Just want to make sure everyone knows the tariffs are all in play but at 10%, until nations capitulate to Trump's blackmail and pay him to get that number to 0.
Ah yes, more wealth for the hoarders to hoard as they conspire to hoard even more wealth that they can then ... err ... eventually die sitting atop of.
But hey, at least these miserable fucks ... will ... probably find more reasons to be miserable.
It's never just one person. Stanley Millgram. People give their own authority away. There are good and bad things about that. We don't have to accept tyranny.
Yeah, I read about some guy flipping $500 to $50k flipping put options. Most people don’t mess with those unless you are a stock geek… or billionaire hedge fund managers. Especially when you get a heads up from your buddy in the Oval Office.
There is no one to investigate it now. You realize this, right? The SEC has been gutted, along the whole Crypto Currency Fraud unit. Trump gets paid off on the back end with untraceable transactions.
My legal expertise is somewhat limited. My 87 year old dad is a retired international trade attorney who wrote a book about WTO dispute settlement and I’ve watched a lot of Law and Order and Matlocke. I feel comfortable saying “yes,” that appears inside trading though!
Another way to view it. Billionaires may have bought the dip but they lost most of it today. They won’t be happy about that and their plan to get richer under Trump is going up in smoke. They will be furious. Especially the tech dude bros who paid to get Trump elected.
What I hope is that those countries that have received the pause still go ahead with their decoupling from the US - reckless behaviour should come with consequences. What I hope is that NZ exporters take advantage of the free trade agreement with China and decouple from the US.
They were always going to buy back their own stocks it was inevitable and easy to predict. Move your investments to stable countries with stable business practices. Mutual funds US free.
Don't stop now the wealth is mostly their wealth; keep the pressure on them and defund some billionaires. 🍁
Trump gave them the heads up when he said “today would be a good day to buy”. That way they would all know to buy immediately, then he pauses the tariffs and he and his rich friends get richer. No regard however about the pain they caused the 99% though.
Our system is rigged, the fascists in power ensure the rigging, and our social agreements are being actively dismantled. So our options to address the issues are limited in scope and function. Traditional methods for redress of grievances will take time and ongoing mass social pressure.
I guess I’m just surprised there hasn’t been any direct rogue resistance of any substance. Obviously Shumer punted the only major legal pressure points that there could have been a structural disruption. Thankfully, they seem so inept it’s only a matter of time before this thing implodes.
At least, that's my guesses from U.S. history. I see some of our politicians trying to make this happen. But I doubt it will be any of them. And it will take all of us to make changes to ensure this kind of fuckover and corruption doesn't creep in on us again. But I could always be wrong.
Then there are the rogues. Nobody will see them coming. They will forge new ways and new avenues. When they emerge, and in a country like the U.S., they will emerge in multiple ways at different times, it will be a matter of trial and failure until unstoppable successes plow through.
Another way out is to build a broad coalition of people who choose to work together. That one fights the tyranny on multiple levels and is fairly unstoppable.
There are roads out. One is to fight directly against it. That is the socially stupid way. It may work, but it lends validity and identity to the opposition.
Today's politicians are not revolutionaries. They aren't scrappy upstarts who have had to claw out spaces for themselves and build community where there was only chaos and tyranny. Most are looking around in shock and confusion because this is a coup of the unspiken social agreements we live by.
It's all good. We will have our days in court, and by court, I mean the voting booths. Insider trading is a felony. Just ask Martha Stewart.
We need the names, not only the oligarchs but everyone on Capitol Hill who profited from the market miraculous resurrection.
#UnitedWeWillWin
We are seeing the greatest heist in History, and it requires a full investigation.
Someone is making money, lots of money and it’s not you. More than anything, the Trump administration has traded away trust in America
Every so-called “free market” conservative and every single Ayn Rand-spewing libertarian that isn't calling for the immediate impeachment & removal of Trump and his co-conspirators for insider trading can FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF.
Going to be worse. They'll have manipulated to make money and then the orange genius will push ahead with his great idea. Because they can't change his mind. He only paused because they told him this idea. Trick might not work again.
The FBI, DOJ and SEC (hah, remember them?) have been hollowed out, corrupted and captured - it’s gonna be a nice 4 year massive gouging.
Great call, btw
It’s the corruption, stupid.
I don’t even know the stock market and I saw this coming.
500,000 extra COVID deaths weren’t enough to prove he will walk over our cold dead corpses to stuff money in his own pockets. We knew it would be infinitely worse this time.
Honestly, they are so transparently evil that we only have to (as you rightly did) speculate as to the most obvious act an evil rich person would do, and the story writes itself.
Mine among them. He forced feds to retire from their community growth or service type jobs & then took their retirement $. He doesn't want feds to reach out to the poor, be helpful to the citizenry or grow the middle class. He doesn't want any of them educated. He wants them enslaved to his grift.
I'm sorry to hear that. I'm leaving mine in my companies stable fund for now and investing in foreign stocks. I'm not sure that is a great plan, but I still come back to the fact that America is being hurt by all this. This strange boost in stock prices can't last.
So let me get this straight you’re giving the billionaires the biggest tax break in American history and then the cherry on top is that now you’re letting them do inside your trading and you’re manipulating the market again fuck the American people thank you very much
Yep. When he's been saying "You're all going to be very rich", he wasn't talking to *everyone* in the USA... just his elite buddies. You know, the swamp.
It never has been about the American people. It’s only been about billionaire. He manipulated the stock market so his buddies could make more money. He promised them this if they got him elected this entire administration is corrupt. Nothing about what they do is legal nothing where is constitution
You called it.
Everything they do, I put through a corruption analysis, how do they profit/steal from this? Who has the .power to stop this? It's just one crime after another, unrelenting.
The calvary is not coming. WE are the calvary and I hope Americans are ready for that. #handsoff
Why didn't our 401K managers catch this? Perhaps our 401ks were buying stocks on the oppositer schedule, to provide a market for their big roller billionaires? Just spit-ballin'.
Evidence of insider trading. He likes to announce his crimes—always has. He is a serial crook and rapist pedo. He probably tapes articles about his crimes up on a wall in a dark room—like trophies.
We're out here stressing about the cost of a new phone, laptop, or even coffee and beer, and these billionaires are playing fuck-fuck games with the markets, snickering all the way to the bank.
Everyone needs to wake the hell up!
It's not Left vs. Right. It's the Oligarchs vs. We The People!
Not even hiding the blatant corruption. When Hillary accused Trump of not paying taxes, his response was, "It's called being smart." Power in Trump's world is expressed as corruption without consequence.
Alternate version: there was a huge $304 Billion transfer of wealth from the working class who were terrorized into selling their investments at a loss to the billionaire class who had access to inside information.
I cannot accept that the Dems are not calling this like it is. SAY THE FUCKING WORDS. Trump is literally stealing from us. The American economy is being used as a weapon to rob us blind. We get beat over the head with unstable prices and inflation, he makes billions for himself and his scummy pals.
Insider trading is very illegal. Problem is the call is coming from inside the house. Is 🟠 DOJ going to investigate or prosecute his family, flunkies, etc, for doing it? Not a chance.
All this is a distraction to the dissolution of the institutions of democracy. If China is in cahoots with Russia who is in cahoots with the Trump cabal- they will capitulate to Trump to help seal Trump’s “genius” and keep his autocracy going in the eyes of MAGA . Him “beating” China
keep him in
China and Russia’s biggest enemy was America- keeping Trump as their bitch totally defeats America and they have won without any threats of nuclear annihilation. Trump is the perfect weapon against us. It wouldn’t be capitulation- it’s strategy.
And that’s how trumps maga party gets away with the biggest Ponzi scheme on Americans
I’m rewiring how I was brought up, don’t steal, don’t cheat because of the guilt & empathy, but the 1% have none of that guilt or empathy for us so now I don’t for them
Counterpoint: The insiders could also get burned. There are short-term dips and long-term dips. "Buy the dip" assumes they know when the dip will occur. Was the actual dip two days ago? Or in 2 months? In 5 years? If the stock market continues to fall, no one bought on the dip, including insiders.
Do the have to keep these stocks? They bought at the most recent dip & now sell at the most recent high. They made a fortune. There is no need to keep the stock unless you like it in general. Kind of like day trading.
Yes, I also believe many people made a fortune this week when they bought on the dip and sold on the rise. But it was still a bet: based on an assumption that the market will continue to rise when they "buy on the dip." Careful, insiders -- this market might be the most unpredictable we've ever had.
they had a preview when it was leaked that a 90 day pause was coming. Everyone saw what the markets did, the markets where waiting for any kind of relief. felon47s peeps ran out to state that was fake news. Fell after immediately. So they knew when felon47 gave them the post to buy, what was coming
I don't think the point of it was to short stocks, I think Trump really believes all his nonsense about tariffs. But when he finally realized the market wasn't going to stop melting down until he paused the tariffs, he decided to let in some of his friends know so they could make a buck off it.
It's definitely insider trading on a huge scale, no doubt about that. I'm just saying he didn't do the tariffs just to make money off insider trading. Trump really believed all that nonsense about it being liberation day.
Someone already mentioned the Putin favoured oligarch thing but I’ll mention it again. But it’s like in the history of the worlds corruption of power, America has rocketed to #1 🥇🏅
Fuck all the billionaires. Anyone who has that much money should be taxed so high they are no longer billionaires. No one on earth needs that much money, especially while others starve and suffer.
this is crazy.
I recall a leaked video of a orange blob's speech to a room full of people where he said:
Lets be honest, everyone here is very very rich.
I wonder if this plan was hatched then?
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Not to mention the arrests, firingings, terminations, bannings and private lawsuits.
If only SCOTUS didn't give Trump immunity.
America runs on Oligarchs now.
Please like and repost.
Thank you.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/V9RKYCD
If the SEC & DOJ doesn't want to investigate it then the maybe the New York State AG could investigate it.
People work for decades to earn that 401K.
https://time.com/7276234/trump-tariff-insider-trading-schiff/
But hey, at least these miserable fucks ... will ... probably find more reasons to be miserable.
El Salvador is for hardcore, nation-threatening criminals. Like hair stylists.
https://bsky.app/profile/projectfactz.bsky.social/post/3lmgcnbnyq22f
Human filth will be imprisoned
We had Elmo with Tesla but he just gained it back someplace else
Tesla will join the DeLorean in grave of automobile bad ideas-Elmo walks free and Tesla workers walk away with only the forever stench of Tesla
Don't stop now the wealth is mostly their wealth; keep the pressure on them and defund some billionaires. 🍁
We need the names, not only the oligarchs but everyone on Capitol Hill who profited from the market miraculous resurrection.
#UnitedWeWillWin
Someone is making money, lots of money and it’s not you. More than anything, the Trump administration has traded away trust in America
Great call, btw
It’s the corruption, stupid.
500,000 extra COVID deaths weren’t enough to prove he will walk over our cold dead corpses to stuff money in his own pockets. We knew it would be infinitely worse this time.
Trump can do this again in 90 days.
Or anytime he needs a little extra cash.
The world is the Mad King's ATM.
https://aiwillybillhuman.substack.com/p/a-pause-in-hell-trumps-7-day-economic
then prosecution.
any time soon.
"I'll make you whole, and then you go away."
Everything they do, I put through a corruption analysis, how do they profit/steal from this? Who has the .power to stop this? It's just one crime after another, unrelenting.
The calvary is not coming. WE are the calvary and I hope Americans are ready for that. #handsoff
He enjoys revenge for real or imaginary slights.
We humiliated him in 2020.
What are our US representatives doing about this illegal stock market manipulation and insider trading by Trump and his cronies?
Impeachment?
A BIG FAT NOTHING.
Please repost
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
Everyone needs to wake the hell up!
It's not Left vs. Right. It's the Oligarchs vs. We The People!
He enjoys hurting people, though.
https://bsky.app/profile/lovenlogic.bsky.social/post/3lmhgbpxms22y
Just like slavery was. And just like everything Hitler did to the Jews.
keep him in
I’m rewiring how I was brought up, don’t steal, don’t cheat because of the guilt & empathy, but the 1% have none of that guilt or empathy for us so now I don’t for them
It! Martha Stewart went to prison for less…..I hope they don’t get away with this!
All planned!!!
Crooks... all of them Crooks!!!
I cannot understand how the play continues to run, despite all the negative reviews from critics.
There is no "enough" with these jackals. They are like the ancient Romans who would eat to excess, vomit, then go back for another round.
I recall a leaked video of a orange blob's speech to a room full of people where he said:
Lets be honest, everyone here is very very rich.
I wonder if this plan was hatched then?
Note Besos & Musk dumped stock & those with cash swooped in.
This is not "shorting" though. Securities have a short % punlished & we'll see that data next month.
https://youtu.be/2on5G3Npm2o?si=JARBv13vcn1iL1gL