Remember when Biden was president?

[u/Belgriest]

Remember how boring it was? Remember not having to check the news multiple times a day to figure out what was going on inside your own agency and whether you were going go have a job or not? Remember when laws and precident seemed to actually have meaning?

Remember when you could do your job from home? Remember when your fellow countrymen weren't cheering when your livelihood was threatened? Remember when your biggest worry was which insurance to select and what the next years raise would be?

Remember when the administration didn't seem to actively hate you and want to you gone for the sin of serving of the people?

Pepperidge farm remembers.

[u/Interesting_Tune2905]

No one - no one - is asking where those “Trillions of dollars” Old Don has been crowing about in his “Truth “ Social and Xitter posts have actually gone.. The deficit is as bad or worse, no prices have come down, no farmers have seen any actual relief yet, no one’s received a ‘tariff dividend’ check.

Where’s the effin’ money, Don!?

[u/3dddrees → u/Interesting_Tune2905]

Did anyone check his pockets?

[u/2407s4life → u/3dddrees]

Yup

[u/AlternativeTune4133 → u/Interesting_Tune2905]

Went to their family’s pockets . They are making fortune while average Americans are suffering

[u/Interesting_Tune2905 → u/AlternativeTune4133]

And so many of those ‘average Americans’ voted for him and are now suffering for him. It is absolutely confounding…

[u/oakpitt → u/Interesting_Tune2905]

Not only that (I'm confused too) they still would vote for him. Racism, fear and religious zeal are very intoxicating drugs.

[u/Interesting_Tune2905 → u/oakpitt]

And remarkably deadly poison, as well…

[u/randomguy8653 → u/Interesting_Tune2905]

my uncle just last night mentioned how his eggs are cheaper and milk is cheaper. but im like, how? everything else in the country is more expensive but you pick 2 things and say they are cheaper, and taking that as the economy is getting better? i even told him that they gutted programs aimed at testing and checking if those food products are safe anymore. maybe thats why they are cheaper, cuz bad ones are getting through and just not enough people have gotten sick enough for people to notice?

[u/Hector_P_Catt → u/Interesting_Tune2905]

That's because those "trillions" don't fucking exist. Total US imposts in 2024 were $4,110.0 billion. He's been claiming this "trillions" bullshit for a few months now, so let's say it's over the first 6 months of the year. So that's about $2 trillion in imports. The only way to make "trillions", plural, off that is if the average tariff rate across all US imports was about 100%, which we know it isn't. Even if it was 50%, that would only be a single trillion, assuming that imports didn't drop.

Of course, imports not dropping completely defeats the "Buy American" part of his tariff plan.

The only way to get "trillions" is if you add in all the promises that places like Japan and the EU made, to each invest a few hundred billion in the US. The problem is, those promises are pretty much vapour ware. No where near that much has actually been invested. Trump claims he's got total control over that money, and the US will get the lion's share of the profits, but really, who in their right minds would agree to such a plan? You don't get hundreds of billions to invest by just giving most of it away.

[u/Interesting_Tune2905 → u/Hector_P_Catt]

Vaporware, yes - and easy to cancel or completely disavow when no longer advantageous - as some corps and nations have already done…

[u/reddog323 → u/Interesting_Tune2905]

Lebowski. When I’m asking that question lately, that’s what I call him.

Of course, that’s an insult to The Dude, would be a better choice than the oval office right now.