He's never lived as a normal citizen and he certainly doesn't understand what real financial pain is. He's always had housing, heath care, food, extreme privilege. It's disgusting that no one will stop him.
Yeah, it was nice of him to only admit that after the election.
What's scarry is the level of arrogance & stupidity that comes from thinking you can easily put the country back together stronger after you've broken it-- which was literally what he was suggesting the plan was.
Well, that should make prices come down if fewer people can’t afford to buy stuff. Half the electorate would trade high unemployment and higher poverty rate for lowering the price of groceries.
And these guys are succeeding in convincing their sycophants that this will make the country stronger and benefit the working people. I really cannot wrap my head around the level of ignorance it takes to believe either of these guys cares at all about hard working Americans.
Every now and then I wade into the comment section of our local news’ Facebook posts. The amount of people that are GLEEFUL that this is happening is mind boggling.
Many of us have been trying to tell y'all since before the election and here we are with a wannabe Dictator with a BILLIONAIRE cabal from both sides backing him. They only want to get richer and don't care if we lose what we DO have in process.
Ah. I read it - Just wanted to answer your question. I did read that the $1B he said DOGE has saved taxpayers was actually $1M. Maybe MAGA folks will read it, hopeful, and get told♥️
Let's all remember that Bill Clinton turned a huge deficit into a surplus in only 8 years by undoing only a part of #republican stupid "trickle down" tax cuts for the rich.
Stupid #Republicans (Bush jr.) ran on "giving it back" to the people. Instead, they spent it on a personal revenge war (Iraq).
Like so many other things. Im beginning to think luigi was onto something. Not usually a fan of such extreme measures but I can see the day when more people are forced into extreme acts.
The way things are going, it's inevitable. I was watching a video on YouTube last night about the cycle of human civilization, going from Strong men, to oligarchy, to democracy and then to chaos. It was a fascinating watch: https://youtu.be/uqsBx58GxYY?si=AUNQUZ9jZ3HK-mSy
He never tells the mega rich to suck it up or prepare for hardships... just the average taxpayers. Do the poor supporters of Apartheid Clyde get it yet?
The gilded age part two, that’s the “golden age” he’s referring to. Monopolizing robber barons have returned. In reference to the Disney sequels of Star Wars: “somehow, Palpatine returned.”
I truly don't understand how tens of millions of people can be this brainwashed. I fully expect them to defend all of it. They'll think it's their duty to suffer hardship while Musk simply makes more billions because "he deserves it." How do you break through that kind of delusion?
The wealthiest man in the world intentionally creating an economic depression to enrich himself and other billionaires. Guillotines have been constructed for less reason than this.
Do you think it's time for another French Revolution? The American Revolution didn't have access to guillotines, but they did a mad job of tarring and feathering!
That's the goal. Wreck the economy so Musk and the billionaire class can pick up assets at fire sale prices and labor will become cheaper. They want to go back to a permanent serf class (who will die at 65 because SS and Medicare will be gone) and think Trump's cult won't care because "woke."
Not just that. Follow the money - the goal is for musk / trump to make their ceo pals rich when they privatize the positions they just cut people from.
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Federal firings are tip of the iceberg. All those companies and/or NGO’s reliant on federal contracts or grants are going to start layoffs. Also, educational institutions and state governments.
Gee, I wonder what Musk will be suffering in this period? Nothing, nothing, nothing. He will be making billions and billions and billions more. Boy, I hate this!
There's something to be said about hearing the richest man in the world telling the citizens of the wealthiest country in the world (who are already fighting just to make ends meet) to "prepare for economic hardship."
WAIT..what happened to lower grocery and egg costs "on day one"? When will naive Americans learn that EVERYTHING Trump says is a fascist manipulative big lie, and ALWAYS simply to expand his OWN power and wealth, and that of billionaire Mar a Lago cronies, and Putin; can't forget Trump's boss Putin.
This evil POS. He will never have to worry about putting bread on a table or putting his electric bills. He got fat off the Tax dollars of the American people. He's not elected, he's ruining peoples lives. It's time he was brought down.
He's cutting 80K salaried jobs that he knows nothing about, while collecting Billions. Imagine, Obama putting a foreign-born person who knows nothing about government functions in charge of "efficiency." Right Wing Propagandist would explode...
You didn’t find it curious when Adam Schiff asked about Musk’s financial disclosure they fired the person who would have to disclose it? Now, going after the IRS?
I’m CURIOUS where Elon Musk received the money he gave the Trump campaign!
If you have any experience with loss prevention of an organization, people who are “OKAY” do not flaunt laws & are secretive about something NOT theirs. They don’t want us to know until it’s TOO late to do anything about it.
Why are we reporting what this asshat says? He isn’t actually in doge according to Trump so how in the fuck would he know. And how is $16 million worth any sacrifice?
I've been thinking about this. Imagine how impossible it's about to become for a highly educated worker with specialized skills to find decent private sector jobs.
Just who tf is he to tell us anything!!! Where tf are the repugnicans at this point. I can't believe any true American patriot regardless of party would let this take place!!
As predicted, Trump will backstab his supporters. I seriously doubt that the MAGA mega morons will be intelligent enough to understand what is happening to them, or have the integrity to admit their mistakes.
Definitely not until they have nothing left. A lot of them are supporting him no matter what. Now we know how Jim Jones got everyone to drink the Kool-aid. 😢
The national proliferation of depression and hopelessness in those unjustly cut by the Ketamine man will be extremely dangerous. The sheer number of suddenly jobless high functioning adults is tragic. Hopefully, they can form support groups to prop each other up. Families will be impacted as well.
I read an article on data that spans 150yrs. 9 republican presidents and 7 democratic presidents either held office, entered office or left office during a recession. So, if this article is true then this country could be heading into a recession.
Stand corrected, my apologies. My anger and blame is actually towards the MAGA cult voters and shouldn’t be to Red states. This anger comes from the feeling of helplessness seeing how the 🍊💩🤡 keeps dismantling our democracy towards a dictatorship. But note, sadly we all will be suffering at the end.
although i fully understand the anger, we have to remember two important things: there are good people who live in those states, and there is also a lack of education in those states making them more susceptible to propaganda
This. I was born in a red state (against my will), and I don’t have the means to leave. I did not vote for this. I want people around me to wake up, but many of us who are stuck here do not deserve to suffer more.
Stand corrected, my apologies. My anger and blame is actually towards the MAGA cult voters and shouldn’t be to Red states. This anger comes from the feeling of helplessness seeing how the 🍊💩🤡 keeps dismantling our democracy towards a dictatorship. But note, sadly we all will be suffering at the end.
Use your head? Red voted for this, they ACTIVELY support this, and deny any wrongdoing he’s doing ! They call him god. YES THEY SHOUKD SUFFER ESPICSLLY THE HARDEST!!!!
Many of said red states actively suppress votes and are gerrymandered to hell and back, though. We have those who don’t deserve this & those whose numbers we need should they have an A-ha moment. My state is blue solely on city votes but red everywhere else. It doesn’t make us better just lucky.
They said “people stuck in red states” not the people who choose to live there. I am one of those people stuck in a red state without the means to leave, and I did NOT vote for this.
You all are going to suffer with job losses and higher prices while I get more tax breaks and government funded contracts while Trump golfs every other day but at least I’m telling you up front.
All caused by the very people who not only won’t face hardship themselves, but will get even richer off this grift. Our economy is tanking fast, Elmo has dismantled our federal govt, and all of the people in Trump’s circle have made more money in the process. The rest of us will suffer immensely.
Yup.
Break the federal government
"See the federal government is broken, privatisation is the only solution"
Half arsed "services" resume at ten times the price.
Oh and we'll rape Yellowstone too...
I think he needs to feel some economic pain. Stop paying him all the subsidies and corporate welfare. That's our tax money the man who is destroying our goverment is taking.
I try not to be saddened by such comments from billionaires, but it still feels like something wrenching at my chest. So many people will go without, will go hungry, lose homes, lose cars, lose healthcare, will have to penny pinch food… so much hardship and they still laugh their way to the bank.
It’s unbelievably cruel & untouched with humanity, lacking empathy, to just be like “brace yourselves”. How!? How does one brace themselves when they’re barely above water, bc the system already underpays, overworks, keeps ppl indebted under student loans/ home loans/ car loans/ credit cards/ etc?!
A naive question perhaps, but are these cuts to pay off the national debt ($36,1 Trillion) or are they just wealth redistribution? Once they have finished dismantling government as we know it, what (or who)will American taxes be for?
These won't pay off anything. The funds were still appropriated, and even if they did save, the things he's cutting in the grand scheme of things are miniscule. To hit the targets they swear they're aiming for, basically every federal employee would have to go. Only can reduce the deficit by taxing.
They wanna cut 2T. The CFPB, in its entirety, costs ~700M. Imagine you wanna save 5 grand to go on vacation, and you do it by swearing off the candy bars next to the register at the grocery store. It's roughly the same scale.
They basically have to if this is the plan. There's only 3 things the government can "cut" to reduce spending. The safety net, defense spending (lol), and interest payments on debt. 1 of those will never happen, the other is a non-starter because it'd tank the dollar immediately.
Yeah the federal government is an insurance company with an army. The rich decided they're done paying into it. But they'll keep the army part of it to protect themselves from us after they take our insurance checks away.
without consumers company profits will tank, when they tank the market will tank. you can't claim full employment when everyone sees inflation raging AND widespread job losses
i know they imagine the private sector will pick up those losses but Trump has so p'oed other nations our exports will tank
Canada and Mexico are our largest trading partners, people in both those nations are going out of their way NOT to buy American, needless to say Americans want things cheaper so will keep buying their products (unless Trump goes full tariffs on them, in which case inflation will spike more)
There were plenty of jobs if you wanted one. I really didn’t see what you were complaining about. Prices are still high, rent never goes down. Anybody try to take away your guns? Nope. You really think your taxes are going down? Dream on.
So this POS can withhold our refunds from the IRS, and yet pay himself over a billion dollars in contracts? WAKE-UP EVERYBODY 🌊 🌊 🌊. He's an IT guy with no brains. He's screwing our country over. Get this putz out of our Whitehouse.
Forget recession. It is a depression for those without jobs. Can you umagine the mental stress and its fallout to families. The people in control want to break everything to make everone grovel and resent each other.
He said months ago that their plans could crash the US economy but MAGA dupes just didnt want to know. They just kept feeding on delusion and the orange man doing his freaky dances.
Why in the fuck do we have to listen to this billionaire about anything??? Hardships???? How dare that statement even come out of your mouth. God, I'm so pissed. Kumbaya, my Lord, Kumbaya. I'm trying to come down. I'm singing Kumbaya while I dance the twist. Mike suggested that.
Is Musk cutting back on his government contracts? What about the unnecessary State Department trying to set up a new contract in the amount of $400 million for his Telsa trucks that catches on fire??This need to replace the taxpayers money that you stole illegally for your billionaires! Stop Musk!
Pretty stark contrast, he makes $8 Million a day from those contracts and wants to pillage Social Security, when the average recipient gets about $65 a day.
More than 4 years most likely. Do you think they'll actually have a fair election in 2028? These aren't the moves of people who think they have to win elections. And less than half of Americans voted for him.
For a crisis manufactured by #gop. For zero reasons than doubting Americans resolve to adapt to a sustainable future.
They'd rather kill everyone else.
I told my now ex that this would be an alternative just over a year ago. He always underestimated how much I hate being wrong. 🤷♀️
Expect a depression greater than the Great Depression from 1929 through 39.
You can blame tariffs for that.
And history does repeat itself to the letter when morons fail to heed the warning signs
When you work you don't have to worry about this. When you rely on government handouts, I'm sure it's a little scary. You should look for a job and learn how to cope!
Step two ~
SEIZE Muskalini’s and DICKtater’s assets to ease inflation and send the message that criminal activities and STOLEN taxpayer $$ will be compensation from their assets
What about the butt sex in the senate, the cocainum in the white house, the guy who would steal womens' clothes and wear said stolen items at press meetings, and... I really wish I had more space. It is actually hilarious you think now all of a sudden it's a circus
Seems like they are trying to force a depression.
Buy up all the homes, farms, etc. Defund education. Pocket taxpayers money (remember the bank bailouts)…implications are not great (again)
I don’t know if that’s a good idea. Do you know who will suffer most in a government shutdown? Poor white people, that’s who. Oh wait … oh yeah… MAGA will suffer the most.
Not all of them... seriously... this kind of attitude only exacerbates issues.
The ramifications of a govt shutdown are immense, and give Trump more excuse to lay off more govt employees.
Damn, have a heart & try some perspective, please!
No hardship for Musk, tRump, or GOP following this team, once again the American public takes it in the shorts and it will be painful and last for years. Brace yourselves.
Yet their cult will claim that this is what they voted for. Even tho they constantly bitched about prices of gas and groceries under Biden. At this point, they have no idea what it is they stand for. They're just now trying to save face and running away from the "I told you so's" coming their way.
It's the logical conclusion of identity politics, they don't have a self outside the amorphous blob of MAGA any more so separating themselves from the delusion is too painful to contemplate.
They put so much time and effort into their investment and more than likely pissed off many in the process. Family, friends. So the blow back must be epic if they have no other choice but to double down on their ignorance as they claim bringing back plastic straws was what they vote for.
This may end up being like the 1930s depression
And Social Security checks are not guaranteed at this point unemployment checks aren’t guaranteed at this point so some of us are really fucked as long as the people who voted for him are fucked too
Worse yet, quadrupling of ICE arrest targets is causing agents to skip the difficult priority arrests (let criminals walk), and instead deport grandma for coming into the office to get her paperwork in order.
That’s because Trump has allowed Elon Musk to take his meat axe approach to cutting the budget. The economy is going to take a huge hit, and the worst part is that Trump will not be held to his.
Campaign promises to lower the price of eggs and other grocery items. He’s made zero attempts to do so since taking off this January 20. The man is a pathological liar.
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What's scarry is the level of arrogance & stupidity that comes from thinking you can easily put the country back together stronger after you've broken it-- which was literally what he was suggesting the plan was.
les aristocrates à la lanterne!
Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira
les aristocrates on les pendra!
Ugh. Sometimes I use voice to text and it doesn’t care for my accent.
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
They think we've forgotten. We haven't.
Stupid #Republicans (Bush jr.) ran on "giving it back" to the people. Instead, they spent it on a personal revenge war (Iraq).
There is organizing that might help. I'll support it, and I'll hope. A peaceful resistance would give us a better outcome.
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If you have any experience with loss prevention of an organization, people who are “OKAY” do not flaunt laws & are secretive about something NOT theirs. They don’t want us to know until it’s TOO late to do anything about it.
Economic and Regulatory Policies
- Roll back Biden-era environmental regulations.
- Expand fossil fuel production and limit renewable energy subsidies.
- Reduce corporate taxes and eliminate regulations deemed anti-business.
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Tictok I’m waiting
At least the dragon ate him eventually
What the fuck did they think was going to happen?
You guys should look up to him
here no problems whatsoever. Me and
Trump are ACES. THANKS FOR NOT
GIVING A SHIT WE NEVER DID ABOUT YOU
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA YOU IDIOTS
YOU BELIEVED HIM! LOWER PRICES
HA HA. HA. HA HA HA HA HA
Sorry about your luck.
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Break the federal government
"See the federal government is broken, privatisation is the only solution"
Half arsed "services" resume at ten times the price.
Oh and we'll rape Yellowstone too...
i know they imagine the private sector will pick up those losses but Trump has so p'oed other nations our exports will tank
Wants use to brace for hardship!💩🖕🖕
But huge gains for him and his cronies
They'd rather kill everyone else.
I told my now ex that this would be an alternative just over a year ago. He always underestimated how much I hate being wrong. 🤷♀️
You can blame tariffs for that.
And history does repeat itself to the letter when morons fail to heed the warning signs
Oh wait: NEVER!
Step one ~
RID our government of Fascism!
Step two ~
SEIZE Muskalini’s and DICKtater’s assets to ease inflation and send the message that criminal activities and STOLEN taxpayer $$ will be compensation from their assets
Ask Germany 🇩🇪
Credited to Aeschylus 550BC
Buy up all the homes, farms, etc. Defund education. Pocket taxpayers money (remember the bank bailouts)…implications are not great (again)
In the background - the great depression.
March 14 is gonna be interesting... (debt ceiling)
Sorry.
It doesn't.
SHUT THIS SHIT DOWN!
The ramifications of a govt shutdown are immense, and give Trump more excuse to lay off more govt employees.
Damn, have a heart & try some perspective, please!
I was making a point about MAGA thinking they were voting to fix their petty grievances, but they have no clue what they have unleashed.
Love it
And Social Security checks are not guaranteed at this point unemployment checks aren’t guaranteed at this point so some of us are really fucked as long as the people who voted for him are fucked too