I wonder if Pam wants to discuss Trump’s stock market.

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    I think the double whammy of RAM and oil shortages are almost certain to exacerbate inflation. Digital goods are going to get more expensive because of RAM, and physical goods that need to be shipped from place to place are going to get more expensive due to oil.

    Another pointless and endless war costing the world untold amounts of blood and money, all for nothing.

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        The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is a 2007 book by Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein. In the book, Klein argues that neoliberal economic policies promoted by Milton Friedman and the Chicago school of economics have risen to global prominence because of a deliberate strategy she calls “disaster capitalism”. In this strategy, political actors exploit the chaos of natural disasters, wars, and other crises to push through unpopular policies such as deregulation and privatization. This economic " shock therapy" favors corporate interests while disadvantaging and disenfranchising citizens when they are too distracted and overwhelmed to respond or resist effectively.

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      It’s not for nothing. We get distracted from the Epstein-Trump files and whatever unnamed demon is pulling the strings gets a blood sacrifice of a few hundred school children.

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        Plus, it’s almost certain that this was Mossad cashing in their Epstein chips at the right moment so they could fire their huge strike but also pull the us alongside like “they did it too”

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      all for the shareholder value.

      Those shareholders are going to buy the dip and increase their percentage of share ownership.

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      I camnot believe Biden left such a mess for Trump to have to clean up. Man its gonna take at least 2 more terms for things to turn around.

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        It’s one thing to see the grinning sycophants in the admin saying it, it’s really wild when you see someone parroting this in person at the ground level.

        You expect that stupid shit-eating grin on the likes of Kevin Hasset the smirking chipmunk or when Mikey Johnson is gaslighting all of America, but when you see someone repeat this IRL it really is something: “But Turnip has to dig out from under Biden’s terrible economy…”

        I’ve asked a few of these people IRL exactly what was so bad about Biden’s economy toward the end of 2024? I still haven’t gotten an answer that was anywhere near to cogent…

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      Inflation is also just intentionally caused by tech oligarchs like amazon and rental market monopolists raising prices on everything because they can. So it’s bound to go up because bezos doesn’t have enough money.

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    The stock market is crashing, and gas is spiking.

    Does that mean we can go back to caring about raping children again?

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        Maybe. It’s still near ATH, but they could sell off now, wait for things to go to something in the range of late 2008/early 2009 and start pushing all that money in then.

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      Depends on what news you’re watching. CNBC is covering it, plus a bunch of finance news outfits.

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    So this means it’s time to start prosecutions of pedophiles in trump files, according to the criteria given by Pamela Bondi.

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      Yep. The Dow was not only under 50 thousand, it was under 48K. I guess she’s ready to talk about pedophiles in the administration she works for now?

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    The war ends when Israel decides it is over since they clearly own our government, financial sector, our tech overlords and soon most of our news outlets. Considering that they’ve been at war with their neighbors for over 50 years I would not hold my breath.

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    I wonder if Pam wants to discuss Trump’s stock market.

    I think they’ll be just as selective about this (and the huge dips right after his stupid and illegal tariffs were announced) just like they are about Donvict’s economy in 2020.

    They act like it’s no fair to talk about the economy then because of Covid. Sorry, that kind of thing comes with the job, too. And honestly, I don’t know what he really did in his first term that would have boosted the economy anyway since Obama already had it on a great path.