Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped?

[shtferbrains]

Nowhere does that address the fact we are bringing in millions of people with no jobs being created.
Trudeau flooded them in to boost the overall GDP as more people means more consumers.
Carney is doubling down on that with the theory we can trade with each other and don't need Trump and the US market.

But there are no new jobs.
Simple math.

They are just bringing them to elect incompetent government.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

As i pointed out earlier GDP per capita is a distorted way to measure wealth because it doesn't measure how well that GDP is shared. If most of the increase in GDP ends up in the hands of the 1% then that is not a successful or fair economy.
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Yes, because the most important thing is that we are all getting poorer equally.
Burn it all down and end up like Venezuela or Zimbabwe, so long as no one makes more money than Chuck.
At least it's fair that way.

Remember when you claimed to be a 6000 acre capitalist farmer (LOL), What percentile of the 1% you vilify do you suppose a 6000 acre farmer would fall in?
Can you describe how you have been voluntarily sharing that wealth to achieve a fair economy?

[agstar77]

This is a video for A5 and his buddies. The video is by Frank Schaeffer. It explains why Trump is so dangerous to Americans and the rest of yhe world.

[shtferbrains]

Trump is the president of the USA.
Our problems were created here.
Trump's policy certainly spotlights our problem with a government that is more virtuous than competent.
We have wasted 10 yrs on all kinds of wierd distractions while our economy went down the toilet.
We clearly are continuing in that direction while Trump is flushing all that and headed in a more economics only direction.

The money is all spent on the new green economy.
That model is driving investment to the US.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Agstar, since you didn't post any video for me to watch, just a picture, could you perhaps summarize the message?

The targeted advertising in your screenshot has something about being accused of witchcraft, I'm really curious what is in your browsing history that led to that...

[blackpowder]

I found the full length vid.
Could not disagree with it.

The two democracies that I'm familiar with have both eroded in my lifetime spanning different administrations.

I believe the the culture of control is similar in Ottawa and Washington, only Canadianized.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Not sure if I found the right video. I googled Frank Schaeffer and It Has To Be Said. I watched the most recent video.
He blames Trump for driving China, India, Russia etc together.

He certainly hasn't done anything to improve the situation, but this started with previous administrations using sanctions, confiscating assets, removing countries from SWIFT, weaponizing the USD, destroying their infrastructure such as Nordstream pipelines etc etc.

I made a post about this foreign policy disaster a while back, might have been before the reelection of Trump. Keeping Russia and China apart has been one of the highest priorities of US foreign policy since WWII. Starting the wars against Russia ended that.

The rant against Kennedy, where he claims he wants to kill us all isn't worthy of a response. It was as childish and ridiculous as the anti vaxxers claiming that big pharma or the WEF were trying to kill us all with vaccines. Same argument, opposite extremes.

[TSIPP]

That frank guy looks like another unhinged lefty, what the heck, that dewd is the conspiracy theory devil.

[sumdumguy]

It might be just a bad photo but
“ Frank” does look unhinged.

[chuckChuck]

This in part explains why GDP per capita is a flawed measure. Read it again!

International comparisons reveal flaws of evaluating economic performance by GDP per capita

Jim Stanford


The top four countries on the International Monetary Fund’s per capita GDP ranking are all tax havens: Luxembourg, Switzerland, Ireland and Singapore.

A fifth, Liechtenstein is the highest of all – helped by the fact its population is just 40,000.

These countries receive inflows of profits from global companies lured by low corporate taxes and lax banking rules. Those inflows boost GDP per capita (with profits credited to local subsidiaries of those global firms), but have little impact on work, production or living standards.

Ireland, for example, has recorded the fastest growth of real GDP per capita of any OECD country over the last decade and its GDP per capita is purportedly twice Canada’s.

Ireland is a wonderful, fascinating place. But any visitor can immediately confirm it is not rich. Average living standards (evidenced by wages, housing, health and poverty) are no higher and, by some measures lower, than Canada’s.

Because Ireland’s corporate tax rate is lower than other European Union countries, global multinationals have established Irish subsidiaries to receive intracorporate transfers. In 2023, more than half of all net value added ([url]https://waronwant.org/sites/default/files/Tax%20Justice%20Irelands%20Role%20in%20Internation[/url] al%20Context.pdf) in Ireland consisted of business profits – two thirds of which belonged to foreign firms.

GDP per capita has soared but living standards have not. Because the whole model is driven by corporate tax avoidance, the Irish government’s ability to capture some of that largesse for domestic use is constrained."?