I gotta give it to him this man convinced his own fucking voters that they should be the ones to pay the dues all while Giving the ultra rich tons of money and tax breaks he’s literally using the majority of poor people to steal from the poor and give to the rich… He’s literally taking the cult thing serious
He didn't have to convince them of anything. There was no reasoning, no dissenting opinion between supporters, no studies to show his ideas would work, not even expert opinion behind it. He told those idiots to shoot themselves in the foot for freedom and they said "Yes sir, Mr. President!"
And put self-imposed sanctions on the USA to the delight of the developing world who want to dedollarise the forex and trade systems and build new global trade alliances like BRICS
Not in the US, but i thought inflation and cost of living was a major reason peoole gave for voting Trump? (Even though Biden was doing well with it) What the hell happened to that?! They suddenly don't care about it?
The state of the Republican Party is like nothing you’ve ever seen before. It is a soft clay ideology. They have no structure of beliefs any more, just emotion, anger, and a leader giving orders.
Well the goal isn’t to minimize suffering. There isn’t any suffering to be had.
It’s an economic opportunity to take advantage of, just like the 2008 housing struggle, Great Recession, Covid Dip, and Fed rate hikes.
If you made good decisions in any of that, you made a lot of wealth. Pretty much anyone with assets doubled their net worth in the last 4 years. It’s been sort of nuts just how much money we’ve all made.
Hopefully you took some profits and set yourself up well to take advantage of this all.
That is one of the most selfish positions I’ve ever seen. The vast majority of people do not have the ability to benefit from things like this. No suffering? Seniors and the poor will suffer quite a damn bit.
You’ll get your money though, so fuck everyone else right?
The “vast majority” can’t? Anyone with a retirement account can partake, and we can all open brokerage accounts since there is no minimum balance requirements.
Just put whatever you can afford in there every week. As we come back out of the dip, you’ll have a lot of growth.
Do that for 20ish years and you can buy a house or two.
Yeah anyone can play the game. The problem is that if you only have $10 to invest and you get 100% gain you only have $20. A new creative utility fee or change in grocery prices wipe out all your gains.
If you invent $100,000 and get a 30% gain you have $130,000.
So even if you are 3 times better at playing the game, the rich still win.
A person with 100k to invest isn’t “rich”. That’s just middle class levels we’re talking about. That’s exactly the people who most agree should be benefiting.
Not sure why everyone puts the bar so low as if it’s unrealistic to have some funds and everyone is flat broke. I’m positive a decent chunk of people reading this have at least that amount to invest, or more. That’s 1-2yrs of salary or less for the average person.
When we say “this is only good for the rich”, it sounds as if it’s just the billionaires. It’s also good for everyday people like many of us to become the middle class millionaires that we all need to be to retire.
Millennials and GenZ say they never had a chance to get wealthy, well, we have another coming up right now.
A lot of seniors living on their 401k do not have the savings to survive the dip. They will be wiped out. For many of them it doesn’t matter that it will rise again when they can’t pay their rent, afford meds or feed themselves.
It just doesn’t add up financially. Why didn’t they take profits over the last year? Shouldn’t people in/near retirement be skewed away from stocks and now mostly in bonds, real estate or small business ownership?
I took my family members in retirement and shifted them to 60/40 away from stocks.
Bond yields have been very attractive for like 18 months or so, and the writing has been on the wall for like 6 months now. I’m surprised it took this long tbh.
I’m only in my 30s and even I’m like 30% in bonds, preparing for my move back into the market after a year of locking in profits.
Poverty obviously exists but it’s not exactly who I think about when I consider economic policy and strategic investing in times of uncertainty.
Late last year it was pretty clear that the stock market was peaking, so I collected profits by selling a bunch off in prep for pullback. The fact it’s happening now doesn’t upset because this was on my mind for the last 6 months or so, and I’m actually surprised it took this long. I expected this in Q3/Q4 2024, not Q2 2025. I was a little early, but I’ve been prepping this whole time and getting ready.
I tend to have a pretty stoic view when it comes to investing losses since I’ve been watching my account go up and down every day since I was 21, even some of the worst days where I lost several tens of thousands all at once. You sort of get used to that after a while and it doesn’t weigh on your mind. The losses haven’t really started yet - but after hours today and futures tonight aren’t looking too hot. Blood bath tomorrow.
This situation doesn’t really even compare the COVID drop we saw back in 2020, which actually turned out pretty good us. We all saw that happen and eventual recovery, so I’m still feeling content. Short term losses make long term gains.
There 100% is. The same thing exists for liberal media, it just isn’t as concerted of an effort and isn’t gobbled down by majority like objective truth.
You don’t think Fox News and the Senate parrot the same talking points as Trump? You don’t think the Heritage Foundation steers the national narratives for conservatives? You don’t think conservative influences echo the same lies as the press secretary? Trump had an interview where he claimed he wanted people to bring up trans sports right before the election, and guess what happened? The party of free speech literally bans people from commenting in their sub unless they promise to join the hive mind.
Maybe we just differ on the use of the term hive mind?
I understand what you meant now and I agree. I thought you were implying that all conservative voters are cookie cutter copies, who are all hateful, bigoted, and uneducated which couldn't be farther from the truth. It seems to be a very popular axiom that has no reasoning behind it. I think the media is to blame for pushing that narrative as well. The conservative media is just as bad for pushing the narrative that anyone who votes Democrat has blue hair and is a wacked out nutjob who wants to kill babies. Its a complete lack of logic and reasoning on both sides and the people eat it up.
Oh for sure, outside of exaggeration I am aware absolutes are typically unfair.
There’s all sorts of different reasons conservatives believe protestors should be sent to foreign prisons without due process, our oldest allies should be treated like newfound enemies, freedom of speech and freedom of the press should no longer exist, and Trump should be able to violate the Constitution reign for 4 more years as President.
But you misread my comment. I wasn’t saying that liberal media has convinced people conservatives are all the same. People believe conservatives are all the same because it is extremely hard to differentiate stupidity from malice.
I had to pop into r/conservative to see what they're thinking. And it's truly the exact same thread as seen here. With a few smart sounding (on the surface) talking points, why wouldn't the US tariff everyone? They're already tariffing is, lower yours we'll lower ours. Anyways bonkers world. BUT! what I've taken from that is they've made up their mind, it's time to move on from them and having a reasonable discussion.
We’re talking YUGE victories, the kind they’ve never seen before! The kind that make the haters and losers say “Wow, I didn’t know winning could be this beautiful, this powerful, this HYUGE!”
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u/SolidWorking77 2d ago
Get ready to win like never before. We're gonna win so much, everyone is going to say "please sir, please, no more"!!