For sure there are smart people around.

This is an option…

The rise of an idea as nothing to do with free speech… they can raise everywhere.

I heard that everything now is produced in USA

In Italy, we’ve seen this movie before: someone offers “protection” in exchange for loyalty and a modest payment. Decline, and boom—your car, your shop, your cousin… all start having bad luck. Very traditional stuff.

Super interesting.
I like this point, even though applications in real life would require considerations about the rationality of the bully (what if they aren’t) and the possibile outcomes. If one of them put the ultimate existence of the bullied at risk I suspect that the strategy should change

You are right. Not complete pause but cap.
Anyway the announcement of this “pause” creates the big bounce in the market

This is new form of inside trading.
Just after he announced the pause on tariffs for 75 countries and the markets skyrocketed…

I understand that people have been propagandized so much that they may not even realize the choice they made.

They may *think* they were choosing some other platform.

But Trump ran on an openly fascist campaign. He's exactly in character, fulfilling his promises.

How could they avoid seeing that?

It hard to discharge this as bullshit.

We are in a world so unconsciously uneducated that a positive adjective next to any fact, even the biggest disgraceful one, turns that fact into a victorious achievement.
Just count the “I voted for this” on social media

Clear, passionate , genuine , sincere, transparent.
This is the communication I love: “con il cuore in mano” we say in this case in Italian (with the heart in the hands)

Every “buy American made products to not suffer of tariffs” should disappear afters this!

And the result will be…
1) vaccines
2) vaccines
3) none of the previous… so vaccines

🙄🤦🏻‍♂️

If you buy the most, and sell the least (considering the sum of all imbalances) how do you get rich?

I cannot believe they did this by mistake… this is the storytelling for the ignorant population to explain what they wanted to do anyway. They know what will be the outcome. They know it will be an economic earthquake.