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"The president single-handedly wiped out Americans' retirement savings overnight and subjected businesses to intense whiplash with his increasingly erratic and chaotic policies that continue to drive consumer and business uncertainty."

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

If this is what it takes for republicans to never hold even so much as a broken toilet seat, well it sure does suck harder’n a black fucking hole… but it seems this is how we have to learn.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

God this is bleak.

I'm not even in the US. This is a global recession.

"[Consumers] are not even going to the grocery store and paying more for vegetables because there's none available from Mexico, or going to Whole Foods, for example, and finding the big sections of fresh fruit are being shut down. They haven't really felt the full impact [yet], and they're already saying something isn't right," Bethune says.

It sounds like shit is going to get real, really quick. As in next week?

Trump isn't going to back down either - good or bad he always just doubles down. If Mexican producers stop selling to the US he's just going to go to war right?

As an aside, I had been wondering what the US gov is going to do with all that tariff revenue... but now it seems kinda clear that consumers will be buying a lot less stuff, so there will be less income tax revenue anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Not long until MAGAs call the stock market woke.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

When we are almost all living in shacks with nothing left MAGA will be telling us we are better off.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

"I'm so glad things are going back to the way they should be!" -my hyper-republican boomer coworker, this afternoon

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

lots of weirdos who are happy that certain groups get fucked a little more than they will

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

I really hope your coworker is in their late 50s or 60s so they get the full dose of 'the way things should be'

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"Jesus lived in poverty and he did alright." - A (thankfully former) coworker who disagreed with my assertion that minimum wage should be livable.

Jesus was also murdered by his government, Ian! That's not what I'd call alright!

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The people are just garbage. The worst kind of ignorant shit that plagues this country.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

You gotta remember this was DECADES of conditioning. These people have been primed for this from birth. For this moment in time, when they could gleefully collapse anything positive remaining about being American.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Hey, at least all the MAGAsites still love him. I guess there's that...

[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Trump is gonna try his best to make the best depression ever.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

He heard "great depression" and took it as a challenge

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

“great depression”

Well... at least we know now what he meant by make America "great" again.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago

Yuge Depression. Like sinkhole levels.

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