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WTAF is Going On? In Search of the Plan Behind Trump’s Global Economic Crisis
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this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2025
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I've seen it a couple places now but there is a plan, the plan is to reindustrialize the us by devaluing the dollar and bullying other countries into becoming essentially vassals states to the us. It's fucking insane and not gonna work but they have talked about it.
Edit: God damn I should read first, he talks about it lol.
The plan is to privatize everything so they can give lucrative government contracts to their billionaire buds so they can turn things that are meant to be public services into for-profit enterprises.
And everyone but that 0.001% suffers and literally die. People WILL DIE as a direct result of the gutting of our federal work force.
That's not the plan though, the people behind this have said what the plan is and are doing what they said, the fact oligarchs can buy up everything when they crash the economy is a happy side effect that keeps the billionaire class on their side while they wreck their fortunes.
It's not a happy side effect, it's why they're allowing it to happen in the first place.
just collateral damage when trumps ego is in the mix.
we have been told for some time now that management of trump is best done by stroking that ego. I am now convinced that it really is as simple as that. if it aligns with his compulsions, stroke away and you have your stooge.
Appeasement doesn't work with fascists.
oh, absolutely agreed. my "as simple as that" comment was to emphasize that he is a simple creature.
That's ok. Most people never read the article, so you're ahead of them.
unique snowflake here.
(really good article)