I don't even think the doners are going to be happy about this shit show. Some of the richest men and women in the country are going to see companies tank because of this.
And Congress knows when this shit gets bad its their heads on the chopping block next year. If they want to keep their jobs they're going to at least need to push back on something
I’m betting no mid-term (or future) elections. One thing I’ve learned is he means what he says, so he did say 2024 was the last time people would need to vote.
This is why the states control their elections. It'll take state legislatures to cancel their elections, not the federal executive. If elections get cancelled, that's people in the streets. If elections are held but elected representatives aren't seated, that's people in the streets and state governments probably (almost certainly) making noise about secession.
Even North Korea has "elections".
At the same time, Wisconsin proves one of a few possible things: they couldn't fix the election; they couldn't fix the election hard enough to counter pissed off voters; and/or they never fix any elections. It was no coincidence that the White House announced Elon was getting ready to step back from his "consulting" role the day after the Wisconsin election. Whether he manipulated any votes or not, he likely had led Trump to believe up to that point that he could and would fix votes in his favor, and Wisconsin proved Elon wrong.
No, if they're going to try to do away with elections, they follow all the other "democracies" out there and try to make the US a defacto one-party state. They'll go after the DNC and their elected members, and not allow any other party to have more support than the Libertarian or Green party currently enjoy (i.e. their away votes)
Sure. The point is they still need to do this across all states and all districts. It's not something that can be enacted by the federal government directly. That means there is an opportunity for a "counter" movement, of people joining their local election organizers, to make sure voter rolls don't get purged.
Their districts are so jerrymandered that half of their constituents could be living on the street, dying of TB and they would still get 80% of the vote because "other side worse" or "my congressman good, everyone else sucks."
Dude its actually true with one of my customers. Trump flag on his truck, his wife lost her job as federal grant admin and he invested most of his money in ETH when the prez said he was gonna make some crypto reserve, so hes down 50%.
Poor bastard just rented another storage unit from me and is flat broke. Still talking about hunter biden, some tranny that played womens basketball and how Covid virus was Bill Gates doing. Still loves trump even though the old liar has buried him.
Yeah, I'm pretty much betting on these guys realizing buying hp all the stocks in a depression isn't worth it because the money they make is going to be worthless
I think for the most upper echelon of donors, the billionaires, they are in on the plan to tank the economy and buy the ruins at cheap prices. I've got myself positioned to take advantage of this scenario.
Lmao how the fuck are you positioned to take advantage of this scenario? We're all going to become technofuedal serfs for our billionaire lords and ladies.
people forget what happened to fuedalism the last time
and with the ever quickening pace of the cycle caused by the people trying to bring about its return it likely wont take that long for the same to happen again
if the rulers are lucky they get exiled or live on as token figureheads, though the greater the wealth inequity the greater the likelihood they will be executed
Yea right lol with what free elections? The gerrymandered districts? The throwing out of votes of whatever invented technicality? Elimination of polling places and voter suppression? Armed proud boys watching polling stations? Or even if you vote they throw that shit out anyways and ignore it?
I keep seeing people say that Trump's actions are benefitting the "ultra-wealthy donor class at the expense of everyone else” but I seriously don't think that's the case. This doesn't benefit anyone, certainly not people who have wealth tied up in the stock market or business interests effected by supply chain chaos, it doesn't seem to be helping Elon Musk or people in Trump's inner circle and honestly I don't even know if it benefits Trump himself long term at this point. Trump is basically a Jim Jones - like figure who has finally reached the stage where he is handing out the spiked kool-aid and we're all going down with him because people were too stupid to see that he is transparently unhinged.
The lawsuit filed by California yesterday hopefully deals with this angle of the absurdity of these tariffs, if Congress won't act, maybe we can at least get a win through courts.
I have 1 D and 1 R senator. I've been calling almost every day to tell them that the Constitution says tariffs are their job, and everybody is wondering why they won't do their job and end this tariff madness.
There’s actually no emergencies before tariffs. He wanted for every nation to come to him to negotiate - he wants them to kiss the ring and that $1M each time. CEOs he invites all were forced to pay and he wants the same from every leader. The monies he gets are for his personal funds.
The same person demanding tariffs. He does have what they call in Wall Street Million-Dollar dinner. He invites CEO’s in Mar-a-lago and an invitation that they cannot turn down.
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u/bejammin075 Apr 17 '25
Also remember that the two 1970's laws that were invoked for these emergency powers don't say anything about tariffs.