"This week the IMF released an update to its World Economic Outlook, titled Global Economy: Steady amid Divergent Forces and, seriously, in what fricking world are they living? It was yet another example of international groups, governments and parts of the media sane-washing the utter crisis we all exist in because Donald Trump is an egomaniacal bully with the impulses of a spoiled toddler."
"I guess the IMF could not write the madman in the White House hasn't done anything lately, but you know he probably will because he is deranged and could for example decide that he deserves Greenland because Norway didn't give him the Nobel peace prize. No one writes or says that. Everyone fudges around trying hard to suggest things are normal. Americans being killed by roving gangs of government-sanctioned thugs and Trump threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act is just worthy of a straight report."
The IMF released an update to its World Economic Outlook titled Global Economy: Steady amid Divergent Forces. The update presents trade tensions as having abated since October 2025 while remaining subject to occasional flare-ups. The US president announced tariffs starting 1 February of 10% on imports from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, rising to 25% from 1 June unless Greenland is ceded. The update's tariff chart shows the average tariffs paid by Americans on all imports exceed October projections. Institutional and media language frames aggressive US actions and domestic violence as routine developments.
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