- 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.
Oh don’t worry, we’ll hit the other points again real soon. Consistency is not this guy’s strength
10 years after he got elected president?
On tanking the economy
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!
Inflation is one of those big words, kinda like ‘economist’ or ‘groceries.’ When you’re a MAGA, how can you be expected to know these things?
“The less you know, The less you have to do!”
~MAGA~
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.
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Russia is small time, Trump is working for international concerns (probably unawares)
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.
They’ve done several crypto pump and dump schemes, for one.
That’s changed since January 2025. He’s enriched himself to the tune of billions of dollars
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 don’t think it’s the entire goal, but I do think that it is a goal of certain people in this admin. I think Steven Miran’s section in project 2025 outlined a way to crash the value of the USD.
And it’s definitely for the purpose of creating company scrip.
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.
I buy it, except for the reason being to force digital currencies. He’s doing it because daddy Putin wants to destabilize the west. Trump is just a useful idiot.
I would believe that your theory is also true too though, being pushed by people like Musk or Thiel.
Add in the overlapping interests of the oil companies and I think you’re onto something.
You explained Yarvin’s plan to a T. Thiel and Vance will make it happen once The Clot breaks free.
Dedollarization of the global economy was a component of project 2025
@MajinBlayze @tacoplease If I heard or read that, I’ve forgotten. However, I’ve been following the economy for a long time (parent was economist). I’ve been waiting for the dollar to be trashed by the evil out there and turned into rubles. Can’t have a strong dollar when democracy is being killed off.
Technically I’ve overstated it a bit, the more correct framing is that a major contributor of Trump’s economic policy, Stephen Miran, also wrote a paper called “a user’s guide to restructuring the global trading system” which advocates and provides guidance for removing the dollar as the primary reserve currency of the world.
But that seems like a distinction without a difference to me.
I don’t think that that necessarily means we’ll see the ruble in it’s place though.
What’s you idea behind how the Federal Reserve came to be, what it is, and how that might differ from how it’s perceived? Anything? — just curious
Google is that way ⬆️
I’ve formed my own opinions. I was more or less curious how ours might diverge. Appreciate the response nonetheless.
I’m not going to stumble through my limited knowledge about the entirety of the history of the fed to see if it happens to overlap with whatever you’re getting at. If you have a point, make it.
No point. I am just someone who is curious because I like to learn new things, and thought perhaps I could spark some discourse toward that effect. It’s my fault for being so unconventional, off topic, and clearly having overestimated your limited knowledge about it. All is well, I would prefer your composure and not your stumble. Have a good day.
Far as we remember, banks have always been a thing in one way or another, however one too many banks got robbed, destroyed or worse, everyone cashed out all at once; caused the US gov to initiate an insurance policy, which needed a treasury to fulfill those insurance policies, it was a way to help banks.
We think that was the beginning of the US federal reserve; if our memory serves us right. Idk the year or specifics, just that tidbit from history. If we’re wrong then please lmk lol
lmk
Wouldn’t it be “luk”? Lol
Also happy cake day from all us!!
Pfft haha yeah true, though for most of the abbreviations we try to keep it to original/generic for other ppl not to get confused as to what we mean. But when we word it out, yeah we would say let us know.
I thought the idea was to weaken the dollar but still have it as global reserve currency
“No, I love it – the numbers were great,” Trump said. “You know what I really love? I love the inflation. You know why? Because as soon as this war is over, you know, I can say it now, something you didn’t know. You know, we’ve been taking out millions of barrels of oil, nobody knows it. You know who doesn’t know about it? Iran, until right now we took out the other night 22 ships late at night with no lights because they don’t have any radar because we blasted the crap out of it. We took out, that’s why oil is $85 a barrel.”
This is an all-time Trump quote. A masterclass in narcissistic dementia rambling. Someone put it on a pillow.
You even did a MAGA caliber job. Perfection.
Simply beautiful. A natural-born orator.
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.
Where is the left’s meltdown and J6 then? Why you guys so docile?
Too many view it as “too radical” cause it’ll interrupt brunch.
we gotta take the “high road”
Decades of conditioning
First, there’s many types of leftists, a concept that conservatives seem to be unable to grasp. Second, because you really don’t want to see the appropriate response unless absolutely necessary. That is to say, death mitigation.
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.”
— MLK
This description fits most liberal Americans.
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.
He is a Baal worshipper
Donald Trump worships nothing/nobody but himself
He is like the biggest narcissist you will ever meet in person. He will always tell you nobody knows technology and any other subject better than he does
Don’t forget they probably also ate children like i was veal to them. I don’t doubt that man has eaten a person, a personality like that would do it for the fun of it.
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 not under 30 percent, it’s 35 at the lowest. The evangelicals are solid behind him, as they expect him to help bring about the rapture, where the world gets drowned in lakes of blood and fire. Not joking. Here is the polling.
Sorry, I was talking about the polling on the economy, where he hit 29% approval this week:
Given that, yes, a certain type of smoothbrain will support Republicans no matter what - as you point out - that’s an abysmally low number. The bottom 20% or so are probably just simply unreachable. Remember what Nixon’s numbers were even as he hopped on a helicopter after resigning in disgrace and failure.
Yeah, you’re right. Nixon was still right around 30% or so as he was leaving.
There are so many people that think zero is the bottom floor on any government or leadership approval poll, but it’s not. There are always going to be somewhere between 20-30% of diehards that will claim support even as dear leader is hiding in a bunker from consequences. Nixon’s 30% – “but that’s almost a whole third!” – was actually rock bottom. Even Pol Pot could get 30%, and I have no doubt Hitler could as well. That’s the actual floor, not zero.
You really can’t point this out enough.
feels like 30% of population everywhere votes for money stealing fascists just because they promise to fuck over someone else
Now you know 30 percent of the American population are the most vile people you have ever experienced. Keep that in mind when speaking to a MAGAt.
Just a nit: centi- means 10-2, so centimillion would be 10,000.
Hecto- is 10+2
People keep pointing this out when I talk about centimillionaires, but that’s not how it is used, so I use the more common one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millionaire#Multimillionaire
Individuals with net assets of 100 million or more of a currency are commonly termed centimillionaires,[21] or more rarely hectomillionaires.[22]
Lots of phrases get distorted by journalists and activists who don’t bother to learn their correct use and just go by vibe. “Begs the question” is beyond recovery, but ‘centimillionaire’ makes as much sense as ‘600% discount.’ 80% of people ignore any statement containing a number, so the subtle difference between hundred and hundredth is hard to convey.
Charles Darwin would not play football on a centi-meter long field.
Yes, no disagreement here. But I’ll let others police the language. I don’t really have the time.
Not my pig, not my farm.
If you get most of the culture/media talking about UHNWIs to flip over to hecto instead of centi, more power to you.
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
Surely this gaffe will-
I can’t, even as a joke. I am so tired, so very very tired
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
Same story with fracking.
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.
Every day these MAGAts are more Vile.
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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”.
“He said it would be tough. Trust the process.”
Heard this a lot already.
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.
They’ll just say it’s fake
Every bully ever when faced with failure…“Oh yeah!? I wanted to do that!”.
