I can’t afford this Trump economy

[Al-O-Meter]

Any good reads on this?

Sure.

Amazon.com

In 1920, a decade before the Great Depression, the economy crashed harder that it did in 1929. The government did mostly nothing except for impose emergency tariffs in 1921.

Emergency Tariff of 1921 - Wikipedia

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The Federal Reserve existed, but it didn't do anything. President Woodrow Wilson had a stroke and wasn't capable of doing anything. President Warren Harding didn't do anything, and the economy cured itself. Not only did the emergency tariffs not crush the recovery, it supercharged it, and Congress passed even more tariffs.

Fordney–McCumber Tariff - Wikipedia

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That era is now referred to as the Roaring 20's, and it was one of the most economically prosperous periods in our nation's history. As a side note, in addition to imposing tariffs, they also sought to tamp down immigration.

Immigration Act of 1924 - Wikipedia

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It made the 1920's. They were boom times. If I had to guess, @Sardines is referring to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, but that wasn't what caused the Great Depression contrary to what is taught in Middle School. The best source on that is Nobel Prize winning former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke who has written extensively on the subject in which he pinned the blame on the Federal Reserve of the period in no uncertain terms, and said he used what he learned from their missteps to fix the US economy during the Great Recession.

 

[fishonjazz]

My go-to breakfast taco food truck raised their prices due to eggs. Im outraged.

The question is, why do presidents of the US keep raising egg prices?

 

[PJF]

View: https://x.com/matt_vanswol/status/1883871715991896317?t=3WgqoOPTB8nd0YDlez6KBw&s=19

 

[Miggs]

What massive cleanup? Some vehicles were driving.

 

[fishonjazz]

What massive cleanup? Some vehicles were driving.

What is this in regards to?

 

[Sardines]

What is this in regards to?

PJF posted a twitter showing essentially nothing but claiming (without any substantiation) that there is an "absolutely massive cleanup effort in North Carolina" and then asking why Biden didn't do that 4 months earlier. There's no info on what cleanup efforts were happening then and no details on the scale of the current effort, just cars driving down the street.

My question is, in the face of cuts that will hurt the poorest of us, why do the people of North Carolina need the federal government to clean up their streets for them? Pull yourself up by the bootstraps you lazy bastards and then clean up your own streets.

 

[Deleted member 365]

PJF posted a twitter showing essentially nothing but claiming (without any substantiation) that there is an "absolutely massive cleanup effort in North Carolina" and then asking why Biden didn't do that 4 months earlier. There's no info on what cleanup efforts were happening then and no details on the scale of the current effort, just cars driving down the street.

My question is, in the face of cuts that will hurt the poorest of us, why do the people of North Carolina need the federal government to clean up their streets for them? Pull yourself up by the bootstraps you lazy bastards and then clean up your own streets.

Agreed. Great post. You can give a man a fish or teach a man how to fish. Why should blue states keep bailing out red states with handouts? These people need to change and learn from their mistakes. It serves no one if we keep giving these freeloaders blank checks. They’re welfare queens.

Have Repub states ever considered repenting? I dunno I don’t have any evidence to back this up, but doesn’t it feel like god destroys these states every year? Every year Florida, Alabama, Mississippi (if there was anything of worth to destroy), and other southern states get wrecked every year by hurricanes and tornadoes. Have they considered that maybe god is trying to send them a message? I know it sounds callous but maybe it’s time for these folks to reanalyze their attitudes and beliefs? Maybe by celebrating gay marriage, recognizing women as equals, and actually trying to help the poor god would stop destroying their states with not man caused climate change?

 

[Deleted member 365]

Stock market tanked today. Had its worst day in months. I just can’t afford Donald’s economy. We’d all be better off by giving him a set of the Oval Office and a camera. so he could pretend to be the teevee president but we’d have an actual functional adult running the country instead of the dotard we have now.

Sort of like the Truman show with Michael Scott in it. Trump who loves attention would love to pretend to be president. He likes teevee.

 

[Red]

Democrats slam Trump for not making good on promise to ‘immediately’ lower food prices

“During your first week of office you have instead focused on mass deportations and pardoning January 6 attackers,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren and 19 other lawmakers told the president in a letter.

www.nbcnews.com

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/25/business/egg-prices-avian-flu-outbreak/index.html

 

[Al-O-Meter]

Trump who loves attention would love to pretend to be president. He likes teevee.

Maybe you haven't been keeping up with current events, but he isn't pretending. Trump has done more in his first six days than any President in our nation's history. Many are referring to Trump's wide-ranging actions at break-neck speed as "Shock And Awe".

Breaking down Trump's first week of 'shock and awe'

So much has happened since President Trump's inauguration on Monday that it’s hard to keep up. The issues range from DEI to immigration. The panel unpacks the first week.

www.pbs.org

Trump Shock-And-Awe Return Forces Democrats To Consider Strategy

President Donald Trump’s opening salvo of insults and third-rail executive orders poses a test for moderate Democrats as the administration’s focus pivots to Capitol Hill.

news.bgov.com

'A shock-and-awe campaign': Trump WH fires DOJ officials who worked on criminal investigations of the president

Ed Martin, President Trump’s top prosecutor for Washington, D.C., told Justice Department colleagues Monday that he is launching a “special project” to review the office’s handling of a federal charge brought against many of the 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants who received presidential pardons last...

www.yahoo.com

 

[Rubashov]

The question is, why do presidents of the US keep raising egg prices?

You've got to wonder what's going on? Why is the deep state and Big Egg driving up prices? I couldn't buy eggs today, down the shops, there were none on the shelves, people are panic buying them at prices like they're made by Faberge. My cousin has some chickens she's started to call them her retirement fund.

 

[fishonjazz]

You've got to wonder what's going on? Why is the deep state and Big Egg driving up prices? I couldn't buy eggs today, down the shops, there were none on the shelves, people are panic buying them at prices like they're made by Faberge. My cousin has some chickens she's started to call them her retirement fund.

My wife said Costco didn't have any eggs when she went this week.