A space cowboy named Spike

Sorry for putting this on your tl but I need to stress how mentally unwell striver As*ans are - Someone earnestly posts their dream road trip - San Fransican tech bugman building some bullshit that won’t exist in a year comes across it - Quotes it with “I did your drive” *insert smirking wojak* These “people” need to go back to their rice paddy fields

No joke, at this point I’m excited for Mamdani to win. It’s the only opportunity for both ends of the economic/values spectrum to learn something important.

***Sad trombone noises***

Stocks are desperate to rally on the articulation of literally any idea that isn't abjectly insane. Bessent muttering "Well, you know, it'd be bad to have an all-out trade war-to-the-death with the world's leading industrial juggernaut" sent stocks up 1,000 points. It's amazing. Dude has the weirdest job in the world. Go around, say "water is wet" to various audiences, add trillions in equity value. The economic literacy situation in the WH is so dire that SB could go on TV right now, like in the next five minutes, and say "Well, you see there's demand, but what this administration also understands is that, there is also supply? So we see both sides here..." and stocks would, I guarantee you, jump 100 points.

This is what I find so mind bending: Europe would rather surrender to China than cooperate with the US. That is their choice but then don't complain

The very fact that Europe’s initial reaction to Trump’s tariff policies is to organize a summit with China, while discussing the removal of tariffs on Chinese EVs that will devastate the European automobile industry, speaks volumes about how detached our political and bureaucratic elites have become from reality. Instead of launching an urgent collective mission to Washington, or at the very least convening an ad hoc EU summit to engage directly with Trump and protect the interests of European citizens and industries, we are witnessing Spain’s Prime Minister Sánchez make his third visit to China. Driven by petty egos and an absurd desire to appear “tough” amid the gravest systemic threats and risks on the old continent - an enduring conventional war in Ukraine and a non-conventional war against Europe’s security order - these elites seem more interested in punishing Trump for being Trump than in delivering real solutions. They would rather play to the public’s emotions - rage, disappointment, confusion - than demonstrate ruthless pragmatism and rise above their own shadows, even once in their careers, to do what is best for Europe. Let me be clear: the so-called “de-risking” approach to China is now mutating into a “re-risking” strategy. It is deepening Europe’s dependencies and exposing even greater vulnerabilities - potentially with more catastrophic consequences than the infamous „Wandel durch Handel“ policy toward Russia. That, too, was a „brilliant“ German/EU invention, aimed at engagement and pacification of a great power. We all saw how that ended. In the end, this is not only a fundamentally flawed approach to China - it’s also strategically incoherent. It will do absolutely nothing to change Trump’s calculus. He will simply engage with Xi directly, bypassing Europe altogether. Worse still, by aligning with China in this critical moment, Europe is effectively siding with the Dragonbear alliance in the midst of Cold War 2 with America. It is not just misguided - it is dangerously self-defeating.

Unemployment really is the domain of men now most women do not have the courage to stare into the void