Do you think if he kneels down and kisses trump feet he would be okay? I’m so worried damn…

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      Trump is doing exactly what he said he would do and the obvious outcome happens, but they still don’t see through his bullshit not matter how many times it bites them in the ass.

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        Even past that, the market has been on a historic bull run. The NASDAQ is up around 150% over five years. Unprecedented gains, even with the COVID dip.

        What kind of whiny bullshit is this about a 15% decline? You’re holding equity with a 100+ p/e. You took a bunch of leveraged risk and came out ahead, but you’re still not happy because… you’re not a trillionaire like Daddy Musk yet? Take your fucking profits and back away from the roulette wheel, you degenerates.

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        Well, except the things that would have been nice. Like bringing down prices, ending wars, not being a little bitch in the white house.

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          He promised that he would bring down prices by putting tariffs on everything. So you can check that one off the list. The tariffs are in place. And he promised to end the war in Ukraine by bullying them into surrendering to Russia, and finishing the genocide in Palestine, so you can check off ending wars as well.

          The only one he didn’t promise was to not be a little bitch in the White House, because we all knew that’s exactly what he was gonna be. We had historical evidence of that.

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      Right? Fuck around and find out. Damn them all for setting us on this path of this hellscape they set us all upon. If you’re MAGA or didn’t vote at all I don’t have the sympathy or empathy left to give a shit what happens. The leopards are going to eat so many faces the next four years they’re going to die of obesity.

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    You needn’t look further than ‘Conservative Environmentalist’. Obviously, he has no clue what his party actually does.

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      I’ve known a few of those. “Environmentalism” to them only goes as far as making sure they have some fields around them stocked with deer and pheasant to hunt, and maybe a lake they can tool around in their bass boat.

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      Like is he just ignoring the “Drill baby drill” shit? Or the fact that in his first term Trump reduced the size of national parks for the sake of oil operations?

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    “He’s a businessman”.

    No, he’s a nepo baby hustler who thinks winning is the only thing that matters, and winning is when you rip off and take advantage of people.

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      He’s not even hurting them. They’re still up for the year. They’re historically up for the last ten years, in the face of enormous economic headwinds.

      Trump stepped in, the market surged, and now its floated back down to December 2024 baseline.

      And these losers are screaming like stick pigs because Big Line doesn’t always go up forever.

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    “we need someone to run the government like a business” “lets pick this guy with 40 bankruptcies” my guy even if the premise wasn’t idiotic what did you think would happen

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    Notice how even when potentially becoming self aware they still say it’s having a negative effect on “conservative Canadians” as if they’re the only demographic that would be pissed about a hostile foreign power threatening to take their sovereignty.

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      The bankruptcy claim comes up a lot. I hate Trump as much as anyone who can form opinions that don’t come from a radio talk show, but I’d be willing to he’s the bankruptcies were by design. He probably did what the toys r us CEO and 50 cent did, where they funnel money out of a company, and the company goes under.

      That being said. He’s still a fucking piece of shit who’s making the founding fathers roll in their graves

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        It’s the generous interpretation where Trump abused the bankruptcy system for his own benefit, and I definitely agree.

        Still wouldn’t want a country run that way, the people are the consumers about to be conned or the investors about to be fleeced.

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    Conservatives are for the most part still deluded into thinking that his goal is to “balance the trade deficit.”

    It’s horseshit. That’s not his goal, it’s his pretense; the idiot reason he gives his idiot followers so that they don’t see him for the Russian asset he is.

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      Believing that others in their tribe (who they THINK are in their tribe) are being truthful is probably the most ubiquitous flaw conservatives have.

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    What I love is how many of them talk about, “he’s just trolling,” and it’s like, even if he was, is that seriously what you want in a president? Now it’s, “even if he is just trolling, this is a bad idea,” as if there’s ever a time that the fucking president treating international relations like a shitpost would be a good idea. These people are so, so stupid.

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      I am guessing a lot of them will blame this on Biden, citing the normal truth that presidents usually don’t make immediately apparent noticeable impacts on the economy. It normally takes months or years for most policy to make a big difference. In this case, the tariffs are so stupid on their face that no honest person could deny they would have drastic effects. Compare stock market graphs to the timeline of trump announcements… but they will deny it and pretend this is business as usual, and because it’s only a month in, it’s obviously Biden. Nevermind that they would never normally believe that shit if it’s inconvenient to their case.

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    Things that make about as much sense as “Conservative Environmentalist”:

    • Anarcho Bidenism
    • People that enjoy fruitcake
    • Jumbo shrimp
    • For Profit Social Services
    • Anarcho Capitalism
    • People referring to a lion being the ‘king of the jungle’ without realising lions don’t live in jungles.
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      And countries can totally do the same. Argentina was bankrupt at least twice, Venezuela has defaulted on bonds, Greece was restructured. And I’m pretty sure there are others.

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        Bye, bye reserve currency status and all the cheap loans, inflation reduction and broader economic influence that comes with it …

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          You couldn’t think that that was gonna last forever. I mean, it was very obvious. We were headed straight towards the collapse regardless. Cheap loans reserve currency inflation reduction literally all of that is just making climate change worse so this was all gonna end regardless.

          I don’t think anyone should care about any of that stuff that was making it worse for all of us anyways. We need to start thinking in a way of how do we grab back power and then build this world up in our vision.

          Because we’re not going back to the before time that’s not happening.

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            If it happens fast (because the US defaults on its external debt) rather than slowly (the slow decay from the post “Imperial” era), the damage will be very different because it will be a sudden shock rather than something slow enough that people and companies can adapt to it.

            It’s the difference between, sudden hyper-inflation within a few months and having a few decades of higher inflation than its trade partners (which is actually what has been happenning so far) or a sudden forced significant cut on just about all kinds of public expenses (because nobody will be lending money to the US and printing money will generate way more inflation when a significant proportion of new dollars aren’t going abroad anymore, which links to the whole hyperinflation thing) and decades of fiscal contraction (again, what’s been happenning so far).

            If you think people are dissatisfied because average salary growth isn’t keeping up with 7 or 8% inflation, imagine when it’s 30 or 40% inflation.

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    he is a business man

    No he isn’t. Everything she’s ever touched turned to utter shit and went bankrupt. He bankrupted a casino. Like, how even do you do that? That’s not incompetence, that requires a very specific skill set to do

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      You very well and most likely all of us are missing the Y as to why Donald Trump has done the things he’s done and managed to always fall upwards.

      I say that because if he’s so bad, he wouldn’t be continuously hired upwards. He’s now the most powerful position in the world so keep it in mind. He didn’t get there because every large business and its founders and CEOs are so much more dumber than the rest of us that they didn’t know what they were doing.

      Some CEOs are hired as a hatchet CEO to destroy companies on purpose. To dismantle them from the inside. You guys need to start thinking that all of this is on purpose and is malicious and that they’re smarter than you. The art of war: do not underestimate your enemy.

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        This is a prime example of survivorship bias. It’s the equivalent of an idiot winning the lottery, continuing to buy tickets, winning the lottery again, and having people say “look how much money he has, he must be some financial genius!”

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        Not underestimating either cheeto nor Elmo by stating the simple truth that both are fucking idiots born into wealth, and -amongst other things- being extremely lucky

        I’ve been yelling for nearly a decade now that Elmo is an incompetent but also evil motherfucker, glad that people are catching on.

        Just watch interviews with either from decade(s) ago, just hear them stumble about anything that has to do with what they do, they don’t know or understand shit. Elmo calls himself the world’s best engineer yet he doesn’t have a clue what an engineer even does

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    I keep seeing this sentiment expressed over and over again and it seems that a large cross-section of the public still doesn’t get it. I know I’m preaching to the choir here, of all places, but it bears repeating:

    Trump is not a “businessman.” Trump is a con man.

    He has never actually run a successful business and he doesn’t know how. The only thing he does know how to do is run a grift to bilk investors, creditors, the government, HUD, etc. out of money for projects that he really has no intention of completing or to prop up businesses he has no intention of sustaining. He is incessantly robbing Peter to pay Paul just long enough in the hopes of keeping his creditors or the prosecution at bay – not always successfully, I might add, because his businesses have been bankrupted four times including the infamous three casinos.

    The issue now is that since he’s oozed his way into government he is shielded from having the hammer brought down on him by many of the people he’s cheated.