I never would have thought I would see a military operation so poorly done on such a large scale in my life. And clown world went: "Sure we had one massive cluster fuck of an operation, but what about a second?"
Was it done poorly though? I mean the end result is that the US has become a vassal state of Russia without a nuclear fallout. Seems like an epic win to me.
I didn't think it was humanly possible to see such a concerted effort to destroy an economy in my life. Even Hitler didn't try to do this with Germany.
Once upon a time I couldn't get myself to watch old 80s and 90s cartoons anymore because I felt too old and cynical for them... but now I realize that the villains on those shows have nothing on Trump and his dipshit cronies. Only they are somehow more fleshed out despite being literal cartoon villains.
Hitler "fixed" Germany's economy by basically borrowing a bunch of money and then attempting to destroy the people who had loaned it to him (Jewish financiers were a large source of the borrowed money, as was the Soviet Union - a little-known but majorly important part of the Ribbentrop Pact and related German-Soviet agreements).
It might actually go the Hitler route. He's already made concentration camps for "illegal" human beings. It's only a matter of time until they figure out that they are deporting a practically free workforce with no rights.
Looks like Sleepy Don has done it again. What happened to better economy on Day 1? Is he going to say the days so far don't count? Let's hear some more excuses about how Biden made the job so hard you can't improve things by 1%. You only need to make excuses for a little less than 4 years now.
We need to dispense with this notion that Trump is "unqualified." He is very qualified for the job that he actually set out to do, and has been accomplishing it expertly.
It's just a different job than the one you think it's supposed to be.
Trump is overqualified to take us right into bankruptcy. He's been here so many times! Don't worry! Just ask for money from stupid people that have money!
I don't believe that for one second. They've got a Project 2025 playbook written by some smarter people that makes them almost look competent. But they aren't even doing that great of a job of it. The whole lot appear to be as dumb as a box of rocks from my PoV.
(Allow) Nuke a few cities?. Big midterm surprise?.
/q's Great solar flash of 2025 - this is the only one I'm not certain of what/how/when.
Voilà.
Lol. You downvote.
Everything he does is a known. You just have to listen.
Here's my comment from almost 4 months ago about tarrifs
https://lemmy.ca/post/33768636/13042232
This is the depressing thing. Even if they do somehow lose their grip over public opinion, a fake terrorist attack would be all they'd need to restore themselves. Good thing Putin has no experience with faking terrorist attacks ...
Only if you need the funds short term, if you are a ways off from needing the funds then hold what you've got and start building a cash reserve to buy more shares when it's low.
I think setting a stoploss and then just stay in/ cash out automaticly is also completely viable (as long as your trading fees of cashing out and re-enter are well covered by total earnings so far)
Time in market beats timing the market. You're never going to now when stocks are "low". You're just as likely to wait JUST a little too long and then end up buying when it's higher than it is now.
If you have AVAILABLE cash now, that isn't needed for an emergency fund, put it in the market now.
If you want to hedge your bets a bit, then just invest a smaller amount every week to distribute the buying power in case the market keeps dropping.
Trump could just announce that tariffs are dumb and he's never doing another one tonight, and the market jumps in off hours trading. Or the market could bounce up for a couple days then crash. Or the market could stay down for the next 4 years.
It's impossible to predict when the "buy back in" period should start, so just don't even try.
Every day I wake up and I wonder if he’s a complete moron who’s in capable of doing his job… or is he making people worried about the recession and using these tariffs to manipulate the markets for his own benefit?
The other possibility people have told me about is that he’s doing it to distract us from the real activity behind the scenes, which is to make the rich much richer in the poor, more desperate…

No distractions, the second answer is not correct, he wants another glided age. The glided age is another term for the second industrial revolution that turned america into the superpower we know today, but It also was an awful era for your average american.They would work 12 hours or more for a whole week, some may have sunday off due to church but a lot did work that day with all your family working. The standard of living was so crap, many would become alcoholics due to the awful conditions, which would lead to prohibition movement. Your average american did not live long, many people would die due to work place accidents but due to no worker protection, nothing would change.
The era was also known for the monopolies, starting with rockfeller standard oil, carnegie steel company and morgans banking with many others. All the major monopolies worked together to prevent competition by buying out, they would ask nicely to sell your company to them, if not they would play the waiting game by lowering the product your selling to be unprofitable and then buy you out. Regulations did not exist yet so, this was all legal and if it wasn't, no one gave a shit as they were that powerful. The government was no help to them either, as most of them were bathing in the money of the 1%. The 1% lived in amazing conditions, and hoarded a ton of money, with some becoming important philanthropist.
there was probably a time that i wouldn't have believed it would be possible for anyone to be as fucking stupid as any trump voter, but i don't remember it
Thirty-three percent of Trump voters said, in their own words, they voted for him because of the “economy” or because “he is a good businessman,” a Washington Post-Schar School poll released Friday reveals.
This is from December. It's also a good sign because these are the people that are likely to turn on him as the prices increase and unemployment jumps.
i think you're underestimating just how brainwashed these people are. just the other day there was an article about a guy who lost his dream job in govt. because doge, and he STILL couldn't muster the gumption to say maybe trump was a fucking bad idea
Haha, of course I'm not serious, but a whole lot of bothsidering centrists and an unfortunate amount of leftists keep saying all this is the Democrats fault because they didn't offer them a pretty, pretty pony last fall.