Didn't see this coming

[u/GenericAptName]

[u/PM_ME_WITH_A_SMILE]

Crazy how trade wars affect trade

[u/justbs → u/PM_ME_WITH_A_SMILE]

Who would’ve guess. Nobody saw it coming

[u/mynameisjoenotjeff → u/justbs]

I'm greatly missing those gains..

[u/buythedipnow → u/justbs]

I know that I for one did Nazi it coming

[u/ShortsAndLadders → u/buythedipnow]

Stonk goes up. Stonk goes down. You can’t explain that.

[u/Altruistic-Cat-7531 → u/ShortsAndLadders]

In this situation the answer is usually magnets.

[u/StrobeLightRomance → u/Altruistic-Cat-7531]

Two wise men once spoke:

Water, fire, air and dirt
Fucking magnets, how do they work?
And I don't wanna talk to a scientist
Y'all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed

It is now obvious that they were referring to anomalies in the trading game.

[u/bleeding_heart687 → u/StrobeLightRomance]

This is the most understood line in American literature, they were referring to "fucking magnets" a distinct branch of physics which is largely unknown.

[u/tatojah → u/bleeding_heart687]

Physicist here.

This is the electromagnetism subfield called eromagnetism. Most who dedicate their life to it become pariahs in the scientific community.

And deservedly so. Magnets have rights and aren't there to indulge your depravity.

[u/smytti12 → u/ShortsAndLadders]

It's an old meme, but it checks out

[u/johnnyribcage → u/ShortsAndLadders]

Excellent O’Reilly call back. A bunch of Gen Z white male 2024 trump voters were 5 years old when that clown made that observation.

[u/highlander145 → u/justbs]

1 guy did saw it coming and he is Warren Buffett.

[u/Chaosrealm69 → u/PM_ME_WITH_A_SMILE]

It's amazing how a boring, steady, unchaotic president who doesn't throw around tariffs like they are candy had a steady stock market.

[u/Altruistic-Look101 → u/Chaosrealm69]

Biden has plenty of experience, wisdom and was VP during 2008 crash. He was strategic in his plans. Unfortunately , he didn't speak a lot about himself.

[u/Toolfan333 → u/Altruistic-Look101]

He wasn’t VP during the 2008 crash, that was Dick Cheney

[u/Str82daDOME25 → u/Altruistic-Look101]

Not VP during the crash but rather the recovery

[u/SuspendedAwareness15 → u/Chaosrealm69]

Businesses love predictability. It's great for making things.

[u/SpiderDeUZ → u/Chaosrealm69]

You mean pretty much every president before?

[u/RabbaJabba → u/SpiderDeUZ]

Yeah basically

[u/reality72 → u/PM_ME_WITH_A_SMILE]

And crazy to think that businesses care about a fair and impartial judiciary instead of a corrupt government that hands out punishments and pardons arbitrarily based on what kind of mood the president is in

[u/ASaneDude → u/reality72]

That whole rule of law thing seems important, amirite?

[u/reality72 → u/ASaneDude]

It’s almost as if there’s a reason why capitalism thrives under democracies

[u/JackryanUS → u/reality72]

Oh thats just woke talk now. Markets love an unpredictable regime...

[u/ASaneDude → u/JackryanUS]

Surprise, you’ve been tarriff’d!

[u/speedy_delivery → u/reality72]

It's almost like capitalism is a liberal ideology.

[u/jrex035 → u/reality72]

a corrupt government that hands out punishments and pardons arbitrarily based on what kind of mood how much you directly bribe the president

[u/Icy_Ground1637 → u/jrex035]

Put sleepy 😴 Joe back in the oval BEDROOM !!!

[u/excubitor15379 → u/Icy_Ground1637]

It's funny how only this putting sleepy grandpa in the bedroom and kicking out mango action would make markets recover and climb for new ath. Just do nothing to win.

[u/Dry-Interaction-1246 → u/PM_ME_WITH_A_SMILE]

FAFO America. Just wait what US markets, dollar and Treasuries do after Orange Fucknugget makes his move on Greenland.

[u/Xijit → u/Dry-Interaction-1246]

Greenland is going to be bad economically, but that would be another war with a nation on the other side of the puddle.

Mexico on the other hand is not, and ICE is gonna start catching more IEDs than they do Brown people if Mango Mussolini tries to rename the Nation of Mexico, to match what he did with the Gulf of Mexico.

[u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In → u/Xijit]

Technically NATO should declare war on the USA if it Annexes Greenland, its not just for defence against external enemies. Reality is that NATO will implode and the EU will impose sanctions on the USA.

[u/DrSendy → u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In]

It will. And technically the USA will need to attack itself.
Which it's doing already by punching itself in the face.

So strategically dumb. If Russia invaded Greenland now, you'd get the US and NATO.
If the US takes over greenland, they are on their own, and who knows, Europe might not stand in the way of Russia doing it.

The Heritage Foundation are some of the most "think they are great but are actually shit" people on the planet. Deluded old boomers.

[u/jiqiren → u/PM_ME_WITH_A_SMILE]

Everyone forgot how great it is to have a Sleepy Joe president not ruining government with ideas from clowns.

[u/Extra_Espresso → u/PM_ME_WITH_A_SMILE]

Crazy how Kamala Harris wasn't the candidate that ruined the economy.

[u/25thNite → u/Extra_Espresso]

It's crazy that people believe trumpers when they say they could never vote for Biden or Harris because they ruined the economy.  Any moron could see they took the disaster that was trumps spending and see how Biden rebounded our economy better than other countries, but even with those gains on the market and inflation going down, every day people didn't see those effects too much so they assumed the economy must be really bad.  It was definitely not the billionaire corporations price gouging people because they realized that they could raise prices and people would still need to buy them to live.   Whenever someone says they voted because of the economy then I just assume they are hiding the real reason, racism and misogyny.

[u/jawndell → u/25thNite]

I think the fact that they were able to curb inflation without driving unemployment up will be studied decades from now.

[u/ceddya → u/25thNite]

racism and misogyny.

This election? Xenophobia and transphobia were relevant and, IMO, bigger reasons.

Go look at how much Trump and Republicans spent pushing anti-immigrant and anti-trans ads.

[u/Das_KommenTier → u/PM_ME_WITH_A_SMILE]

No no no, you have got it all wrong. The downslope is just a necessary sacrifice in the beginning. And after some time the US economy and stock markets will be greater than ever. Incredibly great. They say nobody can imagine how incredibly great it will be. /s

[u/Thread-Astaire → u/PM_ME_WITH_A_SMILE]

What I don’t think the orange baby considered is Canada moving trade elsewhere.

[u/JackryanUS → u/PM_ME_WITH_A_SMILE]

But little tariff man told me it's just the globalists tanking the markets because they're mad at him.

[u/Patient_Soft6238 → u/PM_ME_WITH_A_SMILE]

Crazy is, he could have been intelligent about it and put tariffs on say China first and then did trade negotiation’s in backrooms with other nations first to announce further tariffs as trade deals and S&P probably wouldn’t have taken a major hit.

But considering his first term, all his donors got tariff exemptions, I’m willing to bet this is more about extortion and damages his domestic enemies than anything else. It’s a power trip.

[u/Glacius_- → u/PM_ME_WITH_A_SMILE]

uga uga Trump maga , said +50% of US voters

[u/Mach5Driver → u/PM_ME_WITH_A_SMILE]

Crazy how Dems produce fantastic economies--and how the GOP fuck them up.

[u/the_sauviette_onion]

Don’t worry about eggs bro, just buy a Tessler.

[u/cap1891_2809 → u/the_sauviette_onion]

Everything's computer

[u/solidsnakeskin3000 → u/cap1891_2809]

With different panels than before

[u/SinisterCheese → u/solidsnakeskin3000]

Which might or might not be glued on with propetiary high tech super glue which is strongest in the world Elmer's.

[u/ricardoconqueso → u/cap1891_2809]

I shit you not, if Biden said “I love Teslur! Everything’s computer!”, media would demand he get committed to a nursing home. Just another day for Trump

[u/TheFBIClonesPeople → u/ricardoconqueso]

We saw that happen in real time when Rogan was roasting Biden for thinking there were airports during the revolutionary war. Then he found out Trump was the one who said that and he was like "Oh so he misspoke, okay."

[u/soccerguys14 → u/TheFBIClonesPeople]

Yea that was crazy. People will fanboy Trump no matter what he says or does

[u/mackfactor → u/ricardoconqueso]

And that's because Republicans know how to stay on message and run it into the ground. Exactly what Dems need to do now with the Houthi bombing leak, but almost certainly will not when they get distracted by some other shiny object.

[u/Global-Chart-3925 → u/cap1891_2809]

Everything’s computer.

Everything is cool when you’re part of a team.

Everything’s computer.

When we’re living our dream

[u/Nahmum → u/cap1891_2809]

They're eating the dogs!

[u/ZaphodsOtherHead]

You guys think this trade war shit is bad (it is), wait until the long-term consequences of destroying America's research institutions starts being felt.

[u/ImaginationNo1928 → u/ZaphodsOtherHead]

100%. And the social support systems for the vulnerable that are vanishing.

[u/ZaphodsOtherHead → u/ImaginationNo1928]

Yeah, letting people slip through the cracks is a huge drain on productivity. You can claw that back eventually though if you change your mind later (just start funding those systems again). The damage to America's research institutions might very well be irreversible though. There's a network effect with premier research institutions and you can't overcome it even with huge investment. Look at Germany in the 1930s. They had the best research institutions in the world. Then the Nazis destroyed them and Germany has never recovered that excellence. We're seeing *historical, irreversible* damage to the long-term American economy right now. The American economy is built on R&D, and once that edge is gone, it's gone forever.

[u/ImaginationNo1928 → u/ZaphodsOtherHead]

True. I hope midterm elections add some friction to the downfall and in 2028 we cut the losses and start healing asap and allies acknowledge that the majority of the US was betrayed and welcome us back. That’s a lot of wishful thinking at this point. Also agree the research edge is disappearing fast.

[u/alexgduarte → u/ImaginationNo1928]

Majority of your allies did that after 2020. We were willing to let whatever happened in 2016 be just a blip. However, you voted for him again, in an even more convincing way, given he won the popular vote as well. So no, we won’t accept you back as if nothing happened. EU approved a $800B defence investment plan with 0 going to the US. I’m sure Lockheed Martin will be happy with that. F-35 will be sold less and less and I imagine we won’t even touch the F-47. Gg 🙃

PS: We not touching F-47 means it will be a super expensive plane and is actually one of the reasons why the best fighter jet ever made — the F-22 — became reduced to about 200 units — no economy of scale, ergo, too expensive.

[u/ImaginationNo1928 → u/alexgduarte]

I hear you. And I would probably do the same if I was a European. But one thing I’m sure of is that even Trump voters did not vote for him betraying his allies and enforcing tariffs like this. I haven’t seen stats on Trump buyers remorse but anecdotally and as a wild ass guess I think at least half of his voters have or soon will regret their vote. This level of madness was not what we as a country voted for or support, and I believe something sinister that we don’t know exactly what it is at play here. So although it was stupid to vote a felon into the office, I don’t think people voted for this Trump 2.0 at least when it comes to foreign policy and economy.

[u/Fractal_loop → u/ImaginationNo1928]

Trump voters wanted this and got it.

[u/ImaginationNo1928 → u/Fractal_loop]

Not all of them for sure. I personally know a few who have freaked out over his Canada/Greenland stance and tariffs. And online you can see people starting to question what’s going on. And yes there are Trump voters out there that will cheer him on all the way head on to the Darwinian wall.

[u/DaSemicolon → u/ImaginationNo1928]

Maybe they should have trusted the media and other people’s judgements instead of whatever/whoever they did trust

[u/Internal_Prompt_ → u/alexgduarte]

It’s hard to come back from electing a nazi twice

[u/grungegoth → u/ZaphodsOtherHead]

And education replaced by indoctrination

[u/DreadingAnt → u/grungegoth]

This...has been going on around 3 decades now. Creationism being taught first? I mean, what is this 1643?

[u/jpk195]

Let’s go back to sleepy. Sleepy was nice.

[u/Mustakraken → u/jpk195]

I heard they called him sleepy cause you could sleep through the night without worrying about what he was up to.

[u/Hot-Camel7716 → u/Mustakraken]

At least if he was ripping huge lines of K and taking three hour dumps he wasn't being allowed to tweet while doing it.

[u/minor_correction → u/Hot-Camel7716]

It sounds insane by today's standards, but I suspect Biden wasn't even doing those things at all!

[u/NickRick → u/minor_correction]

he really was just out there raw doggin the presidency wasn't he?

[u/MovieTrawler → u/NickRick]

That's right buster, nothing but an occasional ice cream cone. And some daily Metamucil.

[u/Patient_Soft6238 → u/Mustakraken]

I missed that when I would forget to check the news for a couple days that all I’d essentially miss was republicans scrolling through Hunter Biden’s dick picks in Congress.

Instead now if I don’t check hourly, I’ve missed 3 new trade wars, a new dismantled federal agency, some political opponent being extorted, Elon gained even more access to my private data, and for some reason Russia getting more sanction and tariff relief for literally doing nothing.

[u/FindTheTruth08 → u/Patient_Soft6238]

Russia is getting sanctions relief because they are willing to come to the table and demand land that they don't own. They are even willing to care for all of the children they have kidnapped and sold. What has Ukraine done. They refuse to surrender, refuse to give up their territory, and demand their children back. And have they ever said thank you to Russia?

[u/ParkerRoyce → u/Patient_Soft6238]

You know the GOP wanted to arrest Hunter for having too big of a hog.

[u/Pancakemanz → u/Mustakraken]

😂

[u/astroplink → u/Mustakraken]

“You couldn’t live with Cheeto’s stable genius. Where did that bring you? Right back to me”

[u/VELOCIRAPTOR_ANUS → u/Mustakraken]

I feel like too many people forgot it was exactly like this the first time around too.

Govt by wild tweet and meme. Electric 2, Boogaloo

[u/cats_are_the_devil → u/Mustakraken]

That's too close to home bruh.

[u/Constant-Horse-3389 → u/jpk195]

Sleepy Joe ensured everyone had a peaceful and good night sleep.

[u/Albin4president2028 → u/Constant-Horse-3389]

That sounds pretty good right now.

[u/DarkwingDuckHunt → u/Albin4president2028]

you know what I didn't do every morning after waking up?

I didn't check what crazy economical earth collapsing shit the POTUS did while I was asleep.

[u/DataCassette → u/DarkwingDuckHunt]

"Did Trump blow up the sun? Establish a theocracy? Nuke Madagascar? Stay tuned!"

[u/royal8130 → u/Constant-Horse-3389]

Why do I miss Biden now 😂😂😂

[u/thebigscorp1 → u/royal8130]

Because he is objectively fucking cool

[u/TreadMeHarderDaddy → u/royal8130]

Because he wasn't a bad president.

[u/ricardoconqueso → u/jpk195]

Bro wasn’t even “sleepy”, just quietly working. Imagine a president who doesn’t need to be seen or heard from all the damn time.

[u/Ambereggyolks → u/ricardoconqueso]

He didn't have to boast about the most minor shit. A good government is one that just functions, not one that is constantly grabbing your attention.

That's not to say we shouldn't pay attention but there shouldn't be some bombshell announcement daily.

[u/Fluffy-Benefits-2023 → u/ricardoconqueso]

I know the worst part about the first 4 years of trump was having to hear about every ridiculous thing he said and I really enjoyed the peace my nervous system experienced the last 4 years

[u/2biggij → u/ricardoconqueso]

Part of the problem is that he was TOO quiet. We legit got some of the most important and most progressive legislation of the 21st century passed under Biden. And 99% of people don't even know what bills got passed. I'm not blaming him for Trump winning, but they absolutely failed to capitalize on what should have been a slam dunk election.

[u/a-cloud-castle → u/jpk195]

I know people think Biden was old and boring, but here's the thing: He quietly got some stuff done, didn't make a big stink about it, didn't make it all about himself. It was just basic competence.

Unfortunately, we live in a stupid world that values hype and bullshit over boring normies just doing their job.

[u/Dornith → u/a-cloud-castle]

Also, we have a culture social media activism that means you have a lot of people who would criticize Biden for being quiet about an issue but then give him no credit when he comes through.

Prime example: the railroad strike. He got a lot of flack for breaking the strike, but then he kept negotiating on their behalf and ended up getting basically everything they asked for. The news cycle had already moved on, and her didn't make any big announcement. This just happened quietly in the background and no one noticed

[u/turb0_encapsulator → u/jpk195]

it's like this country had fucking Stockholm syndrome. I can't believe people willingly voted for this hellscape.

[u/Snakestream → u/jpk195]

The perfect president is one who just quietly takes care of the country. I don't want to have to wake up every day wondering what the hell we've started up today.

[u/Fun_Reporter9086]

Those people who couldn't "afford" eggs are going to be for real won't be able to afford eggs real soon.

[u/Hayha2 → u/Fun_Reporter9086]

Wait until middle class rednecks walk into Ford/GM dealership and try to buy a new pickup.

[u/Sour_Patch_Drips → u/Hayha2]

$100k F-150 financed at today's rate at 60 months is $2k monthly.

These turds will do it and roll their previous shit pile loan into it and extend the loan term to 8 years. Then they'll pretend eggs aren't too expensive because they no longer buy them due to no expendable income

[u/Euphemisticles → u/Sour_Patch_Drips]

"you just dont understand trucks! this thing could last me 20 years"

[u/sourbeer51 → u/Euphemisticles]

Hits deer next day and didn't get gap insurance

LET'S GO BRANDON

[u/Maximum-Cupcake-7193 → u/sourbeer51]

Whats gap insurance?

[u/WilyWascallyWizard → u/Maximum-Cupcake-7193]

If covers any loan left due if your car gets totalled. I don't buy cars with loans better to just buy something cheaper outright imo.

[u/Maximum-Cupcake-7193 → u/WilyWascallyWizard]

I enjoy learning about these systems to buy things you cannot afford. I assume this is because the remaining principle on the loan is greater than the purchase price minus depreciation?

[u/willywonka1971 → u/Maximum-Cupcake-7193]

There can be a gap between the amount of the loan and what the insurance will pay out for a totaled car. This type of insurance covers that gap, hence the name.

There are a number of factors why the loan might be higher than the payout. In general, if you need gap insurance you are likely overextended.

[u/TheJizzan → u/willywonka1971]

So like insurance for your insurance? That sounds terribly American to me

[u/WilyWascallyWizard → u/Maximum-Cupcake-7193]

I believe so not sure though never done it.

[u/GilgameDistance → u/Maximum-Cupcake-7193]

Its for when you make a dumb decision like financing a car for 10 years plus 5 years worth of upside down from the last one and then total it. Extra insurance to pay the difference between what the car is worth and what you owe on it.

[u/EntrepreneurFunny469 → u/Euphemisticles]

It’s a ford, the thing starts falling apart at 100k

[u/J3wFro8332 → u/EntrepreneurFunny469]

That's being generous

[u/TheKingOfSwing777 → u/J3wFro8332]

Honestly. I had a friend with a focus that dropped the transmission at 20k miles. American ICE cars are junk.

[u/Euphemisticles → u/EntrepreneurFunny469]

That’s part of the joke. Now if you excuse me I have to go lift the chassis off the frame of my F-150 to change my oil.

[u/Obi7kenobi → u/Sour_Patch_Drips]

Sadly...thisnis my mother in law. She was actually bragging last weekend about getting her next truck. This will be her 4th truck purchase in ten years!

[u/CompetitiveGood2601 → u/Sour_Patch_Drips]

the reason dems get great economic returns is because the GOP consistently fuck things up so badly - what's hysterical is that the wealthy right are so greedy they kill themselves election after election just so they don't have to pay for healthcare!

[u/No-Contribution1070 → u/Hayha2]

They will still get truck. The dealerships are going to approve anyone and everyone and lock people in for 40 years on a car. Everything is being de-regulated. It is going to be a shit show. And then the next administration will be left holding a bag of shit. Wait until all those rednecks default on these loans. It's going to be a disaster.

[u/WV_Sasquatch → u/No-Contribution1070]

Bold of you to think there will be a next administration

[u/Fun_Reporter9086 → u/Hayha2]

🤣 Fuck around and find out.

[u/kablah1234 → u/Fun_Reporter9086]

My favorite was the one who couldn't afford eggs but could afford $5000 to travel to Trumps inauguration only for him to hold it indoors

[u/Fun_Reporter9086 → u/kablah1234]

Lmao, he got played. And the elites were the ones closest to Trump. Not your average redneck Joe.

[u/HikariAnti → u/Fun_Reporter9086]

It will still be Biden's fault somehow.

[u/Icy-Form6 → u/HikariAnti]

Easier to blame him than actually admit you were wrong about something. I have to work with 2 of these clowns who have never been wrong about anything their entire life's

[u/TheThing_1982 → u/Fun_Reporter9086]

Let me tell you, it was never actually about the price of milk and eggs. They just wanted a reason to vote trump.

[u/The_Late_Arthur_Dent → u/Fun_Reporter9086]

In the video where the couch fucker made the price of eggs a campaign issue, he said something like "you could be paying up to $4/dozen for eggs under Kamala Harris."

[u/stueylikesit]

Thanks Obama.

[u/rube_X_cube]

Americans have been trained like Pavlovian dogs to believe that Republicans “are good on the economy,” despite the fact that it is simply not true. Just factually, empirically, not true. At all.

[u/DeletdButChngdMyMind → u/rube_X_cube]

And “small government”, LOFUCKINGL

[u/KeyboardGrunt → u/DeletdButChngdMyMind]

And "freedom of speech".

[u/AsymmetricClassWar → u/KeyboardGrunt]

Pro-life*

*Conditions and terms apply; void after 9 months

[u/sourmeat2 → u/AsymmetricClassWar]

*Conditions and terms apply; void after 9 months

You got 9 months?! Who can afford prenatal care in this economy?

[u/Annual_Strategy_6206 → u/AsymmetricClassWar]

So that's 4 in a row real easy hypocracies that, turns out, are pretty damn important. And that Democrats are better on. Add the one below and we've got a five- fecta

[u/Shikatanai → u/DeletdButChngdMyMind]

They are small government and just believe that the government should leave people to live their own lives.

Except for your sex life

And your choice to have a kid

And what in your pants

And the books in the library

And expressing your opinion of them in public

And whether your company has a choice in buying advertising from social media they approve of

[u/JIsADev → u/rube_X_cube]

The 08 crash forever changed my mind about them, so I'm shocked people still think Republicans are good for the economy

[u/Mr-R0bot0 → u/JIsADev]

The propaganda has caused irreparable brain damage.

[u/phoonie98 → u/Mr-R0bot0]

Fox News warped their brains

[u/froginbog → u/Mr-R0bot0]

Now irreparable brain damages causes more republicanism

[u/cleepboywonder → u/rube_X_cube]

The last admin that was a democrat that oversaw the start of a recession was LBJ, seriously. Clinton avoided dotcom, Biden avoided Covid, Obama avoided GFC, Carter was after the recession caused by Nixon, and then in 68 you have a small recession.

[u/10000Didgeridoos → u/cleepboywonder]

Oh don't worry they spin this always as "HURRR THE DEM PRESIDENT GOT HANDED A GREAT ECONOMY BUY THE REPUBLICAN BEFORE HIM THEN THE NEXT REPUBLICAN WAS A VICTIM OF DELAYED EFFECTS OF THE DEM POLICIES FROM BEFORE HIM BRO"

Any economic gain is because of Republicans. Any downturn is because of Democrats. This is the cult. They actually think you can deficit spend AND cut taxes at the same time forever and it will just magically keep working. They try to juice the economy when they have power every single time doing this.

[u/RingWraith75 → u/rube_X_cube]

Right. Democrats are objectively better for the economy than Republicans. I forget the exact number but I believe 11 of the last 12 recessions happened under a Republican president.

[u/Playingwithmyrod]

From the party that brought you “Look how great the stock market is doing, it’s pricing in a Trump victory”, comes “the stock market is not a good indicator of the economy and is not Trumps fault at all”.

[u/red286 → u/Playingwithmyrod]

It's hilarious how the claimed that the increase at the tail-end of Biden's term was 100% due to investors being confident in Trump's vision for America, and the massive slide since Trump's first day is now "because Biden oversaw such a weak economy that it is now crumbling".

[u/Sweet-Bedroom6707 → u/red286]

The party of "common sense" is more the party of "not taking accountability"

[u/yldf]

I did see it coming. Just got the timing wrong, expected the honeymoon phase to last a couple months longer.

[u/GenericAptName → u/yldf]

SAME!!! It's fascinating how quickly he managed to tank markets, Trump Taj Mahal lasted longer than this.....

[u/sourmeat2 → u/yldf]

Lol, converted my 401k holdings to 50% bonds in January. I expected him to do exactly what he said he'd do and I haven't been disappointed. Dude is exactly a smart as he sounds.

[u/Just_SomeDude13 → u/yldf]

Same. I expected him to putz around with random fluffy bs for a few months while riding the Biden economy as long as he could to take credit for it. But no, he just steaight-up walked into the Oval, blew a bunch of stuff up, and is trying to tell people everything is going to be great.

[u/Knife7 → u/yldf]

Same here, I said 6 months for when shit falls apart. Bro underpromised and overdelivered.

[u/Top-Donkey-5081]

Yes miss bidenomics. 🥲

[u/WeArePandey → u/Top-Donkey-5081]

Now we have Bi-Demonics. The demonization of LGBT.

[u/bluelifesacrifice]

Sleepy Dementia Joe seemed a lot better than anyone on Trumps team.

The Trump administration can't even manage a simple negotiation with Canada. Joe seemed to handle problems rather effortlessly.

[u/SlappinPickle → u/bluelifesacrifice]

There was no negotiation tho. Trump just threw a turd north and expected Canada to be grateful. He's an international menace.

[u/10000Didgeridoos → u/SlappinPickle]

He thinks being overtly disrespectful and hostile is a negotiating tactic and cannot understand that all the military alliances and trade deals (some of which are his own doing!) that he is blowing up to "make America great again", are the exact soft power arrangements that made America the wealthiest nation in human history in the first place.

It's the same shit as seeing no measles or polio around, and deciding that we don't need those vaccines anymore. Or seeing clean water and air, and deciding we don't actually need the EPA rules anymore.

Anything done by someone else is bad and dumb, because it wasn't Don's idea and therefore cannot be as good as whatever he just thought in that moment.

[u/Own-Quality4514 → u/bluelifesacrifice]

Dementia Donny flip flops on everything

[u/dewag → u/Own-Quality4514]

iT's A nEgOtIaTiOn TaCtIc!

-the cult

[u/Coldatahd → u/dewag]

Art of the deal 😂

[u/Chaosrealm69 → u/bluelifesacrifice]

Joe relied on actual qualified experts and knew that a negotiation was more than threatening someone with tariffs if they didn't give you everything and they got nothing.

[u/Treewithatea → u/bluelifesacrifice]

For the West the US was like the big brother you could look up to. He was brave, a proper leader, heroic, helpful, not perfect but we liked him anyway.

Now big brother turned into a drug addict. He constantly hits his wife, cheats on her and starts threatening his little brother for no good reason.

Little brother is rather sad about it but realizes its time to grow up himself and not be reliant on old bro anymore.

One has to wonder if big brother will ever recover, i cant imagine this government not trying to massively manipulate the next elections and turn the US into China/Russia.

[u/LolWhereAreWe → u/Treewithatea]

Yes it’s sad how far the US has fallen. Only silver lining is that If Germany was able to recover and get back to being a functional democracy after WW2 I’d imagine there is a path back to normalcy.

[u/AntonCigar]

Crazy how a president with dementia did a better job than Trump.

[u/throwawayfinancebro1 → u/AntonCigar]

He was pretty good. Not amazing but pretty good. Importantly he didn’t get in the way of the government doing its job.

[u/BertDevV → u/throwawayfinancebro1]

He was incoherent but listened to experts. Trump is incoherent and listens to no one, except Elon.

[u/zimbabwatron9000 → u/AntonCigar]

crazy how a president with "dementia" was clearly much more cognitively capable than the "healthiest president ever" trump

[u/ValdyrSH]

Weird… I and most who didn’t vote for the felon fraudster and rapist did see this coming.

[u/amcooperus]

40 years serving in congress but the guy just didn’t know what he was doing. 🙄. Let’s elect a guy that has declared bankruptcy multiple times. He’ll know how to run the country like his business. Well MAGAs you at least were right on that point.

[u/CoachCrunch12]

You didn’t? Trump has never ran a successful business. How is supposed to run a successful stock market?

[u/Blitzdog416]

come back sleepy joe, oh where did you go

[u/OkCaterpillar1325 → u/Blitzdog416]

I mean technically he can run again in 2028. He'd only be 90 by the end of his term

[u/Rasputin_mad_monk → u/Blitzdog416]

"Biden Come Back" (Parody of "Baby Come Back" by Player)

Verse 1

Spending all my days, all my tax bucks on your spending spree,

Voting red just to erase your policies, yeah.

But when the bills come due, we’re stuck in the same mess again,

Tryna replace you was just a waste of time.

Chorus

Biden come back, any swing voter can see,

There was progress in every policy from you.

Biden come back, you can blame it all on DC,

’Cause we were wrong, and we just can’t thrive without you.

Verse 2

All day long, tweeting with that false bravado (Mar-a-Lago),

Tryna “Make America Great” but it’s all hot air (so much hot air!).

But as the news rolls on, it’s just more division again,

How I wish to God you’d reappear.

Chorus

Biden come back, yeah, any kind of fool could see,

You had plans for healthcare, climate, and peace.

Biden come back, blame the chaos on MAGA’s spree,

’Cause Trump’s gone wild, and we’re all tired of the beef.

Bridge

Now that we see through all the chaos, ooh,

Give us the chance to right this wrong (right this wrong, Joe!).

Did the “Unity” you preach just fall apart?

Ain’t there hope left for me? Ain’t there hope left for me?

Final Chorus

Biden come back, any kind of fool could see,

There were jobs in every infrastructure plan.

Biden come back, we’ll forgive Hunter’s laptop spree,

’Cause Trump’s got trials, and we’re done with his scams!

Outro

Joe, we were wrong, and we just can’t survive

Another term of Trump—Biden, come back!

[u/Healthy_Razzmatazz38]

maybe trusting the guy who cant keep a wife as a billionaire wasn't smart

[u/veracity8_]

Trade wars, real wars, tariffs, innocent americans being abducted off the street for speaking out against the government, thousands of American losing their jobs, social security being cut, some random billionaire having full control of the treasury?

sure that all seems bad. But it’s better than the alternative. What if the president was old? Or a woman? That would be much worse

[u/MLouieGaming]

Literally everyone saw this coming. Many economic experts came out during the election and said "Trump's policies are going to tank the economy if he wins".

FAFO

[u/Perndog8439]

Happy I adjusted my assets before the shit hit the fan! Protecting all those gains!

[u/totally-hoomon]

How could you not? Trump literally said he was raising costs, hurting trade, and increasing unemployment. Only the dumbest people in the world didn't see this coming.

[u/Groon_]

Yeah. I also miss the part where you didn't use the power you were given by the supreme court to put the orange shitbag in prison where he belongs... but you turned tail and ran.

[u/Barnibus666]

I honestly feel like Trump is crashing the US and maybe the global economy on purpose. Like, the whole tariff thing is going to hurt trade and shrink the economy. He’s going to try (and has already started) to blame Biden for this, but it’s all based on his policies.

The funny thing was, Trump bragged about the stock market, and warned that Harris would trigger a collapse….

Now, as we know, markets hate volatility. But, that does create some buying opportunities. I remember that if you bought stock in March of 2009, you would have entered the market at the bottom and make a crap load of money. This situation will be significantly harder to find the bottom, because Trump will likely screw things up some more…

[u/marrow_party]

Maga are you tired of winning yet? Imbeciles

[u/zackks]

Happens every Republican administration. We all saw it coming.

[u/karimamin]

As someone who didn't hold onto stock, I'm picking up plenty of good bargains at the moment. Keep em droppin folks

[u/Firm-Advertising5396]

The OG!!!! Made running the country look easy

[u/deactivate_iguana]

Who would have guessed someone who is known for turning everything he touches to shit would turn this to shit. Unthinkable eh

[u/icevenom1412]

Crazy how the US economy seems to fair better under extreme leftist Democrats than fiscally responsible Republicans.

[u/McChillbone]

Republicans get in, tank the economy and cut taxes for the billionaires, and then the democrats spend 4 to 8 years trying to fix their fuck up while the republicans blame them for everything they broke.

Rinse and repeat.

[u/Envlib]

-Man runs on Agenda that anyone who has taken a single econ class can tell you will be a disaster -elected -people shocked it's a disaster

[u/Podalirius]

This was obvious to anyone with half a brain. lmao

[u/renrut00]

I just miss waking up and not having to worry about what the Cheeto king is going to do today.

[u/Few-Vehicle7990]

Unpredictable Donnie at his finest

[u/Agreeable_Sense9618]

I guess 2022 is being ignored.🤔

20% decline and everyone doomed about a crash

[u/Nastrod]

Yes, but also I'm still mad at Biden for not allowing a regular primary to happen, having the worst debate performance of all time, and then only giving his replacement a few months to try and beat Trump. I kinda blame him for a lot of the mess we're in.

His most important job was to prevent a second Trump presidency, and he was asleep at the wheel for 4 years.

[u/Mcfyi → u/Nastrod]

Blame his AG too

[u/Nastrod → u/Mcfyi]

Biden chose Garland. He could have also replaced him.

[u/gjc5500 → u/Nastrod]

I honestly hope that decision follows as his legacy how RBG's legacy is choosing her own pride over stepping down in 2008

[u/tonydtonyd → u/gjc5500]

I’m so fucking sick of these egomaniacs. Like Christ, put the country first.

[u/JCPLee → u/Nastrod]

Grow up dude. We had one choice, an orange racist rapist criminal or the VP in a relatively successful administration who wasn’t a racist rapist. It wasn’t that difficult.

[u/WhiteNikeAirs → u/JCPLee]

You’d be surprised how many voters knew nothing about Kamala other than what MAGA social media and FOX news told them about her.

Americans are used to seeing presidential candidates for at least 2 years before voting for them. The primary process and the stories that arise from that are vital towards informing voters.

Giving the lady you just stuck in the closet for 4 years less than 6 months to run for president was a short sighted move by the entire party and demonstrated their inability to be decisive.

Biden was a good president and millions of Americans did vote MAGA for all the wrong reasons. That doesn’t take away from the fact that his admin failed to set up the next generation of his party for success.

[u/biscuts99 → u/Nastrod]

Literally no matter what Biden did Harris couldn't have won.

[u/Mountain-Computers → u/Nastrod]

Lmao so it’s all Biden fault. Not trump of course.

[u/waltyballs → u/Nastrod]

I blame Mitch McConnell the most. For stealing 2 supreme court seats from Obama, which imended up giving Trump 3 fucking judges.

That’s the root of our problem 

[u/JoeJoe_Le → u/Nastrod]

About half of American voters are mentally retarded that would choose Trump over Biden or Harris after Jan 6th. Blame that half.

[u/Curious_Bee2781 → u/Nastrod]

I'm still mad at the media for breaking the hard 48 rules for the first time in history to get rubes like you to believe he was senile.

[u/Pinball_and_Proust]

Gritting my teeth and buying on dips.

[u/neoikon → u/Pinball_and_Proust]

There is a lot more bad news to come. The effects of the current damage haven't been felt yet, much less the fear of war and permanent damage to trading partners.

[u/hellolovely1 → u/Pinball_and_Proust]

I’m not gaming this shitshow but good luck to you.

[u/thedeuce75]

I do.