It takes a special kind of stupid to schedule a recession.
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Stock futures plunge after Trump announces ‘Liberation Day’ global tariff agenda
(www.independent.co.uk)
He starts to remind me of Liz Truss, afraid he won't leave office as soon as she did tho
Trump already outlasted the lettuce, unfortunately.
... even though the fat asshole would never eat one.
I'd rather have the lettuce as president.
Liz lasted like 2 weeks or something.
A scaramucci
Who?
Bro looks like a cartoon version of himself converted back to a real person.
It's obvious that this is exactly what they want to do. The question is why.
Is this just a great ploy to buy the dip?
Implode the world to bring about Jebus.
Not sure if joking but yes exactly.
And daddy Putin wants it.
Not for his and his oligarch's aims
The coward scheduled the announcement after markets closed to avoid the split screen showing the effects on the market.
Goldman Sachs have blinders on. This is gonna hit hard tomorrow
My only guess is that they remain conservative in their estimates until we start reaching into a second or third quarter of GDP losses.
Liberate deez nuts.
Even though I know that I am personally going to feel the pain from this, it does bring me a little bit of satisfaction watching the rich assholes who put Trump in office in exchange for tax cuts losing their net worth because it's all tied to their stock.
Those tax breaks aren't going to matter when they don't have any money.
The poor people voted for tax cuts for the rich because they might be rich one day.
Turns out the rich people should've voted for social safety nets because they might be poor one day.
@OutlierBlue @Chainweasel the rich have forgotten they should vote for social safety nets because otherwise the poor have nothing to lose.
The rich people will buy up these stocks and become even more proportionally wealthy than the poor because of it.
Wasn't it already 35% before today?
I think they just don't understand that we don't pay the tariffs, the country it's coming from pays the tariffs. Right! Right? Guys...