Trump is guided by God

[WestCanMan]

57 minutes ago, User said:

And now, finally, after all your obfuscation has failed and you still have not provided anything to back up your latest version of your original claim... you resort to insults. 

You have absolutely nothing of substance to offer here. Nothing. 

It's not an insult if it's true, User. You really are that stupid.

The math I used really isn't that complicated. You should have been able to figure that out by yourself the second that you saw those charts. The fact that you don't understand it it after after I explained it to you just proves something. Don't blame me for pointing out what that is. 

[Deluge]

3 hours ago, blackbird said:

That sounds wacko.  Obviously you don't believe in human rights or civility. 

Tell that to the surviving members of Laken Riley's family. 

Look, dumbass, this country is governed by rule of law. An illegal border crossing is a violation of rule of law and that means deportaton is in order. If you want to file for a visa, or asylum or whatever the hell you want, then you do it through the port of entry; if you don't, then your ass is getting deported. 

Edited April 17 by Deluge

[User]

2 hours ago, WestCanMan said:

The math I used really isn't that complicated.

And yet you can't reproduce it. 

 

[WestCanMan]

2 minutes ago, User said:

And yet you can't reproduce it. 

And yet it's here, reproduced. So weird. 

[User]

2 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

And yet it's here, reproduced. So weird. 

No, it isn't. Your usual dishonest games. 

[WestCanMan]

9 minutes ago, User said:

No, it isn't. Your usual dishonest games. 

You and eyeball should get together and start a "Math is Racist" forum. 

[User]

2 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

You and eyeball should get together and start a "Math is Racist" forum. 

Why? 

 

[Aristides]

1 hour ago, Deluge said:

Tell that to the surviving members of Laken Riley's family. 

Look, dumbass, this country is governed by rule of law. An illegal border crossing is a violation of rule of law and that means deportaton is in order. If you want to file for a visa, or asylum or whatever the hell you want, then you do it through the port of entry; if you don't, then your ass is getting deported. 

Your country is now one where a person can be disappeared by ICE and wind up in any  Central American prison who is willing to take your governments money with no questions asked and no due process. Rule of law my ass. 

[WestCanMan]

1 minute ago, Aristides said:

Your country is now one where a person can be disappeared by ICE and wind up in any  Central American prison who is willing to take your governments money with no questions asked and no due process. Rule of law my ass. 

Do you think that anyone who wants into the US is allowed to go there and stay as long as they want? 

Can you do that in Mexico? Iran? China? 

What would happen in those countries? 

[Aristides]

31 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

Do you think that anyone who wants into the US is allowed to go there and stay as long as they want? 

Can you do that in Mexico? Iran? China? 

What would happen in those countries? 

Of course not. What if you were visiting the US and they decided for some reason they didn't like you and fired you off to an El Salvador prison in the middle of the night. I'm glad you finally realize the US is being turned into another China or Iran. That's one of the dumbest whataboutisms you have come up with yet.

Edited April 17 by Aristides

[Deluge]

23 minutes ago, Aristides said:

Your country is now one where a person can be disappeared by ICE and wind up in any  Central American prison who is willing to take your governments money with no questions asked and no due process. Rule of law my ass. 

It's a simple fix, Karen. Don't cross our borders illegally.  

[Aristides]

1 minute ago, Deluge said:

It's a simple fix, Karen. Don't cross our borders illegally.  

Doesn't matter whether you crossed legally or not, they just have to decide they don't like a tattoo or any other reason they dream up.

[blackbird]

3 minutes ago, Deluge said:

It's a simple fix, Karen. Don't cross our borders illegally.  

Someone coming in illegally still does not give you the right to deny them their human rights and treat them in an uncivilized or inhumane manner.  It is far more complex than your mind can understand.   

[eyeball]

6 hours ago, WestCanMan said:

The math I used really isn't that complicated. You should have been able to figure that out by yourself the second that you saw those charts. The fact that you don't understand it it after after I explained it to you just proves something. Don't blame me for pointing out what that is. 

Have you managed to convince ANYONE in all this time you've been peddling this?

[Deluge]

11 hours ago, Aristides said:

Doesn't matter whether you crossed legally or not, they just have to decide they don't like a tattoo or any other reason they dream up.

You've been watching too much MSNBC and the View. Have you started using Tim's Choice tampon brand? 

If you're here in the US illegally AND you're committing other crimes,  then your ass is going to El Salvador. It's a brilliant solution and I'm 100% here for it.  

Edited April 17 by Deluge

[Deluge]

11 hours ago, blackbird said:

Someone coming in illegally still does not give you the right to deny them their human rights and treat them in an uncivilized or inhumane manner.  It is far more complex than your mind can understand.   

Actually it's far simpler than your woke, degenerate mind has dreamed up.

This is about national security, not the left's messy diapers, and unicorn tears. 

If you cross the border illegally then you're going to Mexico. If you're here illegally and are committing OTHER crimes, your ass is going to El Salvador. 

[Aristides]

14 minutes ago, Deluge said:

You've been watching too much MSNBC and the View. Have you started using Tim's Choice tampon brand? 

If you're here in the US illegally AND you're committing other crimes,  then your ass is going to El Salvador. It's a brilliant solution and I'm 100% here for it.  

Don’t watch either of them, or CNN or Fox etc. US tourism is way down and foreign governments are issuing travel advisories about the US because of this. They aren't doing it because of MSNBC or the View.

 

Land crossings from Canada were down 900,000 in March, a month when they are usually up because of spring break. April will be even worse.

Edited April 17 by Aristides

[Deluge]

48 minutes ago, Aristides said:

Don’t watch either of them, or CNN or Fox etc. US tourism is way down and foreign governments are issuing travel advisories about the US because of this. They aren't doing it because of MSNBC or the View.

Land crossings from Canada were down 900,000 in March, a month when they are usually up because of spring break. April will be even worse.

Yes they are. The media has proven to be a wonderful tool for left-wing psychopaths. You are panicked because the media has told you that you're panicked. They've pretty much scared the shit out of all the weaklings. You count the media plus all the woke a$$holes who have infiltrated governments and businesses, and that's a recipe for mass hysteria. 

My best advice to you is to stop being a p*ssy. Trump is by far a better choice for President than any democrat, but now is not the time to be a p*ssy. You need to toughen up and embrace freedom, not listen to the f*cking oligarchs - they want mindless slaves just like you. 

 

[Aristides]

Flight Centre travel says business bookings are down 40% because of Trump threats and tariffs. 

Whine all you want but you chose your president and this is the world's response. They are embracing their freedom not to go to the US.

[Nationalist]

I think George puts it best...

 

 

[Deluge]

2 hours ago, Aristides said:

Flight Centre travel says business bookings are down 40% because of Trump threats and tariffs. 

Whine all you want but you chose your president and this is the world's response. They are embracing their freedom not to go to the US.

Good for the world, and for us. We need to step back and rebuild anyways. 

Enjoy your vacations.  

[Aristides]

1 hour ago, Deluge said:

Good for the world, and for us. We need to step back and rebuild anyways. 

Enjoy your vacations.  

No one is stopping vacations, they are just changing destinations. Canadian visitors alone contributed over 20 billion a year to the US economy, supporting about  140,000 jobs.

Rebuilding eh. So far all we have seen is demolition of the economy, government and reputation.

Edited April 17 by Aristides

[Deluge]

12 minutes ago, Aristides said:

No one is stopping vacations, they are just changing destinations. Canadian visitors alone contributed over 20 billion a year to the US economy, supporting about  140,000 jobs.

Rebuilding eh. So far all we have seen is demolition of the economy, government and reputation.

Sometimes you have to tear down in order to rebuild. That's what happens when the woke pathogen infects a society. 

[Aristides]

 

 

Quote

 

There’s a reason global leaders aren’t picking up the phone. While Donald Trump storms into trade wars like a jilted Monopoly tycoon with a Twitter addiction, the rest of the world is quietly reaching for the receipts. Not just figuratively, literally. They’re holding trillions in U.S. Treasury bonds and debating how fast or how publicly to remind us who’s really cornered.

Trump’s economic chaos isn’t just bad policy. It’s an accelerant on dry tinder. The tariffs, the market manipulation, the self-serving tweets about “great times to buy DJT” hours before policy reversals, these aren’t isolated stumbles. They’re signs of a much deeper crisis unfolding: a breakdown of the postwar monetary order. The world sees it, even if Trump doesn’t.

Let’s start with the debt. One reader put it plainly: this year alone, the U.S. is on track to refinance $10 trillion of maturing debt, at more than double the interest rates of a decade ago. What we borrowed at 2% in 2015, we’re now refinancing at 4.5% or higher. That’s an extra $250 billion a year in interest. Altogether, we’ll soon be spending over $1.2 trillion annually just to service the debt, more than our entire defense budget. And that’s before Trump’s next round of tax cuts for billionaires.

You don’t have to be an economist to know what happens when you max out every credit card and then shred the bill collectors’ voicemails. You just have to read history. We’ve seen this kind of financial brinkmanship before, in 1929, in 1971, in 2008. But what we’re staring down now, as Ray Dalio warned last week on Meet the Press, could be worse than all of it.

Dalio isn’t some liberal firebrand. He founded the world’s largest hedge fund and he’s about as apolitical as they come. But his message was clear: Trump’s policies aren’t merely reckless, they’re destabilizing the very foundation of the global economy. The U.S. isn’t just flirting with a recession. We're toying with the collapse of the dollar’s role as the world’s reserve currency, the one thing that’s kept our paper empire afloat since Bretton Woods. If we lose that privilege, it’s not a downgrade. It’s a reclassification from global superpower to banana republic with nukes.

And yet, Trump struts around like he’s playing 4D chess, while the rest of the world quietly plays actual chess, with our king boxed into a corner. As Part 1 argued, Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney may have orchestrated a slow, deliberate bleed of U.S. Treasury bonds in coordination with EU and Japanese allies. A financial firing squad triggered not by rage, but by risk management. In case of emergency, break the dollar.

Did Trump pause the tariffs because he saw the light? No. He blinked because the bond markets did. Because consumer sentiment collapsed to levels not seen since 1981. Because rich friends started calling. Because the Dow twitched like it knew something, and somebody absolutely did, as trade volume in ETFs like SPY and TQQQ surged just minutes before the reversal. Because Marjorie Taylor Greene somehow turned into Warren Buffett for a week, buying all the right stocks before anyone else knew the “pause” was coming.

And if you think that’s hyperbole, Senator Elizabeth Warren is already demanding investigations. She’s called out the blatant market manipulation, the suspicious trades, the suspicious silences from regulatory agencies now stacked with loyalists and sycophants. She’s also calling out what others dare not: the weaponization of economic data. Because Trump isn’t just faking his negotiating skills, he’s faking the scoreboard. Fired the economists. Hushed the statisticians. Replaced Treasury projections with “vibes.” We’re now running the economy on delusion and Doge memes.

Meanwhile, the housing market is sputtering. Not collapsing yet, but definitely wheezing. Open houses in desirable neighborhoods are drawing crickets. Mortgage rates are bouncing near 6.6% and headed higher. Builders are slashing prices and stacking incentives, even as tariffs drive up construction costs. Affordability has become a theoretical concept. The average American can no longer afford the average American home.

And still, we’re told to believe everything’s fine. Trust the numbers. Trust the orange-tinted strongman with his echo chamber cabinet of billionaires and brand managers, who laugh about gutting veterans' benefits and firing teachers like it’s a Friday afternoon round of The Apprentice: Cabinet Edition.

But here’s the thing: the world isn’t stupid. They see the grift. They’ve watched the collapse of independent institutions, the politicization of data, the attacks on the judiciary, the trillion-dollar debt refinancings, the cultic belief in a man who can’t keep his lies straight through a golf round. And unlike many Americans, they’re not afraid to hedge against that madness.

This is a story about trust and how quickly it can erode, and how devastating the consequences when it’s gone. When countries no longer trust our numbers. When investors no longer trust our bonds. When even allies begin quietly preparing for our decline not because they want to, but because they have to.

This is less a trade war and more of an international intervention. The world is trying to wrest the wheel from a drunk driver who thinks he’s Moses parting the Red Sea. And the passengers? That’s us. Every taxpayer. Every bondholder. Every veteran. Every teacher. Every kid whose public school is now on the chopping block so Elon Musk can tweet about fraud and fire civil servants with disabilities.

Ray Dalio sees it. Elizabeth Warren sees it. Mark Carney saw it early. And if the rest of us don’t see it soon, we may not be in a position to do much about it at all.

History is watching. And the bond market is blinking red.

 

 

 

[Hodad]

46 minutes ago, Aristides said:

Don’t watch either of them, or CNN or Fox etc. US tourism is way down and foreign governments are issuing travel advisories about the US because of this. They aren't doing it because of MSNBC or the View.

 

Land crossings from Canada were down 900,000 in March, a month when they are usually up because of spring break. April will be even worse.

Sounds like a missed opportunity. It takes only a few bucks in gas to get across the border, and it may come with an all-expense-paid trip to El Salvador.