Wondering how all the country-club, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley I-don’t-care-that-he’s-an-insane-criminal-convict-because-he’s-gonna-cut-capital-gains-tax-rates MAGA types are feeling this morning
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My guess is they'll only start caring if this lasts long term which unfortunately it will. A lot of these asshats will luckily get bail outs too if things get as bad as expected.
The only satisfaction I have, and it is only a little solace, is that those who have allowed him to ascend will not be immune to his insanity. They will not be immune to his chaos. They cannot control their way out of this one.
Just got into an argument with one of them walking the dog and his response was, "dems lied about the Russians tipping the election". Literally didn't understand what he was saying; had to go back to 2016... we are doomed
I am familiar with this kind of thinking. Family member.
The problem is they only listen to far right-wing radio and podcasts and have no idea what's actually going on. I don't know what you do about WILLFUL IGNORANCE.
Same. The one member of my family still living is so deep into Christian Nationalism & the Trump Cult, I made the decision that for my own mental stability I can no longer communicate with him. I have lost my brother.
When you believe that you have all the answers, your mind is COMPLETELY SHUT
Sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, the right wing authoritarian media complex is a pox on the globe that drives this behavior.. until that changes more and more folks will be lost to it.
Same. Previous friends and family. It is simply to distressing and moronic to try to have rational conversations with people that exist in the republican echo chamber.
It seemed the most obvious thing in the world that if you are a billionaire paying minimal taxes, the last person you want to take a chance on is an idiot with the potential to blow up the economy.
They don’t give a fuck. They don’t care about our silly little 401ks. They’ve got theirs and they want more. They’ll buy stocks at a bargain and do all their mergers and acquisitions and get bailouts like usual.
Looking forward to circling back with the “It’s not April 2nd yet” crowd. They actually told me EU countries were already caving. Hopium from the MAGA media. I found zero evidence of this in, you know, real life. These white dudes are closer to retirement than I am. Go ahead shine this turd.
I think they've been doing everything they can to dissuade him from this action. But he's ungovernable, even by his wealthiest backers. He's obsessed with tariffs, and I think sees them as a way to demand that other country's leaders come to him to bend the knee in order to be released.
When money is your god, you lose all morality & credibility.
I don't like these people, nor do I respect them.
They are nothing but their money.
So they are useless , uninteresting & nothing.
Period.
Feeling like millionaires. As they did the day before that and the day before that. Should I buy a boat or should I wait for the recession, things are much cheaper for our class in a recession. They might be bummed for a minute, but when the fire sales start, invigoration reigns.
It is worth noting that the W administration was appearing far more competent than this before 9/11 hit. I tend to doubt terrorists will hit because we are doing their work for them, but we are now possibly more vulnerable than then.
Brian Cornell, CEO of Target and Trump supporter should be fired. Period. He got caught up in the whoosh and forgot to take into account his customers have a choice. Well they've made it Brian. All those supine idiotic CEOs should be fired for misunderstanding that obvious fact.
They're all figuring out how to profit from the decline in equities. Their corruption and transactional greed "trumps" their patriotism or anything else. Up or down matters less. Hoping there is integrity left somewhere in the SEC, although I'm not sure what they could do in this corrupt landscape.
Absolutely this. I am 60 years old and my husband just retired in December. We will do whatever it takes to resist and to shine the light on this cancer’s agenda.
I agree. However, it is important to shine the light on the fact that these oligarchs (criminals) have the ability to manipulate the market to their advantage. They can make massive amounts of money from shorting…as well as off of the market chaos they have the ability to create.
"Against all enemies, foreign and domestic" it may not be treason legally since I think that only applies in times of declared war, but it fits the colloquial definition. Certainly treacherous and impeachable
Those tariffs will erase their gains - so what if the taxes are “lower” - there will be nothing to tax - Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and country club types don’t like recessions as a rule
They just don’t-care-that-he’s-an-insane-criminal-convict-because-he’s-gonna-cut-capital-gains-tax-rates.
This is the reaction you can expect from them.
And by “fix the border,” he meant “brutalized brown people.” That’s all he wanted. Some cruelty towards Other, and he doesn’t give a shit about anything else. Nothing is “fixed,” he knows it, and he doesn’t care.
If they're like most people who make bad choices, they're rationalizing how this isn't their fault, covering their ass, and perhaps coming up with a scheme to profit from it.
Many will profit from a volatile stock market. The market needed an adjustment but not to this degree. It's going to kill many retirement plans for older Americans. Social security failure would be the final nail in the economic coffin. This is not look good at all.
The best way to break trumps hold over his MAGAts is to let his policies screw them bigly.
Until they begin to suffer they will never abandon him, and until they abandon him the cowards in the GOP will never abandon him!
It may be painful for all of us but I say let it happen!
It will take 5 R Senators switching their votes to turn the tide. It will take 21 R Senators switching their votes to convict on impeachment.
But the 5 can definitely avert the disaster from continuing...
In the U.K., we had the game of betting whether a lettuce should last longer than the Prime Minister.
I think you need to pick a vegetable, and bet whether it lasts longer than 21 R senators putting up with this chaos…
Suicidal tendencies lead to dire consequences. Any family who has a violent mentally disturbed person in it can tell you that. These MAGA types put that person in charge of our future.
Or- wonder how a Democrat that didn’t vote for the Orange Turd- wanting to retire- now cant, too young for medicare, is feeling about her portfolio- Notta good, where’s the support George?
In fairness I am sure they are fine because I am quite certain they are buying quite a lot of stock and waiting for him to back down and relent and for the markets to adjust so they will have made billions if not trillions for this performative bullshit.
I saw a post on Twitter earlier that opines that the reason the market hasn't dropped further so far today (bouncing up and down, in fact) is that many traders are either in denial or hoping against hope that Trump will walk it all back in some way soon.
His CEO buddies getting an earful from their managers & accounting, trying to figure out which pieces of whatever they make are imported. What a nightmare.
They are probably OK. Billionaires have a lot of room to spend and lose money….they just don’t like paying taxes as a matter of principle, not because they can’t afford it.
And the Orange One will then VERY selectively dole out special favors to those who lick the boot. Standard operating procedure for dictators/kings/absolute rulers.
A person in my household says this is all to get the 10-year bond down, or something like that, and we all need to feel a little pain, etc. Please explain this 10-year bond thing.
No more Brooks Brothers shopping sprees for upper economic end Trump supporters for a while, I'm afraid... Worse, all those $20 million per year partners at Paul Weiss will have to cut out their double desserts or Martinis at lunchtime at plush K St. restaurants. Man, life's gonna be rough.
You're a major shareholder in automotive stocks and you went all in on Trump, donating to every Republican up and down the line because you were promised a tax cut. So now your stocks have fallen by 20%, your investment income has halved and your tax cut applies to significantly lower income.
Billionaires & corporations are the opposite of patriotic--they have benefitted from being in the US--laws, education, infrastructure, tax policy, security, etc--and instead of supporting the government (federal, local) that made their success possible, they are tearing it all down to hoard more $$.
Why should they care? They already made their money off millions of people’s support and pockets as consumers—and now that they have their billions they still want more.
This rate of greed and support of Trump is sickening and inhumane!
For all the inconvenience and reduction in their bank accounts, they’ll grumble and grouse, but ultimately be fine with things. They refuse to admit they’re wrong about anything, and so long as they can exploit others, and see groups they hate and can hurt made into punching bags, they’ll acquiesce.
what they should be feeling is shame and remorse for what they did to our country. what most are likely feeling is indifference or perhaps minor annoyance.
I hope they feel the pain because they need to suffer for their greed. I have no tears for them at all. You forgot that he lies every time he open his mouth.
I guarantee they will be just as salty as the MAGA 2nd Amendment junkies who will soon discover that the tariffs are going to increase gun and ammo prices.
If you are a gallows humor kind of person, head on over and listen to Bloomberg this morning, golly gosh who could have possibly known something like this would happen????
They won't feel it until they dragged into the streets and burned at the stake, or guillotined. I recommend drawing-and-quartering...with their own horses.
They can take a 3-year vacation to the Swiss Alps, then swoop in to buy up everything the poors lost during the shitshow and extort them for any pennies they have left.
And even hits harder for us little people. I have NEVER seen our personal stocks down this much. They were down 5% yesterday and 6% this morning. That's 11% in ONE DAY!
Probably too busy taking boner pills and rewatching the video of brown immigrants being assaulted and deported to torture prisons to really notice just yet.
I don't think you can tank the economy, destroy public health and ruin national security and end up well. This is what a couple of sociopaths would do. Burn it all down and rule over the ashes. https://bsky.app/profile/wajali.bsky.social/post/3lluhlnt3bs23
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The problem is they only listen to far right-wing radio and podcasts and have no idea what's actually going on. I don't know what you do about WILLFUL IGNORANCE.
When you believe that you have all the answers, your mind is COMPLETELY SHUT
I don't like these people, nor do I respect them.
They are nothing but their money.
So they are useless , uninteresting & nothing.
Period.
This is the reaction you can expect from them.
Guy I know, a successful guy, confessed that "at least he fixed the border that was all I cared about".
These single issue folks will be our ruin.
Put out. I don’t.
Bigots will be our ruin. FTFY.
The best way to break trumps hold over his MAGAts is to let his policies screw them bigly.
Until they begin to suffer they will never abandon him, and until they abandon him the cowards in the GOP will never abandon him!
It may be painful for all of us but I say let it happen!
But the 5 can definitely avert the disaster from continuing...
I think you need to pick a vegetable, and bet whether it lasts longer than 21 R senators putting up with this chaos…
Americans in general don’t !
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-JayZ
they are a bunch of nerds
(still) scared of a bully
This rate of greed and support of Trump is sickening and inhumane!
https://bsky.app/profile/redloribrighteyes.bsky.social/post/3llxggvcaic2h
Trump did it! xD
But, now, they have sold their reputations and their souls. There’s no turning back from that.
Think Sodom and Gomorrah. We’re there.
https://bsky.app/profile/wajali.bsky.social/post/3lluhlnt3bs23