It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
^ Back to Top
The MI6 Community is unofficial and in no way associated or linked with EON Productions, MGM, Sony Pictures, Activision or Ian Fleming Publications. Any views expressed on this website are of the individual members and do not necessarily reflect those of the Community owners. Any video or images displayed in topics on MI6 Community are embedded by users from third party sites and as such MI6 Community and its owners take no responsibility for this material.
James Bond News • James Bond Articles • James Bond Magazine
Comments
If "America first" is driven to the extreme, manufacturers of for example cars will most likely still need components produced in other countries. You can't just produce everything domestically - micro-industries are expensive and volatile; companies would have to be set up to supply stuff and then annihilated again if supplies are temporarily unnecessary. Import will remain inevitable lest the American population will flat-out accept all the added costs of this crazy system, which is highly unlikely. But naturally, if America traps itself in a self-serving isolation, imported goods will come with an added cost too. Europe, for example, isn't just going to swallow Trump's self-destructing protectionism and still ship parts and know-how over the Atlantic and throw it over the wall too so to speak, only to get paid the same as before or even less.
Of course the reverse can happen too. America can produce parts and try to sell them abroad. But since Trump is pulling out of the climate story, there may come a plan to reject goods that weren't produced in any climate friendly way. (Although I personally consider that unlikely. We still keep importing goods that were manufactured in conditions of pure slavery and exploitation.)
The professor's overall predictions are that life will get dramatically more expensive for the average American and that the lower and middle classes will suffer the most. Creating jobs will be relatively easy at first but many more may loose their job soon enough. After 4 years, America may be left behind economically weaker than how it is now. It's almost inevitable in a scenario dominated by an extreme protectionism.
It's exactly what I have been talking about with my ad yesterday on Skype. Although Trump will not immediately create a massive trade war with several countries, like China, he might steer the USA into damaging long-term trade conflicts that could linger on and on. And we all know what happened to the US when they adopted a protectionist and isolationist economy back in the 1920's. In the end.....it will create chaos.
Also, Trump's "America First" inaugural address reminded me of Charles Lindbergh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh . We all know what his "America First" movement stood for. He was admired by the Nazi's. Although Lindbergh considered Hitler a fanatic and avowed a belief in American democracy, he clearly stated elsewhere that he believed the survival of the white race was more important than the survival of democracy in Europe: "Our bond with Europe is one of race and not of political ideology," he declared.
That's why I got a bit scared when I was listening to Trump's inaugural address. Add to that the reaction of White House press secretary Sean Spicer yesterday about the lower attendance to Trump's inauguration, and my stomach turned a bit. Again, Trump and Mr Spicer are attacking the media for lies. I mean, in just a few days we now get a clear idea of where the 'new' USA is heading to. It scares me.....
http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/wh-spokesman-gave-alternative-facts-inauguration-crowd-n710466
Here is Soledad on Kellyanne.
More on Kellyanne -
one comment below noted this:
Interesting how Kellyanne threatened to "change their relationship" in other words freeze out NBC.
Fascism on the march; in so many ways. They are not really hiding it, folks.
Oh and hey wikileaks is suddenly interested in exposing Trump? Hahahahahahaha! The Big Fat Irony of that.
I read somewhere (really more than one person is that this) that that would be Putin's next move, because his main goal is not just Trump in office (that was the icing on the cake) but to destroy, disrupt, and cause chaos in the U.S. and the west (I know, that is not news really).
Our government has his bloody tax returns. So more than one or two people have seen them. These will come out; someone will leak from an agency. And personally, I hope it is NOT wikileaks who gets them to the public first.
The GOP want us to officially leave the U.N.? Huh.
Looks like this was introduced Jan. 3rd.
MORE:
He cannot help himself. And he will not stop tweeting as president.
(Also SJW is mentioned; it means "social justice warrior" the extreme left. Maybe you all knew that acronym; I didn't.)
Brian Fallon: Sean Spicer should resign
I can get behind this as well.
Replace with the word "lies"
(this is not the song, just a word or two on this current bunch of lies and how Trump will manipulate it all) ~
Plenty of really funny ones, though, under the #alternativefacts hashtag.
At this point nearly any alternative would do better perhaps.
Interesting bit from 2002:
I cannot copy it, only the link but it is an alleged aide to Karl Rove explaining to a reporter that the U.S. is an empire now and will make its own reality. Worth a read ...
Trump gets into major argument with Pence, tells him he's 'fired' and replaces him as VPOTUS with Sarah Palin. Congress says " Ummm.... Okay." Trump comments, "Show me specifically where in the Constitution I can't do this! Where? I don't see Mike or Sarah's names mentioned... they weren't even born then." https://www.admitityouboughtitforasecond.com
These times they are a changin' - in so many damn ways, and currently really harmful ones ...
You just know Sarah is very put out not to be in the midst of the Trump admin. ;)
Regardless, I'm sure we'll see a President Mike Pence at some point. Trump hasn't even made it to the beginning of his first week without violating his oath of office. Eventually Congress will be forced by the American people to uphold the Constitution and remove Trump from office through impeachment.
Pence is simply - no matter how strange or bad his views - not as unstable or dangerous as Trump. The GOP are finally getting alarmed. Slow starters, but yeah. Some.
I say that and then read this:
We really do NOT want Tillerson confirmed. Truly.
:(
I'm hoping Kasich comes out and says something soon. He needs to set himself up here in the next couple of years as a primary challenger for Trump in 2020.
Or, if it's not him, the non-Trump GOPers need to band together behind ONE individual to run in the primaries against either Trump or Pence in the next one. Don't allow him to divide and conquer the party like he did this time around.
I find myself missing Richard Nixon...
:))
Nobody has been this unstable, no. It think that is NOT an "alternative fact". ;)
Did you like my Carrie post? That's one of my very favorite photos from this weekend.
Here's another, from Mark Hamill. Though the first one I posted above is my very favorite.