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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Haven't there already been worse presidents than Donald Trump? James Buchanan, Franklin Pierce and Andrew Johnson are all contenders for "worst president ever", along with Warren Harding. Though it's hard to tell which is less awful
Wow, Lincoln was the gem in a dumpster fire
edited 1st Jun '18 4:38:22 AM by RJ-19-CLOVIS-93
I don't put Trump as worse than Bush because Bush killed hundreds of thousands people and destabilized the world through unnecessary incompetence.
And Andrew Jackson is guilty of genocide and mass murder.
He's also not the only President who did that.
Trump is primarily guilty of massive indiscriminate corruption, lying, and cheating.
Hell, Trump's actions aren't even as bad as some of the "good" Presidents less we forget Japanese internment.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.With regards to the tariff war, this might not actually be terrible in the event of another global mess. China runs an export surplus, the Eurozone as a bloc runs an export surplus, the oil states run an export surplus. Most of that's bought by the USA plus the UK and Australia. Now the USA doesn't want to play anymore, Brexit is likely to subject the UK to EU common tariffs and Australian trade is dominated by China. Germany may well run out of places to sell cars and tech, they can't export to Mars.
If the Germans keep their export surplus going and continue their chronic underconsumption then the moment the Eurozone goes pop then they'll be stuck in a major deflation for quite a while. Reducing their surplus may well lessen the pain, although I bet they'd prefer to do this literally any other way if at all. No idea what impact that would have on the USA, I'm an economic amateur, but I can't imagine that stacking import price inflation on top of zero wage growth and job losses from the tariffs will produce happy rust belt fun time.
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He's also emboldening the very worst elements of US society and has given positions of power and authority to people who really shouldn't have them. Example: Oh, nearly his entire damn Cabinet.
And there's all the deregulation going on too. And the erosion of the USA's soft power. And the trade war. And...
edited 1st Jun '18 4:53:23 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised
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Well, it's terrible for you guys and will probably put a few of Britain's last industry workers out of their jobs, but it might lessen the impact of the inevitable Eurozone crash. The silver lining is low-quality and tarnished.
If you want to lessen a trade deficit, just bluntly slapping tariffs on everything is perhaps the worst possible way to do it, and the USA is the country that has the least to worry about trade because you get to print the global reserve asset and never have to borrow in a foreign currency like the rest of us. Trump is spending political capital hand over fist to solve the only problem the USA and only the USA is immune to.
The post-war economic order was "USA recycles trade surpluses through Europe" then "USA recycles European and Chinese/Japanese trade surpluses through Wall Street" when you went into deficit, which kept things moving nicely until 2008, when the system broke down. These tariffs will probably prevent anyone from getting it going again, so we need to come up with something else.
Personally I like Keynes' Bancor as a method of restricting and redressing trade imbalances, but that would require the USA to give up their status as the reserve asset. Maybe we should try that now while we have a president who doesn't understand what that means anyway?
The Roseanne Muslim episode is about her discovering she's a complete idiot about Muslims and that they have more to be afraid of bigoted white people than she does from them.
But that was just my read on it.
It's nice to have it acknowledged white people aren't usually the victims.
edited 1st Jun '18 7:27:41 AM by CharlesPhipps
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Hell, Trump's actions aren't even as bad as some of the "good" Presidents less we forget Japanese internment.
The difference is that Internment is a blemish on an otherwise very positive administration.
The Trump administration, by contrast, is a dumpster fire of malice, avarice, and corruption that has done absolutely nothing positive to offset that.
Cross-Posting with the Race- Privilege, Relations, Racism, etc. Thread:
At least eight white nationalists are running in 2018 for federal and state offices across the country. Many of them are running openly on messages of hate, including one who is preaching Holocaust denial and wants to make Chicago's neighborhoods 90 percent white.

Reeeeeeeeeach.
i'm tired, my friend