I think it’s mainly about one thing: the US president is using his power to manipulate the stock market to enrich himself and his partners.
How did I come to this conclusion? Because he has done this repeatedly over the past six months.
This is organized crime, not politics.
This is exactly what the mob was doing with the unions and all sorts of businesses back in the day. Trump knew a lot of those guys through Roy Cohn. The mob never really went under, just the stupid ones like Gotti that did their business in the open. The smart ones met guys like Cohn who could wash their money and put it to work to legitimize them. They formed a little chrysalis, an organized crime/politics incubation chamber, and what emerged was Donald Trump.
He also bragged about them doing it on camera. So there is that.
I’d love to play poker against him.
By the time you win the game, the prize money will have been looted so the chips are worthless and the tires will have been stolen off your car.
Nah, he’s the type to have a hand of 5 aces. Maybe a four of a kind flush.
But you’re not allowed to look at his cards.
He does a press conference with stacks of unopened decks of cards on a table.
Which are actually matchboxes that have “CaRds” written in sharpie on them.
That’s actually “cRads”
He won. That’s all you need to know.
“Hit me.” “Sir, this is poker.” “Sorry, king me.” “That’s checkers.” “Go fish?”
“Close enough.”
“BINGO!”
“The Game is over sir.”
“Did I win?”
He couldn’t deal his way out of a soap bubble with a sword in his hand. But he can spin defeat better than anyone.
The Commission President said that talks will begin rapidly. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
He’s like a child that just learned a new phrase with the ‘attention to this matter’ thing lol
What’s crazy is that he was just bragging about having a deal with them. He’s so stuck on his tariffs that he’s forgetting about “winning” or the appearance of winning. It he just finds an excuse to claim victory and end the tariffs, the average low-information American would believe him.
So he went back on having a deal. But now they have a deal again.
Now he looks like a weak loser.
He always looks like a weak loser. Maybe that’s why magats feel so comfortable with him.
Relatability is paramount
“I mean, we’ve set the deal. It’s at 50 percent,” he said at the White House.
Just not now. But we totally have a deal. 50% or we walk. In a month or two. Maybe longer. 50%, folks.
In Two Weeks™
In five and a half weeks™
Never ™
It was never about the tariffs. It’s about market manipulation.
Just like his buddy
Shocked, yes shocked I am that a demented rapist who slathers his face with orange paint and is incapable of completing a single thought has been ineffective at leading the worlds largest economy.
what a fucking pile of melting pudding
lol he is selling this as “they begged me to delay it”
Orange Chicken?
Benito Cheetolini
Don’t insult food like that
The DNC is hobbled by oligarchs who don’t want Progressives to achieve any of their goals. The GOP is bolstered by oligarchs who want Conservatives to achieve all of their goals.
Indeed. There are no leftist oligarchs, pretty much by logic and definition, which is a significant disadvantage in electoral oligarchy.
If populism is ever associated with right wing politics it is typically by design of the oligarchs.
“Right-wing populism” = The people are useful idiots for getting fascists into power.
Not quite chickens out. He postponed it with 9 days (edit: 5 weeks - 9th of july). It does sound like he does not mean anything of what he says though. At this point I believe it’s more of a market manipulation method to pump value into stocks before they get sold .
He can keep this up forever though as long as it makes him and his friends money
He postponed it five and a half weeks. The new date is 9th of July.
Why do they even entertain a call with him? What do we make that they can’t digitally pirate? I know we export agricultural products, but is there anything else? And can they truly not develop their ag to make up for it? I assume corn is the dominant reason to keep talking to us, from my limited understanding of the market.
Just isolate us and be done with it. We’re too toxic to be worth it.
You think Steven Seagals just grow on trees?
I am truly grateful that they don’t. Can you imagine that jiggly, fleshy fruit hanging from a tree?
We NEED Tariffs! We DONT need Tariffs! This is 7D CHEESE!
