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A rather unsettling article in the New Statesman.

"The West is bored to death
Our nihilistic politics are a product of the crushing ennui and spiritual vacancy of modern life.
By Stuart Whatley"

https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/04/the-west-is-bored-to-death

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"American greatness has produced a society whose members know not what to do with the freedom and abundance that earlier generations secured. We are now witnessing the squandering of this inheritance, and it is even more idiotic and vulgar a spectacle than anyone would expect."

I suspect there is much in this, but really, people only have themselves to blame if they're bored. Read a book. Join a choir. Go for a walk. Take up birdwatching. Go to church. Do community theatre. Join a political party. Join a walking group. There are so many things to do, people just need to get off their arse.

Trump blinks???


Sam Stein
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Did Trump just announce a 90 day pause in tariffs?

Blinks? More like shat himself. I guess someone was finally brave enough to explain how catastrophic things might turn shortly if he didn't act. That said he's now in a huge fight with China and that alone could bring down the house of cards.

If the GOP has any sense left, and they probably don't, they'd be finding a way to dump Trump ASAP.

He hasn’t really backed down. Landing on a universal 10% tariff will entrench a Trumpist trade policy as the new normal.

Bollocks.

Someone must have told Trump that the markets and Treasury could not sustain much more of this nonsense. This is not some clever move, this is Trump basically throwing in the towel because even his dumbest supporters can see that he's made some bloody stupid moves in the last few weeks.