The truth is that those who voted for Trump did exactly that; they voted for pain, and they were too damned ignorant and stupid not to know it. It was always as clear as the nose on anyone's face, but fools are fools, and stupid is as stupid does.
In an authoritarian oligarchy, the ultra-rich drink the blood of poor and middleclass people. Trump's agenda is a war against primarily the poor; it will also devastate the middleclass. Those who voted for Trump will get their just reward. Sadly, we will suffer too, and WE do not deserve it.
Biden definitely reached a new level of corpse-like near the end of his term. But Trump already looks and sounds waaaaaay older than Sleepy Joe did this early in.
I think it would br appropriate for FOTUS to share some of that pain. While most of us will experience high cost of living, we are funding a good life for him. I think it would be fitting for him to give up golf while we are enduring the necessary pain he has inflicted upon us.
Clearly, Trump used the presidency and all his popularity to line his pockets. Have you ever heard of a president selling bibles, watches, perfume, digital tokens, bitcoins and other crap? Never. For Trump, politics is big business. We mean shit to him. Trump cares only for Trump.
He says people will understand, but I suspect he's really overestimating the patience of the overall population. Assuming every single person who voted for him is totally on board with this, there's still 2/3rd of Americans who voted against it or didn't vote at all.
Our hope in the midterms is that all the disenchanted voter who did not vote in the 2024 presidential election will be shocked into voting for Dems in the midterms. The worse it gets, the better it will be for Dems. Terrible to say, but Trump's failure will be the death of the GOP and our victory.
I am not religious, but every so often I pray for people who are sick. In this case, we should all pray that Trump comes down with fast acting terminal illness. Dear God, please save us from Donald Trump. Amen.
I just flew back from New Orleans and spent election night in Chicago with a Dem senator. Everyone gets that the average American will not let race, inclusion, health, peace get in the way of their wallet.
No, of course not. Trump never would have won had he talked about pain. I did, however, hear him make one passing reference to this prior to his victory, but the utterance was a whisper next to all his fake promises. Trump is using his supporters to line his pockets. End of story.
If you want to know how deep in it his followers are: In 2020 and beyond, there were MAGA people in hospitals using their last breaths to insist they weren’t dying of covid.
Anyone who has access to the Internet or a library can find out very quickly that tariffs are import taxes, meaning that the importer, NOT the exporter, pays the taxes on foreign goods. China, Canada, & Mexico will pay zero. Americans will pay it all. People insist on ignorance. So, Trump won.
Delusions of grandeur.
This guy truly thinks he's a genius, when in reality he's full of shit, but no one has the balls to push back and tell him so.
Truly sad.
If you ask me, this sounds like he’s creating a justification to rule the world. First the victim talk. Then the need for retaliation talk. We’ve seen this again and again. Next? America first wars. With this kind of dangerous talk, we are all vulnerable to attack. America has never been so weak!
People understood that you would lower prices on Day 1. But they should have known not to take you literally. You are a master of metaphorical nuance. Or as some would call it; lying.
The pain is going to be explosive when it turns around on him. His supporters were rabid when they were happy FFS. Imagine their fury when their own entitlements are in question?
Yes! Trump, like all bullies, is a coward. He picks on those who are weaker and shy's away from the tough guys, Putin and Xi. What's crazy is that Trump is antagonizing our neighbors and allies and doing little or zip about our enemies. Trump is a mad and brainless bully.
Yes, those who can afford $15 will understand it, those who are living from paycheck to paycheck will not! You are a truly best at being the biggest and best scam and con artist!
I don't think he understands trade deficits. Or, he does, but knows his supporters do not. It can't be short term pain. The US imports because it's cheaper to make OS. Reducing the trade deficit means local manufacturing at a higher price; indefinitely or until you lower wages to Mexican levels.
Trump loves attention and is a master at getting it. I don't mean that as a compliment. Even while Biden was president, we saw Trump's face on mass media more than we saw Biden's face. Trump is a showman seeking adulation, money and power, the archetypical narcissist; 100% selfish.
Well I wish the people I follow would quit getting tricked into it like that. It's disgusting. If I wanted that, I'd go to twitter or network/cable TV.
Ah yes, the billionaire and the wannabe dictator have spoken: ‘You must suffer so we can thrive.’ Truly, the people’s champions! Let’s all just hold hands and enjoy this ‘necessary hardship’… while they sip champagne in their tax-haven mansions.
the orange one & his rich buddies have no clue about feeling pain. didn't he state, all that tariff income would go straight to the treasury? do you think the less than brilliant one, realizes what he just said? we the people pay for the tariffs, higher costs from companies who pay the tariff!!
He's just greasing up the rubes to accept all the economic damage he does in the name of patriotism and MAGA. Sadly, many of them will buy this crap because Dear Leader is infallible.
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SHORT TERM PAIN??
I'd rather go back in time and have all four of my wisdom teeth removed at the same time with no NOVOCAINE they'll have to deal with any of his short.Term pain1😳😡😡😡
Maybe heeeesss the one that owes 36 trillions dollars…not America.. he, himself owes other countries trillions.. (his dirty business) I’m just saying.. I might be wrong and over saying it..
Edolf does control Felon47.
Felon47 would not have won without Edolf and F47 knows that so he lets Edolf do whatever he wants like shut down treasury, OPM, and USAid so they can take their funds.
Where are our elected?
Stop this crap!!!
No, we really don't understand. These tariffs are pointless and stupid and will cause pain to the people of three countries. Don't tell Americans we understand. We don't, and we don't support what you're doing.
Once the tariffs incur runaway inflation, prices will never return to what they were and, when inflation goes back to between 2-3% it will be on top of what Trump created, just as prices have never gone back down after the 9% inflation rate after the pandemic. Will economic disaster wake people up?
That's the thing about tariffs, almost nobody gains.
Food prices go up, raw materials used by US manufacturers go up, US products become less competitive here and worldwide, and much less competitive in Canada and Mexico where they get retaliatory tariffs.
Ok, but in this case you are effectively conceding that you need to rig the voting rules to exclude some people, or else that you must accept this sort of government sometimes. No?
This was the second-highest turnout, as I understand it, in a long time with the exception of 2020, where mail-in was easier. And of course the racist party (whoever it happens to be at the time) has worked for 65 years to put in barriers to voting. Americans _wanted_ this, I’m sad to say.
This is why they had a TV show called, "Are You Smarter than a Fifth-Grader." They taught about tariff is my mid-level quality fifth grade class. Those who paid attention learned that tariffs are largely BAD.
I am not sure where you live but EVERY SINGLE US county voted more for this grifter than ever. This is not maga people this IS AMERICA. Plenty of business folks voted for this idiot.
The answer is simple: The people who voted for Trump are ignorant and stupid. The confluence of ignorance and stupidity is as much an epidemic as Covid. Tragically, for such an affliction there is no vaccine. It's terminal.
No, Felon47, I do not and never will understand your deliberate infliction of pain on millions of people, just so you can get your rocks off stroking your fragile mycological ego.
No the fuck I don’t understand why I should experience pain. I had no pain and a happy bank account under all previous administrations except Trump’s. The grifter keeps a griftin’.
What do I understand from the phone call this morming 02-03 between Trudeau and the criminal, the criminal asked Trudeau to find a reason (borders) so that he could go back on the tariffs by declaring that he had won
Now hang on a second. Surely Trump sold these tariffs on the basis that there would be NO pain for Americans. That foreigners would be paying them. Well, well, well
Step one: Break people financially & starve them
Step two: People start defaulting on their homes
Step three: Rich billionaires start buying property for pennies on the dollar.
Step four all 4 of Trump’s Billionaire Oligarchs become Trillionaires and each hit Trump with $250 Billion Tip so he joins them! All 100% legal! If after he helps them it is Gratuity and the Supreme court said not a Bribe! 5-4! Plus Trump has immunity and will Pardon all!
The fat fuck wants to bring 2 trillion a year in tariffs so he can then give it to his rich mates and not be accused of pushing the deficit up. Can read that prick like a book!
Almost 70% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. How much pain can they endure and for how long? Couple months, weeks? Private Equity will buy the entire housing market when homeowners default, then they'll rent you your old home for twice your old mortgage.
Those socialist programs are gone. They were struggling to feed their kids before but now they're going to really feel the hunger (as is planned in Poject2025)
This is all about the tax breaks for the rich. The tax breaks from 2017 expire this year and that’s why musk is doing this. He needs to steal from somewhere to pay for it.
Trump always talks BIG. He is a balloon full of gas but no substance. This is what it means to be a conman. As Lincoln said: “You can fool some of the people all of the time..." Trump fools millions of Americans all of the time. Maybe when the shit hits the fan, some of them will wake up.
He promised to fix it all on day one. It still shocks me that there are people SO STUPID that they believed that. Especially with his HORRIBLE track record. This guy who presided over the deaths of about 600,000 due to mismanaged COVID-19.
I find it mighty weird that the POTUS of a party whose reputation (unearned since, I’d guess, Eisenhower) does not seem to understand that “deficit” is not a word that is meaningful without qualification. I can never tell whether he is a media manipulation genius or an idiot. Maybe both.
Trump knows zero about how our economy works. He's all about posturing, bullying, greed, and power. It's all a show for his MAGA horde. Our hope is that the swing voters will finally realize they have been seriously duped and give the Dems the House and Senate in 2027. Pray!
The best hope Dems have in the midterms is a recession. Sad to say, but it takes a load of shit to wake up morons, and tragically, America is full of morons. Only when they see prices soaring and lose their home or whatever will they begin to see Trump for the failure and conman he is.
No what people u destined is that you are stealing our money for your personal agenda. We will stop buying because we can’t and that will hit our bank accounts. But that “little bit” of pain will br okay in your eyes.
No one will understand. People are going to literally starve to death because of this. No one will be able to afford to even drive to the grocery store, let alone buy anything inside, let alone pay for the electricity to run their fridge. This is theft from the American people, nothing less.
Why did millions of people vote for Trump?
1. Many don't trust a woman to be president.
2. Many are racists.
3. Bernie said the "Democrats left the working class out in the cold."
4. Many are just too damned ignorant and stupid not to see Trump for the dangerous conman he is. (Best answer.)
A LITTLE pain? Fuck this asshole. He's attacking federal employees - we're Americans too - and no, we don't understand ANY of this. I don't think he understands jack shit himself. He definitely doesn't care about Americans, that's for damned sure.
Apprently there are only a few who aren’t total traitors.
Yiu would think that at the least they would want to protect their own power in Congress. If the President can just ignore appropriations for example they have none.
Agreed. Trump knows next to nothing about history and economics. He thrives on the ignorance and stupidity of millions without which he would never have won a single vote.
In early November his supporters were saying that they literally couldn't afford to eat. Now that he's president in inflation continues, it turns out that yeah, they're okay after all. It turns out that licking boots is very filling.
I bought enough potato chips, tortilla chips and that boom chicka pop until the summer (due to expiration dates), that vacuum sealed chicken strips package and bagels.
No we don’t understand asshole and we are not ok with the way you are treating our best allies. We are not ok with you being the president, we are not ok with anything that is happening.
People (including MANY Republicans) who cannot afford Donald’s “little pain” will not understand that. They’ll go hungry, miss their medication, be stressed and scared.
Making America great again by dissing all our allies and bullying the entire world, cause they owe us. What the hell, this man needs help, seriously. He's not right in the head.
What I dont get is I know people who are well educated especially when it comes to the economy etc, voted for this schmuck and think they will flourish under this administration.
You're probably correct. Trump knows nothing about history or economy. He is ignorant to the core, knowing little about the Constitution and how our government is supposed to work. He and his supporters hate democracy and are seeking to supplant our Republic with a dictatorship.
Trump LITERALLY RENEGOTIATED OUR TRADE DEAL WITH MEXICO & CANADA 6 YEARS AGO. So-HE made a shitty deal after blowing up NAFTA? HE is the reason for his need to implement Tariffs? HIS shitty negotiating? 🤔 Ask Him
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Didn’t think so….
And no, I most certainly do not “understand” that.
Only your garbage MAGAts understand and can reverse the narrative to make it patriotic.
Yep, I said it!
Canada / Mexico did u hear that ? Increase the Tariffs to 50% on Red States!
They will drop him like a stone when the bills start rolling in and the 401k collapses.
This guy truly thinks he's a genius, when in reality he's full of shit, but no one has the balls to push back and tell him so.
Truly sad.
Do they really?
I don’t think so. This ISN’T what they voted for.
#FAFO #EatTheRich
Read it all.
trump is running the same script!
The same calls to justify his horrors.
https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb36.htm
F🤬CK 🤬🖕🏻 #tRUmpTariffs💰
I'd rather go back in time and have all four of my wisdom teeth removed at the same time with no NOVOCAINE they'll have to deal with any of his short.Term pain1😳😡😡😡
Felon47 would not have won without Edolf and F47 knows that so he lets Edolf do whatever he wants like shut down treasury, OPM, and USAid so they can take their funds.
Where are our elected?
Stop this crap!!!
He finally going to talk with Trudeau tomorrow morning
Then he will say that he resolved the problem
What’s a few million to the 1% ?
Spot on!!
And pain for the rest of us.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lhac3br7s62m
Food prices go up, raw materials used by US manufacturers go up, US products become less competitive here and worldwide, and much less competitive in Canada and Mexico where they get retaliatory tariffs.
- DJT
they do not understand how tariffs work and how they will impact prices
MAGA-alligned media obviously did not cover this point
MAGA wanted is for Trump to deport migrants and kick minorities.....and they will be happy as long as Trump keeps on doing this
don't waste time on the vile MAGA masses.....they are a lost cause
Because Americans are racists. Very simply.
So no, it won’t be short term
Step two: People start defaulting on their homes
Step three: Rich billionaires start buying property for pennies on the dollar.
MAGA after learning prices will📈:
....deporting migrants.....alienating minorities
Screw you all for voting him in. You get what you deserve!
dumbsonuvabitch.
1. Many don't trust a woman to be president.
2. Many are racists.
3. Bernie said the "Democrats left the working class out in the cold."
4. Many are just too damned ignorant and stupid not to see Trump for the dangerous conman he is. (Best answer.)
#MakeItMakeSense
Yiu would think that at the least they would want to protect their own power in Congress. If the President can just ignore appropriations for example they have none.
Everyday Americans will suffer.
What sacrifice are the rich making?