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'Your question is so stupid' Trump snaps when asked how much economic pain he'd tolerate
(www.rawstory.com)
It's amazing how confident the truly stupid are.
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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he's totally ok that every vulnerable has to eat leather boots to make it through a depression.
"libs were pwned"
....claiming tariffs would bring in “$1 trillion”
They've already LOST $11 trillion. What an utter imbecile!!
So it'll just take 11 years to even out.
Edit: Just double checked, it's 1 trillion in the "next year or so". So x >= 11 years :(
In fairness to Trump, he has never, ever experienced the consequences of his actions. Bankrupt? Didn't put a dent in his life since his father and banks kept the money flowing to him regardless, more than once. Rapist? No jail time. Fraudster? No jail, not sure that any fines have even been paid. So why would he think, when nothing bad happens to him and he can still golf the weekend away, that anything bad will happen to all the people losing their jobs, their investments, their retirement, their homes? Why don't they all have rich fathers and sycophantic bankers to bail them out? At very least they should have Russian mafia backers like he does, that make it look like he's a billionaire, even if it really is billions in debt to them.
I agree that he wouldn't consider the consequences, but you're mistaken if you think he has given even a single thought to the plight of the people his tariffs are impacting - his narcissism wouldn't allow the thought to even form in his orange head.
Economic Medicine? This shit must have been economics course at the fucking failed Trump University.
its called a word salad, and the WEAVE.
He will tolerate none for himself.
The rest of us can get fucked. STFU about the price of eggs, right? He’s no longer president. He’s gone full dictator. This is all about him.
It was always all about him. The election was the only way he was staying out of prison and the campaign was lie after lie after lie, telling his moron supporters what they wanted to hear, in order to secure their vote. He doesn't give a shit about those people once they've posted their ballot.
Can we just elect Camacho? He's more qualified than whatever the fuck we got now
Americans circa 2025 about to take their economic medicine
sally has to say goodbye to puppy. weekly rations and all.
"sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something"
Exactly, medicine exists to fix something. What Trump is doing is substance abuse.
This rhetoric seems similar to that used by Milton Friedman and the Chicago school of economics. They applied 'economic therapy' to left-leaning economies in the late 1900s which involved rapid privatization of nationally owned industries. Negatively affected many otherwise healthy countries including England, Russia and Chilie.
The Shock Doctrine does a round robin of these events; highly recommended.
Project 2025 is about privatizing branches of government while citizens are too busy dealing with the fallout of economic collapse.
They're seriously going to privatize the weather service and social security if we do not continue to take to the streets.
Russia was not healthy when it applied shock therapy. The Soviet Union was collapsing, massive political instability in Moscow, all sorts of countries moving out of the Russian sphere of influence, the first Chechen war started and so forth. It was fairly obvious that big decision had to be made, but unfortunatly Russia choose poorly.
Donald doesn't have to tolerate any pain. He's a billionaire. Billionaire's way of life will still be unbelievably fabulous. It's us that suffer at their expense.
He's a billionaire.
Allegedly. His inability to pay some of the judgments against him calls that into question, e.g. the E. Jean Carrol suit. If nothing else, he definitely has a billionaire mindset.
Trump Media and the Trumpcoin crypto scam have, sadly, probably put his net worth back up high enough for him to actually be able to truthfully call himself a billionaire again. He just doesn't pay his court judgements because what are they gonna do about it if he doesn't? Take him to court again? His whole strategy is to make plaintiffs go broke trying to collect from him, which is why he has it out for all the law firms working pro bono against him right now.
Even if his tariffs do bring in $1 trillion, that's not even half the loss his tariffs have cause in just 3 days.
tRump always speaks in a clear, concise, fact based, evidence based, and in a verifiable manner. He uses proof such as "medicine," "stupid," "someone said," "I heard," "everyone is saying." "Economic medicine," what is that?
Absolutely, and what I like best about him is his trustworthiness and respect for women.
He's also a genius businessman who will run our country like his businesses, which will be great and lead to widespread prosperity.
A special kind of genius that can bankrupt a casino multiple times. How do you fuck up a license to print money?
Four Casinos
Everybody is thinking way, way too much into this.
If Trump would have to answer a question where he doesn't know the answer, or would have to admit that people disagree with him, or he feels even mildly challenged, this is considered a personal attack on him. You are trying to get him to admit to not being 100% perfect 100% of the time. And he responds to that by lashing out like a small child, attacking you, making up childish names for you, and insulting you. This is how he has always responded.
This has nothing to do with his thoughts on economic policies or the effects of his tariffs. He doesn't think far enough ahead to either know or care. This reporter had the audacity to challenge him, and Trump lashed out. That's all. That's how he always responds.
I can't understand how more people don't understand this. There's no depth to any of this. An immature, ignorant, narrow-minded idiot doing immature, ignorant, narrow-minded things. The media's sane washing is to blame, I guess, if not the straight propaganda from right wing outlets. But at this point if you're still giving the benefit of the doubt you're part of the problem.
So true. You don't have to dig deep into any of his responses when you criticize anything about him. He will lash out. He's a child. That's it.
Haha. Trumps funny
Trump will endure precisely zero economic pain since he is rich. He doesn't have to go through anything. He sits in a literal ivory tower why would he feel bad about anything?
He's not tolerating squat when it comes to any pain, for ANY of his actions, least of all his tariff fuckery.
The only way I see the US becoming "solid and strong again", is a revolution that results in a Constitution v2.0 that fixes many issues with the structure of government, voting, and setting rules regarding wealth. Otherwise, odds are that the US will splinter apart into several major bodies.
On the plus side of splintering, it means many conservatives would flee out of Blue States, and the Blue States get more people who believe in governance, science, democracy, and society. They would be far more stronger and influential than Red States in the long run. Blue States won't have to play ball with stupid conservative ideas, such as non-medical vaccine exemptions, anti-migrant policies, and so forth.
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