Normally, I do give the benefit of a doubt for the first year or so of economic news under a new President no matter which party. Policies do not usually have time to have that kind of effect so quickly. It’s great when you can point to a President you don’t like and say “see, the economy went down”, but it usually doesn’t work that way.
Not this time. Trump moved so fast to break so much that he gets to own the whole thing. Doubly so when the Fed’s predictions had been pointing downward when they had been pointing upward before Trump took office.
Yep. There is a direct cause and effect here. He owns this shit.
He was handed a GREAT economy and he fucked it all up.
Plus he’d be claiming all the credit if it were better
It’s important to note why he did the tariffs.
It wasn’t because there was an economic trade imbalance.
It wasn’t because he thought they were unfair.
It was because it is essentially the only non-military weapon he has and he wanted to look powerful.
It was because he wanted to alienate our allies under the direction of Putin.
It was because he wanted to feel like a big man. He wanted to show the world he was a dictator.
It was a selfish, dick-measuring move.
I disagree.
He did the tariff BS in order to tank the US economy, so that the elite wealthy can buy/consolidate/privatize at rock bottom prices.
His regime was all by design. And all is going according to plan.
And he can claim he’s cutting taxes, because to him the tariffs aren’t a tax which is a load of bull.
huh, I’m getting to the point where i can recognize genai instantly from just the thumbnail, neat
It’s a particularly bland style
AI, I need a picture with Linux red hat…
I’m sorry sir,
Or ma’am,Both,
it seems I’m not allowed to show images of people with red hats. Would you like images of small cats instead?
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There it is. The one thing he wasn’t lying about, there was a bump in stocks after the election.
As much as he lies there were LOTS of things he wasn’t lying about. Mostly incredibly bad and crazy shit that he said he was going to do and is as we speak trying to do!
And only because he said it and some idiots bought it.
Why are you bringing facts to a bath salt sniffing party?
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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. <-- here
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
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I hope all the republicans realize what horrible people they are before they die.
They won’t, and will live long comfortable lives with their obscene amounts of money rather than being hanged as traitors like they should.
You’re forgetting the poor uneducated rural voters who will directly suffer by their own hands, yet again.
Can anyone remind me why we give the dumbest and least productive of us the most representation and govt handouts?
Oh, you’re talking about Republican voters. They also won’t, and will blame DEI, woke, and Democrats for all their problems 'til the day they die.
He mishandled covid leading to lots of extra death and when they wouldn’t elect him again he organized a lynch mob to storm the capitol and we all watched both crisis play out live on TV. None the less 94% of those who consider themselves Republicans voted for Trump in 2024. They are absolutely incapable of learning.
If we literally become the nazis and round up and murder millions before Trump offs himself in a bunker they will find a way to blame it on the Democrats and make Trump the victim then vote for someone who venerates him. We literally can’t fix them nor expect them to be fixed. We can only work on the folks in the middle the famous persuadable voter eg those too stupid to have a clear position.
I hope all the republicans realize what horrible people they are before they die.
I hope that realization comes as quickly as possible.
With the tariffs being randomly lifted it seems like we’re at ‘i didn’t mean it’
Lmfao this is great. Bet he tries to blame Clinton and Obama and AOC and George Soros next, in no particular order
Giving him the headlines for saying shit like this is, exactly what he desires. Because it works.
That’s why I like the rule you put up in your politics community about only posting things he’s done or actually doing.
Thanks Sir Patrick. :) Unfortunately, I had to lock it and have me as the only one posting. It was really hard to get people to understand what that meant.
Oh, I didn’t realize that (Just though you were the most active).
I always appreciated that it was smaller and was a bit of a hidden gem. This community gets…charged a little too often (that’s an intentional understatement lol). The only other one I kind-of liked was Beehaw’s, but lately it’s just a lot of knee-jerk comments of little substance.
If you ever decide to re-open it, I’m not interested in modding, but I can be sure to report things.
Thanks, I’ll keep that in mind and I appreciate the kind words. I set it up to kind of keep track and share if people were interested. It was getting where people didn’t understand the vibe. It seemed they were well intentioned, but it just got too hard to keep saying the same things. I don’t want to ban people who are doing what they think is helpful either. It’ll probably stay locked.
But please, if you see people shit stirring or trolling, report it. I only ban for a few days for the non-serial or non-serious stuff anyway. It seems to keep the professional trolls away.
Thanks again.
He’s right. When the bulk of tariffs’ impact hits, it’s going to be much, much worse than it is now.
It actually is kinda Biden’s fault. See, under Biden, the economy actually grew last year, which is why this makes Trump look so bad.
Also, that he ran for 2024, which is at least part of what allowed the current situation…
Also, and perhaps most importantly, that he appointed a do-nothing conservative attorney general who slow-walked prosecuting Trump for the coup attempt (among other things) instead of actually upholding the rule of law.
Trump shouldn’t have been able to run in 2024 in the first place because he should’ve been hanged for treason in 2021.
“Biden is to blame for the economy. If he didn’t drop out and then he won the election, none of this would be happening right now, and I wouldn’t be blamed.” -tRumpo
Even after eliminating all those government programs and laying off/firing all those federal employees, Biden still somehow controls the economy!!! If only we could elect a new POTUS to right the ship!!!
Even after eliminating all those government programs and laying off/firing all those federal employees,
the federal government still managed to spend over $200 billion more in BLOTUS’ first 100 days than same time frame last year.
0.01% of that on his golf games
While I do admit it’s impossible for one administration to improve/fix a nation’s economy in one year… But It doesn’t take much effort to run a already crumbling economy into the ground. Edit: I’m agreeing with yall. Just like Republicans expected Biden to “fix” the economy in is first 100 days, it’s literally impossible. But dumb ass Trump can sure as hell drive a already broken economy right off the cliff in 100 days.
A president has a limited ability to positively affect the economy positively but a vast ability to make it worse.
Remember, folks, anything bad is the fault of the most recent president in the opposing party, and anything good is the fault of the most recent president in your party
It’s a shame for humanity that SO many people are so goddamned dumb.
It’s mostly just Americans.
God you fucking wish
So Q2 will also be Biden? How about Q3? Biden? Q4?
For being sleepy joe. He sure is awake causing problems for Trump. Mastermind Joe.
He’s obviously in a bunker somewhere with a clone of Hunter’s laptop! This is why that Ukrainian company gave Hunter all that money ($3 million ) back when Joe was still VP, they knew in 2013 that in 2025 the people would be stupid enough to re-elect Trump and he would be doing the same thing as the first go just cranked to 11! Joe has been a manchurian candidate this whole time waiting to sabotage Trump to help Ukraine against Trump’s handlers. /s
The Bidens will continue until the economy improves.
Honestly surprised he hasn’t started blaming Obama.
the good economy was lost in hillary’s emails.
Yes, but somehow Q4 2024 was all Trump.
The GDP last year was positive all around under Biden. I wonder what could possibly have changed in US this year to cause this stark reversal.
I know it won’t change Trump supporter minds, but I wish they would ask what quarter will it get better by? That way there was at least something to track.
I mean we all knew he was going to say this. Why do we even bother asking anymore?
I don’t think anyone asked, he threw some burgers at the wall and somebody read it like tea leaves
berders
Covfefe
Irony is, a lot of his policies existed through Biden’s term and just expired recently. Trump is literally blaming himself.
Yep, part of the reason Biden lost is that he didn’t make any major changes to economic policy (aside from stuff like COVID-19 relief spending and the Inflation Reduction Act). By not reversing Trump-era polices (let alone making policy in the other direction, to rein in corporate power and reduce wealth inequality), Biden failed to materially improve the economic prospects of the working class and thus left them vulnerable to Trump’s demagoguery.
more lies from the criminal president
