The vast majority of Americans allowed for this by either voting for Trump or refraining from voting at all. There is certainly some global animosity towards the American voting public, though little has been said so far, as we wait to see if the people have any sway over the global recession their choice may cause.

Most of us have come to realize that the American government does not care about the world, which is fine. But this is the first time I’ve seen ordinary people around the world wish economic pain upon the American people, mostly because they know it’s the only reason that their government will change course.

At no point in my lifetime has America’s allies wished pain upon its people. It’s precedent setting and these attitudes are not going to go away overnight. Trust is a very hard to rebuild.

America’s allies invoked Article 5 of the NATO agreement after the attack on September 11th, 2001. Our countrymen then put their lives on the line (some of whom died) for several questionable American led military incursions.

This is a betrayal that likely won’t be forgotten in either of our lifetimes. Anyone who thinks that the US can just vote in a democrat in 2028 and everything will go back to normal is kidding themselves.

America pulled itself out of the great depression by becoming the worlds largest weapons manufacturer and staying out of WW2 until the very end.

They feel that they have been doing their allies a favor by having military bases in key locations that have allowed these nations to spend less than 2% of their GDP on defense.

This administration would like to reset the world order so that these countries pay for their own defense. Isolationists like JD Vance strongly believe in this.

They also know that allies will likely buy weapons from them which will help balance trade imbalances.

Here’s the problem - there is no situation where this does not lead to nuclear proliferation. It’s essentially inevitable if America continues down this path.

Also, when nations invest more in their militaries, they are more likely to use them, with or without adequate justification. The US is a prime example of this.

Perhaps the post WW2 period of relative peace and prosperity is about to come to an end, along with the concept of the Western world - leaving a power vacuum that I’m sure China and Russia are eager to capitalize on.

The prayer is to capitalism

You better listen otherwise I’ll crash my economy!

I think those outside the US figured it was only a matter of time. The US voting population has only become more disengaged and the country has created and is the epicenter of most social media misinformation campaigns.

The US pulled itself out of the great depression first through regulation via the new deal and then by selling military equipment to allied nations during WW2 (essentially leveraging its geographical isolation during the war). Its been addicted to making and selling military equipment since then, in part due to the cold war but I think we can all agree there have been a few wars along the way that were essentially treated as test runs.

Hoover’s nearly 50% tariff on agriculture stretched the depression out by a few years. If we take history as any indication, tariffs are typically either a buildup to complete economic collapse or to a public bailout. One of those seems more likely than the other now. What would a 21st century ‘New Deal’ even look like?

That’s certainly an oversimplification.

Science has representatives that are susceptible to the flaws in human thinking that are also apparent in religion. The recent pandemic made that very clear.

There is a scientific community that has good and bad players in it. Science doesn’t get to wash itself of human corruption just because it’s a process

He has a very clear handle on this. He’s going to siphon the money made on tariffs to him and his cronies through some form of subsidy.

There are multiple points in human history where science has overestimated itself.

In Abrahamic religions, God is all knowing, not people. Eastern religions are more abstract, some have all knowing deities and some do not.

I mean he’s essentially just following project 2025. They clearly didn’t want him to think too much this time around.

They can, they’ll just go out of business. Puts them at a huge competitive disadvantage relative to asian and European car makers.

The idea behind tariffs is you take the money earned by taxation on foreign goods and invest it in domestic production.

Except Trump leaves the second part out completely. He should be announcing large subsidies for American auto companies to bring those jobs back to the US but he’s not.

He’s going to find a way to siphon the money to himself and his magnificent 7 buddies.

Tariff then invest the proceeds into domestic production. Why is he leaving the second part out?

You can’t JD. The rest of us absolutely can.

And is malleable enough to allow for coinage.

The difference is gold has carried high monetary value among human societies for nearly 3000 years while Bitcoin is a non tangible digital asset that’s existed for less than two decades and remains incredibly volatile.

This comes across as another Trump scam. He’s going to bankrupt the American government by siphoning public money to himself and other private entities and the American people are going to be stuck hodling the bag.

Sure but even Obama, who did not have to deal with gender based prejudice and was generally a well liked populist, could not pull a majority of the white vote. A lot of white voters just could not bring themselves to trust him because he looked different and had a different name. It’s incredible he ever got elected.

Identity politics are baked into American culture unfortunately and I wonder if a female PoC has a real shot with where things are now. If they do, other PoC would really have to show up for them, like they did for Obama.

I guarantee you they are too stupid to realize as long as he didn’t type anything.

Have you seen boomers and gen x operate anything on a smartphone? If it doesn’t ‘just work’ then all bets are off. It’s as bad as gen z only understanding smartphone UIs.

Only one of those has any basis in reality though.

Declaring a national emergency on Fentanyl allowed him to impose tariffs without needing congresses approval.

It’s hard to imagine a majority of white voters supporting AOC. Obama managed win two elections despite 43% and 39% of the white vote due to strong PoC voter turnout but I doubt that would play out well in the current political climate. AOC would be even more divisive, in a way, by being a woman.

Immigrants did still vote for Kamala as a majority (55%).

I wasn’t aware of the massive jump Trump had achieved with young men. Looks like it was especially true with young white men, with nearly two thirds voting for Trump. Less than 30% of young men from other racial demographics voted for Trump with the exception of Latinos (45%).

Overall the biggest jumps were with Latinos and young white men but he saw an increase in nearly of every demographic except older white people with whom he has historically had majority support.