Geoff
@geoffmercer.bsky.social
Student of the seen and the unseen. Doer of little and achiever of less. resolve.co.nz
Trump has fiscal munchausen syndrome. Tear up all his trade relations so countries have to pay attention to him. What will be next? Nuclear threats?
April 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Trump has fiscal munchausen syndrome. Tear up all his trade relations so countries have to pay attention to him. What will be next? Nuclear threats?
Just for perspective, before Trump started the trade war China's tariffs were on average 5% higher than the US (8% vs 3%).
Today it is China 85% vs US 105%
So when you hear "China had unfair tariffs!" think 5%
Today it is China 85% vs US 105%
So when you hear "China had unfair tariffs!" think 5%
April 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Just for perspective, before Trump started the trade war China's tariffs were on average 5% higher than the US (8% vs 3%).
Today it is China 85% vs US 105%
So when you hear "China had unfair tariffs!" think 5%
Today it is China 85% vs US 105%
So when you hear "China had unfair tariffs!" think 5%
Ignoring policy and political differences, this is what considered, measured, intelligent leadership looks like. It used to be the norm
Full: Singapore PM’s Reality Check To Trump Amid Tariff War In Parliament: ‘Just The Beginning Of…’
YouTube video by Hindustan Times
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April 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Ignoring policy and political differences, this is what considered, measured, intelligent leadership looks like. It used to be the norm
lest we forget
The JD Vance video that was deleted from (X) formerly twitter. You know what to do
YouTube video by Ukraine Front line Medical 🇺🇦
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April 5, 2025 at 3:48 AM
lest we forget
Thoughts? Sounds a reasonable analysis to me
Why Trump's tariff chaos actually makes sense (big picture)
YouTube video by Money & Macro
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April 4, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Thoughts? Sounds a reasonable analysis to me
By stalling the world economy including manufacturing and vehicle production Trump becomes the biggest individual contributor to reducing climate emissions since Nakamura invented the blue LED 🤣🤣
April 3, 2025 at 5:20 AM
By stalling the world economy including manufacturing and vehicle production Trump becomes the biggest individual contributor to reducing climate emissions since Nakamura invented the blue LED 🤣🤣
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james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
April 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
The Corporatist Revolution has begun in American. The scary question is whether Trump is Stalin or whether he's only Lenin and Stalin is yet to come
March 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The Corporatist Revolution has begun in American. The scary question is whether Trump is Stalin or whether he's only Lenin and Stalin is yet to come
The craven meglomaniacs have done it. There is no egotism like American egotism
February 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The craven meglomaniacs have done it. There is no egotism like American egotism
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I'm saying this as somebody who's been at a lot of protests in NZ: if violence starts, it is *always* Destiny Church. Consistently. The only times I've been assaulted are by Destiny Church members. They are not a church, they are a violent hate group and people need to wake up to it.
February 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I'm saying this as somebody who's been at a lot of protests in NZ: if violence starts, it is *always* Destiny Church. Consistently. The only times I've been assaulted are by Destiny Church members. They are not a church, they are a violent hate group and people need to wake up to it.
Trump's playbook is brilliant and almost unassailable - "I am all powerful, intelligent, all seeing, wise and I am also a victim of the pathetic left, the courts, politics". He is fuelled by inherent contradiction and the absence of both logic and compassion
February 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Trump's playbook is brilliant and almost unassailable - "I am all powerful, intelligent, all seeing, wise and I am also a victim of the pathetic left, the courts, politics". He is fuelled by inherent contradiction and the absence of both logic and compassion
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Mowbray is so thick, he doesn't think about how all the govt cuts and the benefit cuts are happening to his CUSTOMERS! How will they buy his shitty little plastic products when they have no money at all?
February 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Mowbray is so thick, he doesn't think about how all the govt cuts and the benefit cuts are happening to his CUSTOMERS! How will they buy his shitty little plastic products when they have no money at all?
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Spot the difference.
February 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Spot the difference.
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the One True Lesson you learn from talking to policy makers is that most folks vastly over-estimate the importance of grand masterplans in changing world, and underestimate the role of improvisation, misunderstandings, office politics, blunders and unexpected discoveries in actually shaping outcomes
⬇️⬇️⬇️ This this this. In my case I’m tired of strategic geniuses telling me that tariffs are just a cunning smokescreen for Elon Musk seizing control of the federal payments system.
They’re two crazy things going on simultaneously, run by different people.
They’re two crazy things going on simultaneously, run by different people.
The most annoying fucking people right now are the ones who constantly tell others that something they care about which is currently happening is just a “distraction” that they are “falling for” because we apparently aren’t as smart as they are at figuring out the 4-D chess game.
February 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
the One True Lesson you learn from talking to policy makers is that most folks vastly over-estimate the importance of grand masterplans in changing world, and underestimate the role of improvisation, misunderstandings, office politics, blunders and unexpected discoveries in actually shaping outcomes
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus: He choked.
The market started to tank, and suddenly, he said, “Oh, didn’t you guys already have a plan to deal with the border back in December? I love that—I’ll take that.”
This is Mr. Art of the Deal.
The market started to tank, and suddenly, he said, “Oh, didn’t you guys already have a plan to deal with the border back in December? I love that—I’ll take that.”
This is Mr. Art of the Deal.
February 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Canadian MP Charlie Angus: He choked.
The market started to tank, and suddenly, he said, “Oh, didn’t you guys already have a plan to deal with the border back in December? I love that—I’ll take that.”
This is Mr. Art of the Deal.
The market started to tank, and suddenly, he said, “Oh, didn’t you guys already have a plan to deal with the border back in December? I love that—I’ll take that.”
This is Mr. Art of the Deal.
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Let us know when they’re publicly screaming
(AXIOS) - Senate Democrats are privately eyeing delays on all Trump nominees as retaliation for his restructuring of USAID, Axios has learned.
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Scoop: Senate Dems plot to delay all Trump nominees in retaliation for USAID restructuring
Senate Democrats are privately discussing an escalation beyond "blanket hold."
www.axios.com
February 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Let us know when they’re publicly screaming
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As someone who speaks “far right wingnut,” I feel obligated to point out that the creation of the federal income tax in 1913 has been an obsession with such folks since the1950s. They mark it as the moment America went off track and started careening toward socialism, and they want to get rid of it.
February 3, 2025 at 5:10 AM
As someone who speaks “far right wingnut,” I feel obligated to point out that the creation of the federal income tax in 1913 has been an obsession with such folks since the1950s. They mark it as the moment America went off track and started careening toward socialism, and they want to get rid of it.
Trump's tariffs suppressing demand, stifling trade and reducing consumption could be the greatest climate change initiative of any government #unintendedconsequences
February 3, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Trump's tariffs suppressing demand, stifling trade and reducing consumption could be the greatest climate change initiative of any government #unintendedconsequences
Corporate sovereignty is the seemingly inevitable progression in Western politics. Government as a business, not a civil service, and us as consumers, not citizens
The corporate coup is global.
Trump's mad tariffs do not mark the end of neoliberalism or free trade or whatever you want to call it.
They mark the end game of what we have been fighting for decades: corporate rule.
They do not believe in the public. They believe in their wealth.
Trump's mad tariffs do not mark the end of neoliberalism or free trade or whatever you want to call it.
They mark the end game of what we have been fighting for decades: corporate rule.
They do not believe in the public. They believe in their wealth.
February 3, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Corporate sovereignty is the seemingly inevitable progression in Western politics. Government as a business, not a civil service, and us as consumers, not citizens
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There are fewer news items about ACT Party's Tim Jago being convicted of sexually abusing minors, than of ex MP Golriz Gharaman being questioned at a supermarket. 🤬
January 31, 2025 at 10:27 AM
There are fewer news items about ACT Party's Tim Jago being convicted of sexually abusing minors, than of ex MP Golriz Gharaman being questioned at a supermarket. 🤬
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January 31, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept cheering and voting for the axe because its handle was made of wood and they thought it was one of them.
January 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept cheering and voting for the axe because its handle was made of wood and they thought it was one of them.
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Trump has always craved admiration and respect from those who he saw as smarter than him.
Manhattan wouldn’t give it to him, so he went to Silicon Valley.
Manhattan wouldn’t give it to him, so he went to Silicon Valley.
January 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Trump has always craved admiration and respect from those who he saw as smarter than him.
Manhattan wouldn’t give it to him, so he went to Silicon Valley.
Manhattan wouldn’t give it to him, so he went to Silicon Valley.