So there's trillions knocked off the stock market because of these tarriffs. I'm not up with the stock market and economics and shit like that, but I take it these tarrifs have been a big big mistake and everyone is getting fucked in the ass, yanks and all? Could this not be seen a mile away?

Or is there a positive spin somewhere in this?

Help an idiot out

Positive if you're in a position to seize massive amounts of devalued assets.

What point does it have to hit before the White House is lynched?


Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on April 03, 2025, 04:02:51 PMPositive if you're in a position to seize massive amounts of devalued assets.

That is likely the point of it indeed

So everything is worth shit, guys buy it dirt cheap. Things go up in value, people who bought it are quids in?

Very text book villian stuff. Wasn't that the plot in one of the police academy movies? One without Steve Guntenburg?

Robber baron stuff. It's what happens if you elect a robber baron whose unelected number 1 is a robber baron and whose inauguration is attended by the top five robber barons in the nation.

Somehow many didn't see it coming. Even among those who weren't home "schooled"

Yeah this shit isn't remotely surprising to anyone with more than two braincells, but unfortunately there's far too many people with barely those two.

Crash the market. Buy assets at knockdown price. But trans something something...

LOOK OVER THERE! IMMIGRANTS!

I think things were looking so silly in the other direction that it was simply reactionary that he was elected again.

Had they thrown up any sort of a centrist against him, he'd surely have stayed gone.

Another crash, another wealth transfer. Same as banking crash, same as covid. And now if someone shoots him, it'll be Vance getting in. I guess nothing will really change ever

Harris is a centrist. Biden is a centrist. Liberalism is centrism. It took enormous effort to make liberalism look like communism. And in fact, it never did look like communism. It's just that the target audience was hundreds of millions of meticulously prepared minds lacking in any concept of intelligent reasoning.

And since you mention COVID: if you still haven't realized--even with a lethally dangerous mook like RFK as secretary of the department of health--that at the very least, very charitably, half the stuff you personally ended up believing about the pandemic was in fact an integral part of that preparation, then there's not much anyone can do for you.

Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on April 03, 2025, 06:44:06 PMAnd since you mention COVID: if you still haven't realized--even with a lethally dangerous mook like RFK as secretary of the department of health--that at the very least, very charitably, half the stuff you personally ended up believing about the pandemic was in fact an integral part of that preparation, then there's not much anyone can do for you.

I equally think that your buying in entirely to the solution that didn't work makes it that there's not a lot can be done for you not seeing the sickening transfer of wealth involved.

Sometimes I wonder if you're a communist at all

I didn't buy in entirely to anything. I kept my head on me, is what I did. And lo and behold, rather than the majority of the population, the only people currently in concentration camps have been put there illegally by MAGA.