- That didn’t happen.
- And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
- And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
- And if it is, that’s not my fault.
- And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
- And if I did, you deserved it. <-
We got here on this subject a lot quicker than I expected honestly.
Before the election: Biden inflation! Biden inflation! LOOK AT THESE EGG PRICES!! Vote Trump to fix the inflation! Inflation bad!
Now: Inflation good. I love inflation. I did it on purpose.
MAGA: baaa baaa!
I’ve been thinking this basically the whole time with the second administration. It’s the most conspiracy oriented I’ve ever been, but I genuinely think there is a non zero chance that the entire goal of this administration has been to crash the dollar and world economy to force the globe into a position where digital currencies take over nation state derived currency as the foundation of global markets. I’d say I’m 5-10% confident this is the case, which is very high.
That their goal is to destabilize not just the world, but the very concept of nation-states to be replaced with a corporate/privately owned concept of a nation state or state level actor.
I know there are specific conspiratorial threads on this concept but I e intentionally avoided looking into those. I think there is ample evidence at the surface only to have this kind of suspicion.
Occam’s Razor continues to be that the orange pedophile simply did not want those pesky Epstein files out
If we were to apply Occam’s Razor fully it would be.
A doddering old imbecile that has had a clear mental decline and has a history of terrible decisions is continuing to be in mental decline and make terrible decisions.
Correct
Yeah, before 2016, he said he was going to run the government like one of his businesses. Then he started to run it like one of his businesses. Now it’s running like one of his businesses. I think that’s the most parsimonious explanation.
I still remember people telling me the country needed Trump because it needed to be run like one of his businesses. “You mean used as a half-assed vehicle for his own vanity that gets stripped for parts and then driven into bankruptcy the moment he loses interest?”
Seriously, the man failed to sell alcohol, meat, and gambling. Those have been three of the four easiest things to turn a profit on for most of human history (and he doesn’t have the body for the fourth). If you gave me a distillery, a beef farm, and a casino, I would be a millionaire inside a couple of years—and I’m the worst salesman I know. And somehow he also became a millionaire after starting all three of those businesses, which is decidedly less of a flex for someone who started out as a billionaire.
Terrible decisions for the free world, but he and his buddies are making bank.
The people around him, for sure.
But him? I remember a few years ago, someone did an analysis of his assets and what he inherited from his father and determined that if he had done literally nothing, he would have had more money.
I remember reading about that too, but that was before he was pres. Now the whole family seems to have cash to burn.
Is it cash to burn, or is it that they aren’t paying for anything themselves?
For sure the people that have his ear are making mad money, but the only one of his family that seemed to have even half a brain seems to have distanced herself entirely from him. I legit think they are too stupid to actually be good at grifting, but they people they grift are legit stupider.
I don’t think it has to be either/or. The buffoon is running a circus, but his administration is trying to install themselves in permanent control of everything
I had very similar thoughts, but I think now that’s is just old fashioned greed and they’re doing all they can to collect as much money as possible. They don’t care if the American economy crashes because they’re not depending on it. A lot of useful idiots are sucked into the maelstrom and will suffer with the rest of us, but the insanely rich will be fine.
It’s also not just one thing. Some may want to bury the Epstein files, but the rest of them just want to be insanely rich. Everyone has a different reason to be in on the grift. And they do it because they believe they can get away with it. I don’t think it’s much more complicated than that.
Crashing the world economy, especially the first world and the west, and most especially USD also benefits Putin, which is a non-negligible, non-coincidental factor in anything the orange chancre does.
Dedollarization of the global economy was a component of project 2025
Now just imagine if Biden did or said this. Or Obama, or Hilary. The right would have a full on meltdown and a J6 everyday.
He also raped and killed kids and their mothers on purpose. He loves fucking kids, as stated in the TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES ™.
It’s a strategy only great minds like his can grasp.
Get ready for all the magamushferbrainz to start saying how inflation is good for us and they looooove high gas prices.
He’s under 30% approval? Just who are the remaining 20-some percent of people that think he’s doing good on the economy?
Look, I get why the centimillionaires, billionaires, and centibillionaires would support Republican policies. They stand to make buckets more.
But if you are not in that stratosphere, why would you think he’s doing you any favors?
He’s under 30% approval? Just who are the remaining 20-some percent of people that think he’s doing good on the economy?
More important is “where are all the people who oppose him and what are they doing?”… if the answer is something along the lines of “sulking in silence”, they might as well not exist as far as the orange pedophile in chief is concerned
Approval rates mean nothing without action.
So far, the latest push of the goal post says they will do something about it in November… but IMO, waiting for that is just another huge leap of faith
Would that not qualify as treason? Did he just admit to intentionally levying a war that is purposely against the American people? Adhering to the enemy, giving them aid?
Asking for a friend.
Yes. Yes he is this stupid. Once you get over the incredulity that nobody could be like this, just skip to the end and know that a self serving, idiot narcissist can do this and worse.
I’m 5 months behind on my podcasts so I’m now listening to all the coverage and analysis of the Maduro kidnapping. Everybody was saying that with how cheap oil is, it doesn’t make sense to try to take Venezuelan oil which is heavy and requires a lot of refinement. In that context shutting down the Strait of Hormuz makes perfect sense.
I also listen to a lot of politics and it amazes me to this day the consensus is not he’s a fucking idiot but in the context of he is Putin’s puppet and the goal is to destroy America and the Western Alliance he’s doing what he’s meant to do.
The problem is very smart people like Dr. Janice Stein are quick to say there’s sure as shit smoke but we don’t factually know what the deal is with Trump and Putin but we all know something is there
Those two things aren’t mutually exclusive.
One can be a fucking idiot and Putler’s lapdog.
Saying “we don’t know for a fact he’s working for the Russians” is just willful ignorance.
The aforementioned claims by Shvets, which were also a significant basis for Craig Unger’s best-selling book, American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery, were also backed by Alnur Mussayev, former head of Kazakhstan’s intelligence service, and Sergei Zhyrnov, an ex-KGB officer living in France.[26] Mussayev also asserted that Trump is compromised:
I have no doubt that Russia has kompromat on the US President, that over the course of many years the Kremlin has been promoting Trump to the post of President of the main world power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates_and_Russian_officials
Every bully ever when faced with failure…“Oh yeah!? I wanted to do that!”.
So he admitted to market manipulation, surley this time there will be consequence…
Has this story made it to OAN news, NewsMax, and similar? The people who need to hear it are the people who voted for him.
They already claim they’ll suffer for the “greater good”. Otherwise known as, “I’ll suffer but I won’t admit I was wrong”.
It looks like they’re not reporting on it yet, if they ever will. I did see an article about how he’s “containing” the inflation the democrats created. I don’t think this is an audience that will check primary sources, so their media outlets can pretty much say whatever they want as long as it confirms the audience’s assumptions.
That’s 4.2 percent per month, not 4.2 percent per year like we usually look at the numbers
