Trump wouldn’t be able to do anything if it wasn’t the awful GOP MAGA assholes that keep supporting him as their Avatar of Assholery they want to inflict on anyone who doesn’t agree with their batshit crazy policies
Whoever designed that thumbnail should be awarded. The doom and gloom that it communicates, and the fucking “eclipse” happening is pure genius.
“it’s the best 👐, best eclipse ever 👐, just look how huge it makes me, 👐 I’m huge👐👐”
and he probably finds this article flattering.
“y’see that? i’m the biggest, most spectacular, most amazing….they’ve never seen a threat like me before!”
Agreed, it is that serious.
man it would be nice if this felt like obvious hyberbole
le sigh
You think
And the Media cannot wait for the profits he will bring them.
Screw Trump
This news needs to reach those that aren’t interested in politics. If they are made aware of the danger they might react and vote for Biden.
Nobody’s better at making people fear DT than DT
Everything tRump touches dies.
No – the newsmedia that promotes him is the biggest danger.
It’s not just Trump. It’s Republicans in general.
The Fall of Rome ….
100%. Sorry Putin, your lacky usurped you!
POS repulsicans are the shit on my shoe.
Trump is a symptom, not the cause. The cause is something they’ll probably ignore for the rest of humanity (because ego and worldviews)
No one pays attention to history
And when they do, it’s through rose tinted glasses (beer goggles), as in ‘that won’t happen again’ or being previously warned and their dumb ass ignoring it, like IDK… HILLARY MF’N CLINTON
I just keep hearing echos of her 2016 campaign, and whining about trump like… BRUH WE TOLD YOU MF’S AND YALL KEPT JOKING ABOUT PANTS SUITS… NOW UR SCARED? in reality, fuck you too.
And we are just gonna a let him get back into power.
Trump is a D00shN0zle.
We are seeing an unending rise of the right in most developed countries. Propelled by the exact politics that The Economist has been espousing for generations. Look in the mirror for the enemy. Trump is one of many symptoms of a broader rot.
Yes, but Biden has disappointed me on some issues. – Reddit
Can you tell Joe Manchin that? It’s making me nervous that he is talking about running for president, which would hand the presidency to this crazy criminal, who would surely dismantle democracy, if given a second go at it.
We knew this before he was elected President in 2016. Why has it take the Economist so long to figure this out???
Again. I was really expecting the world would end in an awesome bang, Aliens, or atleast something Lovecraftian. Would’ve never assumed it would be because of an illiterate orange clown being cheered on by his idiotic followers from a place far away.
Why do I increasingly feel all these articles are foreshadowing?
Good thing for us he is absolutely going to be rotting in a prison cell before he gets the chance. Moving on with my day.
How did we let the stupidest, most narcissistic man alive, with absolutely no political experience get to this point? It’s unbelievable.
I have our country far more credit than it deserved. Half of us are complete idiot assholes.
It’s like America needs an intervention.
It’s non-trivial that The Economist has taken this position. Most of the time they have remained neutral or just sniffed: “he’s the candidate that the United States deserves. The Democrats have [lied | broken ethics | been jackasses] just as much as he has”
The biggest danger to the world is the American people who vote for Donald Trump into power. In a Democracy, the government is a representation of the people. If the American people can vote Donald Trump power today, why can’t the American people vote for someone else just like Donald Trump (or worse) tomorrow?
I personally can’t wait for Rambo Trump to take office again. We need a real man – 6 foot three, 210 lbs – to turn this thing around
/s obviously
Same as in 2018, when he Tweeted: “Trade Wars Are Good, and Easy To Win”.
In the words, most recently, of an idiot:
“The threat from within is greater than the threat from abroad.”
Trump is a loser. A dangerous, uneducated loser. His followers are the same.
I’m officially sick of winning.
Donald Trump is a terrible human. He couldn’t even be in charge of a self service Gas station. Please don’t vote for this loser.
This turd is so huge, we are going to have to flush it twice
If he isn’t stopped, the future is going to look back at this as a “why didn’t they see Hitler coming?” Question.
He wants power and total control without losing it.
Dictator in the making
I’d say it’s the people who support him.
You just know someone living with their mom wrote this.
Putin is arguably more dangerous – but what really makes Trump as or more dangerous is the tag team of him and Putin working to undermine democracy in the US and across the world TOGETHER.
80 million people are going to make a disastrous choice for 8 billion
Seems impossible that one idiot can do this but I realize there are people more stupid than this idiot that is making it possible
>A shadow looms over the world. In this week’s edition we publish The World Ahead 2024, our 38th annual predictive guide to the coming year, and in all that time no single person has ever eclipsed our analysis as much as Donald Trump eclipses 2024. That a Trump victory next November is a coin-toss probability is beginning to sink in.
>Mr Trump dominates the Republican primary. Several polls have him ahead of President Joe Biden in swing states. In one, for the New York Times, 59% of voters trusted him on the economy, compared with just 37% for Mr Biden. In the primaries, at least, civil lawsuits and criminal prosecutions have only strengthened Mr Trump. For decades Democrats have relied on support among black and Hispanic voters, but a meaningful number are abandoning the party. In the next 12 months a stumble by either candidate could determine the race—and thus upend the world.
>This is a perilous moment for a man like Mr Trump to be back knocking on the door of the Oval Office. Democracy is in trouble at home. Mr Trump’s claim to have won the election in 2020 was more than a lie: it was a cynical bet that he could manipulate and intimidate his compatriots, and it has worked. America also faces growing hostility abroad, challenged by Russia in Ukraine, by Iran and its allied militias in the Middle East and by China across the Taiwan Strait and in the South China Sea. Those three countries loosely co-ordinate their efforts and share a vision of a new international order in which might is right and autocrats are secure.
>Because maga Republicans have been planning his second term for months, Trump 2 would be more organised than Trump 1. True believers would occupy the most important positions. Mr Trump would be unbound in his pursuit of retribution, economic protectionism and theatrically extravagant deals. No wonder the prospect of a second Trump term fills the world’s parliaments and boardrooms with despair. But despair is not a plan. It is past time to impose order on anxiety.
>**The greatest threat Mr Trump poses is to his own country. Having won back power because of his election-denial in 2020, he would surely be affirmed in his gut feeling that only losers allow themselves to be bound by the norms, customs and self-sacrifice that make a nation. In pursuing his enemies, Mr Trump will wage war on any institution that stands in his way, including the courts and the Department of Justice.**
>Yet a Trump victory next year would also have a profound effect abroad. China and its friends would rejoice over the evidence that American democracy is dysfunctional. If Mr Trump trampled due process and civil rights in the United States, his diplomats could not proclaim them abroad. The global south would be confirmed in its suspicion that American appeals to do what is right are really just an exercise in hypocrisy. America would become just another big power.
>Mr Trump’s protectionist instincts would be unbound, too. In his first term the economy thrived despite his China tariffs. His plans for a second term would be more damaging. He and his lieutenants are contemplating a universal 10% levy on imports, more than three times the level today. Even if the Senate reins him in, protectionism justified by an expansive view of national security would increase prices for Americans. Mr Trump also fired up the economy in his first term by cutting taxes and handing out covid-19 payments. This time, America is running budget deficits on a scale only seen in war and the cost of servicing debts is higher. Tax cuts would feed inflation, not growth.
>Abroad, Mr Trump’s first term was better than expected. His administration provided weapons to Ukraine, pursued a peace deal between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain, and scared European countries into raising their defence spending. America’s policy towards China became more hawkish. If you squint, another transactional presidency could bring some benefits. Mr Trump’s indifference to human rights might make the Saudi government more biddable once the Gaza war is over, and strengthen relations with Narendra Modi’s government in India.
>But a second term would be different, because the world has changed. There is nothing wrong in countries being transactional: they are bound to put their own interests first. However, Mr Trump’s lust for a deal and his sense of America’s interests are unconstrained by reality and unanchored by values.
>**Mr Trump judges that for America to spend blood and treasure in Europe is a bad deal. He has therefore threatened to end the Ukraine war in a day and to wreck nato, perhaps by reneging on America’s commitment to treat an attack on one country as an attack on all. In the Middle East Mr Trump is likely to back Israel without reserve, however much that stirs up conflict in the region. In Asia he may be open to doing a deal with China’s president, Xi Jinping, to abandon Taiwan because he cannot see why America would go to war with a nuclear-armed superpower to benefit a tiny island.**
>But knowing that America would abandon Europe, Mr Putin would have an incentive to fight on in Ukraine and to pick off former Soviet countries such as Moldova or the Baltic states. Without American pressure, Israel is unlikely to generate an internal consensus for peace talks with the Palestinians. Calculating that Mr Trump does not stand by his allies, Japan and South Korea could acquire nuclear weapons.
>By asserting that America has no global responsibility to help deal with climate change, Mr Trump would crush efforts to slow it. And he is surrounded by China hawks who believe confrontation is the only way to preserve American dominance. Caught between a dealmaking president and his warmongering officials, China could easily miscalculate over Taiwan, with catastrophic consequences.
>**The Election that Matters**
>A second Trump term would be a watershed in a way the first was not. Victory would confirm his most destructive instincts about power. His plans would encounter less resistance. And because America will have voted him in while knowing the worst, its moral authority would decline. The election will be decided by tens of thousands of voters in just a handful of states. In 2024 the fate of the world will depend on their ballots.
Gen Z and Women voters will have a huge role in whether a swing state will go Dem in 2024.
– Biden won by 11,000 votes in Arizona + Georgia
– By 33,000 votes in NV
– By 81,000 votes in PA
– By 100,000 votes in NM
American fascism and voter apathy pose the biggest danger to the world in 2024.
I mean, I just can’t believe we’re talking about THIS guy, this total fucking stooge. He can’t string a coherent thought together to save his life, and yet HE is the one we are all worried about!? Not someone with charisma or intelligence or wit, just this fucking insecure shithead. What an insane species we are…
Yet you gave democrat saying they’ll vote third party because they don’t like bidens stance on what’s happening with Israel. Golly gee wait til the see what republicans gonna do.
Smdh
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Trump wouldn’t be able to do anything if it wasn’t the awful GOP MAGA assholes that keep supporting him as their Avatar of Assholery they want to inflict on anyone who doesn’t agree with their batshit crazy policies
Whoever designed that thumbnail should be awarded. The doom and gloom that it communicates, and the fucking “eclipse” happening is pure genius.
“it’s the best 👐, best eclipse ever 👐, just look how huge it makes me, 👐 I’m huge👐👐”
and he probably finds this article flattering.
“y’see that? i’m the biggest, most spectacular, most amazing….they’ve never seen a threat like me before!”
Agreed, it is that serious.
man it would be nice if this felt like obvious hyberbole
le sigh
You think
And the Media cannot wait for the profits he will bring them.
Screw Trump
This news needs to reach those that aren’t interested in politics. If they are made aware of the danger they might react and vote for Biden.
Nobody’s better at making people fear DT than DT
Everything tRump touches dies.
No – the newsmedia that promotes him is the biggest danger.
It’s not just Trump. It’s Republicans in general.
The Fall of Rome ….
100%. Sorry Putin, your lacky usurped you!
POS repulsicans are the shit on my shoe.
Trump is a symptom, not the cause. The cause is something they’ll probably ignore for the rest of humanity (because ego and worldviews)
No one pays attention to history
And when they do, it’s through rose tinted glasses (beer goggles), as in ‘that won’t happen again’ or being previously warned and their dumb ass ignoring it, like IDK… HILLARY MF’N CLINTON
I just keep hearing echos of her 2016 campaign, and whining about trump like… BRUH WE TOLD YOU MF’S AND YALL KEPT JOKING ABOUT PANTS SUITS… NOW UR SCARED? in reality, fuck you too.
And we are just gonna a let him get back into power.
Trump is a D00shN0zle.
We are seeing an unending rise of the right in most developed countries. Propelled by the exact politics that The Economist has been espousing for generations. Look in the mirror for the enemy. Trump is one of many symptoms of a broader rot.
Yes, but Biden has disappointed me on some issues. – Reddit
Can you tell Joe Manchin that? It’s making me nervous that he is talking about running for president, which would hand the presidency to this crazy criminal, who would surely dismantle democracy, if given a second go at it.
We knew this before he was elected President in 2016. Why has it take the Economist so long to figure this out???
Again. I was really expecting the world would end in an awesome bang, Aliens, or atleast something Lovecraftian. Would’ve never assumed it would be because of an illiterate orange clown being cheered on by his idiotic followers from a place far away.
Why do I increasingly feel all these articles are foreshadowing?
Good thing for us he is absolutely going to be rotting in a prison cell before he gets the chance. Moving on with my day.
How did we let the stupidest, most narcissistic man alive, with absolutely no political experience get to this point? It’s unbelievable.
I have our country far more credit than it deserved. Half of us are complete idiot assholes.
It’s like America needs an intervention.
It’s non-trivial that The Economist has taken this position. Most of the time they have remained neutral or just sniffed: “he’s the candidate that the United States deserves. The Democrats have [lied | broken ethics | been jackasses] just as much as he has”
The biggest danger to the world is the American people who vote for Donald Trump into power. In a Democracy, the government is a representation of the people. If the American people can vote Donald Trump power today, why can’t the American people vote for someone else just like Donald Trump (or worse) tomorrow?
I personally can’t wait for Rambo Trump to take office again. We need a real man – 6 foot three, 210 lbs – to turn this thing around
/s obviously
Same as in 2018, when he Tweeted: “Trade Wars Are Good, and Easy To Win”.
In the words, most recently, of an idiot:
“The threat from within is greater than the threat from abroad.”
Trump is a loser. A dangerous, uneducated loser. His followers are the same.
I’m officially sick of winning.
Donald Trump is a terrible human. He couldn’t even be in charge of a self service Gas station. Please don’t vote for this loser.
This turd is so huge, we are going to have to flush it twice
If he isn’t stopped, the future is going to look back at this as a “why didn’t they see Hitler coming?” Question.
He wants power and total control without losing it.
Dictator in the making
I’d say it’s the people who support him.
You just know someone living with their mom wrote this.
Putin is arguably more dangerous – but what really makes Trump as or more dangerous is the tag team of him and Putin working to undermine democracy in the US and across the world TOGETHER.
80 million people are going to make a disastrous choice for 8 billion
Seems impossible that one idiot can do this but I realize there are people more stupid than this idiot that is making it possible
>A shadow looms over the world. In this week’s edition we publish The World Ahead 2024, our 38th annual predictive guide to the coming year, and in all that time no single person has ever eclipsed our analysis as much as Donald Trump eclipses 2024. That a Trump victory next November is a coin-toss probability is beginning to sink in.
>Mr Trump dominates the Republican primary. Several polls have him ahead of President Joe Biden in swing states. In one, for the New York Times, 59% of voters trusted him on the economy, compared with just 37% for Mr Biden. In the primaries, at least, civil lawsuits and criminal prosecutions have only strengthened Mr Trump. For decades Democrats have relied on support among black and Hispanic voters, but a meaningful number are abandoning the party. In the next 12 months a stumble by either candidate could determine the race—and thus upend the world.
>This is a perilous moment for a man like Mr Trump to be back knocking on the door of the Oval Office. Democracy is in trouble at home. Mr Trump’s claim to have won the election in 2020 was more than a lie: it was a cynical bet that he could manipulate and intimidate his compatriots, and it has worked. America also faces growing hostility abroad, challenged by Russia in Ukraine, by Iran and its allied militias in the Middle East and by China across the Taiwan Strait and in the South China Sea. Those three countries loosely co-ordinate their efforts and share a vision of a new international order in which might is right and autocrats are secure.
>Because maga Republicans have been planning his second term for months, Trump 2 would be more organised than Trump 1. True believers would occupy the most important positions. Mr Trump would be unbound in his pursuit of retribution, economic protectionism and theatrically extravagant deals. No wonder the prospect of a second Trump term fills the world’s parliaments and boardrooms with despair. But despair is not a plan. It is past time to impose order on anxiety.
>**The greatest threat Mr Trump poses is to his own country. Having won back power because of his election-denial in 2020, he would surely be affirmed in his gut feeling that only losers allow themselves to be bound by the norms, customs and self-sacrifice that make a nation. In pursuing his enemies, Mr Trump will wage war on any institution that stands in his way, including the courts and the Department of Justice.**
>Yet a Trump victory next year would also have a profound effect abroad. China and its friends would rejoice over the evidence that American democracy is dysfunctional. If Mr Trump trampled due process and civil rights in the United States, his diplomats could not proclaim them abroad. The global south would be confirmed in its suspicion that American appeals to do what is right are really just an exercise in hypocrisy. America would become just another big power.
>Mr Trump’s protectionist instincts would be unbound, too. In his first term the economy thrived despite his China tariffs. His plans for a second term would be more damaging. He and his lieutenants are contemplating a universal 10% levy on imports, more than three times the level today. Even if the Senate reins him in, protectionism justified by an expansive view of national security would increase prices for Americans. Mr Trump also fired up the economy in his first term by cutting taxes and handing out covid-19 payments. This time, America is running budget deficits on a scale only seen in war and the cost of servicing debts is higher. Tax cuts would feed inflation, not growth.
>Abroad, Mr Trump’s first term was better than expected. His administration provided weapons to Ukraine, pursued a peace deal between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain, and scared European countries into raising their defence spending. America’s policy towards China became more hawkish. If you squint, another transactional presidency could bring some benefits. Mr Trump’s indifference to human rights might make the Saudi government more biddable once the Gaza war is over, and strengthen relations with Narendra Modi’s government in India.
>But a second term would be different, because the world has changed. There is nothing wrong in countries being transactional: they are bound to put their own interests first. However, Mr Trump’s lust for a deal and his sense of America’s interests are unconstrained by reality and unanchored by values.
>**Mr Trump judges that for America to spend blood and treasure in Europe is a bad deal. He has therefore threatened to end the Ukraine war in a day and to wreck nato, perhaps by reneging on America’s commitment to treat an attack on one country as an attack on all. In the Middle East Mr Trump is likely to back Israel without reserve, however much that stirs up conflict in the region. In Asia he may be open to doing a deal with China’s president, Xi Jinping, to abandon Taiwan because he cannot see why America would go to war with a nuclear-armed superpower to benefit a tiny island.**
>But knowing that America would abandon Europe, Mr Putin would have an incentive to fight on in Ukraine and to pick off former Soviet countries such as Moldova or the Baltic states. Without American pressure, Israel is unlikely to generate an internal consensus for peace talks with the Palestinians. Calculating that Mr Trump does not stand by his allies, Japan and South Korea could acquire nuclear weapons.
>By asserting that America has no global responsibility to help deal with climate change, Mr Trump would crush efforts to slow it. And he is surrounded by China hawks who believe confrontation is the only way to preserve American dominance. Caught between a dealmaking president and his warmongering officials, China could easily miscalculate over Taiwan, with catastrophic consequences.
>**The Election that Matters**
>A second Trump term would be a watershed in a way the first was not. Victory would confirm his most destructive instincts about power. His plans would encounter less resistance. And because America will have voted him in while knowing the worst, its moral authority would decline. The election will be decided by tens of thousands of voters in just a handful of states. In 2024 the fate of the world will depend on their ballots.
Gen Z and Women voters will have a huge role in whether a swing state will go Dem in 2024.
– Biden won by 11,000 votes in Arizona + Georgia
– By 33,000 votes in NV
– By 81,000 votes in PA
– By 100,000 votes in NM
American fascism and voter apathy pose the biggest danger to the world in 2024.
I mean, I just can’t believe we’re talking about THIS guy, this total fucking stooge. He can’t string a coherent thought together to save his life, and yet HE is the one we are all worried about!? Not someone with charisma or intelligence or wit, just this fucking insecure shithead. What an insane species we are…
Yet you gave democrat saying they’ll vote third party because they don’t like bidens stance on what’s happening with Israel. Golly gee wait til the see what republicans gonna do.
Smdh