• @pleasegoaway@lemm.ee
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    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.

  • @laranis@lemmy.zip
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    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.

  • @werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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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!

  • @buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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    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.

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        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.

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          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

          • @TronBronson@lemmy.world
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            Which is actually good this year because tourism is already down 30% and im too poor to travel. They would more than likely have lost their jobs by end of summer.

            • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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              yes it is good, florida, and texas have been touting how they are all conservative bastion stronghold, let see them pick some houseplants for a change. additionally its also why they rolled back child labor laws, but it still primarly target immigrants.

        • @cyphear@lemm.ee
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          Trump would care. Kool-aid is expensive when compared to Flavoraid. Why do you think he eats McDonald’s when he could afford steak?

          • @lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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            The guy who surrounds himself with gold and gold plating isn’t eating MacDonald’s because he’s cheap. MacDonald’s in general isn’t the most popular food brand in the world because it’s the cheapest. It’s popular because a shitload of people like the food, and Trump is one of them.

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod
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      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.

      • @TronBronson@lemmy.world
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        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

      • @null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        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.

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        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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        I’m glad to hear they’re hurting and not anyone else

        Except when equities plunge it drives up borrowing costs. That impedes how businesses maintain and expand their enterprises, which puts downward pressure on employment and wages.

        We’re also seeing a crash in commodities prices - particularly US exports - and energy demand, which is gearing up to wreck the O&G, automotive, and agricultural sectors.

        It’s bad bad bad for everyone. A totally unforced error by Trump that will have huge negative downstream reprecussions for us all.

        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.

        Maybe. The US has been written off a few times before this and rebounded. And there’s no real reason to believe the current EU will be any less xenophobic, imperialist, or wreckless and wasteful as their American peers, given that they’ve been drinking as hard from the fascist well as the rest of us.

        We’ll see what comes of it all. Maybe America will go quietly off into the graveyard of empires and swallow a bullet. Or maybe we’re come roaring back for one last nightmarish global thermonuclear Holocaust because we just can’t stand not being the center of attention.

          • @ZMoney@lemmy.world
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            The fungi take over for a few hundred thousand years, tops. There are some global climate swings during this period but eventually the balance is restored and the next set of animals asserts hegemony. Just because this is the first mass extinction caused by animals (arguably) doesn’t mean it won’t play out like the others.

    • @tikifire@lemm.ee
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      It’s so obvious to anyone that looks at his actual actions through his life that he cares about no one but himself.

      • @TronBronson@lemmy.world
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        Yea lmaoo just like 2009 when we all got bank loans and bought tons of distressed real estate.

        oh wait it’s nothing like that because we don’t have a housing bubble where strippers own five homes

      • @barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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        Housing won’t free up. Black Rock, Morgan and others are buying up all the middle class housing so they can jack up the prices out of reach of most, forcing them to remain renters, then doubling the rents. Thats why housing costs are now more than 50% of income these days.

        Democrats have tried to push legislation banning these companies from buying mass amounts of housing, but the Nazis fully support it. Tent cities will be regular thing by the next “election.”

  • @Letme@lemmy.world
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    GOP presidents do this every time. Crash the market and the oligarchs buy it up for pennis on the dollar.

  • @BearGun@ttrpg.network
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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

  • The Real King Gordon
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    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.

  • ugtug
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    Republicans are such idiots that they would mistake huffing paint as a sign of genius.

  • @DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      NFL has it coming. They denied him once and he may or may not never forget.

  • @9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world
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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.

  • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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    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

    • @lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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      110 hours ago

      “Liberation Day” (🤮) was the “Mission Accomplished” moment for the shit whistle’s second term.

    • @null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      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.