Donald Trump Admits Voters Are Struggling: 'Take a While' To See My Economy

Trump says voters are “struggling” but insists “his economy” is strong. Europeans have seen this movie before.

What Americans are living through isn’t prosperity that hasn’t arrived yet — it’s AUSTERITY, disguised as “tariffs”.

In Europe they remember Greece under the Troika: living costs rising, wages squeezed, public pain framed as unavoidable “reform”, while banks and large corporates were protected. Different language, same outcome.

Tariffs are not paid by China. They are paid by consumers. Economists are clear: tariffs function as regressive taxes, hitting lower-income households hardest. This is austerity without the label - and without honesty.

After the 2008 Lehman collapse, losses were socialised, “too big to fail” was rewarded, and the bill was deferred. Fifteen years later, the bill has come due.

Corporate welfare at the top.

Austerity for everyone else.

Tariffs are taxes, and highly inefficient ones
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewleahey/2024/11/27/tariffs-are-taxes-particularly-inefficient-and-corruptible-taxes/

Tariffs hurt lower-income Americans more than the wealthy
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/25/trump-tariffs-taxes-poor-rich.html

Anadolu Agency on Greece & Troika austerity (historical parallel)
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/economy/greek-fm-troika-austerity-like-being-waterboarded-by-cia/75122

This isn’t industrial policy. It’s one of the largest hidden tax grabs in modern U.S. history.

Americans have been fooled again.

#Austerity
#Troika
#Greece
#USEconomy
#PoliticalEconomy
#CostOfLiving https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/donald-trump-admits-voters-are-struggling-take-while-see-my-economy-1762903

Key barrier to online fraud can be bypassed for pennies, say researchers

> A central barrier to the creation of bogus social media accounts can be bypassed for as little as a few cents at a time, researchers at the University of Cambridge determined, a sign of just how low the barriers are to online disinformation efforts. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/key-barrier-online-fraud-can-be-bypassed-pennies-say-researchers-5577236 #socialmedia

Denmark plans to severely restrict social media use for young people

> As Australia began enforcing a world-first social media ban for children under 16 years old this week, #Denmark is planning to follow its lead and severely restrict #socialmedia access for young people.

> The Danish government announced last month that it had secured an agreement by three governing coalition and two opposition parties in parliament to ban access to social media for anyone under the age of 15. Such a measure would be the most sweeping step yet by a European Union nation to limit use of social media among teens and children.
https://apnews.com/article/denmark-social-media-ban-australia-1e96a3df3276cc2033a6f04effb89f51 #EU

Illegal crosses in French public spaces reignite debates over church-state separation

> Calvaries installed on public land in towns in the Alps, on the Mediterranean coast and on the island of Corsica, sometimes with the help of far-right identitarian movements, have rekindled long-standing tensions around France's 1905 law separating churches and state.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/12/09/illegal-crosses-in-french-public-spaces-reignite-debates-over-church-state-separation_6748297_7.html #France

Floods Force Evacuations In Thailand

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https://english.alarabiya.net/webtv/media/2025/11/24/floods-force-evacuations-in-thailand #Thailand #Flooding #SouthEastAsia #weather

Drug boats from Venezuela are mainly moving cocaine to Europe — not fentanyl to the U.S., experts say

> ...drug cartels operating vessels in the Caribbean, where roughly 50% of the airstrikes have taken place, are mainly moving cocaine from South America to Europe — not to the United States, according to current and former U.S. law enforcement and military officials as well as narcotics experts. And the deadliest drug of all, fentanyl, is almost exclusively smuggled over land from Mexico, the officials and experts say.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/drug-boats-venezuela-are-mainly-moving-cocaine-europe-not-fentanyl-us-rcna244583 #Venezuela #MAGA

Pyroclastic Flow From Mount Semeru Volcano in Indonesia

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https://english.alarabiya.net/webtv/media/2025/11/19/pyroclastic-flow-from-mount-semeru-volcano-in-indonesia

Indonesia evacuates stranded climbers after Semeru volcano erupts

> Indonesian authorities evacuated over 1,000 people, including over 170 hikers, on Thursday after the eruption of its Semeru volcano, one of the country's tallest peaks.

> The alert level was maintained at its highest after Semeru on Java island erupted 10 times on Wednesday, emitting massive plumes of ash and sending lava and rocks as far as 13 km (8.08 miles) down its slopes, officials said.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/indonesia-evacuates-stranded-climbers-after-semeru-volcano-erupts-2025-11-20/ #Indonesia #SouthEastAsia #volcano #eruption #SouthEastAsia

What's OK for some people is definitely NOT OK for other people.

A Chinese firm bought an insurer for CIA agents - part of Beijing's trillion dollar spending spree

In an astonishing intelligence coup, the CIA was caught off-guard when Fosun Group—a Chinese firm with deep ties to Beijing—quietly bought Wright USA, the insurer providing liability coverage to its agents.

For years, a Chinese-owned company had legal access to the personal details of America’s top spies.

The 2015 deal only came to light in 2016, sparking a CFIUS inquiry and forcing a sale back to U.S. owners. It was a wake-up call: China’s $2.1 trillion global spending spree isn’t just about business—it’s about strategic leverage.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g311jn1m9o #China #CIA #FBI #MAGA