Same guy who wanted to nuke hurricanes.
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Hmm... I am starting to see a pattern here...
America isn't like this because Trump is president
Trump is president because America is like this
Decades of stripping education funding is taking its toll
That's not the issue at all. It's the curriculum, the no child left behind act implementation, and the overall indoctrination and corruption of a system of government that rewards the rich.
Most schools get plenty of money and just blow it on things they don't need. Buildings way too fancy and overpriced educational subscriptions to crap, instead of spending it on more teachers and teacher salary. The money is plenty there. None of the rich fucks get a cut from cheaper buildings and teacher payrolls.
You'd rather have uneducated strippers?
That's the best kind
Idiocracy was the game plan all along.
It was idiocy all along.
Signed - a native whose ancestors talked at length and wrote down (or had someone else write down) how dumb they were in the very beginning, before there was even a nation
"And then we'll send the Marines to shoot inflation in the FACE." -- Some president soon, probably
Let's hope we never have another president as fucking stupid as this one
don't worry, the next guy will make Trump look like Dubya
Let's hope you have another one period
He's a walking LLM, just making word associations based on what's most probable to resonate with idiots.
This is insane even for Trump. What would a military intervention in the bond market even mean?
My guess is this is just dementia related word salad.
The largest chunks of US bonds are held by nations, so I think the subtext is that if any nation starts dumping bonds to hurt the US economy he may consider it a casus belli. Basically forcing them to hold the bag at gunpoint. This is a dream situation for a conman like him.
This is what he means. In fact, I think he is specifically referring to Canada. The first time Trump brought in tariffs, Carney initiated a little bond market run, causing him to back down. It was the first "CO" in TACO. Trump has been bristling since then.
I hate how the headline tries to trivialize the fact that America is threatening to attack its former allies on the basis of trade irritations. This guy is fucking mental.
he's willing to blow up a school to distract from his star role in the Epstein Files.
now he's going to blow up a bank to distract from his economic fuckup
Is it really an escalation from the already established case of 'wanting to nuke a hurricane'?
Yes. I mean that's very insane but frankly not even as insane as nuking a populated area. Let alone an intangible concept like a market.
You can't imagine what a $2 trillion budget can do to a bond market?
This needs to stop. Why are we letting a dipshit pedophile destroy our country?
Because the republicans have control over all three branches, and the party has dedicated itself to authoritarian rule under that orange asshole.
This is the government that they have been wanting for my entire life. This stupid fucking country decided to finally gift it to them.
Because no one has guns in the US.
It's not a case of the people "letting" him destroy your country. The people wanted him to. Maybe not all the specific details of how he's doing it, but the previous election was largely a choice between "status quo" and "break the system" and break the system won. For some reason few of those voters seemed to be aware of how well the system was serving them, it appears they may have been misled. But that's democracy for you.
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the poor are too busy dying without healthcare
The poor are overworked and overwhelmed, extremely underserved or disserved, and floundering about as best they can for solutions.
They need to take a cue from what is supposedly taught in scuba lessons: if you forget which way is up, stop swimming and watch the bubbles.
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I'm imagining a Drumpf intervention being something like a Venezuelan one. Helicopters and paratroopers over Wall St (and maybe over other international financial centers at the same time), soldiers rounding up traders, flying them off to concentration camps (losing a few out the door on the way, just for show) where they'd loosen their ties and drink WormyWater while their wounds festered.
Orangeboi would then demand a 10% cut of all portfolios as reparations, paid to his shell companies and friends and family. The traders would be replaced with puppets, no longer concerned with profits, but instead with maximizing the ego-yield for Diaper-baby. Demands would be made nightly on Truth Trading with the expectation of fulfillment the following morning.
Rinse & repeat with equity markets.
Dipshit is so delusional he thinks he can send the military after bond traders.
I laughed about your comment, paused, and then started getting nervous.
I decided to take a quick glance at the article and came across this:
President Donald Trump suggested Friday he could use the military to stage an "intervention" on bond markets in a confusing response to a reporter asking about Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's efforts to bring down soaring yields.
Much to my dismay, you weren't exaggerating.
Just for the record: in the comments section of a post about a news article in a news community, you described a story about how you read what the lead says when you took a quick glance at the article.
We’re talking about an “article” that is shown as a “2 minute read”, and takes about 30 seconds to read.
Fun fact: the demographic in which Trump gained the most before the 2024 election was “people who don’t read news daily”.
He can. There's literally no process to stop him right now. He could have people executed in the streets and his supporters would cheer and sell merch.
He is having people executed in the street, and they are.
Murdered
Potato tomato.
The question of whether killing someone is legal is very important
State sanctioned murder is also murder. So no, I don't think it's that important.
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