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2018-06-16 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

I Think They Get It Now, Part I:. In G7's aftermath, defiant despair that Trump really, truly, means what he says.

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Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-06-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 The person most in tune with Trump’s vision is Lighthizer!

Wow. Read "How the world ends part 3"

Posted by 3dc 2018-06-16 04:16|| 2018-06-16 04:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Bottom line: All the chaos and disruption of the past 15 months has been the result of a Donald Trump who has been actively held back. Now the world gets to see what a Trump unleashed – an America unleashed – can do.

Posted by 3dc 2018-06-16 04:25|| 2018-06-16 04:25|| Front Page Top

#3 It is that the party is over!

Posted by 3dc 2018-06-16 04:31|| 2018-06-16 04:31|| Front Page Top

#4 >America’s newfound and historically unprecedented economic power to pay all the previous competing powers of eras gone by to be on the same side

Inverted Dane geld + a military welfare state (with all the cultural neoteny that causes) what could have gone wrong with that.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-06-16 05:58|| 2018-06-16 05:58|| Front Page Top

#5 >It is that the party is over!

Now they get the hangover, but a lot of countries are just trying Hair-of-the-dog QE (temporal debt) in order to delay the pain of actually fixing their problems.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-06-16 06:01|| 2018-06-16 06:01|| Front Page Top

#6 America’s newfound and historically unprecedented economic power to pay all the previous competing powers of eras gone by to be on the same side.

And what did all the meddling gain us? Poverty and debt ! Ike warned us about it, but no.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-16 07:02|| 2018-06-16 07:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Beso, it's also ironic that while Ike warned about it he also "proved" its worth with his successful conduct of the war, getting all those ego maniacal generals on the same page.

Posted by AlanC 2018-06-16 08:28|| 2018-06-16 08:28|| Front Page Top

#8 European Preservative has not stopped by to whine.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-06-16 14:12|| 2018-06-16 14:12|| Front Page Top

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