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How the actual fuck are people “blindsided” by this?
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Maybe the leopards started with the eyes.
You ever talk to c-level execs? Many of them simply aren't smart. They're just very aggressive and confident which gives the appearance of intelligence.
A lot of times attractiveness plays a big role too. In modern corporate america being attractive will get you further than being smart.
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CEOs aren't the brightest.
Because folks do their 5 minute research by reading conservative mainstream news outlets and safe space enclaves that Tariffs are good.
Talking points to the contrary are not allowed, so they get to find out the hard way.
To be fair. The message they're receiving is that tariffs will hurt the people that deserve it. And they're absolutely right. But while they're suffering, so will the rest of America.
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He's a Russian asset, what do they think he is going to do anything that's in the US's best interest? He's here to burn it to the ground and line his pockets with what's not ashes.
Honestly at this point I don't know how anyone can't see the obvious.
What can we do besides impotently complain about this on the internet?
Build connections in your local community. Organize and elect your candidates at the local level
With all the anger about the dead CEO lately and rightfully angry people in glee over the violence, I truly think we could accomplish more with a general strike. Crash the fake economy built on fraud. If wall street looses billions a day in their fictional numbers they throw around we would show them real power. This would accomplish more than any dead CEO ever could.
Saw a post where the Trump administration is eyeing pulling FDIC from our banks! They already plan on crashing the economy. Stealing all your money, and making the US in Russia's image.
If we beat them to the punch we might still have our bank account money at least while their fictional money evaporates into thin air.
One thing the real rich people won't stand for is their money vanishing. If we hold out long enough the real wealthy will likely turn on him, hell he might fall out a window!
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They thought they’d vote anti-tax first, then pushover trump on the tariffs when they had the time. Looks like they were wrong.
More faces being eaten.
If this was his first go-around I could see some rationale to that idea. But holy shit, has there been a case of collective amnesia among business 'leaders'?!!
They knew exactly what they were getting. Because we've seen all this before. Usually this is the definition of madness. But in this case it should be the definition of stupidity.
This same surprised Pikachu shit is going to happen over and over and over again over the next 4+ years. Even right now, the media keep assuming what he says is what he will do. And I have no idea why. He demonstrated in his first term that at least half of what he promises he either backtracks on he doesn't follow through on. Why they think things will be different this time is beyond me.
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The one singular upside of Cheeto 2.0 is that I'll get to enjoy some guilty schadenfreude as the face eating leopard starts eating the faces of the party-for-face-eating-leopards.
This guy has tanked all of his previous enterprises due to his poor decision making and lack of knowledge. What in their right minds made them think this would be any different?
Maybe your dumb asses should have been railing against this a long fucking time ago.
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Anyone else feel like the goal IS inflation?? I feel like they're trying to contrstruct a Weimar Republic situation with this to push people further right. I hope I'm wrong, but this feels like they're really trying to come up with an excuse to kill a lot of people.
My belief is that inflation benefits trump personally since it devalues the mortgage debt on his real estate holdings, while increasing the nominal value of those properties.
It's all about that sweet sweet crypto.
And bankrupting the US.
The guy that put Vance in the white house, musks buddy, PayPal mafia alumn, dark-right libertarian tech bro, Peter Thiel, is betting on btc hitting 4 million (but the dollar needs to collapse - as planned)
Lots of movement from red states and R Congress critter toward btc these days, too. Surely coincidental.
I posted a lot of links to his own words, goals, and plans, and to reports about his doings.
https://lemmy.ca/comment/13364820
He's probably the most powerful person most people have never heard of.
Oh, and another thing people don't like to hear: the bilderberg are real, and he's one of the guys who does the invitations and decides which topics are discussed.
https://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/background/steering-committee/steering-committee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Members_of_the_Steering_Committee_of_the_Bilderberg_Group
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The German corporate elite thought they could control the last guy as well...
Didn't he literally campaign on these tariffs?
Where were these titans of industry in October?
Yup. This is not a new thing. If these guys had lined up to say this at a microphone during the campaign it could have had an impact. But no, they thought they could just control him after the fact. After having seen how uncontrollable he was during his first term. This is what happens when you equate wealth with intelligence. You get dumbasses who think they're playing 5d chess.
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Looks like Americans are about to go through their version of brexit. Good luck, it's going to be rough.
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Did you only now notice that he only cares about himself?
You let the fox in the henhouse. Why would he listen? He's not planning to win over hearts and minds
He has already shown them what he wants them to do.
Just donate $1 million to him and he will help your business
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Well shit. I hoped it was just bluster, but if he's serious it makes a lot of sense.
The 0.1% gain wealth whenever economies crash. He is obviously going to try to crash the world economy so fat cats can buy assets for pennies on the dollar, including entire developing nations. Then the fed prints a gazillion dollars and bails it all out.
Greedy pigs get fatter, the rest of us get leaner.
I hoped it was just bluster
You understand he was president before, right? And that he did this before? Like, he's a totally known quantity, and he's going back to where he was in 2019.
this dude killed 300,000 americans and people are somehow surprised that he's unbothered by the prospect of killing untold vast swaths of people now that it's been demonstrated that he will never be held accountable for his actions
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I'm going to laugh so hard if Trump has an "apparent suicide" and at least one cop says it's not suspicious, if they can do it to whistleblowers who risk their profits, surely this qualifies?
Not saying it's likely, just that I absolutely will laugh, probably for days.