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Winston G Adams's avatar

Ed, Did you say it was best to ignore the Orange Man? Can you ignore a pandemic, or especially global warming? Try to avoid it maybe, or counter it.

That his audience is just for America?

Maybe primarily America, but I suggest worldwide, as many are viewing and saying "What kind of nutcase is this? Isn't Xi of China the person who walks softly but carries a big stick? And too the EU?

One thing that rattles Trump and the Republicans is when the bond markets react negatively, and their near 40 trillion debt is a risk.Then for sure its a TACO event. Is it not the world that is holding up the hottest country in the world, with USA debt? And that a matter of trust and rules based, that is on shaky ground.

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Trump's primary audience is himself.

Always has been.

But Davos for Trump and his Moronian army was not about America (now dba as Moronia) in the world. It was about getting stories back home to pump Trump up domestically and strengthen for the fall in the hopes the Republicans can keep control of the House and Senate. It's all domestic politics all the time.

Sure enough Hannity was on Fox about this great Greenland deal but there is no Greenland deal. It doesn't exist. What you saw at Davos was, to one extent or another, the Europeans and Canadians reminding the Moronians that whatever the gaggle of buffooons in control now think, they are not all that good at anything besides bullshit.

Think of NL in 2010. Danny announced MF and people praised him for delivering an age old dream but in fact at that point the thing didn't exist. They talked about MF as being in the past in 2010 when it was still well into the future. They did it for a whole bunch of reasons rooted in the society and individual psychology and then a few years later as the thing went south they quietly in their own minds shifted the start date to a time after Danny. And as things got worse, they shifted the date again so they could blame someone else for it all.

Difference in the US is that it is so large there are counterweights. There are not just two strong political parties but contending ideas about how things are and should be.

You are right about debt. Absolutely right. That's part of the lesson that the Europeans and Canadians taught the Moronians. We have power you don't see and in a sense, Carney's speech was so strongly contrary to the dominant media assumptions and a lot of thinking in lots of places, that it did bolster and bring together a bunch of people looking for a voice that said things aren't that bleak. They will be tough but we can do better than just survive.