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      I hope you are ready to open up and embrace big daddi T and all he has to offer. Cause he fuckin us all

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    Every day I wake up and I wonder if he’s a complete moron who’s in capable of doing his job… or is he making people worried about the recession and using these tariffs to manipulate the markets for his own benefit?

    The other possibility people have told me about is that he’s doing it to distract us from the real activity behind the scenes, which is to make the rich much richer in the poor, more desperate… 

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      No distractions, the second answer is not correct, he wants another glided age. The glided age is another term for the second industrial revolution that turned america into the superpower we know today, but It also was an awful era for your average american.They would work 12 hours or more for a whole week, some may have sunday off due to church but a lot did work that day with all your family working. The standard of living was so crap, many would become alcoholics due to the awful conditions, which would lead to prohibition movement. Your average american did not live long, many people would die due to work place accidents but due to no worker protection, nothing would change.

      The era was also known for the monopolies, starting with rockfeller standard oil, carnegie steel company and morgans banking with many others. All the major monopolies worked together to prevent competition by buying out, they would ask nicely to sell your company to them, if not they would play the waiting game by lowering the product your selling to be unprofitable and then buy you out. Regulations did not exist yet so, this was all legal and if it wasn’t, no one gave a shit as they were that powerful. The government was no help to them either, as most of them were bathing in the money of the 1%. The 1% lived in amazing conditions, and hoarded a ton of money, with some becoming important philanthropist.

      Here is an article of proof of what trump wants, https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-gilded-age-mckinley-grover-cleveland-1592dab80ad7159266db51b5baa774b6.

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    Republican administrations tank the economy when it’s business as usual.

    This is the dissolution and piecemeal sale of the US Government.

    Of course there is going to be a fucking recession!

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    What could possibly go wrong when you give the most important job in the world to the most unqualified person ever?

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      I bet we could find someone less qualified.

      It just would be difficult to find one outside of a hospital or care home.

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      We need to dispense with this notion that Trump is “unqualified.” He is very qualified for the job that he actually set out to do, and has been accomplishing it expertly.

      It’s just a different job than the one you think it’s supposed to be.

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        I don’t believe that for one second. They’ve got a Project 2025 playbook written by some smarter people that makes them almost look competent. But they aren’t even doing that great of a job of it. The whole lot appear to be as dumb as a box of rocks from my PoV.

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          Consider the possibility that Trump’s real goal is to destabilize the US, destroy its democracy and civil liberties, and turn it into a Russian-style oligarchy and vassal state of Russia.

          Given that assumption, what mistake has he made that detracts from that goal?

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            It’s a bad assumption. I could just say the same thing with the hypothesis about him being dumb.

            It also ignores the fact that he’s not alone. He’s got pretty much the whole government doing the thing. But I’m sure you’ll say they’re all looking to do the same thing.

            I think his only goal is his own enrichment and power. I doubt he even cares about his legacy.

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              Nonresponsive.

              What mistake has he made that detracts from that goal?

              I don’t think you can name one. Prove me wrong.

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        Trump is overqualified to take us right into bankruptcy. He’s been here so many times! Don’t worry! Just ask for money from stupid people that have money!

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          Unironically, yes. You wanna know why Trump’s businesses kept going bankrupt? Because they were never meant to be sustainable in the first place. They were scams – probably fronts for Russian money laundering – and designed to have all the money extracted and then implode on purpose before law enforcement could start looking too closely.

          And now he’s doing the same thing with the entire goddamn country.

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    They should take over The Fed and once the recession hits, increase interest rates and do some QT. That’ll show the working class.

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    Risk? Its his goal. Crash the market for his ultra wealthy amigos to buy up everything

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      And…

      Destroy USD.

      Remove USD as global reserve currency.

      Bitcoin.

      Sell off land to billionaire buds.

      (Allow) Nuke a few cities?. Big midterm surprise?. /q’s Great solar flash of 2025 - this is the only one I’m not certain of what/how/when.

      Voilà.

      Lol. You downvote. Everything he does is a known. You just have to listen. Here’s my comment from almost 4 months ago about tarrifs https://lemmy.ca/post/33768636/13042232

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        Big midterm surprise?

        This is the depressing thing. Even if they do somehow lose their grip over public opinion, a fake terrorist attack would be all they’d need to restore themselves. Good thing Putin has no experience with faking terrorist attacks …

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          Yeah, this comment has a lot to analyse yet there is little to no commentary on it:

          The red states are going to do good, and the blue states, I don’t know, maybe they’ll totally disappear off that map.

          The wording isn’t accidental. And it’s a bit more than terrifying.

          Disappear. Not change, not swing, not go red. “Disappear off that map.”

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      Another problem is that down to lower class the americans invest for their retirement.

      If he wipes out the people’s lifetime savings, they can’t afford to retire and got to work longer - even if the recession is driving inflation down.

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        You think that billionaires that are influenced by the likes of Curtis Yarvin care about people saving for retirement?

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          No, I just thought about how normal people are fucked over. In systems with public pensions, politicians could just cut the pensions, in a property and investment based system, you have to make the “lifetime savings” of the lower 95% just not liveable by greedflation, concentration of wealth and volatile markets that eat up savings - and don’t allow sub-billionaires to hedge.

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      Thirty-three percent of Trump voters said, in their own words, they voted for him because of the “economy” or because “he is a good businessman,” a Washington Post-Schar School poll released Friday reveals.

      This is from December. It’s also a good sign because these are the people that are likely to turn on him as the prices increase and unemployment jumps.

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        December 1964? Because as far as I remember he crashed every business he owned even in industries that were rapidly growing like gambling.

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        people that are likely to turn on him

        i think you’re underestimating just how brainwashed these people are. just the other day there was an article about a guy who lost his dream job in govt. because doge, and he STILL couldn’t muster the gumption to say maybe trump was a fucking bad idea

        https://lemmy.zip/post/33597934/17139253

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          Even in that quote alone there’s 1 out of 3 who regret their vote. If we extrapolate to the group who voted economically, that’s 10% of his voters. That’s way more than enough to change the election outcome next time around. Yes there many who are brutally brainwashed, perhaps most, but we don’t care about most. We care about 5-10% to change their minds. While I don’t pretend my little extrapolation here is scientific in any way, I think that’s achievable. 🥹