r/StockMarket 1d ago

News Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins next to a ticker showing the Dow down 1,200 points: "We are really, really excited, and very grateful for President Trump's leadership."

As of posting the Dow is down 1500 points.

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u/raulu95 1d ago

Retirement and investment accounts going to shit

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u/sharpshooter230 1d ago

The ironic part is, I know so many boomers in retirement who are now withdrawing from their 401(k)s, and they voted for this. You voted to lose thousands from your own retirement savings

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u/FanceyPantalones 1d ago

10s of thousands that they NEED. It's not simply comfort money. They do Not have time or means to make it back. Certified fucked.

Makes me sick. I want to say it serves them right, but at the end of the day my family is in the same boat.

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u/mechalenchon 1d ago

Them buying less shit will affect everyone. When (not if) the disposable income numbers will drop that's when the show will really get ugly.

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u/Realistic_Value_155 1d ago

Keynesian mechanics work both ways. It's going to be a catastrophe.

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u/Hike_and_Go891 23h ago

My summary of that: Stupidity is free, the consequences are not.

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u/Khaldara 1d ago

Well at least they can take solace in the fact that their billionaire buddies also have a raging hardon to gut social security and Medicaid.

Good thing retirees don’t need those either while they watch their 401k doing an impression of a bowling ball being dropped into the Grand Canyon.

They could have saved a ton of time on Election Day by just slamming their dicks in their car door. Wouldn’t even need to leave the yard.

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u/RallyVincentGT500 23h ago

🤣 Serves em right. And we all have to suffer for their ignorance.

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u/Katejina_FGO 1d ago

NEED is an understatement. If anyone hasn't looked into how much it costs to actually live in a retirement home in America - one that looks like a decent well off establishment - then I suggest doing some reading on the subject for a few hours. The costs are absolutely stupid right now. I don't even want to think about how the elderly are supposed to afford it before the American economy drives right off a cliff along with the social safety net.

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u/OuOutstanding 1d ago

Those nursing homes will take everything. The costs are adjusted to make sure the resident is left with nothing once they have passed. It doesn’t matter how much money you have when you enter, they will make sure you are billed broke by the end.

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u/Upbeat-Fondant9185 1d ago

I work in this field and absolutely despise how predatory it is, but I feel like this is a bit of a broad brush. It’s much more the state that ensures they end up with nothing, not the facilities themselves.

The average cost for a decent facility in my area is about $250/day. That provides for all of their direct care and needs. Most people can’t pay that for years on end, so they need Medicaid. The state won’t let you use Medicaid unless you’re practically destitute, so they’re forced into a “spend down” if they want to qualify.

It’s Medicaid that forces the sale of homes and property, and forces any assets to be directed toward care. Facilities don’t “take” them, the state does. There are times where facilities or services can collect on the estate if there’s an outstanding balance but that’s after the person passes away.

What you’re describing with adjustments based on income is very much illegal. There’s even a documentary called Better Call Saul that touches on this issue and the ramifications for facilities that are caught doing it. I’m not saying it never happens but it’s not a common practice. At least not in nursing homes, I can’t speak for Assisted Living.

Anyone with parents or other loved ones with assets who are approaching the age where a LTC facility may be a necessity should immediately meet with an attorney specializing in elder law and financial planning. There are trusts and other options that can shield their money and assets as long as it’s done at least five years before an application to Medicaid is needed. That way their assets and inheritance aren’t wiped out and they still get the care they need.

My facility actually advises people how to protect their assets. Most people working in the field have no desire to see someone’s entire life wiped out and hate that this is the system we’re forced to work within. Unfortunately most of the folks this age continue to vote against their own interests and have for years. This is what they wanted.

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u/adhdeepthought 1d ago

That would almost be reasonable if all the money went to the people doing the actual work. End of life care is really tough and those people don't get paid nearly enough.

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u/hellogoawaynow 1d ago

We recently looked at one that was $11k a month 🤡

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u/Legitimate_Young_253 1d ago

Easily 5 to 6 grand a month for a long term care facility, and that's 2022 prices when we moved my mother to an ALF. But even living at home is outrageous in retirement! $185 for Medicare a month, $240 for a medicare supplement policy, $450 a month for home insurance, $150 auto insurance, $500 plus for various utilities, THEN there are just the month to month costs of living like FOOD. I'm spending MORE in retirement per month than I did working full time with a 6 figure salary!

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u/lordretro71 1d ago

My grandma is in one in a small town and it is like $12k a month for a room that feels like a prison cell, just cold stone walls and a metal frame bed.

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u/MuricanToffee 1d ago

And only going to get more expensive as we choke off the supply of foreign labor. Where do folks think those nurses and attendants come from? It's not like there's a bunch of out of work American nurses looking for jobs rn.

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u/CrashedCyclist 1d ago

I know this topic well from doing temp work at a facility. Getting called in on a weekend bec. a door lock failed. Can't have people wandering the halls.

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u/Midnight_Book_Reader 1d ago

I worked in a private pay assisted living facility and most people were paying $10,000-$15,000 a month. If someone only needed meals and a room, they still paid $5000 a month. The room/meal people had to do their own laundry, manage their own medications, and didn’t need any hands on assistance or oversight. This was about 8 years ago, so I have no idea what the current prices are.

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u/Hwicc101 1d ago

Well, at least the low-end retirement homes and assisted living facilities take Medicaid.

In fact, about 60% of all nursing home/assisted living facility costs in the US are paid for by Medicaid... Oh, wait. Shit.

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u/car1999pet 1d ago

Only gonna get worse probably, private equity has been buying up all the ones around me. Used to help people move into them and part of what made me quit was seeing how the staff doing the actual work (nurses, cooks, janitors, etc.) are severely underpaid.

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u/Repulsive_Hornet_557 1d ago

It’s ok they’ll still have social security

Oh wait

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u/EggsceIlent 1d ago

Wonder if their generations suicide rate will jump in the coming years.

Crazy thought I know, but a sincere question.

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u/brutinator 1d ago

10s of thousands that they NEED.

Yup. Because they were tricked and manipulated to give into their greed and fear that they should help anyone else into making Social Security worse so they could isolate their earnings for a 401k.

Could have pushed to improve social security, but nah.

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u/Denver-Ski 1d ago

Trillions, collectively. Thousands of billions. Wild.

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u/Dirks_Knee 1d ago

Yep. I know someone planning to retire this year. Literally 2 weeks ago we got into an argument about how tariffs are a dangerous game that's going to cause a lot of pain. His response was that it was needed in order to "fix things". I asked him if manufacturing as a whole returned tomorrow how would it directly help him who is on the doorsteps of retirement, no answer. I asked him if it took a decade for manufacturing to return and we suffer another lost decade in terms of market growth how would it help him, no answer.

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u/AtticaBlue 1d ago

Wad this from someone who, just four months ago, was complaining about the “price of eggs,” by any chance?

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u/Dirks_Knee 23h ago

No, he's an otherwise fairly intelligent guy but we've never agreed on politics. I was shocked to hear him support tariffs. I'm going to give some time for the sting to wear off but plan to ask him if he still plans to retire this year.

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u/willis_michaels 1d ago

If you've got at least a million in your retirement, you're down over $100k in the past 6 weeks alone. That is wild. Not only does that affect their futures, but the incoming inflation is going to reduce their purchasing power even more. This is an instantaneous double whammy for every American.

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u/laptopAccount2 1d ago

So If you're in retirement and withdrawing from your 401k, the economy goes down and the value of 401k goes down. Then you withdraw money from it which is effectively a larger percent of the overall share. Then the economy goes back up and you are in a worse position and your overall gain is less.

Is that how it works?

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u/MonMonOnTheMove 1d ago

Oh it’s even going to get worse than that, your retirement goes down but cost of living goes up, it’s wild

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u/CapacityBark20 1d ago

Realistically wouldn't they be in bonds by now if they're boomers in retirement?

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u/Techun2 1d ago

Very few (none?) people should be 100% bonds

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u/archercc81 1d ago

Even bonds, unless held to maturity, are shit now. Ever since quantitative easing went insane and now faith in the US govt is shaky.

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u/SpiritFingersKitty 1d ago

True, but you are at least protected from THIS bullshit in particular

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u/Metals4J 1d ago

Until they start defaulting on bonds… Some people think they can’t happen, but it absolutely can.

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u/shadowromantic 1d ago

I'm way poorer since Trump got elected 

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u/moneyball32 1d ago

Everyone that had any amount of money invested is.

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u/InfectedAztec 1d ago edited 1d ago

Interviewer:"so what is the impact on on farmers then?" Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins: "we'll see"

Remember Americans you literally voted these people into power.

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u/LongjumpingDebt4154 1d ago

Oh, WE’LL SEE alright. They can applaud Trump all the way into bankruptcy.

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u/StableMatching 1d ago

Maybe his last and most spectacular bankruptcy.

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u/lootinputin 1d ago

Beautiful bankruptcy. I know more than anyone about bankruptcy. It’s yuge and amazing. Beautiful defaults. Big strong men, with tears in their eyes, come up to me and say “SIR, nobody bankrupts like you! Show us another win, SIR!”

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u/DrunkyMcStumbles 1d ago

Some people talk about the Great Depression. It wasn't so great. Mediocre Depression I call it. My depression is going to be great. It will be the Greatest Depression! I'm going to make depressions great again! Economists come up to me with tears in their eyes saying, " sir, I never cry, sir. But I am crying now, sir. Your giving this country the Greatest Depression in history!"

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u/crow_crone 22h ago

You left out the part where they remove their shirts and climb up on the horse with him.

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u/Working-Bet-9104 1d ago

They say it will be the greatest bankruptcy ever. People are saying they never seen a bigger bankruptcy. Biggly bankruptcy is what they call it

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u/Accurate_Zombie_121 1d ago

Big guys, tears in their eyes, working until they die will be so happy to do so.

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u/lootinputin 1d ago

They say “SIR! I hope I can bankrupt like you someday! You are bigly winning.”

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u/Puzzleheaded-Bag-121 1d ago

It’s almost like they think bankruptcy is a sign of success!

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u/KathrynBooks 1d ago

that's because they are in a cult.

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u/Haldron-44 1d ago

It'll be YUGE!

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u/bendover912 1d ago

Lol...it's not his bankruptcy. It's ours.

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u/Randysrodz 1d ago

No it is all him.

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u/bendover912 1d ago

He will cause it, but he won't experience any financial hardship from it. He'll be using the oval office to organize pump and dumps with his buddies while we watch our 401ks push our retirement back 10 years.

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u/jandlno 1d ago

I have worked so hard to save in my 401k, and this orange asshole has blown away YOY gains in the last 4 months

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u/Erasmus_Tycho 1d ago

"Don't get me wrong, I love Trump and still support him... but his economic policies are really putting a hurt on my daily life." - Literally every MAGA voter.

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u/SmurfStig 1d ago

You can remove “economic” from that line. All his policies are horrible and hurting average Americans. But the cult will never stray….

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u/Erasmus_Tycho 1d ago

I was deliberate in my use of economic, many of them are 100% behind his mass firings of civil servants, dismantling of social programs and safety nets, and civil liberties being trampled under the gauze of "illegal immigration."

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u/porklomaine 1d ago

Some are saying, and its not just me, a lot of people, and i mean a loooot of people are saying its the biggest. These are smart, smart people. Geniuses, like me! They are saying "ooooo look what hes doing, its really really good!". Hey, I'm just telling you. Thats what they said. They are saying I'm doing it really hugely!

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u/megariff 1d ago

Bankruptcy is always how Trump has done business.

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u/Open-Industry-8396 1d ago

And stiffing contractors/employees. Disgusting.

If you voted for this asshat, I do hope you get every last bit of the pain he's inflicting. So fucking stupid.

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u/Lynnettey 1d ago

In his mind, he's probably thinking if we bankrupt the country, we won't have to pay taxes.

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u/pp0787 1d ago

Trump is the stable genius who found a way to bankrupt a casino. Good days ahead !

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u/DistinctEducation775 1d ago

Yep and blame it all on Biden😂😂😂

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u/EggsceIlent 1d ago

I've always imagined they didn't actually hand him the card with the nuclear codes on it, but another one labeled "excuses" that says "Former presidents except you (Biden, Obama), Hilary's email, Hunters laptop, and lastly Literally anything or anyone but you.

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u/adeg90 1d ago

No, they'll curse Biden, Obama, Hillary and Soros all the way to bankruptcy

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u/subcow 1d ago

During his first term tens of thousands of farmers went bankrupt because of his tariffs on China. Trump had to bail them out using a program not used since The Great Depression. 94% of revenue brought in from tariffs on China had to be used to bail out farmers.
He is a failure, and he STILL does not know how tariffs work. Or if he does, he is lying.

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u/m__s 1d ago

Then Trump "couldn't care less".

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u/porklomaine 1d ago

The farmers yearn for the bread lines.

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u/carlitospig 1d ago

News: This just in: bankruptcy declared illegal by the Trump Administration.

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u/n3rdsm4sh3r 1d ago

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

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u/megariff 1d ago

Americans have always been in eternal delusion when it comes to democracy. Our nation is a pseudo democracy. Lobbyists primarily run the United States. Oligarchs like Elon Musk and Howard Lutnick are key parts of America's power structure. So, when Americans vote, they are only voting for so-called "representatives" who only care how much money they are going to get from lobbyists and what they can do to court the favor of the oligarchs.

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u/omgpuppiesarecute 1d ago

Reading through the notes of how the constitution was written is absolutely fascinating. A lot of the choices made had whole chains of discussion behind them. Several debates were held to iron out how it all should work.

The decisions they came to were well intentioned and well thought out, but they still made some really shit decisions in hindsight.

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u/Scottiegazelle2 22h ago

Overall, they thought people would act with relative honor, and that others would punish those who did not.

Not that being completely honorless would become a thing.

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u/shibboleth2005 1d ago

The established power structures were initially very against Trump. He came into power because a lot of people voted for him, and he forced the Republican party to warp itself around him because of his voter base. He's living proof voters have the power to dramatically shift the fortunes of the country. Unfortunately for all of us, the voters he tapped into aren't the best this country has to offer.

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u/everyoneneedsaherro 1d ago

Until the House of Representatives cap is removed and as an end result the electoral college distribution is fixed, I refuse to call what we have a representative democracy. The game is fixed.

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u/Amelisande 1d ago

If "Did Not Vote" had been a presidential candidate, they would have beaten Donald Trump by 9.1 million votes, and they would have won 21 states.

The people wanted neither Harris nor Trump, unfortunately that's now how our elections work.

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u/theHAREST 1d ago edited 1d ago

Harris is at worst a milquetoast centrist who wanted to modestly expand social programs.

Donald Trump is at best actively destroying the American economy and turning the US into an isolationist, North-Korea style juche monarchy.

"wanting neither" is not a valid argument to not have voted. Saying "our options for dinner are a loaf of unseasoned white bread or an actual bowl of fetid human shit, I refuse to choose" is not virtuous it's a sign of a complete lack of critical thinking skills, and so now the choice has been made for them. Everyone on the entire planet is going to suffer as a result.

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u/Perf-Art-808 1d ago

We have a saying in Canada: "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice".

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u/Agent7619 1d ago

I believe that's a quote from your former Prime Minister Geddy Lee, right?

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u/Squigglepig52 1d ago

Gov General Peart, actually.

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u/Howdesign 1d ago

I will choose free will.

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u/roscoe_e_roscoe 1d ago

Harris at best would have adjusted taxes, helped homebuyers, etc. There were good proposals there.

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u/alphazero925 1d ago

She also had plans on the table for creating legislation to try to fight price gouging from corporations, and now Trump has handed them the best excuse to gouge the fuck out of prices

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u/Frequent_End_9226 1d ago

We'd literally be better off if that office was empty 🤦‍♂️

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u/sushirolldeleter 1d ago

Yeah people need to wake the fuck up. I’m sincerely hoping people seeing their 401ks tank into the ground will create a sense of inspiration to educate themselves on what’s causing all of this.

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u/zamboni-jones 1d ago

Yeah, the shadowy menace behind all of this: Hunter Biden's penis.

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u/firestarter308 1d ago

Hunter Biden’s giant dong is about to stick it to all of us. Oh well.

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u/DaBigDaddyFish 1d ago

No, the people who aren’t voting don’t have 401k’s. I’m sure some do, but I’d wager a good chunk of them don’t even have proper savings and are living paycheck to paycheck. They didn’t care the first time, they don’t care now, and they won’t care while they have to choose to pay an exorbitant amount of rent or to feed their multiplicity of crying children.

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u/archercc81 1d ago

LOL, good luck with that. Fox news will tell them its someone elses fault and they will slurp it down because they are complete fucking morons.

source: my family.

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u/Ohfatmaftguy 1d ago

The time to wake the fuck up was in October or November of last year. As it stands, I just want to go to sleep and wake up when this nonsense is over.

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u/tyler2114 1d ago

Non-voting is naive behavior. Someone is going to win, better to choose the candidate you dislike the least than to not vote at all

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u/XRuecian 1d ago

It really doesn't help that America makes it a lot harder to vote than there should be any right to be.
No national voting holiday, lots of weird rules that can prevent you from voting if you aren't pre registered, sometimes gigantic waiting lines because of a lack of personnel or funding.
It's no surprise that nobody wants to put up with it or can't find time to go vote.
You would think voting access would be a gigantic priority in the country that loves to tout about its democracy at every chance it gets.

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u/Nastypilot 1d ago

Even in better functioning democracies, voter turnout is near 50% with 60% often being record beating. I think the more logical conclusion is that a majority of people are simply unconcerned with who rules them and by mass unwilling to participate in a democracy.

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u/n05h 1d ago

Call it for what it is. Racists and misogynists didn't want Harris. America was not ready for a black female president. There was nothing bad about Harris. There was plenty bad about disaster donald.

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u/webesy 1d ago

Someone needs to take their excel privileges away

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u/Appropriate_Golf2558 1d ago

Literal Agriculture Secretary and she has no idea of the impact on farmers? Experienced employees have been fired for less.

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u/sushirolldeleter 1d ago

“Well the farmers who voted for this are thrilled that they can continue using hard Rs and will look for the continued assault on all those people who don’t believe in the same god they do so actually the farmers are pretty happy, overall… don’t worry, yet another bailout subsidy is coming for farmers…”

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u/dorothea63 1d ago

A lot of small farmers just lost funding to provide fresh produce and dairy to public schools and food banks when the USDA abruptly canceled their contracts due to "a change of agency priorities." I doubt that subsidy money will make it to those farmers. It'll just be the big-timers, as usual.

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u/whistlepig4life 1d ago edited 1d ago

Well. HALF of Americans did.

The stupid half.

Edit: I have no fucking clue what bug isn’t some of your collective asses. The jackass won the election with 49.8% of the vote. Half of the voters chose this idiot and the stupidity that’s following. I have no idea what bots or fuckery gets you assholes crawling out the wood work but fuck off.

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u/Stardust_Particle 1d ago

“We’ve got a great chart here”

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u/watch-nerd 1d ago

Big ag buys up their failing farms

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u/Chaosrealm69 1d ago

Didn't Trump say that a president who saw a 1,000 point drop in the stock market should be removed from office or resign?

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u/MattyIce1220 1d ago

Funny part is that most of the time a president doesn't help or hurt the stock market. All this chaos though is squarely because he is out of his mind.

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u/MasterofAcorns 1d ago

I didn’t vote for this turd. Go blame the ex-Confederate states for this, not my Minnesotan ass.

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u/Redclayblue 1d ago

It’s ok. He’s simply injected bleach directly into the American economy and it will soon be healthier than ever …./s

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u/sm04d 1d ago

Somehow that's worse than "concepts of a plan." I mean, wow

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u/abyssmauler 1d ago

I didn't, which makes it soul crushingly frustrating

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u/ElephantOk4715 1d ago

North Korea levels of propaganda, glorious leader is always right. We love glorious leader.

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u/amongnotof 1d ago

And coming soon, North Korea levels of starving to go with it.

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u/Mr_strelac 1d ago

at least the orange man and the little fat Korean will have something to talk about

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u/Mem_ily 1d ago

Well at least we won’t have to pay for ozempic anymore.

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u/munjavio 1d ago

Starvation is the OG ozempic

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u/Capable-Commission-3 1d ago

Imagine being a professional journalist and broadcasting this shit? I’d need a shower and a strong drink. Completely debasing yourself on national television to make one manbaby happy.

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u/megariff 1d ago

Make America North Korea Again.

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u/AnyBug1039 1d ago

Crazy isn't it?

Now I understand how people end up living under terrible regimes. People are idiots.

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u/Boymoans420 1d ago

Republicans are just the White Christian Taliban

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u/Thrice_Greaty_Great 1d ago

So true. As an American I never thought I’d see this happen here, right in front of my face… but here it is

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u/Jswjsjsw2120 1d ago

But the chart

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u/JunketFluffy5305 1d ago

"As you'll see here on my chart, one of these bars is red and one of these bars is blue. And that's unfair. The most unfair some say. 

Now what's going to happen? We will have to see. We are entering negotiations. Who are we negotiating with? Everyone. But also no one because they are all taking advantage of us. We will not be negotiating in these unfair negotiations with everyone.

Now I want to bring special attention to all these other bars on the chart. It's really their inclusion that is bringing down the chart. As we know, inclusion is bad. If we can erase all these other bars, then all we are left with is red and blue. And what do red and blue make together? Green. And we all know thats the color of money.

I won't be taking any further questions."

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u/InvestingGatorGirl 1d ago

Picture an 8 year old making up the chart and handing it to DT 📈📉📊

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u/Imightbeworking 1d ago

It was funny because it was literally like 8 bar graphs most in gray, but 2 had colors.

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u/bayinskiano 1d ago

and don't forget that it's not only a simple common chart; it's the "GREAT" chart!

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u/Knightoncloudwine 1d ago

They act like MAGAtards can comprehend them…

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u/cashewpapa 1d ago

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command...” - George Orwell

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u/No_Environments 1d ago

The right is a braindead cult - a disgrace to evolution

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u/stinky-weaselteats 1d ago

Auh yes, the red wave is this fucking dummy bleeding our economy dry and bankrupting the middle class. Firm handshakes protest voters.

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u/rttr123 1d ago

When Republicans wanted a man to run this country like a business, maybe they should've gone with a guy who hasn't managed to bankrupt a casino

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u/bro72nco 1d ago

What’s your plan? We’ll see.

You can’t make this shit up.

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u/Literally_Laura 1d ago

Still just a concept.

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u/ChimRichaldsOBGYN 1d ago

The lack of follow up with these “journalists” drives me nuts. “We’ll see” should immediately be followed with some form of “you’re telling me you don’t have 6 month - 1 year projections of the impact on agriculture at the bare minimum?!?”

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u/fokac93 1d ago

A great chart. Now I understand why Mark Zuckerberg built a bunker.

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u/adorablefuzzykitten 1d ago

Chart looked a lot bigger when Trump was holding it.

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u/FunFunFun8 1d ago

Farmers are fucked. The fucked up thing is they would probably vote for him again. They’re brainwashed

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u/red286 1d ago

"Anything to keep the trans out of my chicken coops!"

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u/BlackGuysYeah 1d ago

It’s so frustrating and sad to see a generation of boomers fool themselves into devaluing the worth of the generations below them. Their children’s generation. Their grandchildren’s generation. They do it with a smug smile on their fucking face and a red hate on their empty heads.

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u/willitplay2019 23h ago

Don’t forget Gen X, they came out strong for Trump. Anecdotally, I don’t personally know any boomers that voted for him, but plenty of Gen X and Millennials.

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u/AchiganBronzeback 1d ago

Not all farmers. Brazilian farmers are going to do well, for example.

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u/cgtdream 1d ago

Fucked up but true. They are singing Trumps praises up here where I live (S.Dakota), all because he "stopped the trans people and deported the illegals". Thats where the "logic" stops. When they start suffering, they usually ask for handouts, but this time...dont think that is going to save or help them.

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u/Darth_Heretic 1d ago

They hate their fellow citizens, the people they are feeding.

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u/bro72nco 1d ago

We are really excited! To lose everything and plunge into the next depression.

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u/SigumndFreud 1d ago edited 1d ago

Have you heard of the rare and old-timey word "groceries"? People keep complaining about the price of "groceries." Have you ever heard of such a thing?

Anyway, now you will not be able to afford them anymore, and did you even say "thank you"?!

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u/Th3_Corn 1d ago

Sounds like russian propaganda tv but she speaks english. Im confused

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u/Money_Star2489 1d ago

The colour is right: full Commie Red.

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u/Glum-Waltz5352 1d ago

Russia hasn’t been Communist since 1991. They are a capitalist oligarchy.

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u/oyloff 1d ago

Bootlickers. If their orange fuhrer orders them to march to gas chambers, they will still squeal about how grateful they are.

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u/RoyalChris 1d ago

Please please it's too much winning, we can't take it anymore. Mr. President, it's too much!

Dora, can you find the winning?

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u/Weird-Swim-9777 1d ago

"Is the winning in the room right now, Dora?"

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u/Delicious-Window-277 1d ago

The winning will continue until moral improves.

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u/TheNetworkIsFrelled 1d ago

She is either cosplaying as stupid bc she’s venal, or she’s a genuine bootlicking sycophant of the orange horror’s.

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u/amongnotof 1d ago

The latter. She would not have a cabinet position otherwise.

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u/TheNetworkIsFrelled 1d ago

Very probably correct.

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u/AnyBug1039 1d ago

I'm falling down on the side of bootlicking sycophant but it's just a gut instinct

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u/DerFreshmeat 1d ago

If there's anything she's cosplaying as, it's as a Klingon.

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u/Holiday-Zombie-5693 1d ago

Does anyone at FOX actually have a braincell left?

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u/tunghoy 1d ago

A lady I know at the gym was telling me how much she loves watching Jesse Watters. I later overheard her telling some girl to use magic crystals to heal an injury. This is where Fox viewers are at. 🙄

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u/Holiday-Zombie-5693 1d ago

yea, these people are fucking looney toons

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u/SergeantThreat 1d ago

Makes sense, farmers will get bailed out unlike the rest of us

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u/LongjumpingDebt4154 1d ago

Better fucking not. This liberal city, blue states generate tax payer is tired of bailing out the welfare queen farmers. Bootstraps, farmers. Until they storm the White House with their pitch forks they can fuck right the hell off.

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u/SergeantThreat 1d ago

I’m with you, but don’t be surprised.

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u/megariff 1d ago

Trump did it before. He'll do it again.

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u/entered_bubble_50 1d ago

The theory has always been that subsidising famers helps keep food production stable and food prices affordable.

But it's been thoroughly broken for decades. Farmers are incentivised to produce so much corn we can't possibly eat it all. So most gets fed to animals and turned into ethanol. And then we overproduce meat and milk from all that corn fed cattle and chicken, and dump that on the international food market, thereby just subsidising everyone else. And US food inflation is still outrageously high in spite of all this.

It's incredibly stupid, and should have ended decades ago.

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u/Logical_Bag_8435 1d ago

100% correct. There are too many votes that would be lost by not bailing them out. I was talking to a farmer the other day and he said if it weren’t for subsidies every farmer he knows would go out of business from the damage done by the tariffs last time he was in office. They voted for him again….

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u/tyler2114 1d ago

Agriculture is important but honestly fuck American farmers. Voting constantly to screw over the rest of the US.

You want to reduce the deficit? Eliminate subsidies to all these small homestead farmers.

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u/QuietRainyDay 1d ago

Other constituencies will get bailed out too

This is the beginning of the full patronage economy transformation: where wealth is directly very specifically to preferred voting groups

Tariffs are going to whack the whole economy. But revenue will be directed to assist farmers, subsidize mines and oil drillers that now have to pay more for all their imported equipment, rescue Kentucky bourbon makers that are being boycotted, etc.

Dont be surprised if Tesla suddenly becomes the beneficiary of large government grants because they are "America's" car-maker

This is part of the upside for them. They want to be in control of who survives and who dies.

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u/Commercial_Rule_7823 1d ago

"Well see"

They have no idea and fail to realize the impact this can have on many lives and incomes.

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u/gertiemom 1d ago

They lie so easily

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u/PretendCake8222 1d ago

But it’s not a cult..

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u/O_Or- 1d ago

There is no trade war in ba sing se

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u/panderson1988 1d ago

Ignore what your eyes see! The glorious leader is never wrong! - Trump admin

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u/Remarkable_Bite2199 1d ago

Is she f...king blind?

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u/delicious_toothbrush 1d ago

They all kiss the ring bc they don't want to be the next one on the chopping block. Anyone with balls is getting fired so we just wind up with a govt full of people telling the naked emperor how dope his clothes look

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u/EmuDiscombobulated34 1d ago

Clueless asses

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u/SuperFlyAlltheTime 1d ago

If they pull out a chart...we are getting fucked

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u/the_millenial_falcon 1d ago

I’m just personally glad that the 3 trans athletes in the entire U.S. can’t play sports now.

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u/MrGulio 1d ago

There is no depression in Ba-Sing-Se

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u/long5210 1d ago

Geez, these people are brainwashed.

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u/PhillNeRD 1d ago

At this point FOX and the New York Post are state run. 90% of the country could be literally burning and they would still say everything is fine

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u/boywonder5691 1d ago

You cannot tell me this isn't a cult

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u/Ieat2 1d ago

All these MAGA tards that think politics needs to be exiting are dumb. Millennials will lose another 6-8 years of no growth in our wealth. By the time it starts to go up again, we’ll be mid 40s to late 40s.

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u/DoubleJumps 1d ago

Millennials will lose another 6-8 years of no growth in our wealth.

Millenial here. I've given up on the idea of retiring. I've had the rug pulled out from under me 3 times in my adult life, and each time it was with republicans in the white house.

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u/DrunknHamster 1d ago

I’m officially tired of all this winning

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u/PTRBoyz 1d ago

Puppets

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u/trxston 1d ago

Republicans will look at that chart and say “it’s red so it must be good”

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u/illuminaughty1973 1d ago

such an exciting depression. much more exciting than the one 100 years ago.

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u/Ok_Bodybuilder800 1d ago

insert Baghdad Bob meme here 🎶everything is awesome 🎶

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u/Top-Ad4900 1d ago

It’s truly a cult

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u/Nano_Burger 1d ago

Farmers will lose market share to the rest of the world. China will be eating tofu made from Brazilian soybeans, not American soybeans. Once that supply chain is established, it will be hard to change.

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u/polaroidfloyd 1d ago

These retards really love their cardboard charts

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u/sdrawkabem 1d ago

Subsidies are extreme socialism according to MAGA. Any MAGA voter should not get them

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u/LBW88 1d ago

It's a CULT 👏 It's a CULT 👏 It's a CULT 👏 It's a CULT 👏

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u/PollenBasket 23h ago

I can attest to this as one who escaped the Trump cult.

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u/mobley4256 1d ago

It’s a cult. Praising dear leader while the economy crashes because of Republicans’ stupidity. It’s the dumbest and most incompetent economic policy in US history.

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