Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The posters on this thread don’t get the real threat. $36 TRILLION of debt. Think about that. The interest in that debt is over $1 TRILLION a year. If/when the country defaults on its debt, your liberal agendas won’t add up to diddly squat. The govt has a spending problem and as DOGE is clearly finding, a ton of money is wasted on programs that don’t benefit America. Time to cut the fat and there is a lot of it in the Federal Govt. I’ve seen plenty. Reducing strangulating and duplicative regulation will reduce the need for the huge bureaucracy.
Yes this is the real threat, and MAGA is going to fix it by adding trillions to the debt via tax cuts for billionaires. You are so smart!
+1 my god, why can’t MAGA pick up a newspaper. The budget that passed is on track to increase spending by $85M this year alone, despite massive firings.
Anonymous wrote:The posters on this thread don’t get the real threat. $36 TRILLION of debt. Think about that. The interest in that debt is over $1 TRILLION a year. If/when the country defaults on its debt, your liberal agendas won’t add up to diddly squat. The govt has a spending problem and as DOGE is clearly finding, a ton of money is wasted on programs that don’t benefit America. Time to cut the fat and there is a lot of it in the Federal Govt. I’ve seen plenty. Reducing strangulating and duplicative regulation will reduce the need for the huge bureaucracy.
Anonymous wrote:The posters on this thread don’t get the real threat. $36 TRILLION of debt. Think about that. The interest in that debt is over $1 TRILLION a year. If/when the country defaults on its debt, your liberal agendas won’t add up to diddly squat. The govt has a spending problem and as DOGE is clearly finding, a ton of money is wasted on programs that don’t benefit America. Time to cut the fat and there is a lot of it in the Federal Govt. I’ve seen plenty. Reducing strangulating and duplicative regulation will reduce the need for the huge bureaucracy.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The posters on this thread don’t get the real threat. $36 TRILLION of debt. Think about that. The interest in that debt is over $1 TRILLION a year. If/when the country defaults on its debt, your liberal agendas won’t add up to diddly squat. The govt has a spending problem and as DOGE is clearly finding, a ton of money is wasted on programs that don’t benefit America. Time to cut the fat and there is a lot of it in the Federal Govt. I’ve seen plenty. Reducing strangulating and duplicative regulation will reduce the need for the huge bureaucracy.
This must be sarcasm
Anonymous wrote:The posters on this thread don’t get the real threat. $36 TRILLION of debt. Think about that. The interest in that debt is over $1 TRILLION a year. If/when the country defaults on its debt, your liberal agendas won’t add up to diddly squat. The govt has a spending problem and as DOGE is clearly finding, a ton of money is wasted on programs that don’t benefit America. Time to cut the fat and there is a lot of it in the Federal Govt. I’ve seen plenty. Reducing strangulating and duplicative regulation will reduce the need for the huge bureaucracy.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The posters on this thread don’t get the real threat. $36 TRILLION of debt. Think about that. The interest in that debt is over $1 TRILLION a year. If/when the country defaults on its debt, your liberal agendas won’t add up to diddly squat. The govt has a spending problem and as DOGE is clearly finding, a ton of money is wasted on programs that don’t benefit America. Time to cut the fat and there is a lot of it in the Federal Govt. I’ve seen plenty. Reducing strangulating and duplicative regulation will reduce the need for the huge bureaucracy.
Yes this is the real threat, and MAGA is going to fix it by adding trillions to the debt via tax cuts for billionaires. You are so smart!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The posters on this thread don’t get the real threat. $36 TRILLION of debt. Think about that. The interest in that debt is over $1 TRILLION a year. If/when the country defaults on its debt, your liberal agendas won’t add up to diddly squat. The govt has a spending problem and as DOGE is clearly finding, a ton of money is wasted on programs that don’t benefit America. Time to cut the fat and there is a lot of it in the Federal Govt. I’ve seen plenty. Reducing strangulating and duplicative regulation will reduce the need for the huge bureaucracy.
This must be sarcasm
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The tariffs won't go into effect. It's another bluff and continues desire to endlessly be in the news. Either shortly after midnight the tariffs are postponed yet again or at some point this week we get another attention seeking headline that Canada and Mexico compromised on "something" and the tariffs are on pause again for some time.
I generally agree with you but am now 50/50 on this outcome, before I thought it was an 80% chance of delay/cancel. I think they are smoking their own supply now.
Tariffs are one of the few things Trump legitimately believes in. He's an idiot who has a childish bully's view of the world- trade deficits are bad to him because he thinks other countries are taking advantage of us. He literally doesn't understand that exporting less than you import isn't a problem. Anyway all that to say I think he's really going to follow through on this.
He announced it’s happening tomorrow (Tuesday).
Yes, but a number of times he has "announced it" and then backed away hours before actual implementation. So there is some reason/history to be skeptical.
Anonymous wrote:The posters on this thread don’t get the real threat. $36 TRILLION of debt. Think about that. The interest in that debt is over $1 TRILLION a year. If/when the country defaults on its debt, your liberal agendas won’t add up to diddly squat. The govt has a spending problem and as DOGE is clearly finding, a ton of money is wasted on programs that don’t benefit America. Time to cut the fat and there is a lot of it in the Federal Govt. I’ve seen plenty. Reducing strangulating and duplicative regulation will reduce the need for the huge bureaucracy.
Anonymous wrote:The posters on this thread don’t get the real threat. $36 TRILLION of debt. Think about that. The interest in that debt is over $1 TRILLION a year. If/when the country defaults on its debt, your liberal agendas won’t add up to diddly squat. The govt has a spending problem and as DOGE is clearly finding, a ton of money is wasted on programs that don’t benefit America. Time to cut the fat and there is a lot of it in the Federal Govt. I’ve seen plenty. Reducing strangulating and duplicative regulation will reduce the need for the huge bureaucracy.
Anonymous wrote:The posters on this thread don’t get the real threat. $36 TRILLION of debt. Think about that. The interest in that debt is over $1 TRILLION a year. If/when the country defaults on its debt, your liberal agendas won’t add up to diddly squat. The govt has a spending problem and as DOGE is clearly finding, a ton of money is wasted on programs that don’t benefit America. Time to cut the fat and there is a lot of it in the Federal Govt. I’ve seen plenty. Reducing strangulating and duplicative regulation will reduce the need for the huge bureaucracy.
Anonymous wrote:The posters on this thread don’t get the real threat. $36 TRILLION of debt. Think about that. The interest in that debt is over $1 TRILLION a year. If/when the country defaults on its debt, your liberal agendas won’t add up to diddly squat. The govt has a spending problem and as DOGE is clearly finding, a ton of money is wasted on programs that don’t benefit America. Time to cut the fat and there is a lot of it in the Federal Govt. I’ve seen plenty. Reducing strangulating and duplicative regulation will reduce the need for the huge bureaucracy.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This isn't really happening... Is it?
Of course it is. I woke up on November 8th and cried. And then we moved money, bought food and started passport applications for other countries. This was the plan in blinking red lights from the moment he announced he was running again. We are headed into a depression, if not WWIII. Learn to grow food.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Canada and Mexico will suffer greatly. We will as well , but their dependence on the US market is huge. A trade does not benefit them and if does not benefit us. Some of the independent reports I have seen about the impact of tariffs on Canada's GDP as early as 6 months is insane. I think the biggest damage though will be on a friendship level. You always want to maintain good friendship with your immediate neighbor even if they need more than you need them. Canada is just far from everyone else if they want to diversity. This really sucks.
The question that I really ask myself is whether there is a select group of people in this country who are set to be very big winners. This is a case where inside information can help you bet against the market and then you reap massive profits while everyone else is struggling. Unfortunately we will probably not know until months or even years later that some people where knowledgeable about the timing of all of this and took positions to enrich themselves.
Even if a select group will be big winners, anyone that wants to “win big” while destroying their nation’s reputation is a psychopath.
Well, psychopaths is exactly what they are - Trump, Elon, Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, David Sacks. They will watch us squirm while our retirement savings, 529s go down and they are laughing all the way to their crytpo bank.