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
Yeah I agree. There has to be a bigger plan than this. In 40 years our children will see documentaties about the republicans pulling the biggest power grab ever and using idiots like Trump to actieve it. It's not Trump playing chess here, he's just a pawn. There are people behind the scènes pulling the strings.
If what currently is happening is really just throwing tantrums without having a plan then I feel sorry for how dumb most of america had become.
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.
“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,”
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.
Oh my. Apparently Trump pointed to this TikTok and said: "This. This is exactly What I'm doing."
Is the video a parody or serious? Could go either way. That's the Crux of Poe's Law.
And that's where America stands these days: the ruling party is a parody, the government depends on social media shitposting to justify its own actions.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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."
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.
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!
Part of a collectivist dream. Companies losing billions of dollars in a day, and self inflicted to boot.
Or what, you gonna cry over unrealized gains and imaginary money?
Beyond that, trump has talked about putting up tariffs since years ago. Hell I remember even Pelosi, Bernie and Biden did as well. So yeah this is just another negotiation chip.
Everyone talks about tariffs. That's not the issue. The issue is a universal tariff based on chatgpt. He didn't even calculate the correct tariffs rates on the US. The other issue is most of the 1% have the means to buy boatloads of stock right now as it's crashing. Companies won't lose money. They'll pass this onto consumers and workers. Raise prices, no bonuses, cut staff. So the working class will be hit the hardest while the 1% profits. And these tariffs aren't expected to actually bring any manufacturing back to the US.
This is the dumbest political take I've ever seen, and my dad called Trump a communist because he had Cold War brainrot
What are you even talking about, why would you ever think a pack of neoliberals don't love the stonks, and why would you ever include Sanders in them? I can only assume you don't even know he's not a Democrat.