Oh yeah, the economy was doing awesome in 1932. Nobody Google that. I'm sure President History Guy has it right. - ThreadSky

Forget Wharton, we know he learned nothing there. Trump is attending Google University where you cherry-pick your information and learn only what you want to learn and hear what you want to hear.

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judithanne.bsky.social•142 days ago

I read that he didn't go to Wharton. He went to Penn State. (But I didn't fact check it.)

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wndlb.bsky.social•143 days ago

Why Hubert Heever won in a landslide, #amirite

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drosgood.bsky.social•143 days ago

Still basking in the afterglow of Smoot-Hawley, I see.

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markbarrington.bsky.social•143 days ago

The pencil trade was very hot.

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unkaren.bsky.social•143 days ago

Nothing to fear but Dear cult leader himself.

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sandnesharry.bsky.social•143 days ago

Oh yeah, the economy was doing awesome in 1932.
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Yes.
A really awesome depression like nobody ever seen before.
That kind of bigly awesome.
-Don the Con does not even get such a WELL KNOWN story right.
-But then he has managed to run casino into bankruptcy.
Repeatedly !

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mexhistorian.bsky.social•142 days ago

The Great Elation! That’s my favorite era of US history to teach. Students love it!

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harpernoerh.bsky.social•141 days ago

Again , we can`t possibly say because we wanna get rich as a country , so the pressure has to be on the poor masses . No!

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gbeaudette.bsky.social•143 days ago

It's entirely possible he doesn't know the "Great" Depression was actually a bad thing.

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lizardky.bsky.social•143 days ago

“We’re gonna have a greater depression! Depression like you’ve never seen! The biggest, most amazing, depression!”

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scottyeager.bsky.social•143 days ago

Things went great for Republicans in the House in 1932. I’m sure this had nothing to do with the economy.

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riwoche.bsky.social•143 days ago

Many people are saying a six-times-bankrupt guy who couldn't turn a profit on a casino in Atlantic City is all about accentuating the positive in 1932.

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traveller-in-black.bsky.social•142 days ago

I'm sure he does... in his own mind. I think I speak for many that, If he said the sky was blue, I'd poke my head out a window.

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kylelogan.bsky.social•142 days ago

Maybe so

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catsharkchaireth.bsky.social•143 days ago

Ok, Google: when was the Great Depression?

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mr-smith.bsky.social•139 days ago

Awesome Indeed! With a record employment and reduced international trade. The truth is that America cant afford to be selfish in their policy. A lot is dependent on an averagely liberal America.

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clggmf.bsky.social•143 days ago

"Did I say 1932? I meant 1632! You know, when slaveholding was really getting going."

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camponeill.bsky.social•143 days ago

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sleestak.bsky.social•143 days ago

He is SO damn STUPID. And his cult is worse

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mojorisin.bsky.social•142 days ago

It's fucking frightening. 💯

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marythetrainer.bsky.social•140 days ago

The dumbest criminal in history.

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marythetrainer.bsky.social•140 days ago

See what I did there?

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greene.haus•143 days ago

Gonna see if we can get Julianna Smoot and Josh Hawley together on a panel to elaborate on this.

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cynicalgrrl.bsky.social•143 days ago

Never change, sir

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greene.haus•143 days ago

As you well know, I couldn't if I tried.

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danielahedges.bsky.social•143 days ago

Make America Great Depression Again

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myandra.bsky.social•143 days ago

The start of the Great Depression??? What's wrong with him?

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davewithturbos.bsky.social•143 days ago

C'mon, people had all sorts of free time!

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artemisnow.bsky.social•143 days ago

What a moron.

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nickmaviga101.bsky.social•139 days ago

Can he do it?

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mr-dr-prof-patrick.bsky.social•143 days ago

He’s so stupid. How is this fool virtually tied for the most important position in our country? America has lost it’s mind.

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ben-john.bsky.social•142 days ago

19-32 32days from now 💀

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starshadw.bsky.social•143 days ago

The deal was there would be no fact-checking!

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iammrcollins.bsky.social•143 days ago

Or he's unknowingly saying that FDR's New Deal was a good thing.

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acskibc.bsky.social•143 days ago

This response from the Harris campaign is on point, but could be a little snappier.

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curtgebers.bsky.social•143 days ago

I remember when Obama was president, and we were in a serious recession, and there was a stimulus package being worked out in Congress that had a "buy American" provision in it. And the entirety of the political right howled "Smoot-Hawley!" until that provision was removed.

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msm6794.bsky.social•143 days ago

He is throwing noodles of lies against a wall to see what will stick.

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krlcomm.bsky.social•143 days ago

Everything sticks w/ MAGA Morons. Doesn’t matter how stupid / demented / ridiculous it is… they believe it.

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markhoofnagle.medsky.social•142 days ago

Dying inside, but with Ben Stein voice.

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clownings.bsky.social•143 days ago

He has a “concept of an education”

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undinium.bsky.social•143 days ago

Does he though? 😏

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capecodpostaah.bsky.social•142 days ago

Yeah, sure he's wikkid smaaaht, but he got the Revolutionary War Airports thing wrong.🤔✈️

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andrespit.bsky.social•138 days ago

We can only hope for the best

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andrespit.bsky.social•140 days ago

Democrats will win this election

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natteringnaybob.bsky.social•143 days ago

Every family had their own Hoover. That's why they called it the Dust Bowl-- everyone emptied their vacuum bags onto the prairie

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jayzero9.bsky.social•143 days ago

I wish the Uber wealthy would be forced to use bread and soup lines for a month to survive on.

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eeeeeeruck.bsky.social•143 days ago

Smoot-Hawly Smoot-Hawly!

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toastchanges.com•143 days ago

Wait. That's not a typo? What.
What?

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printersflower.bsky.social•143 days ago

Stephen Colbert's (or his writers') coining of the word "truthiness" will be 20 years old next year.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8rgszu

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darthbluesky.bsky.social•143 days ago

president history guy 😹

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grogofgrog.bsky.social•143 days ago

I'm guessing all the "omg, this guy is on glue" realization people have left his orbit , now it's just the " a touch from donald cures the gays" people.

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abbeyisme.bsky.social•143 days ago

Wait. 1932? Why does that sound so familiar from all my history courses? Hmmm.

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drskyskull.bsky.social•143 days ago

“Sure, the tariffs caused some problems during the first Constitutional convention, but Frederick Douglass ordered all the airports open to transport goods.”

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vir2ualvibes.bsky.social•143 days ago

If it weren't for the perfection of our Military forces making him look good all around the world, Trump would have been considered a complete, total, and utter failure. Because of their precision, Trump is considered just an utter failure.

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wikisteff.bsky.social•143 days ago

👑

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onaraldo.bsky.social•142 days ago

Wow that was a nice recollection. Mr President was once there 7 years ago. While are you not making reference by saying in my own time it was great rather refer to another regime.

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courtneylovecraft.bsky.social•143 days ago

It was last century's 2020. Look it up.

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hoopbears.bsky.social•143 days ago

Things were going so awesome at that time that people started naming all the new "villages" that popped up around the country after the President!
Hoovervilles!

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fortunasaga.com•143 days ago

The rest of the world must have been super depressed about how well America was doing.

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lazear.bsky.social•143 days ago

The part where he claims Mckinnley was assassinated by a foreign power and not by an anarchist who hated his work policies is wild.

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messick.bsky.social•143 days ago

I’m guessing he also still hasn’t learned that the “McKinley Tariff” wasn’t signed into law by a PRESIDENT McKinley.

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lazear.bsky.social•143 days ago

I'm pretty sure he still thinks tarifs are the equivalent of a country paying protection money to the mob and not a massive tax on the populace.

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kevinmkruse.bsky.social•143 days ago

He also thinks McKinley was a great businessman! Made billions in his business as a (signal loss)

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davidclort.bsky.social•141 days ago

Great

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madroc.bsky.social•143 days ago

You don’t even have to be smart. You just have to have seen Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

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trentdeon10.bsky.social•141 days ago

No trump

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pennypeter392.bsky.social•139 days ago

President history indeed 😀

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aaronneallucas.bsky.social•143 days ago

Smoot-Hawley you're back in business.

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pmichael1.bsky.social•140 days ago

That’s spot on. But yeah peeps think they know better

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convivialbrodude.bsky.social•143 days ago

*Tom Joad enters the chat*

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transgending.bsky.social•143 days ago

G-d... Beyond parody.

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ungtay.bsky.social•140 days ago

Eras has evolved over the years

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brownerica.bsky.social•139 days ago

The economy was doing well with a very bad statistics culminating from a clap back from international trade partners that increased their own tarrif on American exported goods. You can imagine how well that can be. Mr History Guy actually needs to get his facts right.

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cpgorski.bsky.social•143 days ago

Anyone? Anyone?... (it did not work)

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nonomirabel.bsky.social•140 days ago

Yeah

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billydee123.bsky.social•143 days ago

It was a wonderful time, right sir?

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drewgee.bsky.social•141 days ago

He is very right.

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jdotj.bsky.social•143 days ago

1932 is famously just an awesome year for GDP and capital growth for the country, generally

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joshuachstokes.bsky.social•143 days ago

Of the many things he gets galacticly wrong, this may be one of the most galacticly wrong things he's said.

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mbayayangu.bsky.social•143 days ago

People were shopping!
The lines went around the block even just for bread.

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robtelford.bsky.social•143 days ago

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illimij.bsky.social•143 days ago

1932 was the year my grandfather impregnated my grandmother. People were optimistic. I wonder why my mother, born in '33, knew the phrase "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without."

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lizardky.bsky.social•143 days ago

My grandmother raised my mother and 2 uncles during the "Great Slump' in England, then the Blitz. When I was a kid, I joked she kept her pantry and supply closet full enough to survive a nuclear war. As an adult, I realize she'd never got past the fear of not being able to find basic necessities.

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enbuenora.bsky.social•143 days ago

TIRED: 'the economy was much better under Trump'

WIRED: 'the economy was much better under Hoover'

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derek.bsky.social•143 days ago

Oh come on. You don’t even have to be a historian to know that referencing the 30’s as any economic yardstick is fucking insane.

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matthewshadle.bsky.social•143 days ago

What’s also funny is the same guy was president in 1929 and 1932.

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stevemcilhatton.bsky.social•143 days ago

Top tax rate was 62% back then.

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ytenphoto.bsky.social•143 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/ytenphoto.bsky.social/post/3l5n3ni6aan2h

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cathysays24.bsky.social•142 days ago

Of all the things that offend me regarding Trump, I think his aggressive stupidity is most offensive. He is in no way qualified to be POTUS. How are there still people who disagree with this…especially after witnessing his first (and hopefully ONLY) term?

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saleemfc.bsky.social•139 days ago

Great

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mmaureen7.bsky.social•143 days ago

Very Stable Genius

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poppycock.bsky.social•143 days ago

but i bet kudlow pushed back. right?

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tcar2000.bsky.social•143 days ago

🤣

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lizzywednesday.bsky.social•143 days ago

Can we just play this on a loop? Because MY GOD will nobody tell him to SHUT UP? https://youtu.be/LxZM5wB3nVM?si=4uFALdT74eiqN26z

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sutherla.bsky.social•142 days ago

Ex-president #Trump has a remarkable capacity to make up #history and #lie about the past

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hal10000.bsky.social•143 days ago

Don’t these guys even watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off?

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sirisema.bsky.social•143 days ago

yes because a closed economy means only the rich can afford a space in it or jump out a window-his ignorance is only topped by his "fan base"-

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opeife.bsky.social•142 days ago

Always having it right.

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eltopo71.com•143 days ago

I marvel that someone who's worked in business all his life can continue being so stubbornly ignorant.

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ayjohnson54.bsky.social•142 days ago

Understanding what happened in 1932 is crucial

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aftertherain141.bsky.social•143 days ago

I'd hate to be his age and that stupid ! He should really auction off his brain. He'll get a lot of money for it.

Brand spanking new. Never been used!😁

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vir2ualvibes.bsky.social•143 days ago

🔥😂😂😂👍

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aftertherain141.bsky.social•142 days ago

😁!!!

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doctorpancreas.bsky.social•143 days ago

So he's referenced the 1890's and 1930's this week re/ tariffs. Wasn't there but from what I hear things weren't great!

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rds773.bsky.social•143 days ago

Both of them were eras in which wealthy people got to run wild while everyone else was dying or comforting themselves with racism

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chessercat.bsky.social•143 days ago

Same interview, somehow.

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shawnconnery.bsky.social•143 days ago

I'm so sick of this dumb f*ck.

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nafnlaus.bsky.social•143 days ago

And he's only 1% of Pennsylvania voters away from getting back into the White House.

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garty.bsky.social•143 days ago

Me too

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babarayagami.bsky.social•143 days ago

His stupidity isn't the worst thing about him but sometimes it's the thing I hate the most.

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djwyszynski.bsky.social•143 days ago

Well there was something "Great" about it, from what I'm reading....

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tomprogers.bsky.social•143 days ago

This buffoon is so dumb he's trying to skip past the Gilded Age and go right to the hangover

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sailbarque.bsky.social•143 days ago

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lizardky.bsky.social•143 days ago

Everyone remember the economy was so good, Steinbeck wrote that book about a guy who just took his whole family on a cross-country winery tour!

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oscarhaynes.bsky.social•140 days ago

We need change!

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hearn.bsky.social•143 days ago

Some of that wisdom Larry Kudlow was thanking Trump for.

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dervel.bsky.social•141 days ago

The American way indeed

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danziger.bsky.social•143 days ago

Make Smoot Hawley Great Again

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steventurous.bsky.social•143 days ago

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amethystdreams.cc•143 days ago

"It did NOT work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression."

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shoutingboy.bsky.social•143 days ago

"Something-d-o-o economics."

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amethystdreams.cc•143 days ago

"Voodoo economics."

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somanymonkeys.bsky.social•143 days ago

This is just doodoo economics.

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lja1965.bsky.social•142 days ago

Anyone? Raised or lowered?

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drdecaluwe.bsky.social•143 days ago

Came here to post: ☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻

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aristofontes.bsky.social•143 days ago

They're calling him Mr. Creditanstalt

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captainabraham.bsky.social•143 days ago

Caption: Student who missed the lecture on the Great Depression, desperately trying on the quiz to cover up the fact that he has no idea what the Smoot–Hawley Tariff is.

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jonny2023.bsky.social•141 days ago

That's the president

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ronaldmarv5.bsky.social•141 days ago

It is well!!

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aiki14.bsky.social•143 days ago

Seems to me I remember the Dow was lowest in '32 wasn't it?

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chessercat.bsky.social•143 days ago

That’s good, right? Dow 500?

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aiki14.bsky.social•143 days ago

Dow is now 42,352.75 but in 1929 it went from 381 to 198 in 2 months and then recovered to 294 in 1930 before declining steadily until 1932 when it hit a low of 41. A move up or down of 500pts now is almost common. The depression lasted in the states until around '39 so 45* is as usual clueless

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turnerinroc.bsky.social•143 days ago

Everything was great before the NY times figured out the Nazis were the bad guys.

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malaclypse.bsky.social•143 days ago

When Edith Bunker sang "Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again" she was being prophetic.

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pnh.nielsenhayden.com•143 days ago

Herbert Hoover was a terrible president, but as a human being he was about as unlike Trump as it’s possible to be. He married a brilliant intellectual woman to whom he was devoted. He was knowledgeable in multiple fields of science and scholarship. He and his wife translated De rerum Metallica!

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nonexistpatricia.bsky.social•143 days ago

He was really good at leading the American Rescue Administration, helping relieve the 1921 famine in the USSR/Eastern Europe.
https://www.pbs.org/video/american-experience-the-great-famine/

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nonexistpatricia.bsky.social•143 days ago

*American Relief Administration

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hilzoy.bsky.social•143 days ago

They both had/have very, very thin skins, though.

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pnh.nielsenhayden.com•143 days ago

This is true, but even at his worst, you’d rather be stuck in an elevator with Hoover for an hour than with Trump for five minutes. (Hoover alive, I pre-emptively clarify.)

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hilzoy.bsky.social•143 days ago

Absolutely. And not just because I'd rather be stuck in an elevator with almost anyone on earth rather than Trump. At least with, say, Stalin I could try to figure out what made him tick, if we got over the minor issue of finding a common language. With Trump, nothing.

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bagatsen.bsky.social•143 days ago

I would also prefer un-alive Hoover, tbh.

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jennifervestal.bsky.social•143 days ago

As long as there is no smell was my first thought.

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tomscud.bsky.social•143 days ago

Hoover was basically the most accomplished person ever to be president (depending on how you rate military leadership)

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joekatz45.bsky.social•143 days ago

becoming president basically ruined his reputation

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mikedavis.bsky.social•143 days ago

trivia: Hoover's first serious bid for the Presidency was in 1920, when he might well have won the GOP nomination and the Presidency if he'd had a better manager/team.

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saltlick.bsky.social•143 days ago

Although I’m a criminal defense lawyer, I have a BA and an MA in US history, and this is absolutely the kind of alternate history that I crave, sicko that I am.

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mikedavis.bsky.social•143 days ago

Hoover would have easily won (it was a Republican year and he was beloved), presided over two terms of prosperity, and retired in 1929 as one of the most beloved figures of the century!

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mikedavis.bsky.social•143 days ago

"if only the Great Engineer had stayed in the White House, we could have avoided the Depression and our poor living in miserable Coolidgevilles."

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kevinmkruse.bsky.social•143 days ago

No one would ever call Trump “the Great Humanitarian” except Trump himself

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avramg.bsky.social•143 days ago

When I was a kid, I thought that the opening to All In the Family was just, y’know, old people being nostalgic for their youth. It wasn’t till decades later that I realized that Archie and Edith were singing nostalgically about the Great Depression.

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andyhre.bsky.social•143 days ago

Did we quit when the germans bombed pearl harbor?

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islandgardener.bsky.social•143 days ago

Germans?

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golightly.bsky.social•143 days ago

why isn't this idiocy on the front page of any newspapers

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whistlingbatter.bsky.social•143 days ago

has he said yet that the French bombed Pearl Harbor

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chicagobeersnob.bsky.social•143 days ago

Everyone knows it was the Germans!

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whistlingbatter.bsky.social•143 days ago

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davoudisaed714.bsky.social•141 days ago

Okay.. Will definitely be looking at this

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chessercat.bsky.social•143 days ago

The fact that his stupidity and lack of curiosity extends even to something that affects him directly is pretty astounding.

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chessercat.bsky.social•143 days ago

** the McKinley assassination, which he also blamed on tariffs

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lastbutnotleast.bsky.social•143 days ago

1932, as imagined by Trump.

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sarahthurmond.bsky.social•143 days ago

Hilarious!

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saveourfarms.bsky.social•143 days ago

So extremely grim.

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goatinthegarden.bsky.social•143 days ago

Knockers not big enough

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wdm84.bsky.social•143 days ago

The original Harley Quinn origin story.

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spacely.bsky.social•143 days ago

She needs plumper lips.

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shaidorsai.bsky.social•143 days ago

Oh my God, WELL done. 10/10, no notes, A+, would mashup toxic gamer culture and Dorothea Lange again.

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mfreeman.bsky.social•143 days ago

Perfect tweet (or whatever they’re called here).

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sarahthurmond.bsky.social•143 days ago

I think skeet is the term the kids are using here.

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phillyinsomniac.bsky.social•143 days ago

FROM THE WINDOW

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vir2ualvibes.bsky.social•142 days ago

Skeet is derogatory actually. Sk = from bsky... eet = Tweet from TwitterrXfkno. I think here they're just called memes and Posts. 😊

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sheadapts.bsky.social•142 days ago

Post. We post here.

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ejrfoto.bsky.social•143 days ago

It burns my eyes!
It BURNS my eyes!!!

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jmegraw.bsky.social•143 days ago

If only Christopher Hitchens could come back from the dead and ask him point blank what a tariff is

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planetcarnival.bsky.social•143 days ago

Or, say...ANY living journalist who interviews him?

It hasn't happened yet, AFAIK, so I won't hold my breath 😡

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jmegraw.bsky.social•143 days ago

It would be nice if one reporter would bother to ask him what he means about anything

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madhominem.bsky.social•143 days ago

"our manufacturing was producing things nobody had ever seen! making bowls from dust! it was amazing"

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fattymatty.bsky.social•143 days ago

"They had entire towns named after the President. Isn't that amazing? Can you imagine that? Everyone is saying Trumpvilles has a nice ring to it"

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oliviasweet.bsky.social•139 days ago

Harley Smooth Tariff, was a disaster in disguise, It brought reduced international trade, inflation and economic contractions. GOP's should get their facts right!

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layefaa.bsky.social•141 days ago

That's very correct

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lestatdelc.bsky.social•143 days ago

Hell, even non-political or economics junkies know that the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act made the depression worse just from watch "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".

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slimtee.bsky.social•141 days ago

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theebogusman.bsky.social•143 days ago

President History Guy - nice one. A dock worker told me, nobody understands history like you sir

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itsotrgb.bsky.social•143 days ago

BIG dock worker, tears in his eyes...

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i-rohl.bsky.social•142 days ago

"Remember the good old days of the Hoover administration?" is really not the line I'd expect from a Republican who is trying to win an election.

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below-left.bsky.social•143 days ago

The Smoot-Hawley tariff is known in mainstream economic circles and even more right-leaning ones as the biggest mistake of the Depression. The problem was demand-side.

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tonysomo.bsky.social•143 days ago

It quite amazing how Trump is devoid of all human knowledge.

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sarahdarerlittman.bsky.social•143 days ago

And conscience. And empathy.

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rumpole-brief.bsky.social•143 days ago

Hey, they played "Happy Days Are Here Again!" at the dude's campaign rallies.

And he was definitely a rich New Yorker...just like Trump!

It musta been booming!

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kombiz.bsky.social•143 days ago

He just remembers that everyone calls it great.

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jasondashbailey.bsky.social•143 days ago

Make the depression great again

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wilhelmscream.bsky.social•143 days ago

Would the men be dressed like this if the depression weren't great?

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robtelford.bsky.social•143 days ago

A Greek Statue writes: “Men in 1932 dressed so stylishly in hats and proper coats.

In this thread I will show how Modern society is in decline because men have forgotten how to dress well with the flood of people from other cultures… 1/34”

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