On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM '[email protected]' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
*> Your team does fine with physics and engineering, but gets eclipsed by > never desiring to answer this question: Where does it get us?* > *What politicians should get you is economic security, but imposing ridiculously high tariffs will do exactly the opposite, it's a lose-lose proposition, it hurts foreign countries and it hurts us just as much. Trump claims tariffs will cause a trade surplus but there is no evidence of that. Germany and France have exactly the same tariffs but Germany had a trade surplus last year of €186 billion, while France had a trade deficit of €44 billion. And why is a trade deficit a bad thing? I run a trade deficit with Amazon, I send them money and they give me goods, but they have never sent me any money, so should I get mad at Amazon and stop doing business with them?* *Another thing a good politician should get us is peace, but Trump is picking a fight with our closest friends, Canada because it doesn't want to become the 51st state and Denmark because it won't give us Greenland of all places. And that's not all, when Trump introduced the new F 47 fighter plane he said the version of it that he sold to America's allies would be deliberately downgraded “because someday, maybe they’re not our allies.” After that NATO nations started to reconsider multibillion dollar contracts to Buy F 35s, fearing American control over parts and software. * *After Trump was elected and America's new hostility to foreigners began Brazil increased trade with China and is doing it in China’s currency, not the dollar. Poland, South Korea and Australia are seriously discussing making their own nuclear weapons. A free trade and technology deal between the European Union and India suddenly accelerated after years of delays. Trump threatens to send the U.S. military into Mexico and Panama to take control of the canal, and he won't rule out going to war with Denmark, a NATO ally, so he could take over Greenland. * *And Trump blames Ukraine for the war that Russia started. Thanks to Trump the USA will soon have only one friend in the entire world, Vladimir Fucking Putin! * > > *there is this wee concern of 4.7 Trillion gone unidentifed at > Treasury.* > *That claim was made by Marjorie Taylor Greene, and if you believe one word that ignoramus says there is some swampland in Florida I'd like to sell you. And Elon Musk's DOGE claims it has cut between $500 billion and $1 trillion in “waste, fraud and abuse”, but the true figure is 6 billion, 2 billion comes from ending diversity and climate change programs, and the other 4 billion from cutting medical research, do you really want to argue that is a good idea? * *Not even close to true <https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/12/doge-savings-trump-musk/>* *Oh and just a few minutes ago I learned that Trump and Musk have fired 10,000 people who worked at the Center For Disease Control and the Food And Drug Administration; after all, we don't need to control disease, and who cares if our food has rat turds in it. Also dear leader Trump has decreed that the funding for the Smithsonian Institution, the best museum in the world, will be cut because it had “improper ideology”* *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* ipi > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0Lvga1Ebwjxuq76jUhvVHJPodn%2BHRaMb4w9DVBx3BEsg%40mail.gmail.com.
