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    /It also forces farmers to sell more of their products here in the U.S., to bring grocery prices way down. We’ve already seen this with eggs.

    The absolutely stupid thing about this particular statement is that egg imports had risen to meet demand which was forcing egg prices back down. The tariffs are going to completely reverse that.

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      Also, plus, too we’re doing next to nothing about Bird Flu that’s killing the egg laying chickens and causing the shortage.

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        Also we don’t have any day laborers to plant and pick our crops this year beacuse they are all too scared/deported for the US to produce enough food for ourselves.

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      The wealthiest 10% of Americans own 93% of the stocks. I’m glad to hear they’re hurting and not anyone else.

      Trump is doing by accident things I’d never hoped to see in my life: The end of American hegemony, unification of Europe, the fall of the petrodollar, the elimination of the fake wealth on Wall Street.

      But I can’t stand the motherfucker.

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        I’m glad to hear they’re hurting and not anyone else

        Except when equities plunge it drives up borrowing costs. That impedes how businesses maintain and expand their enterprises, which puts downward pressure on employment and wages.

        We’re also seeing a crash in commodities prices - particularly US exports - and energy demand, which is gearing up to wreck the O&G, automotive, and agricultural sectors.

        It’s bad bad bad for everyone. A totally unforced error by Trump that will have huge negative downstream reprecussions for us all.

        Trump is doing by accident things I’d never hoped to see in my life: The end of American hegemony, unification of Europe, the fall of the petrodollar, the elimination of the fake wealth on Wall Street.

        Maybe. The US has been written off a few times before this and rebounded. And there’s no real reason to believe the current EU will be any less xenophobic, imperialist, or wreckless and wasteful as their American peers, given that they’ve been drinking as hard from the fascist well as the rest of us.

        We’ll see what comes of it all. Maybe America will go quietly off into the graveyard of empires and swallow a bullet. Or maybe we’re come roaring back for one last nightmarish global thermonuclear Holocaust because we just can’t stand not being the center of attention.

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      It’s so obvious to anyone that looks at his actual actions through his life that he cares about no one but himself.

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      That’s hard to buy for nearly any given politician, but especially donvict - that’s next-level delusion.

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      Millions voted to fuck boomers and their 401ks

      Lots of new housing will free up

      About time

      It’s a win win

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        If people understood how the stock market worked they wouldn’t be dumb enough to vote for Trump.

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        Housing won’t free up. Black Rock, Morgan and others are buying up all the middle class housing so they can jack up the prices out of reach of most, forcing them to remain renters, then doubling the rents. Thats why housing costs are now more than 50% of income these days.

        Democrats have tried to push legislation banning these companies from buying mass amounts of housing, but the Nazis fully support it. Tent cities will be regular thing by the next “election.”

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    GOP presidents do this every time. Crash the market and the oligarchs buy it up for pennis on the dollar.

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    Republicans are such idiots that they would mistake huffing paint as a sign of genius.

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    “The president isn’t a number-crunching guy, per se, but President Trump strongly demanded big numbers that would make other countries treat us fairly. And I think you can see today that those numbers are huge,”

    HAHAHAHA

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    The Narcissist’s Prayer

    That didn’t happen.
    And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
    And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
    And if it is, that’s not my fault.
    And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
    And if I did, you deserved it.

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    The KISS principle applies here, keep it simple. There is no plan, there is only Trump saying “I win”. He’s just declaring victory in the face of disaster as usual

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    Trump right now is a literal amalgam of Pelosi, Bernie Sanders and Obama. Dude is a Democrat from 1988-2008 lmao 🤣

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      This is the dumbest political take I’ve ever seen, and my dad called Trump a communist because he had Cold War brainrot

      What are you even talking about, why would you ever think a pack of neoliberals don’t love the stonks, and why would you ever include Sanders in them? I can only assume you don’t even know he’s not a Democrat.

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        Lmao, Pelosi Bernie and even Obama spoke in favor of tariffs during the time a lot.

        You thought you were cooked?

        Bro you were only marinating

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      Republican doing Republican policy Republicanly is

      a. A Republican

      b. A Democrat

      c. A Russian

      Shockingly few people can answer this question correctly.

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      Bro, what kind of crack are you smoking, you sound like you were a Bernie bro who voted for Trump so you can fuck offnow

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    Fret not, says the president, he is apparently playing chess while the world is playing checkers

    He’s trying to treat the entire country like one of the casinos he bankrupted to screw over his creditors.

    I’m sure he thinks he’s playing chess. But what he’s really doing is sitting in the corner eating the pieces.

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      If the world is playing checkers, then you’re an idiot for playing the wrong game.

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      A vivid and possibly accurate description.

      I still think he is planted there to do as much damage as possible before he expires. Which would mean he is doing it all on purpose… Which then again would have to make him smarter than I give him credit for

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        Could be both planted and so inept that he believes he got there on his own accord and is doing a great job.

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        Yeah I agree. There has to be a bigger plan than this. In 40 years our children will see documentaties about the republicans pulling the biggest power grab ever and using idiots like Trump to actieve it. It’s not Trump playing chess here, he’s just a pawn. There are people behind the scènes pulling the strings.

        If what currently is happening is really just throwing tantrums without having a plan then I feel sorry for how dumb most of america had become.

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            I think this is more from Silicon Valley, destroy the country to make way for the Butterfly Revolution and corporate city states with CEO kings at the top. If we don’t stop it we’ll be in a techno feudalist dystopia

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              “Adam something” did a great video on it. The Trump presidency is marked by fascism, incompetence and technocrats. It’s multipronged

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          In 40 years our children will see documentaties about the republicans pulling the biggest power grab ever and using idiots like Trump to actieve it.

          It’s optimistic that they’ll even have documentaries to watch (and that they’d be historically accurate and truthful).

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          Or he’s betting that if people get desperate enough they will allow an absolute dictatorship.

          • He is setting tariffs on his own, a power designated solely to Congress by the Constitution.

          • He is having masked police kidnap people off the streets without warrants and shipping them to an overseas gulag without trial or even charges.

          • He is illegally refusing to distribute money allocated by Congress to certain states in order to punish them for not doing his bidding.

          • And when the courts have ordered him to stop doing the above, he has willfully ignored those court orders with no repercussions.

          Exactly what more needs to happen for this to be a dictatorship?

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            Suspending elections.

            We have never missed an election in nearly 250 years of existence, even during the Civil War. If he does that, then America no longer exists, and we have no obligation to pay taxes, respect the laws, pay our debts, etc., and most especially acknowledge the government.

            It is every man for himself.

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            Firing judges who resist him

            Dissolution of Congress

            Deployment of military on US soil to control citizens.

            Alteration or abandonment of the Constitution.

            You’re right we are definitely on the spectrum of dictatorship, but it can get much much worse.

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    Then if thats the case, this seems like a national security threat. Destabilizing the country through financial terrorism seems pretty felonious.