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angrystaffer.bsky.social • 4 days ago

The crazy thing is every bit of this underperformance is self-inflicted.

Reposted from Philip Bump

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phunkypunk.bsky.social•4 days ago

Someone should tell trump that there is a country called "Trumpsylvania", populated entirely by small, disgustingly adorable animals that insist on calling him "That useless bastard donny dons trumpypoos".

Then we sit back & watch to see how quickly he tries to slap tariffs on a fictional country.

leecle.bsky.social•4 days ago

That’s why I think there is a bigger plan.

leeroythegeek.bsky.social•4 days ago

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cheehoo.bsky.social•4 days ago

Surprised Jeff Bezos let that graphic print

wayneharrison.bsky.social•4 days ago

Americans of every persuasion are feeling the results of his incompetence.

gene47.bsky.social•4 days ago

For some reason in Trump's mind there is a reason for this; from he wants to sink the economy in order for the Oligarchs to buy things at rock bottom prices or his need for continual attention is greater than his need for common economic sense.
Either one has nothing to do with the avg American.

judycootie.bsky.social•4 days ago

I remember Watergate and 1974 elections where Dems gained 45 seats in the House & a few seats in the Senate. GOP should probably try to remember that as well...

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jhfield.bsky.social•4 days ago

Incompetence.

phoenix-chick.bsky.social•4 days ago

Published in WaPo, I see…interesting.

realspooky.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yeah, Trump could've put the country on auto-pilot and seen modest growth and inflation reduction just based on the way the wind was blowing. He could have taken credit for Biden's achievements, done exactly fuck-all for four years and enjoyed (somehow) wild popularity.

but nah, hammers to it all

alpenglowdreams.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yet somehow republicans are perfectly fine with what’s going on.

Could you imagine the apoplectic breakdowns we would be witnessing from the right if this happened in the first 50 days of a Harris administration?

uelos.bsky.social•4 days ago

He’s doing this so that when the stocks eventually (some day) rise he can take credit. Further influencing his base

johngage1.bsky.social•4 days ago

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing 75 million Americans that voting for a man who had bankrupted 6 casinos would be great for business.

lauracarter20.bsky.social•4 days ago

It definitely is and he has his nefarious reasons for doing this.

jaxbbax.bsky.social•4 days ago

Crazy being the operative word.

He got away with committing treason. Why not crazy? Tanking the economy? Sure why not.

Where's Merrick Garland? He just kind of faded into black.

ghostofgroucho.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is those wonderful TRUMPANOMICS they keep bragging about.

hattrickhenry.bsky.social•4 days ago

The crazy thing is that we haven’t removed a Russian spy from office. The crazy thing is that our CIA allowed him to take office in the first place. The crazy thing is a list so long I’d need 75,000 characters.

kerrymcc8.bsky.social•4 days ago

The truly crazy thing is, the people who voted for this will find some way to celebrate it or blame it on Hillary or Biden or Soros or some other insane BS. Anything but the truth of Trump’s ineptitude. It’s absolutely insane. No other words. Stupid, cult insanity.

oddmediapro.bsky.social•4 days ago

It’s deliberate. Trump is Putin’s saboteur.

bearlightsong1989.bsky.social•4 days ago

stupidity isn't deliberate in this case.

emptythis.bsky.social•4 days ago

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badgertricia.bsky.social•4 days ago

But they’re really owning the libs 🙄

jeffersonguinea.bsky.social•4 days ago

I’m starting to think he doesn’t know what he is doing……

bonkersbroncos.bsky.social•4 days ago

Gonna bring us to our knees. Fear him , and make him and his family in the Oval Office for life.

eddie0028.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's not crazy when you remember he's working for russia

sf12-34.bsky.social•4 days ago

It’s just the detox, chill 😑

quantumnorm.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yep trump the lump is shooting himself and the country in the foot so he can pretend to be a tough guy like putin his hero.

P.S. either of the deserve to have their names capitalized. I mean I don't capitalize other swear words so seems fitting to me.

happycanadian1962.bsky.social•4 days ago

My Canadian stocks have fallen $7 a share in less than two months. Thanks Donnie & fElon.

stealthgirl21.bsky.social•4 days ago

He doesn't understand much of anything

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caragal.bsky.social•4 days ago

ALZHEIMER’S. OR
DEMENTIA. OR BOTH

stuartstories.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is a trend.

Trump 2024 thinks Trump 2016 was an idiot and a bad deal maker.

He's right about that for sure.

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rhutabhayga.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's almost like he never really cared about the stock market.

mbzeats.bsky.social•4 days ago

Buys low after crashing the markets so do many of his complicit minions along with the oligarchs.....crash, buy make more money for the greedy.

lady1000.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's intentional. Not sure what the purpose is though. I think Trump knew this would happen.

hikerofhills.bsky.social•4 days ago

He loves America, though, and Jesus.

heideg.bsky.social•4 days ago

eli-fit.bsky.social•4 days ago

The saying goes, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".

For Trump it's, "If it ain't broke, break it".

lpeterp.bsky.social•4 days ago

NBC started the myth of Demented Donnie as a business genius. The public believed them, not the actual Trump string of business failures.

peppermintpatty18.bsky.social•4 days ago

He’s deliberately crashing the markets.

toomuchdystopia.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's not that crazy if you think about who Trump might be trying to please. Every single thing since he took office again has all been engineered to weaken the US and to help Russia.

madmacs.bsky.social•4 days ago

Quiet: Super-genius at work!

emptythis.bsky.social•4 days ago

Monsters of Mayhem Tour

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ogcaches.bsky.social•4 days ago

Economic impotence

garygsaenz.bsky.social•4 days ago

Low IQ individual president.

esmuerto3.bsky.social•4 days ago

But but but the economy is complicated and and and involved factors the pwesident can't control & uwu don't be mad at pwesident twump he's doing his best with what he was left wif & uwu he'll fix everything bc he's so smart & we should be expected to give up something for the gweater good 👉👈

emptythis.bsky.social•4 days ago

meanwhile back at the Oval lair -

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starfyre59.bsky.social•4 days ago

I miss Joe

debipenny24.bsky.social•4 days ago

WE ARE ALMOST THERE …53 days..https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/

jesusforgives.bsky.social•4 days ago

The South Africans and Yarvis are telling him how to destroy the US so it can be rebuilt under apartheid.
Yarvis says the first stage is Retire All Government Employees (RAGE).

jennyfromhr.bsky.social•4 days ago

Shocked, I tell you, shocked.

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deadpeul.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's intentional. The whole clan and all of their rich buddies are sitting around with cash to plow into equities and buy property after they bankrupt homeowners and farmers.

This is called creating a fire sale for rich people.

He did this the last time around as well.

duckytoday.bsky.social•4 days ago

one picture = 1,000 words

kamalagriffin.bsky.social•4 days ago

But he does have that magic black sharpie 🤦‍♀️

rscotttiptonmpa.bsky.social•4 days ago

Agreed. That's exactly why democracy is kaput.

rscotttiptonmpa.bsky.social•4 days ago

As it turns out, the democrats are just as compromised as the republicans.

rscotttiptonmpa.bsky.social•4 days ago

#AIPACIsAProblem and the key to understanding our predicament.

scarletbegonias.bsky.social•4 days ago

Not crazy if it’s on purpose. 🤔

truebluedem.bsky.social•4 days ago

I believe it's all on purpose. Break the common man, enrich the wealthy, create an oligarchy with a caste system.

polymathguy.bsky.social•4 days ago

And this is only going to get much much worse

hughjacks-again.bsky.social•4 days ago

Mostly by that fool just talking nonsense. Just shows how fragile the economy is.
I bet they wish they had Joe to blame.

agora01619.bsky.social•3 days ago

So, it's true he cannot get the tiny mushroom up.

WTG #joebiden

geophysicsprof.bsky.social•4 days ago

Apparently, it's all that awful EUs fault according to the psycho with his pudgy finger on the nuclear button...

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lkh2o.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is what "so much winning" looks like, fasten your belts.

candle534.bsky.social•4 days ago

But guys - he's "fixing everything" 😂😂😂😂😂😂

narcchronicles.bsky.social•4 days ago

I'm not predicting anything will happen as a result of costing the wealthiest psychopaths in America a huge amount of money. I'm just saying that a lot of old fat guys have heart attacks or strokes in the middle of the night

narcchronicles.bsky.social•4 days ago

He's breaking the money making machine that the owners of the country - Wall Street, the Fed, the actual government - have spent decades perfecting and fine tuning. I doubt they let him continue much longer

iggiemom.bsky.social•4 days ago

I’m beginning to believe Trump is vengeful towards the entire US.

ischardiel.bsky.social•3 days ago

Personally, I think his narcissistic self is very pleased to have the biggest Source on the face of the earth in his possession.

andrainbows.bsky.social•4 days ago

This would actually make sense if someone had told him that he lost but they did him a solid fixing it

ms-jb.bsky.social•4 days ago

Does he think these illegal tariffs will force Canada to be the 51st state? If so, he's insane and should be removed per the 25th amendment. This is fucking nuts!

leftlimelight.bsky.social•4 days ago

Because trump is not only a very poor businessman, he's also an imbecile who has the maturity and self-control of a nine year old.

orangeotter.bsky.social•4 days ago

If he would just go golf everyday - while (f)Elon plays video games - the entire economy would be better off.

patricjreynolds.bsky.social•4 days ago

Destroying everyone’s livelihoods and making the whole world a more dangerous place to own the libs.

caragal.bsky.social•4 days ago

Pathetic

logan-5.bsky.social•4 days ago

His supporters don’t care. As long as they think he’s sticking it to liberals, immigrants, gays, people of color, teachers, etc, they’ll happily live trailer-park lives and they’ll thank him for the “honor” of being poor, sick and stupid.

We’re in Jim Jones / David Koresh territory here.

joe-knows.bsky.social•4 days ago

Teachers are such a weird class akin to members of Congress. Your kids' teachers, the teachers at your local school - heroes. Teachers everywhere else - ultra-liberal parasites being paid to do nothing. Just like people will overwhelmingly slam Congress - but 80% like their representative.

facts-r-facts.bsky.social•4 days ago

And intentional!

linuxrebel.org•4 days ago

Yes but they need to chart how many times he owns the libs. Cuz in his world that's what really counts. I mean have you seen his numbers. His ratings are off the chart. I mean nobody holds a press conference like a trump press conference. 🙄

tracytrips.com•4 days ago

The only thought that runs through my head everytime he opens his cringey ass mouth is

howthefuck did people I actually know vote for this and how the fuck are they still standing by it.

And they wonder why *I* turned into a bitch.

ya'll are fucking celebrating cruelty. Fuck you entirely.

notafanoftrump.bsky.social•4 days ago

Meanwhile, Republicans are going on Fox claiming that a recession is just a "bump in the road", won't happen or is a good thing (take your pick of which lie you prefer).

When the recession hits (and it will), I can't wait for them to explain how record unemployment & high prices are good