To the tune of Day Tripper-Beatles

https://youtu.be/AYZlME0mQB8

Wood Chipper

Had a good reason
For taking the misty way out
Had a good reason
For taking the misty way out now
He saw the wood chipper
Jumped the thicket, yeah
It took him so long to branch out
And he branched out

He's an old geezer
His body's half the way there
He's an old geezer
His body's half the way there, now
He saw the wood chipper
Jumped the thicket, yeah
It took him so long to branch out
And he branched out
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

Tried to help him
I only saved his right hand
Tried to help him
I only saved his right hand, now

Why the hell anyone would still vote for this poor excuse of a man I have no idea.>

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, would be a good start.

HeMateMe is from the:

Death, Fascism, Pursuit of Trump, school!

<I have no idea.>

<Chicago saw 92 shot, including at least 16 fatalities>

<Nok> : it is objectively wrong to be racist .

<Gw>/<bp> : <gotcha. There are no omv in your worldview. Lurking readers , see how smart I am and how stupid libs are , how I dominate them >

Trump's maggots>

Thank you for your unhinged nutjob hate!
(Goebbels has al trained very well)

Enjoy your fascism, enjoy your butchering of life, but most of all, enjoy your ball-less cowardice>

Hahaha 😊😊

This <mother f.cker> <diceman> is either a bot or seriously diseased

<The storming of the presidential palace and ignominious flight of President Gotabay Rajapaksa from Sri Lanka was so dramatic that numerous theories were spun to explain away a routine economic bankruptcy. This arose from years of high fiscal deficits (government overspending) translating into high current account deficits (national overspending), empty foreign exchange reserves, and hence soaring inflation and debt default. This holds lessons for India. Some idealists claim that the underlying problem was ethnic tension and Sinhala crushing of minority Tamils and Muslims. Actually, Sri Lanka is an unfortunate but telling example of how a country can grow at a decent 5% rate for decades even with a terrible ethnic civil war. After crushing the Tamil Tigers and killing over 50,000 civilians in the process, the Rajapaksa government made no attempt to heal wounds with Tamils, yet Sri Lanka averaged 8. 5% GDP growth in the three years from 2010 to 2012.

Many Sri Lankans think the Rajapaksa family caused the crisis by looting the country before fleeing. There is no evidence of massive loot. Besides, a middle-income country cannot be busted by the diversion of a few billion dollars by politicians. Some Indians believe the problem was a Chinese “debt trap”, with China lending so much that the country was unable to repay. China accounts for 15% of Sri Lanka’s debt, which is substantial but by no means dominant. China financed a billion-dollar white elephant port-cum-airport at Hambantota, Rajapaksa’s constituency, but then accepted a lease of the property in place of repayment, so this did not cause the debt default. China has lent somewhat recklessly with few conditionalities to many developing countries and is suffering as these borrowers default (Zambia is an earlier example). Currying favour with the Rajapaksas, which China is accused of, is surely the worst possible way to win friends and influence in Sri Lanka today. 

Sri Lanka’s default has several economic lessons for India. Please focus on those and not bogus political theories. Sri Lanka has always had a very low ratio of tax revenue to GDP, barely 10% in good years, yet combined this with populist giveaways and subsidies. This makes it vulnerable to setbacks, and it has often required bailing out by the International Monetary Fund. In 2016, it negotiated an IMF loan that aimed to almost halve the fiscal deficit from 6.9% of GDP to 3.5% by 2020. This was tough for a populist country. It did make a start. But then came political instability and a constitutional crisis in 2018, followed by presidential and parliamentary elections in 2019 and 2020. Elections fuelled political competition to slash taxes. This populism took one million taxpayers out of the tax net. VAT was almost halved from 15% to 8% and sundry other taxes slashed. The fiscal deficit soared to 11% of GDP in 2020 and 12% in 2021. Bankruptcy was inevitable. >

The Trump Chumps.

As I see it, there are two types of Trump Chumps. Now, what they have in common is their total suspension of anything resembling rational thinking. A compelling example of a situation where feelings trump facts (pun intended).

Type A is the Trump supporters (well, not all of them, but a large chunk of them). In their eyes, the Donald can do nothing wrong. No matter how huge his missteps, they will find excuses for his behavior. And ino matter how heavily his powerful enemies outplayed him on the political chessboard, they would say: he's playing 4D chess, he's got it all under control! Fueled by CIA psyops like qanon, they, like Trump himself, got checkmated.

Type B is the Trump haters (you know who you are) with their pathological dislike of the man. Nothing that Trump does or say can ever be applauded, it is strictly verboten. No achievements during his administration (of which there were quite a lot) must be mentioned. Historic peace treaties in the Middle East, energy independence (already undone by the Biden administration), great job numbers, nothing mattered. It would all be ignored or explained away.

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<Trump vetoes measure to end US involvement in Yemen war>
https://apnews.com/article/1b17cee2...

Interesting read, although I am skeptical to the conclusions. Seems like the author insinuates that 'populism' was part of the problem. But that's not it: the globalist banking cartel routinely bankrupt developing countries (cue: IMF "loans") so why should Sri Lanka be an exception?

The Trump Chumps.>

Trump has created nothing but: I will tell you what I will do, and I will do it.

I will do it because it benefits you.

I will do it for free, because I don't require government to create my wealth.

The Trump Chumps.>

What are you:

Biden Chump?
Obama Chump?
Hillary Chump?

Hahaha 😊😊

<Cassandro: <diceman> And here we have Type A.>

Hahaha 😊😊