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[–] 75 points 5 months ago (1 child)

"No, I love it – the numbers were great," Trump said. "You know what I really love? I love the inflation. You know why? Because as soon as this war is over, you know, I can say it now, something you didn't know. You know, we've been taking out millions of barrels of oil, nobody knows it. You know who doesn't know about it? Iran, until right now we took out the other night 22 ships late at night with no lights because they don't have any radar because we blasted the crap out of it. We took out, that's why oil is $85 a barrel."

I know everything that comes out of his mouth is word salad, but I think I had a stroke just reading that.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago

    We've been taking out millions of barrels of oil. You know who doesn't know about it? Iran

    Didn't. Past tense.

    If by some amazing level of incompetence they didn't know about their oil being plundered, they absolutely do now that he's opened his mouth about it.

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

    Pay no attention to the economy, we have purposely trained it wrong, as a joke.

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

    We warned everyone - the rich love electing republicans because they crash everything and make people sell their stuff l, businesses and properties off cheap, it’s a fire sale for rich people, who then either hold on to that and borrow against it for more wealth, create monopolies, and raise prices further, or who just accrue more wealth and power for sport in this manner.

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

    Don't forget that since they sold all their stuff, they now have to buy all new stuff in the eventual upswing, now at an inflated price.

    The ultra-wealthy are literally pawnbrokers on a national scale.

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

    This alone should qualify him for impeachment, inflation is suffering for all but the most wealthy across the nation.

    Not that he will be impeached, congress is making so much money that they can't help but "ride it out". Easy wealth is hard for anyone to resist, could you? Seriously, we're talking generational wealth for their entire family...

    https://www.capitoltrades.com/trades

    ...and that's only what they report, there's way more money in play than that. Even the good ones have to face "I could have enough money for me and mom dad and my kids and their kids, just a few more months and then I'll argue for a minimum wage, maybe even a standalone bill! Just one more million..."

    All the leadership is long gone, the few decent reps are nothing more than tokens; their only purpose is idealization.

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

    He's literally committed treason and nothing happened. Expecting the government to do anything about him is a waste of energy.

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  • [–] 40 points 5 months ago*

    I imagine inflation is great when you've put yourself in debt to leverage assets and your cost of living takes only a tiny portion of your massive income.

    You know, it's great for rich people. The rest gets fucked.

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  • [–] 37 points 5 months ago

    YAY we made it to 4!

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  • [–] 103 points 5 months ago

    The Narcissist's Prayer


    That didn't happen.
    And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
    And if it was, that's not a big deal.
    And if it is, that's not my fault.
    And if it was, I didn't mean it.
    And if I did, you deserved it.
    
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  • [–] 33 points 5 months ago*

    The Narcissist's Prayer

    That didn't happen.
    And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
    And if it was, that's not a big deal.
    And if it is, that's not my fault.
    And if it was, I didn't mean it.
    And if I did, you deserved it. <-----We are here

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

    So there really is no point where there is a mechanism to save the office of the president should mental illness and incapacity dominate the working of the Supreme leader's mind? The King walks naked and we just keep saying his clothes look fabulous?

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

    There is, but the people who wrote it didn't foresee a world in which an entire established political party just blindly follows everything that the incapacitated person says.

    The framers of the constitution and the people who wrote its amendments were so sure that only people with integrity and good intentions would hold elected office that they didn't give us a plan for removing shallow, greedy megalomaniacs.

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

    But they also didn't consider themselves smart enough to have thought of everything which was the whole point of the amendment system. Which was promptly discarded as soon as it became more convenient to reinterpret the letter of the constitution to suit your needs while calling yourself an originalist.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I truly believe that if the framers of the constitution had any idea that they were basically writing a religious document, they would have built in the requirement for a constitutional convention every 25-ish years.

    I think they would be horrified by the idea that we had only passed 27 amendments in 237 years.

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago

    Blames Biden for inflation.

    "Promises" to fix it.

    Deliberately makes it worse so he can get richer.

    Mouth-breathing fucktards still blame Biden and immigrants for inflation

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

    Seems like his bribes keep up with inflation.

    Inflation is generally more of a poor peoples problem, the rich don't suffer like the rest of us. Lots of opportunities for the parasite class to steal even more wealth.

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

    Inflation actually benefits those who are in major debt.

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

    Yes, but you have to look at the bigger picture: most ultra-wealthy people do not keep the bulk of their wealth in cash. Instead, their wealth is largely invested in assets such as shares, which can rise in value over time. When they need cash, they can often borrow against those assets rather than sell them

    They have people whose job it is to shift the wealth around according to the current situation. They are unlikely to suffer with the rest of us.

    Take Corona: the super rich got much wealthier while we and the economy went down.

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    [–] 15 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    How many of his shit for brains enablers are going to make the arguments that inflation is a good thing?

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    It is a good thing, for the ruling elites. All their assets are skyrocketing in value, allowing them to game bank loans more and have more financial leverage. You can make boat loads of money off inflation if you play your cards right and have investments in property! Look up Hugo Stinnes, there's more to it than my comment says but interesting history that I think is repeating itself to some extent.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago

    Yeah, sure. Make that your midterms sales pitch.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    This has gone beyond parody

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    Meanwhile, Republican voters:

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    Inflation — so hot right now.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Further evidence that, along with his many other flaws, he's a blithering idiot.

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

    Is there an “entitled asshole” to English translation site so I can find out what the fuck he’s talking about?

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    Very stable [Wharton] geneyus.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Boom, bust cycle...yeah, that's on purpose. Trump's just dumb enough and far enough in his brain degenerative disease to say it outloud.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*
    • Shots foot
    • Starts hobbling
    • Shoots other food
    • Topples over
    • Loudly claims "It's but a flesh wound!" and that being feetless is the latest Fashion.
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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago

    Sounds like Americans love inflation too.

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