He was handed the absolute strongest post-Covid economy in the industrialized world. And he’s singlehandedly fucked it up. And eventually even many of his most diehard voters will realize it. And it’ll be a painful realization for them.
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It wasn't single-handed. He did it with a cabal of lickspittle sycophants on "conservative DEI", who not only caved but encouraged every Dunning-Kruger instinct he had.
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74 million diehard voters never realized he singlehandedly messed up the economy Obama built, caused thousands of unnecessary Covid deaths through ignorance & intentional mismanagement, & lied to them over & over & over again. No Joe, you can't expect these fools to have painful realizations now.
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Will they though? Promise??? They're steadfastly supporting a felon rapist pedophile.
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My son in-law was going off about grocery prices yesterday. Without mentioning names, I unloaded him about tariffs. Coffee at Walmart last month, $16 for 40 Oz. Last week, it was $20 for 33.7 oz.
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He did not "fuck it up" in the sense that it was incompetence. Or recklessness. Or carelessness. This is all intentional. He is a 34-times convicted felon with a miles-long rap sheet. This is a crime spree.
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If that occurs, can we at least ask, “what took you so long?”
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If people were doing well, Trump wouldn't have won in a landslide.
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We can only hope. These people have engaged in the kind of mental gymnastics required to justify Ghislaine Maxwell as a victim. Mary Lou Retton would even attempt that, not even on 2 good ankles. His cult will engage in whatever mental gymnastics are required to swallow any shit he shovels their way
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They will "realize" it? Eventually?
Nope. If they were capable of that realization we wouldn't be here now. It'll never happen.
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Are the coal miners still waiting for him to "bring back" coal mining jobs? That's the most baffling part of the MAGA psyche to me. These people believe he's going to do the impossible, then when he doesn't they ignore that fact &/or claim he has accomplished the impossible feat.
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Trump support has nothing to do with economic policy; it’s 100% about hate JW
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The sooner Trump destroys the economy and lands into a recession (or a depression 🤞), the better. It's our only hope of overthrowing his regime.
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I'm telling you anecdotally, it's bad out here in the real world . Much worse than the government numbers let on. Businesses are down. Steel industry is down. Retail is down. It's much worse than wall street realizes.
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The cultists won't ever change their minds. And most republicans will at most stay home next time around, which makes them pathetic. This is why I can't stand republicans, and I'm not crazy about former republicans either.
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They accepted "eating cats and dogs" and more recently "the job numbers are rigged" with absolutely no evidence. Not even pretend evidence. They will never hold him accountable. It will always be the democrats fault.
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Hopefully..But I doubt it
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They'll never "realize it." They'll lap up whatever stupid lies Trump and Faux News spew about how this is all the Democrats' fault. They're beyond saving. It's a cult, and every cult eventually becomes a death cult.
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It’s taking too long.
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I don’t think most of his solid followers will believe it.
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He will blame Presidents Biden & Obama when the economy crashes, and his "diehards" will believe every word he says.
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Yes. How does maga not realize that grocery prices continue to rise, gas isn't $1.87, housing prices are out of control, and other goods are more expensive thanks to trump's damned tariffs? Went to a dollar store & an item that was $1.00 a year ago, is now $1.50. Sign of the times.😡
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If the realization doesn't kill them, it will make them stronger.
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I’m not that optimistic. Remember, this is the crowd that showed up at the RNC with sanitary pads on their ears. 🙄
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It’s a cult for many of them. We all know how cults end…
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His voters are too stupid to realize…
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Wake up America and stop being so braindead to the facts....you won't know what you had until it's gone. Well, it's just about all gone and now you're saying...hey, what happened? Thy name is oblivious.
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well, it was only ever for the 1%
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I wouldn’t say single-handedly. Republicans in Congress have assisted.
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Its like he was doing it deliberately, doesnt he know you shouldnt piss in your back yard, like holy hell.
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PAINFUL? OR THE FINAL COUNTDOWN?
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They may realize it but they won’t admit their culpability. They’ll just blame someone else.
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When it comes crashing down he'll alternately say "The Trump economy is great!" AND all the problems are due to Harris, Hillary, Powell, Obama, Biden, the deep state, woke-ism, immigrants, Democrats, MSM, socialists, communists, etc. Cognitive dissonance is a requirement to be MAGA.
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Says a lot about some that Trump didn’t become a disaster when he was sending innocent people to concentration camps or encouraging mass starvation or erasing women’s rights and black history but only when he blew up the money. But better later than never.
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And some will cheer on their own stupidity. Our education system in red states is so severely broken that I’m not sure we can ever fix it. Religion and education font mix
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I hope you’re right, but predictions of what those people will understand and act on have not been very successful thus far. Why do you think this is different? And what will be left of America if / when they do.
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You wrong Joe, gas $1.99/gallon, inflation down, factories being built, and jobs are growing. Just listen to chicken taco, Obama is a traitor and taco is a brilliant potus. Epstein was bad, barely knew him, and Maxwell is trustworthy. Don't believe your eyes
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He started Covid. He liked that economy.
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Because he’s the breaker of everything he touches!
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The fact that you voted for him will be a stain on you forever.
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We can all agree with this sentiment Joe. Now what is your plan? How do we rid ourselves of this menace?!
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They will blame Biden
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Oh noes! It-ll be painful for them?
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Pass away, either from fatal stupidity or asphyxiation caused by putting their heads to far up the maga ass.
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What you say sounds good, but diehard MAGAts are incapable of independent thought. They would die for their orange cult leader.
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But his diehard voters have already been seen standing in line behind Mike Johnson, waiting to get on their knees. ...they will never admit they did that for nothing.
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You're kidding yourself. His most diehard voters will believe whatever Trump and Fox tell them to believe.
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Remember when Obama fucked up that bush economy? 🙄 Fucked it so good it was screaming until donny snorelone got a hold of it.
We always have to clean up after the elephant. Every fucking time.
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Well said, Joe
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His cult are dolts and fascists. Don't expect anything from them, ever.
The others, the ones who voted for the monster but aren't cult members - those are the ones we need to get.
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Joe you should run for office.
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THIS IS TRUE
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will this revelation come before it is too late?
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How many of jim jones's followers drank the kool aid? They will follow him off the cliff, Joe. that's what cult members do. It's OK to them that they've lost family members, lost respect of their peers and neighbors, lost money, lost homes, lost farms. They're in a cult
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You pay a price for purposely being stupid and making your neighbors suffer for your efforts to remain ignorant.
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What the hell did you expect?
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no, they wont. They are deep in delusional land and to accept even a fraction of the truth is beyond their ability.
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No it won’t. You misunderestimate the human ability to rationalize away (usually by blamethrowing) unpleasant realizations.
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Sadly, we'll all be in the crapper when they become "enlightened."
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The dildo of consequences seldom arrives lubed.
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direct, deadly experience is what is finally going to wake them up. It's too too bad, but they don't understand things till those things BITE them, themselves. I'm expecting people's kids are going to start dying and that will trigger (literally) some for revenge.
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“Eventually” being the key word here
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I don’t think they will ever realize it. He’s going to manipulate the data and deny it and they’ll believe him because they have no one else to believe anymore. They need him as much as he needs them.
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After you realize it, please get on the phone or e-mail and tell your reps in DC what you think about tariffs and higher prices. It only takes a few minutes and it doesn't cost any money. We don't need money in politics. We just need people to participate. www.nationalfinancialplan.com
National Financial Plan – The United States needs a long-term Financial Plan
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Your moron, er, “low information voter?”
Koolaid still tastes grrrreat!
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Their enlightenment can’t come soon enough.
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Counterpoint: No they won’t and they’d rather die than admit they were wrong.
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Yep.
Unfortunately, racism is quite the drug.
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Giving way too much credit to Americans.
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Chaos, dysfunction and destruction is inevitable with Trump’s spectrum of personality disorders.
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And, they'll still vote for him again, because they are lemmings and will literally go over the cliff for him.
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Pain needs to go to the bone for The Cult. Learning from experience will be the telling point of idiot or not idiot.
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Doubt it. Republicans have been spoon-fed millions of lies over decades. They built fake lives on lies. What’s one more?
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Good
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How do you reach the Right now? They left you behind a long time ago!
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Will they??😳
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They won’t admit it, though. That would be too dangerous to their egos.
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For some but not most. MAGA are just like the Nazis and Japanese imperialists who never accepted responsibility or failure
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It's already started.
You are correct. They are definitely showing signs of being punch drunk.
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But they will still vote red so I don’t feel sorry for them.
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Not holding my breath for maga’s epiphany.
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But, but, he's lowered the price of Prescription drugs 1500 percent!
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I wish I shared your optimism that they are capable of learning the right lessons.
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Yeah because he is truly a stupid asshole that if it wasn’t for his father’s money he wouldn’t have amounted to anything.
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He was also handed the roaring Obama economy and took credit for it, but the smart folks knew it was riding the coattails of Barack Obama. Donny boy isn't fit to shine President Obama's shoes.
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Not single handedly. He got the whole-hearted support of the Republican party.
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I am afraid his supporters will never blame him. It amazes me at their ignorance whether it’s by choice or just pure stupidity
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It took New York banks a while to realize Donald Trump couldn’t be trusted to keep an enterprise out of bankruptcy, too. It’s so he has to use his office to extort Arab princes and launder Russian dollars to raise any cash these days!
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I think that many supporters may feel like they're starting to realize it, but they will now be so deeply invested in their illogical, unwavering support, it will be too late for them to admit they were wrong. A LOT of fragile egos and unfounded pride seems yo make them double down, almost.
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“ Lucky I’m sane after all I’ve been through …(everybody say…. I ain’t changing either..
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They will never admit it!
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They won’t care
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Not for a long while. MAGAland has no clue what’s coming beginning next year. Then it will be too late. The fascist state apparatus is pretty well established now. Vance, Thiel, Bannon, Vought, Miller don’t need The Orange Messiah any longer— he’s now expendable.
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Speaking of Covid and Fuck Ups
3/4 million died unnecessarily with his bullshit lying and misinformation
Look at Gaza & Ukraine and how many people dying that Trump could stop if he wasn't so busy sucking Putin's and Bibi's dick
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The pain is already real on so many levels. It’s hard to decide who and what is the most unbearable.
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no...it wasnt single handed
trump is a clown show distraction
the has been systematic destruction by the heritage foundation and project 2025
this was planned
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F'ing it up is his legacy. . .
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Republicanism has not been oriented toward democratic values in decades. In reality, conservative movements almost always head away from democracy & funnels money upward. This isn't new, it's just reached its goal You were in the party & you should acknowledge that.
Piss-down economics, anyone? -
They will never admit it - I thought Jan 6 would be enough, fraud, sexual assault, mishandling our secrets, somewhere in an Alabama trailer a maga woman is knitting socks for poor, victim Ghislaine Maxwell as we speak - he lies and they believe
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Absolutely everything they need will increase in cost to live! Food,gas,electricity,rent, insurances,taxes!
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This song has been on repeat my entire life. Rs tank the economy. Ds spend 4 years fixing it. Rs spend 4 years complaining about the economy, bitching and moaning about how life was better under said Rs who tanked the economy. His most diehard fans will die on this hill.
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They will never admit their Orange Jesus would err. That is what a cult is all about.
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They'll feel it, but most maga will continue to believe the lies/gaslighting and blame anyone but Dear Leader. As @johnfugelsang.bsky.social once said .. "Trump will piss his pants and claim it's Biden's urine"
They might know somewhere deep within (if that place exists) but they'll ignore that.
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MAGA will have to take their place at the back of the bread line when the food supply chain comes crashing down and inflation starts spiraling again.
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Not singlehandedly. The Republicans refusing to do their sworn duty are most certainly aiding and abetting.
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Nah, he had a lot of help from the magat minions in congress and the corrupt junk drawer.
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Late 2023, Spring 2024, stories from economists of the world were suggesting the USA was the envy of the world because of the fastest post Covid recovery, lowest unemployment decades, #1 GDP, & infrastructure bill. By Fall 2024, USA economists couldn’t deny it.
www.economist.com/special-repo...
The envy of the world | Oct 19th 2024 | The Economist
The envy of the world. Special reports from The Economist. You've seen the news, now discover the story.
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I hope you are correct and they won’t keep their heads in the sand.
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Yes they are finding out already. My neighbors were big Trump fans and now they are complaining about price increases, ships waiting at sea to determine the ever changing tariff situations as well as many other broken promises Trump made. They are waking up now that it affects their pocket books.
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Will they? It will be like passengers on the deck of the sinking titanic wondering what they'll be serving for dinner that night
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Not painful enough (for them)
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And they'll blame trans people.
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They are realizing it but if fox constantly gives them an out, by lamely saying it’s the democrats’s fault or redirecting their attention, they will never learn.
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During the campaign Trump said he would make EVERYTHING cheaper. (and then ramble on about windmills killing whales) He's a bull-shitter who NEVER had a plan! Sadly, MILLIONS fell for the bull-shit.
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They will blame Biden and vote Republican again so that the misery continues. It's a death cult.
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You do not need psychic gifts to know Trump will eventually fail in whatever he does. But before it was limited to a Casino or Airline or University. Now it impacts this country and much of the world.
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The ardent admirers who are being tipped about the stock market? They're very happy. If you mean the rubes, they're too dumb to care as long as brown people are being tortured
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And we’ll all suffer for it
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Did the same thing last run. But it was a test run.
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Alternate theory: they will never realize it because the bulk of the press refuses to call out lies or even balls & strikes, and the GOP will continue to unrestrictedly lie.
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Shit, even the QAnon shaman hates him now, and he went to jail for Trump.
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They won't realize anything. Like they won't just blame Obama, Biden, pelosi, immigrants, trans people. Anything but the rich white psychopaths they vote for.
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Yah… eventually
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100% plus one under Obama !
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Trump ended the Biden Boom and fucked up our economy in only 6 months
I give up and am moving my 23 old US business with 170 employees overseas as America is no longer a reliable place for business
America is doomed
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They will never acknowledge it.
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They will only realize it when it directly affects them, because they lack empathy.
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What post-COVID economy?
The disease is still disabling and killing people.
Pretending something doesn't exist doesn't make it go away, anymore than firing the BLS chief makes the bad jobs numbers go away.
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But a whole lot of Americans who did not ask for this and actively opposed it will also be hurt
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But will they? I think many if not most, will do mental gymnastics to justify any economic downturn.
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There’s nothing horrific enough that could happen to people that voted for Donald Trump. Every one of them deserves a fate, worse than death.
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No they won’t, they’ll blame Obama and whoever they think is the next presidential nominee
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He has plenty of people and institutions to blame for ant negativity. Fire a few more honest hardworking people, make some grandiose promises and move on. He is a career criminal felon conman fraud. His supporters sre fools. It is easier to fool a fool than to convince a fool he’s been fooled
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Every speech he gives he lies and says Biden ran the economy into the ground. Nobody corrects him, MAGA folks believe him.
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WTF This occurred June 27,2025 Four big tech executives the Army directly commissioned to be lieutenant colonels, with no military background, will not recuse themselves from business dealings with the Department of Defense -- as the Pentagon, particularly the Army, cozies up to Silicon Valley.
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I hope that realization kills them.
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Yeah, but will it be too late?
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Everything Trump touches turns to shit.
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The more I think about it, the more I think this is by design. I've a feeling the 1% looked back at 2007 and saw they made a killing and decided they want to do it again.
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You’re very optimistic about their ability to free themselves from the RW news silo AND having the critical-thinking skills to move beyond the dissonance.
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Neoliberalism & conservatism are both literally a recipe for oligarchy & fascism.
Fuck Trump. Fuck Republicans. & Fuck the centrist establishment Democrats who straddled the aisle & hand-jobbed the right for the last 50 years.
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I don't think they will. I had someone turn round to me the other day and sincerely say "Trump did a great job managing covid." I was gobsmacked.
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The worst part is that he’s done that in 6 months. What the hell are the next 3.5 years going to look like?
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💯💯💯
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Lmao by the time they realize it they'll be working in the fields wondering how they got there and where their lunchables and Mountain Dew went.
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Wake Up! Donald Trump And His Administration Have Lost Credibility And Faith As He Has "Snake Oiled" The American People And Is Destroying Our Calm/Kind/Healthy Nation That Lived By The Rule Of Law And Our Blessed Constitution! We Need To Fight And Call Our Neighbors To Alert What They Are Doing!
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Hmmm....they won't. I'd like to ask them "are your lives better than President Biden?" I'd be he and Kamala would like to say "I told you so", but they are too classy to say it. If you are collecting a paycheck, you are not that 1%. Get real!
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I don’t know. His supporters face same dilemma he does - to admit the truth they must account for their destruction of truth & the defenestration of country & democracy they exploited to universal ruin. Sunk psychological costs may sink the country.
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I don't think they'll ever realize they've been lied to because he's brainwashed them to believe he can never make a mistake. He'll blame other countries, the Biden administration, political rivals and the Fed for any economic failures he's created. They won't leave him.
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Now, wouldn’t it be nice if it was only them having the privilege of walking through his sabotage?
There’s nothing like the loving touch he’s had with so many things?
Casinos, fake universities, scam after scam; all leaving a trail of damage like a tornado, but he’s the solution to their problems?
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Let's hope enough of them realize it to reach the Bannon Line. If 4% flip or stay home, the Republicans are toast.
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I hope it’s painful the idiots.
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He and his ilk are making money for themselves, and most of congress are playing the market to their financial advantage..
The commoners aren't invited to the ball..
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By the time they realize it and get to vote again … we’ll ALL be poorer for their blind stupidity.
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How can you still not understand what motivates Trump voters? Trump gives people permission to be their worst selves and they will never abandon him because of that. "The economy" is just the excuse the white conservative Christians give because they aren't comfortable being bigots in public yet.
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No they absolutely will not realize or accept it.
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People will cross out America on their MAGA hats and write Economy in it's place to make MEGA.
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Don't worry - they'll find a way to blame Biden and Obama.
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When someone fires the head of the BLS that also tells you that fair and free elections are over.
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Many already have
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They won’t though. It’s been a decade, they have the superpower of stupidity x reality avoidance
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May they literally die on that hill. Quickly.
Pass them all the Trump Kool-Aid.
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Teenyhandedly
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The Qanon Trump Cult is a real Cult...which is why many now support a known pedophile
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His die-hard ill informed voters may realize they're screwed, but it will be too late. Why do people think all the tech bros and other billionaires are pouring money into crypto? They are watching the dollar go down and celebrating.
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His diehard voters are too stupid to ever realize it. You cannot undrink the cool aid.
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They continue to blame Biden.
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If I’m honest, I hope his followers have even that much self-awareness. I’m not holding my breath.
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And he fucked it up for his own gain literally taking food away from kids and building a 200M bullshit ballroom. He's good at funneling funds from his donors. Oh and he loves to do laundry.
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America actually ranks as the 7th strongest post-Covid economy on the Covid Economic Recovery Index (CERI).
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Totally expected from a felon!
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We can only hope his red-hatted supporters suffer the most and the longest.
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It will be too late and YES many of his supporters will be hit the hardest. #PayforPlay #thebiggrift He gets RICH beyond belief and when he croaks or finally is ousted, the FASCIST #technobros take over. AI runs the world, and women are forced to birth their slave labor for menial jobs.
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also the freedoms we are losing with this autocratic regime
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Sadly, it won't matter because in a fascist country like ours everything is "HAPPY." Every day. The numbers will always be good. Wheat Production will be "bountiful." The Citizens will feel "pride." Dear leader will be cherished and America will be "peaceful."
"Truth" will triumph over reality.
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Bush W crashed the economy and they blamed Obama...
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The thing is, even though Trump is very ill and quite possibly psychotic, his handlers are not and they know the people will eventually fight back, hard, so they will suppress any resistance, hard, and ensure no meaningful elections occur. Or die, and they don't intend to die.
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Spoilers. The later order consequences will make these look like the halcyon days.
Additional spoilers. When the consequences mount, the fascist magats will blame every last one of them on you.
They don't admit fault. They'd rather kill us all.
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Once realizing sets in this will be maga
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I hope so. It’s the only way they will learn.
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And they will blame Democrats, immigrants, minorities, and "woke" policies. Tale as old as Ronald Reagan. Ignorance is the GOP base.
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Cognitive dissonance is painful.
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Struggling to care about their future painful realization while in pain right here and now myself, seeing the damage done to people, places, and things I love.
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Too stupid to realize anything
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If you love a 4 time draft dodger who publicly ridiculed vietnam vet and member of his own party John Mccain who spent 5 years as a POW - refusing to jump the prisoner release queue - then vote him in twice as commander in chief you pretty much get what you deserve
