There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.
Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
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1. Eliminate middle class
2. Follow Putin
3. Isolate America in every way possible until we have no allies.
Trump thinks he’s going to be buddies with Putin and they will divide the world among themselves. Meanwhile, we became DIVIDED States of Russia.
1949-1987
Officially Buried, 2011.
No excuses.
Shoot. I can take it. Suggest better if ya got it man.
But I am trying to provide workable solutions. I don't just bitch.
Would you back a rally or two for the #Americaneers?
Red Adam, White Bernie, & Blue AOC
All for America, American for all.
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With the #Americaneers picking up the fight together against the crap in leadership now.
Fix the mistake before it fixes you.
All for America, America for all
The All In America Plan
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IF you do. That would be cool, for a billionaire.
It's the wild west out there man.
Time to pony up.
The #Americaneers
It's in Wyoming. You get it there, with the Wrangler.
Ya ya.. I provide a REAL COWBOY.
#Americaneers.
I am sure you know who Ed is.
Ya I will provide you with the best nurse in the state of Wyoming too. Incase you can't ride well enough on a $50,000 horse that a baby could.
Sheesh. A Canadian has to provide you with healthcare too.
Go figure.
;)
Think about it.
Are you an #Americaneer?
No Musk... obviously.
But this billionaire has a point. Ugh. But give credit where credit is due. And call out the BS. Whoever it is. We can all do better.
RHPM @mark-carney.bsky.social, we need some small business incentive programs, for what it's worth, this guy agrees.
✅Enshrine monopoly, reindustrialize
Decimate social safety net
Nullify independent judiciary/legal profession
Handcuff dissent
Hamstring voting, buy elections
Centralize & arm surveillance/security/military forces
= desperate, powerless, hopeless, trapped, compliant, cheap feudal labor
https://theplotagainstamerica.com
The penguins have responded by slapping tariffs on fish.
Trade war escalates. Blubber futures in freefall. 🐧📉💼
who fight the wars
who do without.
While from the Chambers
the robed and cloaked
pontificate and shout.
Crime! Immigrants! Socialists about!
The bought and paid for
quietly collude.
The little people scrap
for heat and food.
You're welcome!
I fear the only part of that promise he intends to keep is the pain part.
They honestly believe they can eliminate most humans from the planet and replace them with robots.
Small businesses are still the backbone of this country.
A dark day is coming when the 1% own and control everything.
Everything.
US farmers are calling it quits
Have been for a while with drought & severe weather
Now? Fed subsidies are going away. $2B in ag sales to USAID .. gone
China will force US farmers to sell low to offset tariffs…
Mush has $10s billions & where to spend? Bankrupt farmland
Both are malignant narcissists who have the ability to insulate themselves from their own actions. Neither could care less about the welfare of poorer people because they don't have empathy (point 2 below).
Suppressing others is normal for malignant narcissists (point 8 below)
What happens when big business can afford to absorb some of the costs and you can’t?
They and their rich friends look forward to American sweat shops employing Americans.
An investor can built up capability in specific areas. But the more you go outside of your domain of expertise, the more money you're likely to lose.
They're not actually in competition.
Big companies need much larger profits for stuff to be worth doing.
Look, this already happens today. Buy a fledgling company and it's IP, lack the skills to do anything with it, close shop. At least your competitors don't own it!
Sometimes, it actually does make sense to close down an outlet, and some things can be converted to chains.
But, the number of small businesses is monstrous.
They. Don't. Care.
Trump & Musk are coming for entrepreneurs with the same: PLEDGE FEALTY OR BE PUNISHED mentality.
They’re just clearing the way with republicans, big tech, big business, universities, other countries (via tariffs) as an example.
Then, they’ll come for SMBs.
Yeah …. Me too.
Does someone want to wake the White House up 🤣
Moscow musk is so lacking in self-awareness that it is literally is painful to watch him talk.
Years to build factories these days….. I doubt if the orange monster will still be around at 88 years of age …. to see the full extent of the damage he is doing …
The entire thing is nonsense.
What can you do to help us?
Our country is going to be one big Amazon-Walmart. No choices, no opportunities.
Like in the Claire North novel
Commentator was saying that trumpery was viewed as the meanest person on Earth. And you're right. Meanness and cruelty are the common denominator among all the traitor PIG's followers ! let's hope they self-destruct !!
https://democracyrebooted.com/how-conservatives-murdered-our-democracy/
I closed my business
I closed mine as well.
Take farmers just to start
I’m the Tariff guy.
- Trump 🏌️
Same thing.
Dictators will do dictator shit.
Read ch 2 of his stupid ass book out of the deal
I wish you good fortune sir 🫡
If they were pursuing their stated goal, they'd have done this over years. But they're not. They're lying con men.
They think it's only temporary, & things will get better soon.
Denial.
Trump has never been a genius at making money. He destroys businesses. And now he gets to destroy everybody’s businesses.
It’s all about big business bro that’s who is donors are in this who is taken care of he’s telling you right in front of your face middle class people he’s saying fuck you I’m taking care of the big people because those are the corporations that will be charging you big money, everybody knew
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america
They want all of us to be desperate serfs that some vague sadistic group of elites can enslave.
That’s it.
Does this feel like he is gonna follow the rules and leave because "he's supposed to by law"?
We are not being serious if we think that, honestly.
Ugggghhhhh
This is exactly that.
Well if not then that is a them problem.
/s
https://theplotagainstamerica.com/
they do. not. care.
actually they don't care about you, Mark
so, there's that
Small farms and family grocers and family-owned restaurants, for example.
I'll try to think of more.
similar to ihop and dennys selling their food through ubereats using alternatine names (see ghost kitchens)
They both should have gone to prison a long time ago to detour sleazy biz practices.
But..you know… Corp shield, Biz Law, and American greed.
Destruction, racism, tariffs, theft.
Look the other way…the grift is on.
He's always been like this; he just decided to take it public because, like the twice-impeached 34-time CONVICTED FELON, he thinks he's untouchable.
The right controls the media, has bots/toadies that post lies/propaganda/Russian sponsored propaganda/etc.
Left can't hardly get its msg out, and isn't supported like the right. Left will have issues until they can be heard.
But his support base is too stupid to see this. They still believe they'll have more than enough jobs once manufacturing comes back to the US.
I had family in South Carolina that worked in those factories. I used to be a place to make a good living.
Doesn't sound like this comment @ all.
People spend different efforts decoding events and their news sources.
They are victims.
Our negativity feeds their's and condescension fulfills their insecurities...stalemate.
(not a US citizen)
Thinkers. Seems like one trick ponies to me.. driven by greed. Simple.
A trans bathroom is no different than ANY PUBLIC BATHROOM with one stall and the cost isn't MORE or LESS to build. You really didn't think this through!
AND GOP says that about Dems frequently.
My point is every bathroom in every home is for every gender, making every household bathroom a trans bathroom! Heads explode when I say this!
I mean, does anyone here really think Mark Cuban, for example, gives a flying fuck about the working class?
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I’m among the millions who never voted for the orange turd. I am heartbroken and angry about what he and his band of billionaire thieves are doing to our country and to businesses such as yours.
let's hope the Trump administration doesn't bury small business.
When we had “Brexit” the vote alone cost my business over £3k, and I wasn’t even that exposed. We were told to “adapt”, usually by morons with no real business experience.
Fuck Trump and MAGA a-holes.
Welcome to try it out!
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Abominable Intelligence.
It's made for creators who want to grow on Bluesky (and save time)
over the country. If they can design it, we can make it.
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As always, made completely in the USA in bucolic Gaithersburg, MD since 1987.
Designer: Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas & Co.
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Sorry you're caught up in this BS.
https://www.fool.com/research/us-trade-balance/?msockid=03820dd0af556c200df8185baed36d82
ASSHOLE!
I'm sorry you and so many others are being put through this.
Small businesses are going to get screwed the most by these tariffs. No doubt.
Which is more to say that there are usually other variables at play also, that people then misattribute.
And realistically, without AI, it might've been something even simpler.
And China is already very heavily into automation... Because their workers have already become expensive.
Of course, China has tons of mom and pop shops using automation too.
Just like a good russian asset…
It's very rare that people are actively trying to cause harm.
The real problem here is whether Trump's understanding of what is good for the country, will cause harm.
AND this is about as diabolically evil as you can get.
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Government can let otherwise simple people do things at a very large scale.
Democrats do harm while being well intentioned also.
And you basically can't correct people who you treat as "evil"... They won't trust you.
I think the plan is to ruin everything so the oligarchs can swoop in and buy us hook, line, and sinker.
We all depend on the ecosystems around us.
Being rich in a rich country, makes you much richer than being rich in a poor country.
If the US economy works much worse, the US as a whole will become poorer.
And then being rich in a poorer country won't mean as much.
It’ll still be vastly better to be rich in the US.
As long as the rich are insulated from the wrath of the peasants.
It's not like small companies have gold that you could steal.
You'd need them to keep working and being competitive in the market, to extract profit from them
Regressive taxes shift the tax burden to those that MUST disproportionately spend earnings to live.
He is evil to the core.
Very true
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