He's been manipulating the stock market. Announcing tariffs, stock market falls, he and buddies buy low and sell high after he recinds them. He's crashing our economy for his own gains.
1. This is a solution in search of a problem. 2. Trump will trade tariff reductions and exemptions for favors to benefit his favored (billionaires). 3. Trump will offer targeted relief for the suffering he is causing, use that to claim a "victory," and shore up his base.
Private equity, all run by his rich buddies, will sweep in and buy foreclosed houses for cheap and then rent them out for double the going local rate. Same for the stores and service businesses that can't meet financial obligations where half the workforce will be fired just to be flipped again.
He’s pushing us I think harder than a simple recession. I fear we are headed within a year into a depression. There’s gonna come a point where all of this can’t be turned around. Hell he thinks he can, hes the arsonist & fireman. He also thinks we don’t pay for the tariffs. WAKE UP. (April 5) March
There is reason-
He needs to crash it to force J Powell to make emergency rate cuts.
So that he can restructure the extreme debt of his first term.
So he can then add trillions more to the debt.
Buying up land on the cheap and keeping people desperate is the plan.
Plus AI. Though terrible for the environment and not actually intelligent and creating stats is not the same thing as labor or work or even productivity except in a pretty abstract and limited way but systematically??
I have a feeling it's purposeful. He has no idea what he is doing. His handlers are making him do it so that they can come in and scoop up property from those that lose their ass.
It is what Republicans do. This is a whole new level of crazy but it is not a coincidence that Republican president = recession. Look at the history books. The policies of tax cuts for the rich and not supporting the working class do not work. End of story. Democrats = solid economy.
He's doing it so share prices plummet & his billionaire mates buy up big, then he'll walk back tarrifs & they've made a fortune. Notice how none of his billionaire mates like Bezos are complaining right now? 😉
He's transitioning how the state is funded. These tariffs will pay for cuts to the kind of taxes that used to pay for public services. It won't be for the benefit of ordinary Americans, but if he can distract them long enough with shiny baubles, the gamble is they'll absorb it into their new normal.
Oligarchs can consolidate wealth, land, and power during strong economic downturns.
The best option now is to see if there is any shot at flipping enough Republicans on just tariffs to get them to stop this in congress. Which Republicans do we know that have waivered at least?
Could also just be so that countries (along with law firms and universities) give him billions of dollars worth of favors in return for exemptions. (Exceptions he can reverse any time he needs another favor.) Russia has already given him favors, so no need to tariff them.
I think there is a reason. He wants to end globalisation and return to a sort of 1950s economy. The problem is that there was little competition then and taxes were very high for the rich - funding better lifestyles for all and big government.
More like the Gilded Age of America.
Low taxes on the wealthy.
A handful of men held all the wealth.
There was no 22nd amendment to rule out a third term.
Crashing the market now so all his rich sycophants can scoop up stocks on the cheap. So a little 90s Russia in there too.
Agree 💯!! Putin wants this country broken. So broken that it will take decades, if ever, to return to our former superpower self. By then, America will be a shunned nation, unable to command the global stage and Europe will have been taken over by Russia.
A tariff shock could crash stock prices, enabling insiders to buy low before policy shifts, while lobbyists and corporations might secure special exemptions, fostering corruption.
I disagree- the reason is to lower the cost of all principals like properties, stocks, company forfeitures, etc while dropping interest rates so they can be bought at severe discounts by those with operating capital while everyone else starves.
he & his partners gobbled up real estate in '09 when the market collapsed, using existing resources to borrow against and deflated rates and then held them until the market rebounded, using an inflated rental market to cover the nut.
It is not bc of his ego. It is bc a destroyed America makes it easier to rebuild a corrupted America making it easier to launder money and hang onto power through autocracy
The tariffs Trump is imposing are nothing more than economic sanctions on the American people and our allies. He's punishing us for Putin, driving up costs for consumers, and disrupting supply chains, all while doing Putin’s bidding. This isn’t about strength or strategy; it’s about revenge.
SWEET JESUS DID HE REALLY SAY THIS?
Depression, and it would have never happened if they had stayed with the tariff policy; it would have been a much different story. They tried to bring back tariffs to save our country, but it was gone. It was gone. It was too late. Nothing could have been done."
Whaaat? No reason? It's to keep the citizens uneducated and desperate, therefore making them easy to influence. They'll be working low wages in harsh conditions to generate profit for the corporate and tech elite and won't have the intellectual, financial, or social power to dissent!
It's for the same reasons Putin used coming to power. There was massive economic dislocation when ties were severed, and the market economy was shocked by mass privatizations. Read a history book.
Don’t be fooled. National Socialism (Nazis) opposes capitalism and communism. All you need are resources (Canada,Greenland) and a subservient workforce.
No reason, you are joking. This man has ideas about tariffs and trade, his whole life and finally, just before the end he is making his dream come true. He is fantastic. There is nobody who ever taught about this and there will be nobody who will ever do this again. Trump a monkey at a rock
Before 1913, federal government revenues came mainly from taxes on goods—tariffs on imported products and excise taxes on items like whiskey. The burden of these taxes fell heavily on working Americans, who spent a much higher percentage of their income on goods than rich people did.
He has a reason. Billionaires will benefit from the recession, the richest always do. Trump will blame Biden, or "radical leftists" and his cult followers will believe him because they won't admit he's an asshole idiot who's stealing from the American people, and extorting our Allies.
@donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social tariffs enacted y-day prove one thing, and one thing only: HOW SHITTY THE AMERICAN PRODUCTS are compared to the rest of the world. Sweet dreams you maned motherfucker!
One of the key objectives of Project 2025 is to destroy all small/medium farms & move all their land & assets to the 1% for FRACTIONS of a penny on the dollar. They're doing it in TX/FL.
Corporations are going to buy up this nation on the cheap as everyone who's starved out and stuck on savings is forced to sell the last of their bootstraps.
Welcome to oligarchy, where you're buried in debt and own nothing.
oh, there IS a reason - RETRIBUTION for losing the 2020 election and no body believing his lies of a "stolen election"! He is a man-child who hates losing!! he will burn this country to the ground just to make himself feel better!
I demand a refund from Trump personally for all the money I’ve lost from my 401k since he took office and made all of these dumb-shit economic decisions.
Oh they have their reasons - crash the market and his 1% can snatch it all up at discount price. Then claim National Emergency and Acts of War if Nations respond with their own Tariffs -
Then with Martial law being implementing (cause we are now at "War") project 2025
There's a Reason
Idk. Deliberately starving people into bread riots so he can declare martial law, indefinitely suspend elections, and stay in power for life seems like a reason. Not a good reason, but a reason for sure.
Not sure why he would want to suspend elections. The illiterate base of Murica will happily keep voting for him. They just need him to keep raging about the racism, browns, blacks, trans, gays, abortion.80M illiterate assholes rushed out to vote for him. He loves elections. The stupids love him.
Oh, there is reason: Isolate the country for political control, and increase corporate margins through less competition to make his cronies wealthier. This is a plan.
I am certain there is a reason. The reason will be the best, biggest, most beautiful reason that everyone in the history of the world has ever seen. Does it sound like I have been listening to too much Rose Garden trump???
Wrong wrong wrong. Please don’t push this half baked truth.
This is a class war and they are deliberately tanking the country and the economy so the 1% can buy up land and companies and assets and the rest of us go bankrupt. It’s a forced sale at gun point.
Which country is missing from the reciprocal tariffs. Yup, that's right - Russia. Would a russian asset want to destroy US's economy?
Sometimes the simplest answer is the correct one.
In his way he is saying the US is living beyond its means in 2 ways:
1. Imports exceed Exports creating debt held by other nations.
2. Govt spend exceeds tax revenues YoY increasing debt - he ‘needs’ another $4Trillion for tax deductions for all (Billionaires by far the biggest winners).
So, his Billionaire Bros club can buy stocks and property at low prices when the economy and market tanks. He is unhinged and Yes, I'm sure Putin has his hands in this.
It’s important to include that there is a reason, & that reason is a public plan, able to be previewed. If one believes he’s doing this for no reason, one could believe he may alter course when he realizes he’s wrecking the economy (even if he never admits fault). But he won’t, bc it’s for a reason
I mean, destroying US' soft power on a global scale, robbing the middle class with tariffs and eradicating financial security for the elderly, veterans and the downtrodden so he can pave his way into becoming the 1st US dictator?
Going to be able to pick up some of those maga houses for a lot less than they paid for them.
But trump will put them up someplace. Probably Mara largo.
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He declares martial law, tightens clamps on already dying democracy.
Heck Lindsey Graham knew he was going to do this nearly a decade ago. 😩
He needs to crash it to force J Powell to make emergency rate cuts.
So that he can restructure the extreme debt of his first term.
So he can then add trillions more to the debt.
Plus AI. Though terrible for the environment and not actually intelligent and creating stats is not the same thing as labor or work or even productivity except in a pretty abstract and limited way but systematically??
Trump jerks off to revenge
Bankrupt the corrupt state
The best option now is to see if there is any shot at flipping enough Republicans on just tariffs to get them to stop this in congress. Which Republicans do we know that have waivered at least?
You're welcome.
the republican party is done, it's cooked.
Beg to differ
trump IS doing it for a reason
Question being - What's the reason ?
Or rather : who is the reason ..
Who is behind this
Low taxes on the wealthy.
A handful of men held all the wealth.
There was no 22nd amendment to rule out a third term.
Crashing the market now so all his rich sycophants can scoop up stocks on the cheap. So a little 90s Russia in there too.
A tariff shock could crash stock prices, enabling insiders to buy low before policy shifts, while lobbyists and corporations might secure special exemptions, fostering corruption.
Then they won't have bandwidth to be focused on what you are doing to their freedom.
It's the Authoritarian playbook 101.
He wants to go completely back to regressive Sales Tax and kill progressive income taxes.
So wealthy people don't have to help us pay for the nation.
we've seen this movie before, man.
he & his partners gobbled up real estate in '09 when the market collapsed, using existing resources to borrow against and deflated rates and then held them until the market rebounded, using an inflated rental market to cover the nut.
Read it and re read it til you understand it
He wants to BREAK the economy and then privatize it.
https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/
1. Greed
2. Personal grievances
That is in the totalitarian playbook.
Depression, and it would have never happened if they had stayed with the tariff policy; it would have been a much different story. They tried to bring back tariffs to save our country, but it was gone. It was gone. It was too late. Nothing could have been done."
Destroy the country from within without firing a shot. 😮💨
https://flip.it/0mh9JA
Almost like he has help from outside.
Trump has achieved his goal of avoiding prison, now his job is to be the rodeo clown drawing attention away from the alt-Right regime.
FOX News/SKY News/Sun...
🖕🇷🇺
They want smaller businesses and smaller institutions to fail so that they can gobble them up And consolidate themselves
Corporations are going to buy up this nation on the cheap as everyone who's starved out and stuck on savings is forced to sell the last of their bootstraps.
Welcome to oligarchy, where you're buried in debt and own nothing.
And America voted for it.
Then with Martial law being implementing (cause we are now at "War") project 2025
There's a Reason
#GrapesOfWrath
All because of egg prices and ten trans people playing sports.
A Day of Disgrace for the United States of America.
1800s Company Town incoming again
This is a class war and they are deliberately tanking the country and the economy so the 1% can buy up land and companies and assets and the rest of us go bankrupt. It’s a forced sale at gun point.
They set fires deliberately.
Sometimes the simplest answer is the correct one.
1. Imports exceed Exports creating debt held by other nations.
2. Govt spend exceeds tax revenues YoY increasing debt - he ‘needs’ another $4Trillion for tax deductions for all (Billionaires by far the biggest winners).
He’s destroying the economy to create a fake state of emergency and declare martial law when people begin protesting in the thousands.
America wake the f*ck up.
it's to rape this country like he raped those girls.
once stock is at it's nadir, he and his rich buddies will buy it up, along with all the foreclosed property & national parks they sold off.
There's a reason...
#1 stupid people with power do things only because they can.
#2 criminals always want others to suffer to compare how successful they are to them.
Hitting us all where it hurts the most. Mortgages are much harder to get, or retirement portfolios are linked to the stock market which is tanking.
There is no reason for a recession, it is a deliberate act to bring the country to its knees.
US sneezes and we all get the next economic pandemic.
For Trump, that is a very good reason.
But trump will put them up someplace. Probably Mara largo.