Alligator Alcatraz is just the first. Republican governors will be tripping over themselves to build concentration camps to supply slave labor other states industries.

Yep that is what I was referring to.

Mark my words Republicans will turn to using convict labor to harvest crops before they ever turn on Trump or admit any faults.

Step1: Round up undocumented immigrants and criminals.

Step2: Put them in prison for “crimes”.

Step3: Profit! Lease them to farms for $1 a day. Since slavery is legal if you are incarcerated. Republicans are going to build an entire underclass of criminals who will do these jobs.

Bonus: None of the brown people or criminals will be able to vote because they are now felons. Farmers will cry and vote Republican if anyone even suggests doing away with the prison industrial system.

The Russian economy is just now fully mobilized on a war footing. Stopping the war would send them into an economic depression.

Victory for Russia in Europe isn’t necessarily rolling through Eastern Europe and Germany at the head of huge tank formations.

But taking the Baltic States and parts of Europe and sitting on them. Would Western Europe and the US come to the aid of those smaller NATO allies and engage in a potentially grinding war to throw Russian back?

Grabbing a few key areas while splitting NATO permanently… That it could do.

Ohhh the finding out phase gets better!

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-working-plan-move-1-million-palestinians-libya-rcna207224

Lol, you seem miffed. Like I struck close to a truth you refuse to acknowledge…

Well, enjoy your “non-vote” and “no support” pitch. This is the result you choose.

And the voters who support Palestine sure did a good job keeping the worst of two options out.

Ohhh well, at this rate the Palestinian question, likely won’t be an issue next election.

Doubtful, Europe’s demographics are terrible.

The US can change Presidents.

Europe can’t change the fact it is rapidly greying and lacks enough young people to replace existing workers let alone build new cutting edge technologies.

I’m stuck here, I have a career and I’m too old to start over in a foreign country. But I’ll be getting my kids dual citizenship elsewhere and encouraging them to leave if things stay the way they are.

The Onion is on point. I thought to myself “Fuck more Desantis bullshitary” before seeing the URL

JD Vance is a douche canoe who would ramp it up 2x or 3x and would likely do the bidding of whatever master he follows now.

But no one likes the guy and I doubt he could inspire Trumps followers to the same degree Trump does. Without that rabid core base his power falls apart. Without a true leader, MAGA will start going at each others throats. There are too many factions both held together and held in check by Trump.

Cold War wouldn’t dominate the news cycle enough.

Some say we may be in the opening stages of WW3 so I’m imagining full on war or domestic instability/insurrection.

Of course an unchecked pandemic should always be on anyone’s bingo card moving forward as well.

America has the largest and richest consumer base. We are one of the few major economies to have a large population of millennials and gen z.

Who will Japan, Germany and China sell their shit to? There isn’t a market that can replace the US. The US also simply can’t make everything we like to consume. Which is why we are now headed for recession/stagflation.

This is a dead cat bounce. Nothing fundamentally has changed until Trump is out of office. There is no one talking him down from his bad decision making.

He will move onto the next grift or scandal so he can dominate the next news cycle and make the old one go away. Eventually he will come back to fuck with the economy again.

Rinse & Repeat/Round and round we go until he hits something big he can’t make go away like Covid did in his first term. Then he will loose it.

If you want my bet on what that is, it will be a major war.

No he won’t give tariffs up. This was his latest gift to make 10% tariffs on everything seem not so bad. I’m willing to bet 10% was always his goal and the crazy numbers he threw out were there to make 10% seem reasonable.

The problem is after 4 months of attacking allies, siding with dictators, reneging on prior trade agreements he negotiated, and being called out for it globally. This latest economic grift wiped any trust the US had left.

The US is uninvestable while he is in power. You can’t make major investments be it a billion dollar factory complex or some small business importing goods to build a product. You could be wiped out because of a mood swing or Orange Mussolini’s latest grift.

Worse his tariffs put many US manufacturers at a disadvantage compared to foreign competitors. He’s just set the stage for a definite recession, long term slow economic growth or at worse a depression if the bond market fully breaks down.

Even if he can get tax cuts passed they won’t do shit to put it all back together.

I agree this is just market euphoria. We have a lot of systemic issues that have been exacerbated and/or entirely created by Trump.

The core problem is Trump full stop. He is sitting in the White House with nothing but “Yes” men in his cabinet. It’s only a mater of time until he releases his next scheme on the market.

Yep that was pretty much what I expected from a Chinese shill.

2. They don’t have a history of being interested in war anyway.

Vietnam, Tibet, India and Taiwan might have a different opinion…

It’s not a big deal. Rare earth minerals aren’t that rare.

It’s the refining of rare earth minerals which is energy intensive and causes a great deal of pollution.

It was nice that China was destroying their own environment and spending the capital to build power plants. Now we will have to invest the capital to do it ourselves.

Thundermail… yeah yeah. :gently pushes my aol.com account under the sofa: