Hands off NATO!

I this is a good sign that these tariffs are not going to be some temporary thing that will blow over and countries can go back to trading with the US as normal.

“I think this is kind of relearning the art of negotiating, the art of the deal in the Trump era,” he said. Trump’s unusual approach to negotiation was an advantage, he contended. “I think this is a New York property developer approach to setting the diplomatic negotiating agenda and keeping negotiating partners off balance.”

The U.S. team is not made up of experienced Russia experts, said Alexander Gabuev, director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, while Trump’s main Russia envoy, Witkoff, is a property developer and friend of the president.

God it’s so funny that they think that their skills in negotiating under an unfair capitalist system that rewards failsons can work for geopolitics. I truly believe alot of Trump’s actions can be understood as him acting as a shitty businessman. In america it works because we reward grifters all the time.

but I still need to go to work to keep the make believe that is our society going

The absurdity of it all is this. I hear people at work talking about the future and things like nothing is happening in the broader world. If I bring it up I look like a crazy person though.

We’ve been individualized and unorganized by capitalism for so long and there is no outlet for unorganized people to do anything in response to the collapse. I feel like people are either in denial or just too afraid too admit it.

Advertising industry made sure that would never happen again