US Politics Thread

Blue_Lightsaber said:
These fuckers are going to crash the economy and they're even telling you... literally telling you this is what they're going to do right now...





Elon Musk predicts ‘hardship,’ economic turmoil and a stock-market crash if Trump wins​


This shit is fucking crazy man.
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Have they invented a word yet for a type of Plutocracy where the Plutocrats are just damaged f**king weirdos? I blame the internet in more ways than one.
 
ChicagoBlue said:
SiliconValleyBillionairesonthespectrum?
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I am on the spectrum and I am not a malicious, fascist, misogynistic, anti-LGBTQ+, antisemitic, Islamophobic, racist, pedophile, fraudster, sociopath.

Let’s not act like his abhorrent rhetoric and behaviour can be explained by “being on the spectrum”.

That does a huge disservice to the vast majority of neurodivergent people who try to do their best to accept, support, and empower other generally good people, many of which are also trying to find real solutions to complex problems the world is facing, rather than just spewing bigoted conspiracy theories to demonise and other groups of people in order to distract from the fact they are partly responsible for the problems.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Well done Nostradamus. No wonder you’re such a fucking expert on geopolitics.
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I know, it’s pretty obvious to everyone, I hope it’s the left kicking off, looks like it’s going to be that way.

FWIW I think Trump will win and be a disaster, but also think it’s a no win situation. I think he’s going to isolate the US economically, and I foresee a lack of intervention in foreign tensions (outside of Israel) causing a lot more drama (and I think he’ll be right in doing so).

He’ll withdraw support for Ukraine, and negotiate a peace deal where everything bar Crimea is handed back, under the conditions of NATO being disbanded and Ukraine joining the EU, probably with some sort of Russian peace keepers in the Donbas.

BRICs membership will continue to grow and US government spending will be halved; these will offset each other as far as the dollar is concerned with it slightly weakening.

I think this will be better for the US, because it’s such a big country and so self sufficient I think it’ll strengthen internally but become a much smaller player internationally, with China taking up the difference, who, I believe, will be a much more responsible power.
 
Blue_Lightsaber said:
These fuckers are going to crash the economy and they're even telling you... literally telling you this is what they're going to do right now...





Elon Musk predicts ‘hardship,’ economic turmoil and a stock-market crash if Trump wins​


This shit is fucking crazy man.
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Hummm, I think there is a big difference between crashing the economy and crashing the markets.

I also think the dollar holds waaaay more weight and importance than either in the short term.

Edit: these guys don’t know what they’re talking about, they’re seriously uneducated

The dollar is king, these guys touched on something (selling bonds to China) but China have been offloading bonds for 2 years… and the buying of it was a hedge in the first place.

We’re already seeing trades happen which historically were made in dollars, now happen in local currency. This in part is to due to restrictions on Russia.

So you’re going to be looking at a weaker dollar, probably compounded by the import taxes Trump wants to stick on anything outside the US.

Nothing is going to crash, the US is absolutely self sufficient and although I foresee a huge drop in forex markets, I think normal Americans will be better off as jobs “come back home”.
 
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