2026-10-17 Social General Briefing Summary
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Musk suggested Trump restrict Ukraine’s Starlink service, Telegraph reports (r/worldnews)
- Reddit_2_2024: I encourage all Europeans to cancel Starlink subscriptions, as well as social media platform X usage, and to never purchase Tesla vehicles in response to this unhinged throttling of satellite service access to Ukraine who is defending its territory from illegal Russian special military operation.
- Chilluminatti: So Musk is back, he is gonna screw things up even more until everyone stops buying Teslas again and then he will dissapear for 6 months until sales have gone up again.
The cycle just repeats itself - NotAdrienBrody: Oh wonât someone rid us of this meddlesome Musk
Trump says neither he nor Musk responsible for Ukraine loss of Starlink access (r/worldnews)
- ObviouslyRealPerson: Trump, responsible?
Trump only takes ownership for things that reflect well on him. Anything negative belongs to someone else or nobody at all. - jpsreddit85: It’s always funny looking at things like this.
Either they’re lying (probably) or they’re both so incompetent they don’t know who is calling the shots (also believable) or they know who did it but don’t want to say because it still makes them look bad (also probable).
They’re both acting like they can pass the buck, but they are ultimately responsible either way. - Wrong_Interview7513: “The Buck Stops Here”
* Harry S. Truman 1945
“I Don’t Know What The Fuck is Happening, right Elon?"
* Donald J. Shitass 2026
Former Ukrainian president Yushchenko writes open letter to Trump (r/worldnews)
- krtyalor865: Whew! Anyone who supports Trump in all of this needs to READ this story.
âDetails: Yushchenko also reflected on events more than three decades ago, when the Soviet Union was breaking up.
He noted that Ukraine had then possessed the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal. “In negotiations with our allies, we agreed to give it up. We did so because we believed that a world governed by agreements was safer than a world governed by nuclear weapons."
Quote: “In 1994, the United States of America, along with its partners, signed the Budapest Memorandum, providing Ukraine with official assurances of security, sovereignty, and the inviolability of our borders.
They pledged not to threaten or use force against Ukraine. America assumed a moral responsibility toward Ukraine. So how can anyone today, when a treacherous enemy has attacked us, forget America’s signature on this document?” â - SonofTreehorn: Trumpâs actions will result in more countries seeking nuclear weapons to level the playing field. Â Heâs effectively removed the U.S. as a trustworthy ally.
- RadicalOrganizer: Yushchenko is a family friend. He is a good man and has gone through a LOT. And he is right, Trump is psychotic for siding with russia
Trump Suffers Double Inflation Blow Within 48 Hours as Midterms Loom (r/Economics)
- NOGOODGASHOLE: The best part is that the administration consistently says that the economy is doing great and spending is under control. And the polls say that 30% of Americans believe it.
- EtadanikM: The Trump administration believes inflation is a positive thing, because it allows them to inflate the gigantic debt they’re accumulating while weakening the dollar (which they want because they want to bring back manufacturing).
But they need a way to sell it to their base who obviously are suffering for everything happening. - Animal2: When republicans gain power, one always expects the US economy to go to shit at some point.
They always institute poor policy in that regard, most notably massive tax cuts for the wealthy and then cuts to useful (often even money saving) services and then inflate military spending. But it can sometimes take a full term or multiple terms to really get things completely in the dumps.
To have done this in just 2 years is kind of amazing and feels unprecedented in its incompetence (although I’m sure it’s weaponized incompetence put to use by hostile actors both in and outside of both government and the US itself).
Things were going bad enough with the usual bad policy plus on top of it the Trump stuff like trade wars on all its allies. But then they really just jumped off a cliff with the Iran stuff. Wow.
U.S. budget deficit swells to almost \$2 trillion for fiscal 2026, up 12% in a single year (r/Economics)
- Rattus_NorvegicUwUs: Trump and the GOP, over 10 years, are responsible for 30% of all the debt this nation has ever accrued.
Itâs safe to say we need to throw this fact in their lying faces every single time they try to use the debt as an excuse to starve children or cut cancer research.
The GOP are a failure. They have been hijacked by extremists who truly have no care for the fate of this nation if they can scurry off with more money than god.
They all need to go. Every single last one of them. And never allowed back until they clean house and get adults back in the room. - paperfire: I know Trump is terrible and he made the problem worse through his unfunded tax cuts, but the deficit is not all from him. It was huge with Biden too and he made no effort to close the deficit.
The problem is America has a low fertility rate, is aging rapidly, and its mandatory spending on seniors through Social Security and Medicare is surging fast. There is no way to fix this without tax increases, the US is undertaxed relative to other OECD nations and needs more revenue to pay for its obligation to its growing senior population. - Ravenluna798: He’s bankrupting us. Just like he bankrupted all of his companies.
To all the people who voted for the “businessman” you’re idiots.
God i wish we had better education here…