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I was promised.... (media.kbin.earth)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Um, Trump also reported how he was going to start rounding up the undesirables, and something tells me this informed more Trump voters than egg prices.

TBF, the Democratic Party is the neoliberal status quo party, and a lot of people aren't having that. And the only alternative is King Heron / the far right party who starts genocide.

Also TBF, the far right has a trillion-dollar propaganda machine working over time to control people's minds, so we can expect a lot of people to vote for candidates who would campaign on letting them starve / hunting them down for execution / giving the whole US general fund to billionaires.

We're going to need a new system entirely to fix both of these problems. It's going to be messy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

But Trump's corrupt family is richer....so fair trade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But I thought the Russian-Ukrainian war was supposed to start ww3 like years ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Any war that involves NATO (proxy wars included, ofc) could possibly escalate into WW3 nowadays because regional powers have gained greater power to fight back. Maybe that's why the fears today are a bit more warranted? Idk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Lol no

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

“I’m going to burn the country down”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It ain't WWIII, authoritarian regimes have a limited shelf life and Iran and Russia are past their expiration dates.

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

At least the memes were good

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

....meh

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Actually of all of those promises I believe inflation is holding steady and pretty low around 2.6% through Trump's term so far. But it's a trend that's been going since July 2024, so pretty much just a continuation of the prior state of the economy?

Either way its surprising given all the fluctuations and instability of the markets with Trump's tarrif threats / inceptions / backdowns - I dunno, I'm not a market guy but the market guys in media don't seem to have an explanation.

I'd guess that steady rate too will also fly out the window if the US declares ~~war~~ special military operation on Iran, so give him time I'm sure he'll mess this up too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Inflation takes a while. Shocks that affect consumer confidence can actually increase spending temporarily. What's happening in the US right now is that people are spending more in order to get in all their long term purchases (car, tv, phone, computer, kids toys) before some combination of inflation and tariffs push the prices up. But this will only last as long as people's excess of spending money lasts. Then consumer purchasing will, if nothing changes, recede massively.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

The markets are disconnected from reality. There's a crazy amount of wealth at the top and they gotta put it somewhere. So it's basically just a gambling site were rich people bet on what'll happen next in a soap opera. Some of the rich people get to see the script before everyone else does. It's now relatively stable because they've convinced themselves that TACO futures are safe.

The economic conditions are basically the same as in the late 1920s and Trump's tariff policies are the same thing they were doing back then. But don't worry about what happened 1929... TACO TACO TACO BUY BUY BUY!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

MAHA?

Make America Heterosexual Again?

Hateful?

Hedonistic?

Hupercalifragilisticexpialidocious?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think it's Make America Healthy Again. I seem to remember brain worm talking about that when he joined up.

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

To be fair, they are actually banning dyes in food. That only took decades.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I did notice that. So many announcements about companies phasing them out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Healthy makes sense, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Actually nerd noises it's,

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Still waiting for the $5000 promised to me in February so I can invest it all in crypto and be a billionaire by the summer, any day now…

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

If we can up inflation enough....

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

Can someone please just give Drumpf his damn stapler back!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Staplers are for closers.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean anyone who took the incoherent ramblings of Trump as anything of value at this point brought it on themselves.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The saddest thing is, a lot of those who voted for Trump did think his incoherent ramblings were harmless. How many people went shocked Pikachu face when they learned Trump actually put in tariffs? Or that heard his "dictator for a day" comments and brushed it off?

Somehow, a lot of people 1) heard Trump's ramblings, 2) assumed he was lying, and 3) they still voted for him, even while believing he was full of shit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know it's probably not you. But I don't understand how people can even step over 2. Who wants a president that lies more often than speaks the truth? Even if you think the lies are harmless, how would you ever trust such president? The reasoning doesn't add up, because I don't think reasoning was involved. Voting for far right is usually an emotional choice, not a logical one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You're absolutely right. How anyone can accept he's a liar and still believe him is baffling to me, as well.

I'm just glad I picked this username.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

And everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

“promised”

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, but Joe Biden had a raspy voice and Kamala laughed weird, so it could have been worse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah thats not why people didn't vote for them. What a silly idea

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

In fairness, the real problem is that they maintained that everything is fine, actually the economy is fine from my numbers, now everyone remember not to vote for the insurrectionist felon we did nothing about for 4 years

They could not be more half assed and milquetoast. They were so busy trying not to make any enemies that they totally failed to meet the moment

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