Trump Suggests He Can Use the Military on Bond Markets: ‘If We Have To Use That, We Will’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-suggests-military-bond-markets-222513278.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-suggests-military-bond-markets-222513278.html
148 Comments
sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 373 pts · 11d
America isn't like this because Trump is president
Trump is president because America is like this
Prairie_Madness@lemmy.world · 177 pts · 11d
Decades of stripping education funding is taking its toll
EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml · 64 pts · 11d
Idiocracy was the game plan all along.
BooBees@fedinsfw.app · 18 pts · 10d
It was idiocy all along.
Signed - a native whose ancestors talked at length and wrote down (or had someone else write down) how dumb they were in the very beginning, before there was even a nation
stoly@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 10d
It’s worse than that. Everyone has been brought up to be a narcissistic consumer and they approach public policy the same way.
Prairie_Madness@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 10d
The amount of times I've heard "why should I pay taxes for school, my kids are grown" is way too damn high
stoly@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 10d
I became so disappointed in my grandmother when I was in high school when she expressed this attitude. I couldn’t understand why it mattered as children still needed school.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 18 pts · 10d
That's not the issue at all. It's the curriculum, the no child left behind act implementation, and the overall indoctrination and corruption of a system of government that rewards the rich.
Most schools get plenty of money and just blow it on things they don't need. Buildings way too fancy and overpriced educational subscriptions to crap, instead of spending it on more teachers and teacher salary. The money is plenty there. None of the rich fucks get a cut from cheaper buildings and teacher payrolls.
Prairie_Madness@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 10d
Stripping education doesn't necessarily mean money. The GOP has waged an all out war on knowledge over the last few decades. Hell Fox News was recently saying "colleges make liberals" despite the fact that all the people saying it had college degrees.
No Child Left Behind gas been terrible. And I agree that money needs to go to teachers, not admins
WoodYouLookAtThat@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 10d
I'm in my mid 30s and Fox News was saying that colleges make liberals when I was in middle school.
Probably even before that, I was just too young to notice
MrGeneric@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 9d
Wait, Jesse Waters has a college degree?
MrGeneric@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 10d
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 10d
A liberal arts major, no less. From an East Coast private school in one of the bluest states in the country.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 10d
They use their money on the sports stuff because they can sell it.
fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com · 14 pts · 10d
You'd rather have uneducated strippers?
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 10d
That's the best kind
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 10d
When the economy goes to shit, the practical trades are the great bastion of the working person. Strippers will thrive.
.../s? 🤔
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 10d
well trump like strippers.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 10d
You say that like some of the most educated people in the country don't consistently vote Republican.
This idea that earning a MBA or a JD or an MD makes your politics good is completely wrong. The idea that failing to earn a HS Diploma makes you unqualified to vote is equally dogshit.
Politics is a consequence of your social affinity and your material conditions. You don't just take a class and become a liberal Democrat if your grade is high enough.
Folstar@lemmus.org · 3 pts · 10d
Yes, but ceteris paribus, an educated electorate is going to make better decisions. Or rather, the number of obviously bad decisions rejected is increased as knowledge of history and concepts deems them unworkable. Society exists.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 10d
I have seen no evidence to this effect. Consider South Africa under Apartheid. Once an individual realized how they benefited from systematic oppression of those below them, more and more fell in line. It is the "uneducated" underclass that made the revolution possible. And it was only possible through a strong social network that defied the "educated" understanding of micro-ethnicities that the Apartheid government sought to entrench.
Same with Israel. You've got tons of educated professionals in that country who are explicitly and knowingly there to participate in a genocide. The Palestinian opposition has no education infrastructure. They can only resist through social cohesion and trust networks predicated on faith.
The UK, another excellent example. A massive university system that largely exists to reproduce neoliberal ideological beliefs in a population that manages a predatory financial system and an arms export industry.
Folstar@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 9d
Yes, if you cut off those two proceeding words then hyper focus on a few examples (which have become examples of bad when once they were the norm- sort of making my point for me) without global or historic context, you've really made a strong case. Meanwhile, more people living in more places today have a better standard of life in more just nations than at any point in history and it correlates to increases in education.
5318008@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 10d
Well, on average.. it does.
No, but being intelligent is correlated with both of these things. Dumb people are more easily tricked by right wing talking points. Dumb people also don't get good grades. Smart people are, for whatever reason, more likely to agree with liberal or leftist talking points. Smart people are also more likely to get high grades.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 9d
The Republican majority in Congress, the SCOTUS, and the White House all have advanced degrees.
5318008@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 9d
Average. On average, people with degrees are more liberal/leftist. As a group. Separate the degrees from the non-degrees, and measure their liberalism/leftism, and find which group has the higher average. Average.
Average.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 9d
On average, liberal neighborhoods and counties have more educated people.
Go into a red neighborhood, and the math changes. Mormons break 70 R / 22 D / 8 I for candidates while enjoying a 36% bachelor completion rate - 3pts higher than the national average.
Hindus break 46 D / 49 R and have a staggering 70pt college competition rate.
Meanwhile, historically black Protestants have a meager 24pt college rate, but regularly vote 80/20 Democrat.
5318008@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 9d
No, it actually doesn't. Within a Mormon community, I would wager we would still see that the most educated Mormons are also, ON AVERAGE, the most liberal/leftist Mormons.
Sure, if this is the only thing you knew, there could be a Simpson's paradox situation, but we already know what the data looks like when we count everyone as one big group. Your "exceptions" can be true, and at the same time, are not evidence against the original claim. Even IF you found that, within EVERY group, education correlates with conservatism... it would just be Simpson's paradox, because we already know that, on the whole, education is correlated to liberal/leftist attitudes.
deacon@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 10d
It a fair and accurate criticism and it probably shouldn’t have snuck up on us like this.
daychilde@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 10d
For those of us watching this ramp up from the 90s into the 2000s and the Tea Party and the 2010s.... it… really wasn't a shock.
stoly@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 10d
Exactly. I gave up hope when W was elected a second time after an abysmal presidency and terrible performance in the debates prior.
mifan@feddit.dk · 8 pts · 10d
I honestly thought that W was the lowest you could go. But in comparison with the current president you somehow wish you could at least go back to that level of presidency. Much bad to be said about him, but at least he was gentleman with respect for other people, institutions and the constitution.
whoisearth@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 10d
The truth many Americans don't want to hear.
Trump is a mirror.
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world · 117 pts · 11d
Dipshit is so delusional he thinks he can send the military after bond traders.
nkat2112@sh.itjust.works · 98 pts · 11d
I laughed about your comment, paused, and then started getting nervous.
I decided to take a quick glance at the article and came across this:
Much to my dismay, you weren't exaggerating.
DougPiranha42@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 11d
Just for the record: in the comments section of a post about a news article in a news community, you described a story about how you read what the lead says when you took a quick glance at the article.
We’re talking about an “article” that is shown as a “2 minute read”, and takes about 30 seconds to read.
Fun fact: the demographic in which Trump gained the most before the 2024 election was “people who don’t read news daily”.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 10d
What the fuck does that even mean...
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 34 pts · 11d
He can. There's literally no process to stop him right now. He could have people executed in the streets and his supporters would cheer and sell merch.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 74 pts · 11d
He is having people executed in the street, and they are.
Archer@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 10d
Murdered
logi@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 10d
Potato tomato.
Archer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 10d
The question of whether killing someone is legal is very important
logi@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 10d
State sanctioned murder is also murder. So no, I don't think it's that important.
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 9d
He had someone extraducially executed in the street in 2020 too and nobody was ever held to account
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 11d
Wait can we?
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 89 pts · 11d
This is insane even for Trump. What would a military intervention in the bond market even mean?
My guess is this is just dementia related word salad.
Zos_Kia@jlai.lu · 43 pts · 10d
The largest chunks of US bonds are held by nations, so I think the subtext is that if any nation starts dumping bonds to hurt the US economy he may consider it a casus belli. Basically forcing them to hold the bag at gunpoint. This is a dream situation for a conman like him.
lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 10d
This is what he means. In fact, I think he is specifically referring to Canada. The first time Trump brought in tariffs, Carney initiated a little bond market run, causing him to back down. It was the first "CO" in TACO. Trump has been bristling since then.
I hate how the headline tries to trivialize the fact that America is threatening to attack its former allies on the basis of trade irritations. This guy is fucking mental.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 10d
Damn I didn't consider that but it makes some sense. What a fucking monster.
spirinolas@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 9d
But wouldn't that essentially make US bonds untradable, thus worthless?
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 10d
and here I was hoping he would sell some nice military surplus gear to buy them back
Ooops@feddit.org · 18 pts · 11d
Is it really an escalation from the already established case of 'wanting to nuke a hurricane'?
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 11d
Yes. I mean that's very insane but frankly not even as insane as nuking a populated area. Let alone an intangible concept like a market.
ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 10d
he's willing to blow up a school to distract from his star role in the Epstein Files.
now he's going to blow up a bank to distract from his economic fuckup
im_fine_sandy@nord.pub · 6 pts · 10d
My translation is: if people keep complaining about whatever bonds are we can invade Greenland or Uzbekistan or Herd Island.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 10d
Maybe he just watched Beverly Hills Cop 2 and wants to steal a bunch of bearer bonds.
dan1101@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 10d
A lot of shit seems to have happened after Trump watched a movie over the weekend. What a stupid state of affairs we are in.
crapwittyname@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 10d
Big if true. Make him watch Disney and Star Trek if true.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 10d
You can't imagine what a $2 trillion budget can do to a bond market?
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 10d
Marching into the stock exchange and telling people what the numbers should be, probably...no, almost certainly. 😦
Tetragrade@leminal.space · 3 pts · 10d
Ol' reliable: issue $1,000,000,000,000,000 in fascist funny bonds and invade Canada.
WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 79 pts · 11d
"And then we'll send the Marines to shoot inflation in the FACE." -- Some president soon, probably
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 10d
Let's hope we never have another president as fucking stupid as this one
Typotyper@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 10d
Let's hope you have another one period
ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 10d
don't worry, the next guy will make Trump look like Dubya
Smeagol666@crazypeople.online · 3 pts · 10d
Dubya looks like a fucking Rhodes Scholar compared to Drumpf...
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 10d
go lower, sarah palin looks like a rhodes scholar compared to trump.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 10d
puppinstuff@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 10d
But Brawndo’s got electrolytes.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 70 pts · 11d
Same guy who wanted to nuke hurricanes.
rethnor@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 10d
https://what-if.xkcd.com/23/
Evidently this is asked a lot and had been answered
samsamsamsam@discuss.online · 4 pts · 10d
Hmm... I am starting to see a pattern here...
SGGeorwell@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 11d
This needs to stop. Why are we letting a dipshit pedophile destroy our country?
FaceDeer@fedia.io · 50 pts · 11d
It's not a case of the people "letting" him destroy your country. The people wanted him to. Maybe not all the specific details of how he's doing it, but the previous election was largely a choice between "status quo" and "break the system" and break the system won. For some reason few of those voters seemed to be aware of how well the system was serving them, it appears they may have been misled. But that's democracy for you.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 11 pts · 11d
Plesse stop with this nonsense narrative. The super-rich and corporations want that, regardless of who is in office, and they get that. They are ecstatic that it's hastening under the current mouthpiece, everyone spouting this nonsense are just mad it's so mask-off, and kidding themselves it wasn't still happening under the fake opposition.
Ooops@feddit.org · 22 pts · 11d
The real problem is that because the super-rich want it the majority is also on board because they are mostly brain-dead and will parrot every shit media pours into their empty heads.
Which again leads to: the people want Trump. Why they want him is a completely different topic. But the fact does not go away just because you don't want it to be true.
kwomp2@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 10d
Their heads are not empty. They are filled with believe in an individualist notion of the subject and accordingly in individual freedom beeing maximized in a free market. This ideological branch is called liberalism and it's been hegemonial for about 80 years, mostly under the brand neoliberalism.
Those 2 central believes proof more and more dysfunctional, but the threshold to overwrite them is high, regarding the consequences for ones social identity, how to view ones biography, friends, role models, etc.
The democratic party is neoliberal, the republican party as well, MAGA might have some neo-feudalism and fascism added to the mix.
There is very little political organization among the majority of people, like in neighborhoods or at work (unions weak), that could provide socialist critique or the experience of lived solidarity.
Anti-communism adds to the threshold of reforming ones ideolocical dead end situation.
Here you go, a little praxeological explanation of why people are so "dumb", which is much better than saying they are idiots, at least when it comes to actually trying to better the world, when it comes to hope ;)
Ooops@feddit.org · 3 pts · 10d
Yeah, sounds right... until you broaden your horizon and realize that this is not US exclusive.
There are many countries that actually have non-neoliberal parties to chose from. And guess what... those also don't get enough votes to be more than a minor factor in government coalitions. Because the reality is: many people are really idiots (not their fault often given the state of education but still...) and fall for the same right-wing screaming again and again (and yes it is exactly the same - the right only has one single playbook and they all constantly copy from each other), no matter if there is actually a voice of reason to listen to instead.
kwomp2@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 10d
yes, elsewhere the 2 party system does not help stabilize hegemony. It still works good enough to keep a fundamental question of social order from happening.
Still, analyzing the situation with notions like hegemony and the praxeology of ideology is far more fruitful and instructive. It leaves room to look for breaklines and opportunities in the political-pedagogical complex of humans writing history.
Diagnosing general idiocy or constrict it to public education obfuscates chances of change, thus stabilizing the whole shitshow further..
Maeve@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 10d
The more aware I become, the more I'm aware it was by design, from the beginning.
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 11d
Education needs more focus, as always. Logic and critical thinking can easily be taught in primary school. Most people can be taught the basics before they're 10, and more detailed before they graduate. This won't make everyone start thinking things through, or agreeing, but you will actually be able to see the consequences of some choices. Like who pays tariffs.
edible_funk@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 10d
boTh SIdEs
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 31 pts · 11d
the poor are too busy dying without healthcare
Maeve@kbin.earth · 17 pts · 11d
The poor are overworked and overwhelmed, extremely underserved or disserved, and floundering about as best they can for solutions.
They need to take a cue from what is supposedly taught in scuba lessons: if you forget which way is up, stop swimming and watch the bubbles.
4grams@awful.systems · 19 pts · 10d
Because the republicans have control over all three branches, and the party has dedicated itself to authoritarian rule under that orange asshole.
This is the government that they have been wanting for my entire life. This stupid fucking country decided to finally gift it to them.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 4 pts · 10d
yeah I keep saying this. Im not the type to say conservatism is all bs but they have no relation to actual ideals they had before nixon and by nixon half of it was gone and with trump 100% is gone. whoever they are they need to wake up and realize thier party have violated the constitution to a level where the party is not only unamerican but traiters to the country. they have to realize that they have decimated federal departments including their favored military ones. they need to realize their party did not just not make america great again but have mired us in awefulness. The party and its brand cannot be salvaged and has to go. They should realize this has also spoiled the libertarian brand as well and need to start anew. Anything made would need to start small and show results with actual improvments to localities and states to show they have found their ethos again. they need to look back at lincoln, roosevelt, eisenhaur. Heck they should be the party of healthy land, air, and water for america. they should be anti corporate monopoly and pro small bussiness and farms. they should be pro individual rights. ugh.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 11d
Who's we?
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 11d
Hey now, I can actually get behind the idea of invading wallstreet. Lets let the man cook.
SGGeorwell@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 10d
Oh good point!
mrmaplebar@fedia.io · 2 pts · 11d
And our world. Don't forget that.
Let's see if people keep voting for him and his party!
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · -1 pts · 10d
Because no one has guns in the US.
TwinTitans@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 10d
Epstein files? Can the military be used to get those?
beejboytyson@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 9d
Pretty sure the military is used to protect those in the file.
FluidBeef@quokk.au · 30 pts · 10d
He’ll lose that war too.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 10d
Fascism has been winning in this country for nearly a century
nexguy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 9d
But what if he shot bond yields with every remaining patriot missile? Surely that would work. They are beautiful missiles you know.
Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 11d
He just doesn't know what's happening anymore, between periods of amphetamine-induced clarity
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 10d
and his constant need to get away from epstein news.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz · 27 pts · 11d
He's a walking LLM, just making word associations based on what's most probable to resonate with idiots.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 11d
He's a tiny LLM.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 14 pts · 11d
a TLM.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 11d
Oh yes, of course!
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 3 pts · 11d
Decades ago, I had two toaster macs connected by 2 X 4 conductor telephone wire over a distance of about 20 feet. A SysOp that I know, at the time, called it a TAN, a tiny area network, as compared to a LAN. lol
masterofn001@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 10d
Or an lLM A little Language Mushroom.
PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 10d
This statement is really weird, even for Trump because in the question asked immediately prior he clearly understands the question about whether he directed Bessant to intervene in the bond market stating.
"Not at all. No, he's a very capable man. He wanted to do it. He's very good at it. He is a good touch. Very good natural touch for the bonds and interest."
Right? He understands ehats beung spoken about, or his answer at least makes it sound like he does.
Then the reporter mentions that yields came back up and asks if Trump was going to direct Bessant to do "some other type of intervention". At this point Trump suggests military intervention.
He goes from "Bond market intervention" -> "Interest rates" (reasonable) to "Intervention" -> "I might direct the military to attack the bond market" (deranged) in, like 10 seconds. Is he just playing word association? Is he fucking with the reporter?
VoodooMischief@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 10d
I disagree with your assessment that he understands the first question. His answer is just your typical responsibility deflection (“He wanted to do it”) combined with vague praise (“He is a good touch”). It’s akin to Maurice’s generic answers about football in IT Crowd (“Did you see that ludicrous display last night”). The only thing Trump DOES understand is using the military for his problems, which is why his answers ultimately land there.
monotremata@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 10d
This is my read on it too. He has no idea whether we want bond yields high or low or what. He actually feels a little bit attacked by the question because he doesn't understand it. At first he tries to deflect it, because if the question will just go away, he doesn't have to care about it anymore. But then there's a follow-up. This is a challenge that isn't immediately going away. That makes him angry. He still doesn't know what's going on, but now he has to care about that. So he's gonna make a vague threat about being in control of the military. That should do the trick. That makes the reporters' eyes get wide every time, and he can just walk away at that point and be guaranteed to get a lot of press attention. It's a win-win.
You have to understand that he doesn't see these interviews as means of communication. He sees them as power struggles. Any communication that occurs is entirely incidental.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 10d
Someone else offered the darker explanation that he's threatening to use the military against countries like Canada who decide to reduce their investment in US bonds. I don't know whether that's seeing meaning where there isn't any, but here in Canada we haven't forgotten that Trump keeps saying he wants to destroy our country one way or another. But overall I think it's more likely he's just failing to understand the question then forgetting what he's supposed to be talking about.
monotremata@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 10d
Yeah, he definitely seems untethered enough that any kind of threat seems risky to entirely dismiss. I don't think he's gonna do anything with the actual military against Canada, though. That's expensive, and his puppeteers don't see a big profit in it. He's kind of already acting as an occupying force within the US, and his hold on power here is tenuous; and war with Canada, who can actually hurt Americans on their home soil, would be even more unpopular than his various overseas entanglements.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 10d
One hundred percent got stuck on the word "intervention" got lost in the brain fog, his alignment forbids STFUing or asking for clarification, so he just pattern matches over to "military" and his speak box handles the rest (no thoughts required for duckspeak)
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 10d
Trump is getting onboard with the Occupy Wall Street movement?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 10d
someguy3@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 11d
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 11d
Faced with the need to think, Trump's failing brain overloads and resets, wiping the context.
Trump recognizes the word "intervention". They must be talking about Iran, or Venezuela, or Nambia or Aberbaijan! I know this one!
But I really can't remember which one she was talking about. Just wing it. No one will know. Try to sound tough and commanding.
protist@retrofed.com · 10 pts · 11d
This reads like someone with moderate cognitive decline
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 11d
Moderate.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 10d
Severe. Almost complete. Debilitating.
thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 11d
Poopy pants, even.
Almacca@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 10d
And he was never a great thinker to begin with.
N0t_5ure@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 11d
Paul Krugman, Nobel Laureate in Economics, reporting for duty.
Throbbing_banjo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 11d
Not a Krugman Stan by any means, but that is a hilarious fucking response
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 10d
Ok, same, also not a Krugman fan, but goddamnit that is actually funny.
We live in complete fucking clown world jesus fuck.
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 11d
That response is the level of seriousness anything Trump says should be given. If only he wasn't the president of one of the most powerful countries in the world.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 10d
Maybe use the military for corruption and sexual exploitation of minors?
quarkquasar@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 10d
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 10d
MAC flights to new islands?
Alexfire@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 10d
What the dark magic,
Keeps this fucking ghoul going?
They say victims’ blood
FirstCircle@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 11d
I'm imagining a Drumpf intervention being something like a Venezuelan one. Helicopters and paratroopers over Wall St (and maybe over other international financial centers at the same time), soldiers rounding up traders, flying them off to concentration camps (losing a few out the door on the way, just for show) where they'd loosen their ties and drink WormyWater while their wounds festered.
Orangeboi would then demand a 10% cut of all portfolios as reparations, paid to his shell companies and friends and family. The traders would be replaced with puppets, no longer concerned with profits, but instead with maximizing the ego-yield for Diaper-baby. Demands would be made nightly on Truth Trading with the expectation of fulfillment the following morning.
Rinse & repeat with equity markets.
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it · 12 pts · 10d
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 10d
We’re so fucked
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 9d
This is more an example of advanced senility dementia that spouts more and more absurd out of his mouth, rather than any imminent declaration that any bon seller is a commie traitor insurgent. Though central banks around the world might want to consider this out of control spiral, and sell before they are threatened not to be allowed to sell.
Still this is just the dotard mixing up his talking points, although technically he could claim winning this war. The bond market no longer has an air force or navy, and its missile production facillities are down at least 90%.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 9d
How does this guy manage to get dumber with each passing day?
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 9d
Age and lead poisoning?
jestho@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 9d
But he would surely have negative IQ by now?
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 9d
Dementia.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 10d
Sending Navy Seals to kidnap Jamie Diamon and taking him to Gitmo would be incredibly based.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 10d
more and more moronic with each passing day
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 9d
Mango Mussolini despises the military, but wants to use them for his power grab. If it really happens, the American better hope for cooler heads within the military that fully understand their oath is to protect US Constitution and not a rotting bag of orange shit.
beejboytyson@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 9d
Nah people like there cushy jobs
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 9d
Serving under him will be the nastiest, most dangerous tour since WWII. If they want cushy they better stop him.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 8d
so a "war" on our own bond markets then? Will they be firing missiles on buildings in the US?
..What a time to be alive.
kandoh@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 8d
Translation: All we have left is the hammer and if that can't solve the problem then we're fucked
tacoplease@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 9d
Buy US bonds or else? Geddafugouttahere ya ain't got missiles left Donny boy.
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 11d