Are we the bad guys?
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2025
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us is going to run out of people to trade with at this rate
Is time for the new and revamped BRICCSM to be a thing (annexing Canada and Mexico)
Jfc, he's like a toddler with a new word, just jamming it in everywhere to see if it fits. Try the keys in the light socket while you're at it, Donnie!
I predict a huge collapse of the us dollar before his term is up
Sure, and if the BRICS countries offer free spaghetti dinners for residents, I'll sprout wings and fly there. This is notoriously not going to happen.
Hahahahahaha
That's the biggest threat the US is actually facing.
That's how all those big juicy trade deficits are actually funded Donnie, by the USD being the reserve currency and by the rest of the world buying US bonds. Literally what Nixon replaced Bretton Woods with.
Hahahahahahaha
He looks like he is Self-anointing like some Capuchin Monkey.
This guy is all stick and no carrot.
Have you seen that bronzer?! He must be some carrot, but it’s only skin deep.
It's like his politics start and end through/with violence.
I wish I could remember - there was an Italian word for it. Oh well.
"If you don't stay I will shit my pants so hard that you have to leave"
Shame that he doesn't have the capacity to decide when to shit his pants.
This guy is trying to level the country that elected him, isn't he?
Yes, that is my understanding of project 2025.
Can I offer you an encouragement biscuit?
Qu'ils mangent de la brioche!
Thank you, but I had therapeutical pizza yesterday.
That sounds delicious. What treatment toppings did you administer?
Rocket, Parmigiano Reggiano and Prosciutto crudo. It helped ease the pain.
Rocket?! To the moon, Elon. The rest of that sounds like woke foreign shit. /s
Thank you for your kind offer, but before I accept: what am I looking at here?
It's a local pastry. A traditional recipe. I bake it myself.
There is no fixed recipe. It uses plain flour, leavening agent, olive oil, grape alcohol (aguardente), eggs and sugar. The dough itself is to be very low on sweetness.
Everything is mixed together until it forms a heavy batter, that is then spooned onto a oven tray in dollops, sprinkled with sugar, and baked in medium/high pre heated oven.
Goes well with strong, black coffee.
p.s.
Here is another picture.
Are you perhaps Colombian or Ecuadorian? I grew up with aguardiente but I've never seen that type of bread. Although we make our aguardiente from sugar cane. Our grape licor we call pisco, but we consider it to be more of a Peruvian/Chilean thing.
Portuguese.
We have, technically, two grape alcohols: distilled wine or the distilled leftovers of the wine making process (bagaço).
I was referring to the second one. It's a clear alcohol, with strenght varying from 21% up to 75% (anything above 41% is technically illegal but privates still make the really hard stuff).
It is supposed to be flavour neutral (if it kills your taste buds it does become, along with everything else...) but in reality it still carries some of the flavours of the grapes/wine and it can accentuate other flavours.
It is used as a secondary leavening agent in traditional pastries, especially for very heavy doughs, as the alcohol evaporates and areates the doughs.
That is so cool! I distil my own spirits and I make a good amount of illegally potent alcohol, but I've never heard about using them in baking. I will give it a try this weekend. Thank you
Think China might be thinking it's ready, and that these tariffs only help fuel innovation.
I mean, if he slaps tariffs on everyone, he may just accidentally bring about world peace when everyone just decides to stop dealing with the US.
That's their idea. BRICS know they can't beat USA in a straight on fight. But using a different economic model, set up alternative trade, USA can be made irrelevant in the long. USA really likes to play for short term gains, what is a weakness that can be exploited, especially with a "it hurt itself in its confusion" leader.
Idk, honestly one of the larger selling points to global trade was that you'd be much less likely to want to go to war with someone you relied on. If there is literally nothing connecting you then war is a much "easier" option to choose. :/
In a world United against the US, there's no war the US can wage effectively. There's only so much power you can project from aircraft carriers, and nukes are essentially off the table.
BRICS was also designed for exactly this scenario; a rogue US finally showing its whole ass to the world. They'll survive regardless of what the US tries, whether it's sanctions, tariffs or invasions.
BRICS was also designed for exactly this scenario; a rogue US finally showing its whole ass to the world.
It was created to diversify the commercial relations of those countries, decentralizing them from US/Europe.
You can call that "protection against a rogue US", but it was much more of a "we will never get rich if those two control everything we do" thing.
It's less "we will never get rich", which is objectively incorrect given China is part of BRICS and was rich long before brics was created, and more, "why the fuck is less than 8% of the world entitled to the wealth of over 60%?"
You appear to be saying that only the US starts wars? That's not the case.
That's not a common interpretation of those words in that order, which would be fantastic if there were a competition for most unique and obtuse construing of sentences; however whether or not such a contest exists, this isn't a part of it.
You said:
In a world United against the US, there's no war the US can wage effectively.
What about the wars that the rest of the world wage?
If the world is united against the US, why would they go to war with each other? They would all have a common enemy in a belligerent country run by an egotistical maniac.
Nothing unites people like a common enemy. Just look at how the Republicans get voted in and how Trump got elected again.
There are more things going on in the world than the United States. Countries can focus on more than one issue at a time.
Besides, if the US goes the "tariff everyone! Yay isolationism!" Route then the rest of the world doesn't need to do anything. The US will have defeated itself for them.
trump threatens punishing USA citizens if foreign entities do something he doesn't like
Tariff, tariff, tariff. It's all he ever does when it comes to any other country doing something he doesn't like. As if that solves all international issues.
Weird how no other country has such a policy and they seem to do fine...
Now, that's not true.
You can pick any poor country at random, and you'll find that one policy there with almost no exceptions.
You're right, I wasn't thinking about colossal shitholes.
He learned a new word and is using it all the time. Hopefully leaders will grow tired of it and just call his bluffs.
Too bad he still doesn't understand the concept behind the word. Hopefully it will bite him in the ass when the price of literally everything goes up.
It won't
