"Funny" thing with all that is that what makes the US debt bearable is the dollar being held up by US soft power. Thanks to Trump everyone is slowly (or quickly for some) reducing their dependency on the dollar. Guess what happens next?
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It's almost like donnie is doing everything possible to destroy America.
Though I'm told by the moral scolds and the Tone Police that Russiagate is a "hoax".
Honestly, look at the people who voted for him and look at his dementia and his general contempt for anyone but himself. The Russia thing may or may not be true, but either answer does not absolve US citizens of their responsibility in how this has all unfolded.
The dollar collapses, the people lose trust in the dollar, and the capitalists come up with a genius new idea: corporate backed currency! Walmart cashiers get paid in wal-bucks! (redeemable only at Walmart and walmart-operated businesses).
You mine sixteen tons, what do you get? Freedom from government-backed currency oppression, that's what!
Wheelbarrows for bread
It's absolutely insane how USA is trying to treat Canada as if they were some vassal state.
Canada has been the strongest supporter of USA in just about every relevant situation since before WW2, that's 85+ years now.
Where Canada has supported USA even in wars at great cost. Canada has been a trustworthy ally, and a respectful trade partner for 85 years now. It is not Canada that has asked USA for help, it has always been Canada helping USA!
And this is how USA want to treat their closest friend and ally?
USA is a despicable country, there is zero return of favors, there is zero respect for either law or tradition or for the independence of other countries.
Fuck USA!
Very well said, let them come for us and they can find out what we are made of.
Fuck USA indeed!
And this is how USA want to treat their closest friend and ally?
Ask not what the US of A can do for you, ask what you can do to fill Trump's pockets!
Canada has supported USA even in wars at great cost. Canada has been a trustworthy ally, and a respectful trade partner for 85 years now
USA is a despicable country, Fuck USA!
Yeah, fuck USA, and fuck Canada for being a despicable partner in crime for 85 years, may the empire's fall take down all who benefited off the backs (and the literal slaughter, in many cases) of the rest the world.
The demise of the average American's economic power wasn't brought on by any of the outside Allies. It was completely designed and carried out by US CEOs to create and then enrich the billionaire class. It wasn't a 'nasty' Canada or 'helpless' EU that caused the problem. It was a US government backed creation and building of the Oligarchs that has purposely destroyed American people's wealth so a select few could become super rich and therefore politically powerful in the bought and paid for American 'democracy'.
this whole episode is a source of shame and embarrassment for the United States.
Like it or not, those who the US elected into power feel no shame or embarrassment, and are the representatives of the US to the rest of the world.
So while I have no doubt it is a source of shame and embarrassment to many Americans, to the United States it’s just another untreated self-inflicted wound.
We don't even know that he was actually elected.
And even if he was, it was a minority of people who voted for him. Representative democracy my ass.
People who don't vote don't matter. Sorry not Coting was a vote for Trump.
And that's how our system works. Ain't it grand?
The United States is defined by its laws; if Americans don’t like the result, change the laws. If the currently elected lawmakers won’t do that, change the lawmakers. If they refuse to be changed, forcibly (but as peacefully as possible) remove everyone complicit from the equation. Even if that involves dumping NFTs in Boston Harbor.
The United States is defined by its laws
So they elected a 34 times convicted felon, again.
It's a nation of laws and if that fails we need to break the law? I can't say I disagree on the latter but that seems to negate the former.
Another painful war of choice the child rapist president of the USA started for no reason…
Enjoy the day you voted for America, we won't soon forget this curse you released on the World
The reason is to distract from the Epstein files
USA has proven they do not care about the Epstein files. Even if those files were released unredacted, it would not make any difference.
Not the USA, but MAGA. MAGA is in control now, but when the new Democratic Warriors take over, things will be changing. The next wave of Dems are not going to be the same weak, insipid, cowardly, POLITE Biden/Schumer Democrats that got us here, they are going to be angry, and nasty, and vindictive, which is LONG overdue.
Dems are going to have to get used to their elected representatives being brutal toward our MAGA enemies. Don't expect politeness.
are those "warriors" in the room?
Oh boy, I hope so, but I think I've heard this one before. Far too Democrats falling back on "civility" and Murc's Law horseshit and just general bothsiderist awfulness.
It's almost like they haven't noticed that the Republicans have been working to divide America and be more nasty and partisan since the 90s (see Newt's GOPAC and "Language: A Key Mechanism of Control" for the smoking gun for any Enlightened Centrist (TM) that wants to argue otherwise).
but when the new Democratic Warriors take over, things will be changing
while we're dreaming, here's the Easter Bunny....
Democrats are in government, and they have proven as useless as a bible in the Whitehouse.
Haha nice one.
Nero fiddling and dancing while Rome burns.
Let it burn to the ground.
At least Nero had some musical talent. trump's only instrument is the tween.
Nobody ever thought this was included in American power. This is the result of a pants-shitting sack of pathetic