WHAT DO THESE GENIUSES THINK WILL HAPPEN TO MANUFACTURING JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY IF THERE IS A RECESSION !?!?!?!?!?!!?
WHAT DO THESE GENIUSES THINK WILL HAPPEN TO MANUFACTURING JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY IF THERE IS A RECESSION !?!?!?!?!?!!?
this one is simple chris...
They don’r care.
This is what happens when you have a really old man with dementia, a bunch of administrators that only listen to him running a country. Complete chaos and destruction.
More importantly how do they expect us to get RESOURCES without trade?
They'll always have their fruit picking jobs.
He doesn’t care. Just another 4 years of freedom to figure out how to stay out of jail. That’s all.
*Edit…4 years of golfing.
and grifting!
Do you really think there will be fair elections in the future? Be real. Of course not. This is not something that will be fixed by the "next election".
In the meantime repaying the ones who kept him out of prison this time on our dime.
It will all just work out because testosterone
The answer for everything by some!
and why do think our kids and grandkids all want to work in sweatshops?
If all of your parts come from China you are SOL anyway
Apparently they don't care!!!!
As read the words below think of Jim Mora in his famous post-game interview. LAYOFFS? YOU THINK WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT TO THE LAYOFFS?
No if. The damage is done. In 6 months the us economy will be destroyed. But Trump and his buddies will be even richer.
It is my impression that young people will find manufacturing work too hard and opt to be influencers.
They are evil. Still trying to figure out their motive. Far from Geniuses ( I realize you used that term w/sarcasm). I think many people would love to know what their agenda is because at this point, it seems as if they are intentionally destroying the US from w/in. So, what now? SOS?!?!
A. They're not geniuses. B. They don't think!
What make you think THEY are thinking? They don’t care because it doesn’t affect THEM the way it does the average American.
They don’t care. They want us to suffer.
Doesn't really matter what happens to manufacturing jobs, reality is not these people's strong suit. Donald Trump will say he brought back a million manufacturing jobs and built 10,000 factories. And they won't question it. It's a cult. That's how cults work.
Bingo, turns out sitting in a trailer in mississippi... folks are always in a depression and won't notice anything changing for the better or worse. Poor red stays poor red.
You'd think maybe a few would say "maybe I should stop voting based on who I hate and start voting based on who I love, my family"
I don't think they care.
I lived in a blue state; I paid taxes cuz it’s my duty. Tons of blue $$ went 2 poor ppl in f*d-up red states, but I was ok w/it cuz I want ppl 2 survive evil leaders. I never thought ignorant red fucks I supported would get together 2 vote in a pig who’d destroy my country & kill THEM first. #Fools
Exactly. Great point.
Whoa he's so young in this gif
Maybe DOGE will cut subsides to red states.
We need a war on poverty and to reinstate truth and fairness in media.
This. He could fire his whole base and have them chanting that he's the "Jobs President" that same day. It is indeed a cult.
Watching them thank him in the cabinet meetings is disgusting.
First of all manufacturing jobs aren’t coming to the US and second these idiots aren’t even filling the jobs of the illegal workers they want to deport…crops are dying
Trump is forcing the country into a Depression to call for more Emergency Powers...just like Hitler did.
This is way more serious than the economy. He’s going to imprison and kill a lot of people.
He's already doing this.
He’s already talking about sending AMERICAN CITIZENS to that prison in El Salvador WITHOUT DUE PROCESS!
What's terrifying is that, even though my family's been in the U.S. since the 1880's, the Trump administration could say my words of protest harms "their foreign policy work" and deport me, to, say, Afghanistan, where women cannot work, cannot attend school, cannot go out without a man #TrumpTaliban
My family has been here since the 1620s. He's just a bug splattered on my family's windshield. Just the Dewey line probably has tens of thousands whose ancestors fought in the Revolution. He has no idea what he's messing with here.
Yeah, like Hitler did :(
Sadopopulism youtu.be/oOjJtEkKMX4?...
Spot on!
I’m glad I watched this. I’ve never heard of him but there’s a lot of good stuff here as far as explanations.
I know, right?
Your post made me watch it. I agree and gave me some thoughts on the how and why
His pamphlet "On Tyranny" is pure spoiler alert. Recommended
Trump, making reading American History popular again.
An interesting discussion, but we need to adjust the definition and add the desire to create a debtors society.
Indeed. It seems the corrupt wealthy want to keep everyone a slave with low-wage jobs.
Brilliant guy. He’s one of yours 🇺🇸 too! The question is, can the US address sadopopulism and emerge from the other side before it’s too late.
I hope so. I hope more people listen to Professor Snyder and read his books on tyranny. It should feel familiar since we are living through it right now. Be afraid and ACT to stop lying trump.
Only with more automation and AI.
So, short of violence, how do we stop it?
Short of violence? Undo everything he's doing. His goal is to instill fear in the people so that he can use that fear to control us. We need to educate the uneducated. Build our peers up instead of trying to kick each other down. Build a community of togetherness instead of splitting into groups.
HE SURE IS!
Exactly.
I agree. He wants people to be afraid and desperate so that his crazy actions don’t seem out of line.
...just like Zio's did with Hitler
Excellent graphic!
just like Palpatine did
They don't care..... would anyone who thinks of himself as King ever care about us peasants? Nope
Not to mention a fairly sizable skills gap because almost no one was trained or educated for manufacturing.
Howard Lutnick will feast on the corpses
Depraved and degenerate economic violence and the removal of human rights, healthcare, and public education was always the plan. They were always perfectly fine with poor working class people dying. They were always fine with the extreme poverty that could have been erased by their #obscene #wealth.
Drill baby drill 😂😂🤢🤮😵💫
they don't really care...what they do care about though is manipulating the share market so they make unholy wealth while decimating working Mums and Dads savings
Having worked for a tier one automotive company for 18 years, I can tell you they're the first to go.
Chris, it is not a matter of if a recession is coming. It is a matter of when. -my guess: soon
When they add in all those Federal jobs that got cut in March, I believe we were in the 1st month of a recession. Trump is attacking the economy from multiple directions. Deportation, tariffs, federal agencies being shut down. Then we got all these natural disasters every week.
Its a cult. They dont care
Saying tariffs will create jobs & make us rich is like saying high demand w/ low supply will lower prices. This fat jowled oaf is a real economics genius, probably from the books he says he never reads. What’s next for this gifted savant, perhaps a breakthrough in quantum mechanics or string theory?
I’m sure companies will start rushing to build billion dollar US factories when the waffling, wishy-washy, two-faced, Machiavellian, backstabbing, duplicitous know-nothing ignorant tub of flabby goo in the Oval Office keeps changing his mind & reneging as the wind blows. Get this fuck out of office
You said "think." This is MAGAts we're talking about.
I don't understand these people that are already feeling the pain from all of this B.S. , because they have mentioned that they're still happy they voted this moron in! HUH?? I don't get it! Am I missing something?
The farmers! Saying they’re going to go bankrupt and lose the family farm, but they still support him. We are so screwed
The rich don’t care! They’re just playing the stock market for kicks!
They'll care when they're all living in a compound behind barbed wire because it's not save "outside."
Like a drug cartel war lord.
Sicario
They will pressure on the landowners, especially the farmers to suffer until they give up their land of ancestors. The tariffs will be ending after they will get lands cheaply and build an AI-controlled factory or a huge warehouse. These geniuses want to erase the middle classes.
All the farmers they’ve been interviewing have been saying they’ll be going bankrupt. And they’re saying they still support Trump! This is the level of stupidity we’re dealing with. We’re so fucked
He said he could shoot someone & they wouldn't care! He raped, is a convicted felon, insurrectionist, botched Covid, lied, cheated, thieves, is a traitor & putinite-asset. Bankruptcy is just another notch in his vile belt.
It’s a cult.
Because there’s R beside his name.
He bailed the farmers out last time and will do so again. I spend half my life in a Trumper TX county. There is a bizarre cult of “patriotism” that keeps people faithful to him. 🤯
There's no reasoning to cults or cultists.
When these factory workers have to get work visas in China to make money, remember Trump did that.
They're not thinking that far ahead.
Auto makers have already started laying people off.
Here comes the recession. 😡
What country? -_-
All 3 of those jobs are probably safe...
Everybody will just be screwing tiny screws into iPhones. I think that was the plan
No they will have robots do that
It’s old-fashioned thinking seeing America as “the factory” a) workers don’t want to work for sweat factory salaries b) they can’t afford the products they make at the higher price c) Elon is not-so-secretly planning to build 100M humanoid robots
Thinking is a challenge for them.
Biden's fault? Immigrant's fault? Jew's fault? All of the above?
none of the above
Ah, they don’t think. Just pleasing their fan base with executive orders. In the end, nothing much will happen.
They don’t THINK! Get real!😳
Think? That is giving them too much credit.
You went there. You used the word ‘think’ Duh
They seem really so focused on the adulation of Trump that they are willing to turn the USA into North Korea Lite.
They don't think.
I'm guessing all caps will solve most of this.
They're not thinking of that. Why would you think they're thinking of that?!
Um. Counterpoint. They want to kill US manufacturing to continue to benefit tech broligarchs here & authoritarians abroad.
Do the Howard Lutnicks care about manufacturing jobs? Not at all they hope the weak and poor die quickly so we can stop collecting taxes and put the robots and AI to work
They act like they’d give good paying long term union manufacturing jobs. But it’s really minimum wage sweat shops jobs at best! They’ll force ppl into those jobs somehow because no one will take them. It’s like watching a crazy evil movie plot :(
And have your children working too since there won’t be any schools, many states have already okayed for kids to work at younger ages in dangerous jobs
If they were good paying union jobs, the prices would be too high.
I remember 1987 Black Monday well, because I stood in line after being laid off in 1991. Lowell, remember Wang, the towers that stood tall and proud over the Mill city it helped revitalize. Gone. Long unemployment lines for us, hard to forget. I had just worked for Digital on satellite training too.
Digital, remember them?
Is it that or are the American workers just going to have to lose everything to hold on to the security of being able to feed their families. The removal of all safety nets,the hollowing out of our finances,they would prefer that the workforce worldwide is on the same powerless, insecure level.
Any government that supports manufacturing should be prepared to provide substantial subsidies, tax benefits, and significant financial support to assist the sector. Economies that are closely linked to manufacturing often experience correlations with recession.
The problem is: they can’t think.
Trust the plan…as I typed that I had a vision of Chief putting a pillow over RP McMurphy’s face in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. The Trump Admin is now Nurse Ratchet.
What investors want to build manufacturing plants in a nation with a declining economy & dwindling population? DJT can't strong-arm everyone to his will. He can't bend reality. He made the USA into a real shit hole country.
If?
They don’t care, the plan is for Zuck and Elon to cash in on the next economic crash.
The race for the first Trillionaire! I think Bezos is ahead.
Producer price index inflation turned into deflation for the first time since COVID this month. That's a manufacturing recession indicator. Stupid MAGA things that lower prices are a good thing for the economy, but we only had those consistently during the Great Depression.
Think? They don't, Chris - and, on top of that, they don't care.
Well, John Deere and Ford have both announced that they're moving their production OUT of the US.
They DON’T think. And, therein lies the problem.
I sell things for a living. It's 100% already here.
IF they come back, we won’t see manufacturing jobs for years, factories need to be built etc.
Also worth mentioning, the drill baby drill has already stopped. Big oil just shut down bracing for it.
Shell and BP were shuttering refineries and shrinking their offshore operations years ago. Demand for oil is slowly but surely going down. Existing sources will more than fulfill future demands. Every E vehicle bought means another 3 to 5 yrs (probably more) per car, of petrol not being purchased.
Yep. US fracked oil needs $60-65 to be economically viable. Then add on 25% on Canadian steel, etc., etc. Oil is currently at $61.
Narrator: They really don’t care about manufacturing jobs or if there is a recession.
Unfortunately younger people have not experienced a real recession.
Most of us still alive haven’t. Of course we heard a lot about it from our parents and grandparents.
The late 1970s and early 1980s were lots worse. The ONLY house we could afford was a land contract because it was a cheaper interest rate at 13% instead of 14% from a bank. And being a boomer, every job had 50 people in line that would gladly do it for a little less. Fun times.
Exactly. My first home purchase was in 1988. It was right about the time HUD home sales became a thing. I was lucky and got a 10% mortgage loan. Boy, those were the days.
I have. And looking for a job was scary and disheartening. Low pay long hours.
2008 was not that long ago… and yet we would be begging to have dumb fuck GW Bush back over this turd waffle of a president.
We saw one in 2008. It was so severe that interest rates and inflation remained extremely low until the Covid pandemic. People don't know how close the global financial order came to complete collapse.
It can get a whole lot worse than that was. And it's coming.
Yes. There were tools in the tool box able to mitigate disastrous Republican Great Recession, but there aren't for the global trade war the US is engaging in. If US treasuries crack, it's game over for the US which might, in fact, be the plan. The techfash would love it.
Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb……
MAGA has no plan. It’s all about destroying every governmental institution in our nation.
It's about destroying it and running government agencies like corporations. "ICE chief thinks deportation system should be run like Amazon Prime ‘but with human beings’"
In listening and watching, I wonder if by getting their wet dreams realized "they" who snivel about "da gubbmn't" and "TAXES-I PAY SO MUCH IN TAXES" might get their ass kicked in a significunt way, so they can FINALLY STFU.
They don't know how the woeld works! They listen to Jeane Pirro. 😁😆😅
Chris, you have assumed they think. That must be wrong. Any thinking human would not do any of the shit they do daily. I am surprised that the layoffs from the government workforce are not affecting the economy more. It will have to. We need to worry about our lives being disrupted very soon.
Moral, ethical people wouldn't "do any of the shit they do daily" But they're not moral/ethical. What they have done/are doing requires a lot of very smart minds to plan (Project 2025 writers) and it's working perfectly. Dismantle agencies/fire ppl who can punish them for "get rich quick" schemes.
They don't care as long as the stock prices drop and yge farmland is cheap. That's what they think.
Socialism doesn’t look bad now, huh?
Social democracy certainly remains far more attractive. Alabama factory workers earns less than a McDonalds worker in Denmark. Latter also has taxpayer healthcare, and a bunch of social safety nets, free schooling great public transport and can set up their own capitalist company.
"WHAT DO THESE GENIUSES THINK..." They don't.
Incapable of any thought and … they DO NOT CARE as well
Double whammy of useless
But I wanted a crappy job putting little screws into things I would no longer be able to afford!!
Their back and forth shows that they have no clue what to do!!!!!
They don't care.
They don't care.
The Republicans and tech bros delight in creating mayhem.
Helter Skelter and other assorted Mayhem. They have to be stopped.
Chris wake up. It's all being done on purpose!!! Project 2025! Society reset. Burn it down and start over!
Its true Trumpzilla is flattening everything to the ground.
Yeah, it makes you wonder doesn’t it and also who’s gonna have any money to buy anything with huge tariffs and nobody making anything here or it costing so much and nobody’s jobs pay him enough to buy anything it’s kind of a big old circle that they just don’t seem to understand
Navarro let the cat out of the bag in one of his interviews. The primary purpose is to make sure "foreigners" don't prosper from American trade. The "sell" is that it will be good for American workers, but unfortunately history is clear; high broad based tarrifs shrink economic growth.
Navarro is a tool. Empowering his ideology is stupid. America: the great & very best victim?
If American companies are forced to invest only in the US & start shutting factories, do u really think other countries are going to buy more U.S. products. Toyota is the only auto company which has stated they are committed to producing vehicles in Canada, my next vehicle will likely be a Toyota.
Let’s see, America is walled off with tariffs, not only will things get more expensive, long term there will be less investment. If you were a global corporation and had to choose between a market of 8 billion or the U.S. market with 400 million, which would you choose?
The republican buffoons are not investing in manufacturing infrastructure like President BIDENS CHIP ACT. REPUBS talk is cheap and hollow. FAKE.
They don’t think
You fall into these rabbit holes also, you should be talking about the signal chat you should be talking about Trump not listening to the Supreme Court. You should be talking about everything except what you’re talking about.
In Moscow with Putin on private device with public software during military operation. At least one president was involved with the operation!
Stop swatting flies, use your platform to organize. The people are begging to resist. Telling them to fight is not good enough.The masses have jobs and lives. The job of Political leaders, and media platforms is to inform and organize so we can execute.There will be more shit for the flies tomorrow.
I'm pretty sure they're not working to bring manufacturing back, or worried about current jobs in manufacturing. They have no legitimate economic plans to promote growth, it's some madman's desires. Like when he said they would use instinct to determine who would get exemptions from tariffs.
The idea is to destroy things and push us back into some sort of medieval feudalism. Probably with a good helping of white supremacist misogyny, for them The Handmaid's Tale is a blueprint rather than a cautionary tale.
Imbeciles
They don’t think !! That’s obvious.
Saw you on with Jake Tapper today, Chris. Will pick up the new book soon! Thanks!
Impeach Trump.
Already done that twice. You can impeach him a hundred times, can't convict, so what does that accomplish?
He has to be convicted by the Senate. The president is only removed from office if the Senate votes to convict, with a two-thirds majority (67 out of 100 senators).
Right, and that won't happen, so it's pretty much like a boy crying wolf. If there will ever be a real reason to impeach and convict a president no one will take it seriously since we want to throw those around at will.
Impeachment is just the formal accusation made by the House of Representatives. After that, the case goes to the Senate, which holds a trial. The president is only removed from office if the Senate votes to convict, with a two-thirds majority (67 out of 100 senators).
he was fucking convicted and yet he's still the president. this country is a shit show
I'm talking about impeachments. You know its basically just a charge, it means nothing without a conviction, and he was acquitted both times.
That's not gonna happen until we take back the house, the senate and the oval.
Well, I’m hoping “We the People” put enough pressure on all senators so it becomes reality.
That's a great start, but you gotta vote and if you can , campaign for and support the right candidates.
Are you familiar with Southpark's underwear gnomes?
In a zero-sum world reducing the number of workers is equivalent to increasing the number of jobs.
THEY DON'T CARE.
they think they will be able to enslave the population to force them to do these jobs for free
Uhhh 🤔
"They expect us to die, Mr. Bond!"
It doesn't matter to them. Executive order backlash? Musk and DOGE to distract. That goes badly? Tarrifs to change the subject. Tariffs tank the economy? Just bomb Mexico. It's a concept of a plan.
Did you say "think"? We need to stop assuming there are functioning brains in this administration. Or among those who support it.
lets not engage in this nonsense. it was never about manufacturing onshore, it was never about any of those dumb excuses. It was always about collapsing the market, and then inside trading to buy the dip before calling off the tariffs and profit off the market going back up at the expense of everyon
Oligarchy 101 aka: crimes
The PayPal Mafia will borrow against their assets at the ludicrously low interest rates that will be coming in H2. They will, at least in part, own everything.
Next, Trump will fire the 10 regional heads of the federal reserve and replace them with lackeys who lower the interest rates while inflation skyrocketed to 20%
Don't forget the FDIC firings. Get your money out of your savings account!!
What do you mean exactly? I’m not being rude. I’d really want to know what worries you about this?
Further, as fewer people are running everything there is less room for dissent. If Musk fires you from Tesla, do you think you can get a job at X? Now imagine 11 people being at the top of 90% of companies. Do you have free speech if you say the wrong thing here meaning you can’t work anywhere else?
Actually, it's been considered "politically incorrect" to mention anything related to politics at work for decades. Many managers will scold you and cite their etiquette book if anyone mentions Trump by name. But some allowance is granted for cases where federal firing affects your firm's business.
The concentration of wealth in an increasingly smaller number of people means that the wealth is not with the masses. It is a zero sum game. There are a limited number of dollary-doos and if you want anything like owning a home or being able to retire, they can’t have all the money.
Time to deport the evil PayPal 3: Sacks, Musk, Thiel. None of them were born here. None of them have any allegiance to America. They just see the US as a soft target they can exploit
Also Gender They like the affect of male-coded manufacturing jobs, so this whole thing is a messaging ploy to the guys who are into that thing And it’s about deriding “email jobs” they deem womanly
I now believe those were crimes of opportunity. From what I can tell, trump really is ignorant & stubborn enough to believe his own BS on tarrifs. Then he was schooled by Japan dumping T-bonds. Then he had to back off. Then they realized they could play the market. 90days for offers is a cover spin
Nailed it.
They are not trying to bring manufacturing jobs back here. There ONE GOAL is to PUNISH americans ANY WAY & EVERY WAY they can for the way america has treated trump. That's ALL this regime wants to do.
Yup. All because American banks wouldn't come to his rescue after his countless bankruptcies.
Remember when the Felon told a reporter when asked about this, that he doesn't need to go to the Russians for loans? The same day, I think, Eric told another reporter that cash flow wasn't a problem because they could get all the money they needed from Russia. 🤣
You’re both right about that, but he has surrounded himself with Christian Nationalists, and they have a plan of their own… bsky.app/profile/arbi...
Putin is thrilled with the destruction, though.
and make money for the 1%
100%. This is about harming us all.
America has treated Trump great, not sure what you’re talking about. Apparently everyone loves him
His maga base is all that loves him. That's not everyone. He's after everyone that wronged him since Trump 1.0 & the way he does it is punish ordinary americans any way & every way he can along with politicians, judges, lawyers, & anyone else.
Idiots love him
No, Trump also want to punish the rest of the world (except for Russia).
This is exactly what I dont get...
This is a red herring; it’s a distraction.
Where exactly is this manufacturing going to take place? In what factories? The ones that have been abandoned for literally decades? That even if the equipment were intact would be (again) decades out of date? It's a power grab. #TrumpIsStupidHitler
They shouldn’t be shocked when companies start laying off employees by the thousands because we’re not buying anything. Prices are going through the roof because of the Orange Felon. It’ll be a struggle to pay bills along with food and medicine. I doubt “owning the libs” was worth this.
I'm not BUYING anything I don't truly need. I look around and think... 'Nah, I can make do.' When ALL the plebs do this (by choice or not), the shut down will show who REALLY has the power in this country. Those Target and Amazon boycotts mademe see how easy it is to just say NO!
Businesses can't make any major decisions in this atmosphere. Nobody has factored in the damage done to the country from natural disasters. The soaring price to rebuild. All that deportation is racking up millions in bills.
I have it on good authority, 1st hand knowledge, you are absolutely correct . Businesses cannot make new decisions in this field of uncertainty.
They will be filled .. that's what lol
Just what I would like to know. I suspect they have raked in enough dollars that they and their families won’t need to worry or struggle like the rest of us.
They can’t think that is the problem
They're not working for us. GET IT?
You spelled “depression” wrong…
He actually told us in the first few weeks. He doesn't care about the economy, or us. He only made promises to get elected. Plus, he is sure he can't tank the economy as bad as Harris. At least, not for himself. Do you know how it's been for him? Mysterious forces stopped him from making as much 💵!
Per one of my VA drivers, "Trump will make it okay. As long as I have my job, and he won't touch that, it will be okay. The tariffs will make enough money that we will be okay. He said so. I don't know how he'll do it but he'll make it work." Me: Did you take your thorazine this morning?
It's only going to hurt the Libs. [They are in for a tad of a shock]
I just had one Trumper tear into me on FB because I commented that MAGA is like an abused wife. She ranted and raved about Biden and Hunter. My reply was "Oh, you still have money? Don't worry. Trump will fix that. And go rant at someone who cares you are alive." She didn't answer me.
And there is no to buy the stuff we manufacture? The cognitive dissonance is deafening.
As a worker in manufacturing, it's not great. My work isn't hit too hard because we don't send much to our overseas factories, but we're still doing everything to cut costs and lower costs of production
I'm just hoping my work doesn't let me go.
I had to stop laughing first, because the answer is they think they’re bringing a manufacturing boom, when in fact they are crippling it, then giving it a double tap like you should a zombie.
I know Trump isn't smart enough to think that far ahead or even care if there is recession, but CEO's of manufacturing companies don't get to have that excuse. At some point their BoD's and shareholders are going to want answers and changes, usually at the head of the companies.
Psst!Trump is NO genius. That's a fact.The 💩 will be hitting the fan for MANY, MANYyears to come as a result of his absolute stupidity & laziness.He didn't want,nor know how, to put the work into individually negotiating new trade deals SO he just smashed them all to bits. Idiocy has lasting effects
I live in a small city where Manufacturing WAS king. This town was full of factories paying living wages up until the 1980s. Sadly, we've been waiting for the "trickle down economy" to get to us since the Reagan Administration.
Signed, Bassett, Virginia.
I prefer the “horse and sparrow” term for the same thing. The idea that horse eats a lot of oats, shits, and maybe some oats are left in the shit for the sparrow to eat. newmainetimes.org/archive/arti...
Yeah, that argument from the right that "trickle down" is the way will never come to fruition - all they can do is extend the ramp of its hypothetical viability. When I was a kid, it was "you need to wait a few years", now they say decades. Next it will be centuries.
TDE has been debunked so often, for so many years that for the wealthy to pay politicians to extol its (non-existent) virtues demonstrates how well they understand "the base" and conservatives in general.
Like pretty much every employer regardless of workforce size, pay rises would have to wait because the [insert tried and tested bollocks reason] has to get better first. An employer of mine once delivered that message one day and a week later he and his partner rocked up in new Porsches.
It's keeping the billionaires glass filled to the ever rising rim.
How is it, that a large percentage of 'working class' republicans, are doing*better than the average working class Dem? Am I missing something? It appears to me that the Rep tax cuts (Reaganomics)have affected the Dems more severely. Pls tell me your take away. B Thanks 👍🏽
The “working class” GOP is actually the petit bourgeois: they’re the store owners and the guys with their name on the car dealership, not the store clerks and the guy in the service bay actually fixing the cars
They’re not doing better. I live in a’hood that is full of Rs living in double wides w their T flags. They depend on Medicaid, SNAP & the local food bank. I just wait until that stuff is cut off for them. Maybe then they’ll wake up.
Do not count on an epiphany. These ppl started off as hateful and stupid, they've only gone further into pre-Hitler Idiocracy.
Trickle down was a trick
Oh, yes, we know that. We've known it for decades now, and scream "BS" when we hear the current administration/politicians use the term "trickle down economics."
What do they think will happen if they blow up: social security? medicare? medicaid? the EPA? the FDA? science investment? FEMA? education? Survey says: They don't think.
Maybe helpful to think of all this as the republicans blowing their wad before the GOP goes the way of the Whigs. MAGAts are the minority after all, and hard to imagine their immolation of our government is going to insure the longevity of a political party that has devolved into a cult..
Nor PLAN!
They're not created jobs they're creating products in automated factories. The people oil the machines. How many machine oilers are needed? That's what Lutnick promised.
What do they “think”? It’s blindingly clear there is a complete absence of thought.
🇦🇺🍃🐨What makes you think they care? Their money is likely 80% invested offshore in other successful countries & industries & they’re not paying taxes at home. They’ve got everything! Inc, in the case of MAGAS, their minds & money keeping them further afloat! They. Don’t. Care. About. You! #TuckFrump
They should have left the Chips and Science Act in place. Idiots.
Least of America's worries right now. Bottom of the list. Jobs won't matter if soldiers are getting killed because a drunken fool used Snapchat or allies won't inform the admin of a possible terrorist attack because they use Signal for CLASSIFIED INFO!
The new factories will be a fever dream even further out of reach, and the existing factories will start to wind down. The art of the deal.
they have $$, what do they care?
Trump appoints people who are even more ignorant than he is. He should learn about the history of textiles in America.
Duh!!! Only the weak will fail! lol.
YELLING IS NOT HELPING!! THESE PILLOCKS HAVE NO INSIGHT, COGNIZANCE, OR EMPATHY! Sorry, my friend. We are most truly and fully … fucked.
Those little screws for iPhones Lutnick talked about are laborious to produce. They’re produced by specialized machinery made in the US, but the “stable genius” just placed tariffs on the steel required to manufacture the equipment.
They don't actually cate about them this is a mentally ill narcissist trying to make every country in the world crawl to him
He belongs in the geriatric wing of a psych ward, not the White House.
They don't think.
They don't care, either.
Kudos to the Doechii reference on last night’s show @chrislhayes.bsky.social. “Woopsie, made a oopsie”. Impressed!
The lower workers will suffer while the companies themselves get bailed out 🫠
Think?? Think??? Not their job - Mr. Trump does the thinking. Oh - he’s off duty, golfing. We’ll worry about jobs later.
They dont care
Business will go bankrupt so they can buy them and asset strip.
Sounds just like the 30's
That’s true
And that, in my humble opinion is the entire reason he deliberately tanks the market with the tariffs. Despite his lies about how they work, I firmly believe that he's always known. The lies were to dupe his base. Then the billionaires swoop in. It's obvious this was always the plan.
That’s is an accurate description of his motivations for use of tariffs against the world.
And the insider trading. Trump is on video years before he ran for president, saying recessions are good because he could buy property on the cheap. It's amazing to me what his cult members will ignore while he robs them blind. But it's better than a black woman as president, amirite? 🤨
Yes. We are at the leveraged buyout phase of late-stage capitalism
What do these geniuses think will happen to exports in the US if every other nation is encouraged not to import there? All those countries, trading with each other the goods that the US has made unprofitable to trade with them.
Manufacturing will move back to USA, and everyone will have high paying manufacturing jobs again, LOL. These two nut jobs are marketing geniuses.
is this satire?
They do not care. It’s all about cruelty, power, and greed. Full stop.
We are already seeing layoffs. A fifth grader can see where this is headed.
It's faith, not reason. Trump is their new Jesus. He can do miracles. They live not by bread alone but by every word which proceeds from his mouth.
Sadly, this is very true. And they believe he can never/has never lied to them when the rest of us who have never drunk the Orange Koolaid know that if his mouth is open, he's lying.
They think that desperate people will work for pennies. That’s been the plan….probably the only actual plan they ever had.
Work at what? It’s 80% consumer or service based. It’s all so dumb, so dumb.
They know exactly what will happen. www.history.com/topics/early...
Question didn’t Joe Biden bring back some manufacturing jobs via the infrastructure act? Is 🍊🤡 going to try & claim credit for this?
"There exists a group of people . . . who make of the United States and her people an object for self-enrichment in a privatization scheme that would outsource critical services to companies run almost entirely on algorithms . . ."
Well that was a fun read! Good morning to you all, life is over as we know it. So which will you choose? 1. FIGHT👊🏻💪🏻🔥 2. Flight 3. Conform 4. Suicide
#3 is never an option for me. Non-conformist of everything.
I’m between 1 & 2 right now. Getting our travel visas ready just in case.
Been saying this since the campaign. No way they make these moves with any intention of being ousted.
Right. "There is no turning back for Trump and Musk; they have gone too far, and by their accounting, they have already succeeded. The only way these billionaires will leave the White House is if they’re physically removed."
They think everything will magically be provided for them by Trumps regime because they fell for the false promises of prosperity for what they think is the protected class. They go for hate because they believe that’s what keeps them on top. They have no clue what’s in store. They’re fools.
Republican voters are EVIL FOOLS.
Or deluded idiots
Why can’t they be both? Right? 🫨 If only it was very painful too…
It is painful to me financially! I hope it us to some of them.
Please get on the phone or e-mail and tell your reps in DC to end tariffs. Resist. It only takes a few minutes and best of all..it doesn’t cost any money. We don’t need money in politics. We just need people to participate. www.nationalfinancialplan.com
Think? They just obey!
Chris, stupids don't think. If they did, a 34-count convicted felon and his oligarchs wouldn't be in our WH.
This 💯!
More robots will be unemployed.
Exactly. And who will be buying anything? All the laid off and elderly who can't afford their meds or food? The idiots don't ever ask the question - "then what?" How many people will have to have their kids AND their parents move back in?
The top 10% of earners consume more than the bottom 90%. The billionaires have decided that they don't need the bottom half, at all, because they just can't capitalize enough off of them.
But they do need us to absorb their losses - that is how the stock market works. They socialize their losses while privatizing their profits.
They don't have losses. What they don't earn, they just steal.
This European here will not buy US products as long as US regards EU as “enemy”.
I fully support the EU stopping all US imports until he and his administration have been removed from office.
Honestly? I think it's just a lie to string the base along that the jobs and money are coming back. They "love-bombed" their cult in the first term, now they're doing the withdraw/manipulate part so that people start fighting for approval. Classic coercive control/abuse tactic. It's all bad faith.
When you're in an abusive relationship, an abuser often starts out as the picture of charm and safety. When they're sure you're invested, they start to withdraw, and mix hurting you with little scraps of affection to try to make you beg for their approval. They they gaslight you if you question.
Chris, you think they think? That's so cute.
Details, details!
You think , THEY THINK ABOUT OUTCOMES? Really!
watch out.. I'll pull your press pass with those "unamerican questions" - (Just ask @jimacosta.bsky.social )
Income tax will take s as big hit too.
What do these geniuses think? Two things- 'Riches for we, crumbs for thee' and "The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy." Other than that, I don't believe there is a lot of thinking. They operate purely on greed and gluttony.
“The weak are meat and the strong do eat.”
"They operate purely on greed..." They do. They also enjoy a good helping of cruelty to be visited upon those unable to defend themselves.
What will happen? They will depart to their well stocked private islands/hideaways and try to ride it out.
youtu.be/Pp1eG4xBJOE
come on Chris... you know they have no real vested interest in the success of any of us... once cheeto declares martial law on 4/20 the round ups will begin, those left behind will be relegated to servicing AI bots and infrastructure...and those will not be good paying jobs either. low skill/wage.
What’s left the “Department of Education” put up a website for people to TURN IN teachers and schools for “DEI” It’s an open form with a button for uploads. Perhaps we should FLOOD IT so MAGA jerk offs can’t get through with their perceived “DEI tips” youtu.be/2rLXwT3awqc?...
Get their addresses, phone numbers, and turn the tables.
It is because of DEI that parents can send some of their kids to school. Schools and teachers are required to provide accommodations for those who need assistance. Soon, teachers won't even be able to ask a minority child their opinion on a topic for fear it will trigger a ❄️.
#GoodTrouble
We should flood it with white people receiving various forms of DEI.
I like that idea! Got any suggestions?
I was thinking about a story I read where someone sat next to an elderly couple on a plane while they mainlined Fox News & then when they deplaned there was a cart waiting to drive them around the airport. The guy made the point to say “Happy to see you embracing DEI”.
I think often that we can make a difference one conversation at a time and the way this guy did. Perhaps the couple will think on this and contemplate what is really meant by DEI. Maybe they’ll say something to someone else one can always hope.
The couple was like “Not us!!” so the guy explained how that cart provided accessibility free of charge to them bc of the A in DEIA. There are also pregnant women who are still working, female CEOs, vets receiving assistance via the GI Bill. Lots of examples!!
It’s funny how people get a certain idea in their head about what something means, and in fact, they’re probably lead into that thought with some brainwashing. Yes you too benefit from DEI and A! Let’s see, I know a lot of elderly Republicans with disabled handicap parking.
Yep, exactly!
Hm, wasn't Jesus a teacher? Pretty DEI too if I remember correctly.
@muellershewrote.com Perfect for some Good Trouble!
Nobody's actually gotten into "good trouble". Lawful protests aren't even close to "trouble". Brown-shirts snatching people, verdicts being ignored, and we've got signs and scream. I really believe we've already lost. What're we gonna do when they take libs' guns? File a lawsuit? We're lame.
You’re sounding hopeless
Maybe. I just don't think we're doing enough to ACTUALLY STOP what is happening. It's not hopeless, but "you'll never take back your country with weakness" sure had some truths, and I just don't think we're radical enough or organizing in the bold way necessary. I'm protesting, but it's not enough.
DAS stimmt allerdings,ihr müsst alle viel mehr tun..ihr müsstet vielleicht einfach unbequem werden..indem ihr Abläufe des täglichen Lebens,durch"Kleinigkeiten verhindert!Ähnlich wie die Klimaaktivisten,die sich einfach mit Klebstoff auf die Straßen geklebt haben..und nix lief mehr..eine kleine Idee!
Your right! Americans have had it to easy for too long! They really don’t know what real hardship is! When they start the mass evictions and so called deportations of citizens, then it will be to late‼️😳
Ja die schrittweise angewandten Rückzüge der Demokratie und die Übernahme von mehr restriktiven Entscheidungen,anstelle dessen---führen am Ende zu einer glasklaren DIKTATUR!!Die Judikative wird immer mehr eingeschränkt bzw. ersetzt durch loyale Richter-und zack ist der Faschismus nicht weit...!!!
Sie haben recht! Der erste Schritt hat hier bereits stattgefunden!
Fear of facism lead my father & grand father from speaking or teaching us german when we were young!Even though my Great-great grandfather immigrated here during the civil war( this is why i use a translator🤗)
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I think we're already there. We're deporting people for dissent, and now what they might think in the future. "..determination is the alien’s past, current, or expected beliefs.." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... ---- www.cnn.com/2025/04/10/u... ------ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I believe that we're going to need to do more than outlandish protests. It has to be forceful and definitive. They're armed and have power on their side. We need to match that with actual force. Nothing less will do.
I’ve been banging the drum for two months that the only thing that will work is a general strike for extended periods of time, people walking out on jobs, people stop buying-and making THIS COUNTRY COME TO A STANDSTILL. But every day goes by and we slip further and further, no one will sacrifice.
I think it's past the pocketbook strategy. We need a revolt.
Because this is happening right now. www.reddit.com/r/50501/s/EB...
It is but ☝️ of the tools in the tool kit. We need to do everything, we need to be everywhere, we need to be in their way, all the time. The problem is 2/3 of the country is asleep. Remember the outrage for Ukraine? where is that? Everything just blows by after a day or two.
Originally they thought a recession would be good because inflation and interest rates would come down and they could blame it on Biden.
The will get in line at Lutnik’s tiny, tiny little iPhone screw factory.
Unfortunately, with these new factories…#HumansNeedNotApply www.cnbc.com/2025/03/26/b...
Arbeit macht frei. "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones, that kind of thing is going to come to America," Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick
Which iPhone would cost … a lot more and nobody but the rich could afford one. The only questions are: 1. Do they know anything about Econ really and 2. Do they really care the crap they are spewing makes no sense and 3. Do they care about anyone?
i know the answer to number 3: no
It's already happening in my company OT hours are being cut to zero. Unpredictable future has them in protective mode.
Bold to assume thinking is something they’re capable of, I can only see evidence that they can’t think at all.
They think but only if it benefits them! Othrwise they don't care.
We are all acceptable casualties in their greed.
They THINK that the recession will recover eventually, once we've ramped up manufacturing back to where it used to be. What they don't understand is that imposing such high tariffs means retaliatory tariffs, which means there won't be as much demand for manufacturing jobs. OOPS!
It doesn’t matter, their daddy savior is always right and knows what he’s doing.
A recession, autocracy, and oligarchic capitalism will not occur if the Congress and the Courts (including spineless capitulated legal firms) ALL GREW THEIR TESTICULAR FORTITUDE and SPINES BACK and take back power they have, use it, and put Trump in secure facility with appropriate treatment!
Notice he had a physical and we haven't heard anything...zip...nada!!
He probably threatened the physician who examined him with death threats if he didn’t report Trump could live in infamy and be at least 360 years old…like those folks getting SSA checks Elons Big Balls found! Dumb shits! Maybe AF1 with all Admin and Cabinet will suffer an unscheduled dismantling! 👏
Wanna bet when we do he will be a perfect specimen?
Trump's deserving of a sentence of life in prison for the massive destruction he has caused to our country. He's a diabolical traiterous entity deserving life in prison or the death penalty. He's earned & deserves our hatred.
1) He’s a definite subhuman anomaly. Family ties to German heritage (Nazi). Surrounded by sycophants and white national suppremacists. A phony Christian. A sociopath. A racist. Pathological liar, etc. Disgrace hurts worse than death. We the people will make a stand. 10+ million march and sit in…
2) on DC Capitol, White House,
3) who have had enough of the MAGA destruction and further enrichment of those not deserving such “”self “entitlement”” and demand immediate action against the entire Administration and Trump specifically. Impeachment at worst, imprisonment in El Salvador or Guantanamo Bay, loss of US citizenship!..
4) But we need “GOOD TROUBLE” by millions and millions of pissed off peaceful protesters willing to sit in until our “so called Congressional representatives” can’t run and hide from us and their “Oath of Office” anymore! And as far as Elon Musk is concerned, he is a clear and present danger to our…
5) Country, our democracy, and national security and deserves nothing less than due process and a sentence of life imprisonment for sedition, obstruction, theft of public funds and property, and invasion of personal privacy of all US citizens! #Indivisible
Everything is stupid.
"DO THESE GENIUSES THINK" No, not very well. Although they may not be thinking about adding manufacturing jobs at all, it's a ruse to crash the economy and take more assets from middle class Americans.
Kari Lake is DISMANTLING VOA the organization she was supposed to be in charge of. What does that tell US?
They don’t know they don’t think they just DO.
Gonzo
We have good paying jobs with renewable energy. Trumf is destroying the future. He is just too old to see it. 25th amendment now - he is unfit!
Did you call for the 25th for Biden? Asking forva friend.
No matter what you saw from the propaganda machine, Biden was doing his job. He pulled our economy back from covid. And he knows how to close an umbrella.
WORLDWIDE, USA had the BEST economy coming out of the pandemic. Biden is to thank for that… it wasn’t PERFECT BUT IT WAS BETTER THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY!
Tell me you watch MSNBC without telling me. We have always had the best economy, covid or not so what is your point?
Tell me you know nothing about macroeconomics without telling me.
Did he tariff penguins?
Unfortunately, while getting rid of Don may allow a bit more sanity in foreign relations, the bulk of the GOP are fully signed up to the Heritage Foundation's policy wishlist, so there'd be very little change if one of the others got in.
But the cult is one of personality
They don’t care. It’s so much easier to understand what they are doing when you see that they just absolutely don’t care.
youtube.com/watch?v=-gl5...
Oh that's okay, trump is already pulling funding for manufacturing in Ohio and other Red States. "Trump to reportedly cut grant for key US steel project in Vance’s home town Outcry as CNN reports president to stop funds for program that would have created jobs in Middletown, Ohio"
Isn't JD Vance a true wonder,boy? Superman? OHIO sure can be proud down 👇
👀 many U.S. steel plants are unionized, with the United Steelworkers (USW) being a major force in the industry. The union represents a significant portion of workers at major steel companies like United States Steel (USS) and Cleveland-Cliffs, including large facilities like Gary Works.
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Teamsters President, Trump lover Sean O'Brien should be horse whipped