Politics Post your predictions for the next 4 years of Trump's 2nd tenure as President

I don't believe he can, no.

 

And, in doing so, wipe out the building industry, agriculture ... again, law of unintended consequences.

Combine not having people to fill jobs, not filling jobs to secure the border, killing our exports and taxing our own people through tariffs, Trump will do a great job of crashing the economy and I don't think he's going to be able to get away with putting that on trans athletes.

 

I'm big in the market.

The market was doing super under Biden but soared into the atmosphere when Trump won. I believe that was a reflection on investors thinking regulations were going to be relaxed, leaving more money to flow into businesses.

Then Trump started to nominate his cabinet and things began to cool.

Today it took a huge dive. Huge.

Now, it could have been a correction, but I've heard things about concern from people in the market about these nominees and that it apparently means he's serious about everything he said like tariffs.

We're talking inflation growing to six times what it would be under Biden and almost certainly a recession, the one Biden avoided.

The market hates that stuff.

Trump's people hate that stuff.

 

We’re closer than ever to figuring out Vivek’s SSN

 

No one is arguing against healthy food, fresh air, exercise. Many poor people live in food deserts where there are no full service markets or farmers markets. Just corner stores selling junk. And no sidewalks or safe places to exercise. Working two jobs. Easy for a very privileged man to say eat better. Getting additives out of food, which he won't do, doesn't solve problems.
And healthy eating is not a substitute for vaccines.

 

Corporations are suddenly going to pay their employees more because illegals are getting deported.

I’m in “Dock and awe!”

 

Mine is an even. What do I win?

 

that's not what "stochastically" means.

this guy is a fucking idiot

 

as a first gen immigrant who came to this country as a kid, this shit genuinely gives me chills.

 

Pro Trump Nazis chanting "Jews will not replace us"?
Marjorie Taylor Greene Jewish space lasers?
Holocaust denying Republican candidate for North Carolina governor, whom Trump called better than Martin Luther King?
"Soros backed prosecutors"?
Nazis in Michigan picketing production of Diary of Anne Frank, chanting Hail Hitler, hail Trump?
Nominee for Defense Secretary having Crusader tattoos, symbols of massacres of Jews?
Border nominee regular guest on podcast whose host calls Hitler his hero and says they are fighting for same thing?

 

I am big into it too. I talked to my dad on election night. He has done amazing on his investments and is retired and nerds out daily on CNBC.

I asked him what will happen. He said there will be a couple day buzz of good numbers purely based on the optimism of it all. Once his tariff propositions get digested it will crumble.

That looks like what’s happening.

 

Yep.

COVID was just a speed bump to the market. It might actually have helped in the better than expected bounce back because we had to develop things that opened up new sectors.

The only thing that really can slow it down are some pretty specific upheavals. War is one of them ... even in wartime, Ukraine is responsible for 5% of the world's grain supply. Let that war escalate and/or Russia to ravage or take over that territory and it will have an effect on inflation and the market.

The other thing is just putting unstable people in positions where they can impact policy. For instance, a guy who throws around tariffs nonchalantly that it could spark a trade war that would make 2021 inflation look like nothing and wreck our export sectors. Mass departments from a sector of the population that accounts for a quarter of our construction workers would be a big detriment to the housing market that we need to grow right now. That also will play havoc with the supply chain, as if anyone wants to be hearing about that again. Making major changes to our proven and successful immunization policies almost certainly will result in outbreaks of diseases we had virtually eliminated, and that will lead to either massive infections and deaths or mitigation efforts that will decrease buying and the exchange of funds. Having a warhawk who has never served higher than the rank of major in the National Guard and has advocated direct war with Iran is another market-killer, because industry is forced to a war effort and no one has a lot of disposable cash and wants to go out and buy comfort items when they have a child, neighbor, friend or other relative in the line of fire.

Basically, not much could be down to slow down stocks right now, but Trump is checking every single box.

 

And, I don't think putting a lawyer in charge of our health safety departments really is something that's going to instill public confidence.

Our biggest problem with our healthcare, from my observation, is the for-profit nature of it. Now you're telling me that a wealthy lawyer whose interest in the subject sprung out of doing community service and tells people that don't know any better than vaccines we've been using to great effect for more than a half-century are causing autism? Yeah, you'll understand if I don't get too enthused about that being good for the country or on the up and up.

 

Of course, this is brought to you by the same people that tell you we need to save the unborn but then urged our seniors to sacrifice their lives for the good of the economy at the onset of COVID and don't care one bit about gun violence or suicide in our country resulting from feelings of meaninglessness, bullying and just over hopelessness that they can amount to anything here.

How people don't see the hypocrisy and blatant contradictions in American right-wing policy is mind-blowing.