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Economic Control Through Tariffs

6 items · 4 aliases · peaked week of 17 May 2026 · first seen 28 Apr 2026

A political commentary comparing Donald Trump's global influence to a disruptive force in a failing global system, using apocalyptic and metaphoric language to frame the decline of international economic cooperation and democratic governance.

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  • Phil Goff Cross Party Lines (audio) Budgets, Basics and Bilaterals 18 May · 93s
    I emphasize there are no problems in Kandana because we're perfect here. But uh very interesting uh set of primary results coming through. Um Senator Cassidy in Louisiana was turfed out. Uh he was third in the Republican primary. Uh he actually voted for the impeachment of the president in early 2021 uh and incurred the wrath of Trump then. A very interesting one is going to happen tomorrow uh in uh it's called Kentucky 4. It's the northern part of Kentucky, not far from Cincinnati, and there you've got a guy called Thomas Massey, who is sort of a mainstream Republican on most issues. Uh he's uh incurred Trump's wrath uh over the Epstein files. So it's going to be very interesting to see what happens. The younger voters, Massey says, are very much in favor of him. The Fox News contingent, the sort of the older brigade seemed to be breaking for his opponent. But it's um that that that all sounds very interesting to talk about Kentucky 4, but it's uh a bit of a debate going on in the United States at the moment about what sort of Republican party is going to emerge in 2028. Will it be a continuation of this MAGA sort of stuff or back to a more traditional form of GOP? So uh uh, and of course, there are things going on in the United Kingdom that are worth watching as well. Tell us about Makerfield, where is it?
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a stalemate with no resolution or forward plan

Budgets, Basics and Bilaterals
18 May

a new form of global economic domination

Our Rough Beast.
16 Apr
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