another proof that Biden was way too soft to be president

republicans created a monster

Texas wouldn’t blink at a chance to do that

Event Horizon… terror in space? Worse the Alien? can’t be.

but it is haunting and PTSD inducing, very well made

the question, however, is not about which firms are comprised. it is about “when” they will cave in

which means the system has severe flaws

can’t blame them for buying Trump and his acolytes so easily…

the tragedy is that the USA has no mechanism to keep their president in check

or a bot farm impersonating MAGAs and the press fall for it because nowadays no one verifies anything and X’s verification is meaningless since Elon made it so anyone who pays get one, bot or not

“US security assistance” is a myth and a lie at this point

Trump’s pettiness, greed, unstoppable urge to gloat, and his understanding that if he lays the foundation for something useful, only his precedessors might reap the benefits

nah. foreign powers are completely uninterested, so this will remain a local conflict. there’s nothing there to forcibly draw other countries in as well

What Trump and MAGA wanted can be done… but over a period of many years (like 20+ years) of careful and purposeful policy making.

He’s a corporativist

A mob-led “American Constitutionalist Revolution of 2025” has a nice ring to it

Found the person who believed in the Swatch Internet Time

The problem is that the high interest rate would trigger the debt ceiling and the USA may actually default on its debt

When foreign countries buy those US Treasuries, basically they are as if the US borrowed money from those foreign countries (ie foreign country gives the US money and the US promises to pay interest over time on that money, and to give back that money in the end. In this case it is said that foreign country “bought” US debt). This helps keep the value of the US dollar where it is (in other words, highly desirable). If foreign countries stop buying those US Treasuries or — worse — start selling them, it is as if those countries are taking their money back. Because the dollar becomes less desirable in that scenario, then the US has to jack up interest rates to make the dollar attractive to buyers again. For the people on the street, this results in higher interest rates on loans, credit cards, and mortgages. Companies face higher costs to borrow money and some have to fire people and/or reduce/close business.

In short, Trump thinks that he has leverage on foreign nations by affecting how they trade with the USA, but he doesn’t realize that foreign nations have immense ability to wreck the dollar if they are forced to do so by no longer giving their money in exchange of US debt.

I blame the rise of social media - especially the video version - for giving a voice to the idiots and letting their sheer high quantity distort facts with clickbaity and rage inducing headlines

Indeed, since the administration threatened to arrest supreme court justices as well

Incompetence of network operators? Sabotage by a state actor?