Jamal_Sakai

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If this happens, the best way to see it is as an act of fate. The stars have aligned around Trump. After Jan 6 the GOP could've ended his political career, but instead focused on avoiding blame, which served to further normalize him. The mainstream media viewed him as being good for ratings, which allowed for his rise to office in 2016. Lastly there's the economy, which may go into a recession some time this year. If this were to happen, Biden, who is already incredibly unpopular, will have no means to maintain his position as president. Americans are hustlers at heart, and Trump is the most famous and prolific conman alive today.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/9222909

The US military has illegally occupied Syrian sovereign territory since 2014, preventing Damascus from accessing its own oil and wheat. The Senate voted 13-84, rejecting a resolution to withdraw them.

 

The world’s debtor countries, if not the creditors, are finally coming to realize that many government debts can’t be paid – except by throwing their economies into depression and austerity. That might be in store for the US economy too if it tries to tax the economy to pay creditors instead of simply printing the money.

Obviously there needs to be an alternative. It needs to beyond merely the first step of declaring a debt moratorium. A longer-term restructuring of the international financial system is needed, because the present system has become dysfunctional.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Whoever took this picture is a bad cat owner.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I agree. He forgot to add "uwu". Unforgivable.