The sheer amount of people who have confidently predicted that Trump will not do exactly what he has repeated said he would do, and still have jobs after he has done that thing, is amazing. You truly cannot fail at your actual One Job in quite a lot of high-paying jobs that exist almost entirely to make predictions.
For everyone saying 'But he didn't do it the first time he was in office', yeah, and there were literally books written about how a bunch of people constantly had to stop him from doing those disastrous/illegal/horrific things.
And I'm not talking just about the market. I'm talking about _everything_.
Everything Trump is doing now he tried to do the first term, _except_ some of the stuff that Heritage Foundation lined up with Project 2025 when they realized that Trump was an idiot and was willing to do almost anything people asked him to do in the right way. Other than that stuff, which hadn't been properly written down yet, and some of the Elon-specific stuff, there is absolutely nothing now that he didn't _attempt_ to do back then.
Which means we should probably start taking serious the stuff he tried to do back then but hasn't tried yet. Like ordering the military to shoot protestors. (Don't worry, he's going to have them shoot at their knees.) Or suspending the election or all the dozens of ways he plotted to stay in office before finally settling on the convoluted plan of 'Attempt to pretend there is confusion about electoral votes to throw the election to the House, while declaring martial law and attempt to frame antifa for the disorder in Washington'. (People _really_ do not understand just how lucky we got that the left and antifa and everyone realized that trying to counterprotest what Trump was doing Jan 6th was a trap, and didn't show up at all.)
The Trump administration attempted to be utterly lawless and extreme fascistic last time they were in power, and _literally a bunch of random Republican politicians_ in the Cabinet and around him in other ways saved the day and stopped him. It's why he fired so many, it's why half of them wrote books afterward. Career political Republicans talking about 'Yeah, Trump was constantly trying to do illegal things and under no circumstances should be president'. Ant one of which should be a career-ending scandal in politics if the media would just pay attention to it.
And yet somehow...we are all constantly very surprised when he attempts the same thing this time, and this time, the people to stop him aren't there.
Incidentally, the next time I point out that the markets are incoherent gibberish that have absolutely no bearing on the value of companies, everyone needs to remember it took 4 months for the stock market to realize what was actually happening.
Literally nothing that is going on here is new or isn't what Trump promised. This was obviously going to happen the moment Trump got elected. The stock market is just full of hallucinatory morons who have just now noticed, cartoon style, that they've been standing in mid-air for four months
2025-03-11 09:58:10
Trump has started hurting The Money.
Everyone should start expecting Democrats to suddenly and instantly grow a spine and start standing up to him, some Republicans too.
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The sheer amount of people who have confidently predicted that Trump will not do exactly what he has repeated said he would do, and still have jobs after he has done that thing, is amazing. You truly cannot fail at your actual One Job in quite a lot of high-paying jobs that exist almost entirely to make predictions.
For everyone saying 'But he didn't do it the first time he was in office', yeah, and there were literally books written about how a bunch of people constantly had to stop him from doing those disastrous/illegal/horrific things.
And I'm not talking just about the market. I'm talking about _everything_.
Everything Trump is doing now he tried to do the first term, _except_ some of the stuff that Heritage Foundation lined up with Project 2025 when they realized that Trump was an idiot and was willing to do almost anything people asked him to do in the right way. Other than that stuff, which hadn't been properly written down yet, and some of the Elon-specific stuff, there is absolutely nothing now that he didn't _attempt_ to do back then.
Which means we should probably start taking serious the stuff he tried to do back then but hasn't tried yet. Like ordering the military to shoot protestors. (Don't worry, he's going to have them shoot at their knees.) Or suspending the election or all the dozens of ways he plotted to stay in office before finally settling on the convoluted plan of 'Attempt to pretend there is confusion about electoral votes to throw the election to the House, while declaring martial law and attempt to frame antifa for the disorder in Washington'. (People _really_ do not understand just how lucky we got that the left and antifa and everyone realized that trying to counterprotest what Trump was doing Jan 6th was a trap, and didn't show up at all.)
The Trump administration attempted to be utterly lawless and extreme fascistic last time they were in power, and _literally a bunch of random Republican politicians_ in the Cabinet and around him in other ways saved the day and stopped him. It's why he fired so many, it's why half of them wrote books afterward. Career political Republicans talking about 'Yeah, Trump was constantly trying to do illegal things and under no circumstances should be president'. Ant one of which should be a career-ending scandal in politics if the media would just pay attention to it.
And yet somehow...we are all constantly very surprised when he attempts the same thing this time, and this time, the people to stop him aren't there.
Incidentally, the next time I point out that the markets are incoherent gibberish that have absolutely no bearing on the value of companies, everyone needs to remember it took 4 months for the stock market to realize what was actually happening.
Literally nothing that is going on here is new or isn't what Trump promised. This was obviously going to happen the moment Trump got elected. The stock market is just full of hallucinatory morons who have just now noticed, cartoon style, that they've been standing in mid-air for four months
Trump has started hurting The Money.
Everyone should start expecting Democrats to suddenly and instantly grow a spine and start standing up to him, some Republicans too.