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[–] courageousstep@lemm.ee 49 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I wish they'd quit making up cutesy names for actual horrors. It's not a "Trumpsession," it's a fucking recession.

I understand that including his name ties him to the event, but too many people have a positive connotation with it, so they won't see the word recession, only his name.

[–] adm@lemm.ee 30 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I have heard my brother in law (who voted for trump) say that things will have to get very bad before he can make them better. His base knows. They dont care and think its 'part of the plan'

[–] CherryBullets@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Your brother in law is eating stale ass cake

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

What's a cake without eggs?

Vegan

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 4 days ago

The billionaire said I must eat these trays of shit sandwiches so I can have a chance to eat a turkey sandwich later.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

His base is a bunch of cultist lunatics that would vote for him if he shot their mom on fifth avenue in front of them.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

...and then proceeded to bang their daughters/sisters...

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Holy fuck is that so very stupid. Things were already actually quite good. These dipshits keep saying that Biden gave donvict "the worst economy ever" which is suuuuuuuch a load. And now they are going to welcome things being actually much worse, dreaming of some bright future where they will benefit (and presumably, donvict will be "hurting the people he needs to be hurting" in that bright future, i.e,. not the xtian white far-right people, and making exceptions for the "good" versions of POC, women, gays, etc...)

How are these magoffs any different from the dumbasses that believed Mao's horseshit about a "Great Leap Forward" and "5 year plans", etc...?

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago

Saying this is a 'Trump induced recession' is too many syllables for the maga fucks to get through their thick skulls.

[–] twoandtwoarefour@50501.chat 11 points 4 days ago

Recession feels like a cute word for full blown depression in my opinion.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

We might be lucky if donvict's actions "only" cause a recession and not an all-out depression. Desperate people are not going to sit around and do nothing and they'll be ripe for easy answers being supplied by the likes of extremists.

I know accelerationists of both wings like to imagine that they and/or their ideology will come out on top in the event of violent revolution/civil war, but...it usually doesn't work like that.