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Should be a wild four years.

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Observotron said:
I was told throughout Biden's whole term that the economy reflected the previous president
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That’s not at all how the economy works, you don’t have previous policy rippling through 4 years of the next president unless if it’s a substantial shift in fundamentals.
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Also "Fears of Economic growth" sounds like "we'll do anything but invest domestically".
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Yes because 30% duties on imported input materials for production screams gross monthly growth.
 
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Okay seriously, why do Reddit and the Media want Trump to openly denounce Putin? Putin, the man Trump is in peace negotiations with. They want Trump to call Putin a scumbag and mass murderer while Trump is trying to end a fucking war. Yes, call him a villain and ruin all chance of a peace agreement.

These retards would rather be perceived as ethical than save lives. This disdain for the "ugly but correct" solution these days is so insidious. I'm glad we have a group of grown ups making the hard decisions instead of the circus sideshow we had before.
 
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John Badman said:
That’s not at all how the economy works, you don’t have previous policy rippling through 4 years of the next president unless if it’s a substantial shift in fundamentals.

Yes because 30% duties on imported input materials for production screams gross monthly growth.
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I thought this was a bit, but you're serious? Wowzers.

Anyway, here's a thought. The entire US economy for the past two decades has been based around the US government deficit spending like crazy. Every business has had its model propped up with huge subsidies, deforming the market to the point where it's not even close to real, all to pump up boomer retirement funds. Now that the money hose is being turned off, there's going to be a massive market correction, but at the end of it, we will have a real economy, instead of a pretend one where 80 year old vampires suck the life and future out of their children and grand children all so that they can have a vacation home and a boat.
 
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Zoc Verde said:
Okay seriously, why do Reddit and the Media want Trump to openly denounce Putin? Putin, the man Trump is in peace negotiations with. They want Trump to call Putin a scumbag and mass murderer while Trump is trying to end a fucking war. Yes, call him a villain and ruin all chance of a peace agreement.

These retards would rather be perceived as ethical than save lives. This disdain for the "ugly but correct" solution these days is so insidious. I'm glad we have a group of grown ups making the hard decisions instead of the circus sideshow we had before.
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It's because they understand politics from TV shows and Video games. They don't understand that the world isn't black and white and that you can't just "cancel" a whole country.

In reality Politics are a give and take, and the "underdogs" can rarely, if ever, win.
 
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Betonhaus said:
weirdly enough the market has an inverse bearing on everyday citizens lives where if the numbers are up life is shittier.
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I can't remember where I read it, but a while back I read an article where economists were shocked to find out how dire the average person saw life/the economy.

It's almost like the people that study/dictate the market live a different life than the average man.
 
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Say, if the FBI is going to be going after people that want to harm America, does that mean that they'll go through the social media accounts calling for the Burning Looting and Murdering in 2020?
Does that filth count as people?
They certainly were doing domestic terrorism, far more than anything that went on in DC on Jan 6.
 
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John Badman said:
“Burn my country down it’ll own the libs.”
You faggots need to learn some basic stuff about the economy and separation of powers. You just had an unelected autist cut and privatize everything to make him and his wealthier while you and yours can kick rocks.
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Ah, deconstruction. Makes it sound really simple and stupid, doesn't it?
 
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Betonhaus said:
weirdly enough the market has an inverse bearing on everyday citizens lives where if the numbers are up life is shittier. Turns out people do better when corporations don't put everything into imaginary valuations
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Mhmm 2008 Lehman Brothers was real good for the economy. Everyone was so happy they decided to work three jobs.
 
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Zoc Verde said:
Okay seriously, why do Reddit and the Media want Trump to openly denounce Putin? Putin, the man Trump is in peace negotiations with. They want Trump to call Putin a scumbag and mass murderer while Trump is trying to end a fucking war. Yes, call him a villain and ruin all chance of a peace agreement.

These retards would rather be perceived as ethical than save lives. This disdain for the "ugly but correct" solution these days is so insidious. I'm glad we have a group of grown ups making the hard decisions instead of the circus sideshow we had before.
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It’s also so weird to me that Reddit will under stand concepts like war not being black and white but the second to apply that to say the cviivl war or ww2, suddenly they call You a nazi.
 
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Look--an Alien! said:
Ah, deconstruction. Makes it sound really simple and stupid, doesn't it?
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If you ever get a dev job and decide to just tear everything down you will be fired. But it’s totally fine to let Elon do it because he’s based and red pilled just like me. Me like Elon me friends with Elon Elon rich me like rich!

There’s a difference between planned deconstruction to minimize impact and then there’s using a wrecking-ball to take down an occupied kindergarten schoolhouse but saying fuck it I’ll just pay the dead kids families.
 
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