Trump will of course say that this is not fair and he was supposed to divide and conquer, not get them to unite and retaliate.

And it will say people of lower economic classes and foreign origin are the biggest risk. Will action be taken to help these people? Nah. This is just going to be a technological excuse for some good ol’ repression.

Idiots with bone spurs didn’t make it through the first challenge for leadership.

No, but the plan is floating around to tax EU used data for foreign companies right into unprofitablily.

how you never have anyone who can actually “manage” the AI workers.

You just use other AI to manage those worker AI. Experiments do show that having different instances of AI/LLM, each with an assigned role like manager, designer, coding or quality checks, perform pretty good working together. But that was with small stuff. I haven’t seen anyone wiling to test with complex products.

Freude, schöner Götterfunken!

(Joy, thou shining spark of God)

And see him do the angry accordion

And a flyover with a crop duster.

“This is the carrot. Take it. You really won’t like the stick.”

From a European perspective, USA only had a right and far right party. Anything on the left side was killed long time ago.

Anybody tried a steam deck with dock? Gaming and casual desktop should be doable with that.

They’ve got some wicked “Off with their heads” vibe going there.

Where is the tech?

In China.

Not that historica, so far it seems to imitate the 2008 financial crisis crash. But yeah, the financial system almost died then. With Trump, the whole global economic system could very well end in the wood chipper.

To be fair, tariffs can be implemented in a clean surgical way or start tiny and slowly ramp up so everybody can adjust and anticipate. Tariffs can be used like a feather to tickle the market. Trump is using the whole chicken coup and throwing them in other people’s faces.

Yeah, it’s always ideology first. No argument or evidence can convince them otherwise.

What do you mean US? There’s a country left after this?

They’ll keep saying it’s still a good idea butt just barely executed for years. That’s what happened with Brexit in the UK.

And they have been trained to hate government, science and experts.

Companies are going to lay off loads of people and close any department that costs too much just to increase the stock price again. For investors stock price is everything and they don’t care much about consequences.

USA stock market crashing means the dollar is getting less worth compared to other currencies, so anything imported gets more expensive in the USA, what is most items. Things getting more expensive means less people buying stuff, less economic activity so more layoffs.

All those layoffs means people can’t pay back there debt. Trump doesn’t care about people in debt and somehow makes it worse. Banks get in trouble. Trump cares about banks and big businesses so they get bailed out. Taxes on everybody else increases to pay for bailouts.

To distract from all this, Trump starts challenging China and it leads to war. Marshall law is called and Trump starts funneling more money to the military making things even worse.