“LOOK AT ME!!!” said the irrelevant person.

I’m pretty high right now but hear me out. I think Trump could be convinced to try to get Russia to turn over Kaliningrad to the US. It won’t happen, but if the right guy whispered it in his ear he would probably blurt it out.

You’re not creating more stick, but you’re making the stick longer. The pressure wave in the stick will travel at the speed of sound in the stick which will be faster than sound in air, but orders of magnitude slower than light.

Everything has some elasticity. Rigidity is an illusion . Things that feel rigid to us are rigid in human terms only.

It fits on with what I thought would happen when all the genocide Joe people were insisting things couldn’t get worse. Netanyahu has a direct interest in involving the US as deeply as possible into his conflict (yes it can get deeper) while maintaining a stranglehold on US politics . Ultimately this is a short term play. He helped Trump win , but Trump is destabilizing the US to the extent that long-term Israel is going to lose its one absolute ally.

They get away with it because they don’t have serious competition and the reason for that is that allowing anyone to upload videos for free, to be viewed by anyone else for free, is by itself not a viable business model.

Given this the TSLA price still seems utterly delusional.

Good for use as a talking point in the next round of nonsense that will start in a few weeks but impossible in practice. The US has been worshipping guns as a religion for 200 years and the Canada-US border has been perforated consistently by smugglers that whole time.

All that noise lol.

First tariffs on “day 1” , then Feb 1, then Feb 4, now Mar 1. I wonder how much more credibility he even has left on this.

Bend over and take what? Trumps declarations have no effect on Canada.

An amazing statement. Truly one of the statements of all time. American tariffs make Canadian exports to Canada less desirable, this very obviously affecting Canada, the sectors of the economy that create those goods, and the workers therin. I don’t even understand how you can type this. Literally just imagine the same sale of goods with and without a tariff.

As tariffs hurt the importing country, not the exporting country

They very obviously hurt both so long as there’s any demand elasticity and especially when there are alternatives sources for the products .

This reminds me more of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.

If you’re Denmark, you don’t have the luxury of ignoring this. Trump will escalate this before it’s resolved. My guess is he’ll order the military to stop paying for the US military base in Greenland, start operations that exceed what is in the agreement, and basically try to provoke a response to use as pretense for further escalation. It’s already gone too far for Trump to just back down.

Please. Paper is modern nonsense and I won’t have our society polluted by it. Papyrus or stone tablets only.

All that’s going to happen is the US spending the same or more on defence while their relative strength vs everything else will diminish.

Far-right candidates in other countries aren’t openly musing about annexing allies through military force.

Also, everyone should try hot tub champagne at least once, or it’s low rent cousin the shower beer. Something about a cold bubbly beverage in a hot steamy environment enhances both pleasure.

Sort of related but I’ve always wanted to rent a chalet at a ski resort with an outdoor hot tub so I can be outside in the freezing cold, while sitting in a hot tub, whole sipping a cold beer.

It’s like giving a middle finger to thermodynamics itself.

All that’s going to happen is that the US will continue spending the same or more of the military, while others will also build up theirs and the relative strength of the US will diminish. You will definitely not be saving those billions.

That’s a you problem. Get your fucking dog back on a leash. Most US voters voted for this and the ones who don’t vote don’t matter.

Most voters voted for this and those who don’t vote don’t matter.

The US is never more than 4 years away from electing a lunatic. Soft power is not really a possibility anymore.