• Mister Neon
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    I did not vote for a neutron bomb to wipe out supply chains and small businesses…

    Yes you did jackass. People like him are the reason I don’t have a job anymore.

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      Hey, be fair to the guy. He only voted for all the ways Trump promised to hurt the people he didn’t like, not for the ways Trump promised to hurt him.

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      At some level, I’m just jealous of these people for getting what they voted for. I haven’t gotten what I voted for ever since I was old enough to vote.

    • Lightor
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      The funny thing is, this would say off some right wing people without them realizing the irony of getting mad at it.

  • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    Craig Fuller thought he was voting for business savvy, not economic shock therapy.

    Does he know anything at all about the felon who has left a long trail of failed businesses and can bankrupt a casino three casinos? Trump is doing pretty much exactly what he said he’d do and any CEO that doesn’t know that deserves to be unemployed.

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        I thought it was 5 casinos and a resort (with a casino on)…?

        Edit:
        Bankruptcies were…
        1991: Trump Taj Mahal
        1992: Trump Castle Hotel & Casino
        1992: Trump Plaza Casino
        1992: Trump Plaza Hotel (not a casino, just a hotel.)
        2004: Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts
        2009: Trump Entertainment Resorts (casino holding company. FFS, not only did he bankrupt casinos. Which is one of the most lucrative businesses out there, he also bankrupted a company that handles the casinos. How the fuck is that even -legally- possible to bankrupt a company that owns the most lucrative businesses!!!)

        There are numerous other businesses that also failed spectacularly. Plus there ‘businesses’ that were just scams, the university that never was.
        Promises of extensive redevelopment that got ‘put on hold’ after his golf courses got built etc.

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      “See the next GOP president will fix it all with this one simple trick. Yup. It’ll totally work. USA USA.”

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      They are the only game in town, particularly at the state and local level.

      Republicans are in a suicide pact with their party. If you try to leave, your peers will kill you that much faster.

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    Heartbreaking? Nah. More like utterly infuriating that they were duped despite the prior term and decades of demonstrated corruption and incompetence.

    I’ve no sympathy at all.

  • Vertelleus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I don’t understand, why doesn’t he just “pull himself up by by his bootstraps” and work harder. That’s what they tell everyone else, right?

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      That is a real shame. All these people are choosing to be poor. The real trick of this whole thing is you need to be independently wealthy for it to work for you. If only these folks understood that, they might choose differently.

  • Match!!@pawb.social
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    I’m sick of calling my senators I’m gonna start calling these guys and dunking on them

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      Yes heartbreaking! I don’t care about all those people being detained and deported unlawfully. But think of poor old me, I got what I voted for and now I’m sad! How could I’ve ever expected him to do what he’s known for, running things into bankruptcy?!

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        remember until it affects them personally in a negative way they don’t care about what this administration does. This is what make it so difficult to change a large population of trump supporter’s minds, because they seem to not have much empathy for anyone but themselves.

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    …voting for business savvy…

    Did this guy sleep through Trump’s first term? Things are worse now than it was then but he messed things up the first time too.

    • iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com
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      The article explains the differences. In the first term tariffs were targeted and rolled out slowly. The person in the article expected the same in Trump’s second term.

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        The first term tariffs also caused reciprocal tariffs to be put in place that caused short term ($27B from mid 2018 to 2019) and long term damage to our agriculture industries by enabling other countries to develop their own industrial base to replace the US. Trump ended up bailing out US farmers with packages that equalled 92% of that the tariffs brought in.

        I stand by my first statement. The farmer wasn’t paying attention to the first term.

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    Heartbreaking.

    I can’t stop crying about this redcap’s 23% loss in profits. Never mind that I’m not sure whether my Social Security disability will continue at all (it’s been delayed the last couple of months, to the point I can’t afford ramen right now) or that they’re building interment camps. Or that my doctors say Medicare won’t allow my prescriptions anymore unless I can travel the hour and a half to physically show up at their office, which I cannot do since I’m 100% homebound and Medicare has suddenly decided they’re not allowing remote visits anymore, so I’ll have to stop taking lifesaving meds I’ve been on for 20 years.

    But yes, this guy’s 23% profit loss will keep me up tonight.

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    In his view, the 145% tariffs on Chinese goods are functionally an embargo, and they’ve been rolled out so suddenly that U.S. companies haven’t had time to adapt. “It’s too much too fast,” Fuller told reporters in a phone interview. “The economy can’t absorb it.”

    If only an expert had known this beforehand.

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      If only our government was being ran by competent people and if someone is incompetent they were removed.

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        Do you want a government full of Steven Millers? 'Cause that’s how you get a government full of Steven Millers.

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          I said competent and I meant at their job, not at being a Neonazi!

          For an example, when Kash Patel shows up without a budget to the budget hearing he gets removed for gross incompetence.

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            They’re still going to pick neonazis, though, so if you insist on competency then they’ll end up with competent neonazis. That, to me, seems like the worst-case scenario.

            (Also, I want to make it clear that my comments shouldn’t be construed as any sort of praise for Steven Miller’s competency… he’s just the first one who came to mind that was clearly evil yet not also a buffoon.)