• don@lemm.ee
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          If only republicans weren’t so fucking gullible.

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            It’s not gullibility. It’s intentional ignorance and simply believing what they want to believe so they can hate the people they want to hate.

            Even now the majority of republicans will defend Trump’s actions.

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          I think of that guy all the time. He had it … he was there.

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          Unfortunately it would have martyred him and all of his supporters would never have realized how much of a buffoon he really is. A lot of them still don’t understand now but they will more and more as they feel it with continued inflation and their financial situation dwindling.

          If only the Democrats ran a candidate that was not dogshit time and time again. It was never a surprise that candidates like Harris and Clinton did not do especially well against Trump in polls. It takes a special kind of loser to lose to Donald Trump.

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            He’s definitely taking all the steam out of the european MAGA-like right wing parties, it’s beautiful to see. That would have never happen if he was martyred.

            Our local Trump wanna-be went to the inauguration without an invitation only to take some pictures with american flags and show how much he supported (and was supposedly supported by) Trump; Nowadays he basically acts as if what’s going on in the US is pure craziness and he would never, and he hardly even knows Trump anyway. His polling goes down each time Trump comes up with more stupid shit.

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            It wouldn’t matter because he’d be dead. He is destroying America and is trying to take the rest of the world down with him.

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        Has Europe made itself more robust in the wake of the multiple financial collapses stemming from the US? Sincere question. I know china has taken measures.

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          I think there’s some things in place but there’s still a lot of reliance on American systems which is a bit risky. If Trump decides to start tariffing anything to do with Visa or Mastercard shit would hit the fan real quick.

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            On the other hand that is just money, at least there is no real vendor-lock-in there yet, though I am sort of surprised the concept of different currencies per payment company hasn’t occurred to them yet outside of gaming.

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          Their banking sector at least went through reforms following the 2008 crisis. They are required to be less risky in certain ways than they were pre-GFC and have gone through a bunch of stress testing over the years.

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          They did gor like a week here in he UK. We’re rolling back the rules since 2008 already