Gotta chuckle when the Tesla stock price slumps: that's the language they understand & they don't like it up 'em. An "illegal boycott", Mr President? Never heard of such a thing. Fashion is a much underestimated economic force. Plenty of folks across the entire planet, including within USA itself, aren't going to rush to take any Trump-endorsing purchasing decisions.
For a century or more, Corporate America has been the mighty beneficiary of what have effectively been pro-US-lifestyle fashion choices across the globe, from the colas to Hollywood to Disney to Nike and a thousand more. These things can change - and real quick, too: decisions on consumer durables are daily, by the billion. Suppose Tesla is just a harbinger, eh, Mr Apple ..?
See, capitalism can address issues other political & diplomatic forces are relatively impotent to affect.
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"The morning of February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin got up and looked out of the window. The weather was grey and gloomy. The day was going to be particularly tedious: inaugurating the collective restaurant of a tractor factory, patting the heads of babes in arms, repeating well-honed speeches about the greatness of Russia and its length and its breadth. "How boring, sometimes, to be a leader," he thought. He idly fancied the idea of relieving his boredom with a pretty blonde, which by association made him think of the Ukraine. Then a monstrous idea crossed his mind !!!"
Isn't it mahvellous, dahling, that buying a Tesla with tax breaks paid for by the poorer lets us virtue-signal twice: once when we buy the EV and then again when we sell the Muskmobile?
It's actually still up YoY, but it's been overvalued for a looong time.
Musk's fully self-driving and robotaxi vapourware promises tend to keep it up due to investors who've got amnesia about his previous claims that never came true, but you know, maayyyyybe this year they will?
Meanwhile a few more Republican Town Hall sessions have gotten a bit fractious, turns out dyed-in-the-wool patriots get a bit irked when teenage edgelords, some of whom previously securely stored kiddy porn for a living, target veterans.
Bold moves though, personally I'd be incredibly diplomatic towards people trained to use weapons in a nation well known for its Second Amendment rights. I'm sure if anyone does go off the deep end, their Call of Duty skills will stand them in good stead though. I mean, any giant apes start chucking barrels at me from a building site, boy are they in trouble!
Lammy:
"Now it is Putin who stands in the spotlight, Putin who must answer, Putin who must choose. Are you serious, Mr Putin, about peace? Will you stop the fighting? Or will you drag your feet and play games, pay lip service to a ceasefire while still pummeling your prey? My warning to Mr. Putin is this – if you are serious, prove it with a full and unconditional ceasefire now."
What a posturing popinjay, he and TTK make a good pair.
A preposterous poltroon. A pretentious prick. And if it came to it, a preening, pusillanimous pushover.
Not to mention a pruritic pillock.
OT, but I had to have a good belly laugh at the US approaching Denmark about increasing egg exports.
I mean, it's a bit like a chavvy neighbour popping round for a cup of sugar whilst their kids are trying to nick your car.
Something to park a tariff on though.
I await with interest the official statements on today's Trump/Putin talks.
All we have so far is Putin's economic special envoy: "Under the leadership of president Putin and president Trump, the world has become a much safer place today."
Doesn't sound too bad, although Ukraine's red lines are going to take quite a battering, and there's many a slip.... the stuff about Middle East co-operation and Iran to not be able to threaten Israel is intriguing, is Trump leveraging the removal of Assad?
The basic thesis, that the West and Russia could both benefit from co-operation rather than conflict, is indisputable, but then it's indisputable that my small market town wouldn't be improved by an influx of Francophone Africans, yet Boris and Rishi did it.
OT, but the removal of Crispin Odey seems confirmation that the days of "droit de directeur", which still seemed to pertain when I worked in financial services, seem to be at an end.
I was always impressed with the pulchritude to be seen in the sales offices. Mind, it worked both ways. We had a single female director who definitely leveraged her assets - tight white blouses whose buttons always seemed ready to burst. Pretty, intelligent girl too. Another director left wife and kids for her, then she chucked him a few months later. He killed himself.
Yep, that's OT alright. More than usually so.
Dom Cummimgs. Sitting on the fence never was his style:
The entire SW1 ecosystem — left/right, leave/remain, Tory/Labour, MP/official/media — told you: Slava Ukraini, as long as it takes, whatever it takes, Putin will fail, sanctions are crippling Russia, China will abandon Russia, the world will unite for democracy, the counteroffensive is a triumph, Russia can’t sustain her losses and is on the brink of collapse etc.
America is facing the reality that the propaganda is fake and China is the big winner, as I said would happen in Q1 2022. As America recalibrates, SW1 and Europe are going crackers because three years of fairy tales are colliding with reality. Roughly 99% of SW1 was disastrously, historically epically wrong. They’ve humiliated themselves and our country globally, helped wreck a country and kill a million people, and given China a historic bonanza of money and intelligence and leverage.
An SW1 regime that cannot cope with Somali machete-wielding teens, with Albanian drug gangs, with Pakistani rape gangs, with Islamic extremists running ‘gas the Jews’ marches every week in London — a regime with cross party and NPC consensus that stopping the dumb dinghies over the Channel is ‘literally impossible’ (Sam Freedman) and it’s ‘fascist’ to try — is dreaming of phantom forces controlling East Ukraine’s borders.
Slava Ukraini is a perfect way for our Idiocracy, its intelligentsia and the regime media, to vent nationalist emotions without having to be patriotic for Britain. It’s ‘impossible’ to control our borders but we must fight over Ukraine’s borders. We must coverup the rape gangs ‘for community cohesion’ and to continue mass immigration but we will rally on TV to fight ‘the new Hitler’ thousands of miles away with forces that do not exist.
No matter your view on the war, it now seems to be the Trump US now saying "Peace, man" and Europe, far more damaged by the war than the US, saying "we fight on, we fight to win". Pretty remarkable.
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