Not going to comment on policy positions, but he certainly has not won the race outright. He won the primary handily, but an independent Cuomo is still a threat to him especially if Adams drops out. Trump was literally offering Adams a federal position to do so and Cuomo is the media favorite. The establishments of capital are organizing to sink Mamdani in the general and he has to run to make it past the finish line, not victory lap.
Yeah it looks like cum, but using my adult brain I can know it's logically not cum. So I would definitely eat the plantains and enjoy them.
FBI informants famously only cooperate because they are patriots, and not because of any coercion or deals made due to wrongdoing.
Right there with you. My girlfriend got the same because enrollment was low in the school district. She put a lot of time and energy into getting her classroom set up and structured and now she'll be out by Monday. We're devastated and also signed in on a new apartment lease.
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I read the title as "Mr. Rogers" and thought this was some kind of bit.
I think feminists mostly just moved on to playing Indy games and not caring about AAA slop. It's the right that always makes a stink.
I see it as 2 steps forward one step back. This is where the critical on critical support comes in. Still disappointing for the people of Burkina Faso.
No, they're trying to get her arrested.
Coldplay is manufacturing these stunts to get back into relevancy. The week of the Coldplay Canoodlers, I heard their songs on radio stations when I haven't heard them in years.
Where's the jumbotron footage to prove it?
I see questions like "why hasn't Trump gotten CIA'd if he's ruining the American Empire?" I think the capitalist factions in power have their reasons to back this tariff terrorism.
Are Trump, Vance, and Musk actually morons who believe the American propaganda? Of course, but the real oligarchs who back their regime aren't real morons. Everyone in power since Obama has seen the writing on the wall: that China is the rising power and the American Empire is on the decline. The Obama faction decided to "Pivot to Asia" to slow this decline. Use military power and the Trans Pacific Partnership to isolate China as best as they could, hold onto whatever power they have in the region at all costs.
Trump in his first time, and later Biden, continued this logic but with emphasis on Europe. Trump in 2017 wanted to keep NATO in line and Biden used Ukraine and CHIPS to deepen EU reliance on American oil. Again, the overall strategy is "hold onto what we have to stave off American loss of international power."
But now it's clear that the US does not have control over traditional allies. Pissrael does as it pleases, Russia hasn't been brought to heel, and the EU wants to move closer to China. What is a US imperialist to do, more of the same?
Along comes Trump's return. The financial class that really runs this country hasn't stopped his trade wars, hasn't stopped his dismantling of soft power like USAID, hasn't disciplined him with a capital strike/flight. This means to me, they are willing to go in on the strategy. Trump is pressing the economic nuke, he's crashing the global economy and betting that the US will get hurt less than the rest of the world. And then maybe, EU and China will get hurt enough that the US can take big enough bites of their meals to survive.
In our reading group on Super Imperialism, we read about how US dollar hegemony is based on the recycling of dollars through US Treasury bonds. Essentially, the US is a net importer and runs a high deficit. As the US buys from advanced economies like China, EU, and Japan those nations build up a surplus of US dollars. Those countries don't want to spend USD on goods, because putting those dollars back into the material economy would lower the comparative value of USD. That would mean the RMB, Euros, and yen would have a harder time competing against American goods. These countries NEED the US (and other countries) to buy their goods and so they need USD to be stable. So they purchase US Treasury bonds, which gives them a productive investment without hurting the dollar. The US benefits immensely from this which is exactly what Obama-ites want to protect. It also means advanced economies are literally invested in the US economy as a major store of value.
However, this relationship probably can't last forever. So Trump and cronies are pulling the biggest card they have, the card nobody expected them to play. The world runs on American dollars so they're pulling the rug out. They're betting that the PRC and EU will be so hurt by a trade war that they'll either crash and burn or come to the table to beg for relief. Sure China is the world's factory, but the CPC has shown its main goal is stability for the Chinese people so it's a logical assumption they'll compromise rather than crash. The EU, Canada, and Mexico will surely hurt which will open up their industries for US banks to buy in at a bargain.
The logic is, if the system is gonna fall apart then the US should break it on its own terms rather than let the gradual decline happen. Will the bet pan out for US oligarchs? I really have no idea.
"You know, Quasimodo predicted nothing happening."
I'd watch this shit for real.
The reddit brigade post from early in the war was top tier.