Understanding the US - Again

[A_Gupta]

Comment from a despairing American:

Have you heard of “kettling”? It’s a protest-control tactic: push the crowd toward what looks like an exit, then seal it off. Do it again and again until there’s only one way out — straight through the choke point. In theory, it’s for safety. In practice, the cordon snaps shut. Panic builds. People not even part of the protest get trapped. I’ve been in it. You feel dread in your bones as every escape closes.

That’s what this administration is doing — with policy.

Cut funding to universities — and block every path to replace it. Scientists try to save their data — and are told it must be destroyed or it’s “theft.” Universities lose the ability to recruit international students — crippling their intellectual and financial future.

Health researchers, following the rules in good faith, find themselves maneuvered into committing what the law defines as a crime against humanity — exactly that, with no qualifier. Human research rendered scientifically useless by erased data meets the definition word for word. The kettling works: every way out turns into a dead end.

It’s happening in climate policy, economic policy, foreign policy, journalism, the law, civil rights, the military, public service. Kettling, everywhere. Good-faith actors backed into corners until quitting seems the only option left.

[drnayar]

I am told why Switzerland was hit with a 39% tariff is that Trump did not know that Switzerland was not part of the EU, and felt they had tricked him.

I am told that the Swiss refused to move the gold they have in their vaults (much of it belonging to their clients) to the US for "safe keeping" and therefore attracted Trump's wrath. FWIW.

the robber country will just take it !!

[Rudradev]

Attack on the Centers for Disease Control HQ in Atlanta by a deranged gunman.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/arch ... dy/683814/

[hanumadu]

Trump is a deep state trojan horse inside MAGA. He will not stop till he destroys MAGA. No one will ever go against the establishment ever again and USA will once again happily be a uniparty.

[Vayutuvan]

Trump is a deep state trojan horse inside MAGA.

There is circumstantial evidence to support that theory. Orangebandar was a democrat at one time.