real life I've met plenty of people like that over the years, unfortunately. It seems to me as if the whole phenomenon of Trumpism has been the process of allowing these people to take over the Republican Party and eventually the country. The chubby guy who used to sit at the end of the bar bitching about everything and had simple solutions to every problem are now the guys running the country.
 
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Growing up there were always television shows which featured a neighborhood blowhard who thought he knew everything and had the solution to every national problem and was very loud and obnoxious about it, but who in actuality didn't know shit outside their chosen field of work. And in real life I've met plenty of people like that over the years, unfortunately. It seems to me as if the whole phenomenon of Trumpism has been the process of allowing these people to take over the Republican Party and eventually the country. The chubby guy who used to sit at the end of the bar bitching about everything and had simple solutions to every problem are now the guys running the country.
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I remember two blowhards on WRAL-Channel 5 - Cousin Chubb and Jesse Helms.
 
The irony is that the dollar losing reserve status would be better for US trade than tariffs. Of course Trump doesn't know the first thing about economics, but it's funny because his own treasury secretary has been calling for the dollar to lose reserve status.

There's a view among economists -- including Bessent! -- that reserve currency status keeps the dollar permanently higher than its equilibrium value, and that this overvaluation hurts American competitiveness. I'm unsure whether I buy this story (there's much to recommend it, but I also see multiple problems and I'm far from the only one), but if it's true, that means losing reserve currency status would do much of the work Trump wants from tariffs, and mostly inflation-free.

Of course, when you're calling Mike Flynn to ask him whether a strong dollar is good, this point will not be understood. Far too subtle and complex.
 
Trump’s best Cabinet pick might be Li’l Marco.

That says it all.

The Cabinet Secretary nominees are a distraction - especially Hegseth, Kennedy Lite, Tulsi, and Patel; and, Gaetz. Trump AND the Heritage Foundation/Project 2025 HOPE they remain distractions……hell, they hope several (all?) are shot down so that Trump and Heritage can whine about the “Deep State.”

It’s not the Caninet Secretary who will gut departments…….it’s the 10-to-20-to-50 Heritage appointees we ignore while Kennedy Lite pisses us off.

This is NOT Trump playing 3-D Chess; this is Heritage and other right-wingers realizing that Trump is completely a tool……and they can use his ignorance.
 
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