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      Yeah this isn’t his best boast. After we saw the stock market tanking insanely I was shocked to see it resemble normal growth for a time. Wrecking the economy with moronic tariffs and then restoring it briefly by backing off isn’t something you can brag about

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        He hasnt even gotten to the truly moronic part of instituting actual tariffs yet. All the tanking that occurred previously was due to the threat of tariffs. Imagine how fucked the market and economy would be if every tariff he threatened actually came to fruition

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        Yeah but if you can time the dips and rises, you can make shitton of money, which is exactly what his cronies are doing. Everytime fatass announces a tariff, the market reacts, and then soars when he backs off. It’s pure market manipulation.

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    I mean. It did. Just not in a positive direction. I was expecting their economic and fiscal policies to have catastrophic implications, but even I’m impressed by how jaw-droppingly idiotic they’re being, and how quickly everything is starting to come unraveled.

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    The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

    • George Orwell, 1984
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    Love to say it, even hard core republicans I know are regretting voting for the orange clown. Just yesterday one of them told me that. Trump’s reality distortion field is starting to fail.

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      Usually I dismiss thilese anecdotes but I am experiencing it too. Our company had a meeting with all of the field techs/machinists to explain how the “no tax on overtime” really works and I’ll tell you what, it’s not exactly “no tax on overtime”. Considering we basically run on overtime that rug pull may have been the last straw for a few of the red hats I know.

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    Fake it til you make it, amiright?

    We need a new term for this level of willful ignorance.

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      We need a new term for this level of willful ignorance.

      Here are a few: “Unfitness for office.” “Criminal incompetence.” “Deliberate economic sabotage.” “Dictatorship of the scum of the earth.” “Kakistocracy.”

      • Trump fell into his current position of power simply because of his ability to effortlessly frame the fall of the US Empire as putting America first. While in reality, it’s all just a distraction to cover for billionaires hoarding more and more wealth while the rest of us continue to struggle more and more.

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        We usually use the word “disappointing” but a competent writer can put a positive spin on anything.

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    I expect all his policy to be shit. So when it’s always shit I’m never surprised. Because he is a grifting carpetbagging sack of flaming shit. A tragic waste of functioning organs. The world’s most notorious oxygen thief. Also he is a fucking moron. If there was a photo negative of Mensa where stupid motherfuckers competed to see who the dumbest motherfucker of all the dumb motherfuckers was, he’d be it’s lifetime appointed leader.

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          Lol so true. I had to help a group of them figure out how to use a key card to a hotel room, then heard Jamie Loftus podcast on them and it all made sense.