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- economics@lemmy.world
Donald Trump spent his first 100 days back in the Oval Office driving an economy that the world envied to the brink of crisis, risking America’s reputation as a financial safe haven and fostering fear among voters who’ve lost confidence in his leadership.
Americans were desperate for relief from high grocery prices and bought into Trump’s promise to make America affordable again in November 2024, partly out of nostalgia for the pre-pandemic economy of his first term.
But the president deliberately and singlehandedly adopted policies that are almost certain to spike prices even more; that could lead to shortages; and that have CEOs and small businesses dealing with chaos and the possibility of a recession.
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You know, right before lockdown I was hanging out with a friend and I said something to the effect of ‘eh, I do feel like people are overreacting a bit but at least this should normalize mask wearing when you’re sick like in parts of Asia.’
Right now I have a very similar feeling hunch of ‘at least this should kill the myth that republican presidents are better for the economy’ and I can’t wait for the american people to once again show me just how stupid they are.
I think every single Republican president has been terrible for the economy and consistently show to know nothing about the economy in contrast to the Dems who inherit the mess. Trump is going a number on the national debt alone.
Sure, but have you considered that Kamala had a weird laugh
She also has no penis and is awefully dark for a good old white American
Musk will light your taxes on fire. Obama was huge on deportation. Kamala is a gun owner. OK, why won’t you vote for Kamala then? “I just don’t like her. She laughs weird.” I couldn’t believe it, but it shouldn’t shock me. How do you even keep going after that?
It wasn’t really about the laugh.
She laughs like a black woman!
Yea, some of them also noticed she is a minority and a woman. Sadly our country has not accepted those groups are just as capable as white men to lead a country.
Republicans often try to liken women to witches in their constituents minds. It’s their go to smear. They hate women. They want them back in the kitchen under control of men, just like the propaganda that transformed post war America pushed
Also, those dumbass’s who think a woman can’t be president.
Unfortunately that includes a lot of women, making it a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Most of those women were raised brainwashed by their church and family to be subservient to their man. In retrospect, giving those women in particular the right to vote might’ve been a mistake. It essentially just doubled the weight of their spouses vote.
That’s the drawback of universal suffrage, not just women’s suffrage…most people are idiots and easily manipulated. Women just moreso because of countless generations of oppressive patriarchy.
But there’s no real good way to test a voter without opening the floodgates for fraud and discrimination…so here we are. Idiots in charge.
Vimes had once discussed the Ephebian idea of ‘democracy’ with Carrot, and had been rather interested in the idea that everyone had a vote until he found out that while he, Vimes, would have a vote, there was no way in the rules that anyone could prevent Nobby Nobbs from having one as well. Vimes could see the flaw there straight away.
-Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
He had such a way with words, he did.
Schodinger’s cat applies here. We will never know how good or bad Kamala would have been since she didn’t win. However, since 47 has done so much shit to damage the country in ways worse than imagined, I’d say she’d done better.
BTW, have you ever heard Trump laughing at anything? That’s even weirder IMO.
She would have been better. Biden was an OK president that was ruined by his brazen pro-genocide stance. It doesn’t take a lot to be better than Trump.
In america a pro genocide president is still an okay president. Most school children drone stiked AND getting the nobel peace prize. Best president we ever had i tell you what.
This is such a stupid argument and I wouldn’t believe it if it wasn’t for my dad. He keeps talking about her laugh and I explain to him that it’s appropriate to express all emotions…. And he doesn’t believe it. He’s also unable to connect me being in therapy and his behavior.
I remember a stand up comedian making fun of someone laughing on his show, because it was a very shrill and loud laugh. And later he said: imagine making fun of someone for the way they express joy (or something) and that somehow sat really deep with me.
The statistics of who stayed home VS who voted for a white man with the same policies (older white men/women and older hispanic men) shows most of the votes lost are from Kamala being a colored woman and our most bigoted groups responding accordingly.
100%. A woman of color? No way.
This is why AOC can’t run for president. We would just be stuck with Trump 3.0 or some Republican poser.
I think AOC could win since she’s young and when younger generations do vote it’s for younger progressive people.
But it also requires them actually communicating policies that will get young people to go vote.
People claimed that the tiktok people and the swifties are gonna pull the ship around because they would vote for the younger dynamic more progressive candidates. Turns out, they would rather make tiktoks about it.
Two very qualified women have been beaten by the worst presidential candidate in the history of the country.
In what world do you think the answer is running another woman?
I love AOC. I think she is the future of this country. But she would be much more effective in the senate. Let Gavin, Walz, or someone else who is in the white dude category be on the top of the ticket.
Is that fair? No. But do you want to be fair or do you want to win elections?
Two milquetoast Neoliberal women lost because them being women was enough to lose the few % of support their male counterparts had.
I think most people want leftist leadership these days. Most people want a third party.
So the issue with this thinking, is that those percentages will still be there no matter what candidate it is. I do agree with you that people generally prefer leftist policies. I’m a progressive, and would love a Bernie platform to be the policy foundations for the country.
The issue is, if you’re going to voluntarily cede 2-4% of your electorate just because they are a woman, why not run someone who’s a guy who has the same policy legs.
So here’s the fucking thing.
The crisis is already here. Go take a peak at the ports on the west coast right now. Go look at business forecasts.
This man systematically destroyed a working economy in a business quarter.
The repercussions of these actions are going to be felt for at least a decade.
They will be felt for the rest of the century.
Totally agreed.
These people literally are destroying the pre eminent power and completely usurping centuries old historical power hierarchies seemingly for the benefit of shorting the markets on their own whim.
As if those dollars they earn will be worth anything when hyperinflation hits.
Cash wealth is meaningless if you control all the actual assets. If you own all the houses, then you own all the houses.
They all fully understand this. Also they are well prepared for hyperinflation. Many people think that when the market has a massive crash they will finally own a house. Not true. The overwhelming majority of properties are already earmarked for pick up by the rich in that case. This is why boom/busts are important. They allow the rich to consolidate their wealth.
This assumes that the peasants don’t murder the wealthy. Considering the amount of firearms in America, this gambit is a stupid gamble.
Running a country the same way he ran his casinos.
Risking America’s reputation? Maybe we’re slightly beyond that point.
Here in Denmark - one of the US’s closest allies for decades with a generally positive public opinion - America’s reputation has absolutely tanked. Being at all supportive of USA basically reveals you as a stupid far-right nut. We just need our politicians to see this as well because the US reputation is fully dead here.
Exactly the same take in Canada right now. With the added annexation threats, most Canadians that aren’t far right nuts will boycott the american brand for the rest of their lives, tarrifs be damned.
I think a feeling of distrust and betrayal will definitely remain for decades no matter what happens in USA. Many boycotters etc will definitely continue doing that for at least some products and on a state level we’ll never again be able to trust them with our data. That much is clear. At least I switched out all my tech and never going back
The brink? We’re already there, but the supply chain takes a few weeks to catch up. We are just now getting empty ports just like during covid. Empty ports now means empty shelves in a couple weeks. Empty shelves means prices skyrocket again. And layoffs start en mass when companies can’t get supplies that need workers to work on.
Is he that stupid that he really beleives his plan will work? Or is he so afraid of Putin’s kompromat that he’ll destroy his own country in order to keep it hidden?
Why not both?
It is both. There is no reason to copitulate to Russia unless the Kompromat is that good.
In the Fantastic Four comics, Dr. Doom wears a mask because he was hideously deformed by a science experiment gone wrong. Later writers retroconned it so that Doom had a tiny scratch but was so insanely egotistical that a tiny flaw was too much for him to bear.
I like to think that the kompromat is something like Trump having premature ejaculation or erectile dysfunction, or crying that his Daddy didn’t love him. Something a normal person could shrug off and move on from.
He is the dictator of the US. This is how he extracts every last cent possible from the working class to fund tax breaks and handouts for the ultra-wealthy. Accountability is not a factor for someone like this who has lived his whole life with no accountability and continually failed upward to the highest office. He “doesn’t need your vote” anymore, he is there and he’s not planning on leaving this time no matter what the voters say.
Wow 🍿I do feel for everyone who didn’t vote for this turd. As I am not aware much about what is happening in your country in detail (though some us citizens sometimes think this way) can anyone give any insight on how this is perceived by turd voters? Like are there any interesting interviews insight or articles ? Would love to know their view as this unfolds. Thanks for any insight 🙏
Biden kinda restored USA’s image pretty fast in the world stage, and then made it quite a lot better by standing firmly with Ukraine. After Trump’s second term… it wouldn’t be enough. Because now we know it wasn’t just a one-off mistake or a fluke. 30-50% of americans actually think like that.
Zero grocery, zero price. You cannot complain about avocado prices if there was no avocado imported, eh?
Reminds me of my childhood in a communist country.
It’s almost like human structures of power always end up with some asshole on top making everyone else suffer.
It’s bad now? You have no idea! All import stopped and or halted when your orange diaper introduced tariffs on everything. Meaning you’re just seeing the start of it.
Tariffs are still unclear because he’s changing them every damn second. Meaning companies are still hesitant about shipping goods because of the uncertainty regarding tariffs.
Brink? Fuck off. We’re already in a crisis.
Piece of shit article about a piece of shit president smh.
Give the Orange Asswipe a break, the idiot is following his orders from the Kremlin and he is doing a fan-fucking-tastic job of destroying the US economy and foreign relations.
And some people still say he has business skills…
What, you don’t think he’s getting rich off this?
Yeah people misunderstand Trump’s business history. It doesn’t matter how many casinos he bankrupted, Trump profited. He’s a vampire like a private equity firm, leaving a trail of dead husks behind him.
The brink? lol we’ve gone off the cliff and are in free-fall
U.S. “at the brink” circa 2025
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Hyuck hyuck hyuck
