• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I mean this isn’t really a question.

    He’s doing it.

    In the open.

    And it’s obvious.

    But our country is too pathetic to stop this blatant corruption, which just means we’ll sink deeper into corruption and the middle class will disappear. Ensuring that we’ll be poorer and work until we die.

    This is not the home of the brave. We’re pathetic and weak.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      We’re still holding onto the belief that it might go back to normal, while in actually our lives as they once were are forfeit, and no one gets out of this without a fuckton of trauma.

      Albert Camus, who was in the French Résistance before becoming an author and philosopher, was serious about confronting death and considering actual suicide, and had to invent a whole 20th century post-enlightenment philosophy to survive.

      Our lives from now on are defined by the ongoing attack on society, and yhe sooner we push back and hard, the less will have to be repaired for Alphas and later dimensions.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Trump and Musk have turned into Disney villains and deserve Disney villain deaths. For Musk, I have chosen to hope for eaten by hyenas (preferably ones he recently betrayed)

      Though a proper Julius Caesar demise would be amazing for Trump. He’s more of a Nero than a Julius.

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    This is that shit where your enemy has to be both the biggest moron in the world, and also some divine master mind of 4D chess.

    No. He’s not that fucking smart. Markets were TANKING and his handlers said “you had better fucking do something”. He chickened the fuck out at the last minute.

    • krashmo@lemmy.world
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      I think the most likely scenario is someone else came up with the market manipulation idea, Trump got on board because he’s a piece of shit, then he pulled the tariffs earlier than planned because he caught more backlash than he expected. Those who complained were not in on the scam and those who didn’t were either true believers or making their own trades.

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        The fact it “leaked” the day before that it was going to be paused by someone in the admin, which was immediately denied but then sure as shit the next day trump comes out and does it, SCREAMS intentional manipulation to me.

    • SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.world
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      I don’t know. You don’t have to be smart, or even brave to be an opportunistic slimeball. And it’s not like he has a track record of not being an opportunistic slimeball.

  • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Ridiculous. Trump owns the usa therefor owns the world therefor he can’t commit fraud since it’s his money. It’s call the art of the deal, try again libtards