I've got Trump Phone V2 now ready for deposits.

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[–] 1 point 5 months ago

Oh ok let me go grab a switch 2 then I guess.

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    [–] 81 points 5 months ago

    Donald Trump and the Republicans are insisting the economy is great and unhappy Americans are deluded. Just like Democrats under Joe Biden, they’re lying to themselves and everyone else — and will eventually pay the price.

    Not until the rest of us have paid way more than they EVER will.

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  • [–] 72 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    We live in a company town now. Every cent that comes in goes right back out. No savings. No retirement. Our paychecks are picked apart by fees, middlemen, subscriptions to things we used to own, corporations forcing us into choose to pay for everything or figuratively live in a cave disconnected from society. CoL and inflation increases that pay never keeps up with, working more hours, harder, with less people, for stagnant pay, and never getting a break or vacation.

    Broke doesn’t mean living in a box under a bridge. You can still have the trappings of modern life, but be a complete slave to the grind with no end in sight.

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  • [–] 49 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Because he only considers the ruling class real Americans. So yes, economy is doing great for them. It's K shaped.

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  • [–] 47 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    Richest country in the world. Sure don't feel like it when you look at our: infrastructure, schools, healthcare, public transportation, etc

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    What is the meaning of "the richest country in the world," anyways? Highest digital numbers in bank? The phrase has always been so deceptive

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Which part of the USA's enormous debt makes it the richest country? They're paying $2b per day just on interest repayments and have a national debt of over $30 trillion. At present the debt far exceeds GDP so I would say the USA is broke.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Richest country in the world turns out to mean that a burger and beer plus tax and tip is 50 bucks. But our education, health care and infrastructure is a global embarrasment. And we are the ones driving the equivalent of ladas now. Russians now drive posh chinese cars, which we dont sell here because itd destroy our domestic market overnight. Its all a big joke.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    The problem with debt is you need some material thing to offset it. If you take out a loan for a car your debt is offset by the car. There's no good measure of the value of the economy to the avg person.

    The GDP is just a measure of "work done" its not a measure of the actual "car" etc we're paying for. The problem is the government and corporate america are slowly firing all the people that create real, valuable products and replacing it with slop, police state bullshit and outright fraud.

    So instead of getting houses, groceries and gas etc for this debt we're getting "financial products", "ai", price fixing, corporate collusion, private prisons and other things that kind of inflate corporate value while average people see no real world returns on the spending

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  • [–] 47 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Americans: We're broke.

    Trump: No, I'm not.

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  • [–] 42 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Overheard an argument at a bar the other day and the Trumpie had the dumbest retorts.

    "Gas prices are up" -> "But they'd be worse under Biden"

    "Grocery prices aren't coming down" -> "Yes they are, they talk about it [on Fox News] all the time"

    "ICE is terrorizing communities" -> "Fake news"

    It just went on and on and on and I always the former person for keeping their cool but the trumpie is an absolute fucking moron.

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I wished they would live in their own reality and not effect the rest of us. I would call them skitzo but that may be disrespectful to the people actually suffering that condition.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    More cult. Cults are literally brainwashing. The TV brain washes you into their cult. If you had no other source, you could imagine how people are sucked in. Leaving cults takes deep deprogramming. I don't wonder if you pretended to be interested and asked them to show you how all they think is true, as if they were winning you over.

    Eta: disclaimer, I don't in any way think that excuses their behaviour.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago*

    My brother was schizo and despised Trump. Glad he didn't have to see him reelected.

    He heard all sorts of shit, but never any thing like this vile dribble

    E: somewhat important context - conservative evangelical upbringing for us

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  • [–] 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Americans: “we are broke.”

    Trump: “no, I am not.”

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    Donald Trump's the kinda guy who considers World Hunger over because he just had a Big Mac. It's not that he's ignorant to other people's suffering, he just doesn't give a shit.

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I remember reading somewhere how part of why Yugoslavia collapsed was because the high ups in the communist party knew about a whole lot of problems but they chose to do nothing to not trouble the old man Tito, so things festered.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Balkanization of America coming up?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I kind of really hope this happens. We could be a federation like Europe and probably get along much better if local regions could do what they want. Though I don't have much hope for quality of life for the southern regions.

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  • [–] 21 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    They will be saying this until they all have to move to military bases like Stephen Miller because people are burning their fucking houses down

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  • [–] 21 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    It's worse than that. He doesn't care if you're broke or not.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    It's worse than that, no one (well that he doesn't hang with) are even people to Trump. They're devices to toy with and to his delight and give him power over a soon to be known as an ex great natiion. We can quibble about the great part but no denying they were a respected entity, now they're a laughing stock. Least they paid lip service to being better before.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Sometimes I feel like they're fucking up the economy intentionally. I notice that it's always enough to fuck over everyone who isn't rich but never enough to screw up the stock market. Maybe they just want to get rid of the middle class while attempting to make themselves impossible to vote out.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago

    Trump: you're not broke enough. Not yet.

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  • [–] 64 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    lucky for the republicans, the American people will just bow in silence and wait for the non existent democracy to save them

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    Slight correction: We’re “Broken”

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    We don't have to be... We could just start taking out Billionaires and taking their wealth and assets through physical force. It certainly looks like a more attractive option by the day to me.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago*

    The US is a financial sovereign. It has the monopoly over its currency: You don't need the rich ! Govments within a financial sovereign can decide/agree in congress to pay for things they want with the only limit being that the thing/service is available in that currency. It's called MMT, as american as apple pie, and no MMT is not communist.

    Why do the rich hate MMT? Because they get paid risk free interest by offering the guvment their money.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    It certainly looks like a more attractive option by the day to me.

    It's starting to look like the INEVITABLE option by the day. I don't see how just having the Dems take control of the government is going to do much if you have MAGA in the background causing all sorts of mayhem, funded by TRILLIONAIRES. We saw it during the Biden administration, and since it actually worked, it will be 1000x worse the next time.

    MAGA has to be decisively crushed and purged from our government and our society, and the Sociopathic Oligarchs' fortunes and behavior heavily regulated.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    he will do anything to not face the music of epstein files, even if america is down in the dumps.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Of course he's not broke. He's getting paid from our taxes. Mfer

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    Yet the truth exists on all Gas billboard signs throughout, and across, the country.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    I actually met one of those "gas prices are lower now with trump than with biden, it's only $3 a gallon" maga morons. best part to show how delusional this idiot was? we were both at a gas station filling up gas that cost $5 a gallon cash ($5.13 if card).

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    We’re not if we take our power and assets back from the pedophile class

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    We haven't starved to death yet so no we are in no distress at all.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    “You still have a minute amount of wealth I need to extract! You’re not broke enough yet!”

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    They always talk about "creating" wealth and "making the pie bigger." Well, it's time for them to do that instead of squeezing everyone more.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    it’s literally not possible

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Trump is absolutely correct as long as his bootlickers keep voting for him.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    This leaves an obvious opening for the next Democratic challenger. And the Republican candidate too, if they're got the guts to go anti-MAGA.

    As the article quite correctly points out, Trump got elected because Dems patted themselves on the back while the man on the street was hurting, and Trump said 'I see you, we'll bring your job back'.

    Now the tables have turned. So in 2028 whichever candidate most says 'I see you', they'll win.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    is he gonna pay off everyones mortgages and credit balance? /doubt

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    "Oh, you don't know what broke is. Wait til I'm done with you!"

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    So, Biden's 2024 strategy. Looking forward to seeing that play out in the midterms.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    You're getting downvoted but you're right. The messaging to people who couldn't afford groceries under biden and harris was "line go up so you're fine."

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    LOL, I didn't even notice I got downvoted. I'm surprised, "Biden downplaying inflation cost him/Harris support," ie still controversial with anyone in 2026. Even the establishment Dem cheerleader pundits seem to have accepted that it was a blunder.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    The Russians and Chinese are laughing their balls off at the USA.

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    Squeeze these two fruits until the profits trickle down.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    I remember Jen Psaki and Karine Jean-Pierre telling the press daily the economy was doing great and we are not struggling too. Ignoring our pleas is bipartisan when we need something it takes months of they ever address it, refers to endless committees, blocked by unelected officials and fails to pass because of a rotating villain. When corporations and Israel need help there's no debate or discussion vote a simple vote and they get what they requested

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    [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    I'm seeing 6% inflation projections for later this summer. I wouldn't call them credible yet, they're probably not far from the mark though.

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