Super excited for the entire conservative infrastructure to tell me how Trump’s demand for price controls on cars is free market economics.
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Trump's strategies never change. Force a square peg into a round hole and take a hammer to it until it breaks.
mar 28, 2025, 3:22 pm • 0 1 • view
Remember when Harris talked about post Covid price gouging by retailers? The maggots clutched their pearls so hard they almost strangled themselves. This right here from Felon is actual price control. Controlling gouging is not.
mar 28, 2025, 8:18 pm • 6 0 • view
I’m sure Jared Kush is shorting Ford GM stock as we speak
mar 28, 2025, 2:59 pm • 3 0 • view
Would that be industrial socialism?
mar 28, 2025, 7:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Where’s my cheap eggs bitch?!?!?!?!
mar 28, 2025, 2:50 pm • 5 0 • view
Silly people, thinking that American conservatives have a core of beliefs outside of “white conservative men should be able to push everybody else around.” Everything else they pretend to believe in is a strategic tactic towards the real core belief coming true.
mar 29, 2025, 2:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Every pos republican, maga turd, sovereign chuds and other scum need to be stuffed into cargo containers and dropped into the ocean.
mar 28, 2025, 4:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Must agree.
mar 28, 2025, 5:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Ask the WaPo folks - since they now advocate “personal liberties and free markets.”
mar 28, 2025, 4:17 pm • 0 0 • view
But wait, he told us that Canada and Mexico pay the tariffs so why would car companies even need to raise prices?
mar 29, 2025, 12:09 am • 2 0 • view
“It’s 19-dimensional economic chess!”
mar 28, 2025, 2:54 pm • 1 0 • view

mar 28, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump projects like a Megaplex, yet I figured his fondness for the term “radical left Marxist” was just a meaningless string of syllables. Nope. He’s actually a radical-left Marxist, complete with central planning. Coming next: Collective farms.
mar 29, 2025, 8:53 am • 6 0 • view
yeah, they are pure reactionaries, absolutely nothing conservative about them and they should be called reactionaries all the time.
mar 28, 2025, 6:50 pm • 4 0 • view
Trickle down hills in rusting “room temp IQ” made American cars…
mar 28, 2025, 2:49 pm • 1 0 • view
#Trumpcession
mar 28, 2025, 4:52 pm • 0 0 • view
All except Tesla
mar 28, 2025, 10:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Wait, the guy whose first act in taking office was the economic sin of cutting taxes in a booming economy and who lost 3 million jobs by collapsing the supply chain his first time around might not be good at this economics thing?
mar 28, 2025, 2:57 pm • 3 1 • view
You forgot the bit about the same pillock being declared bankrupt on multiple occasions. Did Americans elect this clown for a bet?
mar 28, 2025, 4:35 pm • 0 0 • view
The bottom line is that tariffs are a *regressive* form of taxation that adversely affects that lower and middle classes of America far more than it affects the upper classes. It's just another example of "trickle down" enslavement tax systems that the GOP is so fond of. Here's Trump's tax plan:
mar 28, 2025, 3:16 pm • 8 1 • view
From the people who screamed that Harris is a communist.
mar 28, 2025, 3:08 pm • 1 0 • view
The cult will tell you it is free market economics because Trump is SMART. Illogical and stupid, but yet, that is their "thought process".
mar 28, 2025, 4:20 pm • 0 0 • view
What's next? Wage controls?
mar 28, 2025, 2:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Free market economics. Soviet style.
mar 28, 2025, 4:22 pm • 1 0 • view
*Touting the "free market" is conditional depending on mood & advantage to the GOP.
mar 28, 2025, 10:11 pm • 0 0 • view
The Nomenklatura must implement the will of Comrade Krasnov without question.
mar 28, 2025, 2:56 pm • 0 0 • view
They're ALL liars. In abstract that's hard to believe but it is actually the literal truth.
mar 28, 2025, 2:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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mar 28, 2025, 2:57 pm • 1 0 • view
😂😂😂
mar 28, 2025, 4:10 pm • 0 0 • view
How long until they announce the "Great Leap Forward"?
mar 28, 2025, 2:54 pm • 2 0 • view
We're getting close to backyard steel furnaces. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
mar 28, 2025, 3:33 pm • 1 1 • view
Here we are in the Land of the (not so) free Because of the (Not so) Brave 👊🏻🇺🇸🔥
mar 28, 2025, 2:52 pm • 3 1 • view
Not exactly small and limited government is it!
mar 28, 2025, 7:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Let it all collapse. It’s what has to happen to wake up enough idiotic MAGA(Ts)!
mar 28, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view
The guy who once claimed socialism was creeping into America faster than a Prius in the left lane is now calling for… centrally planned car prices? Makes perfect sense! It’s not government overreach when he does it.
mar 29, 2025, 5:13 pm • 2 0 • view
I suppose the WP editorials page will celebrate them.
mar 28, 2025, 2:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactly!! It seems like left wing radical socialism!! It’s anticapitalism, scaredy-cat, afraid of more consumer backlash 🤣
mar 28, 2025, 10:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Blocking foreign cars will cost Americans, this we know. But it also limiits the competition that drives US firms to innovate. They will be met with counter tarriffs impacting their exports. The end result is a lower number of American automotive companies selling crap cars. Skodas for everyone.
mar 28, 2025, 2:53 pm • 2 0 • view
Also “run america like a business” find me any business dumb enough to try to replace a legacy cobol system (ie. The SSA) in a month. Shitshow. Absolute morons.
mar 28, 2025, 3:00 pm • 7 1 • view
Oh this sounds exactly like how a corporation would do it. The CEO gets sold on some new software because the sales guy made it look easy on the DEMO not that the CEO understands it because he never uses the old software.
mar 28, 2025, 4:10 pm • 1 0 • view
You are imagining things. CEO does not see sales pitches on SW. He does not make those decisions. He sets expectations and waits to see a plan, with cost/benefits & timeline.
mar 28, 2025, 6:52 pm • 0 0 • view
There's nothing like techno-libertarian-communism. They've achieved an ideology I didn't think was possible. It's like a new state of matter being discovered.
mar 28, 2025, 5:12 pm • 12 0 • view
“techno-libertarian-communism” LoL. Accurate.
mar 28, 2025, 9:57 pm • 2 0 • view
The new state of matter is that to many people are willfully going about believing all is normal. So guess the conclusion is like in the film “Meatballs” it really doesn’t matter.
mar 28, 2025, 5:46 pm • 0 0 • view
mar 28, 2025, 8:19 pm • 1 0 • view
They don't even know what free market economics are.
mar 28, 2025, 3:44 pm • 5 0 • view
mar 28, 2025, 8:39 pm • 0 0 • view
They sold their souls for political power It was never about principles but enriching the wealthy
mar 28, 2025, 2:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Aren’t conservatives against picking winners and losers as they were once in the not so long ago past.
mar 28, 2025, 5:46 pm • 0 0 • view
mar 28, 2025, 4:27 pm • 0 0 • view
President Bloppo just found out that his tariffs will screw him, the car companies won't take the hit. Next are all the other things his tariffs are inflating. The walls are closing in.
mar 28, 2025, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Nationalism is on deck with martial law batting cleanup
mar 28, 2025, 5:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Still waiting?
mar 29, 2025, 4:42 am • 1 0 • view
CAN YOU SCREAM...SHAM.. GRIFTER... No goods... They act as Christians..But forget the scene with the money changers... At least watch Jesus Christ. SUPERstar.
mar 28, 2025, 2:55 pm • 2 1 • view
all hail President Business
mar 28, 2025, 3:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Your devotion to new learning is inspiring. Have you heard that sheep's bladders can be used to prevent overbite?
mar 28, 2025, 2:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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mar 29, 2025, 12:04 am • 0 0 • view
Their manipulating the market for Tesla they’re already bribe and brokers inflating the stock to appear more valuable than it is! If we can get that stock down to 124 it will help get rid of must out of our government. There’s more of us than there is a billionaires. We need to try harder
mar 28, 2025, 3:53 pm • 2 1 • view
👏🇺🇸🤣
mar 29, 2025, 3:45 pm • 0 0 • view
I’ve said from the start he’s basically a Stalinist and was waiting for price controls but for real thought it would be eggs first
mar 28, 2025, 3:34 pm • 4 0 • view
We’ll be driving Chevy Ladas in a few years
mar 28, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view
I’ve heard stockholders are famously for anything that cuts into profit margins
mar 29, 2025, 12:04 am • 1 0 • view
Nixonomics
mar 28, 2025, 3:25 pm • 0 0 • view
If it weren't for the innovations forced upon Detroit by foreign rivals, these wangholders in the GOP would still have us driving around in Chevy Citations right now.
mar 28, 2025, 2:55 pm • 3 0 • view
You dare question the knowledge of Dear Leader?! Sacrilege!
mar 28, 2025, 3:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Turns out the Invisible Hand of the Market is a very, very tiny hand.
mar 29, 2025, 12:26 am • 1 0 • view
Hey leave them alone! They are Capitalism Absolutists
mar 28, 2025, 2:58 pm • 2 0 • view
you should do a pod abt the tactics you all used to use against us, the thinking behind them...it could help us....
mar 28, 2025, 4:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Pretty unique thinking don’t you say?
mar 28, 2025, 4:43 pm • 1 0 • view
ETTD, Canadian Edition: cultmtl.com/2025/03/new-...
mar 28, 2025, 7:39 pm • 1 0 • view
The color red for the MAGA hats should have been a clue for them.....
mar 28, 2025, 3:16 pm • 3 0 • view
Daily, I struggle for more understanding. Free market's foundation is the protectionism of the US patent system, right? Which, in theory(?) could be destroyed by open source ... is that correct? How long before DeepSeek is blocked in the US? Why is Big Tech still throwing money on the pyre?
mar 30, 2025, 6:19 am • 1 1 • view
Maybe wait for the WaPo editorial ... they'll splain it all I'm sure
mar 28, 2025, 2:56 pm • 1 0 • view
No, now it's national security. I look forward to the Trump regime's version of the Trabant for the common people.
mar 28, 2025, 2:52 pm • 0 0 • view
And I can't wait to see how CEOs react to him telling them that they have to eat the tariffs! Hoping he just put his presidency on life support with that spectacular blunder.
mar 28, 2025, 2:49 pm • 32 1 • view
I am hoping he has accidentally bit down on the cyanide capsule of this catastrophic Administration.
mar 28, 2025, 2:52 pm • 17 0 • view
I'm actively rooting for the plaque in his heart to do its job
mar 28, 2025, 2:58 pm • 19 0 • view
Oh Holy Hamburger, how great thou could be
mar 28, 2025, 3:00 pm • 4 0 • view
If his chef is a patriot he would be adding copious amounts of salt into every meal.
mar 28, 2025, 5:14 pm • 7 0 • view
Me too. Unfortunately, it seems his heart plaque is even lazier than Rush Limbaugh's cancer was.
mar 28, 2025, 3:00 pm • 2 0 • view
The only thing that Trump believes in is his own corruption. cbwrong.blogspot.com?m=1
mar 28, 2025, 3:09 pm • 2 1 • view
As Law & order MAGA convict is releasing crooks www.rawstory.com/amp/social-m... There is no law nor order in GOP www.nytimes.com/article/who-... No moral values. eddmarv.medium.com/the-flawed-c... No decency eddmarv.medium.com/the-flawed-c... @housedemocrats.bsky.social @judiciarydems.senate.gov
mar 28, 2025, 6:15 pm • 0 0 • view
And how union busting is for the best. I’m sure all those federal agencies are sooo happy right now.
mar 28, 2025, 4:32 pm • 0 0 • view
They're not "controls," per se. It's (as usual) just a veiled threat, if they even think about passing along tariff costs. Nice factory you got there, shame if anything happened to it
mar 28, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Didn’t Donald also say that car dealerships should NOT increase the price of cars because of tariffs? WTF happened to capitalism? BTW, Donald, the last president who tried price controls was Tricky Dick.
mar 29, 2025, 1:16 am • 0 0 • view
Maybe Catherine Rampell can write an op-ed in the Washington Post equating him to a communist like she did when she misunderstood Harris’ anti-price gouging policy proposal.
mar 28, 2025, 3:03 pm • 9 2 • view
Makes cents to me.
mar 28, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, anxiously awaiting their approval of this too
mar 28, 2025, 2:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Who’re the radical leftists now?? These people are so incomprehensibly stupid. I hope all the fools that preemptively folded feel like absolute assholes right now.
mar 28, 2025, 2:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Why would you listen to the Wealth of Nations when you can follow the Art of the Deal?
mar 28, 2025, 11:02 pm • 2 0 • view
And the Keynsian float of Boeing and Raytheon.
mar 28, 2025, 2:54 pm • 0 0 • view
As the Nineteenth Congress of the MAGA Party of Trumpistan assembles in Washington DC, one of the main points on its agenda is a ‘preview’ of the current Five-Year Plan, which runs through 2045.
mar 28, 2025, 2:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Funny I saw a commentator compare Trump to former Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau (Justin Trudeau’s father) and I scoffed at the time, but PET was obsessed with price controls.
mar 28, 2025, 2:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Nixon did price controls. It was of course a massive failure.
mar 28, 2025, 4:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Banon did say he was a Leninist.
mar 28, 2025, 3:14 pm • 3 0 • view
Not saying we’re gonna tear Twitt A a new One every Friday but ….😎 Apparently hacked again @ 3 pm like last Friday 🤭 Elmo seen Furhious
mar 28, 2025, 11:41 pm • 6 1 • view
The markets will speak for them.
mar 28, 2025, 2:54 pm • 1 0 • view
I seem to recall a whole army of moderates and conservatives slamming Harris for talking about Price Gouging legislation. I fully expect the same venom from those people on this as well. I mean, they have been extremly fair and balanced before.
mar 28, 2025, 2:51 pm • 7 2 • view
mar 28, 2025, 2:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Said markets don't seem too please about this "freedom" as of this morning.
mar 28, 2025, 2:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Government market manipulation is what socialists do. MAGA can’t decide if they’re fascist or socialist.
mar 28, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Aren't they manipulating the government, so all we are left with is overpriced? Teslas, no one wants?
mar 28, 2025, 4:10 pm • 1 0 • view
And Teslas that are rolling Viking Funerals?
mar 28, 2025, 4:37 pm • 0 0 • view
They’re getting dumber.
mar 28, 2025, 10:25 pm • 1 0 • view
The media’s cowardice is fueling this disaster. Trump’s mental decline is an obvious, urgent threat to national and global security, yet they refuse to confront it head-on. Every outlet that stays silent owns a piece of this chaos.
mar 28, 2025, 8:45 pm • 0 0 • view
I resent them appropriating the term "conservative".
mar 28, 2025, 2:51 pm • 1 0 • view
He's got his nose in everything... Started with Stormy Daniels
mar 28, 2025, 3:06 pm • 1 0 • view
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mar 28, 2025, 3:31 pm • 1 0 • view
It is pretty clear now that a majority of the GOP are authoritarian Christian nationalists pretending to be conservatives…
mar 28, 2025, 3:25 pm • 9 0 • view
This is the end goal. Look at this chart. Force us all into swasticars.
mar 28, 2025, 2:51 pm • 0 1 • view
The tarrifs are going to hit the parts used to build cars in the US too. Musk gets lots of components for Tesla from outside the US.
mar 28, 2025, 3:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Don't know if that 100% is strictly correct electrek.co/2025/03/05/t...
mar 28, 2025, 2:52 pm • 3 0 • view
I still think that is the main goal. I don't think Bill Ford will idly stand by and watch it happen. Too much of everything automotive is in Detroit.
mar 28, 2025, 4:13 pm • 1 0 • view
I haven’t seen any free marketers lately
mar 28, 2025, 10:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Will they obey???
mar 28, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view
You know damn well if Trump owned a car dealership he would be raising prices!
mar 28, 2025, 3:41 pm • 1 0 • view
When you’re a republican and you lose the WSJ you know your economic policies are beyond stupid.
mar 28, 2025, 2:52 pm • 2 0 • view
At any age was Trump ever a true proponent of the principle of microeconomics that asserts (perfect) market competition? Oligarchy is all about oligopoly in markets too
mar 28, 2025, 2:57 pm • 1 0 • view
The POTUS has no business setting prices for car manufacturers. This is fascism and authoritarian action. Call it what it is. What a joke.
mar 28, 2025, 4:06 pm • 8 1 • view
That's the plan...
mar 28, 2025, 4:50 pm • 3 0 • view
How are other US automakers not protesting bias toward TESLA by trump in government?
mar 30, 2025, 12:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Continually amazed at how weirdly things have shifted, because if Biden had done this they'd be shrieking "COMMIE" from the rooftops
mar 29, 2025, 3:17 pm • 3 0 • view
Remember the collective right-wing freakout about "price controls" when Harris suggested we lookin into grocery store price gouging?
mar 28, 2025, 2:50 pm • 54 4 • view
Was looking for this response!
mar 28, 2025, 2:58 pm • 5 0 • view
“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”HST At some point their greed needs to overwhelm their tacit acceptance of the Dear Leader's deranged world view; until it bites them in the ass it doesn't exist.
mar 28, 2025, 4:47 pm • 2 0 • view
Ironies-consumers can pay or shareholders. That’s the choice? Still looking for that foreign government that’s gonna pay for the tariff tax
mar 29, 2025, 11:52 am • 1 0 • view
mar 28, 2025, 2:57 pm • 1 0 • view
It is weird for me as a liberal to be more free market than the republicans
mar 28, 2025, 3:08 pm • 3 0 • view
It’s the full of shit regime
mar 28, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Like president musk's 1st Amendment views.
mar 28, 2025, 3:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Because of her emails, that’s why.
mar 28, 2025, 4:28 pm • 1 0 • view
lol auto makers will just stop making cars altogether. easier to weather no revenue for a time than negative margins.
mar 28, 2025, 2:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Nope. Too many fixed costs. They will have to sell at a loss until they go into bankruptcy. There will be no way to source their parts from US suppliers in time to avoid it. Trump is about to destroy the entire US auto manufacturing industry and the millions of good jobs that rely on it.
mar 28, 2025, 3:00 pm • 4 1 • view
"It's OK when we do it." -GOP response to all hypocrisy
mar 28, 2025, 4:42 pm • 1 0 • view
He just ADMITTED (finally) that tariffs WILL raise cost of raw materials to auto makers.
mar 28, 2025, 5:22 pm • 1 0 • view
they don’t even bother pretending to care about that anymore
mar 28, 2025, 3:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Or why the power of the federal government is needed to save Tesla?
mar 28, 2025, 2:51 pm • 0 0 • view
I still remember when they were sure that free trade was the correct answer for everything. No principle except power!
mar 28, 2025, 3:14 pm • 1 0 • view
If you hear anything, let me know.
mar 28, 2025, 3:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Communism for the win! 🤣
mar 28, 2025, 3:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Rick, simple fact here. Every media outlet in this country owns this shitshow and chaotic cesspool. Not one outlet has approached trumps obvious mental decline and how serious it is to the security of this country and the world. Someone needs to write a story, or produce a piece on this.
mar 28, 2025, 2:54 pm • 28 1 • view
You can't blame this on anything else than the ignorance and complacency of people. You are yourself required to keep yourself informed. Placing your ass on the sofa flipping channels does not qualify. That's the simple fact.
mar 28, 2025, 3:33 pm • 4 0 • view
And how do you keep informed? Thought so.
mar 28, 2025, 3:44 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't even own a television.
mar 28, 2025, 3:58 pm • 2 0 • view
You have a point. Media outlets ran a lot of stories about Biden’s supposed decline in his mental ability, while at the same time sanewashed Trump.
mar 29, 2025, 2:23 pm • 2 0 • view
So is he demanding auto companies eat the tariffs or are we the taxpayers now subsidizing the tariffs? I suspect the latter, just like he did with soybean farmers in his last debacle of a presidency. He’ll say he is keeping prices down and won’t mention the subsidies that we all pay for
mar 28, 2025, 7:48 pm • 0 0 • view
One reason the stock market is doing so poorly is because now instead of trying to buy the stocks of good companies. people have to try to figure out which companies will buy into Trump's corruption so he does not punish them. Markets can't function well under those conditions.
mar 28, 2025, 2:51 pm • 19 2 • view
Don't forget that if the CEOs bow to him, that means less money for stock holders, including the CEO. They are likely screwed either way. But I'm sure they also donated heavy to him for the deregulation they so desperately wanted.
mar 28, 2025, 2:56 pm • 7 1 • view
I agree...doing what Trump wants is often not what's best for their business. I saw all the talking heads on CNBC constantly saying how bad Biden was for business, but now they are afraid to speak.
mar 28, 2025, 3:00 pm • 5 0 • view
Ironically, I bet all the CEO's voted for Trump. He was bad for the economy last time, what made people think he'd be better this time around?
mar 29, 2025, 4:46 am • 8 1 • view
CEOs tend to be very narrow in interest, no taxes or regulations. They don’t ask for much and the Dotard delivers.
mar 29, 2025, 2:04 pm • 3 0 • view
Something something Biden and Hillary
mar 28, 2025, 2:49 pm • 4 0 • view
Sort of like they are total free speech advocates with a bunch of exceptions that only apply to other people.
mar 28, 2025, 3:00 pm • 2 0 • view
How soon before he seizes means of production?
mar 28, 2025, 2:50 pm • 9 0 • view
I'm imagining Main Street USA looking like Havana and their 60 year old cars soon.
mar 28, 2025, 2:57 pm • 3 1 • view
Trump will tell you what cars to buy Trump will tell you what to do with your body Trump will tell you what to news to read and watch Trump will decide who gets shipped to a Black Ops site Trump will decide if you deserve social security or health care TRUMP WILL DECIDE EVERYTHING YOU DO
mar 28, 2025, 3:39 pm • 1 1 • view