The end is near! On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 at 21:35:10 UTC+3 John Clark wrote:
> 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/8b8e2864-42b3-498a-b138-75ef69f09cc8n%40googlegroups.com.
