The Donald Trump thread

[Rjk]

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If Trump lasts the 4 years, will all this “great stuff” he’s doing be undone in 4 years by the Democrats anyway?

trump introduced some tariffs the first time around, which were not repealed by the Biden administration, so who knows

[Dorcus]

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It's possible that Trump is part of the great reset and he has fooled everybody.

He's fooled himself more like

[the other bob wilson]

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It's possible that Trump is part of the great reset and he has fooled everybody.

Fooled you more like.

[Wales-Bales]

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Fooled you more like.

I'm fool resistant.

[JamesWales]

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Worth waiting a day or two before any grand predictions but I don't think the stock markets can sustain more than another couple of days before something has to happen to boost them. Today seems like a third day of losses.

That said, I don't advocate long term policy decisions being retracted after three days of stock market volatility, but if it carries on it starts to be an extremely serious issue in itself as opposed to being a portend of something further down the line.

We could actually be at the start of one of a pivotal week in the global economy. If the stock markets stabilize, countries scramble to reduce tariffs and a few more announcements of on-shoring happen it could go one way. If they continue to fall, companies stay silent or heavily criticize it and other countries unite against them then it could easily go the other.

[the other bob wilson]

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I'm fool resistant.

Anyone mad enough to read this thread from beginning to end would soon find out that’s not true.

[az city]

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How will we know if it works? We're 9 years on and people are still undecided whether Brexit was a success or not.

You're surely joking. Brexit has been an unmitigated disaster. And, it looks even more stupid in a world riven with trade wars.

[az city]

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Worth waiting a day or two before any grand predictions but I don't think the stock markets can sustain more than another couple of days before something has to happen to boost them. Today seems like a third day of losses.

That said, I don't advocate long term policy decisions being retracted after three days of stock market volatility, but if it carries on it starts to be an extremely serious issue in itself as opposed to being a portend of something further down the line.

We could actually be at the start of one of a pivotal week in the global economy. If the stock markets stabilize, countries scramble to reduce tariffs and a few more announcements of on-shoring happen it could go one way. If they continue to fall, companies stay silent or heavily criticize it and other countries unite against them then it could easily go the other.

So, by that logic you'd have carried on with the Truss LR growth policies too.

You are absolutely stupid if you believe any of the tripe you posted. More likely, you're doing your standard agitprop routine. It's kind of boring.

[az city]

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There is a story going around that the architect of Trump's tariff policies is a guy called Peter Navarro. (Navarro is definitely part of Trump's inner circle.) This Navarro guy wrote some obscure whackjob books about how the US is getting ripped off ("Death by China" for example). Note for everyone: don't bother reading them they are full of twisted tripe. In his cannon he refers to his mentor and inspiration quite a lot to justify his thinking, referring to the works of the great Ron Varro repeatedly. Nobody can find any reference to this person in the Economic profession. The reason why? "Ron Varro" is just an anagram of "Navarro". You literally couldn't make it up ...

[lardy]

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There is a story going around that the architect of Trump's tariff policies is a guy called Peter Navarro. (Navarro is definitely part of Trump's inner circle.) This Navarro guy wrote some obscure whackjob books about how the US is getting ripped off ("Death by China" for example). Note for everyone: don't bother reading them they are full of twisted tripe. In his cannon he refers to his mentor and inspiration quite a lot to justify his thinking, referring to the works of the great Ron Varro repeatedly. Nobody can find any reference to this person in the Economic profession. The reason why? "Ron Varro" is just an anagram of "Navarro". You literally couldn't make it up ...

That's almost as cringey as Trump leaking stories about himself bedding beautiful women under the name John Barron, and later naming his son Barron.

[stevo]

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You're surely joking. Brexit has been an unmitigated disaster. And, it looks even more stupid in a world riven with trade wars.

Well, that's certainly my take on it, but it's not something we're all universally agreed on. And just as there are people in this world who will maintain Brexit was a good idea, so will there be MAGA folk who will keep on insisting this trade war was a good idea, irrespective of what actually happens as a result of it.

[az city]

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Well, that's certainly my take on it, but it's not something we're all universally agreed on. And just as there are people in this world who will maintain Brexit was a good idea, so will there be MAGA folk who will keep on insisting this trade war was a good idea, irrespective of what actually happens as a result of it.

You are correct. The people you mention have a name - they're called "stupids".

[Dorcus]

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You are correct. The people you mention have a name - they're called "stupids".

Absolutely and they are the reason democracy is flawed. It may be a better system than many but it's not perfect and the fact catastrophic decisions can be made through the exercise of ignorance and mere opinion should be a major worry for us all.

[Wales-Bales]

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That's almost as cringey as Trump leaking stories about himself bedding beautiful women under the name John Barron, and later naming his son Barron.

The name's Barron, John Barron.

[Heathblue]

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Trump just played economic chicken with the most powerful countries in the world and they all blinked.
CCMB financial experts know better 🤣
Good evening chaps. 🤣