Comment on Following Trump’s lead, his allies lash out at Ukraine’s Zelenskyy and suggest he may need to resign
LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 1 day agoWhat leadership has anyone in congress or executive branches shown? Right now they are just parroting trump and trump is just doing what putin wants. Musk is just enriching himself.
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today 1 day ago
same thing that happened when we had a democrat president too
LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
Underwhelming, sure. I don’t think it’s the same thing as actively damaging the country on behalf of Russia.
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today 1 day ago
And how are we going to be actively damaged exactly?
Batman@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Everything you buy with wood aluminum and gas will increase by 25%. No less. Domestic suppliers will hack their prices up because the price customers are willing to spend is a part of every business’s pricing model. It becomes the normal price and bam, the tariff is a sales tax in everything but name. Much fiscally responsible. Very moral. Wow.
Americans being able to buy less is hurting them. Families need food to eat. This takes that food away.
LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
Exactly by what Trump and Musk are doing. Are you not keeping track of all the shit your heroes are doing? Damaging regulations, education, research, environment, consumer protection, security, immigration, freedom of press, etc. Social security and Medicare are next…
Muehe@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
The argument you are getting and setting here seems to be a domestic one primarily, but I think from a foreign policy perspective it becomes much clearer, especially given what this post is about.
US global hegemony after WWII rests on a several aspects, a few key ones of which are free trade with US dollar as the world reserve currency, a system of international alliances, and resulting from that the ability to have bases all over the world for immediate power projection anywhere.
Trump is practically giving all of that away for no discernable reason whatsoever. He basically just publicly announced to all of Americas allies that your word, like as a country, is worth nothing.