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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 75 points 11 months ago

It really is like crypto scams. Just make them believe that its all okay and they will be rich. Meanwhile he extracts as much as possible while the scam is still going and in the end there will be one big rugpull.

[–] D_C@lemm.ee 66 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

...4 years later
"Evil Joan Bidens economy was so bad that even four years later it's still turning the UNIVERSE into such a covfefe that it is down to me to save us. So I'm declaring 'marshall lore' and will stay as president until I'm dead...then Eric will become prez 👍👍. Make Ameri great something something"

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think there was a star system in Stellaris the developers called covfefe and I love it

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

Hope it had a dim orange dwarf, some gas giants and two little rocks swinging around the central body.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

marshall lore

Second actual lol of the day, thank you.

[–] D_C@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

It was that or martial lord. A cheeky nod to tRUMPs fake christianity and holy wars. However I thought he'd not have the mental capacity to string that together.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Eric? Come on now, he'd obviously tap his other kid (no, not Ivanka, didn't mean "tap" in that sense) for the role so it's still his name in the news.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 38 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm starting to think the tariffs are just another one of his grifter scams. He was going to offer foreign governments a deal "send me a million bucks and I'll make sure your country doesn't have to pay the extra tariffs". China threw a wrench into it all by not even feigning interest in dealing with him.

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He has always been obsessed with tariffs, even when he had no political aspirations. At no point in time has he ever had a correct comprehension of how they actually work

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I was driving into work a couple weeks ago and NPR was playing a clip of him calling into a radio show and complaining about trade imbalances and the need for tariffs. That clip was taken from 1989...

[–] reptar@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I think it's much more likely a way to gatekeep a vast portion of the economy. Tariff exemptions for sale

[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] podperson@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

No, it’s clearly Biden’s fault…. again. Boy, the week he’s been having.

[–] falynns@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

It's a great time to remove people who refuse to see the emperor has no clothes from your life.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 24 points 11 months ago

When the Market’s Up: Mine. When It’s Down: Yours.

Reminds me of the "pep talk" we got from our bosses recently. You know what they really mean when they say "we need to pull together as a team" and why they never say it when there's extra money.

[–] smokinliver@sopuli.xyz 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I also like how his tone shifted from a cocky all-caps to a slithering normal-caps

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 6 points 11 months ago

Well, the first one is Drumpf itself pissing its pants with joy and boasting. The second is Drumpf handing its phone to an aide, saying sth like: "you need to explain to them that this is not my fault, I'm still the best!"

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Oh yeah this has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ECONOMIC LODE* STONE TRUMP PUT AROUND THE COUNTRY'S NECK. Just a coincidence that the stock market and economy are tanking after implementing tariffs, damn Biden fucking with the economy!!

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

*lode stone or mill stone.

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

Fixed, damned autocorrect

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

A lode stone is a guide (naturally occurring form of magnetite, in use a very small stone). A mill stone is what you'd attach to the economy to drown it

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I really wish truth mattered. It takes so little effort to look at a graph of the stock market and see the exact date of a severe crash. It's just now recovering to close to previous levels and that coincides with the dumb fuck backing off the tariffs.

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How am I supposed to draw a line from A ---- B when my attention span is - and I am TOLD how good things are?

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Fair point! The dear leader prevails.

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago

he left us with bad numbers

Helly R from Severance saying "They were scary. The numbers were scary."

[–] kahdbrixk@feddit.org 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nothing means anything anymore, you can just write and say whatever you want and half of the population will believe what you say, the other half will cry out about fake news.

When will the aliens finally attack earth to bring us destruction and unity?

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I think they're too busy watching our media streams for entertainment. Or they haven't realized they switched from fiction to fact some time ago.

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

Shades of "Cancelled" - South Park

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

I thought tariffs were already pouring in? It's almost as if this guy is lying.

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, that's right, his absurd tariffs will really hit home soon - but certainly not in the way he imagines. The US citizens will have to pay the price.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Nah, hes already making exceptions left and right while reaching out to China to start talks.

Stores have a 7 week lag from basically now before they run out of goods. He will have folded in every meaningful way by then. There will be a lot of tough talk and basically very little accomplished.

[–] Kennystillalive@feddit.org 5 points 11 months ago

The comming recession wil be the Biden-cession.

[–] wheelie@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Watching him cause such a mess makes me happy.

[–] Micans@reddthat.com 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a source for the first one on Jan 29? I can't find the first tweet on Twitter or MAGA Twitter, and I had to scroll a lot to make it that far back.

We can't be playing the fake game like they do. He has enough shit spewing out of his face sphincter to post real hypocrisy

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Micans@reddthat.com 1 points 11 months ago

Thank you!!

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Save this, and post to every Trumper you meet!

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Bold of you to assume Trumpers can read.

[–] LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

The boom will come... unfortunately it won't be a growth explosion, rather an implosion