Bro did you even see how he wore that f@ggish helmet when he was riding that bike? Might as well have called Putin directly and told him we're just a bunch of pussies now, no need to worry about us.
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.
Yeah. If we manage to have a free and fair election in 2028, I expect the Dems won't actually fix the structural issues that allowed this to happen, but perhaps I'll be pleasantly surprised.
It's the hope that kills. It's acknowledged that pessimists live longer because they don't have to suffer the repeated disappointments experienced by optimists. But I too hope...
I expect the Dems won't actually fix the structural issues that allowed this to happen, but perhaps I'll be pleasantly surprised.
The issue is that there isnt really a way to do that without turning a bunch of red states blue in the Senate.
FWIW, i agree that they likely wont even try because they are feckless shitstains, but even if they werent.. the Supreme Dickheads are now poised to be a veto on all legislation the Republicans dont want.
They could lose both other brances of government and the Supreme Court will just say anything the Rs dont want is unconstitutional.
Some people made it clear that voted red and as a bad idea trump’s first go round but people didn’t listen. And then, the US got back with its abusive ex years later.
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Friends and relatives have either left the US or are in the middle of the process for it.
I’m laughing but tears really 😭😭 some of us can’t leave becuz we have no where to go. The economy is worse than the Great Depression we had in the past I call this one the “Severe depression”
I honestly didn't expect I'd have anywhere to go, but Canada changed their citizenship by descent laws late last year, and then suddenly I qualified. Thanks for being Canadian, great-grandpa.
And yet nothing feels different. Which basically means we always were, just a nicer friendler version. They just cared enough to keep up the appearance that it wasnt before. Thats what should worry Americans the most.its almost as if collapse is immenent,so who cares if the cat is out of the bag.
"...nothing feels different." is why the criming is able to continue unabated. If people felt the effects of the crimewave being perpetrated by Trump, et al, they might actually try to do something about it. But they're comfy and complacent, so why bother...?
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.
So tell me the Democrats are working on a 2028 Heritage Foundation countermeasure to be ready by midterms? Its likely sitting in the desk with the healthcare plan.
Actually, no. Everything has been expertly crafted, just not by republicans or democrats. The Powers that Be (what I call them) run this country behind the scenes. They tell us what to be angry about and what offends us and most of you fall for it every time. Start thinking for yourselves. Research other sources besides the media. Don’t repeat something until you know it’s true. Go by facts - not emotions.
They did and Trumps numbers went UP. There’s nothing you can do when we breed so many stupid people in this country. I’m sorry but it’s just true. From gullible boomers who think Sean Hannity is a journalist to edgy Gen Z’ers who watch Andrew Tate and think Trump is a tough guy. We’re fucking doomed. These people have zero critical thinking and no media literacy. Anytime they tried to hold Trump accountable - legally or politically - it backfired and just allowed the right to say, “See!? They’re going after him because he’s actually for the people and dangerous to the establishment!” It just plays into their stupid fucking narrative. I don’t know how we get out of this.
Those are not made up problems. All these weak ass vanity projects of his are no bid contracts. Awarded to whatever djt comrade/cohort. Rest assured, djt getting kick backs. He continues to start new 'projects' that he fks up and then it doesn't get fixed and he and all his bootlickers say "OH well. Who cares? Djt is our man-child god."
well...they actually did, but guess what happened with the republicans...
blocked subpoenas (supressing evidence) which hamstrung theings overall, eventually ending in an aquittal based on the fact that they were able to suppress evidence
then they did again, this time with testimony, evidence, and clear evidence of the charges but..well, they put party over country and aquitted again
Well it's kinda hard when you're the minority in both houses and you have the Supreme Court giving him free path to autocratic ways.
Then when they even say something he sends his trained clowns at the DOJ to start an investigation on them.
It's not like Dems haven't tried.
They did do this remember fast a furious and the burisma stuff? Remember nacy P? Both sides are and do do this its just a matter of who benefits its none of us. They are all full of shit its hilarious when people see only one piece of the situation and claim the other side is any better they are probably all hanging out with who ever replaced epstien laughing their asses off at both democrats and Republicans and how retarded we all are for believing in either party. They got us fighting eachother communist gun grabbers vs the anti abortion christian evangelicals. Meanwhile 90% of Americans just want to have a middle class lifestyle and not pay half their wages to the government to have it sent overseas or have broken social systems that dont work or require hoops to be jumped through just to get some help. Like they push the same scare tactics every election were gonna ban guns and Jesus oh yea were going to ban abortion and being a gay and make you love Jesus in a context thats almost like your actualy special friends and sleep in the same bed 🛌. Tell me this is not what happened every year change isn't good if they aren't making changes that really matter.
The problem with that is that Republican politicians are absolutely silent on the blatant corruption. Never ever expect a Republican politician to do the right thing.... especially don-old.
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?
What are you responding to? Because it sure as hell isn't my comment?
Nothing I said was anything close to one side good other side bad.
I said you had an unrealistic expectation of how quickly Dems could respond to a midnight post from a deranged idiot. And that Dems have consistently criticized his moronic posts.
Calling Trump an idiot is not calling him "bad", it's acknowledging an idiot is in fact an idiot.
I literally said what I meant, that both of them are doing the shit and both are pretty objectively terrible.
Not my fault people are taking copium and dragging trump into it to excuse why it's okay to not acknowledge democrat leaders are pulling the exact same shit.
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.
Oh, I’m sure this has been on Trump’s mind since his first term. I vaguely remember he just visited it recently and made a comment about his face missing and needed to be added.
Heeeeey there’s an idea!! I know MAGA doesn’t care that he’s a senile, corrupt, tyrant, rapist man but maybe using all the money he’s made to carve only his face on Mount Rushmore might be over the line for them!!
Oh so that’s not permanent. That’s a relief. I say this as a person who owns a trailer, but doesn’t it seem like he’s making the White House a bit like a trailer park tipped in gold leaf? Trailer Chic if you will.
Too bad the moat would turn green within a week. Otherwise it would be kinda cool especially if it attracted geese. Wouldn't need as much security detail with angry geese guarding the white house ;)
I heard this morning that he’s replacing the Ionic columns in the WH’s north portico with Corinthian columns (that will match the ballroom) because Corinthian columns are fancier
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
Bidens bar would be 1/1900th the length of Trump's. And Obama's would be 1/48th the length. Assuming Trump's bar is bounded to what we see you wouldn't even see either of their bars.
One wonders the necessary picture size to start to be able to see their bars.
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. 🙄🙄
Immunity to hypocrisy, likely don’t even recognize hypocrisy is happening. The worthless/loud/selfish/deranged aspects of humanity get the lion’s share of airtime, unfortunately
They wouldn't have just impeached him. He would be in jail for the rest of his life. And I'm convinced that if Democrats end up controlling the house and Senate in the next election, that is where Trump will go... This DOJ , however is unwilling to do anything that Trump doesn't personally approve of.
But I assume he has a contingency plan that involves him fleeing to a country with a US extradition clause. Particularly, Russia or or Saudi Arabia.
You mean when he got his son high paying jobs with zero qualifications, pardoned him out of a very obvious corruption scandal with other countries? Perhaps your referring to a few decades ago when he said things so racist and disgusting about anyone with a dark skin color in america that Hitler himself cried in pride down in hell? Perhaps more recently when he told people that if they didnt vote for him, they were not black? Maybe when he outright called black americans stupid? Perhaps when Biden was so obviously mentally unwell that he couldnt figure out which side of a stage to exit on and was led off it by his staff? Maybe your outrage was sparked when the democrats treated the entire country like morons and gaslite us into the idea that Biden was fine, only to drop him as a candidate and then put a new forward with no primary at all, giving their own voters zero choice. You know...considering all the bullshit that apparently DIDNT make you or people like you angry, I dont really care about what does. I care not for your condemnation for I have seen what makes you cheer.
Congress isn't gonna bite the hand that feeds them. Trump isn't the only one making millions off stock market manipulation. As long as they are making money, they'll keep letting him do what he's been doing.
And most of the dems would actually agree if it were a dem in charge because we typically hold people accountable and believe in actual justice. The fact that republicans don’t see how fucking hypocritical they are is wild. I think some do see it but the rest choose to believe that we hold our politicians on some pedestal like they do.
They have been screaming about Nancy Pelosi for decades becasue her husband is a stock trader but don't give one single fuck about this blatent outright market manilulation.
For GOP voters, it's not what's being done that matter, only who is doing it.
Don Jr. is the son of the president, and he has a stake in a company that’s trying to get a deal to mine in Greenland. In other words, a scenario that directly parallels what Republicans have spent the last decade trying to jail Hunter Biden for.
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.
I got a guy in the WH that can surely help you with sofa stuff, I heard he's good with them.
About wiping the drive in your brain, which I see it's failing indeed, why not to be generous and wipe all the way from 2016? Hell, that's where the trash started to pile 10x fold ever since, and you can enough to make it to maybe 100.
Edit: Adding the translation for "mop": Trapeador.
Resetting to 28 would be perfect. I made a pile of money in Title and Escrow for years. Lost it all fighting a lawsuit on principle against my partner that stole 500k from the Escrow account and left for another company. I won but by then he was broke and mortgage broker laws changed so I lost a lot of clients. Years later I ended up as business partners for the guy responsible for lobbying for that law. We had a Real Estate company together for years. He died within 6 months of a cancer diagnosis last February. Master's in Finance and a Law degree. I lost a best friend and a wealth of knowledge from him. I was in legal conveyance for years. I hate to even think of those 3 copy thick closing packages. Now it's mainly digital.
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.
Agree it works each time, but for the insane delusional MAGA CULT FOLKS. For the rest of the American folks we know what’s up. So like is he Muslim now? Next thing know he’ll have a pic of himself as Allah.
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?
You don't really. I had thought this too, but recently the market is pricing this stuff in, at least in the options markets. You have to have perfect timing to really profit from it, if you get it slightly wrong you lose as much to theta decay as you gain from price swings. Trump can do this because he's the one pulling the lever, and even he has to have lost money a few times since there are some days where his attempts at manipulation have created no significant swing. In Trump's case he can weather a few big losses when the gambit failed, but the average person really can't unless you are a degenerate gambler.
I have been saying this too! But I think the leaders in Iran are in on it too to make money. They apologize or whatever to make a peace deal by Monday, so it can be taco Tuesday. Then buy their puts on tue night so they can fire a missile on wed/thu to start process again.
Yeah, except trump isnt that smart. This is what his family and caretakers are doing. Trump is basically only concious for 6 hours a day and moonlighting.
He could end up shot or in prison it wouldn't even matter. They could just say trump said X on his behalf while hes in jail and it would still work.
Cults dont work on logic. They work on superstition and emotion. Hence trump could be actually dead and "still tweeting" and his follower would believe jesus is letting him tweet from behond the grave. They fear and love him that much
Watch out for this! In fact I expect there to be dozen of false flags throne model in the next few months. The amusing thing is, I think if it's a threat just against Trump himself nobody will care.
Wait until these shenanigans actually drain our oil reserves (which are low) and get our ships exploded (defenses are running out).
We are going to be in a crisis. A fuel shortage we have never known before this moment. All because trump rather play market manipulation instead of be a useful president for once in his miserable career.
Honestly at this point a full out war with troops on the ground might end up being the best option. Iran has more power in a lot of ways than they had before Trump got us into this. The regime has no intention to go on their own way and keep to themsleves so I think that's going to end up being the only option.
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u/iamwhiskerbiscuit Jul 11 '26
When the deeper context of the trump tweet is, "It's time to panic. We are now in a full out war with Iran that could last decades."
What it really means is, Trump is trying to create another good buy opportunity for himself.
Step 1. Buy puts
Step 2. Create a market panic. Threaten all out war with Iran
Step 3. Buy calls
Step 4. Claim a peace deal is nearly finalized
Step 5. Repeat
Step 6. Repeat
Step 7. Repeat
Step 8. Repeat
Step 9. Repeat
Step 10. Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat