• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Trump isn’t engaging in a trade war, he’s shaking the market so he and his goons can buy low and sell high predictably and frequently, at the cost of our savings being made increasingly worthless.

    The only ‘trade’ happening is insider trading.

    I really hate how we still give him the village idiot pass every single time he damages our country. He isn’t trying to do good and blundering his way into failure, he’s trying to do harm to us while enriching himself.

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      2 months ago

      I agree. The longer we go without feeling the pain from the damage he is causing, the more damage will happen. It is similar to his Medicaid cuts not kicking in right away. Too much time will pass between the action and the negative effect caused by that action.

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        This is the part I find most galling - the Americans are too comfortable. The people don’t want to jeopardize their comfortable livelihoods and individual lives so expect the ‘powerful elected officials’ to do their bidding. After all, the public gave them the power to do just that. Otoh, the politicians don’t want to jeopardize their cushy jobs and accumulated power by challenging the majority, so are waiting for the public to start a jan6 situation so they can point and say, ‘see, the people are unhappy so we should act’.

        It’s a shitstorm of no consequences and a man child literally hacking away at the country and no one seems to be doing anything meaningful.

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      I think you misspelled China. And the way USA is screwing up, I suppose China even deserves it.

      Russia on the other hand is economically in ruins due to the war against Ukraine. Putin miscalculated every single aspect of that war. And will not be able to recover fully within 2 decades.

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    I think people are smoking crack if they think a Trumpcession will hurt the MAGA movement at all. These guys could lose their jobs and be stuck eating lentil soup to survive and insist the economy is great or will be great again any moment now. I truly believe that there is a significant subset of the population who cannot be helped because they simply cannot defy Trump for reasons that are quite frankly incomprehensible to me.

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      Don’t you dare tarnish the good name of Camacho! He’s ten times the president that that old orange buffoon could ever be.