The trump regime was designed to TANK the US economy so that stocks, businesses, and industries can be bought by billionaires at rock bottom prices.
All is going according to plan.
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"Ban all the things that you don't own."
I had this thought the other day and this seems as good a place to leave it as any. Trump seems to be running the economy like it is a simplified version of the 1980s. Like the macho, bold, no compromise leadership style we would have expected from a white collar "hero" of that time period. As if that's when he learned what a leader looks and acts like and never changed his mind. Absolutely no consideration for evolving culture or the infinitely more complex, interconnected world we live in. Let alone the complexity of the stock market, global trade, and US consumer economy.
Just oversimplified notions like, "We have to tear it down to rebuild it! You don't have the balls to do something like that! I'm leader!"
Though, more likely he's just dementia riddled and controlled by a foreign government and too dumb to realize any of it.
"Don't worry about blank. Let me worry about blank!"
My only regret.... is that I have..... boneitis.
So the 1% can buy nearly all of it for a song. Provided of course all of us the dumb money sells.
It also forces farmers to sell more of their products here in the U.S., to bring grocery prices way down. We’ve already seen this with eggs.
The absolutely stupid thing about this particular statement is that egg imports had risen to meet demand which was forcing egg prices back down. The tariffs are going to completely reverse that.
Also, plus, too we're doing next to nothing about Bird Flu that's killing the egg laying chickens and causing the shortage.
Also we don't have any day laborers to plant and pick our crops this year beacuse they are all too scared/deported for the US to produce enough food for ourselves.
Lol fuck America depending on day laborers to subsidize low grocery prices. Time for all you citizens to get off your ass and head to the fields
Which they would do if the work paid a living wage.
Is that really your argument? If farms just increased their labor costs by 300-500%, we could all just be happily employed farmhands?
Yes. People are willing to do all kinds of tasks for money. If nobody wants to do a job it's because you aren't paying enough.
Well I suppose the future will prove one of us wrong
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The MAGA fucks will drink this new batch of Orange Kool-Aid, mixed with Russian vodka.
Orange Kool-Aid
Trump's piss is orange? Makes sense.
Fret not, says the president, he is apparently playing chess while the world is playing checkers
He's trying to treat the entire country like one of the casinos he bankrupted to screw over his creditors.
I'm sure he thinks he's playing chess. But what he's really doing is sitting in the corner eating the pieces.
A vivid and possibly accurate description.
I still think he is planted there to do as much damage as possible before he expires. Which would mean he is doing it all on purpose.... Which then again would have to make him smarter than I give him credit for
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If the world is playing checkers, then you’re an idiot for playing the wrong game.
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“The president isn’t a number-crunching guy, per se, but President Trump strongly demanded big numbers that would make other countries treat us fairly. And I think you can see today that those numbers are huge,”
HAHAHAHA
I doubt he can even count past ten, because that's when he runs out of fingers.
The Narcissist's Prayer
That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
Millions of Americans voted with the delusion "Trump really cares about me"
The wealthiest 10% of Americans own 93% of the stocks. I'm glad to hear they're hurting and not anyone else.
Trump is doing by accident things I'd never hoped to see in my life: The end of American hegemony, unification of Europe, the fall of the petrodollar, the elimination of the fake wealth on Wall Street.
But I can't stand the motherfucker.
I love how many people are advocating and celebrating for 50 million elderly Americans to become homeless. You guys couldn’t eat the rich if I put them in front of you with some condiments. couldn’t find the rich fucking if Luigi was pointing a gun at them.
The whole Trump administration is ran by putting up some stupid stat and getting some stupid people angry about it and then we encourage a stupid plan to go through that hurts the angry people even more making them more angry and dangerous. we’re only 90 days in people let’s get it together
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The wealthiest are not hurting, they're getting exponentially richer.
I'm glad to hear they're hurting and not anyone else.
That's not the way things roll though.
When wealthy people lose 10% of their wealth it's annoying but ultimately doesn't impact their quality of life.
I have a feeling things are going to get pretty bleak for the rest of us at the supermarket real quick.
I’m glad to hear they’re hurting and not anyone else.
Unless you're accused of being an immigrant and are deported, or you're trans, or in Yemen or Palestine, or like, have/want a job that isn't subsistence farming. Look at the Depression, it wasn't just investors who were hurt.
Trump might be accidentally causing some good things to happen, but a lot of regular people are going to suffer too.
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GOP presidents do this every time. Crash the market and the oligarchs buy it up for pennis on the dollar.
Yeah those bastards should let all of us buy stock with penis.
If that is the case I guess I am getting shorted.
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Then if thats the case, this seems like a national security threat. Destabilizing the country through financial terrorism seems pretty felonious.
Dude’s already a felon and even got impeached in his first term. I was pretty disappointed when the impeachment lead to literally nothing
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The legal system is only for poor people.
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Lol he wants you to trust him, he can bring the money back! All 12 trillion!.... That the entire country made in 4 years together, slowly....
As a demo, let me show you how I can control our household's income (the markets) I have full control and you shouldn't worry about it. We start small to demonstrate how I do have full control. I can totally remove money! From this car flying down the highway, I just open the window and toss the money out! I can do it from this bike! Look see? It's friday pay day! I got the money back! OK let's go big. Here's all the and we're on this large airplane! Let me show you how its done! You simply open this window... Watch it all fly away!
Okay let me show you how I can bring it all back.... Just sit back and wait for the check. When you're famous they let you do it! Wait for it! Hey it Friday! No check? Oh...we get paid every other Friday! And we're waiting!.. Friday again! But this is a holiday! We'll have to wait two more Fridays, you'll see. Its coming back!..... Hi, I need a ticket to Antarctica, i'm told there's only penguins there! One way please, and hurry!
Republicans are such idiots that they would mistake huffing paint as a sign of genius.
The KISS principle applies here, keep it simple. There is no plan, there is only Trump saying “I win”. He’s just declaring victory in the face of disaster as usual
It's this.
There is no plan.
Whats the point of being the most powerful man in the world if you can't make everyone in the world know it.
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