Just weeks ago someone told me that they had transferred their retirement account into gold. I thought that was quite a bit doomsday-prepper-esque. Now here, just weeks later, I'm thinking it may be a good idea myself...
It's still not quite the prerogative state that Putin's kleptocracy or Hitler's Germany were, where the Dear Leader enjoys jurisdiction over jurisdiction with just enough vestiges of the rule of law left in place for the capitalist economy to function, but it's sure moving in that direction.
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On the other hand, Trump catastrophicly imploding the US economy is one of the likelier good endings to this insanity.
Not sure if y'all saw this also: https://www.axios.com/2026/01/10/trump-venezuela-oil-nationa...
The PACE of all of this is really alarming also.
Let the stupidity and corruption flow through you....
It reads to me more as ‘tepid’. He’s obviously trying to be as apolitical as possible, but I don’t think that’s going to help.