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Honestly, it's like listening to a child, trying to lie to you. Everyone knows that a really great economy has SIX pluses!
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
This is some North Korea level deception.
Just remember that "the economy" really stands for "rich people's yacht money" -- by that metric it's doing great.
You need to understand that politicians and billionaires use a different dictionary. In that one, 'economy' is defined as 'rich people's money, assets and influence'. Applying this definition, everything makes sense.
The company I've worked at in a specialist/management position for slightly above minimum wage where I haven't had a pay increase in two years, reported record profits this year.
Says the demented and out of touch old fool who's never missed a meal in his miserable life.
Are you all so happy with the massive amount of greatness that's been restored to America?
We sadly live in a post-truth, vibe-based political culture. Anything bad that happens is because of the Other Guys™, everything good that happens is because of Our Guys™.
Donald Trump can say whatever he wants and his followers will believe it, because the truth and facts and statistics and other such measurable and objective bars for success aren't as important as how Trump makes them feel like they are getting everything they wanted. Even if they know they aren't.
Says the man who doesn’t buy “groceries” but thinks it’s a made up word.
More like "Trump grades his personal economy", mostly due to bribes and grifting.
I mean, yeah - by some accounts he could have doubled his net worth over the past year alone thanks to Trump coin alone!
When he says “america” he means himself. When he says “the economy” he means his bank accounts.
I’m not being glib, I’m being literal. L’État, c’est moi. He has merged himself with the state.
He views himself as the sole entity of the state, everything is here to support him. Like kings of old. The kind we used to routinely overthrow or drag out of their castles and test if they were made of cake.
I'm sure it's going A+++++ to the 10th power.....for him.
He's got the grift and fraud machine firing on all cylinders. And no one is stopping him. People giving him planes. People funneling billions to him via crypto.
And no one is stopping him. People giving him planes. People funneling billions to him via crypto.
Because he commands a loyalist, flag-carrying, armed, nationalist army. The purest form of raw political capital. You can hire standing armies and pay them and drive for volunteers until you're bankrupt, but you will never have as much power as having a segment of the population who are fanatically obsessed with doing whatever they're told to a point of mindless, religious zeal. That's the kind of power that has toppled empires and people in power around the world know this.
This is why I believe January 6th was a weapons test, a demonstration of sorts.... while it wasn't the most organized or planned demonstration, it was still the actions of a group wanting to show the world what they can do with even the slightest gesture.
I feel like if we accepted this framing we would be able to mount a more effective opposition, or at least counter it with our own show of solidarity, reclaim the goddamn flag and start collecting up the guns that aren't going anywhere anyway. At least then tyrants of the future will understand that it won't be so easy to put on king's robes and start raiding our coffers.
Eh, does it though?
His "coin" https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/official-trump/ went from 40B to 6B in less than a year, top holders owns 80% (I imagine him), others top 10 get few millions at most and everybody else has 8%. That looks like a pretty bad outcome even for bribes.
Considering that it cost him nothing to create the coins, I'd say he and his fellow top-holders have gained $4.8B. The 20% they've already converted to cash, mostly in the beginning, north of $25, is another $6B. When you're selling a stock of free bytes, it really doesn't matter what the rubes are willing to pay each other in the secondary market. They've already cashed out: anything left is just gravy.
cost him nothing to create the coins
I doubt it. Sure it's not infrastructure and I don't know who gave him money and why but I imagine they had expectations. I imagine he promised more than his beautiful smiles. He might not deliver on his promises (as usual) but if those aren't donations then the people who didn't spend a few billions for favors will reconsider their "investments".
His coin is nothing compared to the stock market
If nothing else, it'll be fun to see MAGA try and balance their cultish devotion to Trump clashing with their love of complaining about things getting worse.
clashing with their love of complaining about things getting worse.
Blame immigrants, blame democrats, blame other countries... There will be no clashing.
don’t you know the tariffs aren’t working because of the ACTIVIST JUDGES?!
don’t you know that CRIMINAL IMMIGRANTS are cheating the system?
don’t you know that RADICAL DEMOCRATS are needlessly non-compliant with ICE and THATS why it’s not all sunshine and rainbows?
don’t you know that CANADA is to blame for the lack of tourism?
Trump could literally in broad daylight kick them in the balls while looking at them in the eye ... and MAGA idiots will still blame the democrats for it.
"Trump HAD to kick me in the balls to get back at the Demoncrats because...."
-Some MAGA moron probably
Oh, that's easy. It's the immigrants' fault. Or it's Biden's fault. Or it's the Democrats' fault.
When objective truths don't hold any weight whatsoever, blame can be assigned freely without having to perform mental gymnastics to make it make sense.
The same people that hung on to every syllable that came out of Biden's mouth, pounced on the most minor grammatical mistakes, and seemed to have memorized every word the man uttered in his latest speech now suddenly they claim they don't keep up with the news they haven't heard what Trump is saying and they'll look it up later.
They won't blame Trump, its big government working against him that's the problem.
Fake picture!! I can tell because he's not nodded off.
Except it's not HIM sitting in that room. He's made billions since taking office again. It's going great for him.
He's sitting somewhere else entirely. It's just all us non billionaires and the non-centimillionaires sitting in that room.
42% still thinks Diaper Donnie is doing an excellent job though.
Look at an IQ distribution and then add in severe mental disability such as alzheimers and dementia. BAM!
He’s lowered prescription drug prices by 1500%, too.
Like numbers mean anything to this deranged ape.
Ah, the 'ol 1984 "quintuple plus good."
More like ASSSSSSS
President pedonald J(for genius) Assface?
At what point does this insanity end America? Are you not embarrassed enough yet as a country
At what point does this insanity end America?
We're not even in Bush-Era levels of economic crisis. Obama couldn't win a Senate seat on these terms.
If anything, we're still riding the lingering high of post-COVID revival of ZIRP and the Fed Free Money Machine. The dominoes Trump started knocking over at the start of the year are still tumbling. Quite a few of us are fully removed from the consequences to date.
FFS, we haven't even been hit with a hurricane yet. Talk to me after another Harvey or Katrina, when we're looking at some real acute social crisis. Talk to me when unemployment gets north of 5%. The BLM / Occupy levels of public dissidence doesn't pop off until we're in the 6-10% range.
Are you not embarrassed enough yet as a country
No. We won't properly be embarrassed until its a personal problem we can blame on the President. Right now its all someone else's problem. The college kid's problem. The migrant's problem. The guy on Medicaid's problem. Right now we can do the funny memes on LeopardsEatingFaces sub where we joke about how Trumpies are getting what they deserve.
Talk to me when I'm out on my ass with an eviction notice because my industry just fired half its workforce. Talk to me when the local grocery store is emptied out by a hedge fund that's bankrupted the agricultural supply chain. Talk to me when its my turn to get a knock at the door from ICE.
Then I'll be embarrassed. Now I'm content to be smugly dismissive of everyone else.
Good time to be a grifter; good time to be an extortionist; good time to be a politician with his own cryptocurrency. Nothing else is real.
Yeah. Fraudsters have never had it easier.
And wildly his stupid, demented, dipshit dumb fuck, dumb ass moron, troglodyte base will believe it and echo it at max volume at any given opportunity.
They themselves are losing everything to Trump and will demand you believe the opposite lest you contradict their god-emporer.
Ran into an idiot at a bar that kept claiming up and down his cost of living has gone down and his groceries aren't expensive. Literally everyone around him called him a dumbass. It seemed like he was literally so dumb that he was just told that the cost of things had gone down so he believed it.
He's actually coming out of hiding? Hey PA. show him how your grandparents dealt with fascists in WWII
Says the man who got a peace prize from a cracker jack box!