More bait-and-switch from the GOP, whose message throughout the campaign and, according to their 2024 Platform, was that inflation would be ended "very quickly when we win the White House and Republican Majorities in the House and Senate," making "AMERICA AFFORDABLE AGAIN." - ThreadSky

larryglickman.bsky.social • 6 days ago

More bait-and-switch from the GOP, whose message throughout the campaign and, according to their 2024 Platform, was that inflation would be ended "very quickly when we win the White House and Republican Majorities in the House and Senate," making "AMERICA AFFORDABLE AGAIN."

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merryghouled.bsky.social•6 days ago

As Blackrock buys Panama Canal
💲💲💲💲💲💲💲💲💲💲💲💲💲

nancy50.bsky.social•6 days ago

Step one in the oligarchical take over. I think BLM land in the west is next, probably to MAGA ranchers.

le-desert-ratta.bsky.social•6 days ago

I hope \you’re wrong about the latter but having grown up there & being all-too familiar w/ this wish list from “libertarians,” Birchers, Goldwater fans, etc., I wouldn’t be so dumb as to suggest it won’t happen. Bears Ears alone was a huge fight. BTW, closing Arches is colossally STUPID money-wise.

b-kellyjr.bsky.social•6 days ago

"Negative impacts" for whom? Not traitorous MFs like this mutt.

stoym.bsky.social•6 days ago

Ain’t nothing affordable about this economy

john5789.bsky.social•6 days ago

It’s more than short term disruption.
All Musk-Trump-Vance actions are DUMB. Musk doesn’t belong in our private lives. Massive security for all of us individually as well ask national security.
Tariffs are crazy.

le-desert-ratta.bsky.social•6 days ago

This.

labsp61.bsky.social•6 days ago

'Disruption' = Either paying a lot more at grocery store for what one normally buys, or paying the same amount and coming home with less food.
It seems like that is actually more than 'disruption'.

How much 'disruption' will the folks making $174,000/year feel?

peanutbd.bsky.social•6 days ago

If this is what they are allowed to “admit”, imagine how much worse it actually is. I’m envisioning craters and Soylent green

pat2000np.bsky.social•6 days ago

Short term…4 years?

le-desert-ratta.bsky.social•6 days ago

Dear gods and goddesses, no.

oldgreymare.bsky.social•6 days ago

Creates chaos by announcing tariffs. Stock market tanks. Billionaire buddies buy cheap. Trump halts tariffs. Stock market goes up. Billionaires sell high. And then those owners/ceos in affected industries pay him to give them waivers.

00johndillon00.bsky.social•6 days ago

If only they'd told us that they intended to bring prices down by ushering in a massive recession, people may have chosen a different path.

prismcomplex.bsky.social•6 days ago

“Short term disruption” aka short sells and buying on the market downturn that occurs with each Trump failure to tariff. SOMEONE is making money on this chaos, and it’s not the taxpayer

berg8311.bsky.social•6 days ago

“Well when I said ‘DAY ONE’ I was referring to the first day inflation started going down sometime in the future. Not the first day of my presidency, duh.”

robmcgaff.bsky.social•6 days ago

The plan was always to win by any means necessary, then employ Project 2025, burn everything to the ground, and rule forever as a party.

aafror.bsky.social•6 days ago

"Short-term" impacts while Trump flips the tariffs switch on and off again and again. He's a menace.

Of course short-term is a guess and a hope and a spin. They're just trying to keep the heat down as long as they can.

vernbob.bsky.social•6 days ago

Suffering is the point! As is all forms of cruelty! MAGA/GOP represent white grievance in search of white supremacy! 😠

mikeomalley.bsky.social•6 days ago

America's billionaires are suffering. We all need to step up.

waltergiesbrecht.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yes, surely we can make them suffer more. Let's not give up.

fritzcokid.bsky.social•6 days ago

Define "short term" and "disruptions."

starlingm.bsky.social•6 days ago

The moment he said 'disruption' I was screaming at my laptop screen. Again. My poor laptop screen.

le-desert-ratta.bsky.social•6 days ago

And yet, I have this echo in my head from the Trump campaign that touted:

1. Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs
2. Immigrant deportations, immigrant deportations, immigrant deportations
3. End inflation on the FIRST day (over and over and over again he said this)
4. We won’t touch SS, Medicare or Medicaid.

larryglickman.bsky.social•6 days ago

Now Gingrich is now suggesting that the "short-time horizon," will last for "two or three years," which would take us to the back half of Trump's second term. That doesn't sound like "very quickly after we win the White House" to me.

joyouspanther.bsky.social•6 days ago

"The Golden Age"

otiscampbell.bsky.social•6 days ago

It's clear what he wants to do now. Trump can't help but blurt. Tariffs are the only purse string the President can legally control. So all the tariff money goes into a "sovereign wealth fund" and Trump then uses it to buy valueless crypto from himself. That is the "strategic crypto reserve."

otiscampbell.bsky.social•6 days ago

Even if that would work, no company would spend tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to invest in manufacturing plants here, knowing their game board could be flipped over at any random moment by President Erratic Piss-Baby Autocrat.

zingherpolisci.bsky.social•6 days ago

The Midterms seem far off now, but it is going to get late early at this rate.

themidge.bsky.social•6 days ago

But the rich are willing to sacrifice middle America's financial well being to MAGA. They'll only be able to go on 3 vacays, everyone has to do their part.

free-chickadee.bsky.social•6 days ago

le-desert-ratta.bsky.social•6 days ago

I’d be willing to make a sacrifice in trade for removal of the whole damn WH, Cabinet, DOGI and GOP, given their current actions and sheer incompetence.

le-desert-ratta.bsky.social•6 days ago

I failed to add the named peoples' and groups’ unabashed corruption and weakness. Not piling on - just calling it as I see it.

free-chickadee.bsky.social•6 days ago

I agree

davids8663.bsky.social•6 days ago

We correctly see it as bait and switch. What counts is getting people who voted for Trump to view it as bait and switch. Republicans don't care about anything we say. They know they have to care about what about their supporters say.

kcl655321.bsky.social•6 days ago

I think their plan is to wreck the government(so bad it'll never get put back together by the feckless Dems) and economy in the first year and by the time the next election rolls around there'll be some recovery to run on along with an even more rigged election system. Sadly it might work.

anti-you.bsky.social•6 days ago

At what point do we just blame voters? He’s a sex predator felon who’s paid tens of millions in fraud fines, and who, as President 5 years ago was impeached twice including once for an attempted coup — after murdering hundreds of thousands of Americans with a COVID response that downplayed vaccines.

renajane.bsky.social•6 days ago

He's an embarrassment to Minnesota.

seaghano.bsky.social•6 days ago

Gammon.

langdongrant.bsky.social•6 days ago

Old and busted: "The fundamentals of the American economy are strong."

New hotness: "Short term disruption."

The GOP reminds me of the Florida real estate agent in The Big Short who kept saying, "We're just in a little gully."

lynnc1955.bsky.social•6 days ago

Bhahaha. Short term. Riiiight

chrisedelson.bsky.social•6 days ago

trump also promised to end the Russian war in Ukraine even before he took office. He is a dimestore huckster charlatan, a malign version of the main character in the Music Man.