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1 hour ago, harryviking said:
I will never take any bet on how long Trump will survive....🙄.
His diet might be a cause, right?
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5 minutes ago, thaipo7 said:No there are enough of the nut jobs on the Left. The Left are the violent ones.
You're talking nonsense.
'Mr Miller was then taken into custody "without incident", the Riverside County Sheriff's office said. He was later released and told US media he was a Trump supporter who was not planning to harm the Republican presidential candidate.'
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16 hours ago, mdr224 said:Called it yesterday. Trump better beef up his security before he goes anywhere near looney california
To protect him from his own supporters?
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8 minutes ago, This Guy said:Why the outrage? Most publishing is subbed out to other countries with cheaper production costs.
It's no different from your Nike shoes made in Thailand and Bangladesh.
Sweatshop labour to allow for larger profits for the eliteAmerica first! 😂
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That Trump is lying and bragging is nothing new.
The gross aspect of this is that he's talking about Gaza, which is completely in ruins with 1.5 million people displaced, as beach property that could be developed. That guy is beyond despicable.
By the way, Trump said the same about North Korea. And Jared Kushner has floated the same ideas about Gaza. I'm sure that as part of ethnic cleansing and land grabbing there's some rich Americans just waiting to make a buck there.
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I don't understand this whole 'endorsement' business that seems to be huge in America. And afaik, only in America.
Trump endorses some governor candidate and brags about it, Taylor Swift endorses Harris, Springsteen endorses Harris, etc etc.
It's perfectly ok for popular people with a big platform to express their opinions about politics, fine with me. Some even have very educated opinions.
But endorsing a candidate? What does that mean? That people who hadn't figured out yet who to vote for, now suddenly think: yes because Springsteen says so, now I'll vote for Harris?
I'm not American, I can think for myself.
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2 hours ago, Will B Good said:
I guess there is just a chance he is telling the truth........it is hard to see how this will progress through the courts if he continues to claim a tyre burst, for whatever reason, and no one can prove otherwise.
If he was negligent, drunk, on his phone, falling asleep, I hope he rots in hell.
Burns, not rot.
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Sixty years ago my father had something similar happen to him.
He was driving behind a truck on the motorway, an object fell off, passed through the middle of the windscreen (fortunately!) and bedded itself in the rear seats.
It was part of the suspension of the truck that broke and fell off. No dash cam!
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1 hour ago, JonnyF said:
They did a great job taking down the coward. If more members of the public took things into their own hands they might think twice about carrying out such attacks.
Trouble is, if the coward suffered injury the Wokeists would probably want them charged with assault, or a hate crime or something.
First: deranged minds don't think like that.
Second: that stuff about 'Wokeist' has no basis in reality. Dutch reality.
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1 hour ago, chickenslegs said:
Those guys did a great job, and were very restrained once they had disarmed/pinned down the terrorist.
Yes, I noticed that too. Admirable job!
He's not necessarily a terrorist, he seemed quite off his rocker by the account of Litecia. And now I read he was known by the police.
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A video (nu.nl) of how the knifeman was taken down. Litecia in the green shirt.
As you can see many people involved in this citizens arrest.
Beelden tonen hoe verdachte steekpartij Rotterdam wordt overmeesterd https://www.nu.nl/311385/video/beelden-tonen-hoe-verdachte-steekpartij-rotterdam-wordt-overmeesterd.html (via @NUnl)
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2 hours ago, john donson said:
why is the stabber still alive? if only the dude in the gym would have brought a dumbell bar to beat him with....
You don't know what you're talking about.
Litecia is a personal trainer, he was working with a customer (1) outside, close to the river.
And he did knock the knifeman out with a squat bar, in 'Remastered', under the bridge.
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20 minutes ago, jvs said:
Yes i agree and lets not forget to mention that his name does not sound
Dutch.
Curaçao origin probably.
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'The attacker was subdued by Renil Renato David Litecia, a sports coach ...'
To offset the usual islamophobia and hatred of others, I like to notice that Litecia is a true hero.
Thirty years ago I lived very close to the Erasmusbrug, Rotterdam is a very multicultural city. I miss it.
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So, Trump wrote a book? Now I've heard it all!
That guy can hardly read, is incapable of telling something truthful if his life depended on it, but I guess the gullible Americans will lap it up.
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5 hours ago, JoePai said:
a car abruptly overtook her twice
So she had to overtake the offending car once ?
That reminds me of a famous dialogue in Police Squad ...
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8 minutes ago, TedG said:
The high interest rates are pushing up the cost to service the debt.
First inflation rises, fuelled (at least in part) by the trillions of borrowed money pumped into the economy by Biden. Then the Fed steps in and raises interest rates, from the extremely low level it was. Than people get angry, first because it hurts their insatiable credit card use, and second because it hurts mortgages.
Make a comparison between mortgage interest in America and Western Europe, and you'll see the difference.
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31 minutes ago, Cameroni said:
Sure, countries like Russia, China, and even Germany, are taking steps to be less exposed to American use of the dollar as a political tool. However, they can only achieve minor success in this. There is no way in human imagination that the dollar will be knocked of its top spot by China or Russia or the Euro any time soon. I trade Forex, and I can tell you even now, if the Dollar sneezes the rest of the world catches a cold. All currencies are basically derived of how the Dollar is doing.
There may be less influence for the dollar, but it will still be the undisputed King for a very long time.
All fine with me, my points were, that despite the cheering about Biden, with regard to the national debt, there is no difference with Trump. We could have a discussion about how all that borrowed is spend of course, and I could go into a diatribe about the Infrastructure bill. But I won't.
Plus, it doesn't seem to bother Americans that they're paying 900 billion this year on interest, about the same as the defense budget. That interest sum is only rising, at some point American will wake up and ask themselves: for what? Interest? Nothing tangible?
How long this situation can go on, I don't know. Common sense tells me, not long, but common sense doesn't matter here I guess.
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9 minutes ago, Cameroni said:
Yes, I know but not in a serious way. By "endangered" I mean, the debt rating are so bad that no country wants to buy American debt. That's nowhere near happening.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/246420/major-foreign-holders-of-us-treasury-debt/
If foreign countries keep funding the American lifestyle of excess, all is well.
The thing about those downgrades is that they are for a large part unnecessary.
They are in part, caused by silly political processes like the debt ceiling and funding the government.
Processes unique to America, and politicians from whatever side have never expressed a willingness to get something sensible in place. I guess they love the annual circus, and maybe it gives them a sense of power and competence.
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3 minutes ago, Cameroni said:
First, we’re an outlier in how small our fiscal footprint is. Compared with the rest of the world, we don’t tax and spend much.
Second, raising U.S. revenue levels to the average level of our peer countries would raise the equivalent of $2.61 trillion, roughly five times the amount needed to close the fiscal gap. Importantly, places like France and the Nordic countries collect this level of high revenue while still delivering reliable growth in living standards. These rich, high-functioning countries don’t seem hampered by excess taxation.
https://www.epi.org/blog/could-tax-increases-alone-close-the-long-run-fiscal-gap/
I've occasionally thought about how much tax would I, or anyone else, be willing to accept. And I mean income tax and VAT. 50%? Maybe that's a psychological limit?
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15 minutes ago, TedG said:
Biden had record revenue in 2022 and managed a 1.3 trillion dollar deficit.
You should read this article. There's no difference between Trump and Biden with regard to borrowing and adding to the national debt.
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16 minutes ago, Cameroni said:
Americans don't care about their deficit for one good reason. They don't need to. America is rich beyond imagination.
If America wanted to, they could pass corporate tax tomorrow that would wipe out the deficit. But why would they do such a thing?
Many economists think the budget deficit doesn't matter, apart from generational inequality. Whilst America is still the most powerful ecnonomy in the world its debt ratings are not endangered and the Dollar is still the undisputed King. Why worry about the deficit at all?
It's debt ratings are endangered. S&P downgraded treasuries about 10 years ago, Fitch did it last year.
You should look up the yield of government bonds by country.
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1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:His plan for increasing tariffs are an absolute economic abomination. I understand the desire to bring manufacturing back to the US, but you can't penalize American companies that are operating in China, and the plan would make more sense if you gave them a realistic window within which they could relocate manufacturing.
The secondary aspect of this is that there's a reason why a lot of manufacturing is not being done in the US, the costs are prohibitive, and the unions are very difficult to deal with.
Just another unrealistic Trump proposal that would not only sabotage the economy, but would penalize Americans and add to economic deterioration and unemployment.
The very stable genius keeps repeating that tariffs are paid by the country exporting goods to the US.
And, as the polls show, half of American voters believe that nonsense.
It says a lot about America.
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Remarkably, neither party has shown much interest in the national debt, the past decades. And that includes Biden, who can't achieve a balanced budget even in a booming economy.
National debt to GDP is about 130% I believe, and no end in sight.
Annual interest is 900 billion in 2024, apparently not a problem for the American taxpayer.
Note that 130% won't allow a country to become an EU member ...
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Arrest Near Trump Rally Uncovers Weapons, Fake Passports
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His guns were illegal, according to reports. As was his license plate. He'll get misdemeanor charges for the guns and ammunition. A typical right wing nutter.