He wasn’t successful at anything.

He slashed the corporate income tax and due to an effective amnesty on repatriation many large MNCs brought stashed offshore cash and cut R&D to register massive earnings for his last 2 years.

Ironically, this started to dry up right around Q1 2020… Then COVID drowned out everything.

His response was to just pump $4T to employers with almost no documentation, thank god we didn’t see a massive wave in inflation out of that.

Actually, it was the Palantir Gotham threat model… which has a backend to a private chatgpt model :(

Your reply has a lot of Yamcha energy.

https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia-and-eurasia/russia

U.S. total goods trade with Russia were an estimated $3.5 billion in 2024. U.S. goods exports to Russia in 2024 were $526.1 million, down 12.3 percent ($73.5 million) from 2023. U.S. goods imports from Russia totaled $3.0 billion in 2024, down 34.2 percent ($1.6 billion) from 2023. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Russia was $2.5 billion in 2024, a 37.5 percent decrease ($1.5 billion) over 2023.

https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia-and-eurasia/russia

U.S. total goods trade with Russia were an estimated $3.5 billion in 2024. U.S. goods exports to Russia in 2024 were $526.1 million, down 12.3 percent ($73.5 million) from 2023. U.S. goods imports from Russia totaled $3.0 billion in 2024, down 34.2 percent ($1.6 billion) from 2023. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Russia was $2.5 billion in 2024, a 37.5 percent decrease ($1.5 billion) over 2023.

https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia-and-eurasia/russia

U.S. total goods trade with Russia were an estimated $3.5 billion in 2024. U.S. goods exports to Russia in 2024 were $526.1 million, down 12.3 percent ($73.5 million) from 2023. U.S. goods imports from Russia totaled $3.0 billion in 2024, down 34.2 percent ($1.6 billion) from 2023. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Russia was $2.5 billion in 2024, a 37.5 percent decrease ($1.5 billion) over 2023.

Putin was brilliant, his moves until 2008 were a perfection of geopolitical chess.

After that he completely lost the plot, his terror at the rise of China completely broke his mind, he felt he had to show strength less Russia become a vassal state and resource depot for the CPC.

And he wasn’t wrong, but his response was stupid, and relied on Europe continuing to follow Merkel’s ‘nice doggy’ policies.

Now he thinks he can act anyway, because his sponsored right-wing groups will cause enough dissent that nobody will stop him from taking the baltics.

He 100% will or has done that, remember the secret protocol was secret.

The other shoe always drops later.

Power levels are bullshit.

Feckoin.

They aren’t rational, otherwise they would have waited to invade Ukraine till 2024 while cashing fuel checks.

They’re Russian, stop trying to bring reason into it.

I’m sure they genuinely think that now the US will attack Europe and they can invade on 2 fronts.

Russians are just insane morons.

This isn’t for Ukraine.

This is for Europe.

Hardware accel just seems completely broken, that and downloads to the app.

No, it’s just that the south hates everything about the rest of America, and have done since we took their slaves away

They support anything that hurts everyone else, or as they call it: ‘Owning the libs’.

Federal juries are way, way easier to tilt towards the prosecution, and the judge has far more power, even assuming he isn’t a Trump appointee.

Stupid Chinese.

A $2B purchase of Trump coin, he’ll give you Taiwan on a silver platter.

Don’t sweat it, everyone is just gatekeeping, because only their specific religion is true and everyone else is just evil and siding with Satan.

Southern Baptiats after schisming in order to make the Curse of Ham their dogmatic rationalization of slavery:

Oh my sweet summer child, you just opened the door to madness.

Southern baptists don’t…they don’t consider catholics to be Christians.

Not ‘catholics aren’t real Christians’ or ‘catholics are heretics’, they’re not Christian at all, they’re like Mormons or Muslims.

I have never managed to understand it, and I had a few SBC try to explain it to me, their attitude is just that it’s not real Christianity like protestantism, it’s something else, something alien.

This is why Irish and Italians weren’t considered white for a long time too, only really white people can be Christian, because of the curse of Ham. Black people like Obama are straight Muslim, full stop.

Feel free to go down this rabbit hole, it won’t get you anywhere good, and the sbc has been trying to quietly backpedal as best they can, but it’s still really popular among the smaller congregations, at least the ones I met.