So it’s a valid question to ask why all of the current fuckery has not translated into market chaos.

My reply addresses this with your 2nd point. What I’m trying to say is that maybe the market did factor in the fuckery and has so far believed it to be a nothing burger.

Everyone could be wrong, of course, but so far that is what the markets indicates. So naturally the follow up questions should be, are the markets wrong? Or am I (OP) consuming too much media from my bubble which is overexaggerating the doom and gloom?

You kind of get it with your own answer but are refusing to see it.

Why hasn’t the market dropped yet with all the fuckery going on in DC? Because the impact of said fuckery has not occurred yet. Let this be a chance for some awareness of your own personal information bubble and possible over doom scrolling.

This is not saying this administration isn’t going to cause some terrible shit. It just hasn’t stuck yet. Nothing the administration has done has prevented Microsoft or Google or Netflix from collecting their subscription fees. The closest thing so far has been tariffs that came and went.

The third option is making a deal with the EU and continue fighting.

It’s easy to say, but the author and his colleagues are not in a position to just “stop complying”.

1. We don’t know the author’s exact work. It could just be administrative or something that wound not make sense to be worked on if they aren’t delivering anything.

2. I’m not sure what work you expect then to do if their bosses are complying. If they are expected to be watch dogs, but the part of the organization that enforces the rules simply won’t enforce them, then what do you want to be done? Send stern warnings to rule breakers knowing it’s pointless?

It’s a shitty situation that needs to be solved elsewhere.

Somewhat preferable to the alternative

Jodie Foster is a real one