Quote from: suchmoon on Today at 02:25:17 PM

TBH I don't even know what Trump's real policies are, he's talking nonsense most of the time and has been trying to distance himself from the only somewhat-policy-like document that I know of ("project 2025").

Well, leaving aside what he may or may not say, I think it is quite clear that he is going to lower taxes and simplify administrative procedures, as well as give authorizations and stimulate the drilling of oil instead of reducing it by going green as Biden did and then having to beg dictators like Maduro or the Al Saud to extract the oil that the USA had stopped extracting because of his policies. He already did that when he was in office and has said he will do it again.

In the case of Bitcoin I don't trust much what he is going to do, it seems to me that he doesn't understand it and has repeatedly shown signs of it. I also think that he went to the BC for pure electoral interest. But I do believe he will stop the launch of CBDCs.

Quote from: suchmoon on Today at 02:25:17 PM

That said, I think some of Kamala's "policies" seem to be targeted at Trump's voters (she's gonna reduce grocery prices because that's what Fox News has been talking about) and have little to do with how the real world works. Dumb and dumberer type of deal we got going on.

I quite agree, it seems to me that in this election many will vote for one candidate or another not so much because they believe they are ideal but because they believe they are the least bad.

Wanting to control prices on the basis of a political decree has been known not to work since the edict of Diocletian. Price controls can only work in short periods of time or in very specific sectors. The idea that food prices are going to be lowered with price controls is either not knowing anything or knowing that it does not work and making populism out of it.

Quote from: suchmoon on Today at 02:25:17 PM

Still, the two GOP weirdos are the most absurd and pathetic presidential ticket I've seen in my lifetime, and that includes Reagan, both Clintons, a bunch of Bushes, and Sarah Palin. So just as a sign of faith in the sanity of the electorate I have to make this bet.

So just to understand you better, what would be your ideal candidate, Sanders? I would have preferred Ron de Santis on the Republican side, which I guess for you is almost as evil as Trump.