New euphemism new dropped via Treasury Secretary Bessent: "Could we be seeing this economy that we inherited starting to roll a bit? Sure ... there's gonna be a detox period."
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How many different ways can they go on TV and say “Trump’s plan to give the top 10% another tax cut is gonna hurt most Americans, but you idiots voted for it, so…🤷🏼♂️”
Indeed. They had lost a third of their values during the first Trumpy shitshow. Under Biden, they had gained it back then doubled, so it was time to pull out in December and take the win.
That’s an interesting way to describe the beginnings of a self inflicted recession.
On the upside, at least the YouTube doom and gloom channels will be happy. After years of saying the markets will crash and recession will start next week, they can finally be right for once.
The economy and jobs growth handed over was solid, but ‘detox period’ seems apt when the guy most responsible for rocking the boat spend most of his time deep in the K-hole.
This guy is a liar, watching his body language and eye movements being interviewed by Margaret Brennan was a dead giveaway. Also, he constantly harkened back to the prior administration with complete bullshit.
They weren’t saying this when they inherited the greatest economy this country has ever seen from President Obama. They were bragging about it and taking credit.
I'm sure they'll use the Tory trick of claiming the economy is the fastest growing in the world after it hits rock bottom.
Our BBC still let the Tories get away with that. @jackabbott.bsky.social and your gutless govt does nothing about it.
@carladenyer.bsky.social @eddavey.libdems.org.uk
The economy you inherited was “remarkable” according to the Wall Street Journal and “the envy of the world” according to the Economist. So, cut the gaslighting, jerkoff.
Bessent knows the #tariffs are bad, but is going along with them. @stephruhle.bsky.social talked to @maddow.msnbc.com about this.
#Maddow noted Trump wants CEOs to call him for exceptions for their industry, & they'll then owe him. In the meantime, insiders can "buy the dip."
What is the point of this? Articulate what is the greater good of tanking our economy in six weeks. Is it anything more thanTrump’s stupid zoomies? Do we all suffer because an idiot decrees it? WTF, America?
Everybody better be laser-focused on election security & infrastructure and voter suppression in every state. So much of these janky moves are questionable -to-outright-illegal. Why would they do so much illegal damage if they thought it was possible to be voted out of power in 2026 & 2028?
These are the people who would microwave their phone if TikTok told them to. They are absolutely not smart enough to see through this. When it happens it’ll be because of “sleepy Bidenomics.”
okay but once they microwave their phones and have to pay an arm and a leg for a new one, they won't have tiktok kooks to explain away why the prices are so high
"Sure we were perfectly healthy and swallowed bleach for no discernable reason while trying to also force the bleach down our two best friends' and our business partner's throats, but now we're in the 'detox' stage!"
Detox period?! Do any of us outside the Cult remember anything about a detox period during the Campaign regarding the great economy the man in the Oval inherited, per th WSJ?!
This GOP Cult is utterlymade of the most hypocritical, arrogant people I have ever met!
What is the economy detoxing from? The incompetence of the people at the helm?
The drug addicted fascist and his DOGE team dismantling democracy from the inside?
Well in all fairness, he can't really say "Sure. We're planning on fucking up the economy big time in the short term but hope it improves in a few years."
The magas will believe until it hits them in the face
Biden gave us an economy improvement every day for 4 years Trump destroying it in a few months can u believe how bad it would be without the courts
Sorry but only way out is let em destroy it all
Agree. I don’t understand the political blindness. They know what Trump is doing, and they are fully aware of the results of those actions. Or are they truly blind?
It’s going to be really terrible. We already have way greater wealth/income disparities compared to 90 years ago, and there’s too little housing too. Fuct. Totally fuct
Why privatize SOC? So some fat cat gets to skim cream off all that money just sitting there? Make it work & make more money for them? Cut benefit distributions so they can spend more on crypto w/o fear bc they are backed by blood sweat and tears of the American worker?
Impeach stinking muskyrump
He said the quiet part out loud. The Trump Admin wants to transition everything from public to private, meaning from free to pay for service. Will private equity take over government systems now that it has ruined the housing market?
“… addicted to this government spending.”
This coming from guy, who works for a President, who raised our debt more in 4 years than his predecessor did in eight.
As Trudeau said: Make this make sense.
“Detox period” So we’re deliberately having withdrawals from a good economy to a worse one for what? Cuts in services, union busting, inflation, lack of diversity in schools and the workplace, the list is too long. Bessent is all about Tariffs, tax cuts and crypto.
He said the reason why…going from govt spending to private. They want to privatize everything. We will pay for everything out of pocket. Want your weather on your phone guess what you pay. This all started when hospitals could be nonprofit. “We’ll see” yep we will
Republicans don't care that Americans are suffering and will continue to suffer as long as they're in charge.Businesses are losing money, farmers losing farms, planes falling out of the sky and yet Dems allow MAGAs to screech about trans people in bathrooms, A NON ISSUE FOR 99% OF THE COUNTRY
An unconventional experiment that is truly American in inspiration and scale - put the stupidest, and most cowardly, people in charge of things and see how that goes
Is “detox period” detailed in any economic theory? Something taught by the world’s foremost authorities? By any chairman of any region of the Federal Reserve? Sounds like more Federalist Society bull shit to me.
Sock puppets every one… Bessent inherited a sound, growing economy. tRump ruined it is just a few weeks. Now his apologists and liars are spinning the loss.
Cut taxes and cut public spending= cut Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security while dumping hundreds of thousands of federal workers (whose pay goes into local economies) into low paying, no job security, no pension jobs.
People who won’t feel the pain are telling us to just deal with it.
And don’t worry because when shit hits the fan, bessent will still have enough money to not worry about any of this shit. While the rest of you are homeless and hungry.
And this shows you very clearly that rising to a senior position in the private sector does not mean you are the sharpest tool in the tool box. All across corporate land there are highly incompetent people promoted for a range of reasons. The idea of a meritocracy is wholly false.
12 to 18 hours from now, every Republican member of Congress who gets on TV will have used, or will be using, the same words. That's what they do. The GOP has a messaging system more organized and faster-spreading than high school mean girls. Why? Because it works with their block-headed base.
“As with so many men in prominent Nazi positions…they are thoroughly 2nd-rate people, & on their merits would never have achieved any positions of authority. Only their blind loyalty…has given them power & that they will hold on to.”
—German scholar Darkness over Germany (1943)
A drop in consumer spending and homebuilding and surge in the trade deficit in January linked to tariffs led many economists to slash their gross domestic product (GDP) estimates for the first quarter to below a 1.5% annualized rate from around 2.0% last month.
To be fair. they took over an economy that voters thought was awful even when it wasn't, so I can see how they might get the idea that they can wreck it all for fun and profit, then just make the "vibes" be how great the economy is. Why not with such a fucking stupid electorate?
Exactly! In addition to a strong economy, illegal immigration was at an all time low and domestic oil production was at all time high. All they had to do was NOTHING - just lie and say how quickly they made everything so great. The base would have swallowed their lies hook, line, and sinker.
Isn’t that par for the course with Trump? If he had done nothing with the money his daddy gave him, he’d be richer than he was with his “genius” business plans.
The Lies that ooze from their mouths into the eager, ears of their abiding cult members irritates me near as much as the people spewing and believing the lies.
I honestly thought this would be the strategy in several domains, like just stop lying about an illegal alien crime wave and claim you solved the problem.
This is their strategy and has been for years. From welfare queens in the 80s to transgender migrant surgeries in the 2020s. Outrage bait that is not statistically significant
I don’t understand, how an economy that they said was terrible, gets worse under their leadership. Makes more sense that they lied and are currently screwing up a good economy.
Yeah, we got addicted to things working, and so we'll just have to adjust to living in a country where the rich soak up all the wealth and we're left without a functioning government. But don't worry, we'll privatize everything so the filthy rich can control more of our lives...
I'm sorry. My reaction to this administration has all been a mistake. I didn't realize I was heavily addicted to procedural budgeting and spending. I'll just sweat it off.
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It is pretty funny.
I have never owned a new car. Buy used pay cash. Haven't been to an auto show since before the Moon landing.
Depreciation!
On the upside, at least the YouTube doom and gloom channels will be happy. After years of saying the markets will crash and recession will start next week, they can finally be right for once.
😵💫
And they’re all winning, bigly!
Our BBC still let the Tories get away with that. @jackabbott.bsky.social and your gutless govt does nothing about it.
@carladenyer.bsky.social @eddavey.libdems.org.uk
But now, every bloody Republican does this shit.
Um so what we're doing is transitioning....
😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
Isn’t it bad enough that Joe Biden paid to have those mice transition??
:-)
Who tf could defend something so plain and stupid
It's only going to get worse, and they'll still bury their heads in the sand for those tax cuts.
#Maddow noted Trump wants CEOs to call him for exceptions for their industry, & they'll then owe him. In the meantime, insiders can "buy the dip."
RICO all over the place.
Mob gonna mob. 😒
This GOP Cult is utterlymade of the most hypocritical, arrogant people I have ever met!
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3ljsa5cl5sk2h
The drug addicted fascist and his DOGE team dismantling democracy from the inside?
Good = Trump. Bad = DEI (or some other nonsense).
Got it.
“detox period” … what a buffoon
But they didn’t just drop the ball—they smashed it into the ground.
Our response? Boycott the BIG 3.
#BoycottMeta #BoycottAmazon #BoycottTesla
#Google—you’re next.
Biden gave us an economy improvement every day for 4 years Trump destroying it in a few months can u believe how bad it would be without the courts
Sorry but only way out is let em destroy it all
And then perhaps a depression.
There will be no private sector recovery if no one has any money.
🤔 the treasury secretary mispronounced “dysfunction”.
Impeach stinking muskyrump
He looks like an SNL character playing in a skit.
He said the quiet part out loud. The Trump Admin wants to transition everything from public to private, meaning from free to pay for service. Will private equity take over government systems now that it has ruined the housing market?
This coming from guy, who works for a President, who raised our debt more in 4 years than his predecessor did in eight.
As Trudeau said: Make this make sense.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3ljsa5cl5sk2h
Buckle up.
How does anyone think this is a good idea?!
It’s amazing how we’ve been conditioned to believe system based purely on greed is the IDEAL.
What a fucking joke!
Inherited a growing economy and you know it.
Detox period, really???
People who won’t feel the pain are telling us to just deal with it.
“As with so many men in prominent Nazi positions…they are thoroughly 2nd-rate people, & on their merits would never have achieved any positions of authority. Only their blind loyalty…has given them power & that they will hold on to.”
—German scholar Darkness over Germany (1943)
asking for a friend!
Fkn clowns. 🤡
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The Lies that ooze from their mouths into the eager, ears of their abiding cult members irritates me near as much as the people spewing and believing the lies.
Fuck Trump
When you are HEALTHY and STRONG you don't detox.
ALL Trump had to do is just get sworn in and golf every day and this would have been fine.
I thought Republicans hated anything Soros. Apparently money is money whether D or Rs.
Economy “rolling a bit?” It’s a Trump Tsunami of BS hitting.