the article below is from 1989. he really believes this shit, and now he’s comparing his tariffs to a needed surgery. in his fantasy he did something daring and brave and is reveling in anticipation of his marvelous success.
Holy shit, that is wild. I wonder how his crumbling mind will react to the inevitable disaster this will be? No doubt he'll blame someone else, fingers crossed it becomes the thin end of the wedge between him and Musk.
Investigation needed into Trump, Musk, Vance, the cabinet and GOP congress: who among them shorted their stock positions knowing he planned to intentionally tank the market?
i think it is simple. he is dumb and he is tired of smart people calling out his bs. this is how he gets back at them and everyone in america who has worked their life for a better world.
Unresolved childhood issues and then another 60 years of adulthood of numerous self directed failures and yet never having learned to accept his responsibility yet also kind of knowing that he is a POS & undesirable on so many levels of disgust
"…the video makes sure to point out that super rich guy Warren Buffett “just said [that] Trump is making the best economic moves he’s seen in over 50 years.” Only Warren Buffett never said that. He actually called Trump’s proposed tariff regime an “act of war.”"
Either he's showing the world that he's a moron (and he'll still have ~30% - his acolytes - chanting "chess; not checkers!") or he didn't watch the video and liked the "[chess not checkers!]" chant and is, thereby, showing the world he's an idiot (and ~30%....).
Genius move by Trump! Cause a Great Depression to get some good old deflation and low interest rates going. That will bring egg prices down! Who knew he was so damn smart???
Trump, Bondi, and other insiders sold their stocks the day before Trump's announcement of "Liberation Day." It's clear insider trading, but Trump controls the group that would investigate and prosecute it.
He's definitely angling to justify declaring martial law. Most people will only take to the streets once the economic pain becomes overwhelming. Him and Miller are chomping at the bit to get to that point.
Intentional crashing of the stock market would only make sense if the underlying goal was to purposely tank the entire economy. One might consider this if they wanted to (e.g.) replace the current banking system with a crypto-based system?
… and this collapse is for the working class btw. The billionaires will only get richer from this. America is going into a giant foreclosure sale and the billionaires will make a killing of it. Literally.
Stock Market's a parasitic entity on the country, so I'm not shedding tears for something that manipulates the prices of the common goods people need to survive.
The Stock Market is never a reflecting on how well the populace is doing, nor does "The Economy" do the same.
Crash the economy, give corporations cover to do mass layoffs, replace the laid-off workers with AI and robots. Now, what to do with all those poors who have no jobs? Let them do mass protests, use facial recognition drones to ID them, brand them enemies of the state - boom, free prison labor!
People who are a couple of IQ points smarter than Trump are using him as a Patsy to destroy the economy so they can hoover up what's left. They just convinced him he's a smarty pants who did it on purpose.
He should be shot on the front lawn of the White House and have it televised. And then move on to anyone who enabled his presidency from Musk to Jordan and Comer to the people behind project 2025
The one major downside to this versus other countries is how many fucking weapons there are in this country that will be in the hands of absolute desperate people
I think about this a lot. The folks at the top have done so much to demonize certain populations and blame them for everything that’s wrong. Trans folk, immigrants.
we’re all on same side, and the shits at the top are robbing all of us while telling the rest of us we’re all enemies of each other.
Ultimately it's all about demonising people in order to gain power, whether it's political power or economic power. Some people believe it, but you know that if it ceases to be useful, they'll quickly turn away from it.
So even if they hate us we can stop them by changing the incentives.
I don't think he would be sharing videos about his master plan. This is him just trying to latch on to anything that still present him as a genius visionary.
It'd just martyr him at this point for his cult. Let him stroke out on the green. Remember there is an entire political party enabling his antics. It's not just him. Elon....maybe that'd make a difference.
Nobody else in that administration has the juice to keep this up. It'd fall apart without Trump. Either way, don't worry about, the SS wouldn't hire a potential kingslayer to begin with
Pretty crazy that our president is almost literally gleefully laughing about crashing our economy, not to mention the human rights abuses, and no electeds are clamoring for and taking actions for impeachment.
I can't stop thinking about how every person who voted for, enabled, works for, or supported in any way is just an absolutely vile piece of shit, and I hope that they only ever have misery and bad things happen to them until the day they all die.
There is a logic to it actually. It's not going to work, but there is a reason. Trump is deliberately trying to break the current global (US made!) order because he wants to build a new one. He wants trade and military support to go together, not as NATO, but for those that manufacture in the US and
for those that accept US made goods without barrier. He sees the old global order is working for China better than it is for America and so he wishes to break it. It's why he's so cozy with the Russians, they have long been seeking to destroy the US's global order. Their goals are currently aligned.
My not-crazy conservative cousin was twisting himself into knots trying to come up with some compelling rationale why Shitler and the GOP is committing economic and political suicide with tariffs.
Me: “He failed at literally every business he started, and you’re looking for a logical explanation?!
I s'pose the idjits in the House of Reps wont act until America is fully burnt to the ground before the call the fire department (by impeaching the pres)
I've been saying that for a while. I think the moment that it absolutely crystallized for me was when Trump inexplicably opened dams far from LA & separated by mountains to send water to LA for its wildfires.
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US President fucking idiot Trump appeared to endorse the video he reposted to his Truth Social platform today, which is titled "Trump is purposefully crashing the economy
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-crashing-market-video-34995695?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar
Either he's showing the world that he's a moron (and he'll still have ~30% - his acolytes - chanting "chess; not checkers!") or he didn't watch the video and liked the "[chess not checkers!]" chant and is, thereby, showing the world he's an idiot (and ~30%....).
Congress, do your job. We the People and the whole world will support you!
https://www.wardrobeoxygen.com/details-on-the-april-5th-national-day-of-protest/
Frontotemporal dementia
He’s literally the Mad King
Where is the video?
And so I wake in the morning
And I step outside
And I take a deep breath and I get real high
And I scream from the top of my lungs
What's going on?
Who is 'pushing' crypto ATM...?
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jylzzzfqs6ivc2suumydhvpo/lists/3llxpcrk53q2o
https://bsky.app/profile/brewjew308.bsky.social/post/3llys33llrk2j
The Stock Market is never a reflecting on how well the populace is doing, nor does "The Economy" do the same.
we’re all on same side, and the shits at the top are robbing all of us while telling the rest of us we’re all enemies of each other.
So even if they hate us we can stop them by changing the incentives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E9T6Ze0GL4
Xi Jiping xisters...trvst the plqn
Me: “He failed at literally every business he started, and you’re looking for a logical explanation?!
Not serious mad king vibes. We have a mad king.