Countdown to the stupidity recession

[myata]

How long before the liar and buffoon runs the steaming economy into the ground with stupid tantrums and attics?

What bizarre and impossible excuses will his brainless (certified 0.0% working brain) mob will find for it?

It's on.

Edited January 21 by myata

[Moonbox]

I was on a video call with a rating agency's chief economist last Monday (a Texan), and he said they were giving long odds that Trump will actually follow through with much of the dumb shit he said he'd do.  

They were giving 10% probability at blanket across-the-board tariffs, as these would immediately boost inflation and anger voters while providing next to no benefit to the economy, but the big tariffs on China are a lot more likely  (with a lot more rationale behind them).   

The one thing the US system has going for it is the midterms, and the House isn't going to go along with some of the more useless and self-destructive stupidity Trump is inclined to chase.  

Edited January 21 by Moonbox

[myata]

Well, after all the bombastic bravado he's just got to go through and do something big and stupid. And it's bound to have an effect. Interesting that he hasn't started with the tariffs, so someone is in fact trying to pull his strings. Let's see how well this is going to play out.

[Moonbox]

He doesn't have to do much of anything.  He just has to make a show of it and say he did.  The detachment from reality with MAGA voters is fascinating.  Even when they know what he's saying is absurd/wrong/awful, they just sort of mentally discard it.  Like Build-A-Bear, Trump is a different person to every MAGA voter. You take the parts you LIKE, and you pretend the parts you DON'T LIKE were just jokes and don't include them in your version of TrumpyBear. 

Edited January 21 by Moonbox

[myata]

16 hours ago, Moonbox said:

Like Build-A-Bear, Trump is a different person to every MAGA voter. You take the parts you LIKE, and you pretend the parts you DON'T LIKE were just jokes and don't include them in your version of TrumpyBear. 

Sure that's the very essence of the cult mentality. They take the parts, words they like and pretend the rest of reality doesn't exist, a mental trick. Just like the last time except that guy actually built some roads. But we moved to the post-reality world so no need to worry about that part.

[Deluge]

On 1/21/2025 at 12:39 PM, Moonbox said:

I was on a video call with a rating agency's chief economist last Monday (a Texan), and he said they were giving long odds that Trump will actually follow through with much of the dumb shit he said he'd do.  

They were giving 10% probability at blanket across-the-board tariffs, as these would immediately boost inflation and anger voters while providing next to no benefit to the economy, but the big tariffs on China are a lot more likely  (with a lot more rationale behind them).   

The one thing the US system has going for it is the midterms, and the House isn't going to go along with some of the more useless and self-destructive stupidity Trump is inclined to chase.  

I think Trump gets through most of the bullshit this time. There's going to be a lot less resistance than what he dealt with when the woke a$$holes were in power. 

[eyeball]

On 1/21/2025 at 10:48 AM, myata said:

How long before the liar and buffoon runs the steaming economy into the ground with stupid tantrums and attics?

What bizarre and impossible excuses will his brainless (certified 0.0% working brain) mob will find for it?

They'll blame the Deepstate, especially if they can't find it.

[myata]

Still the creative question here is, what would he have to not do, to not see it developing in the next say two years? Let's see.

Edited January 23 by myata