The upside is, maybe when grocery and gas prices double it will shake some people out of their MAGA trance.
They're just going to lie and say their life is actually better now, or they're going to lie and say prices have actually gone down somehow, or they're going to lie and say that this is all the Democrats' fault, or they're going to lie and say it's some kind of divine thing.
His followers just make shit up. I think trying to prescribe logic to it is akin to trying to "prove false"; the entire premise is malformed.
This comment is getting downvoted now, presumably by people who think it's totally obvious which event in Venezuela nico is talking about, but can't be bothered to enlighten me. I wonder if the different downvoters even agree with each other about which one it is.
But the US president don't have the same power Maduro had, and have competent bureaucracy (in this case, the Fed). Anyway the comparison does not really work anyway. We lack data points. I'll wait 6 months before making any judgments.
> The Long Now Foundation uses five-digit dates to guard against the deca-millennium bug (the “Y10K” problem) which will come into effect in about 8,000 years. As you may have noticed any reference we make to a year begins with a zero: 01977, 03012, 02000, 00521, 01215, etc.
> It’s an idiosyncrasy to which we are dedicated. It’s nerdy fun, but it has a serious point, too. As our co-founder Stewart Brand points out: the present moment used to be the unimaginable future.
I am pretty confident that I am not wrong, but if prices do somehow drop I’ll admit I was.
I don't really know if countries have a "credit score", but it does seem like it's greatly going to erode away at foreign nations' trust of the USA if we aren't going to honor our trade deals.
Strange, considering bringing the price of eggs down seemed to be a key message in their campaign? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BPT3xe6jbk
For an economically smarter tariff response from Canada, rather than 25% on US imports, we could have put in export tariffs to equalize everything at 25%, so e.g. 15% on energy and whatever theoretical amount on fertilizer to bring it up also to 25%.
You are assuming that MAGA are capable of self reflection and admitting mistakes. I doubt that vast majority of them are capable of critical thinking.
Obviously Biden's administration was so terrible, so damaging, that the catastrophic reverberations of it will be felt for years to come. Drastic actions will need to be taken, and sacrifices will need to be made. That sort of thing.
``` We are the best because of our culture/genes (genetics was Nazi, culture was italian/Spanish fascism), but a global cabal led by both external and internal ennemies (often communists or anarchists for the fascists, plus jews for the Nazis, hence "judeo-bolchevism") prevent us from reaching our full potential, which will only be reached if we get all the "Lebensraum" or "Spazio vitale" we deserve. ```
Weirdly it create this contradiction, of an enemy undeserving but temporally stronger. Another secondary feature i find interesting is how fascism target first "strong" conservatives before liberals (Shleicher was killed, Luther and Bruning quasi-ignored). Weak turncoats however are treated very well (Von Papen is the most obvious example).