I love it!
Obamacare vs Trumpcession
Yet the Republicans will vote Trump next time around.
vote Trump next time
The implication here is quite scary.
Pun not intended. They got perfectly aged Trumps enough to continue up to 2100.
Looks like Sleepy Don has done it again. What happened to better economy on Day 1? Is he going to say the days so far don’t count? Let’s hear some more excuses about how Biden made the job so hard you can’t improve things by 1%. You only need to make excuses for a little less than 4 years now.
What could possibly go wrong when you give the most important job in the world to the most unqualified person ever?
We need to dispense with this notion that Trump is “unqualified.” He is very qualified for the job that he actually set out to do, and has been accomplishing it expertly.
It’s just a different job than the one you think it’s supposed to be.
Trump is overqualified to take us right into bankruptcy. He’s been here so many times! Don’t worry! Just ask for money from stupid people that have money!
Unironically, yes. You wanna know why Trump’s businesses kept going bankrupt? Because they were never meant to be sustainable in the first place. They were scams – probably fronts for Russian money laundering – and designed to have all the money extracted and then implode on purpose before law enforcement could start looking too closely.
And now he’s doing the same thing with the entire goddamn country.
I don’t believe that for one second. They’ve got a Project 2025 playbook written by some smarter people that makes them almost look competent. But they aren’t even doing that great of a job of it. The whole lot appear to be as dumb as a box of rocks from my PoV.
Consider the possibility that Trump’s real goal is to destabilize the US, destroy its democracy and civil liberties, and turn it into a Russian-style oligarchy and vassal state of Russia.
Given that assumption, what mistake has he made that detracts from that goal?
It’s a bad assumption. I could just say the same thing with the hypothesis about him being dumb.
It also ignores the fact that he’s not alone. He’s got pretty much the whole government doing the thing. But I’m sure you’ll say they’re all looking to do the same thing.
I think his only goal is his own enrichment and power. I doubt he even cares about his legacy.
Nonresponsive.
What mistake has he made that detracts from that goal?
I don’t think you can name one. Prove me wrong.
I bet we could find someone less qualified.
It just would be difficult to find one outside of a hospital or care home.
Even they’ve at least experienced heath care for poor people.
You joke, but Texas last year had a representative missing for months. Come to find out that she was checked into a care home, still drawing paycheck.
One Source on the matter.
I mean… we can’t blame her for forgetting that she had one job after all now, can we?
Doing nothing would be more qualified than what Trump is doing.
Imagine speedrunning your way into the great depression.
For billionaires it’s a “buying opportunity” though.
Gotta take advantage of rock bottom prices!
Risk? Its his goal. Crash the market for his ultra wealthy amigos to buy up everything
Another problem is that down to lower class the americans invest for their retirement.
If he wipes out the people’s lifetime savings, they can’t afford to retire and got to work longer - even if the recession is driving inflation down.
You think that billionaires that are influenced by the likes of Curtis Yarvin care about people saving for retirement?
We call that a Fire Sale for the Oligarchs.
And…
Destroy USD.
Remove USD as global reserve currency.
Bitcoin.
Sell off land to billionaire buds.
(Allow) Nuke a few cities?. Big midterm surprise?. /q’s Great solar flash of 2025 - this is the only one I’m not certain of what/how/when.
Voilà.
Lol. You downvote. Everything he does is a known. You just have to listen. Here’s my comment from almost 4 months ago about tarrifs https://lemmy.ca/post/33768636/13042232
It’s not going to be Bitcoin. It’ll be Trumpcoin, Ethereum, or something else easy to control.
Hey Wharton School: This is why you shouldn’t sell degrees to rich parents for their spoiled children.
The upcoming Trumpageddon will make the Trumpcession look like Trumplemania.
I hope you are ready to open up and embrace big daddi T and all he has to offer. Cause he fuckin us all
Can’t tell if I’m supposed to give a shit, Trumplemania ‘05 or 06’?
Well . . yeah. He’s a demented rapist.
Who the fuck is just figuring this out?
A whole lot of people apparently.
The markets haven’t historically had a problem with demented rapists in charge unless it effects shareholder value.
Seems like a pretty big flaw in the system that a demented rapist being in charge doesn’t always impact shareholder value. Idk, maybe I’m just a beta cuck or something.
Look at this fuckin soy boy. What’s the matter, you can’t shake hands firmly and maintain eye contact?
It’s the weak wrists 😔
Lmao I like how you settled on a cause. You’re hired anyway
If you are overall green now… sell.
He is going to make it worse.
Only if you need the funds short term, if you are a ways off from needing the funds then hold what you’ve got and start building a cash reserve to buy more shares when it’s low.
That’s what most people don’t get about investing-- there is money to be made in both market directions. The rich understand that.
Yep, when I started investing about 20 years ago I read as much as I could, one thing that always stuck with me was a Warren Buffet quote “be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful”.
That’s generally how I approach investing in stock and Bitcoin. There are exceptions of course, but that’s the general plan. This stock or whatever isn’t failing, it’s on sale.
Wellllll, we’re heading into completely uncharted territory here. No Warren Buffet wisdom has any relevance, because no one has dismantled the US government like this before. And we’re only a month in. Extrapolate one month of damage over a 4-year term… we’ve experienced 2% of a Trump/Musk term.
Yeah I would absolutely recommend selling everything now, it’s going to go much, MUCH lower. If you really want to play that game, wait until it’s all hit rock fucking bottom to buy again.
To each their own, I’ll stick with my method and you can do yours. We’ll just have to wait and see who’s got the right idea in this uncharted landscape.
I wish you the best of luck, not sarcastically either.
Every dip is “uncharted territory”
The COVID quarantine was uncharted.
The 2008 financial crisis was uncharted.
The 1999 tech bubble was uncharted.To the market, today’s just another Tuesday.
So there’s a failsafe for these kinds of crises called “government”.
What’s currently uncharted is that we are dismantling the failsafe.
If you think any of those are in any way comparable to what’s happening now, you aren’t paying enough attention.
Time in market beats timing the market. You’re never going to now when stocks are “low”. You’re just as likely to wait JUST a little too long and then end up buying when it’s higher than it is now.
If you have AVAILABLE cash now, that isn’t needed for an emergency fund, put it in the market now.
If you want to hedge your bets a bit, then just invest a smaller amount every week to distribute the buying power in case the market keeps dropping.
Trump could just announce that tariffs are dumb and he’s never doing another one tonight, and the market jumps in off hours trading. Or the market could bounce up for a couple days then crash. Or the market could stay down for the next 4 years.
It’s impossible to predict when the “buy back in” period should start, so just don’t even try.
Please put his fucking name all over this shit.
Never let people forget who is the cause of all of this.
I’m sure this would have been just as bad under Kamala.
Wait, you aren’t serious… I read your post history lol. You need a /s
Lol okay Darwin 🤡
Every day I wake up and I wonder if he’s a complete moron who’s in capable of doing his job… or is he making people worried about the recession and using these tariffs to manipulate the markets for his own benefit?
The other possibility people have told me about is that he’s doing it to distract us from the real activity behind the scenes, which is to make the rich much richer in the poor, more desperate… 
No distractions, the second answer is not correct, he wants another glided age. The glided age is another term for the second industrial revolution that turned america into the superpower we know today, but It also was an awful era for your average american.They would work 12 hours or more for a whole week, some may have sunday off due to church but a lot did work that day with all your family working. The standard of living was so crap, many would become alcoholics due to the awful conditions, which would lead to prohibition movement. Your average american did not live long, many people would die due to work place accidents but due to no worker protection, nothing would change.
The era was also known for the monopolies, starting with rockfeller standard oil, carnegie steel company and morgans banking with many others. All the major monopolies worked together to prevent competition by buying out, they would ask nicely to sell your company to them, if not they would play the waiting game by lowering the product your selling to be unprofitable and then buy you out. Regulations did not exist yet so, this was all legal and if it wasn’t, no one gave a shit as they were that powerful. The government was no help to them either, as most of them were bathing in the money of the 1%. The 1% lived in amazing conditions, and hoarded a ton of money, with some becoming important philanthropist.
Here is an article of proof of what trump wants, https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-gilded-age-mckinley-grover-cleveland-1592dab80ad7159266db51b5baa774b6.
I prefer the term ‘Trump Slump’ but as long as his name is attached, I’m good.
I believe that’s already a reference to his erectile dysfunction, but I could be wrong.
Good
LOLOLOLOL
there was probably a time that i wouldn’t have believed it would be possible for anyone to be as fucking stupid as any trump voter, but i don’t remember it
Thirty-three percent of Trump voters said, in their own words, they voted for him because of the “economy” or because “he is a good businessman,” a Washington Post-Schar School poll released Friday reveals.
This is from December. It’s also a good sign because these are the people that are likely to turn on him as the prices increase and unemployment jumps.
people that are likely to turn on him
i think you’re underestimating just how brainwashed these people are. just the other day there was an article about a guy who lost his dream job in govt. because doge, and he STILL couldn’t muster the gumption to say maybe trump was a fucking bad idea
Even in that quote alone there’s 1 out of 3 who regret their vote. If we extrapolate to the group who voted economically, that’s 10% of his voters. That’s way more than enough to change the election outcome next time around. Yes there many who are brutally brainwashed, perhaps most, but we don’t care about most. We care about 5-10% to change their minds. While I don’t pretend my little extrapolation here is scientific in any way, I think that’s achievable. 🥹
December 1964? Because as far as I remember he crashed every business he owned even in industries that were rapidly growing like gambling.
