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In The Dark Shadow Of A White House
Finance chiefs, central bankers and a veritable who's who of the macro universe will gather in Washi
It’s bad. It will get worse.
You think he’s got it in him? I got the idea previously that he is too much of a wimp, in your opinion.
I mean, he is immune.
I think Trump is himself on a personal journey, to a place where such things will be doable and deniable.
What’s left to constrain him. We’re not sure that if SCOTUS decides against him he won’t ignore it, then what. At this point it doesn’t look like the Republicans will stand against him for fear of his wrath, political and maybe more. That leaves the markets. Trump is guided by revenge and money and the markets speak to the latter. Looks like american democracy is being held together at the moment by a thin string of capital. The next test of Trump’s power is the fight being led by major universities, can they succeed where some of the biggest law firms folded. Looks like turbulence rules the days ahead with no ports guaranteeing safety.
Hitler didn’t personally kill anyone. Plenty of people were willing to do it in his name though. Trump has been looking for those types for a while now.
Hitler was an ideological lunatic. The best explanation for his self-destructive acts is he drank his own kool-aid and believed in his own ideology. Trump is a grifter. Political murder is a big risk and could cost him everything. He is already at the top and free to grift as much as he wants. Does he have it in him to go further? If the H thinks he does then it’s worth taking seriously. I was thinking about investing in funeral services sector anyway so that still seems good.
Let’s hope that he is deposed. And when he is then by that time you have new limits on presidential power or get someone reasonable because a progressive president using all these levers of power could be less than great as well.
Perhaps I missed it, but I was wondering when someone would openly speak of the impending (if not current), “dark art of data massaging”.
So how far will Jamie, Larry F., etal. go to suppress their economists, quants and analysts from publishing analysis contrary to the new 2025 “dark state”?
This is how far – the 2020 election was stolen. After that your masses will believe anything.
The only way this ends well for America is if somebody (perhaps the “deep state”?) removes him from power. It’s that simple. And the stakes are that high. I understand that risks making him a martyr of some sort, but these Trump “loyalists”, much like Trump himself, don’t actually believe anything they say about him or his “greatness”. To them he’s just a meal ticket to short-term personal financial gain. They’ll find another grift to latch on to in short order.
There is no replacing Trump. That’s by design, his ego can’t handle someone who actually threatens him. If he’s removed, the void in the GOP will collapse in on itself.
We should be so lucky. GOP needs a CTRL+ALT+DEL at this point.
I had hoped that the comments from Senator Lisa Murkowski would be the beginning of a “me too” movement for the elected Republicans. One foot in the doorway leading back to checks and balances.
We could hope, but we’ve seen what has happened to Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger et Al…
I bet Susan Collins is “concerned”
Many people that I know are afraid to make any public comments regarding the seriousness of this situation for fear of identification and retaliation against themselves or a family member. This is not the country that I grew up and used to live in.
If things go where we fear they really might go, the only (eventually) effective response would be from the streets. Or as John Locke euphemistically put it, “an appeal to heaven”. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that. I am for the first time in my life taking a position in Swiss Francs.
I feel I’m in a plane, the pilot has announced that we are going to crash, the plane has started its descent. It’s accelerating and the noise is deafening and people are beginning to scream.
All this in three months. Shocking, really, truly shocking.
The unintended consequences are mind boggling, interesting times.
Not sure they are unintended
When China stops buying US beef, soybeans, Boeing jets, etc. , some of the trump voters will start screaming. Trump will blame ??, but seeds are planted.