Summary

Consumer confidence has declined since Donald Trump’s return to office, with the University of Michigan reporting a drop in sentiment and rising inflation concerns.

Many Trump voters are frustrated by market turbulence and sweeping executive orders. Voter Paul Bisson fears economic instability, saying, “That’s not what we signed up for.”

Geneticist Nicholas Schuch plans to move savings to Swiss Francs, expecting ongoing chaos.

Polls indicate growing anxiety, with some supporters questioning Trump’s policies and their long-term economic impact.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    <jules>

    Yes you DID. YES YOU DID!

    </jules>

    And it’s going to be a whole fuck-ton more than just economic instability, you dumbasses.

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    14 days ago

    Throwback to his first term when one of his supporters said “He’s hurting the wrong people!”

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      I wonder if anyone has done a “where are they now?” on that guy and tracked him down and found out how he’s voted since.

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        I believe it was a woman who said it. Either way, their motivation for supporting Trump seems to be to cause harm to people they believe deserve it, and the motivation hasn’t changed.

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    Zero sympathy, tough shit and FAFO. The Orange Stain will break the US record for unemployment, which he currently holds from his first term. The only event that might save his ass, is a big fucking war. My bet is on Iran.

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    Can gurentee you more than a few are swallowing hte ‘they’re elminating waste from OUR taxes’ line eagerly.

    Such as my parents.

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      that “waste” is gonna go right into the pockets of the wealthy and the select few.

      run 'o the mill redcap maganuts are not on that list–never were

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        Oh I’ve been aware. For the past TWENTY. FUCKING. YEARS. I’ve been aware… that’s how long i’v been trying to get them to step away from this shitbag hate spewing open sewage pipe.

        They insist I’m, and I fucking quote, ‘divorced from reality.’

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          The last political talk I had with my 70+ year old mother ended with her screaming at me and crying while she called me a know it all for actually having thought through my convictions and having data to back it up.

          I called her out for holding a brick in her hand that has access to all of human knowledge and saying all she did was look at fucking Facebook.

          Then I get told I don’t know what I’m talking about despite knowing very well what I’m talking about.

          These people are demented

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            14 days ago

            This sounds like why I don’t talk to my family.

            Or more accurately, why they (thankfully) choose not to talk to me. Because I’m more than happy to be considered the ‘know it all’ because I bother to rub two braincells together and force them to have to spark a thought to defend themselves.

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          They insist I’m, and I fucking quote, ‘divorced from reality.’

          Let them know you’re still happily married to reality, but they’re more divorced from reality than trump is from his first wife.

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    Do we really think there’s a significant number of Trump voters out there who regret their vote? Really?

    It seems far more likely to me that most Trump voters are doubling down. “Prices are going to come down way lower than they were before Trump took office. This is actually Biden’s fault. Prices are going down, actually. Particularly eggs, depsite what the woke MSM would tell you. In fact, eggs are cheapest in states with the least restrictive gun regulations and highest deportation rates for illegals. Prices have never been this low. Trump is making Mexico pay our grocery bills.”

    Sure, you can find one or two people who will claim to be regretful Trump voters. (Just like you can find a very few microbiologists who swear the universe was created in six literal days around 6,000 years ago.) But I can’t imagine any significant number of Trump voters having that much self awareness and intellectual honesty.

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      I see no criticism or complaints from his voters at all. Here’s what I’m seeing from them:

      “You can’t expect results already, it’s only been less than a month! It will take some time for his policies to work.”

      “The problem with the eggs is because Biden ordered millions of chickens to be killed.”

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      That’s when you tell them about deflation and the fact that the State will never let it happen.

      Get used to it bitches, prices aren’t coming down, it would create a spiral of economic chaos!

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      The egg thing is going to be VERY painful cognitive dissonance for those that walk into a store and find no eggs, or a limit on purchase, etc. And that may take a while before that changes.

      These people lie to each other, themselves, and to “the libs” on a regular basis. I’m sure they can lie about empty shelves, too, but it will be a bigger lie than just lying about what prices were before vs. now.

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    Um, he is doing exactly what he said he would do. These people just thought being white would keep them safe.

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      Not even. There are even people in immigrant families that voted for him because “he’s only going to deport the bad ones” and then [surprised Pikachu] a bunch of their own family get deported

      There’s stupid, and there’s zealotism, but stupid zealots are the worst

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        Friend of mine is Mexican living in Texas and voted for him because he thought it would help him get a job. I didn’t ask for more of an explanation but that is the kind of shit we are dealing with.

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    no, assholes…this is EXACTLY what you signed up for. revel in it.

    you didn’t just accept it

    you fucking demanded it.

    now live with it.

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    What is some? I mean if 1% of his supporters are having second thoughts is that enough to care about. I mean we need REAL numbers not just a few people who suddenly woke up and made the news.