And the rest of the week considering the larger tariffs only go into effect on Wednesday. We still haven't seen our first market halt happen yet so there's still room to fall
Consider that this might all be intended. Sounds crazy but when people start rioting because of a recession/depression, he’ll have ‘reason’ for martial law and a convenient third term+.
Well until recently people voted for people that although were flawed in many ways, they had some level of accountability. Trump has no accountability at all. Thats just the difference.
We get white people on IncogNegro Mode tryna get marches started all the time lately on black people Twitter... But even if done peacefully you'd have people in the crowd starting to act wild and riot and of course who will get the blame? Mhmmm....
And then of course martial law kicks in, they aren't even subtle about it. They see people saying "I'm staying at home April 5th" and they go, "NO GET OUTRAGED GET ANGRY GET OUT THERE WAHHHH!" fuck off with that bullshit! Focus on your communities and yourselves y'all no matter what's going on because there's smart ways to go about this, and then there's dumbass ways too.
Do you get the sense that they are all/mostly “sincere” attempts to get black communities out to protest, or can you tell if there are bad-faith agitators trying to light a fuse?
No there are a lot of actual people that may be sincere but there's a ton of them that literally come in and try and cause discourse and call names and rage bait*
No. He and his billionaire buddies are most likely pumping and dumping stock, but I think the real goal is to destroy the federal government and steal of its public assets including federal lands and buildings then drain the USA dry of every natural resource including clear cutting national parks buying up everything from everyone who goes under and loses their house and/or businesses and then turn the individual states into smaller zones that can be exploited easier.
More likely being a reliable market timer. You can make a lot more money when you know the market will go up or down. A swing of 5% doesn't sound like a lot on paper, but if you're making big leveraged trades, it's fuckin' huge.
Let's say you paid to be in Trump's inner circle in the inauguration or via his bullshit coin. Trump, or whoever is orchestrating this, tells you "Hey, we're going to announce absolutely massive tariffs just after market close tomorrow, buy a shitload of leveraged index puts." (or something equally generic).
Then they short sell at current price, market plummets the next day, they buy back and return their index shares the next day at a massive personal profit.
Then, they buy at the low, the administration goes "JK, OUR BAD" and the markets recover some. They sell at the high which is ideally the same as the day they buy the puts. Gaming the system essentially.
Remember, these are billionaires, they have a lot of capital to throw around. They're all playing with insider information... They're stealing as much as they can.
Am I positive this is happening? No, but I do have experience in finance and that's what a shitload of investment bros would do.
I am beginning to believe that was the plan all along. The only way to bring manufacturing jobs back to America is to create an environment here similar to what caused then to jump ship in the first place.
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