r/cringepics • u/N4TETHAGR8 • 4d ago
Who else thinks that nothing will actually happen today?
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u/MogwaiYT 4d ago
Liberated from what exactly? These bastards will shaft their own country up the arse and ask it to say thank you afterwards.
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u/scott__p 4d ago
Liberated from your money, your future, your kid's future, and if you're not white maybe your freedom.
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u/citrineskye 4d ago
If I could liberate all you non-trump supporting Americans over to Europe, I would. I feel for you guys x
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u/candlegun 4d ago
Thank you for this; it does help knowing that not the entire world thinks we're all just a bunch of mouthbreathers here
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u/citrineskye 4d ago
Every time I've visited the US, the people have all been wonderful (well, except some guy begging in San Francisco that kind of cornered me for money, he was less desirable!).
We know it isn't all of the people. We know you guys are facing some massive changes whether you like it or not. We don't like your leader, but (especially in England) we don't much like ours either! We get it x
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u/Technomancer53 3d ago
Same, grew up pretty proud of where I came from. Now I just feel embarassed and ashamed
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u/thatG_evanP 4d ago
Thank you. There are a lot of sensible people here that are angry as hell. Oh, and also terrified about our entire way of life coming to an end. It's not much fun at all unless you happen to be a moron, but they'll suffer too. They'll just rationalize and find a way to shift the blame.
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u/Direct_Wrongdoer5429 3d ago
Thanks. It is nice to know that there are other countries and people from those countries, that understand that a vast majority of the American people do not want nor do we agree with any of the BS this buffoon in the Whitehouse is pulling. He just wants to isolate us from our allies.
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u/kingkowkkb1 4d ago
I think he'll make a crazy announcement. The market will tank tomorrow as other countries retaliate, and then he will delay the tariffs, rinse and repeat until your 401k is trash.
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u/djwurm 4d ago
your 401k is not already trashed??
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u/PostOfficeBuddy 4d ago
mines gone down by like 5k so far
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u/loganwachter 4d ago
I pulled a loan from mine right before it went to shit.
Paid off a bunch of debt and the interest goes right back into my 401K instead of to the bank.
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u/AnInfiniteArc 4d ago
I literally just deposited the loan check from my 403b this afternoon. Once the rest clears I’ll only owe money to myself.
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u/PatacusX 4d ago
Mines not going down because I haven't opened the Voya app in months. If we're not measuring, then is doesn't go down right?
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u/Antiluke01 4d ago
You can afford a 401K?
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u/djwurm 4d ago
only cause my employer matches.. but 25 years of adding money to it is basically shit now.. I was told / sold a lie that at some point all the compounding would make me have millions and I could retire
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u/Cranyx 4d ago
The market is up over 400% since 25 years ago. It was absolutely not a lie that you should invest your savings there for long term planning.
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u/djwurm 4d ago
but I am not up 400%.. 25 years ago I was barely able to put in anything making scrap. its only been the last 5 where I actually now make decent money to put more back into it.
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u/Cranyx 4d ago
its only been the last 5 where I actually now make decent money to put more back into it.
Market's up 126% since 5 years ago. Up 71% if you go back a bit further and started investing right before the Covid crash.
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u/drewster23 4d ago
Market's up 126% since 5 years ago. Up 71% if you go back a bit further and started investing right before the Covid crash.
So ....no where near enough to retire.....
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u/purpleplatapi 4d ago
Yeah it takes like 40 years to save up enough to retire. You can't just invest 5 years ago and expect to retire tomorrow.
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u/centpourcentuno 4d ago
So you admit to barely putting in anything last 25 years ( not your fault ..we all been there )..but yet you are shocked that compounding pennies didn't result in millions?
I am in the same boat , at some point I didn't even have enough to take advantage of the free match .
I just don't understand your "surprise " that's all
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u/Uninstall_Fetus 4d ago
You weren’t sold a lie. You just don’t understand how investing works and sounds like you didn’t invest enough.
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u/ch-12 4d ago
Yeah, this. 401ks are not a lie or a scam. Small contributions aren’t going to compound to huge amounts, but it’s better than nothing for a solid investment vehicle.
And if you can manage it, now is a great time to increase or max out your contributions.
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u/SaltLakeCitySlicker 4d ago
You can't really time it, but keeping up with putting it in when you feasibly can is always the best strategy because it's not about tomorrow or 6 months from now. Especially if it's in the crapper price wise.
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u/luckydice767 4d ago
Do you know what holdings you have? There is a HUGE difference between say, a stable value fund vs S&P index fund
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u/Annas_GhostAllAround 4d ago
The amount you put into it shouldn't impact the percentage return you've gotten over the last 25 years. If you put in $10 or you put in $1,000 the percentage gain wouldn't change...
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u/EternalVirgin18 4d ago
Compounding interest isn’t a lie, and a 401k is a good investment, but investments are partially based on having a solid, competent government which has its citizens interests in mind.
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u/moomooraincloud 4d ago
Compounding interest isn't a lie. And the market has historically always gone up in the long run.
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u/shwittyOG 4d ago
You are offered a 401k?
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u/Antiluke01 4d ago
I am, but I don’t make enough to set aside money for it because I have to pay rent, food, car, insurance, and I’m in one of the most expensive states. It is not for a lack of trying either. It’s just hard out here. I don’t even pay for health insurance.
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u/sammidavisjr 4d ago
Does your employer match? Because that's just throwing away free money if you don't at least contribute what they do.
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u/Antiluke01 4d ago
Yeah but even with matching, which I don’t think they do, that’s good out of my mouth immediately. If I can’t survive to see that money then there’s no point. Looking at another job that supposedly pays more now.
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u/itssosalty 4d ago
I mean when did it start? Dow Jones is up 100% today from five years ago.
Market has dipped but there has been a bit of overreaction on retirement impact. This isn’t the COVID crash.
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u/NobodyImportant13 4d ago
The S&P500 is only down about ~7.5% from the peak right now. It's barely even gone down. I think the market is predicting he will back off these crazy tariffs.
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u/ReasonablyConfused 4d ago
Don't worry, the billionaires will make even more money by having a heads up on his announcements.
I'm sure they'll finally take care of us when they have all of the dollars.
/s
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u/bullet4mv92 4d ago
It'll trickle down aaaaaany day now
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u/DescartesB4tehHorse 4d ago
I know yall are making fun but man does this shit piss me off. How has anyone ever thought trickle down works? It's not like there's a cap on bank accounts that once you hit it any extra you make overflows to the next largest account and so on down the line. There's no external force making the money trickle down. Bank accounts are not cups and money is not water.
Again, I know you weren't being serious, im just venting.
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u/bullet4mv92 4d ago
An embarrassing amount of the population definitely thinks it, or they think they'll be millionaires soon and it won't matter if it trickles down or not because they'll be on top.
It pisses me off, too, but most I can personally do is make fun of those idiots.
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u/no_one_likes_u 4d ago
I think the idea of 'trickle down' is that the richest people are the 'job creators'. People starting companies, investing in companies, buying a lot of stuff, etc. So when they take their money and start or help start up companies or buy things, those companies then employ people. Ideally, those employees make a good wage, and then they've got disposable income to save/spend/etc to improve their quality of life. That's the 'trickle down' part of it.
What actually happens is that billionaires hoard obscene amounts of money and when they do start companies they try their hardest to screw every person who works for them. They also use their money to lobby congress and support candidates that take away our freedoms and protections to give them more power.
I agree with you that it doesn't work, but it never had anything to do with bank accounts getting so full they overflow and money flowing down to smaller bank accounts lol
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u/DescartesB4tehHorse 4d ago
But thats often the way it's displayed, like a tower of cups with water flowing into the top and overflowing the cups gradually filling the whole tower.
Even if it's not bank accounts, my point is there is no external force making it trickle down. There's no pressure making those people start companies and employ people. There's obviously no external force that makes them treat workers fairly.
There's no "gravity" in the situation and there's no physical limit to how much "water" the cups can hold. Thats was really my point.
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u/frotc914 4d ago
Yeah the part that some people still don't seem to understand is that it's not like Trump has a bad plan; he has NO plan. He's literally just picking day by day how much he wants to fuck the economy.
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u/Lordnoallah 4d ago
Hell, he's trying to put tariffs on the fentanyl coming in....and people wonder how he bankrupted a jersey casino. He's an idiot plain and simple.
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u/Angelworks42 4d ago
I bought a bunch of fuses today and got charged a 22 cent tarrif on each one :/...
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u/thieh 4d ago
People will be liberated from their money on Liberation day.
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u/weinerwayne 4d ago
Can’t wait to be free of my ability to pay my mortgage and grocery bill! Add on not being able to afford gas to I can get to and from work and I’ll be in paradise!!
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u/niberungvalesti 4d ago
Trickle Up Economics continues to work as planned.
The lords need their land and wealth back from the peasants.
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u/Ryth88 4d ago
you're all going to be liberated from the flood of Canadian Fentanyl from us evil folks up north.
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u/French87 4d ago
Ever since my mom moved back to Montreal 2 years ago from California she’s been way happier, more relaxed, low stress…. Definitely on fent!!!
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u/undercurrents 4d ago
Obviously the Canadian fentanyl "threat" is complete bs and doesn't actually exist. But to spout actual fact,
Fentanyl smuggling is ultimately funded by U.S. consumers who pay for illicit opioids: nearly 99 percent of whom are U.S. citizens.
In 2021, U.S. citizens were 86.3 percent of convicted fentanyl drug traffickers—ten times greater than convictions of illegal immigrants for the same offense.
Over 90 percent of fentanyl seizures occur at legal crossing points or interior vehicle checkpoints, not on illegal migration routes, so U.S. citizens (who are subject to less scrutiny) when crossing legally are the best smugglers.
The location of smuggling makes sense because hard drugs at ports of entry are about 97 percent less likely to be stopped than are people crossing illegally between them.
Just 0.02 percent of the people arrested by Border Patrol for crossing illegally possessed any fentanyl whatsoever.
The government exacerbated the problem by banning most legal cross border traffic in 2020 and 2021, accelerating a switch to fentanyl (the easiest-to-conceal drug).
https://www.cato.org/blog/fentanyl-smuggled-us-citizens-us-citizens-not-asylum-seekers
https://www.cato.org/blog/us-citizens-were-80-crossers-fentanyl-ports-entry-2019-2024
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u/greaterwhiterwookiee 4d ago
HEY GUYS! HE ADMITTED IT! It’s real! The clown profit was correct!! ☠️
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u/nebbie13 4d ago
I really hope nothing happens today 😬
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u/Funkiemunkie233 4d ago
Sorry, tariffs on every country in the world. Enjoy your more expensive everything :(
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u/Kippingthroughlife 4d ago
It will, the world will see either this stupid Trump is or how spineless his threats are.
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u/helbur 4d ago
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u/kraghis 4d ago
He really likes that picture of him with the lazy right side of his face doesn’t he.
Edit: mad king ass portrait
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u/bullet4mv92 4d ago
He thinks that cocked eyebrow makes him look badass. Like how Musk thinks his weird head down glare while shaking hands is intimidating.
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u/djwurm 4d ago edited 4d ago
My insane MAGA neighbor this morning was just glowing ready and waiting to rub something in my face as I was trying to ask him to give me a check for his portion on the fence I just replaced (and he agreed to pay) about this announcement is that federal taxes would be completely eliminated as its unconstitutional or something.
I was like ok sure.. I know I heard something about this before faintly but it would be shocking as the announcement today as its just been the word tariff stuck in his head every morning he wakes up..
I cant wait to go back home tonight and say ok so more tariffs which means everything cost more is winning how in your eyes?
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u/Zappy_Cloid 4d ago
A weak man tries to look strong when it really looks like a toddler shitting its diaper.
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u/IamNotaMonkeyRobot 4d ago
2,000% tariffs for everyone! You get a tariff, and you get a tariff and YOU get a tariff!
Enjoy the economic collapse!
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u/nomorepumpkins 4d ago
Not sure how were supposed to celebrate this. Best Ive come up with is setting off fireworks while we burn print offs of the stock markets and retirement accounts followed by a circle jerk around a tesler.
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u/CouchBoyChris 4d ago
I'd insult Trump for the clown he is like usual, but it's his supporters who are the real losers.
Look at this fucking guy lol
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u/Taftimus 4d ago
I hope the only thing that happens today is that other countries continue to dog walk his stupid ass on global politics/economics
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u/triple_heart 4d ago
The only liberation I want is liberation from that orange POS, his disgraceful administration, his MAGAt cult, and Musk.
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u/cbrooks1232 4d ago
I only know of one thing that could liberate the US and DJT would probably not like it.
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u/scott__p 4d ago
That picture looks like he had a stroke. Definitely some drooping on his right side
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u/pikleboiy 4d ago
It was meant to be Wisconsin that got "liberated," but the judge Elon was backing lost the election, so nobody's getting "liberated" today
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u/bearded_mischief 3d ago
Three eagles is a bit too much, the only time we ever see more than one eagle is when they are eaglets.
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u/Proud-Pilot9300 3d ago
America is about to be liberated from their high valued stocks. As a European I fully support putins biggest allies shooting themselves in the dick. Next step is NATO withdrawal, better sooner than later.
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u/ztoundas 3d ago
All this stuff is terrible, but the fact that he keeps calling a "liberation day" where he's jacking taxes up by an unprecedented amount is just too on the nose.
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u/spellbookwanda 4d ago
Saw him on the news here in Ireland, god he’s such a windbag. Sick to death of him and this world he’s trying to shape
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u/peanutismint 4d ago
I’m a relatively new immigrant and I honestly assumed liberation day was some other fruity holiday you guys celebrate that I wasn’t yet aware of like Labour Day or something…
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u/Alive-In-Tuscon 4d ago
Fruity holiday like labor day. Brother you need to look up why we celebrate labor day in America if that is how you feel about it.
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u/m1stadobal1na 4d ago
Lol we celebrate labor day in America to distract and diffuse the strength of may day which is internationally the actual celebration day of worker power. Labor day is bullshit.
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u/Sauronxx 4d ago
Unrelated but I still can’t believe that he actually chose that picture for his official portrait. He looks so, unbelievably bad even for his standard, it’s insane lmao
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u/Mr_Saturn1 4d ago
Plenty will happen. The stock market will continue to plummet, things will become more expensive and life will generally get worse.
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u/1000000ths 4d ago
Wait what is supposed to happen today??
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u/niberungvalesti 4d ago
Taking a sledgehammer to the economy or giving away all the national parks to the oligarchs or something.
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u/DerpsAndRags 4d ago
I'm slightly concerned about what this trash heap thinks is supposed to happen, and what the cultists will do.
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u/CleanMonty 4d ago
He's going to wait till the end of the day, after the markets close. So, he can say "Democrats working overnight to kill our economy", "the 2k point drop in the stock market has nothing to do with tariffs."
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u/Legitimate_Attorney3 4d ago
The shitposting from the official White House twitter actually makes me want to gouge my eyes out
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u/LordSaltious 4d ago
I still can't get over this picture of him. They plaster it everywhere and he looks like he's trying to quietly shit himself mid-conversation.
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u/myusername_sucks 4d ago
He's announcing more tariffs, they've already said this. Also Liberation Day has been said so many times it has no meaning at this point.
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u/badchefrazzy 4d ago
The temperature where I live spiked a bit, but nothing significant has happened otherwise.
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u/Efficient_Mobile_391 4d ago
What imaginary thing are we being liberated from now? And, is it we who are being liberated
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u/ZsaFreigh 3d ago
His hair is like a mist that floats around his head. You can't see where it starts or ends.
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u/Captain_Jackson 3d ago
I laugh every time I see this photo like Trump really does think he looks bad ass af here, like it's a contender photo for a boxing match or something
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u/WestCoastBestCoast01 4d ago
Announcements are supposed to come after the market closes at 4pm. We'll see.