Tracking when Trump chickens out (thetacotracker.com)
47 points by JMiao 3 hours ago
bko 2 hours ago
> Settles Columbia $400M funding freeze for $221M university payment
> Settles for 15% EU tariff after threatening 30% in July 12 letter
Many of these seem like pretty basic negotiations.
> Posts himself as Jesus healing the sick, deletes it, claims it was a doctor
What did he chicken out of? I guess posting a meme?
I'm not a fan of a lot of the things going on at the federal level but I feel like many critics just lost the plot.
tonyedgecombe 2 hours ago
>I'm not a fan of a lot of the things going on at the federal level but I feel like many critics just lost the plot.
As a rule of thumb you can ignore everything people say before the "but".
bko an hour ago
Okay I guess his critics just lost the plot. What's your point?
Swenrekcah an hour ago
Do you usually start negotiations by publicly deriding your counterparty and state absurd demands?
bko an hour ago
I dont know. I guess that's one strategy. Im also not a billionaire and leader of the free world. So I can only assume there is some merit in this particular negotiation style if it landed him where he is.
piva00 36 minutes ago
Arodex an hour ago
"An idiot's idea of an intelligent person"
pavlov 2 hours ago
You’re sanewashing Trump’s absolutely bonkers behavior by focusing on the critics.
The man can barely form a sentence and posts on social media on the mental and writing level of a ten-year-old. Americans are choosing to accept this from their leader. He is 80 years old and obviously very unwell. Terminal-stage Soviet Union had more competent leadership.
anonu an hour ago
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Arodex an hour ago
Stop trying to "both sides" this.
Especially when one side is "rabid" "nuts" and the other side is just "sycophants". You are not the neutral reasonable centrist you pretend to be.
4corners4sides 2 hours ago
This is a pretty unique aesthetic. Does the author have other works / a blog? Can v0 / Claude Design do this these days?
adlpz 2 hours ago
v0 / Claude Design does this these days. As in, I may be wrong here, but this aesthetic is a good clue that the site was designed by AI. These models seem to love this brutalist high contrast look.
andrem an hour ago
It's Claude Design. How do I know? A site I was working on has the same aesthetic... Which is disappointing but not unexpected.
4corners4sides 9 minutes ago
Ah okay, thanks. We've come a long way since the purple gradients and glowy buttons but I suppose there is still a tell.
Arodex 2 hours ago
Aside from the clear insider trading (any news on who may be behind it, or have we reached the point where it is all untraceable and officials can exploit their position with absolutely no consequences whatsoever?), some trading firms have certainly started to try to model Trump to forecast when he flips.
clonedhuman an hour ago
These sorts of things accomplish little except maybe making critics feel good.
Trump raped children.
hagbard_c 2 hours ago
When Trump orders an attack he is a war-monger. When Trump does not order an attack he 'chickens out'. Maybe the author of this page should create another version for when he does the former, call it thewarmongertracker.com so that all sides are covered.
Arodex an hour ago
The fact that my dog doesn't know what to do when it catches the car doesn't mean that my dog is not an idiotic car-chaser.