“If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.” -Francis of Assisi

The only way the threat could be more existential is if he was sending Einsatzgruppen to execute people in the streets.

…I think they do. I think they believe it. We’re not talking about tremendously wealthy and insulated people here.

In this case I think it’s more of a “the last economic crisis didn’t effect me so I’ll be fine or even profit if it happens again” situation. I get the sense that some of them even hope it’ll happen again to put the dregs back in their place. They don’t seem to be willing to acknowledge anything going on at a global scale to isolate the contagion of the United States economic and foreign policies. They can’t acknowledge the conventional agreed function of something as rudimentary as trade deficits, or the predictable outcomes of applying scattershot tariffs. They are totally delusional and I know they were taught this stuff in college even if they’re just PEG bros or lenders. It’s really fucking scary magical thinking that ignores some glaring lessons of history.

I’m amazed by the number of “very serious people” I’ve met in the corporate finance world who think this man is not an idiot. It’s like a movie where aliens take over people’s bodies and I’m starting to identify them one by one. I’m talking about well educated people. It has really taken me aback.

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SVR, Mossad, CIA, is there an intelligence agency that doesn’t have Kompromat on Trump?

Mask-off moment. When the blowback comes, nobody can act surprised.

“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.”

https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/