Does anyone have a clue as to what Trump is doing? Even his closest advisors have no idea what to expect out of his mouth on Tuesday. Liberation is Tuesday that is when Trump is going to liberate billions of dollars from American consumers. I don't think Liberation Day this will be celebrated in the future. American made cars? There is no such thing. In order to be an American made car it had to have at least 60% of domestic made parts. When they checked no car assembled in America could meet that. They estimate that the typical car will cost another $8,000. Does anyone want to celebrate that? They say the cars will not go up on April 1 because of the current inventory but you can count on the dealers to soak you for everything they can.
Musk was told by the cofounder of LinkedIn That the reason the people were protesting Tesla was because people just don't like Musk. Musk was accessing Hoffman of paying for the protests. Musk claimed the protestors were being paid $200 a piece.
@Zardoz,
Zardoz wrote:
… Musk claimed the protestors were being paid $200 a piece.
Well, much like Trump, Musk doesn't see much of a motivation for anyone to do anything unless it's for $$.
@jespah,
Trump always tries to blame and problems on the opposition. When the insurrection took place, he blamed it on Antifa but why would anyone from Antifa want to keep Trump in office? The republican town hall meetings are almost riots but claims those that attended were democrats not republicans. Then he claimed they were being paid to cause trouble at republican town halls. The problem is that people believe his lies.
The battle cry before the election was inflation was that a few percentage points was terrible. Inflation is a fact of life, and we have to deal with it but now prices going up won't be because of inflation the 25% rise in prices will be because of tax Trump levied on the American people called tariffs. When you pay another $10,000 for your next car you can say Trump picked my pocket, but you have to remember it was for a good cause to pay for a $4.6 trillion tax cut for billionaires. Look on the bright side Trump might get elected to a third term and he will come for whatever you have left. The billionaires want it all they will never be satisfied with 90% and Trump will give it to them.
A bipartisan vote in the senate was used to stop the Trump tariffs on Cannada. The republican party was always the party of free trade. No one man should ever have the power to put tariffs on and our government requires that the congress consent to any tariffs. How is Trump getting around the law? He is declaring war time powers. In a war a president can enact tariffs because of an emergency. What is Trump's emergency. Fentanyl being moved across the borders. It is time to put the village idiot back in his play pen.
All of the Trumpies had visions of sugar plumbs dancing in their head and a soaring stock market dancing in their head when they voted for the village idiot. The stock market had been steadily climbing for the last four years. Now Trump has not only lost the gains during his term but the gains under Biden's and it is not close to bottoming out yet. Those Trumpies that had visions of retiring will have to continuing working. Social Security? Forget that after cutting out 7,000 employees it will take at least a year to get social security. The math is pretty simple $7,000 people can't do the work of 14,000. If you love those phone trees that put you on eternal hold your going love the new leaner and meaner social security. If they could answer the phone, they would tell you that you are 10,000 in line and they will get to use in order of calls received.
It is a good thing it is Friday otherwise the stock market would lose another 2,200 points on Saturday and another 2,200 on Sunday. The village idiot is likely to double down on his bad policies and double the tariffs on those countries that retaliate.
For all of those people who are popular there comes a time when they can be as unpopular as they ever were popular. Trump has trampled the standards of the common man acting like a dictator. Millions of people around the world protested Trump today. I cannot remember a time when any man was so unpopular.
I suspect there are some really angry Trump voters. They had already made plans to retire and now their stock accounts are near worthless. They counted on the value of their stocks to retiree on. They can no longer retiree and can look forward to working many more years. My mom lost $200,000 last week on the stock market and can look forward to even bigger
losses this week. The psychiatrists warned you he has prefrontal dementia. I guess you thought it would be funny to watch someone with prefrontal dementia run the country. It has not been funny so far.
Now even Fox Business News is saying that the Trump tariffs could bring on a recession. Not only would we be paying 25% more for most of the things we buy but we also would be plunged into a recession. The economy was in great shape when Trump took office, but Trump wiped out trillions of dollars of wealth owned by Americans. Trump claims the pain will be short term, but did you ever see short term prices increases? The record is clear once prices go up, they stay up.
The right primary weapon is lies. The lies Trump told to get elected worked. What are we to expect in the future. Lies are better than the truth because you can make up any number of lies, the draw-back of truth is that it must be true. Trump's lap dog JD Vance is trying to out lie Trump saying that 150-year-old men are getting social security. That lie has already been disproven Musk had the wrong list. There were two lists one of the current social security recipients and one listing those who had at one time got social security. Vance insisted the 40% of the current phone callers to social security were fraud and the 60% percent of the legitimate callers could not get thru because of the fraudsters. The real amount of fraud in social security is not 40% it is .00625%. If you believe lies like that it will allow them to take your social security.
The Trump tariffs are going to affect a lot of things that we cannot manufacture or grow in America. The certain agriculture crops simply are not grown here. Even though Trump has suspended his tariff increases prices are already being raised and people are beginning to hoard thins anticipating price increases. One has only to remember the pandemic hoarding. Hoarding causes shortage and when supply is short prices go way up. The law of supply and demand takes over.
Trump is being compared to a cult leader in his last days. He is acting like David Koresh before the branch Davidians comp0und burnt. One day the tariffs are on the next they are suspended. He can't make up his mind or at least what is left of it. Amazon announced prices will be going up all this uncertainty will result in higher prices whether Trump keeps changing his mind like a weathervane or not because the village idiot has created so much uncertainty.
Trump was bragging how much money he made the billionaires yesterday by manipulating the stock market. First Trump drives the stock market down by announcing tariffs, people were scared and sold their stock well below what they bought it because they thought it would be worthless. The billionaires bought it up and then Trump rescinds his tariff order, and the stocks have record gains and Trump brags and takes credit for it.
Trump had a ceremony to sign an executive order yesterday. Once he left the ceremony, he had to return to sign the executive order. Can you say senile? That is the man you want to entrust your family's future to? Trump is taking the country off a cliff, and you are going with him.
If a politician running for office told you that he could care less about you, would you vote for him? That is what Trump said about 25% tariffs, "he could care less."
I wonder whether Trump has showed up at meeting without his pants. He is way overdue is father was much younger. Trump bragged about having absolutely no experience. It is like getting plane with a pilot who admits he has no experience. Would you like to get on that plane with a pilot with no experience? You just know he will fly the plane into the nearest hillside. Trump is flying the country into a hillside. The layoffs have already started by the hundreds in the auto industry. Trump is flying the country into something far worse than a great depression, but his followers will say that is what America needed when or if they get another job, they will appreciate it. Bring back the good old days and destroy America.
Now Trump is going to exempt foreign cars with parts made in the USA from his tariff. A car has 70,00 parts and if any parts were made in the USA, they would be exempt from the 25% tariff. Can you imagine what kind of nightmare that will be to enforce. Who is going to check all 70,000 parts on hundreds of thousands of cars. It will require 100,000 men to look at every part and determine it port of origin. Just another losing idea from the mind of an old senile idiot.
The village idiot stopped the meeting with a self-proclaimed drug addict (Musk) over war plans for China. Now at least 3 of Hegseth's friends have been fired an escorted out of the building and they say more are likely to follow. They were no doubt Hegseth's drinking buddies.
