Political Memes

Remember. He didn't back down (for now) because you were hurting as a person.

He backed down because his constituents - the ultra-rich, aka the ones best equipped of all to weather this storm they themselves asked for - complained that their power and wealth rate was decelerating.

Simple as. The people who build and maintain societal infrastructure with their sweat and blood would sooner be left to die than these elitists would see their unfathomable and unneeded amounts of influence drop even 1%.

It’s not a crash… it’s a wealth transfer. They saw how effective economic crisis was for wealth transfer during covid, and they are manufacturing a controllable version of that through on-again-off-again tariffs. The old advice of “stay the course” with your 401k may not be the best course of action anymore. But I’m no expert… time will tell.

Stock markets don't create or destroy money. They just move it around. Mostly from the poor to the rich.

That depends on if you sold or held.

Hey I recognized a meme source for once. I'm just gonna take this post down to the "not old yet" store and force the kids skateboarding in the parking lot to accept me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eacQol2KFOA

Somehow both of these guys look like Edward Snowden.

That's the thing. We're already dead.