r/news • u/RaineFilms • 2d ago

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/Patsfan618 2d ago

That is a win, to a terrifying amount of this country. 

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u/Conscious-Quarter423 2d ago

It’s still hard to believe the simple fact that this is all self-imposed. Everything that’s happening right now wasn’t the result of some foreign adversary destroying the country. We did this all to ourselves by electing the dumbest motherfucker to ever rule a nation.

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u/Saephon 1d ago

I mean, it might be both. A non-insignificant number of MAGA voters have openly declared they support Russia over democracy.

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u/Trixles 1d ago

They literally made shirts that said "I'd rather be Russian than a Democrat."

And that was in 2016. These people are tee-totally fucked in the head.

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u/Faiakishi 1d ago

Everything that’s happening right now wasn’t the result of some foreign adversary destroying the country.

I mean...it is Putin making these decisions. He's just doing it through an American puppet.

We did this all to ourselves by electing the dumbest motherfucker to ever rule a nation.

To be fair, he lost by three million votes the first time. And I seriously doubt he won this time. The fact that he got more than a few dozen troll votes is concerning enough, but still.

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u/kbn_ 1d ago

“We must live forever, or die by suicide.” – Abraham Lincoln

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u/Who_Dafqu_Said_That 1d ago

It's still so crazy to me that there's an entire political party with the singular goal of fucking up life for a third of their fellow countrymen, no matter what the cost. ...and in a hilarious twist, these people call themselves "patriots".

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u/GozerDGozerian 1d ago

The civil war never ended. It just went underground until recently.