save the frogs

what if you had a youtube channel where all you did is fart on people and made more money through advertising than most people make in real jobs? still funny? anyone with half a brain should not watch these types of channels.

this is like "Idiocracy" channel has over 10 million viewers

anything is possible I guess. this is turning into an agatha christie murder mystery. hard to guess whodunit. I am extricating myself from Trump threads. Too complex for me.

you can't even trust your own shadow in this day and age, man.

NO. Because you don't have all the information yet. You need to WAIT to see how things unfold. Here's a development ... China wants to make a deal

Ok ladies and germs, I can see that this debate will go on forever. I surrender. Not one more word about Trump from me ever again. Mods, please lock up my "Trump is NOT an Idiot" thread.

that's your problem right there - at a glance. by your own admission. that's what everyone is doing - just glancing at the situation. most people are not able to "think things through" because whats going on is too complex for most people to grasp. I'm not saying I know for sure what he's doing or even if it's a good thing. I just put out "a theory" of what he might be doing.

Geezus man, yet another Trump is an Idiot thread inspired by me? Why couldn't you just post in the other thread?

The wolf-man !!!

you mean PIMP? yeah, everything is gold-plated. like the ancient egyptian pharaohs maybe would have decorated. also, he has a map and renamed the gulf of mexico ...

it was a metaphor!

"Keep up the good work, BLM FEM . The check is in the mail" - Your friend and sponsor, George

did you get inspired by another thread for this by any chance?

I never understood that

Problem is it may take years to see the outcome of some of these decisions. Also, if his plan succeeds, then one thing people can say about him that he is fearless. Ie he's not afraid of allowing the markets to crash and have a temporary recession ... and deal with all the backlash that goes against it ... including from his own population and other countries ... So he appears to be fearless. Maybe the only leader fearless enough to take these risks with what he's trying do to.

I don't want to start a new thread for every factoid I come across, but Elon is planning to "shave off a couple of years of college".

that's a good phrase. i should start using it more often.

I wonder what Don Giovanni would have done in this situation

I must be hanging out with the wrong crowd

then maybe we all need to get better at enduring pain.

Exactly.

I wish I could say it ain't so, Joe but sometimes I do.

There was a trade imbalance against the US. Now, the tariffs are exaggerated in the opposite directoin. But Trump is trying to get the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates. Trump's real estate background taught him to re-finance the debt in low interest rate environments. So his goal is to re-finance the US debt at lower interest rates, re-inustrialize the US, and fix the current trade imbalance. He's not delusional and crazy.

Before these tariffs, there was an imbalance. The US charged the world about 2.5 per cent on average. And the world charged the US about 7.5 per cent tariffs on average. So it was disadvantageous for the US.

Most people are still getting a lot of crap information from fake news sites who are putting a negative spin, but don't know what they're talking about. Here, watch this. I think this guy's theory explains what Trump is doing.