Warning signs are flashing red in a week where troubling economic news has turned unmistakably grim. Consumers should brace for a surge in terms like “inflation,” “stagflation,” “Trumpflation,” and “recession” dominating the headlines.Reports are now showing consumer confidence has plummeted to its ...
  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
    74·
    15 days ago

    You have a child running around with spray paint, won’t take it away, and are worried about the drapes.

    Got it.

  • courageousstep@lemm.eeEnglish
    18·
    14 days ago

    I wish they’d quit making up cutesy names for actual horrors. It’s not a “Trumpsession,” it’s a fucking recession.

    I understand that including his name ties him to the event, but too many people have a positive connotation with it, so they won’t see the word recession, only his name.

    • Frozengyro@lemmy.world
      8·
      14 days ago

      Saying this is a ‘Trump induced recession’ is too many syllables for the maga fucks to get through their thick skulls.

          • CherryBullets@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            9 days ago

            Uh, I was more referencing the, “Let them eat cake” thing. Not sure how the cake being vegan would affect anything, other than maybe making the brother in law actually angry enough to notice he’s being used as a tool and being force fed shitty vegan cake. We can only dream though, I bet he still would lick the boots. Been seeing MAGAts buying Teslas and it’s hilarious to see the 180 on electric cars.

            • MuskyMelon@lemmy.world
              1·
              9 days ago

              Yeah I was alluding to telling your BIL that a cake without eggs is vegan so he’s eating a woke cake 😂

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        14 days ago

        Holy fuck is that so very stupid. Things were already actually quite good. These dipshits keep saying that Biden gave donvict “the worst economy ever” which is suuuuuuuch a load. And now they are going to welcome things being actually much worse, dreaming of some bright future where they will benefit (and presumably, donvict will be “hurting the people he needs to be hurting” in that bright future, i.e,. not the xtian white far-right people, and making exceptions for the “good” versions of POC, women, gays, etc…)

        How are these magoffs any different from the dumbasses that believed Mao’s horseshit about a “Great Leap Forward” and “5 year plans”, etc…?

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      14 days ago

      We might be lucky if donvict’s actions “only” cause a recession and not an all-out depression. Desperate people are not going to sit around and do nothing and they’ll be ripe for easy answers being supplied by the likes of extremists.

      I know accelerationists of both wings like to imagine that they and/or their ideology will come out on top in the event of violent revolution/civil war, but…it usually doesn’t work like that.

  • MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world
    151·
    14 days ago

    The economy was chugging right along and on the way back until Trump and Co. came in destroying The gains made by the last administration.

    firing so many federal employees has knock-on effects all the way down.

    Not to mention the tariffs and USAID.

    This is by Design. That way the ultra-rich can gobble up everything at a cheaper price.

      • cute_noker@feddit.dk
        1·
        13 days ago

        Now the whole political spectrum loves the second amendment. The conservatives really are doing a good job

        • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          13 days ago

          Liberals have always respected the 2nd Amendment, they just feel that the issue requires some responsible, common-sense guardrails, especially for young people.

          I know LOTS of well-armed liberals.