Jeffrey Sachs Goes Off, Roasts Donald Trump’s Trade Talk, Says 'Mickey Mouse Is Smarter Than Him'

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨economics@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNson4TqUO4

Jeffrey David Sachs is an American economist and public policy analyst who is a professor at Columbia University, where he was formerly director of The Earth Institute. He worked on the topics of sustainable development and economic development.

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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

How can this happen when it makes no sense? And that people should understand were are in one-person rule in the United States. Our political system is in a state of collapse. What President Trump did is an emergency decree. Everything he does is an emergency decree. … Because he’s King. Those powers are not invested in the President of the United States, they’re invested in the Congress. … But the U.S. starting in 1945 after World War II became a military state to a large extent and so it sprinkled in it’s legislation emergency emergency emergency and Trump doesn’t have prove anything’s an emergency, he just has to say something’s an emergency. So suddenly the trade deficit became an emergency and on that basis he issues a one-person rule, even his aides don’t know what he is doing.

Cut out a few bits that were just him referencing evidence (denoted by … ). It’s so fucking important that he is calling out this as something that has been going on since the end of World War II. He is making clear that this is not just an indictment of Trump, but of our entire political system which has slowly ceded power to the Executive for going on 80 years now.

He deserved a standing fucking ovation for these statements and the silence after he speaks is deafening.

This is well worth the watch. Hell, you can even just put it on in the background and listen, you don’t really need to see him.

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