Nah, they convinced themselves that the Imaginary Donald in their heads would never do what the Real World Donald in front of them was saying clearly and in small words that he was gonna do
Kind of like how Project 2025 was just or pizzagate. I'm not sure if you saw that particular one. Then immeidately after the election some of the same folks immediately said ha-ha it was real the whole time. A lot of the people that fell for the ploy didn't seem to mind being the suckers.
Bernie never stops seeing the whole picture. Thank you, Senator Sanders who shows us in real time how the President of the United States would speak and behave if our ideals had been honored by either the Republicans or the Democrats. End Citizens United and AIPAC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APyH8nAGMUg
No one other than (fairly stupid) partisans on the right thinks Trump is NOT going to do the stupid things he says he's going to do when he's constantly doing the stupid things he said he would do.
or, bear with me here... they knew and came up with excuses to look the other way, because they wanted the hatered he projects towards any sort of "other".
I'm not entirely sure which it actually is. Maybe it's a bit of a mixed bag?
They are on yourselves. Americans are the ones who have to pay. Self-imposed sanctions. Europe aren't going to put tariffs on anything that doesn't have local subsitutes, because that would be dumb. No just stuff they would really love to but couldn't before because free trade. Trump is a gift.
Being Republican have to's 2025:
Talk down to people. Noting nothing on specifics.
Be firmly against something, then two months later be firmly for it if Trump tells you to be. Tesla EVs particularly.
Forget everything you said in the past and have no integrity to stick by what you say.
FWIW the (fairly stupid) partisans on the left are always proving to the entirely gullible MAGA that Trump is a disaster that has no intentions of helping the common person.
"Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief." - Chris Murphy (read his summary below)
On the left here and it’s clear that I’m brilliant compared to #Geiger_Capital who is painfully out of touch with today’s society and what the working class in America is seeing and feeling.
Nothing about this statement makes him look good. It turns out he was just flat wrong. Even if he did end up being right that would just prove that Trump is full of shit and his statements mean nothing. Not a good look all around.
Lmmfao 🤪 Maggots are so delusional. I do not about you, but I was raised to believe what people say as your words should be bond! Orange Poop has been ranting about tarrifs for a long time & stated so many times he was going to raise ALL tarrifs.
If the cartels gave him a cut, you can be sure that the drug problems would vanish. “Fentanyl problem? What Fentanyl problem? It’s a perfect drug. More people should use it. Pairs great with Hydroxychloroquine. Highly Recommended!”
The DEA would never allow that. Without drug imports they’re out of work.
Thus prohibition continues, use goes up, crime follows, the cartels and the DEA vacation at the beach.
Unless there is somebody on earth who thinks we have less drug use now than we did the first 150 years without laws?
Now, now, hold your horses. The systems are being tested vigorously, I wouldn't call US out yet!
A teachable moment to rise better and stronger. We are weakened by forcing our dependent allies to create structures for self reliance.
The US defence export industry damage is permanent. The EU manufacturers require long term guarantees to increase investment.
Public sentiment has shifted. Trust is built slowly and leaves quickly.
Trump didn’t an enact 20% flat tariff. He levied tariffs between 10% and 50%.
Congress can end this trade war by passing a resolution ending the National emergency giving Trump the power to impose tariffs. The power to tax is Congress’s purview.
Hopefully more state and city DAs and AGs will start standing up for the 5th and 14th Amendment rights of migrants to Due Process as Boston did a few days ago.
It prevents ICE from hidding behind Trump's pardoning power and the DOJ from protecting their actions.
Jfc, he just can't help himself, can he? This kind of idiot pride in willfully stupid ideas of righteous rightness is exactly what got us this presidency. Trump literally told this dude he was going to fleece us all, and he still is talking down to the left like he's throwing *us* a bone.
This is a very good reminder that virtually no one has your best interests at heart. Not your doctor, not your financial planner, not your senator or congress person. You know who did (prior to trump 2.0) - osha, noaa, cdc, fda, etc. advocate for yourself and your family. Don’t let idiots do this.
I asked a bluesky account w/that name if it was him, and he answered yes. I then posted yours and asked did he care to comment on today's tariff news. He deleted everything. 😂
I hear the (really smart) money men on Wall Street were saying, “I can’t believe he ACTUALLY DID what he said he was going to do instead of what I told myself he would probably do!”
And just for kicks, the rogue president included some countries without any human population, so no Export-Import at all. We're getting quite a global geography lesson.
I use it several times a week because food dies not magically appear in the cupboard, the refrigerator, oven, or in the table at mealtime. I guess restaurants inside country clubs have food orders delivered and the "chefs" rarely go to the grocery store
Yup. Count me as a "left partisan" who knew Trump would do exactly what he said because He. Does. Not. Care. He doesn't care if he just screwed the vast majority of us, and now he and his ultra rich pals can buy all kinds of stocks at very low prices, can't they?
They all got sucked in for the second time by a known con man and no nothing moron whose daddy paid the college to pass him, and it’s the left that are the stupid ones! Mkay! 🙄
Yes, White supremacist nationalism. The world isn't getting any bigger with 10 billion humans on it. MAGA thinks they can turn the clock back several hundred years.
The archaeological record also suggests Neanderthal were highly adaptable, capable of advance planning and communicating complex ideas, and that they cared for their sick, injured and elderly.
Does this mean that he's totally surprised as well (and from now on fighting Trump), or was this a well planned message to suppress any reporting and ridicule warners.
US has $123.5 Billion trade deficit with Vietnam. Trump’s team divided the deficit by exports & called the result a 90% tariff against US. Trump says his “reciprocal” tariffs are discounted (46%) because he is kind.
Crazy! Trade deficits aren’t tariffs. He’s retaliating against his own delusions.
Trump’s “tariffs, monetary manipulations, and trade barriers” formula doesn’t take into account any actual tariffs. It’s all based on the trade deficit. Because countries of wildly disproportionate sizes should reach trade equilibrium somehow? It’s absolutely nonsensical.
I guess Trump was great when he was just disparaging handicap people, immigrants, American Troops and was telling thousands of lies, extorting foreign allies and sending a violent mob to the capitol. But whoa! 20% tariffs? Suddenly Trump's an asshole
Why are they such pussies? Call out the tariffs for the illegal, insane acts of a demented autocrat that they are. But they always fall back to the euphemistic MAGASPEAK like “very different”. Traitors and cultists one and all.
I appreciate your changing the terminology. We really do need to denormalize the use of female-specific terminology to denote weakness. It's what allows the redpills to gain traction. (See also: the use of things like "gay" as a pejorative.)
Which is exactly what everybody was warning about for years. That if he got re-elected he wouldn't be leaning on traditional conservatives to get things done, who slow rolled and talked him out of the worst stuff the first time.
He'd be bringing in yes men who would do all the crazy shit he wanted.
the people so vested in destroying the govt & world order in those 4yrs saw the perfect vehicle to achieve their goals and latched onto him when they saw the flock was still beyond devoted & gullible as hell, they needed a resentful, immoral narcissistic revenge seeking egotist
The first time he cane in with no real plan. This time he came in with a whole playbook and yes men already in place, waiting for their marching orders.
The only difference between cheeto 2016 and cheeto 2.0 is that 2.0 came in prepared. The evil is the same.
He didn’t really think he’d win in 2016. The establishment GOP swooped in and staffed his administration. The Trump we see now is a result of two things: 1. He came (or was made) prepared with Project 2025, and 2. His narcissism was fueled by his first win and he is literally crazier than he was.
True. I think of Trump's near weekly firing of mainstream Republicans from his cabinet, and also how something like 40 of 44 former members of his staff from 1.0 endorsed Harris (or at least said don't vote Trump). I think only 2 endorsed him. And MAGAts just called all but those 2 disloyal traitors
Where is the montage of DJT saying I don’t care about car prices, Lutnick’s SS comment, Habiba saying vets aren’t fit for gov jobs, Elon’s chainsaw-every reckless word? Run on TV, radio,YouTube, TickTock now through the vote for billionaire tax cuts.
And also, anyone who just figured out today that Dumpster 2.0 wasn’t lying when he rambled on continually about his favorite word tariffs is either too stupid or complicit to call himself a “man of honor” over keeping up a stupid tweet.
Jesus Christ.
May I humbly submit that the, ahem, *job* for which people pay a business like Geiger Capital, fundamentally requires the specific skills of staying on top of world events, *understanding* what they portend for the markets, and then predicting accurately enough to give sound advice to one’s clients?
Thanks for putting the world in this place because you cannot differentiate between business and macroeconomics. You and your fow business geniuses should really just sit back accept what real economists say - not what a destroyer cons you into believing. Clown show.
Man of honor. This shitbird can't even say I'm sorry for not only being so wrong but also for insulting people who clearly had better insight than him to start with.
His 2024 post implied the potential tariffs would be so dumb, no one would believe they could happen.
His new "Trump 2.0" response is so vague that he's not even addressing the tariff issue. He's leaving himself room to still kiss Trump's ass even though he went ahead and did the dumb thing.
HE’S STILL FUCKING WRONG. Trump 1.0 tried to kill his VP after letting almost a million Americans die because he shit on his own vaccine. Holy fucking Christ this guy is a fucking moron. What kind of dipshit would trust him with their money?
#Project2025 All sycophants with no regard for the constitution or 🇺🇸 and it was all there for anyone to see. How many MAGATS said it wouldn’t happen? Countless.
Orang blob 2.0 is not any different though, he just got rid of the guardrails. They just needed an excuse called "the economy" to put their racist, bigoted,misogynist back into office.
"Trump 2.0 is very different" he says, as if the framework for what's now Project 2025 hasn't been widely available since after Trump lost to Biden. These are specifically the policies he chose NOT to run on in 2020 because he knew they'd be so unpopular
Someone told Mango Mussollini US households lost 16 trillion in value during the SubPrime Meltdown of 2007. So yesterday Dictator Donnie said, "Hold my beer!"
I hate to tell you but the Democrats played a huge role in the decline of literacy rates. Listen to the podcast Sold A Story. 💔 Republicans still under funded schools, but the real blunder on this is ours to own.
But we know now, and big blue cities like NYC are finally bringing science-based reading programs back into the curriculum. All the teachers have to be retrained because in this time teachers colleges have been turning out graduates that don’t actually know how to teach kids to read.
Basically George Bush was pushing for science-based teaching methods to be used in school. But the left felt much more affinity for a method that lacked any scientific proof of success. So teaching kids to read became a huge political battle, to the detriment of the American people.
That Bush statement is certainly true... he did want math and science taught well.
But was it dems who prevented that or was it the religious fanatics who wanted (false) 'creationism' to be the basis of teaching?
I'm certain there are some dems who prefer religion over reality but more on the right
You forgot to say that it was YOU, not anyone on the left,who was slightly stupid. And Trump 2.0 isn't different-just more delirious and emboldened by your grotesque ass kissing. I hope Trey Parker and Matt Stone have one more musical left in them-they can call it The Sycophants.
Trump 2.0 isn’t different. He had some guardrails during his first term so couldn’t do all the crazy stuff he wanted to do. Now? He has no guardrails. He hasn’t changed.
And yet, it's not really all that different. 2.0 is still the same pathetic, narcissistic, loser as he was for 1.0. Totally ill-informed about everything and out to get all those nasty people that treated him "so poorly". This time, he does have a great cast of enablers so there's that! 🤬🤬🤬
Oh, it's the thing that happens when American human bodies stop regenerating cells, the heart stops pumping, it no longer breathes and starts to decay.
I can't even look at it, I don't need it right now, but two years into retirement I was hoping it would be therein 3 or 4 years when my husband retires. His is tanking too. Saved and scrapped all our lives for this POS TO TRASH IT
I’m especially angry at those GOP who say people shouldn’t have depended solely on Social Security. Some of us worked hard to plan for the future with 401Ks and IRAs, and Trump managed to destroy everything anyway. I could not hate anyone more than I hate him, and everyone who enables him.
We didn't have the option of NOT putting that 6.2% of our paycheck into SS for our entire working lives. I will burn it all to the ground if they try to keep me from collecting when my time comes.
The only “fairly stupid”individuals in this country are those who decided another 4 years of this dipshit was going to be just what everyone needed and voted for him and every single member of Congress who sides with him.
Do any of these people know low income people? My mother had to carefully budget her month with social security AND retirement and she still struggled. Some people only have social security. This is all so gross.
If savings/retirement plans are adequate, between 65 and 70. But plenty of people don’t really have the money to do that. Even after they “retire”, they might work a different job for something to do or to stretch the savings.
In Floridah, they've rolled back child labor laws. Kids can now work 8 hr days without a break & a total of 30 hr weeks! As young as 13 because they need the gap filled by the loss of undocumented Americans! Thanks to DeathSantis & Randy Fucking Fine just elected to take ignorant Mike Waltz seat!
I hope no child is in a pot where they have to do this work. I fear many will just to help provide for their family. Hopefully consumers will reconsider supporting employers who hire child labor.
The assignment from Putin was to destroy the USA and everything it stands for. The assignment from Peter Thiel, Leonard Leo and Kevin Roberts was to obliterate the Middle Class along with US institutions and make us submissive. So far he is following orders and serving everyone but "We the People."
If I had investments w/ Geiger Capital, I'd pull my $ out so fast, this guy's head would spin! I want *smart* financial advisors, not some partisan hack who calls out "the left" re tariffs, and then is proven wrong himself. I'd use #GoodsUniteUs to find another investment firm w/progressive values.
I am ordering nuclear strikes on any country that puts a tariff of more than 20% on us, this is unfair behavior of liberal woke countries that hate our freedoms!
Germany has been especially unfair, and so as of today I am ordering it repartitioned, American troops will have to take over.
He will lie, say other countries made non existent deals & declare victory.
He’s a fucking moron & just like build the wall, tariffs is a simplistic mantra he can blather to the cult & they’ll thank him as they lose jobs, homes & even their lives.
He killed 1M of them & they’re still with him.
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In the immortal words of Homer Simpson,
D'OH!
I'm not entirely sure which it actually is. Maybe it's a bit of a mixed bag?
Talk down to people. Noting nothing on specifics.
Be firmly against something, then two months later be firmly for it if Trump tells you to be. Tesla EVs particularly.
Forget everything you said in the past and have no integrity to stick by what you say.
No one thinks is subject verb but that floating "partisans" also threw me for a loop.
Thus prohibition continues, use goes up, crime follows, the cartels and the DEA vacation at the beach.
Unless there is somebody on earth who thinks we have less drug use now than we did the first 150 years without laws?
The country is finished.
A teachable moment to rise better and stronger. We are weakened by forcing our dependent allies to create structures for self reliance.
Public sentiment has shifted. Trust is built slowly and leaves quickly.
#ListenToWomen
#WePanicWhenHeSpeaksBecauseHeAlwaysDoesTheThing
Congress can end this trade war by passing a resolution ending the National emergency giving Trump the power to impose tariffs. The power to tax is Congress’s purview.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Emergencies_Act
It prevents ICE from hidding behind Trump's pardoning power and the DOJ from protecting their actions.
https://youtu.be/lpYWISrjeFE
It's a lot more.
They put high tariffs on countries they buy the most.
And just 10% on countries the US don't buy much from.
So if you do a weighted average, it turns out it's a lot more than 20%
"fuck your feelings"
and
"make liberals cry again"
these are the same people buying cybertrucks to "piss off the liberals"
6mo ago they were calling EVs woke
it was NEVER the economy
What has that Neanderthal woman ever done to you? 😉
https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c4621.html
And then he didn't look at it, but instead hit himself in the head while trying to juggle it.
Trump is an Incompetent Idiot!!! #RemoveTrumpNow
Did they respond?
The truly stupid people are the ones who have been watching him for 10 long years and still think he's another person.
Trump will not stop until every American relic reflects his imaginary world view
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2025/apr/01/trump-smithsonian
Probably upset about his Bone Spur episode! lol
Crazy! Trade deficits aren’t tariffs. He’s retaliating against his own delusions.
I’d love to know how they calculated Singapore and came up with 10%
They have zero tariffs on US! 🤔🤡
He still is.
How about those stupid lefty partisans then fella?
This will not be a bandaid, wait for it to heal, kind of pain that his MAGAts claim it is.
Ball sacks, one and all. One well placed hit and they crumble.
But definitely not different. Just a lot more of what he was before.
He'd be bringing in yes men who would do all the crazy shit he wanted.
#kakistocracy
The only difference between cheeto 2016 and cheeto 2.0 is that 2.0 came in prepared. The evil is the same.
Jesus Christ.
You still gotta be dumber than a box of rocks to have not detected that as the likely outcome, tho.
His new "Trump 2.0" response is so vague that he's not even addressing the tariff issue. He's leaving himself room to still kiss Trump's ass even though he went ahead and did the dumb thing.
But, yeah, it redefines "honor" to mean "I know my tweet got screenshot already."
His technofascist, oligarch, and theocratic comrades use him as the pawn he is.
"Fucking moron" is too weak to describe him
I’m a happy absolute nobody and I know he wholeheartedly intends to destroy America as we now know it
And you don’t have to be on the “left” you just have to have observed Trump’s and the entire Republican party’s behavior over the past 30 years
Sheesh People are STUPID
Another 20% at 5th grade level.
Thank you GOP for years of education destruction. 👌
But was it dems who prevented that or was it the religious fanatics who wanted (false) 'creationism' to be the basis of teaching?
I'm certain there are some dems who prefer religion over reality but more on the right
https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/
"Donald Slump"
Wait? Who’s stupid?
But worse, someone has found that the administration asked chatGPT to work out the #tariffs 😳😳😳🤬
overheard
2002 (tech crash)
2008 (housing crash)
Covid
Trump
Hard to make the stock market work for you in countervailing winds.
Pain?
Inshame?
Today whole world can clearly see the clown you are😂😂
Looks like (don't have X so I used nitter to see it)
Germany has been especially unfair, and so as of today I am ordering it repartitioned, American troops will have to take over.
He’s a fucking moron & just like build the wall, tariffs is a simplistic mantra he can blather to the cult & they’ll thank him as they lose jobs, homes & even their lives.
He killed 1M of them & they’re still with him.
😂😂😅😅😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😡