Political Thread in memory of David Reid. (R.I.P.)

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Like I said a couple of weeks ago mon ami, if I was 20 years younger, I'd be going as well.

ICE would have your guts for garters at the Border mon ami. Trump is turning the US into becoming the most reviled nation on earth. He's a crazed dictator embarking on a massive political power play. It will go tits up. It always does.

[Balan]

I worked in a USA army camp for a year, in Germany ?? Many moons ago. Nothing interests me about the States. Go east young man go east. !

[The Bedlington Terrier]

No wonder Balan.

"President Trump on Monday issued a new ultimatum to China to rescind its retaliatory tariffs on the United States, or face additional tariffs of 50 percent beginning Wednesday. The threat came as Wall Street swung wildly, with the S&P 500 briefly entering bear market territory.

President Trump’s trade war made investors increasingly pessimistic about the economy but he defended his global tariffs, saying those in place had already brought the United States billions of dollars in revenue. He also said that he would cease negotiations with China unless it withdrew its tariff plans."

I have no idea how this can be calculated but it is being reported that the Sun Bed King has just cost the US economy 5 TRILLION dollars.

There's a hilarious Facebook page which shows the reaction of the people who actually voted for Trump. Their welfare benefits are cut, two blue collar workers have just lost their jobs and each Yank interviewed gave Perma Tan the middle finger.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

What a guy...

https://www.chch.com/chch-news/trump...eid=9d4a5002ba

How can the world allow one man to trash the global economy. Where are the safeguards?

[outwoodclaret]

What a guy...

https://www.chch.com/chch-news/trump...eid=9d4a5002ba

How can the world allow one man to trash the global economy. Where are the safeguards?

Their system of checks and balances seems to require some overhaul methinks.

[sinkov]

What a guy...

https://www.chch.com/chch-news/trump...eid=9d4a5002ba

How can the world allow one man to trash the global economy. Where are the safeguards?

Shocking isn't it, stock markets are falling, which makes no difference whatsoever to the average man and woman in the street. The rich might be suffering paper losses, but I don't give a FF for them, do you ? The stock market has fallen before, numerous times, it will recover, it always does, in the meantime a Bear Market usually lasts around 9/10 months, so this might have some time to run yet, who knows. You have heard of a Bear Market haven't you mon ami, you might even have experienced one, in which case you'll know there's no point panicking and running around shrieking hysterically, like the Dems and Globalists are now.

In the meantime, in the good old US of A, gas prices are falling, interest rates are falling, food prices are falling and the great money laundering scam which is USAID is gradually being wound down. God Bless America.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

The world's foremost two gangsters meet up again...

https://www.jta.org/2025/02/04/polit...m_medium=email

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I suppose the next time I see you mon ami, you will be decked out in a matching Perma Tan too#.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Reality kicks in...

Trump Tariffs 'Shattering Confidence' in the US.
Alan Blinder, Princeton University economics and public affairs professor, says stagflation is the default outlook for the US right now and the Trump administration's tariffs are "shattering confidence in the American economy". The Sun Bed King is an eejit.

[sinkov]

Reality kicks in...

Trump Tariffs 'Shattering Confidence' in the US.
Alan Blinder, Princeton University economics and public affairs professor, says stagflation is the default outlook for the US right now and the Trump administration's tariffs are "shattering confidence in the American economy". The Sun Bed King is an eejit.

An 'economics professor' no less mon ami. Impressive. Many years ago I stopped listening to horse racing tipsters, if they knew which horses were going to win, they wouldn't be selling tips or writing newspapers columns, they'd be sunning themselves on private beaches in the Cayman Islands. Same with economists, if they could predict accurately what would happen to an economy or whether a stock would rise or fall, they'd be on that Cayman Islands beach with the tipsters. But they're not are they, they spend their time slaving away, writing books, newspaper columns or forecasts for the likes of the OBR, which are inevitably proved wrong within days.

They know no more than you, me, and the racehorse tipsters mon ami, they can safely be ignored.