He didn’t back off any of China’s tariffs. Do people not understand what caused the freefall to begin with?

“Here’s the thing you have to understand about Ted Cruz,” Franken wrote in the book, an excerpt of which was published by Axios. “I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.”

Thanks for the added context!

This is by design. Why do you think all the oligarchs are creaming over trump?

That’s what a try/catch is for!

Absolutely true.

On paper though, he’s a real estate tycoon (at least his father was one, Don’s just trying to make his abusive dead father proud of him from beyond the grave).

That’s all he has any, on paper, practical experience doing.

His money laundering is more one of those hobbies that’s turned out to be his real passion. Like Bankrupting casinos.

His current handling of the largest government, economy, and military in human history; is pulling deep from those two hobbies.

You’re legitimately the most optimistic person I’ve talked to since November 5th.

I like you.

“all the food coming in at the docks is covered in human spit for some reason”

Small correction, I’ve read several biographies of people close to trump, including his nephew, and trump legitimately believes he’s one of the smartest people on the planet. Especially when it comes to business. His narcissism is well earned here.

He thinks elom knows more about computers, but the reason he refuses to listen to even a slightly less idiotic billionaire about the Tariffs, is because he believes he knows more than Elon about trade. He thinks he knows more about trade than economists who spends their lives doing this.

He’s never had to deal with trade. His business is real estate, that’s service based. Trade is a whole different system he’s never been involved in. He hates trade. Even though he’s benefited immensely from it.

You’re a silver linings kind of guy. 🙂

While funny, they are currently sanctioned, so Tariffs don’t really apply yet. When donny removes those sanctions though? How much you want to bet they conveniently forget to update their tariff list to include Russia?

It’s a fire sale for people who moved to more securities and cash earlier when trump signaled that he was going to crash the market. Also his billionaire buddies when he said he was going to do this, got a heads up.

They’re going to buy premium stocks for dirt cheap now and clean up if/when it recovers.

The issue this time around is, trump destroyed the fundamentals of trade between literally every other country on earth outside of the US.

There’s literally no way for the market to recover when it’s largely based on the same global trade that trump just destroyed for the next generation or two at least.

Allies will not trust the US anymore. We just pulled a Brexit and gave up our seat at the head of the table in world trade.

They may recover, but not to the pre-trump tariff’s level.

The fax received would have been a great historical artifact.

Wonder how they’d preserve the heat paper.

Rhyming here, but yeah, basically.

They started deporting and when countries stopped taking the “undesirables”, they concentrated them in a few camps and then they decided that killing them was the same as keeping them alive.

We’re not there yet, but this administration just rhymed “Nazi” with “Natsi” thinking they were clever by using the phonetic pronunciation and nobody would notice.

Narrator: “They listened to him.”

Just a minor correction: There is no herpes vaccine. It’s the HPV vaccine you’re thinking of.

Would be nice to get a herpes vaccine, but they’re not there yet.

It is known.

This was a long, but great read. Listen to this man. I have had similar experiences and outcomes, though not nearly as deep as the OP above me.

I like the subtle use of the two different color backgrounds to indicate a frame/perspective shift from within the same room. Well done.

Unlike the actual guy this meme is based on, yes.