Ivo Vegter
Columnist at Freelance
Columnist at The Daily Friend
Columnist at The Daily Friend. Advocate for classical liberalism, non-racialism, science and reason. No time for bigotry. Look up Brandolini's Law.
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1 week ago |
dailyfriend.co.za | Ivo Vegter
A US court nixed “reciprocal” tariffs, as institutional checks and balances start to function against Trump’s imperious rule by emergency decree. When Trump returned to the Oval Office in January this year, he returned with an ambitious agenda. Many of his supporters pointed out that he had been president before, and it wasn’t so bad (even though it was, by many measures, and he had the worst average presidential approval rating in modern American history).
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1 week ago |
dailyfriend.co.za | Ivo Vegter
While the rest of the world eyes dominance in the fourth industrial revolution, Donald Trump is turning America’s clock back in an attempt to defeat woke ideology. Trump has a bone to pick with Harvard University, but Harvard isn’t having any of it. To punish it for its defiance, Trump has only one cudgel, and that is to withdraw government grant funding. This, the famed author of The Art of Extortion is more than willing to do.
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2 weeks ago |
dailyfriend.co.za | Ivo Vegter
I often get questions about why I cover this thing, but not that thing, or why I write about international politics when there is so much to write about in South Africa. The question of what to write about is a question I have to answer to myself twice a week. There are, of course, a myriad of possible topics. Current events happen fast and furiously, both in South Africa and abroad. But I am not a news reporter. I write opinion.
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2 weeks ago |
dailyfriend.co.za | Ivo Vegter
Several major elections have been held around the world, each leading to upsets widely attributed to anti-Trump sentiment. It’s only been four months, so there’s not all that much data to go on, but a pattern is emerging in election results around the globe. While the nationalist, populist, protectionist right was ascendant around the globe last year, it is unexpectedly getting trounced at the polls this year. We can call this the Trump Counter-Effect.
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3 weeks ago |
dailyfriend.co.za | Ivo Vegter
Proposed banking deregulation in the United States has media panicked, but it’s actually great news. Here’s why. “US watchdogs are reportedly planning to slash capital rules for banks designed to prevent another 2008-style crash, as Donald Trump’s deregulation drive opens the door to the biggest rollback of post-crisis protections in more than a decade,” reports The Guardian.
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And MAGA morons nod along agreeably. Ask them: From whom has the US defended Qatar so vigorously? Ask them: Should a state sponsor of terrorism provide air transport for the US Commander in Chief? Ask them: Where in the budget can we find the $400m that will now be saved? https://t.co/6JBkwGpJsa
‘Trump caved and got zero in return’: Pundits, economists, and analysts slam Trump’s trade deal https://t.co/E7YPTEVjEA (“We’re not looking to hurt China.” You wot mate? So who were you looking to hurt? Americans?)
RT @PeterSchiff: How is this trade deal a win for Trump? China has agreed to nothing. The 145% tariffs we imposed have been reduced to 30%.…
