Bessent said it out loud

[malaise]

We’re coming for Western Europe

Wake the eff up people

[maxsolomon]

1. I'm going to miss my imported luxury goods.

The Bordeaux wine, the Moutarde de Meaux...

[ret5hd]

3. what about your new Benz? or are you a Beemer man?

how long will your thin-soled italian leather shoes last?

[maxsolomon]

10. 16 year old Mini, so parts will be hard to come by.

I wear Allen Edmonds but IDK where they get their leather...

[fujiyamasan]

18. The imported luxury goods should be the least of our worries

When they start dumping US bonds. This time there’s no flight to safety here, because we are the cause.

And they certainly should. Europe should use every financial tool/weapon available to stop this insanity.

[maxsolomon]

21. Sure, the slope is slippery.

Doesn't mean I can't make jokes about it. Gallows humor.

[fujiyamasan]

22. Totally get it!

Didn’t want to come off having a stick up my ass.

Not much else we can do with this craziness!

[CrispyQ]

2. Delusions of grandeur.

There was a FB meme recently, something like I knew fascism would be cruel but I didn't think it would be so stupid. They're on a Venezuela high & very full of themselves right now but they are some of the most incompetent bastards I've ever seen. That said, we're living the transition to a new world order. We're not going back, as the 2024 popular campaign phrase expressed.

[whathehell]

11. "We're living the transition to a new world order"

"We're not going back, as the 2024 popular campaign phrase expressed" ?

I'm not sure if that was your intention, but those words sound terribly "resigned"....I don't know how you feel, but in my view, it's a tad early to be "giving up"

[CrispyQ]

12. Oh no, I'm not giving up. Not at all.

But if anyone thinks the old world order, with trust in the USA is coming back, well that's just not happening. The ugly underside of America showed itself to the world & it won't matter what sane democrat we might elect to the White House in 2028, we have a serious credibility problem with our traditional allies. Decades of good will squandered in less than a year.

[whathehell]

13. Well, I'm glad to hear that..

but I might disagree with this "ugly underside of America" view...I'd say it's more the "ugly underside" of the Right Wing, which is not, as we know, confined to America.

[ret5hd]

4. seen here on DU earlier...so apt:

[yellow dahlia]

5. Chilling!

[yellow dahlia]

6. That guy creeps me out, even before he opens his mouth.

[EarthAbides]

7. Following Putin's game plan

The fascist pig is not stupid, ignorant, yes, but not stupid. The fascist pig is following Putin's game plan. Implementing everything he can to destroy the world order. The fascist pig is ignorant to the fact that this game plan will destroy him, too. I look at my grandchildren and a deep sadness wells inside of me...

[malaise]

9. Yes this mess will hurt the young ones

He cares not who or what he destroys as long as his name makes the history books

[Pisces]

8. What is it going to take for people to wake up out their trance??? We are fools to believe this guy is going to

honor the midterms. He has telegraphed his dictator plans!!! If more Republicans don’t snap out of it we are headed for a serious Constitutional crisis and not to be hyperbolic, but the end of democracy.

[newdeal2]

14. Then Europe needs to act fast

Start by throwing the tech billionaire bums off their yachts parked in Italy and France.

[dalton99a]

15. +1. And hit the tech bros in their pocketbooks

[malaise]

16. Good idea

Rec

[Norbert]

17. My high school dream of owning a Maserati will be unfulfilled.

[malaise]

19. LOL

😀

[DFW]

20. There's always a downside....

Besides, when Trump has declared Italy to be the 51st State, a Maserati will become a domestically made car. Problem solved!