• @toadjones79@lemm.ee
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    422 months ago

    *Textbook economic collapse.

    Literally exactly what all economic textbooks say would happen if you did what he did.

    Which is why I think it was all on purpose. They are driving the market up and down predictably. Stocks keep surging every time there is a “leaked” rumor that he will pause tariffs.

    • @KreekyBonez@lemm.ee
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      112 months ago

      the grift that keeps on grifting…

      a small number of wealthy Americans riled up a large number of poor Americans, using single-issue voter tactics that prey on irrational fears, and gained control of more wealth and decision-making power than they know what to do with.

      I can’t fathom what the point is, other than some doomsday scheme, where they plot to outlive us poors with hoarded resources, and the remaining bootlicker class as slaves.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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        92 months ago

        I think Trump himself just likes to be in the spotlight and also evade prison.

        As for his backers, they want the collapse of the US (and nation states in general) to found company town-esque technocratic city states.

  • @N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    342 months ago

    St. Upid’s three miracles were creating tariffs, eliminating tariffs, and begging China to relieve him of the consequences of his tariffs.

  • @Olestraleakage@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Saint Donald - Patron Saint of fraud, con artists, village idiots, and golden showers.

    *And business failures that see their leadership miraculously failing upward.

    • @D_C@lemm.ee
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      72 months ago

      Yes, but you’ve forgotten far worse things such as:
      The selling of documents to hostile countries.
      The alleged ‘wink wink’ Epstein island kiddie fiddling.
      And the adjudicated rape stuff.

      Though, in your defense, there’s so many abhorrent things he’s done that it’s easy to forget most of them!!

      • @Olestraleakage@lemmy.world
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        72 months ago

        Right, I thought it best to keep with things he can standout as the face of. Like, there are stronger contenders for the patron of pedophilia, and some of them are already ordained.

  • @m0darn@lemmy.ca
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    152 months ago

    I saw a quote in the newspaper this morning:

    We were losing hundreds of billions of dollars with China now we’re essentially not doing business with China. Therefore, we’re saving hundreds of billions of dollars. Very simple.

    It’s just so incredibly wrong and stupid.

  • @merc@sh.itjust.works
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    132 months ago

    I still can’t get over that his policies are the result of what he watches on TV. I’m not talking about his watching the Sunday morning political shows. I’m talking fictional movies in prime time that result in new US policies.

    At 9pm on Saturday WLRN aired “Escape from Alcatraz”. On Sunday another Trump policy was announced: he was re-opening Alcatraz prison.

    This is at least the second time that people have figured out what Trump was watching on TV to cause him to issue a new crazy edict.

  • @dryfter@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    St. Upid

    I was born and raised as a Catholic, did my time in Catholic school until I graduated high school. Too many years later (more than I care to admit) and several different beliefs later I still automatically don’t see the abbreviation and see the “Saint” instead. It was ingrained in my damn DNA.

    I was like… Saint Upid? huh? Then it hit me and I almost busted a gut laughing so hard.