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.

  • SeboBear@discuss.tchncs.de
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    19 hours ago

    Wow 🍿I do feel for everyone who didn’t vote for this turd. As I am not aware much about what is happening in your country in detail (though some us citizens sometimes think this way) can anyone give any insight on how this is perceived by turd voters? Like are there any interesting interviews insight or articles ? Would love to know their view as this unfolds. Thanks for any insight 🙏

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    20 hours ago

    Brink? Fuck off. We’re already in a crisis.

    Piece of shit article about a piece of shit president smh.

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    The brink? We’re already there, but the supply chain takes a few weeks to catch up. We are just now getting empty ports just like during covid. Empty ports now means empty shelves in a couple weeks. Empty shelves means prices skyrocket again. And layoffs start en mass when companies can’t get supplies that need workers to work on.

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    You know, right before lockdown I was hanging out with a friend and I said something to the effect of ‘eh, I do feel like people are over-reacting a bit but at least this should normalize mask wearing when you’re sick like in parts of Asia.’

    Right now I have a very similar feeling hunch of ‘at least this should kill the myth that republican presidents are better for the economy’ and I can’t wait for the american people to once again show me just how stupid they are.

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      I think every single Republican president has been terrible for the economy and consistently show to know nothing about the economy in contrast to the Dems who inherit the mess. Trump is going a number on the national debt alone.

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    Biden kinda restored USA’s image pretty fast in the world stage, and then made it quite a lot better by standing firmly with Ukraine. After Trump’s second term… it wouldn’t be enough. Because now we know it wasn’t just a one-off mistake or a fluke. 30-50% of americans actually think like that.

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    2 days ago

    Risking America’s reputation? Maybe we’re slightly beyond that point.

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      Here in Denmark - one of the US’s closest allies for decades with a generally positive public opinion - America’s reputation has absolutely tanked. Being at all supportive of USA basically reveals you as a stupid far-right nut. We just need our politicians to see this as well because the US reputation is fully dead here.

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        19 hours ago

        Exactly the same take in Canada right now. With the added annexation threats, most Canadians that aren’t far right nuts will boycott the american brand for the rest of their lives, tarrifs be damned.

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          I think a feeling of distrust and betrayal will definitely remain for decades no matter what happens in USA. Many boycotters etc will definitely continue doing that for at least some products and on a state level we’ll never again be able to trust them with our data. That much is clear. At least I switched out all my tech and never going back

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    2 days ago

    The United States Federal Review said the economy has slightly dipped but it’s so minor on the GDP of America that nothing has changed really from all indicators reviewed.

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    Bankrupted a casino after his better half left. His ex wife. Consider it like his last admin. He had smart people corralling him. Now he just has yes men.

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      What they show us are the yes clowns. The concern needs to be the project 2025 people in the 2nd level positions implementing their agenda

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    It’s bad now? You have no idea! All import stopped and or halted when your orange diaper introduced tariffs on everything. Meaning you’re just seeing the start of it.

    Tariffs are still unclear because he’s changing them every damn second. Meaning companies are still hesitant about shipping goods because of the uncertainty regarding tariffs.

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    Give the Orange Asswipe a break, the idiot is following his orders from the Kremlin and he is doing a fan-fucking-tastic job of destroying the US economy and foreign relations.

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      Getting things done usually means building. It’s decidedly easier to tear things down and much harder to build them back up.

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    Zero grocery, zero price. You cannot complain about avocado prices if there was no avocado imported, eh?

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    So here’s the fucking thing.

    The crisis is already here. Go take a peak at the ports on the west coast right now. Go look at business forecasts.

    This man systematically destroyed a working economy in a business quarter.

    The repercussions of these actions are going to be felt for at least a decade.

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        Totally agreed.

        These people literally are destroying the pre eminent power and completely usurping centuries old historical power hierarchies seemingly for the benefit of shorting the markets on their own whim.

        As if those dollars they earn will be worth anything when hyperinflation hits.

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          Cash wealth is meaningless if you control all the actual assets. If you own all the houses, then you own all the houses.

          They all fully understand this. Also they are well prepared for hyperinflation. Many people think that when the market has a massive crash they will finally own a house. Not true. The overwhelming majority of properties are already earmarked for pick up by the rich in that case. This is why boom/busts are important. They allow the rich to consolidate their wealth.

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            19 hours ago

            This assumes that the peasants don’t murder the wealthy. Considering the amount of firearms in America, this gambit is a stupid gamble.

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    brink of a crisis

    Ummm I don’t think the meaning of a crisis is understood anymore. Brink implies risking a crisis, where the usa has been in a full on crisis on many fronts for about 100 days. I would even say that they are past the initial crisis point and are getting way to cocky this far into a multi pronged collapse.

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      Let me translate this little code.

      “Donald Trump has almost made it to where it the owners of this network will actually notice it in the bottom line for their quest to fulfill their endless greed.”