Why would a leader tank his own country's economy? It's a key part of the aspiring autocrat's playbook. Tariffs & chaos mean more power & control for Trump. But America has no king. The Republican-led Congress can stop this at any time. Let your reps hear from you. 5calls.org/issue/trump-...
Ma'am, you are completely right, but only if you could have warned the American people about that a decade ago, I'm sure you would have gotten more votes than him. Oh, wait, nevermind🤔
See, there's the problem. Thinking a "Republican led Congress" will do anything except grovel to Putin's puppet, Trump.
The GOP in the House/Senate is lockstep following the Naked Emperor.
Because he’s king. He wants his serfs to beg for mercy and pay him directly to be exempted from the tax
I mean we’ve been calling and emailing and writing letters and we’re all getting the same reply, if we get one at all. “we may differ politically, but I am working to ensure… Blah blah blah”. What else is there, short of kidnapping & tying them to a chair? It’s clear our voices don’t matter.
Hillary, was it white privelage when Chelsea was hired by NBC right out of college for $900K per.year to do absolutely nothing? How much are you and Chelsea paid for these appearances you make? Hypocrisy at its peak.
You were thrilled when SCOTUS overturned Roe vs. Wade because yku thought that would make you relevant, and it didn't. You saw Roe vs Wade as your way of getting the Dems to pick you to replace Biden, which was never happening. Go enjoy your grandchildren. You are lucky to have them.
This is the means to an end and will be more than justified. You will never be POTUS, and that is all you care about. It would have killed you to see Kamala as the first female POTUS. You were secretly thrilled Trump won, all for selfish reasons.
The economy was tanked by your fellow Democrats, who worked with China to create Covid and tank the economy in order to win the WH in 2020. It takes time to undo the mess that was done under Biden. Things have to get worse before they can get better, unfortunately.
I had heard THE ONION was on Bluesky! Welcome!
If Hillary wasn't such a coward and didn't stop people from responding on X, I wouldn't be here.
Why be disrespectful?
Evidence please.
There is something called common sense. The economy was thriving, and we had the most secure Border in history. We had record low unemployment and no inflation. Exactly why would people vote against those things to put the Dems in the WH?
OK, you're not a bot (I think...)
Also proof that you are not a bot.
RUSSIA?????
My rep is garabino. As fascist as you'd expect from this long island district, home of lee the troll zelden. I've written him a couple of times. You get a form letter back. He's a useless nazi sympathizer.
we don't have a leader, that's the big problem
Sadly the MAGA reps in Congress have more constituents that actually think this is great and wonderful so they keep plowing the train toward a greater wreckage.
Thank you for your words, Madame Secretary. I feel better knowing you’re in the game.
Why would a leader tank her own country's economy by turning 6 million voters against her party & losing the easiest election to win in history? Why did she and her party leadership team fund genocide that killed children for 4 years and make 6 million voters walk away from the party? Incompetence??
6 million voters walked away from the party after they funded genocide for 4 years & killed children!! They didn't codify roe, increase minimum wage, stop price gouging, expand the Supreme Court, or do anything they were elected to do! But they helped weapons maker campaign donors make $Billions!!
The clown show has a few flaws….tariffs on places with no population!
An ignorant asshole upending the world economy, possibly ushering in another Great Depression and for what, to feed the insatiable, warped ego of a senile, grievance soaked, demented psychopath who believes tariffs will rectify imagined wrongs against the US? Unbelievably dangerous stupidity😡😱
He tanks the economy and then just before he rewinds his tarrifs he informs his close allies to buy when the price is low. Rinse and repeat... see Canada and Mexico, people are making a fortune from this clown.
YOU should have been #45 - what a different world we would have, and would be living in today
Bernie should have been #45
Truth be told, pocket lint, or a bag of hammers would have been better than the #45 we were saddled with for 4 years
Yup. Gonna be lots of empty pockets now. Lint makes a great fire starter...learned this during SERE training
Out of the Putin playbook.
The problem is that the GOP rep's don't care and are in lock step with their Dear Leader. More Dem political leaders need to ACTIVELY lead the fight
Secretary Clinton, Sure. And you should call your oligarch pro-democracy friends and tell them to use their leverage to put an end to this.
But Trump says things are ‘going very well’ after worst stock market drop in years over tariffs apnews.com/article/trum...
Why aren't the Republican-led Congress stopping this? Self-interest? Fear? Stupidity? Are they imbeciles? I don't understand them at all.
This is what people don’t understand. I keep seeing people trying to make sense of his policies. There is no sense, other than he’s trying to ensure he has dictatorial powers. Period. That’s the whole explanation.
Why would you call him a leader?
I use this app every day to call my reps. First thing I do in the morning. Thank you for staying engaged.
Has Liz Truss been staying at his home?
That’s right Hillary! Thank you!!! ✌🏼💙💙✌🏼
The Republican-led Congress could stop it at any time. Right. Like when Muhammad Ali was ahead of Joe Frazier on points, um, Ali could have stopped the fight at any time.
Republicans will need to make their voices heard if they want this to stop (but they don’t)
My question is why aren't the republicans willing to do anything? Are they that afraid of the bully and his stooge? they certainly had a lot to say about Biden, Obama and certainly you and Harris!!
They’re all a bunch of, Corrupt, Above the Law Henchmen Bigots, White Collar Criminals, including the MAGA SC Justices.
Lining their pockets. They all have Musk money
Lining their pockets, drunk with power. For the same reason Biden resisted and Schumer won’t. There’s one in the ICU right now who won’t resign. That says everything you need to know.
That’s Trumpism!!!!!!!’
Excellent companion post. This is the newsletter you absolutely have time for. #HeatherCoxRichardson @hcrichardson.bsky.social #LettersFromAnAmerican heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-2-20...
This part: “Instead of following the usual legal process, Trump is abusing emergency powers (IEEPA) to force these tariffs through without oversight—a power grab that bypasses Congress. No president should have the power to single-handedly disrupt the U.S. economy. “ …Congress must step in & stop
Because he is compromised. That has always been the case, as you are aware. Take into account his swindling tendencies and that sums it up! In short, he is a traitor, Madam Secretary.👍🏾
You might like Hiding in Plain sight” by Sarah Kendzior, if you haven’t read it already.
I also wonder why MORE isn't made of the Arctic Circle tRump has set his sights on. Looks to me like Putin is using the US to garnish them for him. Putin's already got the US in his grasp. No one can tell me that tRump just pulled this idea out of his own fat butt. *Canada *Greenland
You’re right.
Its downright frightening. We have 'Lucky Lindy' handing over the 'free world' to dictators. 😖
Now we know what he was doing for the four years he was out of office. Making a plan
Trump is going for a new personal record.. His 7th bankruptcies.. AMERICA.
I used 5calls app to make 3 calls today. Highly recommend!
Ole Mitch McConnells vm been full since 1999
Liberation Day & the end of an "Operation." Soviet Russia's agent, DT, has carried out the "Glasnost Revenge" mission 34 years after what Putin calls a catastrophe & it was for the Russian people; an Economic disaster that has taken decades to recover from. {photo: lowering Soviet flag}
He wants other countries to bribe him. They can buy his families meme coin and get the tariffs lower. If not that Putin has him up to rob us all blind. There’s something bigger behind these tariffs.
If you’re depending on Congress to stop this, you’re wasting your time and energy. This is not going to happen. The son of a bitches are so far up Trump‘s ass. They can’t see even out these damn mouth!
Nikita Khrushchev said, “We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.”
Mrs. Clinton, I read this article yesterday that I'm posting to you. I'm curious about your thoughts regarding it. For me, it made sense, and may answer your first question. I know I'm just a little guy here, but I'd love your perspective. Xo! washingtonspectator.org/project-russ...
One that’s batshit crazy who belongs behind bars not in the Oval Office! Y’all can thank his uneducated uninformed supporters and trump’s helpful republican idiots for what’s happening to your country! It’s so embarrassing and pathetic if ever there was a reason to impeach!!!!
Call them!! Every day!! It is not hard. www.senate.gov/senators/sen... and www.house.gov/representati...
Is that a still from the pee tapes Putin is holding on Trump ?
Thank you Hillary. Trump is .......... and ...... and.......... ........ .....t.
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I worked very hard to help elect a sane Wisconsin state Supreme Court justice. I will not stop now just because of some mad power hungry autocrat. I’m calling my rep every day until hell freezes over!
#trump & his #quadrillonaire cabal has A PLAN. To bring America & Americans to their knees, to BREAK us by destroying our economic security, food security, and SOCIAL SECURITY. FUKKK ALL OF THEM. America BELONGS TO US. #StrongerTogether #RaiseYourVoice
The Republicans are cult members and they won’t
Yes Republicans, the balls in your court, always has been.
It's called foreign policy
We need your voice! Thank you for always putting yourself in the line of fire to share your insights and wisdom. We are listening!
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I said, after I read the entire fucking thing, "This is Mein Kampf in English." and of course he denied having anything to do with it. Funny that. And they are not even close to done. I hate to say I told you so, but... I told you so.
Republicans don't want to stop it. The Republican Party motto is Burn Baby Burn. Burn America to the ground
Because the corporate lords will be ordered to present themselves before him in capitulation for the favor of tariff waivers!
@hillaryclinton.bsky.social Where is Delta Force or Seal Team 6? Can we borrow SAS from the UK or GIGN from France?
I love Hillary.
Trump isn't the first. Truss did it.
Just your words bring me comfort. Thank you for joining!
I keep saying this… Republicans could stop this at any time… but they won’t. I will never forgive anyone who voted for this insanity!
"The Republican-led Congress can stop this at any time." THIS is why the Democratic Party needs new blood. The GOP is not going to stop this, at any time. They are a very willing part of the effort to destroy America. This is a coup.
#KrasnovKrash #TraitorTrump
Control and power by telling corporations he’ll be happy to remove the tariffs that affects them IF only they deposit X amount of $ into his offshore back account. THIS is WHAT he learned from the law firms AND universities bending the knee INSTEAD of banding together and going public.
Hahaha, I love it!
The Republicans in Congress are complicit to trump as were the nsdap members of the Reichstag to hitler. You are asking the arsonist to put out his fire.
This is absolutely true.
Everyone needs to flood the government will calls to stop this madness!
It does appear as if Donald Trump terrifies Republican senators. Are they worried over premature death?
Trade is forged over many decades, and economic progress is incremental. To cut it down in a day with tariffs is short-sighted, and massively destructive. It pains me to say, the U.S. is headed for a depression unlike anything we have seen!
That CRAZY SOB.I have called them yesterday AND today.UTTER INSANITY!
Are they trying to manipulate the stock market?
Global dominance
Called my Rep for the first time this morning! 🩵
Secretary @hillaryclinton.bsky.social please go on a "I TOLD YOU SO" tour of Trump areas being hit hardest by Trump idiocy and cruelty. Thank you. bsky.app/profile/hill...
Exactly right, madam Secretary. The Republican-led Congress can stop this madness at any time. A handful of them in the House to impeach and simply 20 souls in the Senate to convict. That would not only get him out of the White House but would pave the way to get him in prison, where he so belongs.
Where are we moving to, Hillary? I'm going where you govern or help govern.
Is he a Russian Asset, though? Is he really so powerful? Or just really durable at running on fear, Kompromat, and special sauce?
Tariffs are the Ivermectin of economics.
#StillWithHer
People at church/club/work are upset about tariffs, 401k? Start a #HellNo group. Meet weekly, pick 1 person in the govt Fing up. Investigate them w/ IRS FOIA, GovTrack.us, FEC,PACER to investigate. Make letters to Attorney Grievance Comm to disbar, IRS to investigate, ACLU/ AG to sue & write Op Eds
Blame this chaos on the fools who voted for Trump. They really are deplorable.
Anyone else thinking that Agent Orange is deliberately tanking the stock market so his family and pals can buy everything up low and make themselves a lot richer? Don't be surprised if he does something next week to make the market jump back up.
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Thank you! I've been saying this for weeks! Two things that greatly help Putin: Disunity and a collapsed economy. I bet Trump has a mansion picked out in Russia for when the US exiles him! You were so right when you called him Putin's Puppet during a debate.
Quite honestly... if he continues like this and his cult wakes up, he won't make it to any mansion. At least not in one piece.
I honestly think the Maralago Accords are real, and this is all part of the strategy. Trump wants to push our weight around and try to get other countries to come to the table to re-negotiate our debt. If it were anyone but Trump, it might work, but he is so hated that nobody wants to help him out!
Tell me the difference btw what a known Russian asset in the Presidency would do and what Trump is doing. There is none.
Yep. But he functions like a demented gangster. So you can bet on all his more intelligent and wealthy gang members having taken positions to short the dollar.
Citizens who have not got short positions on the dollar should have no logical excuse to not message their representatives. It’s never too late to mitigate damage done
DONALD J TRUMP IS NOT A LEADER. HE IS A PSYCHOPATH WHO DOES NOT CARE ABOUT AMERICA OR THE AMERICANS. HE NEEDS TO BE IMPEECHED THEN HE NEEDS TO BE CHARGED WITH DOMESTIC TERRORISM ON THIS COUNTRY AND ALL THE INNOCENT PEOPLE HE SENT TO ANOTHER COUNTRY.
I think it's simpler than that. It's incompetence. Stuck on the idea that all tariffs are a good thing.
To make someone who, as an entrepreneur, has already had six bankruptcies, including a casino 🤣🤣🤣, become president and give him the power to run a nation's economy is the stupidest thing a people could do. And these people have done it twice!🫨
Please America don’t let Republicans in government get away with - ‘I was just doing my job’, in any eventual investigations. This excuse was used in the war trials at The Hague after the war, but it still got Nazi’s hung !
He did the same in his first term after he introduced tariffs that raised prices (I know because I was about to start a bathroom renovation and prices soared!!!) and put thousands of farmers into bankruptcy!!! Then he totally mishandled the pandemic. He blamed inflation on President Biden!!!
In times of war you can make the most money. It is very easy to understand.
You bet your bottom dollar I called Paul Gosar my representative the lovely mega representative and his office answered the phone and did they get a earful today they asked for my name three times and my ZIP Code three times and I gave it to him and a earful. I didn’t hold back
I’m totally cringing looking at the markets this morning.
He is not a leader, and he simply doesn't care. He is a very sick individual.
He hates Americans.
So when you guys had mad King George, who raised taxes to make you bend to his will, did you not do a revolution type of thing??
As seen in WI election, a negative return has set in to the Trump machine. Unless Trump can seize control of more money to keep his political wheels turning, the house of cards will collapse. The grift has to go up.
And Russia remains safe & unscathed by this administration. 🤔
@hillaryclinton.bsky.social When will you pick up the phone and call all your former senior government peers and political & military leaders who all pledged to vote for KH in November to regroup to stop this madness by Felon47 and his henchmen? Don’t just sit back & watch & comment!
Everything he does can be explained by two things: 1. Putin's desire to weaken the US so we can't stop him from "annexing" half of Europe. Isolating us economically is part of that. 2. Intense hatred for anyone who isn't wealthy, abled and white.
The vision that most GOP voters and lower-level electeds have is a US that's entirely self-contained, and in which white Christian men have all the good, well-paying jobs, and everyone else is effectively enslaved. But that's simply not possible in any version of reality.
The more sick poor and uneducated we get the easier to control us thats trumps plan and he isn't going to leave in 4 years he will try and occupy the White house until his death
Well when you contact your representative, say in Ohio , both are Republican criminal senators, so wipe your ass with those two! We are being governed by organized crime! Mob boys getting very rich.
Exactly!
Please keep posting, Madame President! We're still with you -- and in the streets on April 5 💙
theplotagainstamerica.com
I’m sorry, what’s April 5th?
The biggest nationwide Trump protest so far -- happening in all 50 states.
Thank you Lady Rosetta!
I don’t think this is helpful. The answer is because he’s stupid.
Because the grifter got grifted. He fell into an economic theory by a horrible economist named Peter Navarro. Rachel Maddow found out where he got the idea that Tariffs were a good idea. And its as stupid as you can imagine. youtu.be/MJbZCbBLqkk?...
DONE. Text RESIST to 50409 to quickly send messages to your Members of Congress. ✍️🇺🇸
Hillary, Biden, and Kamala have all said, “all roads lead to Russia,” when warning about trump. Whatever Russian blackmail is compromising trump has made him willing to compromise this nation. He recklessly threatens those he dislikes with years in jail, but it’s nothing compared to what he is due.
I'm beginning to think he agreed to let Russia support him financially all these years. His secret Russian name Krasnov, his own son saying they got most of their money from Russia and him calling on Russia in the debate with HRC. "Russia Are You Listening" he said, should have ended his campaign.
If the truth were revealed, it might be crazier. Why would he be so obsessed with a “Deep State,” where everything is out to get him, unless he was a projection of his Russian and/or mob-like benefactors? He’s dismantled the agencies that one time brought those bad actors down.
We use terms like “mob boss,” but he’s fulfilling a decades long goal of payback for those who want scores settled and breath new life into a cancerous web of corruption. His reward? He lives his authoritarian dream, as long as he continues the dirty work. It’s conjecture here, but makes odd sense.
It makes a lot of sense to me! Thank you Rick.
Have you read “Hiding in Plain Sight” by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social ?
I actually have the audiobook and haven't gotten around to listening to it. I don't know who recommended it to me, but obviously it was a trusted source, so I got it. Thanks for the reminder, Sarah.
It’s red pill stuff.
This is giving him way too much credit. He's a moron that was convinced by propaganda just like all the other MAGA idiots.
Hi Rick, Lost track for a bit, things have turned nuts since we last chatted. Resist we must! Tim
100%. Who benefits from making the world hate us and destroying the global economy? Not the wealthy or powerful, only Putin. Everything he and doge are doing is about sabotage, not ideology. Repubgnants in Congress are additcted to power. In fact, they all are.
At the moment, I'm wondering if anyone is going to seriously address the naked manipulation of the market that happened this week. Some very rich people made obscene money this week on trump's public tip.
is this not also a strategy to isolate the US and open the doors for narratives around needing friends where we can get them, like Russia?
Hillary gets it. Harris gets it. Why doesn’t the press, who keeps pretending it’s a “mistake” or a “risk” or a misunderstanding? bsky.app/profile/zibi...
The press gets it too, but they work for the oligarchs not the people and their job is to keep the people placated.
Trump is on a Killing Spree
Like relying on Atlas for covid guidance he is relying on another nut job for tarrifs; Navarro
Trump's plan is to tariff the whole fecking world, then only let up on those countries that sufficiently, umm, "orally pleasure him." If he thinks Canada will do that, he's got another thing coming. Elbows up!
It's " He has another THINK coming" . The phrase makes no sense when you say THING. " If that's what he THINKS, he has another THINK coming". IDK why so many people get this WRONG.
No, I have it right; he is expecting one thing, but will receive another thing altogether.
If you expect me to believe some lame AI interpretation over decades of how I've heard it used, you've got another thing coming.
Done. And asking people to do the same.
Blue states need to dump the maga states and set up a shadow federal government with all the the agencies, departments, and policies that trump is killing.
Is this something that could happen?
Theoretically. It would require millions of voters to push the idea into the world and get people talking about it and get blue states governors thinking about it. Who knows!
I guess as the blue states are strong economically, they could survive together, especially if they linked in with Canada, whereas the red states are economically dependent on blue states so they would crash & burn?
Called my 2 GOP senators today and plan to call again tomorrow.
He is not a leader. Leaders have integrity, humanity, and honesty. Real leaders are courageous enough to be humble and show humility and apologize when they are wrong.
I just called my US rep and 2 senators in TN and I’m more angry than I was before I called. Diana Harshbarger’s office lies to constituents about tariffs. Saying the EU has been “cheating” us when I ask how raising prices of imported goods bring down prices. They’re idiots & they think we are too.
Thank you, finally someone with some actionable advice.
Have you ever thought that was the idea? He may even know that it will cause poverty, but that may be the idea. To guarantee an even greater concentration of wealth in the hands of his friends who support the implementation of a dictatorship
Trump wants a recession to get free money back for him and his oligarchs 🤑
We're already paying taxes to government agencies & employees that don't exist thanks to elno & his doge fan boy club Where's THAT money going?
Balancing the budget.
Lol Ok
In this guy's case, it could be some kind of elaborate large scale loyalty test, as he did earlier with Rudy G. and Mike L. Not that anyone profited a bit from it.
You were robbed, Hillary. I'm still with you, he stole this from you, just as he stole it from Kamala. If the GOP Congress doesn't agree to stand up against him, how will we survive without a civil war?
Every single thing Hillary and Kamala said was true. They were both robbed. And here we fucking are.
It all started with Gore. He should have never given up that fight. It showed the weakness of Dems and the ruthlessness of Repukes.
AGREED ! Fuck that hanging chad nonsense .
I think it will be a revolution, rather than a civil war.
It definitely sounds better.
We could have had you. We tried. I’m so sorry.
In hindsight . . . if there should be any after the dust settles . . . we should’ve taken our chances with a woman. Right? #stopmagamadness #vivahillary #vivakamala
It all makes sense when you remember that the Felon is working for Vladimir Putin, not the American people.
Well he wanted to take us back to 1890’s tariffs, so maybe back to similar GDP?
Called! It’s a small comfort, but so glad you are here now. Thank you for your voice.
Short term will not be without impacts. Long term, let's hope no trade wars, that would not be beneficial. I'm number 319! Funny that, huh? It seems like that number is important. I do not know why or how.
I’m not sure there will be a trade war. He’s attacked everyone so they’ll all trade with each other and leave US out. I’m not sure any of them need what we have that desperately.
Yes we will be on our knees and to get any relief we have to do what he says
Sent notes to my senators but my rep still hasn't fixed the issue with his contact page in over a month. I guess I'll call then.
It’s not a king thing, someone is playing him.
Putin’s orders were to create chaos and conflict, destroy democracy and rob the Treasury.
Trump and his Illegitimate, corrupt and incompetent MAGA Administration and his MAGA SC Justices, are all Treasonous Traitors. They’ve abandoned their Oath to Protect and Defend Our Constitution and Democracy. They Bowed and Surrendered to a Convicted Guilty Criminal w/34 Felonies by a Jury!
Please, please keep voicing your wisdom and perspectives here. We need it.
aspiring ???????????
Thank you for your leadership and grace. I don’t know how you don’t tap dance an ‘I told you’ so all over the country and in front of James Comey’s house, Madam Secretary.
Sorry! America cannot! It’s this inane American arrogance that you’re the greatest country on earth, and that you can fix everything although your systems of education, health, welfare, labor suck more than Monica Lewinsky. You’re an above average country-maybe ranking between 50 and 100
This should be posted on the fool media place.
This is how he will control business owners. They will beg for tariff relief, it will be granted "for a price". The same way he is attacking law firms, and they are bending the knee. It's a power move, this is why Bessent is telling countries not to retaliate. Kick a hornet's nest, get stung!
He’s doing that now to all the big D.C. law firms. Threatening them with restrictions and denying access for their lawyers or… And they are capitulating, paying him off. It’s a mob boss mentality not a democracy. Republicans seem to be all in on giving him power.
Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social from Connecticut is all over this.
I don't get why Trump would destroy the country he was elected to protect. Trump is a horrible, horrible human, and Trump should be treated as such. Ugly man.
