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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Bold of them to think the coffee and donuts would be free under Trump.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

IIRC it was Al Capone providing the food

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

JD Vance will be ordering the doughnuts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Well... whatever makes sense.

How long have you worked here?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

For daddy trump

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm not American, but the Great Depression and 1932 was taught in school as it was that historically significant as the biggest low-point in modern western economics.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

I've got a degree in american economic history and studied the 1930s depressions. hoo boy the tariffs caused the second dip

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago

And I was taught in calculus that a local minimum is when the line starts going up

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There's a new batch of Trump signs that have appeared in the last couple of weeks which I call the "TRUMP GOOD / KAMALA BAD" signs. They are targeted at the unimaginably simple, with stuff like "TRUMP LOW TAXES / KAMALA HIGH TAXES" and "TRUMP SECURE BORDER / KAMALA OPEN BORDER". My favorite is the one that says "TRUMP LOW PRICES / KAMALA HIGH PRICES" which counts on the total ignorance of basic economics on the part of Trumpers - tariffs raise prices.

These signs are almost as amusing as the "TRUMP: UNIFYING THE COUNTRY" billboards. I don't know who the fuck those are aimed at.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pretty sure "unify" is a dogwhistle for "turn into fascism".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Unify by force. Fall in line or die.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Well, the rich don't care either way

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Tariffs worked during the Great Depression because American businesses actually had infrastructure here to create jobs. Now a tariff only increases costs because all factories are over seas. A billion dollar company isn’t gonna make new jobs here, they’ll just pass the bill to the consumer.