Bullshit. A significant % of the US population is still cheering this on. Nothing will change.
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True, but it’s only a matter of time before it bites those people in the ass. Whether or not they’re smart enough to understand the cause (Trump/Musk chaos) or not - they’re going to suffer.
The best you can hope for this cohort is that they’re disenfranchised enough by the mid-terms to sit out the election and allow for a massive shift in the House and Senate.. but given how spineless and feckless the Dems have acted over the past four years - I’m not holding out a”much hope.
I think if they want him to stop doing a coup our politicians need to physically stop them.
Or we need to. Like the constitution says.
Perhaps if they blocked him with their wheel chairs.
I’ve seen more “straight” white men willing to get down on both knees for this guy and let him do as he pleases. These single-digit IQ people will go to the grave thinking he’s the guy. It’s pathetic.
He can fuck it all up, and they’ll still somehow manage to blame Democrats. I have yet to see any people who voted for him actually come to say they regret it. These are not critical thinkers. Republicans won in the early 2000s when they began gutting public education.
There are three classic examples from the 20th Century of stupid people. The dumbshit Nazis who kept their political faith while the Allies were turning German cities into granules and the lunatics continued to believe in the BS well after the war. Add the Stalin and Mao supporters and their completely fucked up version of communism. The MAGAts are identical to the above fucknuts.
5% is a free fall? They're going to run out of superlatives next month.
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I seem to remember visiting their homepage last year sometime, and every headline was some variation on [Name of politician][aggressive verb][target of ire][reason for the spat], e.g.:
- "John Bloggins slams Joe Blow for wearing a plaid tie"
- "Mary Sue rips Judicial Committee for goat scandal"
- "Peter Flarking haymakers Geraldo over unreturned library books"
"MAGA republicans slam Trump for ..." and your read the article and it's one isolated tweet from some rando nobody heard of before.
Wait til these idiots try to abolish the FDIC.
People know that banks engage in all sorts of complex, stupid, and risky financial derivatives engineering. The only reason anyone has confidence in the banks is due to FDIC insurance. If they fuck with that, it will trigger a run on every bank in the country. I imagine Congress would step in to stabilize things, but it could be quite hairy for awhile.
Honestly, right now, for those who are able, keeping a decent chunk of cash in your mattress is no longer the game of cranks and weirdos.
Most people have no idea what FDIC is. They have confidence in banks because "that's where you put money". They have no concept of what their personal bank failing would mean.
If Musk said he was shutting down the FDIC, the vast majority of people wouldn't care until after their bank failed. By then it would be too late.
I agree that most people have no idea what the FDIC does currently. But if the FDIC did disappear, people would be educated very quickly. When I say "people," I mean enough people are currently aware of it that the FDIC's disappearance would immediately trigger a complete bank run on every bank in the country. And if the FDIC did dissolve, you can be sure that the media would be breathlessly reporting on what a catastrophe it is. That alone would trigger mass bank runs.
And I would push back on the idea that there is nothing that could be done, that it would be too late. At that point, I imagine Congress would step in. They would reestablish the FDIC and restabilize the banking system. They could simply say that all bank deposits are going to be retroactively protected, and that the Federal Reserve will print whatever money is necessary to make people whole again. That could be done. And enough wealthy and powerful people would be screaming at Congress to do this, that I think even the Republican Congress would do it. I don't trust Congress to do what is needed to protect the poor. I do trust them to do what is needed to save their own hides. I don't trust a Republican Congress to prevent a bank from screwing me over with sketchy fees. I do trust a Republican Congress to act when their own life savings are being wiped out.
Thus I don't think people need to a prep for a complete and permanent collapse of the banking system. I'm recommending more that people, if they are able, to have enough currency to buy food for the few months it might take for Congress to restabilize the system and for Musk to be tied to a boulder and thrown into the ocean.
I imagine Congress would step in to destabilize things, but it could be quite hairy for awhile.
I assume you meant stabilize, but given that Congress is controlled by Republican freaks, I'm unsure.
You are correct on both counts!
This is extra dumb because the fdic is funded by insurance premiums paid by the banks. It literally costs taxpayers nothing
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It's a very strong swing between two polls in only a few weeks. It is perhaps presumptive to call it a freefall this early, but if the trend continues it certainly would be.
Are you surprised!? It has always been based on feels unless you think (check notes) Telsa is worth $360 per share.
I know, right? If you look at the PE ratio between say, Ford, and Tesla, it's almost comical.
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The voters fucking love him. are you kidding me? fuck this fake news bullshit. voters lick this guy's asshole
Yes, my BiL is a-okay with everything so far and is not shook in the slightest. It is mind-boggling.
It's cause Fox is telling them how great everything he's done is. They aren't seeing the reality.
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The news is so entertaining now!
US vs Mexico & Canada! Yeah that'll teach those guys who is the BOSS!
US vs Greenland! Maybe the country will look super big on the map after this?! Exciting!
US vs Public Servants! Yeah fuck those leeches getting paid with MY taxes!
Total divorce from reality and practicality. The only thing that matters is the show being put on for them while our pockets get picked.
Damage is done... Thanks will voters that make a choice without factual context or the "protest non-voters" that thought the sidelines sent a message
Man who threw molotov cocktails at gas station blamed for explosion.
Sounds about right.
Crowds cheer as arsonist blocks and tells first responders and fire fighters to leave and not do anything as gas station burns ..... even as experts warn that the stations fuel tanks are about to explode.
Oh nonono. You break it, you buy it - 4 years of hell will hopefully teach you damn cultists to fucking never ever do this again. Or choke on it, as long as it’s over I don’t care either way.
He broke the country 8 years ago and the majority blamed Biden because it wasn't all immediately fixed after their regret.
Democrats getting blamed for not fixing Republican fuck-ups.
Truly a tale as old as time.
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That’s the beauty of all those Executive Orders, they hurt rather quickly. But yes, I agree that those modern goppers ride on the wave of the previous Democrat’s economic policies, while the next Democratic president has to pull the country back from the bog.
All these people learned last time is that they could be bigoted pieces of shit and get away with it.
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I mean... what did you expect? His plan from day 0 was to tariff everyone and obliterate the government's ability to function. You REALLY can't feign ignorance and surprise when he does that.
You definitely can. It's psychotic but that's how MAGA operates. They all have their individual interpretation of what Trump means when he says things they don't like. Then when he does things they don't like they pretend they knew he was going to do it the whole time and it's actually their favorite thing about him. God damn cultists.
Does not matter.
During the 2024 presidential race, Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that the U.S. economy was terrible under then-President Joe Biden and then-Vice President Kamala Harris. But according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) figures, unemployment stayed under 4.0 percent from February 2022 through April 2024.
Yet again the reporters show they do not understand the average person. Pop quiz hotshot: If employment is low but we still can't make ends meet, will we support the incumbent party?
Wolfe and Pinsker cite 58-year-old Paul Bisson as an example of someone who voted for Trump in 2024 but now has reservations about his economic policies, including tariffs.
Bisson told WSJ, "I don't like the turbulence. I don't like the chaos in the market…. That will make the economy worse, and that's not what we signed up for. We've already cut back. There's no more cutting back to do."
Boo fucking hoo, ya dumbshit
Nicholas Schuch, a 38-year-old Durham, North Carolina resident who voted for Harris... is thinking of moving to a country he believes has a better monetary policy.
Schuch told WSJ, "I was thinking Switzerland, potentially…. I just expect things will be chaotic, and that that is what life is now."
The only smart person mentioned in the article and it's because he's aware of how well the Swiss do when there's a surge in fascism.
This would be more believable if it were actually in freefall. Just look at the last month and on a market that was due for correction with covid but instead seemed to become bubble proof.
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