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MAGA's gonna party like it's 2020!

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[–] dididiididi@lemmy.cafe 1 points 24 minutes ago

Ahah good hope they starved

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 1 points 32 minutes ago

Everyone ready to start intermittent fasting without choice?

[–] AsslessChaps@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 37 minutes ago

Any society is three meals from revolution

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

i blame carter

[–] Blubber28@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

They really want to pick up where they left off huh

[–] Mavytan@feddit.nl 1 points 1 hour ago

The article is behind a paywall. Do you have other sources?

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

As someone who doesn't live in the US, I'm looking forward to watching this unfold.

It's going to hurt Trump. I'm sorry a lot of Dem voters will be collateral damage but honestly, an economic shit storm of biblical magnitude is pretty much the only thing that can save you IMO.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

It's unclear if it's going to save america, considering it's 1:1 out of hitler's playbook. He crashed the economy with tarrifs before going all in.

[–] aramova@infosec.pub 18 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

As an American I agree, though I have to point out something those of us living this shit nightmare know...

This won't hurt him. At all. His supporters by and large are what you'd expect from full on Stockholm syndrome victims.

They excuse, Sanewash, and pretend it's part of some plan to make them great.

His supporters? They can soak in their own bloodbaths and say it was Obama's fault or some Hillary conspiracy.

The one issue voters who sat out last time, the middle of the ground twats who thought their vote didn't matter, the Palestinians who thought Kamala's stance on Israel wasn't strong enough... Those are the people who have to suffer enough to motivate them to not be so fucking indifferent to things they don't fully understand.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

IMO it's not really the MAGA idiots you need to worry about. It's the influential people in the republican party who are supporting Trump.

You're right that the stereotypical trump supporter can't be dissuaded by economic hardship.

However, the people that thought Trump was going to deliver them never before seen profits through de-regulation can very easily be dissuaded be economic hardship.

An economic hole is forming, and if it's deep enough and wide enough Trump will be unseated.

[–] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago

Agreed. After watching videos of people literally dying in the ICU being told they are passing away soon specifically because they got COVID and didn’t take the vaccine or wear masks and drank horse dewormer or whatever else, and when asked they said they were regretful, they all say “no,” I knew we were screwed.

Hell, I had that same thought happen again when I watched parents whose little children died from Measles were asked “do you regret not vaccinating your now dead children?” And they immediately without hesitation said “no.”

It is a cult, and they are locked in until they are all burned away like a literal fever.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

I'm living the dream with individually wrapped quilted 3-ply tp rolls and $1.75/doz eggs. Current version of the us sucks balls.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 18 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Let me put it this way. Today I spent over $700 on a massive amount of groceries and various toiletries.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 13 points 8 hours ago (6 children)

Jesus, Mary and Joseph and all his carpenter friends what the fuck did you spend 700 dollars on? Is that US?

Like I know you said groceries and various toiletries but the curiosity is tickling me.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Jesus, Mary and Joseph and all his carpenter friends what the fuck did you spend 700 dollars on? Is that US?

Eggs.

[–] celeryfc@lemm.ee 10 points 5 hours ago

4 of them to be precise.

[–] Ydna@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago

Could actually be a lot of canned goods. The top shelf stuff is like $5 per can 😳

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 7 hours ago

A few dozen eggs?

[–] Manalith@midwest.social 7 points 6 hours ago

Probably a lot of non-perishables, or like those camping meals with a 10-year life span.

[–] AugustWest@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago

Last time I was in the states I figured it worked out to about 100 per bag of grocerys.

So they bought 7 bags. Or maybe 5 now.

Easy to do.

[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 7 points 7 hours ago

Stockpiling

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 160 points 14 hours ago (4 children)
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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 31 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

https://archive.is/VUtGt

rump proves he still has no idea what a tarriff is:

“I am this giant store. It’s a giant, beautiful store, and everybody wants to go shopping there,” he said. “And on behalf of the American people, I own the store, and I set prices, and I’ll say, ‘If you want to shop here, this is what you have to pay.’ ”

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

And then he makes the surprized picachu face when people shop elsewhere.

[–] Mavytan@feddit.nl 2 points 1 hour ago

Thanks for sharing the archive link!

[–] BreakerSwitch@lemm.ee 12 points 7 hours ago

It's hysterical how he compares the US to a department store, a kind of store that is all but dead in 2025.

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