Trump took the US economy to the brink of a crisis in just 100 days
Trump took the US economy to the brink of a crisis in just 100 days
Donald Trump spent his first 100 days back in the Oval Office driving an economy that the world envied to the brink of crisis, risking America’s reputation as a financial safe haven and fostering fear among voters who’ve lost confidence in his leadership.
Donald Trump spent his first 100 days back in the Oval Office driving an economy that the world envied to the brink of crisis, risking America’s reputation as a financial safe haven and fostering fear among voters who’ve lost confidence in his leadership.
Americans were desperate for relief from high grocery prices and bought into Trump’s promise to make America affordable again in November 2024, partly out of nostalgia for the pre-pandemic economy of his first term.
But the president deliberately and singlehandedly adopted policies that are almost certain to spike prices even more; that could lead to shortages; and that have CEOs and small businesses dealing with chaos and the possibility of a recession.
You know, right before lockdown I was hanging out with a friend and I said something to the effect of 'eh, I do feel like people are overreacting a bit but at least this should normalize mask wearing when you're sick like in parts of Asia.'
Right now I have a very similar feeling hunch of 'at least this should kill the myth that republican presidents are better for the economy' and I can't wait for the american people to once again show me just how stupid they are.
Risking America's reputation? Maybe we're slightly beyond that point.
So here's the fucking thing.
The crisis is already here. Go take a peak at the ports on the west coast right now. Go look at business forecasts.
This man systematically destroyed a working economy in a business quarter.
The repercussions of these actions are going to be felt for at least a decade.
They will be felt for the rest of the century.
And just think, there were those out there that doubted he would get anything done. /s
Getting things done usually means building. It's decidedly easier to tear things down and much harder to build them back up.
Zero grocery, zero price. You cannot complain about avocado prices if there was no avocado imported, eh?
Reminds me of my childhood in a communist country.
It's almost like human structures of power always end up with some asshole on top making everyone else suffer.
Sure, but have you considered that Kamala had a weird laugh
Musk will light your taxes on fire. Obama was huge on deportation. Kamala is a gun owner. OK, why won't you vote for Kamala then? "I just don't like her. She laughs weird." I couldn't believe it, but it shouldn't shock me. How do you even keep going after that?
This is such a stupid argument and I wouldn’t believe it if it wasn’t for my dad. He keeps talking about her laugh and I explain to him that it’s appropriate to express all emotions…. And he doesn’t believe it. He’s also unable to connect me being in therapy and his behavior.
I guess we have the same father even though I don't live anywhere near the US.
Schodinger's cat applies here. We will never know how good or bad Kamala would have been since she didn't win. However, since 47 has done so much shit to damage the country in ways worse than imagined, I'd say she'd done better.
BTW, have you ever heard Trump laughing at anything? That's even weirder IMO.
She also was hugely supportive of genocide, is a cop, huge opponent of sex workers, promised to outflank trump to the right on immigration and crime, had a terrible climate change plan including backtracking on things like fracking, terrible health care policy, denied any economic problems and her solution to massive poverty and increasing inequality boiled down to increased ease of first home buyers. She had terrible policies no reason to whitewash her.
"Please be distracted by our appointed candidate's skin color and genitals so you don't notice these other things!" - democrats probably
Also, those dumbass's who think a woman can't be president.
What actual percentage of the American people do you think believes a woman can't be president? And I mean believe her nature as a woman makes her unfit, not people who believe the electorate won't vote for her.
Do you know any polls in the last year that indicate how big a contingent that would be?
I'd be shocked if it was over 0.5%. Even over 0.2% would be very surprising to me. Of course to get polls that precise you'd need to ask like 100,000 people.
I mean Biden was personally killing Palestinians so let's all make sure Trump does worse too so checkmate lIbRuL. Ps I'm morally superior because I think my self righteous social media posts matter way more than the outcome I cause with my actions. And if you disagree? Well, you love genocide! /s
Well you see the genocide was always going to happen. That is why we needed to oppose the Democrats.
Also did you know NATO were actually the real Nazis all along?
/s
Bankrupted a casino after his better half left. His ex wife. Consider it like his last admin. He had smart people corralling him. Now he just has yes men.
What they show us are the yes clowns. The concern needs to be the project 2025 people in the 2nd level positions implementing their agenda
brink of a crisis
Ummm I don't think the meaning of a crisis is understood anymore. Brink implies risking a crisis, where the usa has been in a full on crisis on many fronts for about 100 days. I would even say that they are past the initial crisis point and are getting way to cocky this far into a multi pronged collapse.
Let me translate this little code.
“Donald Trump has almost made it to where it the owners of this network will actually notice it in the bottom line for their quest to fulfill their endless greed.”
Oh then maybe then they will write articles that "SLAM" him......
It’s bad now? You have no idea! All import stopped and or halted when your orange diaper introduced tariffs on everything. Meaning you’re just seeing the start of it.
Tariffs are still unclear because he’s changing them every damn second. Meaning companies are still hesitant about shipping goods because of the uncertainty regarding tariffs.
Looking wistfully behind me at the "brink" of crisis
Hyuck hyuck hyuck
The brink? lol we’ve gone off the cliff and are in free-fall
And some people still say he has business skills...
What, you don't think he's getting rich off this?
Yeah people misunderstand Trump's business history. It doesn't matter how many casinos he bankrupted, Trump profited. He's a vampire like a private equity firm, leaving a trail of dead husks behind him.
Trump’s promise? I don’t remember him promising much anything at all until the very tail end of the campaign, and even then it was kinda offhand. OTOH, the troll farms were in absolute overdrive talking about eggs, groceries, worthless higher education, gas prices (even though they are higher now) and of course bashing Harris over tons of things that weren’t even jobs she had the authority to do.
Every speech was full of promises to. Whoever he was speaking, even when the next speech completely promised the oppisite
Trump did state he was going to raise tarrifs. The problem is that a lot of voters thought he was going to govern like he did in the first term.
MAGAts know nothing but hurting others.
They also know hurting themselves.
All to plan
Not even. Him and Elon biffed every other form of autocratic guidance that laid out steps to take.
Cutis Yarvin is furious at how incompetent Musk and Torange have been. By 100 days in they should have been drowning journalists in foam. They haven't even hit 50% of Project 2025 progress.
Rank amateur bitches. Can't even do authoritarianism well.
Do they need to succeed?
The Koch brothers already have a new U.S. constitution drafted and a majority of the states they need to call a constitutional convention. They’ve had plans in motion for years.
I think Trump and Musk were always supposed to be the fall guys. But if they break enough, or reveal enough non-working about the current system, the plan we’re not supposed to realize is in play will succeed.
Give the Orange Asswipe a break, the idiot is following his orders from the Kremlin and he is doing a fan-fucking-tastic job of destroying the US economy and foreign relations.
Let your local magats know how you feel since this is what they wanted. The business owner ones even made it easy to figure out who they are over on their Nazi safe space at public square
AIPAC, the self styled King makers of US politics, dont care who you vote for as they all support israel. It's business as usual as far as they're concerned.
Trump did not do that, America did. I only say this as no one seems to be doing anything tangible to stop this miscreant.
When you manipulate the market and increase tariffs to every country… it didn’t take a country to do that. It took a fool and his moron Admin and Republican Congress to fuck shit up.
While yes, he won the popular and electoral vote, he is still the one carrying out these idiotic and dangerous policies. No one wants a bloody revolution in the streets, the majority of people are just trying to survive.
Congress could easily deal with this dictator, but the GOP are fully complicit and have zero desire to do anything to stop him. We've all seen the numerous townhalls of GOP reps getting torn apart over this insanity, and yet they truly do not care.
I think many Americans are still kind of shell shocked by everything. Hell, I'm still in disbelief that he even won to begin with. My disgust towards those who voted yet again for this criminal makes me not even want to fight for them.
We should be recalling the broken Congress critters at this point. It's fucking absurd.
Victim blaming is always a totally defensible and cool thing to do
And what exactly do you propose we do?
This.
I'm not sure what you mean by "we" in this new age of strident nationalism and creeping isolationism. I don't even know generally what should be done, let alone exactly. It has to do with money, power, greed, human nature...all that shit and more I assume. I guess I will do one thing today that I have control over. I'm Canadian and I will vote today.
The United States Federal Review said the economy has slightly dipped but it's so minor on the GDP of America that nothing has changed really from all indicators reviewed.
Yet. Reduced trade is a leading edge metric while most economic indicators are trailing edge. Just because it hasn’t yet filtered through to trailing edge indicators, doesn’t mean it hasn’t already happened. Everything is still in stock at normal prices but shortages are looming. And we’re riding the bus with no brakes down a steep road leading to a cliff ….. just because we haven’t died yet doesn’t mean we’re not doomed
Your argument is similar to one against climate change. Greenhouse gas levels are a leading edge indicator, or cause. Just because you didn’t see global warming doesn’t mean it hasn’t already happened. And now it is visible to all. And we’re riding the bus with no brakes down a steep road to the edge of the cliff.
