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Donald Trump spent his first 100 days back in the Oval Office driving an economy that the world envied to the brink of crisis, risking America’s reputation as a financial safe haven and fostering fear among voters who’ve lost confidence in his leadership.

Americans were desperate for relief from high grocery prices and bought into Trump’s promise to make America affordable again in November 2024, partly out of nostalgia for the pre-pandemic economy of his first term.

But the president deliberately and singlehandedly adopted policies that are almost certain to spike prices even more; that could lead to shortages; and that have CEOs and small businesses dealing with chaos and the possibility of a recession.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago

Let your local magats know how you feel since this is what they wanted. The business owner ones even made it easy to figure out who they are over on their Nazi safe space at public square

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 hours ago (15 children)

Is he that stupid that he really beleives his plan will work? Or is he so afraid of Putin's kompromat that he'll destroy his own country in order to keep it hidden?

Why not both?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

What kompromat could Putin possibly have that could do anything to him? He could have underaged girl pissing tapes, no one will give a shit. He’s found guilty of dozens of crimes and never locked up. It doesn’t hurt his voting numbers. So why should he care?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

I think he believes it will work for him. Which is the only concept that has ever mattered to him.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

It is both. There is no reason to copitulate to Russia unless the Kompromat is that good.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

In the Fantastic Four comics, Dr. Doom wears a mask because he was hideously deformed by a science experiment gone wrong. Later writers retroconned it so that Doom had a tiny scratch but was so insanely egotistical that a tiny flaw was too much for him to bear.

I like to think that the kompromat is something like Trump having premature ejaculation or erectile dysfunction, or crying that his Daddy didn't love him. Something a normal person could shrug off and move on from.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Dr Doom is a Jack Kirby creation and I've been living with the realization that as a forward scout for the US Army in Nazi Germany, many of his villains are reflections of what he witnessed the Nazis to be. Whatever Dr Doom is, I'm fully ready to understand 47 to be as well

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

You know who else was a forward scout in WW2?

Kurt Vonnegut! Billy Pilgrim runs into a pair of them before he gets captured by the Germans in "Slaughterhouse Five."

That was one of the most dangerous jobs in the infantry, because your mission was to locate enemy troops far ahead of any support.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

yup. and both of them would explore how deeply terrifying it was being forward scouts through their art, and particularly how being an artist made them valuable as scouts

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

The part about being a scout that is dangerous is that the enemy understands what you will do if you aren't eliminated immediately.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago

there is other reason, corrupted money

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

I think you meant 'capitulate,' but 'copitulate' might work too, lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

What's his plan, to attempt to bring back manufacturing?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

AIPAC, the self styled King makers of US politics, dont care who you vote for as they all support israel. It's business as usual as far as they're concerned.

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