Amerika du hast es besser

[Peiresc]

Übrigens:

Die Heritage Foundation bejubelt den kommenden Handelskrieg:

Trump has one ace up his sleeve, which is that for all the moaning and complaining by the Europeans and the Chinese, all of these countries are vitally dependent on access to America's massive consumer market.

Liste der Länder nach Bruttoinlandsprodukt 2017 (Schätzung des IWF) [in Mio US$]:

Welt    79.865.481    
Europäischer Binnenmarkt    19.453.265
Vereinigte Staaten    19.390.600
Volksrepublik China    11.951.562
Japan    4.872.135
---
Kanada    1.652.412
Südkorea    1.538.030
Mexiko    1.149.236

Hat sich was mit ,,As im Ärmel".

[Peiresc]

TheHill hat eine Geschichte darüber, dass Comey Verhandlungen über eine Immunität für Assange abgeschossen hat.

Multiple sources tell me the FBI's counterintelligence team was aware and engaged in the Justice Department's strategy but could not explain what motivated Comey to send a different message around the negotiations through Warner.
http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/394036-How-Comey-intervened-to-kill-Wikileaks-immunity-deal

Kommentar Seth Abramson:

Still trying to process today's news that the attorney for Paul Manafort's ex-boss (Putin pal Oleg Deripaska) went to Trump asking for a deal for Julian Assange—whose crimes gave Trump the election—and Trump said yes. Then Comey intervened, and then Trump fired Comey.

Ausführlich hier:
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1011405792086495234

[Peiresc]

Trump hat 4 Steuererklärungen seiner charity unterzeichnet, die falsch waren. Das sind Straftaten.
Die Verteidigung ist vorhersehbar: Natürlich waren seine Angestellten schuld, und er selbst kennt sich gar nicht aus mit so was.

Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump

I know our complex tax laws better than anyone who has ever run for president and am the only one who can fix them. #failing@nytimes

04:22 - 2. Okt. 2016

https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/1011268951215693825

[Tezcatlipoca]

Übrigens:

Die Heritage Foundation bejubelt den kommenden Handelskrieg:

Trump has one ace up his sleeve, which is that for all the moaning and complaining by the Europeans and the Chinese, all of these countries are vitally dependent on access to America's massive consumer market.

Liste der Länder nach Bruttoinlandsprodukt 2017 (Schätzung des IWF) [in Mio US$]:

Welt    79.865.481    
Europäischer Binnenmarkt    19.453.265
Vereinigte Staaten    19.390.600
Volksrepublik China    11.951.562
Japan    4.872.135
---
Kanada    1.652.412
Südkorea    1.538.030
Mexiko    1.149.236

Hat sich was mit ,,As im Ärmel".

"As" und "Arschkarte" fangen beide mit "A" an.
Den Unterschied kriegen die Amis und ihr  vollidiotischdummschwätzendmerkbefreiter Führer nicht mit.

[Peiresc]

"The economy is doing exactly what we thought and hoped it would do based on what the administration was able to accomplish in tax reform and the deregulatory agenda," Gary Cohn, Trump's former National Economic Council director, said in an interview. "Both were aimed at stimulating the economy through growth and job creation. And that's happened in a very positive way. Anything else that derails or confuses the economic agenda is confusing for the system."
[...]
Wall Street analysts are now ramping up their warnings of a potential recession given Trump's aggressive trade moves. "Our calculations suggest that a major trade war would lead to a significant reduction in growth," Bank of America Merrill Lynch economist Ethan Harris wrote in a recent research note. "A decline in confidence and supply chain disruptions could amplify the trade shock, leading to an outright recession."

The impact of Trump's trade moves is starting to show up in economic data. [...]

And the market disruption may have much further to run, according to some forecasters. "Markets have not taken trade wars seriously enough, we fear, believing for a long time that President Trump has been bluffing over his intentions as a negotiating tactic, and that other countries would back down," Paul Mortimer-Lee, chief market economist at BNP Paribas, said in recent note. "It looks like both assumptions may turn out to be too optimistic."
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/26/trump-trade-war-recession-fears-650899

Na, Gary, dämmert's allmählich? Aber ok, ich war ein wenig der Zeit voraus.

Es scheint sich langsam die Befürchtung zu verbreiten, dass der halbe Trump (Deregulierung der Börse, Steuersenkung) nicht ohne den ganzen Trump (Einwanderungsstopp, Lahmlegung des Freihandels) zu haben sein wird.

[Peiresc]

Rin Chupeco hat eine Botschaft an die Amerikaner.

Speaking as someone born in the last years of a dictatorship, you Americans are already several steps in one.

Ferdinand Marcos' greatest trick was convincing people all protesters were communist animals, so when they went missing, few cared. Even after bodies were discovered.
https://twitter.com/RinChupeco/status/1011459751660552192

Sie führt das noch weiter aus:

These white people & journalists talking about being civil? These were the rich people, the Fil-Chinese, the mestizos in the Philippines who knew they won't be affected by many of Marcos' policies, and therefore could ignore them even as the killings started.

Marcos was also adept at convincing regular Filipinos that "as long as you don't commit crimes I won't come for you. I'm only getting rid of the 'filth'." He lied, of course. He jailed his most vocal opponents, people whose businesses he wanted to confiscate for his use.

But Filipinos have always been susceptible to strongman personality cults, just like your Republicans. (Yeah don't @ me on this one, Repubs still singing Reagan's praises despite the fact he was FRIENDS with Marcos and helped him retain power, making it 1000x worse for us.)

White people, journalists who insist on civility- you seem to think civility is a common ground you share with opponents like Trump et al. Here's a clue - whenever you offer these assholes middle ground, they will invade that space & then claim you never gave them ground at all.

Marcos kept pushing. First it was all protesters were communists. All student protesters. Then it was the free press. Then it was the people with businesses he coveted. And then it was anyone who looked at Imelda Marcos or his daughter, Imee, wrong. Arrested, raped, murdered.

Hier der komplette Thread im Threadreader
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1011459751660552192.html

Der Eindruck scheint weltweit ähnlich zu sein. Ich habe gerade von jemandem gelesen, der eben für ein paar Tage in Spanien gewesen ist. Die Leute haben ihm viel über Franco erzählt.

[Daggi]

Harley-Davidson will jetzt die Produktion der Motorräder für den internationalen Markt teilweise ins Ausland verlagern. Harley-Davidson hat Werke in Brasilien, Indien und Thailand die ihre Produktion erhöhen sollen um Importzölle zu vermeiden.

[Peiresc]

Das macht richtig Welle. Trump wütet, und Ryan wird öffentlich (es gibt sonst kein Thema, das Ryan hinter seinem Ofen vorlockt).

Die EU hatte das nicht ungeschickt vorbereitet: hoher Symbolwert, die unmittelbare Auswirkung auf den EU-Markt vernachlässigbar (ich will jetzt nichts gegen den potentiellen Käufer einer neuen Harley in Europa gesagt haben), und die Firma sitzt in Wisconsin, wo der Abgeordnete gleichzeitig der Speaker of the House ist.

Mit dem Bourbon ist es übrigens genauso: der kommt aus Kentucky - und Senate Majority Leader McConnell kommt auch aus Kentucky.

Interessant, aber nicht vollkommen überraschend, finde ich:

Harley-Mitarbeiter könnten Jobs verlieren - aber stehen zu Trump
[...]
"So bringt er die Gegenseite an den Verhandlungstisch - andernfalls wäre er komplett verrückt."
http://www.manager-magazin.de/politik/weltwirtschaft/harley-davidson-mitarbeiter-stehen-zu-donald-trump-a-1215021.html

Väterchen Zar wird es schon richten? Ihr glaubt nicht, dass er komplett verrückt ist? ... Wartet mal ab, Jungs. Gleiche Quelle:

Bitte anschnallen - Goldman Sachs warnt Anleger vor Trump

[Daggi]

mit ganz spitzen Fingern:

Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
Folgen @realDonaldTrump folgen
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A Harley-Davidson should never be built in another country-never! Their employees and customers are already very angry at them. If they move, watch, it will be the beginning of the end - they surrendered, they quit! The Aura will be gone and they will be taxed like never before!

05:17 - 26. Juni 2018

[celsus]

London freut sich schon auf den Trump-Besuch im Juli: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/trump-baby

[Peiresc]

Der Handelskrieg verseucht das Trinkwasser. Wenn die Farmer keine Sojabohnen mehr anbauen, steigt die Nitratbelastung.
http://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/394216-hidden-cost-of-china-trade-war-polluted-drinking-water-in-rural

Der Landwirtschaftsminister Sonny Perdue sagt, die Farmer haben volles Verständnis.
http://thehill.com/regulation/finance/394234-agriculture-secretary-farmers-understand-trade-spat-with-china
Und er werde ihnen helfen.

Bestimmt kriegen sie eine Plakette, ich weiß auch schon, wessen Portrait drauf sein wird. Gold gab ich für Eisen.

[Peiresc]

Der Präsident, diese traurige Einfalt, glaubt: wo Chrysler draufsteht, ist auch Chrysler drin - außer ihm glaubt es niemand mehr. Heute ist die Autoindustrie weltweit total vernetzt. Und es gibt niemanden, der Zölle auf Autos gut findet, offenbar nicht mal seine roten Hüte.

"I can't find a single company that is calling for protection from international competition," said John Bozzella, president and CEO of Global Automakers, a D.C.-based lobbying group. "I don't see it. There's isn't a single company. And frankly, there isn't a single group of employees that has called for this either."

[Peiresc]

NEW: Inside Facebook and Twitter's secret meetings with Trump aides and conservative leaders who say tech is biased. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey met with WH, others and pledged changes to come. Tip @Techmeme

Verweist auf einen Artikel in der Washington Post.
https://t.co/wdexbCSip8

Dazu passend in Politico:

America's Problem Isn't Too Little Democracy. It's Too Much.
How the online mob is shattering the system the Founders designed.

The problem isn't that democracy is in short supply in the United States. It's that technology has helped to unleash hyper-democratization—a shift away from the mediated, checked republic that America's founders carefully crafted toward an impulsive, unleashed direct democracy that's indulging the worst impulses of our most extreme elements.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/06/26/america-democracy-trump-russia-2016-218894

Liefert das "theoretische" Hinterland. Demokratie ist zu kostbar, man kann sie nicht einfach dem Volk überlassen.

Ich frage mich schon einige Zeit, warum Trump noch nicht auf die Idee gekommen ist, Microsoft als Waffe einzusetzen. Die könnten der Welt das Licht ausknipsen.

[Peiresc]

As the White House faces court orders to reunite families separated at the border, immigrant children as young as 3 are being ordered into court for their own deportation proceedings, according to attorneys in Texas, California and Washington, D.C.
https://www.texastribune.org/2018/06/27/immigrant-toddlers-ordered-appear-court-alone/

due process.

[Peiresc]

ABC News
Pres. Trump: "We love the countries of the European Union. But the European Union, of course, was set up to take advantage of the United States." https://abcn.ws/2Mq3cSb

Mathieu von Rohr:
When Trump and Putin meet in July they will have a common enemy: the European Union