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Trump surrogate Elon Musk keeps saying Trump will tank the economy (gizmodo.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Duh…

Republicans ALWAYS tank the economy. It’s their standard playbook.

  1. Tax cuts for the wealthy.

  2. Profit

  3. Tank the economy

  4. Print money

  5. Lagging inflation

  6. Hang the debt bill on the working class taxpayers

  7. Rinse & repeat the cycle

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

6b. Blame the Democrats for a failing economy in the first 30 days when they get back in office.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Excellent add. This is key.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

You forgot step zero of the kleptocracy: blame the Democrats and/or some defenseless minority whose vote you don't need.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago

It's not a bug, its a feature.

Every economic crash that we've had, has resulted in a monumental transfer if wealth. 2008, Covid. The rich have soaked it all up.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But when the storm passes and everyone realizes we are on sounder footing, there will be a rapid recovery to a healthier, sustainable economy

Uh no. When winds were favorable to the billionaires they did the whole stock buyback, not get us on the fast track to a rapid recovery. When we put the tariffs on steel, we didn't get a stronger steel industry, we got US Steel going up for potential sale to the Japaneses.

This "there will be rapid recovery" every, single, stinking, time someone says this, the exact opposite happens. There's been no evidence that this would ever happen.

These Republicans are quick to say things like "Communism might sound great on paper, but it doesn't work in the real world." Well neither has this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

We're in weird times tho. The wealth gap isn't just widening, it's fucking Usain Bolt sprinting away from us. The rich get richer, the poors get to eat the bag of shit that trickles down. So yeah, I'm sure there will be a rapid recovery to a healthier, sustainable economy... If you are in the top 1%. If not, well, you should have just worked harder and got rich dummy.

[–] Sabre363 16 points 3 weeks ago

These two are like boiling beans, they bubble up and say some weird shit that makes no sense and make a big mess in the process. Best just to put the lid on and ignore them for a bit, oh and maybe turn the heat down . . .

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'll always judge Grimes for shacking up with this dude

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Worse than her shitting on a bed because she was mad?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Way worse, I mean who hasn't shit in a bed because they were mad

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Election 2028 will be Musk vs Harris. He has tasted the power now.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is he retroactively going to get natural born citizen status like he got Tesla founder status?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I could see Magas backing him while also asking for Obama's birth certificate. Not a great leap in mental gymnastics for them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I mean that's a win for Democrats... It would just split the Republicans. While not even a corrupt court would ever rule that someone who publicly aired he illegally immigrated to this country could be considered a natural born citizen.

And they won't get 2/3 vote to amend the Constitution to change the presidential requirements... Unless they have already arrested all of one of the legislative branch. Which at that point it's all moot because it would be already a dictatorship and they would either choose their successor or be assassinated by them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Isn't it strange, I thought Trump was going to give Musk a job in the white house, or is Musk just creating a spot for himself and sell himself as the solution? American politics is weird.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

elon wants what he did at twitter to be done to the USA