Hearing Trump talk about how he wants the US to be “dominant” makes me feel so disgusted.

We need to make sure that doesn’t happen.

Even the winners are in the red 😔

Damn.

Will this work against those bracelet scammers at sacre cœur?

Whatever happens, please don’t invest in $ROPE

average Parisian experience

I honestly don’t know why they focus on Paris so much.

If they actually held demonstrations like these in places where their supporters live, I reckon they might be able to get a more impressive crowd.

This was Le Pen’s rally in Paris.

We’re talking about a city of over 13 million, and this is the crowd they managed to get. I literally see claims that 100 000 people attended.

Paris is too woke 😔

Le Pen’s ‘Save Democracy’ rally after guilty verdict falls short of expectations

The French far right has framed the verdict against Le Pen as an attack on democracy — but was unable to attract a large crowd to a rally of support on Sunday.

Lmao

Good question.

I have no clue. All this BS has caught me completely off guard. I like to invest my money with at least a semblance of a plan and a clue of what’s going on. I don’t have either of that right now.

I agree, but most of it is not personal

What’s kinda interesting is that I decided to liquidate all my American stocks last December, because my assumption was that the first year of Trump’s presidency was going to be pretty bad for the US stock market.

Basically, my thought process was: Trump is unpredictable. I thought that that was strategic on his part, but that notion seems to have been permanently debunked at this point. Still, unpredictability, strategic or not, is not something I want to deal with. I thought that apart from it costing me money, it could effect my mental state poorly. And after about a year or so, things would go back to normal, after renegotiating trade deals in a way that makes Trump feel like a winner.

My decision to sell my US stocks did end up being the right call, but a lot of my assumptions were wrong.

I thought that some of Trump’s picks like JD Vance would be more technocratic. It turns out that pretty much everyone in his cabinet are nationalists who seem surprisingly delusional about the US’s strengths and weaknesses.

As I said, I genuinely thought Trump unpredictability was more of a strategic thing. But it turns out it’s just an extension of him being a dumbass.

I expected this administration to at least try to pursue a strategy that creates economic growth. (Otherwise, government debt becomes an even bigger issue)

And I basically thought the tariffs would be a repeat of his first term. Which, for the record: would have been bad enough.

I’m not going to tell you what to do, because I don’t feel comfortable giving investing advice right now, but the thought process for this right now should be:

1. Do investors assume that Trump will back down

2. Will Trump actually back down.

If the answer to 1. Is yes, and the answer to 2. Is no, that means that the current situation isn’t fully priced in yet, and that it’s very likely that the market will drop even further.

To put some things into perspective about the situation around the American soldiers that died in Lithuania.

1. The Lithuanian military prepared a huge ceremony while Trump was golfing.

2. A local journalist started a fundraiser in Lithuania, and people have donated almost a quarter of a million dollars for the families of the deceased soldiers.

I just wanted to put this in perspective, because nowadays I feel like it’s important to keep hammering on the fact that: no, Europeans do not in fact hate Americans.

Hot take:

The conspiracy theories around the WEF are stupid, but at the same time:

I fucking hate the WEF, and it’d be great if we had some liberal politicians that made a conscious decision not to associate with them or visit their events in any way. It’s terrible optics, because the WEF is a useless organisation ran by a bunch of out of touch boomers who do nothing but contribute to polarisation. Through a combination of not only just the fact that a concept as stupid as the WEF exists at all, but also due to how they like to present themselves as some kind of powerful organisation, and through coming up with extremely stupid and irresponsible marketing schemes like: “you will own nothing and be happy” I will seriously never forgive them for that stupid stunt.

Americans worried about a recession.

We euros eat recessions for breakfast

WOW

It’s slightly too short for you imo.

https://youtu.be/ZKtER0_XfBM?si=zrr1FVftZGN4WfcF

This hits different when you huff nitrus

I visited my friend’s frat house today and it was disgusting.

They’re clearly not working their pledges hard enough because of woke

u/Syards-Forcus

You were right. Posting ragebait is bad. Sorry

Deleted my Twitter account.

Should’ve done it earlier tbh. For whatever reason I always got the worst Nazi shit on my front page from accounts I wasn’t even following or showing any interest in.

The US does make a lot of stuff still, but it has been outcompeted by Europe when it comes to manufacturing. But some European companies like Siemens are now also opening factories in the US, meaning that it could start building more components of its own electrical grid domestically for example, but that’d still rely on parts made in Germany.

The funny thing is that I think bringing more manufacturing to the US would be a good thing, but not manufacturing for cheap, mass produced goods lol.

This is why Europe’s manufacturing sector is still god tier imo. Europe doesn’t focus on consumers outside of luxury products, and a large share of export value comes out of extremely advanced products made by companies like Siemens, ASML, Airbus, Rolls Royce, NXP, Infineon, and a bunch of other examples. Like chemicals/pharmaceuticals.

On top of things like luxury cars, those are examples of how you can manufacture and export a lot as a high income country.

I get that this is also what Trump wants, but the way he’s trying to go about doing it makes no sense at all.

I wish Republican Space Rangers from GTA 5 was a genuine, ongoing show.