That sounds great until you start having food shortages.

Shortly after Trump’s announcement, the British government said the United States remains the U.K.’s “closest ally.”

I’m sorry TERF island, that’s not gonna keep Trump from stabbing you in the back too.

and the price of bitcoin dropped 4.4%.

I cannot express how much I hate that this appears in a serious economic article.

I find the Ivermectin worship so weird. You’ve got MAGA’s “I don’t trust big pharma so I won’t take their fancy pants medicines” but for this one drug, that’s also manufactured by pharmaceutical companies suddenly they pivot to “Ivermectin is a panacea because Jesus personally blesses every molecule in the horse deworming paste I put on my toast.”

I mean, I realize it’s foolish to expect consistency from conservatives. But it’s such a fundamental contradiction you’d think even they would notice.

Or to put it another way, LLM’s are advanced chatbots. Their purpose is to generate credible sounding text, not accurate text.

So… I’m guessing the plebs get the cryptocurrencies. Which are backed by stablecoins… which are backed by tech grifters saying “I can cover it bro, trust me”.

Meanwhile the elites will take all that worthless gold and dispose of it for us.

“It feels like a fake technological solution for a problem that doesn’t exist,” she says.

Yep, that’s pretty much every proposed blockchain use case.

Not any people with money. You don’t get rich by having principles.

I’d say it’s a given at this point.

Trump has offended pretty much all of our major trade partners, so we need a new market to sell US goods as well as replace our imports. As it just so happens, Russia desperately needs goods due to the sanctions and has a reduced manufacturing capacity as a result of marching all their young (and not so young) men into a meat grinder. And even though Putin is a backstabbing, murderous, KGB thug Trump knows that he won’t touch him, because Trump’s just too useful of a flunky.

Granted it’s a morally repugnant move, but when has that ever stopped Trump?

At least there are still some adults in the government.

Strategic for what? When would the government ever say “Damn… we must have Bitcoin now!”?

It’s a giant ponzi scheme currently propped up Tether printing imaginary money.

I assume that an adult finally sat him down and explained how bad the situation is in simple kid friendly terms.

Well, duh.

Trump has undermined the United State’s soft power to such an extent that it’s only my contempt of him that keeps me from thinking that it was deliberate. He’s burned decades of casting the US being the “Benevolent super power” so effectively that I don’t think we will recover in my lifetime.

Trump has handed the nations of the world to China on a… well silver and gold are kinda weak for what he’s done. I guess he’s handed China the world on a… Iridium plate?

“President of the United States acknowledges reality!” I hate that this is headline news in 2025.

As an American I apologize that right wing crazy has become our number one export.

Agreed! Ukraine should keep all that Russian land they conquered.

I dunno, he seems to know how to do drugs fairly well.

He’s like the worlds weakest bully. “How dare you say that to me!? Somebody punch this guy for me.”

I always find the conservative “How dare you tell people what I said” outrage amusing.