My god, even knowing everything he’s done and he’s capable of, I still can’t believe he did this. Setting the whole world on fire for NO REASON. Incomprehensible that his loyalists are sticking with him. For what??
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I do think that there is a real chance that the courts stop this specifically because many conservatives are worried (if not enough to act) and they can see it as saving Trump from himself.
TBF it’s pretty much exactly what he did his first term and why people remember it as good economic times- he didn’t change much of anything except some tax breaks (which he didnt adjust the budget for)
well he didn’t think he was gonna win so his first term was basically just “steal as much shit as possible and let the other guys handle the day to day stuff”
One of my favorite fun facts about him is that he would be worth more money if he had just taken the money his dad had given him and invested it in the s&p 500 and then worked at like, McDonald's.
Everything he's done over the course of his career has been worse than an index fund.
Lol. Yeah. I said the same thing a month ago. At the rate he's going he might actually destroy the GOP, but the amount of human suffering on the way is hard to fathom.
Trashing all those guys' portfolios on CNBC is our exit plan truly. They worship money, and El cheeto is not delivering. Best reality TV I have ever seen the last 2 days.
I wasn't worried about that, I was hoping for it! I saw the best case scenario as he does one or two performative actions, claims victory, then does nothing for the next 4 years
There’s a reason - look at philosophy of those backing him & Project 2025. They called for dismantling govt structures and destroying our economy so they can build their own fiefdoms. Of course, we’re destined to be serfs in that scenario.
Name the game. It's extortion. "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)
@whstancil.bsky.social I hope you're feigning this ignorance. The reason is to regain civil society institutions so that either Christian white supremacist nationalists can take over or so that the technofeudalist broligarchy can take over. You should read more widely....
Could be they’re personality cultists. Check out how many Nazis offed themselves rather than admit they lost the war:
“…they could not face a reckoning with either their conquerors or their consciences.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_suicides_in_Nazi_Germany
If we get alienated from the world. We can just start a new era of imperialism. First we’ll take Mexico and Canada. We gotta have Greenland because that’s the only place our European “allies” can bomb us from. Why else would he do this?
To quote (or paraphrase) a woman interviewed today in Herald Square, NYC, "If Trump says it's OK, I believe him..." 🤦♂️ Once Scientists have cured Alzheimer's, I hope they'll tackle "Stupid."
if they take out our economy we will have a harder time with resistance make no mistake my fellow Americans this is warfare on we the people of America it's just how long is it gonna take yall to wake up and realize this fact WWIII is our own gov attacking us Americans!
Short of a successful bombing of all Republicans, or a successful assassination/murder, you’re stuck with the Tangerine Tampon for another long 3.5 years, I’m afraid.
I wouldn't be so sure. If MAGA in Congress are worried about Elon primarying them, they clearly forgot about the voters who are getting really pissed off and who can vote them out.
Please don’t be fooled into thinking there’s no reason. There is definitely a method to this madness. I fear not enough of the experts are able to put their finger on it - yet.
The way I see it, he wants to weaken America for his dictator buddies while making money shaking down companies who approach him for an exception/carve out.
10/19/24 -This cover broke a part of Trump, Inc.
"The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust. Expect that to continue" - The Economist
He thinks he is a landlord.
He thinks the world are his Renters and he gets to set all prices.
He and his family are racist.
He was never successful.
Elon is the same.
Going by what I am hearing here, they have not one single clue. I’m the fool for explaining how unemployment ripple effect is going to hurt, how tariffs are going to hurt and how the Constitution isn’t just for maga idiots
There’s a reason- he wants to buy it back for nothing. Little guy loses half of everything they own or worse and DipShit Trump gonna buy it back on bad loans probably- and then not pay those. He bankrupt a f’n casino- and they practically print money 💰
The volatility in the red circle was caused by a worldwide pandemic and related supply chain issues. The current drop has no real cause other than an old man's misunderstanding of global trade.
Really? Tel men more since the pandemic was in 2019-2021……. Tel me how he doesn’t understand trade while every country that’s talking shit is slowly making deals….. please educate me, the guy who worked 6 days a week from 2019-2021 while everyone stayed home……
Middle class women have been bleeding out in parking lots since Roe fell but it’s the STONKS! crap that gets this reaction from you? Must be nice to be that insulated from harm.
Well, now he can stand on the street and shoot without consequences. He can rape without consequences. He can kidnap without consequences. He's judicially immune from consequences. He's been GIVEN god-status.
Gods live forever. There's no way his heart doesn't give out before his four years are up. Have you seen the man? His traitorous supporters can't give him everything.
It’s not no reason. Global economic chaos makes it easier to achieve large scale authoritarian changes in a short period of time. Simultaneously crush your own population, while you put all your allies at sudden imminent risk to their economy and peace.
And yet the Magots are out in full force on Facebook saying how fantastic he's doing and how all these countries were screwing us. And how many millions of jobs this will create. I'm not sure how much Kool aid this takes. But I see lots of diabetes in their future 🥺🥺
Even now, not enough people, yourself included, are fully understanding the fact that a large portion of the christian right have become accelerationists for religious apocalypse reasons. They aren't kidding, they do want to crash the world and die and go to heaven in the rapture. Really.
A whole bunch of bazillionaires kept him out of prison. He's paying them back. This is a conspiracy - a smash and grab - taking the American people's retirement savings to give to his benefactors. While he warned them to sell high and in the gamble when he reverses course to buy low. Conspiracy.
It's all they have left. They'll have Shitlers rancid stink on them forever. Who's gonna wanna work with a fascist lapdog once their owner is dead and gone?
why did david koresch’s followers go up in flames with him? sometimes there aren’t answers. people realize too late OR can’t face their extremely poor choices. sheep following the leader
What’s incomprehensible about being the developed world’s economy down to Russia sclerotic levels?
It’s a planned demolition.
And the damage lasts at least a generation.
We are all waiting for the answer? We will find out (hopefully sooner than later) when / if the House of Representatives has had enough. The whole bunch of them are traitors to the people as far as I’m concerned.
To consolidate power in the hands of the president under the “unitary executive” theory. He doesn’t have the power to pass tariffs-Congress does. But they won’t gainsay him so here we are.
Even Rand Paul was against this. And, the answer for why they stick by him is white supremacy. They believe their suffering is worth it if others they see as competition for the same resources suffer more.
Yup. It genuinely comes down to “people find that immigrants and non-white people are getting too close to parity under the current system, so they want to revert the system to a time when they had undue advantage.”
He has a reason. Everyone must bow down to his orange narcissist and beg for scraps. It’s the only way he feels powerful because he hates himself. He is destroying America for his Russian daddy and Project 2025’s religious zealot wet dream.
Stupid is as stupid does. Dumb, uneducated people voted for Trump because he told them to. You’ve only got your own compatriots to blame here, America!
You should’ve done some research into who you were electing! Anyone with a braincell knew he was going to fuck your country up…
He is making TONS of money off of this market volitility! Thats why, he and his kids and cronies know when the market is going up and down ahead of time.
This is really really bad. People don’t grasp how bad this is because we have no frame of reference for it. The monetary value that was removed from the markets is equivalent to the loss from a global pandemic over months
All his grandkids will hopefully have to change their last name, because it will be so toxic that they could never survive using it.
And I'm all for removing every vestige of him when this nightmare is over.
he's a traitor
has been, will continue to be
nothing he does is unusual from that pov; honestly a little surprising it took him this long to crash the economy
Like a relative told me today: see how the market swings according to his fancies. He dunks the market, (t)he(y) can buy, step back, market recoveries, and he and/or his mates sell.
Repeat forever because greed has no limits and the sociopaths enjoy observing the negative effects on the powerless.
Simply listen to first video under the heading "Watch". Great explanation of reasons & an real eye opener. I mean, I know things are going bad. But it is a LOT worse than we could ever imagine & requires all of us to fight this in every spare moment if this country & democracy is going to survive.
In red districts, it takes something to break from the norms. When everywhere you go, they are maga . They watch Fox, so they never hear the truth.They all go to the bar and share stories from fox.
They are rural, so they see the same people everyday.
Most importantly they don't want to be wrong.
This is a staged transfer of wealth.
Him and those around him will make so much money off this crash it will be disgusting. They are going to buy everything we loose at a discount.
they are sticking with him for personal gain. they are all con artists and scammers, not one has a spine or moral compass. they are grifters on a sea of money and all they understand is more.
There is a reason...
Bet heavy on the short. Manipulate a crash. Double your money. Roll your profits into buying the now cheap stocks to pay zero taxes on your short bet windfall. Repeal the tariffs. Stocks go back up. Repeat in 30-60 days.
Because they believe it going to go waaaayyy up again like his stupid administration claims it will. Or, so long as trump is still working on bigotry issues, they're happy.
When everything has been destroyed they will get to buy it all up for pennies on the dollar, including farms of those who've been foreclosed on, businesses, houses, all kinds of assets. Nothing is ever enough.
I'll admit I expected horrors, but I thought they'd be breaking down democracy and erasing disfavored castes while his goons cheered. I thought he might tear it all down if the walls started to close in. I didn't expect him to douse everyone everywhere in gasoline and light a blowtorch just because.
Trump is not that clever. He doesn't plan ahead. He just does what he wants. He's doing this because he hasn't had a thought in his head since 1962 and his personal ideology doesn't allow for the idea of mutually beneficial agreements.
He's too stupid to care about judges orders. None of them have mattered in any of his cases. He's not in jail and has a chance to get even with poeple. If he can do it he will. He was elected on owning the libs, not egg. That's all the knuckle draggers care about.
And the thing is, most of those goons have not even done anything beyond shitpost on Twitter. A few showed up to "defend" Tesla dealerships, but where did the rest go?
I think there is a latent danger in this that the excuse, historically, becomes "he was senile and crazy and vengeful, can't really blame us can you" rather than "He's the embodiment of Republican ideology for the last 100 years"
In February 2014, Drumpf said his desired outcome for the USA: "You know what solves it? When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster. Then you'll have a [chuckles], you know, you'll have riots to go back to where we used to be when we were great."
He was predicting Obamacare would cause the country to collapse with riots in the streets until it was rescinded. He implied chaos and collapse was the result of bad government, not a plan for success. Let’s you and me be the ones who are careful with the facts — it’s the only way we beat him.
🙂 Well, I’m ex-GOP who’s been banging the Never Trump drum since he started campaigning in 2015. I’ve seen friends and family leap to write off criticism if it turns out he was misquoted or taken out of context — so I’m super careful. He’s awful enough that I don’t need to give anyone an excuse! 🙃
I lifted that clip from a longer post by Sarah Kendzior: "I've quoted this passage from Trump -- where he states his intent to cause riots and US economic collapse -- so many times." https://www.hidinginplainsightbook.com
I know it's going to be bad, but the Democrats should step away from taking congressional action to pull Trump's ability to impose the tariffs. Let the GOP own this, and let it sink in, and we might finally get a sane 3 house majority in a few years and then start fixing our broken system.
You say for no reason, but there is a reason.
His ego.
He has an inexplicable need to demonstrate to everyone that he is in charge. He can't do it through his intellect or compassion, because both are lacking.
But he can do it by impoverishing the whole world. For the ego that is a triumph.
Because they are sexist, homophobic and racist and he makes them feel that that is ok. Not only ok but THE way to be. He makes them feel righteous for being an absolute bane on existence.
Ask who gains. Corps and the wealthy will now go nuts with stock buybacks and double their pre-tariff monies in 2 years. A global recession cuts Europe’s boosting Ukraine with supplies and weapons, helping Russia.
Trump is America’s public enemy #1 and the world’s dictators’ authoritarian tool.
Revenge, period, the world doesn't worship him and he knows crashing our economy hurts the world. He is only about retribution, his vindictiveness is his fuel. People think he has deeper motives but he truly is very shallow/transparent.
For being able to say "the whole world is calling now. The whole world is calling me to make a deal". Cosplaying the king of the world. For Trump everything is about Trump. He doesn'T give a rat's arse about the USA, we the people or the constitution. It's all about ego and lining his pockets.
I’m hearing signs of the Republicans getting a lot of heat from their voters. And voicing this on MSNBC. Only a few but it’s better than denial and spin from 2 weeks ago.
Sarah Kendzior: "I've quoted this passage from Trump - where he states his intent to cause riots and US economic collapse - so many times. He flat-out announced it on Fox News in February 2014. In my book...(see my own) essay warning of his plan: https://www.hidinginplainsightbook.com
Why haven't they stopped trading?
I thought that is what they did when a panic struck
Or is this not a panic?
Just a completely rational reaction to an incredibly stupid president
if his phony numbers had been true
How DARE penguins put 99% tariffs on US goods
Could have started a real war
But now
What will Fox News do on Monday?
After a relaxing weekend hanging with the Saudis at one of his golf clubs what will Trump do to start the week
He's getting his retribution w/US for the 2020 rejection, and the rest of the world for laughing at him. The GOP foolishly thought they'd reign alongside til they lost a good portion of their fortunes the past couple days. Michael Cohen told us years ago Dump would burn it all down.
His loyalists in Congress have been bullied into submission by both Trump and MAGA, and MAGA thinks Trump is so brilliant that this is just a messy first step in making America great again, and soon the whole country is going to be rich. It's going to have to get really bad before they get it.
Because Trump is backed by oligarchs and russia who want America to collapse, and pick through its scrap. The incompetence is there to stall your response to malice.
Bribes and whispers steer the regime. Controlled opposition tells you a slap on the wrist will make it go back to normal.
russia and China want the post-WW2 order gone. A broken USA, its democracy shredded, an isolated menace, its people destitute but for a wealthy few, serves powerful interests.
Oligarchs who want to be overlords will take nearly all of a smaller pie.
There is a reason!! The wealthy gave 🍊 💩 MILLIONS to wreak the economy so they can get BAILOUTS (which is our tax $) then when they lay us off, they use OUR BAILOUT $$ to buy up our houses because we’ve been laid off then they rent them to us for more than the mortgage was
Trump has a plan. He wants to cause a recession to force the Fed to lower interest rates. He wants to weaken the dollar as a way to strengthen U.S. exports. His chaos will bring down the global economy.
Ya know those Saudis he's golfing with? ....and his possee billionaire technoBros?
They gonna sweep in and buy up every square inch of this nation -think of our future as either the Hunger Games, The Road or Book of Eli
This is just a start. They want to achieve isolationism, and ally with russia so they can proceed with their fascist utopia. They dont care. And the wealthy leading this fire sale are more then happy to rape the coffers of americans, 401ks/iras/tsps will be the ones to pay for it.
This was going to happen when they shifted to shareholder primacy then turn majority of retirement plans into 401ks vice pensions. Sure a bunch of people made millions, but this is the long term ramifications. Citizens United happened because of shareholder primacy bullcrap.
They don't know how to do anything else. As miserable as their jobs are, they want the power it has at any cost. The ones who couldn't take it anymore left.
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Everything he's done over the course of his career has been worse than an index fund.
At least tyranny and a shit economy there is more hope of a political counter revolution
https://youtu.be/HwBT6IW1syU
“…they could not face a reckoning with either their conquerors or their consciences.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_suicides_in_Nazi_Germany
https://www.telos-eu.com/en/politics/the-very-definition-of-tyranny-donald-trumps-attem.html
"The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust. Expect that to continue" - The Economist
He thinks the world are his Renters and he gets to set all prices.
He and his family are racist.
He was never successful.
Elon is the same.
The keyword is “rule”, it’s that simple.
He doesn’t understand trade because he thinks that trade deficits can be solved via tariffs and that foreign nations pay them.
And you need to update your chart. We’re down about 10% since the date of your screenshot.
(He's so titanicly stupid that it's a possibility.)
But it's a moot point.
The damage is done, and the damage will be lasting.
Update:
3 zones: The Americas (trumps) - Europe/Africa (Putin) and the East (China).
Israel Vatican and Switzerland will be independent states.
Krasnov
It’s a planned demolition.
And the damage lasts at least a generation.
He probably told all of them what he was gonna do and what investments to sell, and what investments to buy when they drop
they’re racist, trash humans.
Every other thing they say is a set of mental gymnastics attempting to preserve their social acceptability.
You should’ve done some research into who you were electing! Anyone with a braincell knew he was going to fuck your country up…
…and he has!
1. The cult leader is never wrong.
2. When the cult leader is wrong refer to rule 1.
And I'm all for removing every vestige of him when this nightmare is over.
As #Americans go #bankrupt and lose their jobs and homes to #foreclosure…
craven #billionaires will snap up our properties at #firesale prices.
#JDVance’s #Thiel gang
launched an #app to buy foreclosed #farms.
Good times for the greedy making the rest of us #needy.
has been, will continue to be
nothing he does is unusual from that pov; honestly a little surprising it took him this long to crash the economy
Repeat forever because greed has no limits and the sociopaths enjoy observing the negative effects on the powerless.
https://takedemocracyback.org/
They are rural, so they see the same people everyday.
Most importantly they don't want to be wrong.
Him and those around him will make so much money off this crash it will be disgusting. They are going to buy everything we loose at a discount.
Bet heavy on the short. Manipulate a crash. Double your money. Roll your profits into buying the now cheap stocks to pay zero taxes on your short bet windfall. Repeal the tariffs. Stocks go back up. Repeat in 30-60 days.
Can’t believe the MAGAts will fully cut their noses off to spite their faces, but here we are.
Racism is a hellava drug.
Because their Caucasian skintones look so lovely by the fire.
Russia is CELEBRATING rn 🥳🍾
Like most Presidents do, he's doing what he promised.
no! this is the Republican ethos in its purest form. Trump is the logical endpoint of this wretched party, the only place it could’ve led
https://youtu.be/Cbp_nXMLonw?feature=shared
https://www.hidinginplainsightbook.com
Every company and country now has to beg and bribe him directly for an exemption.
And to a true malignant narcissist, anyone who doesn't kiss the ring deserves to be punished.
His ego.
He has an inexplicable need to demonstrate to everyone that he is in charge. He can't do it through his intellect or compassion, because both are lacking.
But he can do it by impoverishing the whole world. For the ego that is a triumph.
That's about the sum of it. He enables their hate, and that sustains an awful lot of people.
Trump is America’s public enemy #1 and the world’s dictators’ authoritarian tool.
Congress has the power of the purse, but no backbone.
Some adult(s) are going to have to start saying No, like you would with a child.
Choice involves informed consent in many fields: LAW (contracts), Medicine, & Psychology
It will be so much easier for them, if our nation lies in ruin.
https://think.ing.com/articles/heres-whats-going-to-happen-on-april-2/
https://www.hidinginplainsightbook.com
I thought that is what they did when a panic struck
Or is this not a panic?
Just a completely rational reaction to an incredibly stupid president
How DARE penguins put 99% tariffs on US goods
Could have started a real war
But now
What will Fox News do on Monday?
After a relaxing weekend hanging with the Saudis at one of his golf clubs what will Trump do to start the week
The other intent, which is also what Russia wants, is to destabilize or crash the US dollar. China and Russia have been pushing their own currency. This also aligns with the "Network State" conspiracies:
https://bsky.app/profile/we-all-do-better.bsky.social/post/3lhgbbkx5fs2v
They voted for this. They ASKED for this.
Fuck them all to hell.
Bribes and whispers steer the regime. Controlled opposition tells you a slap on the wrist will make it go back to normal.
It won't.
Oligarchs who want to be overlords will take nearly all of a smaller pie.
This is willful malice.
https://bsky.app/profile/abstractedaway.bsky.social/post/3llzrtnehxk2v
Tax wealth, not work
They gonna sweep in and buy up every square inch of this nation -think of our future as either the Hunger Games, The Road or Book of Eli
He's just a cuck and has been given direction by his owners!!
https://bsky.app/profile/piperformissouri.bsky.social/post/3llzyy3dfac2o
Is it just their sadistic nature perhaps.....