Our Prime Minister is a Goldman Sachs alumni, so maybe this all goes terribly wrong.
Thedogdrinkscoffee
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Hence the origin of the term knoblicker.
I'll repeat a comment from another thread.
There is no deal in EU or Japan. Trump is con artist. A serial fraudster. He is not bound by any court or the rule of law or congress. He is a proven bad faith actor. The US is a bad faith actor.
These "deals" with Japan and the EU aren't worth the ink used in the signature. EU and Japan know this as does the US. This is three lying parties, staring each other in the face, all knowing everyone is lying. Japan and the EU are lying to buy time to de-integrate economies as gracefully as possible. Trump is lying in that this deal won't be renegged asap and an even shittier deal will be attempted.
Nobody, and I mean nobody is fucking investing in Trump's America. Everyone is moving as fast as possible to divest from the US to domestic for strategic needs and reliable trade partners for everything else. No one would risk further entanglements with a bad faith actor bound by nothing but Antisocial Personality Disorder and a sexual desire for children.
Climate Crisis? Cost of living crisis? Fuck you, corporate landlords have bills to pay and banks want their money back. Get back to your commutes. The markets demand it.
Now let's give the space to the soon-to-be-tazered economists to chime in about how efficient the market is.
It's a stupid assumption of capitalism that anything unprofitable isn't worth doing. Where the market fails to provide, government can step in. Government used to build social housing. There is an intense demand for futureproof housing, like resilient passivehouse styled housing, that private won't do because it's not profitable and government won't do because they forgot they could do anything if they really wanted. A world dominated by energy concerns and climate change necessitates this.
We will dither until there is blood in the streets.
In full fairness, it's both drier and wetter.
Droughts and rainbombs... The moderate world that allowed us to flourish is gone.
Time. Just wait, you'll see.
Optimistic today aren't we?
Dear California,
The artillery goes here.
"Pay now, or pay more later. That’s the message sent by the International Court of Justice to fossil fuel-producing countries in an “advisory opinion” on climate change released last week. "
Bold of them to assume we will have international courts at all, let alone governments willing to pay reparations to the dead. Come to think of it, I'm not sure there will be any rule of law in the +6°C world we are marching into in doubletime.
Warning about consequences later presume there will be a later for those involved.
"indefinitely"
There may come a time when our peoples can heal and healthy relations can resume. It won't be in my lifetime.
If by a miracle the fascists are all gone and the Dems sweep the house, the senate and the supreme court and the guilty are finally punished and ICE agents jailed in their own prison camps, I still won't won't work, play or purchase American.
I can't forgive the US where so many wanted this, willingly and knowingly. They were warned. They knew. When the ugly was in their face they cheered and asked for more. I can't support people like that. Ever.