Comment by alkonaut
7 days ago
> "they have no idea what's coming" are I believe naive.
There could be someone who understands this. But this someone never shows their face in public, or provides any rationale for the policies beyond the nonsense like "reciprocal tariffs" or similar nonsense. I mean the literal board with tariff percentages that was held up had numbers that made NO sense, to anyone! Yet there are no critical questions?
It's beginning to feel like a conspiracy theory. That behind the obvious idiots who are the faces of the policies, are some other, less inept people who are pulling the strings. But who would this be?
> they expect the coming storm because they seek what follows.
If there are elections in 2026 and 2030 then what follows is a blue wave in the midterms and millions of disappointed voters who had their 401k's gutted, saw prices of most goods increase 10%+ in 2 years, saw little to no tax cuts, lost their jobs if they worked for the government, and lost their social security.
So I asked this question back when the wiki page for exorbitant privilege[0], the term used to refer to the US’ status, was posted. I was provided with a few links of people who do seem to understand[1]. The Hudson Bay capital piece was probably the most interesting[2].
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorbitant_privilege?wprov=sft... 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43529614 2: https://www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG/hudsonbay/rese...