I’m actually kind of glad to see this. Should drive turnout for Carney.

We really need to stop calling that “deporting.” It’s kidnapping and human trafficking. You can’t “deport” someone to a country they’re not a citizen of.

Counter-offer, Vlad: Fuck aaaall the way off back to Russia, then “fall” out a window so someone else can get started on blaming you for everything going wrong and reverse all your horrific garbage.

Sound good?

I don’t think it’s really sunk in yet with non-billionaire Americans how bad this is.

We’re talking about the likely crash of not just the stock market, but the value of the dollar. We’re talking about other countries decreasing their reserves of USD in favor of other reserve currencies and ceasing doing business with dollars. We’re talking about global consumer-driven boycotts of American exports.

This isn’t just going to be a recession. This isn’t just going to be a bear stock market. This is a sea change. This is the end of the United States as a reliable and stable economic force.

If this isn’t stopped somehow, it’s going to make the Great Depression look like a fucking walk in the park.

We’re well and truly fucked.

I’ve come to the conclusion that it has to get very, very bad in the states before we’ll actually do something about it, and by then it’s likely to be too late. We’re taking the plunge into fascism, and it won’t end well.

I really hope I’m wrong. The 50501 protests have been somewhat heartening. But it’s hard to see them having a real impact on an actual fascist traitor president who no longer has to care about his own popularity.

So it’s hard to imagine this ending in anything but violence.

Sorry guys, this one’s locked now. Y’all need to grow the fuck up.

Nah. It’s not almost like that. Nope. It’s exactly that.

This is weaponized incompetence and stupidity.

I expect it to accelerate.

Well. I stand at least somewhat corrected. The SWIFT usage seems experimental right now, but Kinexys is clearly in use in production.

OK, I’ll bite… Do you have any links to specific banks detailing their use of blockchain to make transfers to other banks?

You may work with banks that are experimenting with it, but it’s not going to replace things like SWIFT any time soon.

Except no it’s absolutely not. They use systems such as ACH and the Federal Reserve Wire Network. For international transfers, they use systems like the SWIFT network.

Why add a crypto middleman to transactions like those?

Rien ne va plus.

He hates being at the White House, with all the rules and procedures that have to be followed there. He’d much prefer to engage in open corruption without all that red tape.

This is going to keep happening. The brain drain is real.

Fair enough.

Germany should immediately seize all of Tesla’s accounts there and pay the workers on sick leave out of those funds.

Nah, DOGE is going to discover that The Atlantic is at fault for this somehow, and have all its management arrested.

We live in the stupidest timeline.

Which, in a two-party, first-past-the-post system, amounts to voting for Trump. They simply could not realize this.

Excellent breakdown. Well done!

And on top of all that, the article is specifically about Microsoft urging people to get rid of old hardware, which I take to mean NOT current-gen, bleeding-edge gaming hardware. So my suggestion was about not being forced to upgrade your hardware to keep having a usable computer.