Is anyone watching this Trump car crash?

[soundsys]

WTF is happening? It’s like some bizarre performance art piece.

He’s holding up signs and shouting and throwing out hats it’s just 🤯

“intended to cause a negative opinion of Russia” - speaking of conspiracies.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/russians-say-britain-staged-oil-tanker-crash-to-blame-moscow/ss-AA1AMmFY?ocid=HPCDHP

Great we are getting somewhere.

Your view is that anything that causes negative opinion of Russia is a win regardless of whether it is true or not.

Whereas my view is that the truth and reality matters and just because Trump or Putin lies on an industrial scale it doesn't make it right to do the same thing.

As for the facts that the vessel was sailing in a straight line and opinion that there was most likely no one on watch as this happens all the time, I did actually point these out to you at the time which you dismissed.

Yep that would be a pro Russian conspiracy theory.

This is why the truth matters, otherwise you get one group of people thinking it was organised by the Russian Government and another group believing it was organised by the British Government when the boring reality is that neither ship had anyone on watch. But because that truth is a bit dull then people prefer the more exciting but false versions.

Yep - And the reason I think that this has been done is as @Igotjellypointed out the rising yields on US Government bonds.

Getting distracted on conspiracy theories that Trump deliberately engineered this chaos in order to benefit from insider trading is not helpful.

Trump announced ridiculous tariffs that caused stock market panic. Then minutes before he reversed the tariffs, knowing markets would surge, he told his followers to buy so they could benefit from the upswing.

That's either corrupt or out-of-control stupid. It's hardly a conspiracy theory to point this out.

You’ve learned well from the Liar in Chief. Get the soundbite out there, then distance yourself from it, obfuscate etc because the seed will have been sown and many will swallow it.

Continue to rail about conspiracies and indulge yourself in your derisory intellectual fantasies. We see who you are.

OK so an investment analyst or a financial editor for a newspaper finds out insider information about a company's new product coming to market. They then openly publish this information to the public but do not invest themselves and do not make any personal gain.

How is that corrupt or insider trading?

Of course you could argue that the information was only available to those who are signed up on Truth Social but equally for the financial editor the information is only available to those that buy the newspaper or for the investment analyst those that sign up to their analysis.

I think you are missing a key difference.
Trump does not describe his views as conspiracy theories or state that he has seen no evidence to support them. He describes his views as facts (usually false).

On your logic no one could state that there is a 9/11 conspiracy theory and that they have seen no credible evidence to support by merely mentioning it that is implicit support.

Trump doesn't need to describe anything as conspiracy theories, his minnions will do that for him.

See SignalGate

I don't get what you are saying?

Are you saying that Trump describes something as a fact and then his "minions" come along later and say that what he said was a conspiracy theory with no evidence to back it up.

Or that his "minion" come out with views that they say are conspiracy theories?

President Trump announced a 90-day pause on tariffs for most countries, reducing them to a universal rate of 10%, while increasing tariffs on Chinese imports to 125%. This decision was made to facilitate trade negotiations and respond to market concerns following previous tariff announcements.

Errrrr so what's this about - I thought everyone was queuing up to bargain with Trump over the tariffs but now there is a 90 day pause. And its for 'most' countries and making them 10% but after the 90 days what? some will be higher tariffs, some lower. Was listening to Bloomberg channel yesterday and the interviewed were not amused.

Conspiracy Theory Expert and Chief Defender of the Truth, I think that like many of Trumps advisors and experts, you need to step down.

He needs 90 days for the arse-kissing queue to line up and approach, preferably on their naked bellies over broken glass. I expect the rest of the world will be begging to approach this Prince of Diplomacy by then, in tribute to Bigly for all he's done.

Re American bonds being sold off. Who’s buying them? Do we know.

DJI is back below 40K

Art of the deal 🍊

Trump:

"There will be a transition cost and transition problems."

"But it going to be beautiful"

And this is why manufacturing will not relocate to the US. There’s no guarantee it’ll be worth it.

Institutional investors or anyone for that matter if the price is low enough.

I know. I like the US. Breaks my heart personally.

Tbf, sounds like Brexit. I think the UK are hardly ones to pass criticism here 😉

shocking. He has promised to 'put America first', 'make America great' and 'make America richer'.

There is no way he can do that without impoverishing others.

This should be rephrased: 'put some Americans first' 'make some Americans richer'

I think the below sums up a lot of the problem with America.

People who don't follow the news are more likely to understand basic, politically-relevant facts than those who watch right wing media.

Only 14% of Fox (et al) viewers even know what a tariff is.

What?! Fake news, or in some quarters, conspiracy theory!

There's an item on BBC news showing Bigly- bragging and boasting about the money his sycophantic circle has made from his crash 'he made 2.5 million, he made 200 million'. Boasting. Not embarassed at all. While his Midwest voters look at their wrecked pensions, vanishing jobs and increased groceries prices. No conspiracy, just the sociopath President of the exFree World bragging about his economic mastery. Repellent.