Tracking when Trump chickens out
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> Settles for 15% EU tariff after threatening 30% in July 12 letter
Many of these seem like pretty basic negotiations.
> Posts himself as Jesus healing the sick, deletes it, claims it was a doctor
What did he chicken out of? I guess posting a meme?
I'm not a fan of a lot of the things going on at the federal level but I feel like many critics just lost the plot.
The man can barely form a sentence and posts on social media on the mental and writing level of a ten-year-old. Americans are choosing to accept this from their leader. He is 80 years old and obviously very unwell. Terminal-stage Soviet Union had more competent leadership.
I think it's legitimate to focus on his critics, because they've been oddly ineffective. His 2024 victory should never have happened, but it did thanks to the incompetence of his opponents and critics.
Their "losing the plot" may be an important part of that: he says crazy things, but that goads his critics into also saying crazy/wrong things, which probably helps neutralize whatever advantage they'd have. Sure, partisans wouldn't be affected because hate him, but they don't really matter, because they hate him.
> The man can barely form a sentence and posts on social media on the mental and writing level of a ten-year-old. Americans are choosing to accept this from their leader. He is 80 years old and obviously very unwell. Terminal-stage Soviet Union had more competent leadership.
I don't think that line of attack works. It may be true, but many of his opponents hate him and would say that regardless of if it were true or not.
This style doesn't build bridges, it's purely adversarial, diplomacy requires building bridges for long-term sustainability of relations.
Sure it's not my style and I don't quite understand how its effective, but to dismiss it outright as ineffective is naive.
It's the negotiation equivalent of rent-seeking, or parasitism. It requires deep relationships to have already been built, and it consumes those relationships in exchange for modest short term gain.
Uhm, no.
> Donald actually received $413 million from Fred over the years [1], [2]:
And as to whether he is any good at investing, he is literally worse than average S&P500 [3].
[1]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/donald-trump-received-... [2]: https://apnews.com/article/0452d29cd2564eaf97605ab90acc3a67 [3]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2021/10/11/its-off...
He got where he is by being one of the earliest influencers and “reality” TV show host.
His bank credit was toast everywhere except at Deutche Bank which has been exposed as being a conduit for Russian money laundering.
Yes, this site takes some very consistent negotiation failures and broadens the criticism to anything that resembles backing down. That's not representative of his critics, this is just someone's slop project.
As a rule of thumb you can ignore everything people say before the "but".
Now on the opposite extreme, the MAGA sycophants, Trump can do nothing wrong, and every misstep is positioned as some sort of 4D chess move we are all too dumb to understand.
If there weren't real lives at stake it would be funny.
The real issue here is we have a divisive person in power who revels in the chaos and the fighting.
Especially when one side is "rabid" "nuts" and the other side is just "sycophants". You are not the neutral reasonable centrist you pretend to be.
...But has it occurred to you that by putting this online and publicising it, you're effectively daring this lunatic with nuclear codes to actually go through with his threats? I for one am relieved every time he "chickens out".
I wish I was kidding.
People saying he's chickening out from war don't want him to go the war, they're just using a nickname that came from simpler times (tariffs) but is still accurate.