Astro Hacker News - Tracking when Trump chickens out

bko |next [-]

> 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 |root |parent |next [-]

>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 |root |parent [-]

Okay I guess his critics just lost the plot. What's your point?

Swenrekcah |root |parent |next |previous [-]

Do you usually start negotiations by publicly deriding your counterparty and state absurd demands?

bko |root |parent |next [-]

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 |root |parent [-]

That's a bit of an appeal to authority, no? It might have given results but it wasn't without cost, is it net-positive overall?

This style doesn't build bridges, it's purely adversarial, diplomacy requires building bridges for long-term sustainability of relations.

Arodex |root |parent |previous [-]

"An idiot's idea of an intelligent person"

pavlov |root |parent |next |previous [-]

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 |root |parent |previous [-]

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Arodex |root |parent [-]

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 |next |previous [-]

This is a pretty unique aesthetic. Does the author have other works / a blog? Can v0 / Claude Design do this these days?

adlpz |root |parent |next [-]

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 |root |parent |previous [-]

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 |root |parent [-]

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 |next |previous [-]

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 |next |previous [-]

These sorts of things accomplish little except maybe making critics feel good.

Trump raped children.

hagbard_c |previous [-]

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 |root |parent [-]

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.