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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Trump has always been about bluster. He’s currently “blustering” at the entire world. In his mind, he’s setting expectations and trying to put other countries on their toes/sow chaos to “improve his negotiating position.” In reality, his behavior is depressingly predictable even when the specific content is not, and no one is going to take the bait.

    I also think part of this is focusing the American public on big manufactured controversies that have no chance of ever actually happening to keep them distracted from the awful things that are going to be coming out daily very soon.


  • There are so many differences between this strike and the railroad strike you seem blissfully ignorant about. E g., a railroad strike would’ve halted all domestic and international trade within the US at the height of this last inflationary period, immediately having a negative impact on literally every American’s life, whereas this dockworkers’ strike only affected overseas imports/exports, leaving all domestic and North American trade intact and not immediately disrupting literally every American’s life.

    Either way, the Biden Admin kept pressure on railroad owners for a contract in line with the railroad workers’ demands, and they won it.