Yup. Even if Americans vote out the current administration, there’s no guarantee they won’t vote in another administration like this again. They’ve already done it twice.

If ever.

As someone who is just starting their proper adult life, the feeling of seeing the past's most bleak, extreme, "irrational" depression fuel resurface as today's level-headed, sensible predictions for the future is difficult to describe.

Has either the US or the EU ever promised not to retaliate against their enemy states or something? Actually, has any nation or national organization in the world ever promised that? You know, not to engage in war or any retaliation for anything? Just be arbitrarily 'fair'? You're creating standards that simply never existed. When war is on the table, all bets are off, it has always been that way.

Once you do what Russia did, no one should be required to honor anything with you. Countries are bound by laws, especially when you talk about Western countries, but there's always ways to get around to do what's needed if it's important enough - such as in military conflicts. If anything, the legal frameworks that tie their hands often prevented them from going even further, which would've been far better.

It also comes off incredibly disingenuous how lightly you're treating Russia here. You're pretending as if they just had an oopsie, a momentary lapse of judgement, a minor accidental misstep, and the heartless hypocrite West unfairly punished them for it by arbitrarily declaring them 'evil'. Like anyone else is scared because they might just stumble and that'll cause them to get on the West's bad side.

Unless you can think of other countries that are itching to start the new bloodiest, most cruel invasion of a sovereign nation on EU's doorstep, no one's situation mirrors Russia's. If they wanted the EU to sit idle, perhaps they shouldn't have invaded.

This downvote isn't a punishment, it's a way to help decrease the visibility of lies and missinformation.

Russia literally launched an aggressive war of conquest. Any response that doesn't involve literal soldiers occupying russian cities is an extremely minor one.

About half the population doesn't even understand how marginal income tax rates work. I bet the fraction that doesn't know that "lowering inflation" still means "prices are going up, not down" is quite a bit larger than that.

> Did these people think

Unlikely.

Yes

It's true, he knows what he's doing, and he is substantially more of a billionaire now than he was before this election.

Once the gold standard was ended and our fiat currency could be printed and given directly to the ruling class, it was effectively curtains for everyone else.

The report covers the time period between April 2024 and March 2025.

It seems illogical to me to put the blame entirely on one administration.

> no longer

Citation needed.

POTUSes come and go, BLS figures have been suspect for a long time.

Do you think the Trump administration is a root cause of last year's job numbers?

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