No you cut the funding that goes to poor people, so when they start to revolt, you can use that savings to help fund your security to protect you from the angry poor people, and spend more on security then you would have spent just keeping the poor people happy.

This is what conservatives call, “fiscal responsibility”.

He’s definitely not part of any fascist organizations, the oligarch throwing Nazi salutes can vouch for him.

Because it’s like spending lots of money paying for gas to drive your car, and you don’t like that, so you take a steaming hot dump in your gas tank, you know, “as a change in perspective”.

Surprise, you won’t save anything on gas, and your car runs like shit now too.

Trump’s plan involves using tariffs to pressure foreign central banks to lower interest rates, thereby depreciating their currencies relative to the dollar. This would offset the price increases caused by tariffs on U.S. consumers.

Nothing about this string of connections makes any sense. Why would they lower interest rates, why would their currency depreciate?

Other countries are just going to form trade partnerships with each other and avoid the US. There will be a new strengthening global economy that skips the US entirely.

It’s Brexit all over again, but instead of the UK suffering from leaving the EU, it’s the US suffering from leaving the global economy. At some point the US will have to come crawling back just for deals worse than it had in the first place.

Varoufakis’ reasoning is fully consistent with the Trump/Musk world of drug-induced delusion.

I’m gonna take a wild guess that the “experts” have air-conditioned homes and workplaces.

Make them live without AC for the entire next summer and let’s see if their “expert” opinion changes.