And don’t forget actively pretending that laundering money through ai investments will somehow make it all worth it
So I just moved into a new apartment right. Somehow the alarm got set (first of all wild that this apartment has an alarm system, never experience that before) and management never told us how to turn it off. So anyway I just tried to leave the apartment and the alarm triggered. We called 4 seperate groups and could not get past the ai voice to speak with a single human. We just waited the alarm out and if a cop shows up I guess we will deal with it. I hate ai so much
This is gonna surprise you but the only new thing here is “ai”, this is how the market has worked for decades
Just money laundering, fraud, and outright theft in general
Here’s the simple way to understand Trump’s plans.
Trump has been in bed with the Mafia his entire career. You don’t do construction in New York or run a casino in New Jersey without the boys getting to wet their beaks.
But Trump is an idiot, so the top bosses always made sure there were a few layers between Donnie and them. Even Fredo Corleoni knows you don’t let a blabbermouth anywhere near you.
So Trump learned from third rate schmoes who never ran anything bigger than a vending machine company.
To Trump, selling the country out for pennies on the dollar looks like genius.
A real mob boss would have extorted $50 billion from OPEC on Inauguration Day 2016.
or… hear me out… Maybe Putin has a picture of Trump blowing Bubba.
So…?
He would have the CIA in his pocket. What would they do, come forward and say that yes, this was an authentic picture of Trump?
OR
Lie, and have the sitting President in their pocket?
And Trump would be willing to go along with any CIA plots anyway.
If he’d had the balls of a hamster he would have told Putin to blow him and hand over $50 billion.
The allegation is that Putin had the picture long before Trump was a serious contender for President. And that Putin used that time to develop Trump, meaning that by the time 2016 rolled around, Trump would have long had so much kompromat on him that he couldn’t possibly defy Putin.
Trump is a stooge who was never going to stand up to Putin.
That said, if he’d been blessed with the balls of a hamster, he could have ridden out the storm easily.
"You have to give old Vlad credit. He saw that he was dealing with a tough hombre and he did the only thing he could. He got his boys to whip up some phony pictures to try and make me look bad.
"I’ve spent plenty of time in Russia, I can’t deny it. Turns out, they knew how important I was and shadowed me. Get a picture of me coming out of the shower, play around with it, and you can make anything look like anything.
"Look, I can’t tell you all the details, because my friends at the CIA would rather keep their cyber stuff top secret, but use your logic. We all know Superman doesn’t fly in the movies, but boy it sure looks that way, doesn’t it.
Tell me the Magats wouldn’t accept.
So much winning.
I honestly don’t think MAGA see these problems you listed as problems. For them its all happening to brown skinned people so its ok and desirable. For MAGA its a rallying cry - “project 2025 is working. keep goin!”
A magat can be directly affected by Trump’s policies and still not blame Trump for it
There are plenty of precedents already set
What I wonder is how the real people are in USA.
Twitter is an 80% bot hell hole you have a very very shifted version of reality there.
On lemmy here we have a very left community so this isn’t the real opinion of the Americans either.
How do “normal” people see the situation?
Normal people see that a very large group of highly motivated morons twice gave power to another highly motivated moron. That highly motivated moron continues to easily manipulate that large demographic of complete morons to give himself even more power, right up to the edge of not having to ever relinquish that power.
We watch the opposition party, which has since become splintered and weak in hopes they will eventually oust the tyrant. Instead they seem to capitulate to the tyrant at every turn.
We are slowly realizing that we may have to take matters into our own hands to fix the situation. Some want to wait and see until midterm elections next year. Some want to take action now because those elections are in jeopardy of not occurring at all or being highly corrupt.
Otherwise everything is just getting worse, day by day. Healthcare is worse, transportation is worse, food is more expensive, housing is more expensive.
Our quality of life declines on a daily basis while we watch a president enrich himself by a margin that would take millions of us a lifetime to earn legitimately over a lifetime combined.
Didn’t the MAGA Ministry of Mental Gymnastics tell them that buying some people gifts was unnecessary? They don’t see it as a problem when Our Dear Leader wrecks the economy so bad that Christmas is cancelled for some people?
This is extra ironic considering it came from the “war on christmas” people.
what I don’t understand is why all these people who got laid off aren’t spending money buying my stuff??? I already fired a couple dozen people so I could buy boats for my children for Christmas, but how will I get them newer boats for birthday presents next year if people don’t buy the stuff they raised the price of by 15% already this year?
lol… that’s one disgruntled MAGA that downvoted this. Too bad this isn’t the safe space for them to talk it out.
Trump worse than Nixon
Trump and Nixon, Hegaeth and Kissinger.
I’ll say the Kissinger was worse, if only because he seemed to be accepted by polite society.
Hegseth’s an unlikable alcoholic whose only command experience was in the early 2000s as a lieutenant.
His entire time as a captain was in a teaching position, and he phoned in his time as a major. Or rather he joined the DC national guard and was flagged as an insider threat because of his multiple white nationalist tattoos, so he quit.
So while Trump is unarguably more openly corrupt than Nixon, he also has surrounded himself with unqualified yes men who are often hated by their subordinates.
Nixon was a crook but also a patriot. He worked for America using illegal methods that never personally benefited himself. Nixon would have had Trump killed for selling out America for personal profit.
Oh, no, it looks like basic math wins again. If only literally every mildly intelligent person had been pointing out that this is exactly what would happen the entire time, we probably would have done better, right? The good news is now we all know and have learned that this is how things work and we will never make this exact same mistake ever again.
The good news is now we all know and have learned that this is how things work and we will never make this exact same mistake ever again.
[NARRATOR]: ……. sigh.
Ahhahahahahhahahahhahahahahahahahhahaah
Very funny
Driving everything to crisis levels … then the US government will try to save everyone from absolute ruin
But none of them admit that it was the stupid fascist US government that caused all of this to happen in the first place!
Hint: they will use it as an excuse to persecute vulnerable people they don’t like
As well as allow billionaires to continue vacuuming up assets at fire sale prices
It was all the fentanyl from Venezuela.
Yay I can be a memes!
I was happily and gainfully employed with a federal contractor earlier this year. The Trump administration’s cuts to funding and cancelled contracts were too sudden and too indiscriminate. Businesses like my former employer who could have pivoted to new income streams with minimal impacts on employment were not given the opportunity to adapt.
I’m one of the lucky ones in a way.
A lot of my laid off former coworkers had no financial cushion and quickly found themselves in dire financial circumstances. And pretty much all my friends, family, and acquaintances that still have jobs are stressed out from the threat of more layoffs coming and/or because they over worked. I’ve worked in stressful office environments before, so I’m pretty sure nobody’s giving their best work right now.
That’s the whole point. The fascist oligarch fucking filth want the underclass to be in constant fear.
Oh would you look at the time, my watch just hit guillotine o’clock.
Yes but think of the positives
More billions for the billionaires.
The prisons encourage raping LGBTQ+ now.
do not make me put the slash s on here mofos
Don’t worry: the people who were promising that all that stuff would lead to prosperity are doing just fine. Better than ever, even.
Hey America are we tired yet from all this winning?
Republicans are useless
On the contrary, they are quite effective. They just don’t work for you.
I’m not sure who they work for, exactly, because a depressed labor market and trade shortages aren’t really helping any of them either.
A recession helps the wealthy. They get to buy property, services, and company ownership at fire-sale prices while the rest of us have to sell assets and labor below their actual value to avoid starving to death.
are you “there yet”, America?
