The economy?

[¥akaSteelhead]

Employment is down.
Inflation is up.
GDP is flat.


The stagflation train is a coming.
https://www.usnews.com/news/economy/art ... bs-in-june

[canpakes]

But, we’re removing scary brownish people trying to work. That makes all of the economic damage worthwhile, right?

[Kishkumen]

So glad that Trump is a businessman and not a Marxist. He should be able to fix all this right away.

Waiting . . .


Waiting . . .


Waiting . . .

[canpakes]

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A result has appeared.

[Kishkumen]

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A result has appeared.

Well, those jobs MUST have been economically harmful in the longterm, and only the subtle genius and perspicacity of Donald Trump grasped that.

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

With this big stupid bill my state will lose something like 7 hospitals, and 82,000 vulnerable people won’t get healthcare. We’re a small state, so I can only imagine what the other 49 will go through. Between the stupid tariffs, which take a huge crap on the middle and lower classes, and ripping away all these hospitals, well, leopards will be eating a lot of faces.

[Kishkumen]

With this big stupid bill my state will lose something like 7 hospitals, and 82,000 vulnerable people won’t get healthcare. We’re a small state, so I can only imagine what the other 49 will go through. Between the stupid tariffs, which take a huge crap on the middle and lower classes, and ripping away all these hospitals, well, leopards will be eating a lot of faces.

Faces of a lot of people who voted for Trump!

[Gadianton]

As I've mentioned previously, I follow a variety of financial news outlets, all independent, I don't watch any mainstream financial news anymore, and so rather than state much of my own thinking here, I'll link to a financial update that I think is a pretty good guess, and it's about as far right-wing as I can recommend. I have explicitly pro-Trump outlets I follow, but the quality has gone from questionable to abysmal. Generally, the connection to Trump and a financial channel that I might think is worth the time of day, is the crypto angle. Most are pro Trump because Trump has become pro-crypto. But even those are within reason. They bend over backwards to alleviate concerns over Trump nonsense on tariffs and the like and boast of Trump's "pro-business" (tax cuts) policies, but good luck finding a single one that advises to invest in $Trump or $Melania, it's uncommon to recommend anything beyond bitcoin.

So here's the guy, a true weirdo, who has the best update on the economy with maximal ideological opposition to myself that I'm aware of. Not sure he's full-blown Austrian, but his core doctrine is Friedrich Hayek, the author of the Road to Serfdom which is the cornerstone of the pre-Trump conservatives across the board from Austrian to Milton Friedman. He has no problem firing every single last government employee, let alone flushing every last school lunch program. Every penny a government spends is a penny stolen from private industry. The funny thing is, Serfdom was published in 1944, it has some good ideas, but the first formal framing of the Prisoner's Dilemma came in 1950, and so the idea that government spending necessarily crowds out private industry was a much better idea in 1949 than it was 1951.

My guess is he'd only blink at mass deportations by virtue of the price tag. I need to assuage any fears that I'm linking to an ideological mirror-image of myself. Even Markk's guy, the official of that German camp who proposed a quick solution to the prisoners who might not be able to work through the winter, considered the economic merit of prison camp labor, and was proud of the overall bottom line that the industry maintained.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SshDKNhXyS4

[ajax18]

With this big stupid bill my state will lose something like 7 hospitals, and 82,000 vulnerable people won’t get healthcare. We’re a small state, so I can only imagine what the other 49 will go through. Between the stupid tariffs, which take a huge crap on the middle and lower classes, and ripping away all these hospitals, well, leopards will be eating a lot of faces.

Anyone who works here legally is getting a tax break and likely a raise. If you're on welfare or here illegally, the Trump movement is not for you. This was what Trump promised before the election. This is what we voted for. Thankfully for the taxpayer, you guys didn't get your way and the working class taxpayer got a reprieve.

[Moksha]

Trump knows you must take health care away from the poorest of the poor to fund tax cuts for the wealthy -- that is what Republicanism is based on.