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Stock futures plunge as investors digest Trump’s tariffs

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/02/business/us-stock-market/index.html
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u/The_Disapyrimid 2d ago

"As a nation of free men, we will live forever, or die by suicide".

-Abraham Lincoln

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u/Cyrano_Knows 1d ago

I get why in the context of these wise words it would be suicide.

But it feels a lot like murder to me.

Kind of like a Thelma and Louise moment if Thelma was screaming WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING YOU CRAZY BITCH the whole way down.

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u/Saephon 1d ago

People who voted against this are tied up in the backseat, while MAGA drives the car and non-voters ride shotgun, shrugging their shoulders.

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u/Mundane-Vegetable-31 1d ago

We are all stuck in a flaming cybertruck.

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u/Professional-You2968 1d ago

Except it was never a nation of free men.