Jeffrey Sachs
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They want this to end.
But the main thing that they see is instability and incompetence in the United States.
Was that AI generated, by the way?
That's real.
He's actually said it twice.
That smile seemed completely phony.
And, of course, every word he was saying was a lie because consumer confidence has plummeted.
People are suffering.
The American economy has two parts to it.
There is a digital and war industry, which is booming, let's say.
It's booming on Pentagon contracts.
It's booming on war.
So if you look at Silicon Valley and you look at the AI bubble and now AI bubble for autonomous weapons and Palantir information systems and the like,
Yeah, this is good if you happen to be the few people that own our government.
But for the rest of Americans, they can't believe what's going on.
And that's why Trump's approval rating reached the grand number of 34% against, I think it's 58% disapproval rating in the most recent Economist poll, but somewhere around there, 58 to 60%.
People are disgusted.
They can't pay their bills.
The United States budget is totally a joke.
Seven percent of GDP budget deficit.