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Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News
Tuesday, September 02, 2025

And outside the realm of economics, the United States has just experienced a spectacular diplomatic disaster. America has spent decades trying to cultivate good relations with India, which could be a useful counterweight to China. Now we have a nearly complete rupture, with India actually cozying up to China. And what was that about? Apparently Trump, in his bizarre pursuit of a Nobel peace prize, tried to bully Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, into giving him undeserved credit for a cease-fire between India and Pakistan. The two men haven't talked since. And there's much more, like Trump's claim that the European Union is giving him $600 billion, which is news to the Europeans. You might say that the Trump administration is suffering from a richness of embarrassments.

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The world will go on without the United States.

Trump, and Republicans, never thought of that.

#1 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-02 08:36 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

You might say that the Trump administration is suffering from a richness of embarrassments.

Like it or not, it's the United States suffering from a "richness of embarrassments."

Even though only 25% voted for this nonsense, 100% of us are held liable for it.

#2 | Posted by jpw at 2025-09-02 10:01 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"the United States has just experienced a spectacular diplomatic disaster"

Not even the first in the Trump series.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-02 11:13 AM | Reply

The world will go on without the United States.

Trump, and Republicans, never thought of that.

#1 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

They are stupid and arrogant people.

Much better to suffer as Americans from honest mistakes rather than these ignorant, unforced errors.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-02 11:15 AM | Reply

Richard Wolff on China, BRICS, and the US economy's immediate future:

www.youtube.com

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-02 12:08 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"That's the way capitalism is set up.
Okay?

They long ago understood the
people at the top what they have to do
because we have a political system that
is a little odd to go with a top-down
economic system.

In our political system, we have universal suffrage.
Everybody gets one vote. Well, the vast
majority of people, 97%
are not employers. 3% are.

It would be
easy to mobilize a majority of the 97%
to limit the wealth of the 3%.

In fact,
you would expect that to happen because
the 3% are the ones with all the money
and the 97% are the ones who control the
majority in the voting.

The ruling class
of 3% do in America. They bought the
government, of course. That's how they
protect their situation in a world of
universal suffrage.

And how did they do
it? They did it with two political
parties.

Each of them depends on the 3%
for their money, the donor class, if you
like, the 3%. And now they divide.

Half
of them go to the right and mobilize and
mass support, you know, for things like
guns and white supremacy and against
abortion and all of that. and the other
ones they go for more liberal
progressive social welfare all of that
and minorities and women and so we have
two parties both of whom control the
mass of the vote.

Now, the punchline,
what the system does is it goes to the
rich people, says, "You're the donors.
We won't tax you."

Then it goes each
party to its mass base. We'll take care
of you. We'll give you this. We'll give
you that.

Here's the problem. You can't
buy the mass of people unless you tax
where the wealth is.

But there is a way
out. In the craziness of capitalism, you
don't tax the wealthy. You do provide
for the mass of people.

And the way you
do it is you go to the wealthy and you
say, "Since we didn't tax you, you have
all this money. Please lend it to us.

We'll give it back to you after a few
years, plus pay you interest while you
wait." That's called the deficit.

And
the reason we have a deficit is a
deference to those at the top to not tax
them to pay for the masses.

I'll give
you one simple example. Elon Musk, the
last I looked, has $350 billion or more
of personal wealth.

If you taxed away,
because we, the majority, voted for it.

If you taxed away half his money, he'd
still be the richest person on Earth,
but the government would have $250
billion with which to solve social
problems.

(the last few minutes of the above link)

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-02 01:10 PM | Reply

Re 6

Yup. Nailed it.

Americans are now either in complete denial or are just not paying attention or are not able to pay attention or are actively engaged in perpetuating Trumpy's Big Lies.

This is why foreign agitators like OneNut are so gleeful. They can see what's coming while we dither and fight amongst ourselves.

Champagne corks are popping all over. Just not here.

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-02 01:33 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#7

The link analysis is mostly about the failing US and the rising BRIC+ coalitions... sounds like you might have seen and understood the whole thing before.

I still need to listen to people like Wolff to make heads or tails of world economics; I pretty well understand ours.

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-02 01:53 PM | Reply

The Chinese are not a stupid people.

And there are 1.43 billion of them. They have access to the same technology we have. Including AI. So it was only a matter of time.

And the time is now. And NOW was the worst time for America to FAFO. For so many reasons. This is definitely one of them.

I did listen to the link. Thank you for that.

I am not expert that's for sure. That's why I also like listening to intelligent people talking about what's really going on in the world.

Sadly. None of leaders are currently on that list.

#9 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-02 02:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

#9
One of the channels I sub did a tour of the newest Disney, the one in Shanghai; they are an Australian family with little kids, and were in China for a couple of months.

www.youtube.com

Cant Believe This is China (Avatar Mountains in Zhangjiajie)

www.youtube.com

I never knew those mountains existed!

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-02 02:16 PM | Reply

If anyone needs further proof of America's demise, look no further than BRICS and the rest of the world moving on without us.

We're even losing long time allies like Canada and European nations who've been steadfast for decades.

Congratulations MAGA!

Happy extinction, America.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-02 02:55 PM | Reply

#11: Happy extinction, America.

Thank you MAGA voters for handing the keys of our house to both Russia and the superrich. And especially thank you AIPAC Democrats for steadfastly kowtowing to Israel which has split the progressive opposition to the status quo. We see this enfolding in the microcosm of the NYC Mayoral race. Don't believe me? See how many AIPAC Democrats are supporting their fellow Democrat poor Zohran Mamdani. Just one: Congressman Jerry Nadler (78) and he's retiring in 2026.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/55OSjhYQQlU/hq720.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEhCK4FEIIDSFryq4qpAxMIARUAAAAAGAElAADIQj0AgKJD&rs=AOn4CLDAD1HQ6AGXOKrXuAzWcvI5fayn9w

#12 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-02 03:20 PM | Reply

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