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[–] [email protected] 72 points 4 days ago (34 children)

I sincerely doubt most of these stories are actually happening. It's true. But I doubt the actual interaction occurred. Seeing this same story different ways all over the internet. I live in a region surrounded by right wingers and aside from those flags and occasional hats, I hardly ever hear anyone outright talk about their politics.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Yeah, it's the "the train stood up and clapped" bullshit that people post on their socials.

If these people knew anything about history they'd know about President Hoover raising tariffs, which prompted every country we traded with to do the same, making everything more expensive and worsening the Great Depression. The thing is, for all the podcasts and 24-Hour news voters in this country consume, they don't know jack shit other than to pull the lever for whichever candidate their preferred news network tells them to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

ironically Trump's greatest fear is becoming hoover yet his favorite word is tariff

unstoppable force, meet unmovable wall

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Please, he doesn’t know who Hoover is. He thinks that’s the vacuum entrepreneur that became president President then went on to run the cia…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I’m shocked. Not only does he know anything about early 20th century American politics and economics, but also apparently the my pillow lunatic has a media channel

And yeah, I suspect that there will be a crash in the next 12-18 months. The economy is fragile but recovering and he’s looking to do massive changes that aren’t well received by experts. He will probably drive us into a depression.

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