I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.” I beg to differ. This is curated failure open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
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Yes that’s the plan then JD Vance’s company Acre Trader will steal their land for pennies on the dollar 😐
aug 2, 2025, 3:27 pm • 15 5 • view
Destroy as many people as possible; makes it easier to control them later.
aug 2, 2025, 8:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah absolutely right about that Jess
aug 2, 2025, 5:38 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 2, 2025, 9:51 pm • 0 0 • view
A small number of people made a lot of money when Liz Truss crashed the UK economy.
aug 3, 2025, 9:39 am • 2 0 • view
Honest history will not be kind to the MAGA, Leopards are eating our faces Party... just a hunch.
aug 2, 2025, 7:44 pm • 0 0 • view
THEY FIRED GOOD WORKING AMERICANS TO BUY UP DC PROPERTIES CHEAP.
aug 3, 2025, 2:40 am • 0 0 • view
EXACTLY.
aug 3, 2025, 2:38 am • 0 0 • view
NecroCapitalism.
aug 2, 2025, 10:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump hates Americans He's trying to kill you He hid mass murder in a pandemic in his first term He'll hide millions of deaths in the depression #ManiacalMurderer
aug 3, 2025, 5:10 am • 1 0 • view
I’m more worried about Stephen miller behind it also he’s a monster, he wants humanity gone
aug 3, 2025, 8:15 am • 1 0 • view
Musk announced several times in Fall 2024 that if trump wins there will be an economic crash. Called it an economic “reset” Disaster for most of US, likely another financial windfall for musk & billionaires
aug 2, 2025, 3:15 pm • 4 3 • view
aug 2, 2025, 5:42 pm • 2 1 • view
When the economy crashes the wealthy can swoop in and acquire property for cheap.
aug 2, 2025, 3:45 pm • 1 0 • view
I've been saying this since 2016: The goal here is to obliterate property values so Trump and his rich buddies can buy everything on the cheap and then lease it back to us for an exorbitant amount of money.
aug 2, 2025, 3:51 pm • 7 1 • view
Yes, they are purposely, with malice, destroying the American economy.
aug 2, 2025, 3:15 pm • 8 2 • view
Crashed economy = bankruptcies = cheap labor for Billionaires and cheap land grabs for everyone but Americans. He's setting this up for Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and countries like this to buy America out from under US.
aug 3, 2025, 1:46 pm • 1 0 • view
YES THEY MEAN TO CRASH THE ECONOMY!!
aug 2, 2025, 10:20 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s Putin’s plan
aug 2, 2025, 7:38 pm • 1 0 • view
Absolutely
aug 3, 2025, 4:17 am • 1 0 • view
Crashing the economy gives them the pretext for greater control.
aug 2, 2025, 4:17 pm • 5 1 • view
Quit electing Josh Hawley
aug 2, 2025, 4:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Capitalist’s dream job….actively deflate the value and then buy cheap. (47, Vance, all of the Trumps, Blackstone…)
aug 2, 2025, 3:51 pm • 1 0 • view
The long game, dating back to Reagan, has been to create a sizable permanent underclass in this country that will forever be so dependent on whatever crumbs the overlords decide to give them that they will do whatever is asked of them and be thankful. The end of upward mobility.
aug 2, 2025, 11:55 pm • 4 1 • view
Disaster Capitalism
aug 2, 2025, 3:06 pm • 5 0 • view
7/31/25: OMG. “Ex-CIA whistleblower confirms that a 2024 audit was done, and it confirmed. She won. Buy a lot.” fb.watch/Be558W1aVs/?... www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6DKTY89/
aug 2, 2025, 6:47 pm • 2 1 • view
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aug 2, 2025, 9:04 pm • 0 0 • view
they want to crash the economy and sell it for cheap
aug 3, 2025, 11:03 am • 2 0 • view
This is depressing but true. You can ignore reality but it can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
aug 2, 2025, 5:44 pm • 2 0 • view
Can't get Beastie Boy's song Sabotage out of my head
aug 3, 2025, 2:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Many of us predicted this and more before he was elected. What I think no one saw was his intentional cruelty and hatred. We need to fight and hold what line is left but I feel bleak today. Moving to another Democratic country is not easy and he will likely lock us all in here next.
aug 2, 2025, 4:32 pm • 5 1 • view
He's always looking for a way to create a conflict between the political party so he can declare an insurrection and gain even more power than he has now. Probably power for killing people in the streets just like in wartime.
aug 2, 2025, 6:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Each action builds upon the last until it'll be total collapse.
aug 2, 2025, 6:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Systems fail slowly and then suddenly. Republicans have been crashing the economy slowly but surely since Reagan—by pumping up debt and untaxing the rich. Trump is simply giving our democratic government the coup de grâce.
aug 2, 2025, 7:10 pm • 10 5 • view
aug 3, 2025, 12:13 pm • 2 0 • view
Excellent summary. Again, we must all ask. “Whose society is this?” Is it the 8 Oligarchs who have as much wealth as 165 million Americans, or is it those Americans?
aug 2, 2025, 4:14 pm • 3 0 • view
100%
aug 2, 2025, 3:44 pm • 1 0 • view
😲 😱 😲
aug 3, 2025, 1:42 pm • 0 0 • view
100% Fire Sale
aug 2, 2025, 4:21 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 2, 2025, 7:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh 100%
aug 3, 2025, 3:42 am • 0 0 • view
They want everyone HUNGRY to get compliance
aug 2, 2025, 4:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Absolutely spot on ! Control food-control people.
aug 2, 2025, 7:18 pm • 2 0 • view
It's all in P25. Everything happening is move for move in that playbook. They want to destroy everything. They want to get rid of most of us and the rest of us will be subjugated to the billionaire autocrats. This is 100% deliberate. All of it.
aug 3, 2025, 12:51 am • 7 0 • view
Some want to use us as biofuel.
aug 3, 2025, 4:11 am • 2 0 • view
As insane as that once would have sounded, yes - some 100% do. Fucking fascists.
aug 3, 2025, 8:35 am • 0 0 • view
I think you're right. Trump isn't going to hurt--he's extorting every source of big money he can, like suing 60 universities/colleges for supposed antisemitism--I'm sure you'd be shocked to learn that all but one have good-sized endowments; the one that doesn't is in California.
aug 2, 2025, 6:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Republicans always crash the economy.
aug 2, 2025, 3:49 pm • 16 2 • view
It's basically one of those sayings like "does the pope have a big hat?" To tell someone you mean "yes." "Does a gop president crash the economy?"
aug 2, 2025, 8:28 pm • 3 0 • view
And gain personal wealth while doing it.
aug 2, 2025, 4:38 pm • 1 0 • view
And then blame Dems for raising taxes to fix it And since the public has the memory of goldfish, they buy it every time and vote the GOP back in to wreck things once more
aug 2, 2025, 6:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Chilling.
aug 3, 2025, 5:07 am • 1 0 • view
This crash will be far worse than what this meme suggests. This will be a national bankruptcy which will crash the entire global finance system There will be no banks to borrow money from to purchase things at low prices
aug 2, 2025, 5:36 pm • 2 1 • view
Yep. So they can wind up picking up the pieces!
aug 2, 2025, 7:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Stealing them
aug 3, 2025, 1:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly. See Curtis Yarvin and his tech bro followers
aug 2, 2025, 7:06 pm • 3 0 • view
Yep.
aug 2, 2025, 7:12 pm • 0 0 • view
100%. It's their mission.
aug 2, 2025, 6:52 pm • 1 0 • view
They ARE trying to kill the economy.
aug 2, 2025, 5:52 pm • 0 0 • view
When they do this to the economy, people sell real estate less money than normal and wealthy people buy up everything available. Pretty soon will be like medieval Europe with landlords and surfs.
aug 2, 2025, 11:04 pm • 3 0 • view
If they crash the economy and cause a recession or depression, who does that benefit? Only the rich because everybody else loses everything and they’re the only ones that have money.
aug 2, 2025, 5:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Infuriating but believable. Also, in the 2008 market crash, many peoples homes got picked up for pennies on the dollar by private equity wealth only to be rented back to them at exorbitant rates. It was a boon for oligarchy and is a huge contributing factor to today's politics. They'd love a repeat.
aug 2, 2025, 4:05 pm • 24 3 • view
I had a modest house in Phoenix that I bought in about 2005 for around 130k. In 2008, several neighbors lost their homes, and houses on my block were selling for 35k. Now you couldn't get near that block for under 300. The trees I had planted to shade the house have been ripped out for AirBnB rooms.
aug 2, 2025, 4:50 pm • 15 2 • view
Same. Now I have predators contacting me every day wanting to buy my little house. I'm 75 and have never said Fuck Off so many times in my life.
aug 2, 2025, 5:14 pm • 18 1 • view
Every once in awhile I answer a spam call. Always the same - do I wanna sell my home? I'm fortunate, as a result of a divorce (!) I had to buy a home at that time. My mortgage is 1/3 of what my kids pay for rent. Not a brag, it's sad...
aug 3, 2025, 12:03 am • 4 0 • view
Yes..it is. If I had to pay rent now I'd be living in my car. I feel for the kids so much. At least we had a chance...they do not.
aug 3, 2025, 12:34 am • 3 0 • view
The rents are outrageous in our neighborhood too. The corporate landlords have sucked all of the equity out of the homes, vampire squid style, and passed the higher payments + a hefty profit onto the renters and driven up property taxes to boot. They've reaped all rewards and outsourced all the harm
aug 3, 2025, 2:30 am • 4 0 • view
Yep. At least 8 times a day
aug 2, 2025, 5:16 pm • 9 0 • view
when you realize he's working for Putin, it all makes sense ....
aug 3, 2025, 12:39 am • 1 0 • view
Hell yeah The plan is to break it And pick up the pieces they want
aug 2, 2025, 6:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Excellent read 🏆, yes, this IS why. Thank you Jess.
aug 2, 2025, 5:04 pm • 0 0 • view
I've asked the question repeatedly. If Putin had promised Trump 20% ownership of Gazprom if he destroys America would Trump be doing anything different?
aug 2, 2025, 4:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Correct. Laidout in Project 2025.
aug 2, 2025, 7:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Imo Trump wants the interest rate lowered so that he & his buddies can buy property cheap. Lower interest rates mean lower payments as they buy up America.
aug 3, 2025, 12:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Economist Dr. Gillian Tett also predicted this.
aug 2, 2025, 7:41 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m convinced it’s sabotage.
aug 2, 2025, 9:36 pm • 8 0 • view
1/ Fuck me. I didn't know they actually test-drove Project 2025. I read and have been following it, and as of the 27th, it is 47% complete. And I can't even begin to imagine what kind of future we have ahead of us. I am an Eeyore. I believe we are past the tipping point and...
aug 2, 2025, 10:44 pm • 0 0 • view
2/ There is no coming back from where we are now. Every empire falls - ours just happened exponentially. What's ahead? Civil war? Fighting out from under an Oligarchic Autocracy that will be *years* in the undertaking? Whatever it's going to be, we won't recover in my lifetime.
aug 2, 2025, 10:44 pm • 1 0 • view
3/ To the future - I'm sorry we failed you. But I can honestly say, for *my* part - I really did not see this coming.
aug 2, 2025, 10:44 pm • 0 0 • view
THEY, 1% HAVE DONE THIS BEFORE!
aug 2, 2025, 6:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Texas is the same way; folks may have gathered as much from the power grid failure during winter storm URI, the inaction at the Uvalde school shooting, and the lack of warning in the recent floods. Republicans have sucked this state dry and are so proud.
aug 2, 2025, 10:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Well put Concision is a virtue
aug 2, 2025, 8:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Fully agree with your analysis. They say the UK is their pétri dish: Brexit was also a curated failure or, as Naomie Klein calls it “Disaster Capitalism”. Here is the main architect of Brexit, Trump fan-boy Nigel Farage, grinning joyously at the collapse of Sterling, the huge patriot.
aug 2, 2025, 4:28 pm • 5 1 • view
I’ve thought for a long time that there is plan to take down the U.S. and UK.
aug 2, 2025, 4:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes, devastate and sell for parts, like the venture capitalists, but for the whole US.
aug 3, 2025, 2:56 am • 0 0 • view
Project 2025 started with Reagan as the Mandate for Leadership and has been used by the GOP leaders since. At state and federal level. It was updated for Trump to project 2025.
aug 2, 2025, 7:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Interesting read…It’s not like they didn’t put it all out there for all to scour…
aug 3, 2025, 2:18 am • 0 0 • view
What the idiot billionaires misunderstood, Trump cares about something other than Trump. Trump is not invested in the markets, main street, companies other than Trumps extortion and blackmail inc.
aug 3, 2025, 1:03 am • 1 0 • view
One of the things people keep pointing and laughing about with Trump is all his business failures. Can't keep a business going... ...or was he a really good vulture capitalist? Find a nice biz. Brand it. (Take fees.) Arrange loans. (Take BIG fees.) Squirrel away assets. Crash it. Burn the evidence.
aug 2, 2025, 6:29 pm • 0 0 • view
They are securing their own money. When the economy crashes and the rest of us are struggling they have us under their thumb.
aug 2, 2025, 3:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh yes they do😏
aug 3, 2025, 6:50 am • 0 0 • view
Of course they do. Then they can profit more.
aug 2, 2025, 10:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Spot on. I’ve been saying before day 1 the agenda is: Destroy Grift RULE Destruction of norms, decency is the toolbox. Their view of Christianity is one Jesus would piss on. Trump is example #1. Destruction causes desperation, unrest. Draconian measures follow. Grift started before day one.
aug 2, 2025, 4:44 pm • 4 0 • view
Yep. yep.
aug 2, 2025, 4:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Others have said this here too: When individuals and small biz struggle and fail, the uber wealthy and billionaire class cleans up. They consolidate, buy assets for cheap, eliminate competition, give consumers fewer choices while raising prices. It's an observable and cyclic pattern.
aug 2, 2025, 5:38 pm • 0 0 • view
In the past 4 months small businesses in my area are closing. A regional garden/farm/pet supply business, an IGA grocery store, an arts/vintage warehouse with nearly 100 dealers, 2 dry cleaners and three long time restaurants all closed. Most are rent/building, costs and labor related.
aug 2, 2025, 5:43 pm • 0 0 • view
‘Curated Failure’ 🎯
aug 2, 2025, 4:49 pm • 1 0 • view
I mean, JD Couch has an app dedicated to purchasing bankrupt farmland for pennies on the dollar.
aug 2, 2025, 3:17 pm • 35 6 • view
1) profit. 2) control of the food supply. I don’t get why the few actual farmers left don’t get this!
aug 2, 2025, 4:07 pm • 14 2 • view
AcreTrader
aug 3, 2025, 9:42 am • 1 0 • view
That bankrupt farmland will continue to be worthless because nobody wants to buy from us. We’re now completely unreliable as trading partners and the joke’s on the plutocrats who put Trump and their puppets in power.
aug 3, 2025, 4:58 am • 1 0 • view
Crisis often facilitates extremism. But it also wakes people up. Let's hope it backfires. Thanks again for your work!
aug 2, 2025, 5:35 pm • 0 0 • view
This was very well-written. While I know the Project 2025 plan is "destroy & conquer", I never thought of it this way: "The wealthy have thrown shit at the walls in red states to see what sticks. They found the winning formula (&) wrote it into a plan called Project 2025." (cont.)
aug 2, 2025, 3:33 pm • 5 2 • view
Sounds like they're taking advantage of the poor educational outcomes in red states, that result in ignorance & compliance, to conquer.....and like you said, they're attempting to make this the norm nationwide. It's scary disgusting. #RESIST
aug 2, 2025, 3:39 pm • 1 1 • view
I’m pretty sure I would rather my blue state secede from the union than be in the Authoritarian states.
aug 2, 2025, 3:46 pm • 6 2 • view
Yes. Expect Powell to be fired when they are ready to trigger insurrection act.
aug 2, 2025, 3:08 pm • 14 1 • view
The changes that the administration is making today will, in the next 2 years, cause a collapse of functioning in this country. To most it will seem like a sudden change but as you point out Jess, the foundation is being ripped away right now.
aug 2, 2025, 4:24 pm • 15 1 • view
It could collapse in the next six months.
aug 2, 2025, 9:43 pm • 4 1 • view
The only reason I think it will take longer is because big business will push back and slow the process down.
aug 2, 2025, 9:50 pm • 1 0 • view
I don’t know either, but I’m preparing like it is as best I can.
aug 2, 2025, 9:53 pm • 1 0 • view
We are doing the same.
aug 2, 2025, 9:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Big businesses are *lining up* to get involved in the process. See all current media mergers. Once we passed LAWS against monopolies - now the president is just signing off on them as a matter of course. Big business has NEVER had our interests at heart. DO NOT expect them to save us now.
aug 2, 2025, 10:50 pm • 7 1 • view
I was implying what you have just pointed out. They are only going to act in their best interests and I think it will take a little time for them to figure out how to do that.
aug 3, 2025, 1:41 am • 0 0 • view
If I get you, basically it will be the scrum before all the bidding comes in and who gets in line in front of whom?
aug 3, 2025, 3:38 am • 1 0 • view
Crash the economy, people with wealth can get some great bargains. Watch who is holding cash.
aug 2, 2025, 7:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Amazing read. I had to stop halfway through I was so mad. I see the exact thing. 😡 Working class Americans need to band together.
aug 3, 2025, 12:46 am • 1 0 • view
Been the plan all along . Kill America and Americans...rebuilding in their image
aug 3, 2025, 10:55 am • 0 0 • view
You are right. Further, I am sure you understand that Rural America has been nearly impossible to reason with - at least in my history. Prejudice and ignorance run deep along side entrenched attitudes. I am fresh out of ideas - or sympathy for MAGA. I regret it will take you - the rest of us, too.
aug 2, 2025, 4:23 pm • 4 0 • view
Hostile takeover--->Breaking U.S. up for parts--->Liquidation sale-->Tightening oligarchical control. (Do it in the name of christofascism and the Red Hats will be on board.)
aug 2, 2025, 4:32 pm • 0 0 • view
There has been a recession or crash under every Republican Admin since Nixon. Billionaires & big corporations buy up small businesses & real estate for pennies on the dollar, then cash in when Democrats clean up the mess. Rinse and repeat.
aug 2, 2025, 3:12 pm • 223 47 • view
Companies also use recessions as an excuse to pay lower wages.
aug 2, 2025, 3:56 pm • 112 9 • view
And fire people.
aug 2, 2025, 4:06 pm • 77 1 • view
Yes, mass layoffs are a favorite corporate activity during recessions! They like to call it "downsizing," but it's actually an excuse to transfer that money to bonuses for the CEO.
aug 2, 2025, 4:14 pm • 90 13 • view
aug 2, 2025, 4:20 pm • 44 14 • view
True, media too. And they’ve made significant headway with hearts and minds as well.
aug 2, 2025, 4:57 pm • 6 0 • view
the pandemic, which famously, was also mishandled by trump. 1,225,528 confirmed deaths from covid in 2020. needless deaths.
aug 2, 2025, 6:08 pm • 2 0 • view
And don’t forget how they use federal bailout funds to buy back stock to get even richer! Our kids will have nothing left to eat BUT the rich….
aug 2, 2025, 6:16 pm • 2 1 • view
And when the last tax cut was proposed, they literally raised their hands and said, “We’re going to use that money to buy back stock, and then sell it again at much higher prices.” Which they did. No hiring, no infrastructure investments, like we were told. And it wasn’t a secret that those things
aug 2, 2025, 4:16 pm • 5 2 • view
Trickle down economics = Pissed upon. They haven't worked in forty fucking years, yet RepubliKKKans trot them out with each new administration of theirs like they're going to cure cancer.
aug 2, 2025, 5:41 pm • 3 1 • view
Weren’t going to happen, but we keep being told, “They create jobs.” They don’t.
aug 2, 2025, 4:17 pm • 3 1 • view
all of that. they do it maliciously bc they have no regard for people. they do not care if we are homeless or unemployed
aug 3, 2025, 11:07 am • 3 0 • view
Capitalism is killing us.
aug 2, 2025, 5:05 pm • 5 0 • view
We have no choice but to force them out of power.
aug 2, 2025, 5:01 pm • 3 0 • view
why don’t Missourians vote for something different?
aug 2, 2025, 6:10 pm • 0 0 • view
RPD - rapid planned disassembly
aug 2, 2025, 9:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Accurate description of the hell greedy,criminal Trump & his accomplices are bringing down on our country & families.When do we demand their removal & a return to sanity,decency,honesty,integrity & a life free of their insatiable greed, lies & corruption instead of their crime syndicate & treason?
aug 2, 2025, 4:57 pm • 2 0 • view
They mean for the sick to die. And they want the survivors to be hungry, desperate, and compliant.
aug 2, 2025, 8:22 pm • 11 0 • view
Project 2025
aug 2, 2025, 4:00 pm • 1 0 • view
That looks like every other property’s barn/shed/house around here in rural Illinois
aug 2, 2025, 3:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh yeah. This is a deliberate attack.
aug 2, 2025, 6:20 pm • 1 0 • view
But we had a good economy in early January 2025! Now families are looking at layoffs, are looking at unemployment, are looking at no money to feed their kids or put them in clothes for school. Many people are looking at not having a place to live cuz I can't afford the rent people can't buy cars
aug 2, 2025, 7:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Trump truly hates America and is close to destroying it.
aug 2, 2025, 10:20 pm • 1 0 • view
He's a wrecking-ball and a con-man, unfortunately great at both.
aug 2, 2025, 3:23 pm • 1 1 • view
yep
aug 2, 2025, 5:15 pm • 3 0 • view
Jess, thank you for enlightening those people around me in this state and others that refuse to see the truth of what is happening! Sometimes I feel like I'm living in an alternate universe because I feel like we are in a 4-alarm fire and people are just going about their lives like it's all good!
aug 2, 2025, 3:36 pm • 2 1 • view
Whew, Jess, thanks for this in plain words. Project 2025 is right there. I wish more had read and believed it.
aug 2, 2025, 4:11 pm • 19 4 • view
They are intentionally crashing the economy for the land auctions and asset seizures.
aug 2, 2025, 3:12 pm • 88 14 • view
Amongst other grifts…
aug 2, 2025, 5:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Check out AcreTrader.
aug 2, 2025, 3:18 pm • 24 3 • view
I already know. Thanks for the tip, though. Disgusting.
aug 2, 2025, 3:20 pm • 18 1 • view
JD Vance is involved in that thru VC
aug 2, 2025, 6:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Yep. And why are they selling US property to foreigners?
aug 2, 2025, 7:10 pm • 2 0 • view
The world is becoming too corrupt to change or save, I think.
aug 2, 2025, 8:09 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm worried about that too.
aug 2, 2025, 8:32 pm • 1 0 • view
The point is to crash it and buy up the spoils when no regular people can afford property at all… and then to create a vassal/ class system of technation cities. They wrote it all out in Grey mirror. They advertise it, the city of Praxis.
aug 2, 2025, 8:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Yep.
aug 2, 2025, 9:05 pm • 0 0 • view
They want us weak, broken and terrified while they take everything!
aug 2, 2025, 8:28 pm • 9 1 • view
That's a terrifying but also incredibly well written discussion.
aug 2, 2025, 3:34 pm • 2 0 • view
After Trump appoints Karoline Leavitt Commissioner of Statistics, they'll report high job creation, low unemployment, huge growth in GDP. If the Federal Reserve accepts the numbers, they'll keep interest rates high. Then Trump will throw another temper tantrum.
aug 3, 2025, 12:41 am • 1 0 • view
previous articles months ago , about how the trumpies want to bankrupt the cities , also , to lower housing prices so they can then buy them all up cheaply .. Also , remember the trump plan to build new cities on former public lands , protected forests and whatnot , ??
aug 3, 2025, 1:20 pm • 2 0 • view
Land grabs, pennies on the dollar.
aug 3, 2025, 1:50 pm • 0 0 • view
One-hundred fucking percent spot on. It’s a power grab plain and simple.
aug 2, 2025, 9:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you, just for doing your thing. Your voice is so valuable right now.
aug 2, 2025, 6:11 pm • 1 1 • view
☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️
aug 2, 2025, 8:45 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s a heist
aug 2, 2025, 5:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh yes I’ve been saying this since before the election. They’re intentionally crashing the economy to create shortages of goods to then fix prices, profit from stock market fluctuations and easily install crypto graft into a chaotic momentary system. So far they’re successful.
aug 2, 2025, 6:48 pm • 1 0 • view
You know it. They think they’ll be fine.
aug 3, 2025, 12:59 am • 0 0 • view
They are crashing the economy and every single social norm we've ever prided ourselves on having. They are destroying America and laughing all the way to the bank with their grift.
aug 2, 2025, 4:39 pm • 18 4 • view
🎯🎯💯
aug 2, 2025, 4:51 pm • 2 0 • view
Ohhhh I agree with you! They want it to crash so they can then make changes that they want!
aug 2, 2025, 6:21 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 2, 2025, 4:54 pm • 3 1 • view
2008 was practice. This time will be the real thing.
aug 2, 2025, 5:02 pm • 1 0 • view
We need to often be reminded of this fact. The right-wing leaders are in lock-step with an ultimate GOAL to crash everything, declare marital law, and install a new fascist government. The U.S. Constitution has been rejected. Yet oddly, MAGA bots call themselves "constitutionalists" to mislead.
aug 2, 2025, 5:39 pm • 1 0 • view
I've been saying this for years. The robber barons pay the bribes to the folks my fellow idiots elect, and in return they get to steal everything when we are dead/sick/destitute.
aug 2, 2025, 3:48 pm • 11 1 • view
They need us to buy their products. They are literally killing the goose that produces the golden eggs.
aug 2, 2025, 4:16 pm • 4 0 • view
They dont think long term and literally want all of us peons dead.
aug 2, 2025, 4:40 pm • 6 0 • view
This part. Anything next quarter might as well not exist to these idiots.
aug 15, 2025, 1:26 am • 2 0 • view
What better way of remaking this country in their image than making all the institutions they still hate fail financially
aug 3, 2025, 2:34 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s obvious that they want this
aug 2, 2025, 3:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Bad economies are intentional. Desperate young men are exploited for the military, while young girls are trafficked. Desperate workers stay submissive. It's good times, for the rich, and powerful. There's no incentive to have it any other way. So, nothing is going to get better!
aug 3, 2025, 12:18 am • 1 0 • view
So what can we do? We need to be proactive and not reactive. We're always a step behind. We have their playbook! We know what else is coming!!! Do we shut down the county before they eat us all? Someone needs to spearhead a "Rust the Gold" movement to counter the "Golden Age!"
aug 3, 2025, 12:51 am • 1 0 • view
^country
aug 3, 2025, 4:14 am • 0 0 • view
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
aug 2, 2025, 3:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Arkansas is the same! Look at the south. Thats the plan for this government for the entire country. Poor and desperate, scared and isolated. Get loud and make your voice heard next to your neighbor! Let’s hold hands and speak to power. It’s the only way.
aug 2, 2025, 4:15 pm • 1 0 • view
The continued republican support in rural communities is mind boggling!
aug 2, 2025, 3:30 pm • 2 1 • view
they can't believe trump would let them down. reality will bite eventually.
aug 2, 2025, 6:22 pm • 1 0 • view
It's evident they want to crash the economy, it's what dictatorships do, it's how they remain in power. They end all consumer safety nets + funding, so citizens have nowhere to go for relief. It's already happened in America. The ppl better wake the hell up & take back our power.
aug 2, 2025, 6:01 pm • 6 3 • view
Agree. Every bit of this is planned and deliberate… we will all suffer greatly except for the wealthiest. Some of us know and understand this and the others are being played. The horror of it is the total lack of social conscience and the cruelty this requires to pull it off. It’s unnerving
aug 2, 2025, 9:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Interesting post and seems to line up to another theory that Missouri is the kernel of many of the bills and proposed legislation attacking trans youth — seeing a copy/paste to other states.
aug 2, 2025, 5:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Yep, they want people to loose their farms, land, business and houses. How else can those poor unfortunate millionaires make more money? The economy was too strong.
aug 2, 2025, 5:00 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm surprised how many people aren't talking more about our whole health system being crashed by Kennedy to get the maximum number of dead.
aug 2, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 1 • view
They do mean to. Disaster Capitalism.
aug 2, 2025, 4:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh absolutely they’re basically burning everything down so they can start again and the ones with the money are going to sit so high up they won’t have to worry.
aug 2, 2025, 6:34 pm • 2 0 • view
I’m glad people are waking up. Of course you’re going to crash this democracy of course Donald Trump has already sold this democracy. He is a foreign agent you know. They want a pandemic they want us uneducated and sick and at their mercy. Rich people get richer during government financial crisis.
aug 2, 2025, 6:38 pm • 2 2 • view
aug 2, 2025, 5:16 pm • 0 0 • view
They did.
aug 2, 2025, 4:59 pm • 0 0 • view
I completely agree with you
aug 2, 2025, 10:18 pm • 0 0 • view
#TrumpTariffTax #Trumpcession
aug 2, 2025, 4:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes they do
aug 2, 2025, 6:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Crash the economy so the wealthy can buy everything from the middle class and poor at 20cents on the dollar. Follow the money.
aug 7, 2025, 6:40 am • 0 0 • view
They’re trying to crash the USD because they’re super heavily invested in cryptocurrencies.
aug 2, 2025, 3:14 pm • 23 4 • view
…when the general public needs actual bûllets flying on 5th Ave.
aug 2, 2025, 4:54 pm • 3 0 • view
I agree. Trump cleaned up in NY when it crashed
aug 3, 2025, 12:56 am • 2 0 • view
They are short selling the US so that they can buy it back for less.
aug 2, 2025, 3:42 pm • 35 5 • view
Exactamundo
aug 2, 2025, 7:31 pm • 3 0 • view
I don't even think they're going to buy it back. I think they're going to short sell the US, and then do the same thing in other democratic countries (through shell corporations, ofc), rinse, repeat until they've crashed the entire global economy.
aug 3, 2025, 2:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Yup
aug 2, 2025, 3:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Of course they want to crash the economy, how would you get people to agree to a fascist takeover in prosperous times?
aug 3, 2025, 12:45 am • 2 0 • view
👍
aug 2, 2025, 4:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Same as Texas! You are right on about this.
aug 2, 2025, 8:53 pm • 0 0 • view
oh yeah, they’re crashing the economy because he’s making 1 millions a day off of his dirty BS grifts. He’s coming for our 401(k)’s. I’ve worked all my life 25 years at the same company. I have a retirement that I deserve and he’s trying to take it.
aug 2, 2025, 5:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Once you realize we’re locked in what they think will be the last battle of the Civil War, it makes sense that they mean to wreck everything. Why do you think that ghoul said, “the coup will be bloodless if the left allows it to be?” If people aren’t wide awake by now, we should just pack it in.
aug 2, 2025, 6:14 pm • 8 1 • view
They mean to crash the economy.
aug 2, 2025, 8:27 pm • 2 0 • view
100% intentional, the wealthy will be fine, it's the rest of us that will struggle. Fuck Putin's party, aka, the Grand Pedo party.
aug 2, 2025, 5:30 pm • 0 0 • view
And he’s been doing it on steps tp be sure his oligarchs leverage each step to redistribute the wealth. Small investors get lost and lose it all.
aug 3, 2025, 4:51 am • 2 0 • view
🎯
aug 3, 2025, 1:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Small businesses cannot survive a tariff war. The only businesses that can are mega-businesses. So yes, I agree it is by design. Everything on this planet will be owned by a few hundred people.
aug 2, 2025, 4:50 pm • 1 0 • view
It also helps explain (aside from the obvious racism) why they're targeting farm workers for deportation. Kill the family farm.
aug 2, 2025, 4:59 pm • 0 0 • view
And then save them by providing inmates to work for a “nominal” fee? Just guessing.
aug 2, 2025, 6:25 pm • 0 0 • view
I suppose that's possible. What I envisioned was the mammoth farm companies like Monsanto owning all the farmland, and using slaves to work it. The slaves would come at first from migrants and homeless, then all the poor people who used to be farmers, etc.
aug 2, 2025, 6:29 pm • 0 0 • view
This article is so good. So clear. So important.
aug 2, 2025, 3:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Recessions are just a fire sale for the rich. They buy up assets lost to others at a reduced price and a year or so later they're wealthier than ever. People also need reminding that for the upper class, democracy is an impediment to their wealth and power. Why would they support it?
aug 2, 2025, 7:08 pm • 1 1 • view
Spot on! Nailed it! Destroy America for the fire sale.
aug 2, 2025, 4:41 pm • 1 0 • view
You are spot on. It's "Disaster Capitalism".
aug 2, 2025, 8:51 pm • 1 0 • view
They want to destroy American government, privatize everything and profit off our misery. Bankrupt farmers then buy their land. It’s evil.
aug 2, 2025, 3:21 pm • 2 1 • view
Exactly this. They want to crash the economy and make everyone poor so we have no choice but to work for the billionaires on their terms and do whatever they say.
aug 2, 2025, 3:14 pm • 34 6 • view
I'll do a revolution first.
aug 3, 2025, 11:08 am • 2 0 • view
I live in Ridge, Maryland it is exactly the situation. Poor whites approve because, in their minds maintains their status. They will do anything to prevent Black achievement. They see nothing wrong with large corporations making them sharecroppers.
aug 2, 2025, 3:35 pm • 3 1 • view
They purposely have strict building rules to discourage development and large personal home construction. 1 gas station, not a single grocery store. Internet wasn’t available until Covid shutdown because there was one student in our neighborhood. It took nearly 30 yrs for Verizon internet.
aug 2, 2025, 4:22 pm • 0 1 • view
Creating fiefdoms.
aug 2, 2025, 3:21 pm • 3 0 • view
It also almost like they are dismantling the military. www.military.com/daily-news/2...
aug 2, 2025, 5:38 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 4, 2025, 7:40 am • 0 0 • view
It’s the same thing exactly in Louisiana. When the state purposefully miseducate children, they can’t advocate for themselves and don’t vote. When you decimate schools, educated people and aspirational working class people leave for greener places…you can do anything to those left behind.
aug 3, 2025, 3:08 am • 4 0 • view
Dark Enlightenment.
aug 2, 2025, 3:06 pm • 4 1 • view
Searching for the goals and intent of idiots seems like folly to me, but I will agree it is undeniable they are crashing the economy.
aug 2, 2025, 8:26 pm • 1 0 • view
They are billionaires won’t affect them! They need us poor, wink and struggling
aug 2, 2025, 5:50 pm • 0 0 • view
When Trump and Vogt et al. R's crash the economy, they control who gets what. All about power. They said they would do this. The rich are insulated, they don't give a shit. They'll make more.
aug 4, 2025, 11:56 pm • 1 0 • view
They're going to crash it so billionaires can buy it up - farm, access to food & water, housing, education, healthcare, all of it. Fascist Oligarchy.
aug 2, 2025, 8:31 pm • 19 6 • view
As much as I despise Trump and believe he is soulless, janes donald bowman is a whole other level of scary.
aug 2, 2025, 9:01 pm • 7 0 • view
*James Autocorrect (or chubby fingers) is killing me
aug 2, 2025, 10:39 pm • 2 0 • view
I don’t think Trump e understands that.
aug 2, 2025, 10:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Nice read, Jess. Ty
aug 2, 2025, 6:30 pm • 2 0 • view
I am really struggling with the fact that Business Leaders are not running around screaming about some of these economy destroying policies.
aug 2, 2025, 4:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Truly an important and elucidating read!
aug 3, 2025, 12:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Highlighting… “You don’t need to be an economist to look around and see that the Trump administration is going to cause economic disaster — a recession or a depression. And it is by design. It is a feature, not a bug.”
aug 2, 2025, 4:03 pm • 3 0 • view
“I live under a GOP Supermajority…. They have economically damaged my state and it wasn’t by accident. They did it to sell off the state and workers and land to the wealthy. They created a desperate situation in Missouri and that desperation equates to bounty for the oligarchs.”
aug 2, 2025, 4:05 pm • 7 0 • view
“They have installed the wealthiest man in the world to dismantle the country for himself and his fellow oligarchs. They plan to burn the country down to pay rock-bottom prices for the ashes.” Republicans are not looking to govern, but to destroy and conquer… Why else would they get rid of FEMA?
aug 2, 2025, 4:07 pm • 4 3 • view
Jess Piper… THANK YOU for sharing your STORY! I don’t know how we STOP THIS TRAJECTORY, but it is important to make people aware! I have suggested “Red States, Blue States” for Republicans / Democrats or divide 25/25! I don’t know if we can continue to co-exist… think North vs South Korea!
aug 2, 2025, 4:15 pm • 2 0 • view
I don’t think this happens without a civil war. All the GDP is in the blue states because the GOP has destroyed the economy of the red states. They aren’t letting go of their cash cows without a fight.
aug 3, 2025, 4:01 pm • 1 1 • view
Everything this regime has pursued is designed to destroy a Democratic America. Fascism is like that
aug 2, 2025, 5:06 pm • 2 0 • view
This is going to be the 21st century version of slavery. cbwrong.blogspot.com?m=1
aug 2, 2025, 3:29 pm • 0 0 • view
The people with the most power and money have the most gain by inflicted chaos
aug 2, 2025, 3:20 pm • 6 0 • view
Illustrated excellently by Mr. Potter buying up half the town on Black Friday in it's a wonderful life
aug 2, 2025, 3:21 pm • 6 2 • view
aug 2, 2025, 6:09 pm • 0 0 • view
“thanks tom we are here outside ‘leopards eating peoples’ faces’ party hq & we are being told that party representatives are unavailable for comment because leopards have eaten their faces a sign on the door reads ‘we did not think that the leopards would eat OUR faces please respect our privacy’”
aug 2, 2025, 3:10 pm • 51 10 • view
I am sitting in cushy 1% land in NYS - and no one - I mean no one - here is paying attention. I have been saying this to anyone who will listen for over a year now. They do not care. They do not think it will affect them.
aug 2, 2025, 4:38 pm • 2 0 • view
I am in a very upper middle class area in Idaho. It's the same. Business as usual. Talking about the wonderful stock market and their next European vacation. Living in denial and delusion. I don't even try anymore.
aug 2, 2025, 5:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes it is an intentional and long planned way to decimate all but the rich, the billionaires and the oligarchs. The corporations that now sway and control our government have worked diligently for decades to break unions, instill doubt in fellows, women, and cheated labor of living wage standards.
aug 2, 2025, 4:10 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 2, 2025, 6:04 pm • 0 0 • view
I can't get over how many people they want to kill...from their own base of support.
aug 2, 2025, 5:54 pm • 1 0 • view
How else is Trump going to get his interest rates down on all of his loans/properties?!
aug 2, 2025, 9:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Why are ppl surprised to find out he is NOT "the great businessman" he said he is? He's screwed ppl over since the 80s but they caught on to him a lot faster back then- "Breaks agreements" "Harassment" "He wants the world...a Trump mecca for Super Rich. No room for anyone else." Sound familiar?
aug 3, 2025, 5:12 am • 1 1 • view
It is very clear, and I want to say that these tariffs will destroy every person working in every country. We ship out our jobs for profit for slave labor to third world nations. This tariff is going to devastate every human on this PLANET! "Robber Barron' the The Second
aug 2, 2025, 3:55 pm • 6 0 • view
Trump and his cronies are basically drunk driving the economy off a cliff. They are ignoring all the warning signs while swerving left and right. If the congress doesn’t put a stop to this madness I just hope people are prepared.
aug 2, 2025, 7:39 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s not a matter of whether they are crashing the economy. They are crashing the economy. Trump doesn’t understand how it works. The economy is basically a mashup up of several gambling games. Always has been. It’s not just that he’s betting wild. He’s intentionally putting money on a losing hand.
aug 2, 2025, 7:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Of course, they are crashing the economy. Everything that doesn't survive the crash will be sold for cents on a dollar. Watch how they will distribute seed and food production. Bayer, Nestlé, PepsiCo, DuPont, General Mills, Danone, and the rest of the multinationals are licking their chops.
aug 2, 2025, 7:56 pm • 1 0 • view
This helps in understanding my #1 question, WHY? Why would any American intentionally want to destroy America. I see what’s happening in my red state, Texas. I can’t wrap my head around WHY they keep voting for the policies and people who are degrading and devaluing them.
aug 2, 2025, 3:39 pm • 2 1 • view
"I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. "
aug 2, 2025, 4:30 pm • 0 1 • view
Why? Disinformation is a helluva drug. They don't believe they're doing it or they don't believe anything other than tribal loyalty matters. Some dumb thing in any case. It starts with believing truth comes from authority, not evidence, e.g. the Bible.
aug 2, 2025, 5:48 pm • 1 0 • view
I read that many Texans just don’t vote bc the Republicans are in the overwhelming majority. So they have just given up.
aug 2, 2025, 8:24 pm • 0 0 • view
If the people around you are saying, "They are going to crash the economy." And you replace "They" with "Putin and Trump". It makes complete sense of it.
aug 2, 2025, 6:25 pm • 1 1 • view