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steve dave · « **Reply #1800 on:** May 27, 2025, 07:08:18 PM »

https://x.com/thestalwart/status/1927508180432797739?s=46

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Stupid Fitz · « **Reply #1801 on:** May 27, 2025, 07:25:40 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on May 27, 2025, 07:08:18 PM

https://x.com/thestalwart/status/1927508180432797739?s=46

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So basically privatizing profits but with the good old socializing the losses gag?

BIG APPLE CAT · « **Reply #1802 on:** May 27, 2025, 08:48:25 PM »

Quote from: Stupid Fitz on May 27, 2025, 07:25:40 PM

Quote from: steve dave on May 27, 2025, 07:08:18 PM
https://x.com/thestalwart/status/1927508180432797739?s=46

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So basically privatizing profits but with the good old socializing the losses gag?

It’s the American Dream

chum1 · « **Reply #1803 on:** May 28, 2025, 08:24:18 AM »

Quote

Wall Street traders have developed a biting new acronym for a strategy that’s become surprisingly lucrative for President Donald Trump’s whiplash-inducing trade policy: TACO – “Trump Always Chickens Out.”

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/taco-wall-street-mocks-trump-with-4-letter-code-to-call-bets-against-him/

sonofdaxjones · « **Reply #1804 on:** May 28, 2025, 08:28:16 AM »

Imagine hearing repeatedly that tariffs could be a fluid situation and that tariffs could, with negotiations and trade deals be substantially reduced or eliminated altogether.

Then to start using phrases "chickens out" . . . it only points to the fact that the majority of our society has the attention span and intellectual capacity of toddlers (at best).

Edit: Also

at using mediaite as your source . . . I mean

sonofdaxjones · « **Reply #1805 on:** May 28, 2025, 08:31:51 AM »

Just a reminder to viewers of this blog that US markets plunged on average 30% during the middle of the Run by the Politburo/Pres Robo Pen administration during a period when we should have been experiencing robust market acceleration in the midst of a post Covid recovery.

Couple that with the fact that the majority if not all GDP 'growth' was fueled by Federal spending and job growth was a complete farce, much of it erased by an ongoing series of record setting or near record setting revisions to jobs numbers some months down the line.

waks · « **Reply #1806 on:** May 28, 2025, 09:26:31 AM »

Quote from: sonofdaxjones on May 28, 2025, 08:28:16 AM

Imagine hearing repeatedly that tariffs could be a fluid situation and that tariffs could, with negotiations and trade deals be substantially reduced or eliminated altogether.

Then to start using phrases "chickens out" . . . it only points to the fact that the majority of our society has the attention span and intellectual capacity of toddlers (at best).

Edit: Also at using mediaite as your source . . . I mean

at source pearl clutching

sonofdaxjones · « **Reply #1807 on:** May 28, 2025, 10:36:23 AM »

There's source pearl clutching because you don't like who owns a news aggregator and then there's pearl clutching over a story using dubious sourcing on an openly politically biased website that only exists to be anti-Trump.

Some things are not like other things.

catastrophe · « **Reply #1808 on:** May 28, 2025, 11:17:21 AM »

Quote from: sonofdaxjones on May 28, 2025, 08:28:16 AM

Imagine hearing repeatedly that tariffs could be a fluid situation and that tariffs could, with negotiations and trade deals be substantially reduced or eliminated altogether.

Then to start using phrases "chickens out" . . . it only points to the fact that the majority of our society has the attention span and intellectual capacity of toddlers (at best).

Edit: Also at using mediaite as your source . . . I mean

What did we get out of the recent tariff deal making flurry?

Dugout DickStone · « **Reply #1809 on:** May 28, 2025, 11:33:24 AM »

I wish I had thought of taco instead of pointing it out as a fact for years.

michigancat · « **Reply #1810 on:** May 28, 2025, 11:50:52 AM »

lmao

https://x.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1927768620504948765

star seed 7 · « **Reply #1811 on:** May 28, 2025, 12:00:40 PM »

It's wild that the president of the United States is one of the least respected people on earth

wetwillie · « **Reply #1812 on:** May 28, 2025, 12:21:09 PM »

I don't think anyone has respected the president for a decade

star seed 7 · « **Reply #1813 on:** May 28, 2025, 12:46:58 PM »

Quote from: wetwillie on May 28, 2025, 12:21:09 PM

I don't think anyone has respected the president for a decade

I disagree

Dugout DickStone · « **Reply #1814 on:** May 28, 2025, 02:20:58 PM »

Quote from: star seed 7 on May 28, 2025, 12:00:40 PM

It's wild that the president of the United States is one of the least respected people on earth

other thieves respect the hell out of him

Rage Against the McKee · « **Reply #1815 on:** May 28, 2025, 02:48:12 PM »

Quote from: sonofdaxjones on May 28, 2025, 08:28:16 AM

Imagine hearing repeatedly that tariffs could be a fluid situation and that tariffs could, with negotiations and trade deals be substantially reduced or eliminated altogether.

Then to start using phrases "chickens out" . . . it only points to the fact that the majority of our society has the attention span and intellectual capacity of toddlers (at best).

Edit: Also at using mediaite as your source . . . I mean

I agree that it's probably better to not attack his ego like that. We really need him to continue chickening out.