aquascoot wrote on Apr 9^th, 2025 at 6:55am:


So let me get this straight, anyone regretting their vote for Trump is just a spoiled child who wants to be taken care of forever?

Because apparently, wanting functioning public services or not collapsing under economic strain makes you an “infant” suckling at the government’s eternal breast?

Meanwhile, Trump is some kind of stern father figure who’s “weaned” the population off support, and if you don’t like the consequences, you’re a squawking calf who should be ashamed of himself.

Moving back home because you’re struggling? That’s not a symptom of a broken economy or failed leadership, it just means your mum is pushing a fully-grown man around in a pram to Woolies.

Got it. Very normal, extremely rational take.

Your TDS has you reframing regret as entitlement, suggesting anyone who expected tangible benefits from the government as somehow infantile while still trying to praise Trump, not by praising his policies or actions, but by inventing a narrative where he’s a masculine figure doling out tough love and anyone who dislikes that is just too soft to handle adulthood.

Mate, are you ok?

I know the realities of Trump are hard to swallow, and the cognitive dissonance must be excruciating, but you can also express regret, you don't have to lean into your TDS.

This is the thread for it...

Only the Lefty induced Shopaholic economy is Losing.

Anyone who lives in the USA, the richest society in the history of the world.

And who is physically fit and decides that it's acceptable to sook online about their " rough life" is a narcissistic little worm who should head off to Africa and see the wide eyed joyful smiles of kids who have nothing.

Then he should sit down and feel deep shame at his disgraceful entitlement and cowardly self obsession

I'm banking on the British Right, rather than the French Leftism.

freediver wrote on Apr 9^th, 2025 at 8:53am:




That's quite optimistic, considering the fact that everything he touches turns to hit.

The only people sharing your view are those who are paid to.

"Experts are all but unanimous that the impact on global growth of Wednesday’s extraordinary Rose Garden press conference will be negative – but just how bad remains highly uncertain."

greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 9^th, 2025 at 9:32am:


Trumpet man and his family are so well off, it’s virtually off the scale!
Losing touch with reality. Has gotten away with a lot.
Money talks. Those without it have no voice.

My advice to survive the recession. Everybody pull the purse strings tight.
If anyone has any more advice please share.

Quote:


https://www.desmog.com/2025/04/04/oil-execs-warn-privately-that-trumps-chaos-cou...

More than a stock  market crash.

The one voice cutting through the noise, apparently, is Peter Navarro, which is bloody nightmare fuel.

Navarro, the architect of Death by China, a 2011 screed laying blame for America’s decline at the feet of Beijing, owes his political resurrection to a late-night Amazon trawl by Jared Kushner. So impressed was Kushner by the book's alarmism that he cold-called Navarro and ushered him straight into Trump’s 2016 campaign. Thus began Navarro’s metamorphosis from academic oddity to one of Trump’s most influential economic whisperers.

A stalwart of Trump’s inner circle, Navarro served as the administration’s trade adviser and now enjoys renewed clout as senior counsellor for trade and manufacturing. His fingerprints are all over the White House’s protectionist playbook, including the tariff salvos that defined the Trump era.

But let’s not pretend the scholarship behind all this policy is unimpeachable. Navarro famously invented a fictitious source, “Ron Vara”, an anagram of his own surname, to bolster his arguments. It’s a move straight out of the John Baron playbook. When you can’t find credible experts to back your ideology, just conjure one from thin air.

That’s who Trump is listening to.

And despite his recent public spat with Elon Musk, who, predictably, finds the tariff regime economically illiterate, Navarro remains embedded in the policy machine. Musk called it out, Navarro doubled down. The cult insists it’s all part of the 4D chess narrative.

Because, of course, real strategic genius starts with fabricating sources, writing a polemic, then turning it into national economic doctrine. Not checkers, mate, just high-stakes LARPing with geopolitical consequences.