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Trump holds national address in rally style speech blaming Biden for the state of his nation
(www.the-independent.com)
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Hands... So small...
Looking over in horror from Britain - because we've still got our own version of this shit likely to come in a few years time. :-!
It seems to me Turmp's real plan is to crash the economy so that the billionaires will be able to own everything. They will be able to buy it all dirt cheap in the coming recession. Billionaires get far richer in a crisis, it suits them fine since they already have the deepest pockets and are disaster capitalists who profit from instability and chaos.
Tmurp doesn't care. He expects to live forever but even if he dies trying, it'll still be his parting gift to his fellow rich bastards. His work is already done, the USA won't recover from this for generations. He will be remembered forever as the greatest villain who ever lived in the history of the USA. He's fine with that - he hates Everyone!
The AI bubble will pop so hard, not to even mention everything else going on. The money is all getting siphoned up in crypto and spirited away.
These fuckers are going to make an absolute killing, in more ways than one. They profit on chaos, despair and division.
I think it's hard for people to imagine that an insane narcissistic demented president would deliberately wreck the global economy while telling the citizens it's a golden age.
It's all a distraction from the plundering of everything!
He's got nothing to lose, a lot to gain, and he's running out of time. The 1% are gonna own everything and fuck off to Argentina when the time comes.
No shit Sherlock!
Edit: At least, that seems to be the game plan from where I'm sitting.
I put this in a post elsewhere about his Golden Age comment.
It actually is a Golden Age. For billionaires and corporations.
"Who shit my pants!?!"
- some orange tinted pedophile
That's a 10/10 headline, no notes
His last chance to address his national underlings with more lies until tomorrow when the Epstein files are either released or hidden by the DOJ. I fear for what kind of distraction he will use once the compost finally hits the Cuisinart.
I'm very much reminded of the "show and tell" meme.
The rot sent in when Trump got into office. The data shows that clearly. The Dems should be highlighting all his weak excuses and low-effort attempts at blame-shifting. Hang this crap economy right around Trump's neck where it belongs.
And remember that, excluding the AI bubble, there has been essentially no economic growth at all lately. Well, 0.1%.
Trump the Unaccountable.
Blaming everyone for his failures brought upon by his executive decisions.
I thought he was going to fix the economy on 'day one'. [looks at watch]
Did he release the Epstein files?
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. <-- you are here
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
It would definitely be believable to have Pedonald blame the kids he raped for making them doing it. Or Biden/Obama/Clinton.
Without having listened to his speech...did he happen to mention anything that he's done to "fix" the nation? Because from out here, it kind of looks like everything he's doing, is just making things worse.
He claimed that all these tariffs will cause just a ton of companies to build big factories all of a sudden next year.
He claimed that getting all those Hispanics out will mean more jobs and houses for the rest.
Basically that everything they've done is right, and depending on which minute he is speaking the economy is already great and everyone is lying about it or it's bad but only because of Biden but in 2026 everything he did will finally work.
They've evidently already made the call that millions of people losing healthcare is a small enough percentage to not worry about. I've been presuming that they would pull off a seemingly better circumstance by temporarily unwinding their worst policies, but they may be actually true believers...
Haven't you seen? He's rounding up all the foreigners, anyone else he deems "other", and picking a fight with Venezuela. What more could you possibly want him to do?
Gut international aid?
Shut down the education department?
Remove science from the centre for disease control?
Use the media regulator to pressure and shut down dissenting voices?
Threaten universities?
Deploy troops on the streets?
He's doing these things already. America will be great again™ in no time!
/s
In about two weeks!
He made like 3 things less expensive [to the corporations importing them] by removing the tariffs he added.
So... progress?
That's why he was put in: to sabotage the economy, US soft power, and alliances. And who benefits? Putin, who'd be in even more rapidly accelerating free-fall without all of Trump's help.
Just bear in mind that whenever Trump refers to 'America' or 'the nation' he's only referring to himself. Everything makes much more sense when you remember that.
From his perspective things look better because he added gold ornamentations & embellishments to the walls in his office, and he renovated the historic Lincoln restroom in the White House and he fired everyone who would've told him he's not allowed to hire a demolition crew to tear down the east wing of the White House.
I hope he blows a gasket while straining on one of his gold-plated shitters.
He banned food coloring... I think. And got more Americans to stop blindly following the DNC. Besides that.... Not much.
Let's now downplay the food coloring thing. We've allowed food dyes that have been banned in the rest of the developed world because of how bad they are to human health.
Doesn't really fix any of the other horrible things going on, but it's good.it finally happened
That was...interesting. I'm Canadian, it's not my place to comment as it has to do with American internal politics. I will say it was an absolute assault on the senses anyways. I've never heard a politician lay claim to so many feats, like I think this guy just claimed he's gone more than all the presidents combined, solved every war and completely solved the economy. That's quite a bold claim!
No, please, do feel free to comment on American politics as a foreigner. We nonstop cram this shit down your throat whether you want to listen to it or not, so you deserve to have an opinion on how batshit crazy this all looks from the outside looking in.
As an outsider, you have a different perspective and your comment absolutely has a place regarding US politics. You don't have to live here to hear the dumb shit that he says and to know how fucking absurd and stupid it is. I would argue that an outside perspective, if taken with and is accurate to current context, carries more weight than 35+% of US opinions. Especially being geographically near by, which seems less and less relevant as this dumb mother fucker keeps talking and bombing Venezuelans, I think the state of US politics is significant in the state of your country.
Best of luck Canada. Fight the fascism. Fuck this turd.
Yeah, as an American, every other country has a right to speak their mind on our politics. The bullshit that the US constantly pulls affects every single person on the planet via knock on effects. The countries closest to us are being deeply affected by the insanity that US leadership is currently undertaking, and their opinions deserve to be heard.
As one of our nice neighbors (Canada & Mexico), you have every right to weigh in, as his actions effect you as well.
Do we have any non-nice neighbors? Before he pissed off Venezuela, I mean.
I think basically everyone out to the russian and chinese borders were, if not cool with us, at least happy to be non-aggressive and accommodating. And this was the plan all along, to have a big "friendly border zone" around us. It was working pretty good!
I meant as "next door neighbors" and we only have two. But at this point our horrid criminal "president" has alienated every global neighbor we could ever have.
Yea, that is how Trump is all the time. He claimed he coined the phrase "prime the pump", which he most certainly did not.
It's funny how many super common phrases and words are "invented" just now according to him.. like the word affordability...
He might have gone more than any other president
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Glad he didn't announce anything heinous, just the usual BS. Biden must be rolling over in his grave.
You got me there I was like “woah did Biden die and I completely missed it?”
You and him both
I think he's gonna start making a lot of noise...
Hell keep doing this "big announcement coming" stuff, and then just not have anything. The goal to fatigue everyone from the news. Get them excited and let down over and over
Like if instead of a boy who cried a wolf, it was a wolf crying wolf till no one believes anyone else.
Juiced up President rather vent on TV than truth social because shit hits the fan in two days, like the world has never seen before.
That's basically what I got from this.
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Well I can't even listen to the motherfucker so thank you for the sum up, about what I figured. I can't believe he made a national address to say that he wasn't the one who farted and trying to blame it on the dog. Fucking hell.
Ha! I totally missed it. Well no one would miss it. I just played music instead of news. So talk to the hand!
I thought everything was great and the affordability issue was a democratic hoax?
Did he say anything of actual consequence or was it just an old man venting?
He said he's freaking out a bit about being exposed as a pedo, the constant moaning about bankrupting America is really irritating him, that he doesn't understand how Americans can be so stupid but still somehow understand that he's doing a shit job.
Think about all the bingo "buzz words" and then say bingo. He said everything from Biden to the fuckin kitchen sink.
Oh and he said Bitcoin for the troops or something like that, as known as a "bribe".
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