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Blues Heron
(6,802 posts)pnwest
(3,377 posts)but it feels like we've seen the bottom, the worst of what can happen. It's not going to get better any time soon, but I think the republic will hold.
Blues Heron
(6,802 posts)thought crime
(160 posts)One thing after another.
Ocelot II
(124,319 posts)Hugin
(36,046 posts)Attention. Lots of it. He will repeat this performance every opportunity he gets until finally finally the rest of the world learns to ignore him.
Our economy is already in a shambles as chaos and confusion reign. The SCrOTUS is hopefully becoming aware that the Trumpanzees don't do nuance. They handed him a call to due diligence which will be summarily ignored.
I see no wins and certainly no invisible hands in today's events. They went exactly according to the Tangeranus' wishes. Maximum disruption, pain, and uncertainty.
thought crime
(160 posts)The world is taking the medicine. Next week it will be something else, and the errors accumulate.
I was right with you up until your last paragraph.
If he is, as posts on this thread state, an attention hound who overstepped his bounds, what they are going to conclude if they don’t need him.
Buh bye.
usonian
(17,209 posts)The Chinese own a boatload of U.S. treasuries, and can take down the US information infrastructure at the drop of a hat.
Because they already did.
Mess with them, will you? Sure.
thought crime
(160 posts)Speak softly and swing the big stick.
NJCher
(39,838 posts)You have a dumb mob boss for a president.
Ford_Prefect
(8,342 posts)He talks big bad voodoo and throws world threat tantrums, but they are the ones steering him towards the edge. Who do you think it was that beat the market today?
NJCher
(39,838 posts)Will find out. He started an investigation.
NH Ethylene
(31,102 posts)Bottom line: No increasing the national debt if nobody wants to buy our bonds.
usonian
(17,209 posts)Last edited Thu Apr 10, 2025, 02:41 AM - Edit history (1)
putting their effective IQ at 30 or less. Wonder who has that kind of cudgel.
Maybe someone in one of the think tanks that I care not to know. He flips the bird to previous presidents. Oh Putin ??? found the situation to be harmful? That would take some deeper analysis. He seems to be the only person whose opinion matters.
I read some other posts ...
On edit, the Saudis own him as well. He didn't play in the Russian golf league, just the LIV.
ailsagirl
(24,113 posts)It may take awhile, but it seems they're on the "right" track. I look forward to the snowball effect coming into play.
usonian
(17,209 posts)
Now, there seems to be real silence from many we counted on as leaders, so let me propose some "downfall" scenarios and some reason why some might be silent.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20215296
There are powers that don't play silly games.
Meowmee
(8,669 posts)I hope you are right but it doesn't take him out of power and I expect more chaos and crap.
pnwest
(3,377 posts)You?
Meowmee
(8,669 posts)I don't know who it or they would be if this is even true. I think more likely the bond sell off scared them. I didn't know elunatic and the dogies had backed off social security. But they still have all of our stolen data etc.
House of Saudi is worth 1.4 trillion apparently. Richer than eloonatic.
I can't find anything about doge backing away from their attack on social security... do you have a link?
Wrecking America one news cycle at a time.
Meowmee
(8,669 posts)rubbersole
(9,704 posts)Meowmee
(8,669 posts)JT45242
(3,258 posts)One of those two called this ..maybe they had a lot of money to get laundered thru insider trading.
Maybe it's just the chaos.
But Bone saw just had a golf event at the felon golf course.
flamingdem
(40,370 posts)and understood that the bond market was blowing up.
His circle doesn't dare tell him the truth but that and perhaps other CEOs got through
to him - no more donations if you don't change your tariff game.
Ms. Toad
(36,693 posts)Instead of making people who can't identify themselves online come in for a visit, they are going to make people who fail a telefraud check come in for a visit.
The far bigger "messing with social security" that I'm worried about is the wholesale replacement of the software code on an impossibly short timeline - at the same time they are terminating employees who would be able to recognize when something goes wrong with the code. I don't see any announcement that that prospect has changed.