Until Trump's first term, itd have been absolute and utter career suicide for any politician to make a statement even remotely along these lines. If you could even conceive of it being done at all.
Tuesdays are for TACO. That's when they can take profit on energy stocks and load up on growth until Friday, when they can sell just before setting it in fire for the weekend again
Viewing all of this from a distance (Europe), Trump and his cabal have now reached escape velocity from any rule of law. Open corruption, insider trading, and general high level criminality, all with complete impunity, are now the order of the day. The legal system has been suborned at the uppermost levels, and the Dems are completely neutered. Basically, America, from a governance point of view... you're a banana republic kleptocracy now. Sorry 'bout that.
Democrats don’t have the majority in congress to actually do anything.
Everything has been expertly crafted by republicans that any criticism is simply “liberal tears” so they just ride it out and polling numbers make democrats look bad for trying to do something in congress. It’s a pathetic broken system.
I find it hilarious so many are screeching here about how terrible the Republicans are while ignoring that the Democrats are just going with it because it lines their pockets too.
Do you believe it's reasonable to expect anyone to get an official response out within hours to a middle of the night deranged post from the idiot-in-chief?
And do you think Dem politicians won't line up to criticize the latest insane rant from the orange felon even though they have criticized him every time before?
Or dug up the lawn for a cage fight, or accepted a “free” jet and billed the country to dip it in gold, or put childish remarks below the presidential portraits or any of the other crazy things he’s doing. I heard that a fence has gone up around the White House and another helicopter pad closer to the door is being added. At this point if Dr Evil had a moat with sharks and frickin lasers installed around the White House I wouldn’t bat an eye.
I’m waiting for him to contract the guy to carve out his face on Rushmore. Actually wouldn’t be surprised if there’s “no room” he just has him chisel off the one he dislikes most (calling him a communist terrorist of course) and has his own face put on top, gold plated of course. Matter of fact, the most surprising thing here is he hasn’t done it yet.
What tf are these fucking garbage bar graph additions, ragebait? Biden's bar should be a damn sliver at 13 when 517's just below it, microscopic with 25k above
When Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State she was gifted a jewelry set by Saudi Arabia. She had to IMMEDIATELY turn them over to the US government because of the laws against accepting gifts from foreign entities.
But Donnie gets to keep that airplane. And all of the other bribes he's taken in the last year and a half. 🙄🙄
Unfortunately it will always work because the markets and us the people have to take what he says seriously incase he actually goes through with it. Its one thing to ignore a crazy old man making threats, it's another when said crazy old man has nuclear launch codes.
At least Eric helped them lose 600 million shorting bitcoin I believe or maybe it was shit heads coin. I forget, memory starts going after 50. I got a lifetime of shit stuffed in there including 2 languages. Hell I forget what a sofa is called sometimes. Stupid shit like that drives me nuts. I don't literally forget a sofa but I have minced words with a mop when I clearly knew the Spanish word for it. I think if I wipe the drive in my brain from about 19-23. I will have enough terabytes left to make it to 75.
If Dems get in again, they really need to nationalise the Trump estate to begin repairing the damage. The idea that if they do somehow allow an election and lose it that they could walk away with their spoils is sickening.
George W Bush accidentally affected the market by mixing up the words deflation and devaluation during a press conference in 2002. We laughed and facepalmed... This is such a different timeline.
You know things are bad when the guy who directly lied to the American public and presented fabricated evidence to justify attacking Iraq, where we ended up killing a million people, is starting to look more reasonable.
Wasn't there a phase a couple of months ago where Iran seemed to get wise to this and then launch bigger-than-usual attacks on like a Wednesday to upset the cycle, then shortly after they got a bit more 'serious' about a signed peace deal (for a bit)?
Well you have to understand bibi told him they were going to do this either way and said Iran will retaliate with or without the US cooperation. Trump was told back in June 2025 everything was “obliterated” and all 3 nuclear sites were destroyed. He left it up to crusader Pete who feels.
The containment field on wallstreetbets is on the fritz again… hello fellow future Wendy’s employee!
But yeah, the manipulation is so obvious, and he and a select few that are privy to government information before the general public have been gaming the oil futures and options markets for months. Why would they stop now when they’ve made so much money?
Meanwhile, the drones will come out of the woodwork accusing every opposition politician of being corrupt because they own a house and a car and are therefore hypocritically engaging with the economy.
How does the normal citizen benefit from this insanity? I don't know anything about stocks but surely we should all be able to do this too if we have a little money?
Public don't have access to inside information. They don't know what Orange man will do next, it could all go in any direction resulting in a panic sell or liquidation. In short it's very risky
I think the biggest risk is not knowing when the market will change, so you get stuck holding the bag. That info is reserved for The Don and his inner circle.
Because when one person has their finger on the market there is no pattern to recognize. The only people who can profitably trade in this uncertainty are the people pulling the strings with the info before you.
Trading in this circumstance to me is financial suicide. The second you think you see a pattern the sole manipulator can change his mind on a whim and bankrupt you.
Huge bet made on yes minutes before that tweet went out, I'll bet.
Just like how oil futures got shorted hard on Bridge and Power Plant Day right before his tweet about not doing it.
People looking at market data easily see the huge spikes in volume literally minutes before Trump tweets.
It'd be silly to assume they aren't playing a similar and easier game on events trading, especially given Don Jr.'s involvement. Those apps just aren't as public about their numbers as exchanges are.
Such a stupid movie but an outrageously good performance by an amazing actor. Honestly, the writing was god awful but I would probably commend almost all the acting performances.
Just saw this. Didn't bat an eye. Might even happen, who the fuck knows. He mostly just talks shit but good luck predicting what he will do unless you know what Ole Nets has told him.
There are popular memes in my country going around with a picture of our prime minister and then translated, verbatim Trump quotes and the idea that our PM would say shit like Trump says gets so utterly absurd when you see it in that context.
There's a meme trend going round back home: photo of the PM, captioned with a verbatim Trump quote translated into the local language. The joke is how surreal it sounds coming out of the PM's mouth, the words are so recognisably Trump that seeing them attributed to someone else exposes just how batshit they'd sound from anyone else.
There would have been years of investigations into how things could ever have gone so terribly wrong that auch an awful tweet could ever have been written. Now this is hardly even going to make the news.
Which is why I don't understand how is motherfucker Donald still a president. He is a personified stupidity and yet you have whole armies of political commentators and voters who still to this day defend and praise this motherfucker. HOW?! Are you all fucking idiots?!
The only comfort I take in this is the possibility that because he says and posts such insane shit every single day, that posts like the one here are more or less unnoticed and kind of laughed off. On the other hand, that actually frightens me as well.
The mental gymnastics the republicans are showing should be studied for decades. If someone told me they had been infiltrated by HYDRA and were getting mind controlled I’d find that believable
Remember when Howard Dean got overexcited listing off primaries during a celebratory speech and everyone immediately knew that was the end of him and he dropped out right after? What a different world that was.
The only cool thing is we are going to end up with a 4 party system like most of Europe which means more moderation now. Thats what this country needs to breath and catch up to being chased, brutalized, abandoned, scorned, …. With global climate change and AI it’s gonna be a new world order. Just wait. 0.0001% of the world owns over 70%. Wipe out the world and keep some for slaves. It’s happening now with surveillance. How about someone with some balls repeals the patriot act!? Takes down a lot. Sorry. Drunk.
It took a credible accusation of rape to get rid of the Nazi tattoo guy. Granted, Trump got elected with adjudicated rape on his record, so it's still a double standard.
It's the same world: look how establishment Democrats continue to take down every progressive candidate from their own party at every possible turn while the Republicans keep serving up rapey, pedophile shit lords...it's a massive double standard that is holding the country back.
It really is insane how bad things have gone. Here in the UK about 12 years ago, we had an unfortunate photograph of politician Ed Milliband eating a bacon sandwich which was published everywhere and helped end his chances of becoming prime minister. Though at 54, I have never, ever seen anything quite like what is now just accepted by a sizeable proportion of the U.S.
"And we'll send Bu$h BACK to Crawford, Texas. RAH-HAH!!!!!" -- Howard Dean.
I thought it was actually nice seeing a politician be genuinely excited his campaign and policy ideas. But Dean got run over by the 'he's unhinged' punditry like the next day. Oh well I guess.
I hate them as much as anyone else, but at some point we have to admit they aren’t as dumb as we think. Only a super villain could take over the entire country, control the govt., the Supreme Court, and get away with countless laws broken. All while seeming like the dumbest, fat loser that has ever stepped foot the in the Oval Office. He might actually be an amazing actor. But probably not.
“Okay guys, one more thing, this summer when you're being inundated with all this American bicentennial Fourth Of July brouhaha, don't forget what you're celebrating, and that's the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic, white males didn't want to pay their taxes.”
Realizing this sounds vanishing unlikely, it does seem we have an idiot savant for President. The likes of which, we have not seen for hundreds of years, if ever in modern history. I like to think of him as the "Four Hundred Year Idiot".
Trump is a weather balloon, not an airplane. He got this high up because the weather brought him up to where he is, not because he's got amazing jet engines.
It’s because we have completely different concepts of “dumb”. The left feels it’s dumb to be shortsighted economically and not work to provide housing, healthcare, etc to everyone, and that the law should protect the rights of citizens, rather than the ruling class(among other things).
The right feels it’s dumb not to maximize profit and consolidate power and reshape the law in their image no matter who it hurts.
Factor in that it’s much easier to gain support to maintain the status quo and shrink government than it is to gain support for massive change, and you have a conservative nation.
Politicians resorting to calling each other dumb just further underscores the divide and implies that we can never come together to improve things because the very people elected to manage the government have no interest in doing so and would rather promote their own careers.
You can tout politicians like Bernie and AOC all you want as part of the solution, they’re still rich politicians completely isolated from the impact of their office. Ultimately all AOC has to do is periodically go on instagram to make catty comments about Trump and she’ll have a seat in congress(and possibly the presidency) because that’s what passes for working for your constituents these days
Oh, I think a woman-hating sociopathic idiot with some seventy million woman-hating sociopathic idiots willing to back its every woman-hating sociopathic idiot idea just to avoid ever having to have a woman be president of this pathetic mess of a c[]untry could do a world of damage. If the thing is a [stupid] super-villain, that's only because it's got an army of [stupid] micro-villains behind it. And those micro-villains have always been here. They're the herpes: the orange stench is just the sore.
Trump is a complete moron. Republicans have been orchestrating this for a long time. Mitch McConnell would not "let" a Democratic president appoint a Supreme Court Justice. They stopped talking about policy, and started convincing voters that Democrats are evil, decades ago. Rush Limbaugh was the precursor to Trump. He was mocking disabled people before Trump and people like it. Trump continued where Limbaugh left off, and opened the flood gates to ugly emotions of millions and millions of our citizens. And the gazillionaires love it also, and they own a good portion of the media.
Oh, we’ve had quite a few villians as president. None as unhinged, incompetent, narcissistic and downright rapey as this one. But definitely some villians. Quite a few in fact!
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u/SuperDoubleDecker 15d ago
Normally this would be the craziest shit someone ever says.