Grace Under Pressure

"It's not really happening" is followed by "Yeah, it's happening but it's not a big deal". It ends with "the people pointing it out are actually to blame". Or Obama, Biden, etc.

While there is still a democracy discussion in there somewhere, totally agree with this sentiment overall. Would call it the economy for the 99.9%, vs. the 0.1% Trump caters to. He brings along poor red states with "trannies and illegals". Suckers.

This. Democrats act like weaklings, and can't get themselves to message on the correct side of simple issues.

The White House is big mad that Amazon is showing the tariff charges on items because they were counting on gullible supporters to never figure out that tariffs are paid by consumers, i.e. them. Great job Trump. Focked up the world's best economy in only 100 days. If you voted for this, pat yourself on the back. We lost because of you.

Any of the MAGA rally-going crowd going to join the new “Executive Branch Club” that Trump is charging $500,000 to join? Oh, they’re not invited to join? Only multi-millionaire CEOs and tech bros are invited? That’s really surprising, given how much access the MAGA rally goers have had to Mar-a-Lago. The. Most. Gullible. Rubes.

Dumbest ever, and an embarrassment. Accurate and succinct.

Do people understand yet that American consumers pay Trump’s tariffs? Not the other countries? My favorite part is the deflection that Trump’s tariffs are somehow Obama or Biden’s fault.

Trump does something that's dumb, or that solely benefits him and his insider circle (which are the only two things he does). People call it out. MAGA blames the people calling it out. Never change.

What a joke. Your boy did this. Own up to something for once.

I will say he's successful and probably vote for the Republican in my Congressional District if this happens. I'm not wild about the approach, but I'll be honest about the outcome.

People mistake bluster and "tough talk" for strength with this guy. Trump is a weak man's version of a strong man.

If the US actually gets measurably better trade agreements with major counties/blocs (talking China, Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan, South Korea sized economies here), and the S&P 500 recovers to a measurable gain in 2025, I will say it was worth it, but will still disagree with the approach. We are currently trending in the opposite direction on both counts. If we wanted better trade agreements, he should have just negotiated them. WTF. A lot of the deals we had in place were from Trump's first term.

This isn't just historically based normal market seasonality at all. The market was doing quite well, and then very abruptly starting going down when Trump announced his genius tariff non-strategy. And has continued to tank since. This isn't just "markets gonna market". He did this deliberately. How would anyone need this to be explained to them?

Good. But I'll believe it when I see it. This guy was on Marine One like yesterday.

Yes, they are gullible. Some aren't, sure. But there are plenty of those just regurgitating propaganda, like this.