dan00Oh no some conservatives are suffering, oh no...
Well well well. Is he “hurting the wrong people” again? who would’ve thunk
UnderpantsWeevilHe’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.
comfyNo no, this time he’s “hurting real people”.
Fuck these idiots. Reaping what they sowed.
[deleted] in lemmyTrump 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.
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.
squid_slimeGarry’s Economics on YouTube has great videos on this. Check his channel out.
Seconded! youtu.be/IwEVYlkopTY
Why aren't we all getting rich from compound interest?
Well, except the things that would have been nice. Like bringing down prices, ending wars, not being a little bitch in the white house.
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.
Grool The DemonRight? Fuck around and find out. Damn them all for setting us on this path of this hellscape they set us all upon. If your 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.
tamiya_tt02The problem is we (Americans) are all reaping what a small group of people sowed. Some of us didn’t vote for this. Most people didn’t vote at all. I wish it was mandatory like in Australia. I want my voting sausage.
Yeah I’m not stupid, that isn’t lost on me.
I’m just glad they are suffering too. Probably considerably more than i am, tbh.
WahotsI wish there was a way to spin up an IRL virtual machine and show Americans what the two presidencies would look like in real time, and make it compulsory to watch. Then let people vote on Nov 5th. And make it required.
It fucking sucks when people don’t vote, and we end up with evil idiots who trash our country, our climate, and our people. Not to mention our allies and our economy. It’s so preventable.
Problem is, it’s affecting us in canada, and other countries too, so were also reaping what they sowed
I’m crying a huge river atm
MyOpinionJust wait tell they find out he does not give a shit about them.
queermunist she/herI heard an interesting theory that the stupid tariffs on Canada are intended to destroy their economy and force them to surrender their sovereignty to the US. He doesn’t care if his threats trigger nationalist backlash because he thinks Canada is so dependent on the US that they can’t resist.
I’m not sure he actually has a plan, but if there is a plan I could see it as a play for conquest.
This seems like a bit of the Gru meme where you add “tank the US economy” as the last slide.
That would be absolutely retarded reasoning but given other shit hes done, like cancelling the CHIPS act, i would not at all be suprised if this was how he thought/planned
TheTechnician27Hey, CG, would you mind editing the R-slur out of your comment? We don’t do ableism around here.
I mean i feel it was appropriate wording by the actual definition but ig there are other ways to get the point across so sure
Yeah over my dead body.
“my investments” -TSLA bagholder
"business" man. He is in the business of crime & destruction. Everything he touches, dies. He is killing it right now.
I can’t believe a busninessman who can run a casino into bankruptcy isn’t good at business!
You needn’t look further than ‘Conservative Environmentalist’. Obviously, he has no clue what his party actually does.
NOT_RICKUnless that’s the ghost of Teddy Roosevelt then I agree
Teddy Roosevelt would be called a commie by many of today’s top Democrats, let alone the MAGA Republicans.
He literally tried to start a progressive third party.
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?
He’s a trump voter.
All you need to know.
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.
Because even natural preservation has to have a conservative version.
fossilesqueIt’s called gardening. I’m literally writing about this and that’s the term I’m using lol.
potoooooooo ✅️Here’s my thinking: we forgive these people if they agree to stand at the frontlines and endure the impacts of the first tear gas canisters/rubber bullets. Then it feels more fair and we can work together again maybe.
edgemaster72Guess they missed the part where President Elon said economic pain was inevitable and necessary
He is acting like a business man: fucking over everyone else for his own interest.
They’re learning…
MelodiousFunk…are they though? Or is this just temporary observation until the next outrage distraction?
Let me have hope pleaseeee
They only care when it affects them. If Trump hurts other people they’re ok with it.
Talked to my MAGA blood again yesterday. Apparently, the conservative talk radio is telling listeners Europe and Canada have had tariffs on us from day one and trump is just trying to level the playing field. America is always paying for them and now it’s their turn to pay.
In addition, firings are “political reward” jobs being removed, because that’s not fair. (Injustice and not fair resonates with everyone.) And a caller apparently called in to talk about his government employee buddy upset that his job credit card he normally uses to buy lunch was cut off, discovered when he tried to buy subway. Again with the “not fair” because most jobs don’t buy you lunch.
They still haven’t told me what show they heard this is on, because I invariably listen and pick it apart and they find my “over-analysis” upsetting.
Shawdow194I mentioned this to a relative that a federal job has lost all security compared to a equivalent private sector position. They said "well no job ever has security". Private sectors only goal is make money for the boss - the other provides essential public services and maintains infrastructure. They are not the same
Exactly. And part of that infrastructure is the same person filing the paperwork, making sure it’s done right.
I just don’t talk to my maga relatives about anything of substance, or about anything at all if I can help it. Less frustrating for everyone involved.
My closest genetic link on the planet is a conservative. I feel like the MAGA part is as committed as simply staying conservative. They’re my 1.
Everyone else can go to Hell, granted, I speak to many people in the course of my job. Since these people discuss all manner of things with me, invited or otherwise, I do my job and listen, always.
dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️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.
Tempus FugitI hate everything about this. This “passive income” shit is total BS. Fuck investors, landlords, and anyone absent from their own business. You’re scum leeching off the backs of hardworking people!
investors
Yeah fuck anyone who has stock or a 401k!
My favorite part of this is “Real people are suffering…” Oh no! Real people, you say? I better take that seriously, unlike all those fake people whose suffering is both imaginary, and completely justified. Who the hell cares about any of them?
He’s a businessman with no business man, he doesn’t even have a business plan.
Trump is going to bankrupt America like his past businesses and the guide rails and being complicit.
Hahahahah it never gets old
“HeS a BiSnNeSSmaN”
When the fuck has a business/businessman ever given a shit about your interests?
A businessman who has bankrupted casinos and had to be bailed out by his rich family and screwing over his creditors on several occasions.
Hiring business men to run the government is like hiring a fancy mouse breeder to do surgery on your seeing eye dog.
But he jes needa run this cuntry like a business, that’s all we need
Hermit_LailokenOh no, his investments!
Sterile_TechniqueWhat if the states all became provinces of Canada? Best of both worlds!
A business man with a business plan, gonna make you money in business land. (I’m not a cop)
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.
They don’t understand that when you have the kind of power he has “trolling” is terrorism.