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China Is ‘Laughing’ at US Trade Wars, EU Top Diplomat Says​

China stands to gain from the ongoing trade wars between the US and its allies, the European Union’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said in an
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“Who is laughing on the side or looking at the side is China,” Kallas said Thursday on the sidelines of a Group of Seven meeting in Canada. “It’s really benefiting from the US having a trade war with Europe.”
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JJD1803 said:
This is why the Iranians are in the right to say no to negotiate with Trump. Why negotiate with a man who can’t stay on one position and keeps changing his mind. Trump thinks he is clever by playing these mind games but sooner than later people will call his bluff. I have a feeling sooner than later Russia will reach the same conclusion and the peace talks will collapse. Trump is t playing 4D chess. He is an incompetent leader who thinks doing diplomacy like a Philadelphia mob boss is how the US will maintain a dominance. It’s going to backfire real bad.
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Not a New Yorker Mob boss?
 
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JJD1803 said:
Someone said that America goes through 80 year politics cycles and 50 year economic cycles. In 2020 the FDR political cycle ended and the Regan economic era ended. So we are entering a very transitional and chaotic time in American history. Some historians it’s similar to America in the 1850s the decade before the civil war. This coming recession is going to determine everything. Bear in mind that 2008/2009 GFC lead to the Tea Party movement then later Trump and in the left occupy Wall Street then the Bearnie sanders movement which was crushed.
Difference from now then back then was that at that time millions of Americans had hope and believed in the system. This time around there isn’t hope. There is anger,frustration and a belief on both sides that the social contract is broken. So expect more political polarization and even political violence in the aftermath of this coming recession especially if the wealth gap widens even more.
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The wealth gap will likely widen. Reasoning below
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For the past 30+ years, the bottom 50% of Americans have seen their incomes actually decrease.
If you think about it, this is amazing statistic.

What happened to all the economic gains in terms of technology, productivity and globalisation over the past 30 years?

The answer is that all these gains over the past 30 years have flowed to the rich in America.
And this occurred during both Republican and Democrat governments.

The studies also indicate that in terms of actual decision-making, American politicians has been captured by interest groups and money. That is not democracy. As the Financial Times (London) points out, this describes a plutocracy.

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And if we look at what Trump is proposing, it is essentially:
1. lower taxes for the rich
2. cutting government spending, which is disproportionately consumed by the working class
3. increased tariffs on imports. These costs will be paid disproportionately by the working class, not the rich

So if anything, incomes for the bottom half of Americans will continue getting worse, along with even more wealth inequality as the rich get richer.

But the American working class doesn't understand this.

All they see is the left/right divide, and populists like Trump blame immigrants and foreign countries as the reason why the working class is getting poorer. (The solution to this problem is actually higher taxes on passive income from wealth and more redistribution)

So in 10 years, we can reasonably expect to see the Republican party and Republican Presidents become even more nakedly populist than Trump. We'll also see more outright and blatant corruption, such as the Trump and Melania memecoins recently launched with no other purpose than to scam Americans and enrich the Trumps. Plus Trump has normalised domestic vindictiveness and political purges in the US government.

So American internal divisions should become far worse in the future.

Something similar is happening to other already developed countries.

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The situation feels very much like a Marxist description of capitalism and the divide between the proletariat versus the bourgeoisie.

And there are parallels to the early twentieth century when the US government was controlled/run by the Robber Baron Oligarchs of the era.
 
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Schumer to support GOP funding bill, unwilling to risk government shutdown as deadline nears​

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Their senate leader bent the knee yesterday and he came to do it again. I wouldn’t be surprised if they fully support the annexation of Panama, Greenland, and Canada at this rate.

Schumer apologizes for calling Republicans ‘bastards’​

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) referred to Republicans as “bastards” on live television before quickly apologizing during a heated discussion on MSNBC over his decision to vote in favor of the GOP’s stopgap funding plan to avert a federal shutdown.

Schumer has faced intense pushback on the left this week, with progressives accusing him of capitulating to Republicans — who hold slim majorities in the Senate and House — on a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government through September.

“It’s much, much better not to be in the middle of a shutdown, which could divert people from the No. 1 issue we have against these bastards — sorry, these people — which is not only all these cuts, but they’re ruining democracy,” Schumer said Thursday on MSNBC’s “All In.”

The Senate is expected to vote on the stopgap spending measure Friday ahead of a midnight deadline to fund the government. Republicans have a 53-47 majority, but most legislation, including the CR, needs 60 votes to advance in the upper chamber and overcome a filibuster.

Democrats in recent days have lambasted the proposal, which would boost defense spending and cut nondefense programs and was drafted largely without Democratic input.

Schumer took to the Senate floor Wednesday to call for a 30-day “clean” government funding plan, rather than the legislation that narrowly passed the GOP-led House on a near party-line vote earlier this week.

“Our caucus is unified on a clean April 11 CR that will keep the government open and give Congress time to negotiate bipartisan legislation that can pass,” Schumer said. “We should vote on that. I hope, I hope our Republican colleagues will join us to avoid a shutdown on Friday.”

But the House adjourned for the week after passing its proposal earlier this week, leaving the Senate to vote on its version of the spending plan or let the federal government shut down.

Schumer announced Thursday night that he would vote to advance the six-month stopgap passed by the House to avoid a shutdown, drawing increased criticism from progressives.

President Trump congratulated the Democratic leader Friday, saying he did “the right thing.”

“Took ‘guts’ and courage!” Trump posted on Truth Social.

On MSNBC on Thursday night, Schumer described Trump, tech billionaire Elon Musk, the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, who would determine what continues to be funded in a shutdown situation, as “authoritarians, vicious, nasty.”

Trump has tasked Musk, a top donor to his reelection campaign, and DOGE with cutting federal spending to align the government with his agenda. Their efforts have prompted mass firings of federal workers and drastic reductions in foreign aid programs, while also stoking fears of threats to Social Security and other entitlement programs.

“Why is it that Elon Musk and Donald Trump want a government shutdown? So they can take control of the government and do their vicious, horrible things,” Schumer said on MSNBC. “They could cut half the government. They could tell employees, ‘You’re not essential,’ and never bring them back permanently, firing them. It’s a disaster.”

Schumer said he didn’t want to give Trump’s staff a free pass to elevate the president’s priorities, by deeming them “essential services,” while leaving other government functions to wither.

“In a few weeks, if there was a shutdown, everyone would be complaining,” Schumer said. “’Why did they eliminate SNAP [the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program]?’ ‘Why did they cut so much of Medicaid?’ But they could do all that on their own. That’s the problem.”
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