03-04-2025, 03:10 AM
Trump supporters are dumb enough to be distracted by the bogey of culture wars, while the real damage is done elsewhere.
The problem is not in pandering to the prejudices of Lyle in Kentucky, but in upending the global world order overnight. I kid you not that the damage done is irreversible. The toadying of big tech to the orange man makes it worse.
What is happening is that countries and businesses around the world have realised that America is unreliable.
What the fuckers at Fox don’t tell you is that America’s ownership of a unipolar world was not a one way street - it bought America many advantages. The universality of American tech being one. The dollar being one. American payment systems being one.
Now all of these are unreliable. What is to stop Trump or someone like him, pandering to the lowest common denominator, threaten to suspend cloud services for corporations based in Canada as a bargaining chip in a trade war? The data centre may be in Canada but AWS may say “sorry, courtesy this backdoor you’re locked out till the boss man says otherwise”.
The US payments system has already been shown to be worthless in the Russia Ukraine war.
So that’s it. Be under no illusion that things will not be the same again. The good times for millions of Americans are over. Even if Trump chickens out and cans his tariffs like he’s did with Mexico and Canada, the horses have bolted.
All hail China, all hail Russia.
“Shining city on a hill” - tell ‘im ‘e’s dreaming
The problem is not in pandering to the prejudices of Lyle in Kentucky, but in upending the global world order overnight. I kid you not that the damage done is irreversible. The toadying of big tech to the orange man makes it worse.
What is happening is that countries and businesses around the world have realised that America is unreliable.
What the fuckers at Fox don’t tell you is that America’s ownership of a unipolar world was not a one way street - it bought America many advantages. The universality of American tech being one. The dollar being one. American payment systems being one.
Now all of these are unreliable. What is to stop Trump or someone like him, pandering to the lowest common denominator, threaten to suspend cloud services for corporations based in Canada as a bargaining chip in a trade war? The data centre may be in Canada but AWS may say “sorry, courtesy this backdoor you’re locked out till the boss man says otherwise”.
The US payments system has already been shown to be worthless in the Russia Ukraine war.
So that’s it. Be under no illusion that things will not be the same again. The good times for millions of Americans are over. Even if Trump chickens out and cans his tariffs like he’s did with Mexico and Canada, the horses have bolted.
All hail China, all hail Russia.
“Shining city on a hill” - tell ‘im ‘e’s dreaming