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.
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.
They will be felt for the rest of the century.
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.
Zero grocery, zero price. You cannot complain about avocado prices if there was no avocado imported, eh?
Reminds me of my childhood in a communist country.
It’s almost like human structures of power always end up with some asshole on top making everyone else suffer.
And just think, there were those out there that doubted he would get anything done. /s
Getting things done usually means building. It’s decidedly easier to tear things down and much harder to build them back up.
Looking wistfully behind me at the “brink” of crisis
Sure, but have you considered that Kamala had a weird laugh
Musk will light your taxes on fire. Obama was huge on deportation. Kamala is a gun owner. OK, why won’t you vote for Kamala then? “I just don’t like her. She laughs weird.” I couldn’t believe it, but it shouldn’t shock me. How do you even keep going after that?
It wasn’t really about the laugh.
Yea, some of them also noticed she is a minority and a woman. Sadly our country has not accepted those groups are just as capable as white men to lead a country.
Maybe the broligarchy currently in charge will finally disabuse people of the notion of white male superiority. Maybe…
Any mistake by any woman “justifies” the canard that women are incompetent. Same is used for Black men, but judging by the election record, the misogyny is even deeper than the racism.
This is such a stupid argument and I wouldn’t believe it if it wasn’t for my dad. He keeps talking about her laugh and I explain to him that it’s appropriate to express all emotions…. And he doesn’t believe it. He’s also unable to connect me being in therapy and his behavior.
The statistics of who stayed home VS who voted for a white man with the same policies (older white men/women and older hispanic men) shows most of the votes lost are from Kamala being a colored woman and our most bigoted groups responding accordingly.
100%. A woman of color? No way.
This is why AOC can’t run for president. We would just be stuck with Trump 3.0 or some Republican poser.
I think AOC could win since she’s young and when younger generations do vote it’s for younger progressive people.
But it also requires them actually communicating policies that will get young people to go vote.
Two very qualified women have been beaten by the worst presidential candidate in the history of the country.
In what world do you think the answer is running another woman?
I love AOC. I think she is the future of this country. But she would be much more effective in the senate. Let Gavin, Walz, or someone else who is in the white dude category be on the top of the ticket.
Is that fair? No. But do you want to be fair or do you want to win elections?
Two milquetoast Neoliberal women lost because them being women was enough to lose the few % of support their male counterparts had.
I think most people want leftist leadership these days. Most people want a third party.
So the issue with this thinking, is that those percentages will still be there no matter what candidate it is. I do agree with you that people generally prefer leftist policies. I’m a progressive, and would love a Bernie platform to be the policy foundations for the country.
The issue is, if you’re going to voluntarily cede 2-4% of your electorate just because they are a woman, why not run someone who’s a guy who has the same policy legs.
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.
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.
Hyuck hyuck hyuck
And some people still say he has business skills…
What, you don’t think he’s getting rich off this?
Yeah people misunderstand Trump’s business history. It doesn’t matter how many casinos he bankrupted, Trump profited. He’s a vampire like a private equity firm, leaving a trail of dead husks behind him.
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.
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
The brink? lol we’ve gone off the cliff and are in free-fall
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?
He is the dictator of the US. This is how he extracts every last cent possible from the working class to fund tax breaks and handouts for the ultra-wealthy. Accountability is not a factor for someone like this who has lived his whole life with no accountability and continually failed upward to the highest office. He “doesn’t need your vote” anymore, he is there and he’s not planning on leaving this time no matter what the voters say.
Trump did not do that, America did. I only say this as no one seems to be doing anything tangible to stop this miscreant.
“(gets shot) the shooter didn’t do this, I did it to myself by not stopping it”
(gets hit by drunk driver) the driver didn’t do this, I did this by not supporting prohibition
