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"The president single-handedly wiped out Americans' retirement savings overnight and subjected businesses to intense whiplash with his increasingly erratic and chaotic policies that continue to drive consumer and business uncertainty."

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[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 73 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Trump is gonna try his best to make the best depression ever.

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It’s like he is purposely doing this to punish Americans for not reelecting him in 2020.

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think it's worse than that. I think he legitimately thinks this is a good idea, and the sycophants that surround him are too afraid to oppose him.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

No, it’s worse than even that. The sycophants surrounding him fall into two camps: the uber-wealthy who want to buy businesses, houses, everything for a song, and see this as a golden opportunity since they have more than enough wealth to ride this out; and the loons who believe the end times are almost upon us and will let Trump do whatever he wants as long as he triggers the Rapture.

Really, there’s three groups, because there’s also a small subset (Zuckerberg is one of them, Elon is another) who fall into both camps. They dream of the day that the world implodes, the governments dissolve into chaos, the environment turns horrible and hostile.

Then they will retreat into their lavish bunkers (Zuckerberg’s is in Hawaii) with their servants and security guards (their loyalty guaranteed by shock collars and their families being held hostage) and wait for everything to subside. And then they will emerge with their loyal army to build their perfect paradise, with them at the head of it, of course.

Seriously, they write long think-pieces and even whole books about this stuff.

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