Republican administrations tank the economy when it’s business as usual.
This is the dissolution and piecemeal sale of the US Government.
Of course there is going to be a fucking recession!
What could possibly go wrong when you give the most important job in the world to the most unqualified person ever?
We need to dispense with this notion that Trump is “unqualified.” He is very qualified for the job that he actually set out to do, and has been accomplishing it expertly.
It’s just a different job than the one you think it’s supposed to be.
Trump is overqualified to take us right into bankruptcy. He’s been here so many times! Don’t worry! Just ask for money from stupid people that have money!
Unironically, yes. You wanna know why Trump’s businesses kept going bankrupt? Because they were never meant to be sustainable in the first place. They were scams – probably fronts for Russian money laundering – and designed to have all the money extracted and then implode on purpose before law enforcement could start looking too closely.
And now he’s doing the same thing with the entire goddamn country.
I don’t believe that for one second. They’ve got a Project 2025 playbook written by some smarter people that makes them almost look competent. But they aren’t even doing that great of a job of it. The whole lot appear to be as dumb as a box of rocks from my PoV.
Consider the possibility that Trump’s real goal is to destabilize the US, destroy its democracy and civil liberties, and turn it into a Russian-style oligarchy and vassal state of Russia.
Given that assumption, what mistake has he made that detracts from that goal?
It’s a bad assumption. I could just say the same thing with the hypothesis about him being dumb.
It also ignores the fact that he’s not alone. He’s got pretty much the whole government doing the thing. But I’m sure you’ll say they’re all looking to do the same thing.
I think his only goal is his own enrichment and power. I doubt he even cares about his legacy.
Nonresponsive.
What mistake has he made that detracts from that goal?
I don’t think you can name one. Prove me wrong.
I bet we could find someone less qualified.
It just would be difficult to find one outside of a hospital or care home.
You joke, but Texas last year had a representative missing for months. Come to find out that she was checked into a care home, still drawing paycheck.
One Source on the matter.
I mean… we can’t blame her for forgetting that she had one job after all now, can we?
Doing nothing would be more qualified than what Trump is doing.
I vote Air
It just would be difficult to find one outside of a hospital or care home.
Hey now! Elon and Rubio are right there
Even they’ve at least experienced heath care for poor people.
…twice.
We gave it to the most unqualified person ever… twice.
Congratulations.
Well . . yeah. He’s a demented rapist.
Who the fuck is just figuring this out?
A whole lot of people apparently.
The markets haven’t historically had a problem with demented rapists in charge unless it effects shareholder value.
Seems like a pretty big flaw in the system that a demented rapist being in charge doesn’t always impact shareholder value. Idk, maybe I’m just a beta cuck or something.
Look at this fuckin soy boy. What’s the matter, you can’t shake hands firmly and maintain eye contact?
It’s the weak wrists 😔
Lmao I like how you settled on a cause. You’re hired anyway
Risk? Its his goal. Crash the market for his ultra wealthy amigos to buy up everything
We call that a Fire Sale for the Oligarchs.
And…
Destroy USD.
Remove USD as global reserve currency.
Bitcoin.
Sell off land to billionaire buds.
(Allow) Nuke a few cities?. Big midterm surprise?. /q’s Great solar flash of 2025 - this is the only one I’m not certain of what/how/when.
Voilà.
Lol. You downvote. Everything he does is a known. You just have to listen. Here’s my comment from almost 4 months ago about tarrifs https://lemmy.ca/post/33768636/13042232
Big midterm surprise?
This is the depressing thing. Even if they do somehow lose their grip over public opinion, a fake terrorist attack would be all they’d need to restore themselves. Good thing Putin has no experience with faking terrorist attacks …
Yeah, this comment has a lot to analyse yet there is little to no commentary on it:
The red states are going to do good, and the blue states, I don’t know, maybe they’ll totally disappear off that map.
The wording isn’t accidental. And it’s a bit more than terrifying.
Disappear. Not change, not swing, not go red. “Disappear off that map.”
It’s not going to be Bitcoin. It’ll be Trumpcoin, Ethereum, or something else easy to control.
Another problem is that down to lower class the americans invest for their retirement.
If he wipes out the people’s lifetime savings, they can’t afford to retire and got to work longer - even if the recession is driving inflation down.
You think that billionaires that are influenced by the likes of Curtis Yarvin care about people saving for retirement?
No, I just thought about how normal people are fucked over. In systems with public pensions, politicians could just cut the pensions, in a property and investment based system, you have to make the “lifetime savings” of the lower 95% just not liveable by greedflation, concentration of wealth and volatile markets that eat up savings - and don’t allow sub-billionaires to hedge.
The upcoming Trumpageddon will make the Trumpcession look like Trumplemania.
I hope you are ready to open up and embrace big daddi T and all he has to offer. Cause he fuckin us all
Can’t tell if I’m supposed to give a shit, Trumplemania ‘05 or 06’?
Hey Wharton School: This is why you shouldn’t sell degrees to rich parents for their spoiled children.
I didn’t think it was humanly possible to see such a concerted effort to destroy an economy in my life. Even Hitler didn’t try to do this with Germany.
Once upon a time I couldn’t get myself to watch old 80s and 90s cartoons anymore because I felt too old and cynical for them… but now I realize that the villains on those shows have nothing on Trump and his dipshit cronies. Only they are somehow more fleshed out despite being literal cartoon villains.
Even Hitler didn’t try to do this with Germany.
Hitler “fixed” Germany’s economy by basically borrowing a bunch of money and then attempting to destroy the people who had loaned it to him (Jewish financiers were a large source of the borrowed money, as was the Soviet Union - a little-known but majorly important part of the Ribbentrop Pact and related German-Soviet agreements).
It might actually go the Hitler route. He’s already made concentration camps for “illegal” human beings. It’s only a matter of time until they figure out that they are deporting a practically free workforce with no rights.
Trump is peak Dunning Kruger.
He is willfully and proudly ignorant. Did you see the video of him introducing Barron Trump to the world when he was a baby? He said that Barron is vicious, ruthless, violent, and maybe (hopefully) also smart. He considered the first traits to be essential to an entrepreneur but Did not consider being smart to be a positive trait.
Funny you say that since I’ve been seeing what looks like 80s GI Joe cartoon in memes about fElon and little d teaming up.
Because the writers weren’t clueless. Trump is willfully clueless.
I love it!
Obamacare vs Trumpcession
Yet the Republicans will vote Trump next time around.
vote Trump next time
The implication here is quite scary.
They meant Don Jr.
Donald will be in the hyperbaric chamber attaining immortality, returning in 2032 as the Undertrump.
Thankfully, Elon has shown that whatever Trump mystique there is won’t magically transfer to someone else just because they’re associated with him.
Pun not intended. They got perfectly aged Trumps enough to continue up to 2100.
This isn’t a trade war, it’s a Stupid Economic Operation.
Trump is just tracing from Pitin’s playbook.
I never would have thought I would see a military operation so poorly done on such a large scale in my life. And clown world went: “Sure we had one massive cluster fuck of an operation, but what about a second?”
Was it done poorly though? I mean the end result is that the US has become a vassal state of Russia without a nuclear fallout. Seems like an epic win to me.
Well the first was a russian failure the second an american failure. So I guess kinda a wash, with massive negative consequences.
I feel that it’s looking fairly likely to be more of a Trumpression.
Trumpocalypse even
A Trumpster fire.
Make Depression Great Again
Imagine speedrunning your way into the great depression.
For billionaires it’s a “buying opportunity” though.
Gotta take advantage of rock bottom prices!
Looks like Sleepy Don has done it again. What happened to better economy on Day 1? Is he going to say the days so far don’t count? Let’s hear some more excuses about how Biden made the job so hard you can’t improve things by 1%. You only need to make excuses for a little less than 4 years now.
what would PRESIDENT ELON say.
Please put his fucking name all over this shit.
Never let people forget who is the cause of all of this.
Every day I wake up and I wonder if he’s a complete moron who’s in capable of doing his job… or is he making people worried about the recession and using these tariffs to manipulate the markets for his own benefit?
The other possibility people have told me about is that he’s doing it to distract us from the real activity behind the scenes, which is to make the rich much richer in the poor, more desperate… 
No distractions, the second answer is not correct, he wants another glided age. The glided age is another term for the second industrial revolution that turned america into the superpower we know today, but It also was an awful era for your average american.They would work 12 hours or more for a whole week, some may have sunday off due to church but a lot did work that day with all your family working. The standard of living was so crap, many would become alcoholics due to the awful conditions, which would lead to prohibition movement. Your average american did not live long, many people would die due to work place accidents but due to no worker protection, nothing would change.
The era was also known for the monopolies, starting with rockfeller standard oil, carnegie steel company and morgans banking with many others. All the major monopolies worked together to prevent competition by buying out, they would ask nicely to sell your company to them, if not they would play the waiting game by lowering the product your selling to be unprofitable and then buy you out. Regulations did not exist yet so, this was all legal and if it wasn’t, no one gave a shit as they were that powerful. The government was no help to them either, as most of them were bathing in the money of the 1%. The 1% lived in amazing conditions, and hoarded a ton of money, with some becoming important philanthropist.
Here is an article of proof of what trump wants, https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-gilded-age-mckinley-grover-cleveland-1592dab80ad7159266db51b5baa774b6.
I prefer the term ‘Trump Slump’ but as long as his name is attached, I’m good.
I believe that’s already a reference to his erectile dysfunction, but I could be wrong.
