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Leopards Ate My Face

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  1. Billionaire Koch votes for dangerous narcissistic clown with terrible business sense
  2. Clown is elected so Billionaire Koch gets clown using terrible business sense to wreck global economy
  3. As a result, billionaire Koch loses a butt ton of money in the stock market
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[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 97 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Casual reminder: the billionaires haven't lost jack shit. Virtually all of their losses are unrealized, usually in the form of stock. Once everything is finally at rock bottom, they will buy up everything they can (which will still be a lot), values will eventually rebound, and they will have lost nearly nothing while seeing massive gains.

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

i really, really wish that more people could see this

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Yeah this is just to choke out the middle class finally and pick up some assets for cheap.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

There are so many vultures waiting to feast on corpses. Stock brokers make out like bandits during crashes, wouldn’t surprise me if something similar goes on with real estate.

[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So many senator insiders shorted their stocks and sold before the tarriffs. MTG was just exposed to be among those who did so

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm a Billionaire who gave Trump HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of Dollars to be Reelected but you NEED to Cut me some Slack! I thought he was just going to Give me Tax Cuts to Fire my GAY Workers! I DIDNT know he would ALSO take Money from MY Wallet! I'm ONLY Human we MAKE Mistakes! STOP being so Divisive LIBTARDS!

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's only funny until the billionaires begin to hurt.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, then it'll get real funny! I might even ROFLMAO if that happens.

^oh, please make this happen 🙏^

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Don't worry - I'm sending tons of hope and prayer your way!

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Probably posturing. They WANT a crash. They want cheap stuff to buy up as everyone else loses more. I bet the crash is part of the plan.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't file lawsuits just for posturing. If that's what you want, you make concerned comments to the press.

All this "part of the plan" stuff assumes Trump has a plan. He doesn't. He is stupid on a subatomic level.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

He has a plan. It's Putin's plan.

Putin obviously gave Trump & Elon a list of everything that makes the USA better than Russia & tasked them with destroying it.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

No, this is Trump's different owners having conflicting priorities.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 6 points 1 year ago

You reap what you vote.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

koch, you are responsible for him getting elected.