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they screwed me out of 20k this year on my bonus!!! its BAD SIGNS BROSKIS BAD SIGNS OKAY!!!
next year they'll probably tell us to go pound ourselves in the ass if we even consider the word bonus.
Shippers are redirecting volumes from the US to europe and basically ignoring the north american market now. Canadian trade is up a wee bit, but not enough to cover for the massive falldown on the US side of things.
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Harvard University sues Trump administration to stop funding freeze
I gotta say, Trump did a fast one on Harvard.
Then Harvard is suing him.
I have to stand on Trump side on funding - nothing is forever. 2Billion dollars.. what did you think was going to happen.
Don't ever think your allowance, job, health is forever....
Harvard, you gotta remember the taps might shut.
Now the reason why Trump is shutting off your taps... that's total BS. "President Donald Trump has accused universities of failing to protect Jewish students during last year's campus protests against the war in Gaza and US support for Israel."
So the fact your mom and dad / or your boss is shutting ur expense account, now you go sue them.. LOL. 'merica....
Yah fuck everyone else as long as I can make my bag.
But also make everything great again somehow at the same time?
So much hypocrisy.
Revyouup isn’t screwing anyone over. He’s doing the opposite of the general population living in fear from news headlines and will be rewarded in the future.
Yah you’re missing the part where anything had to go so wrong in the first place and a massive portion of the population is suffering or being destroyed to give him that amazing opportunity bud.
Ehhh, the market was bound for a drop eventually regardless of Trump or not. It was overpriced for a while and still is. Don’t listen to the noise, the market recovers as fast as it drops most of the time. The losers are the ones trading on emotion and fear. Hold if you can is what I learned from COVID.
Again it is on your time horizon as well. You shouldn’t be holding much in equities near retirement. The people that got screwed over are the greedy ones and didn’t do a risk assessment of their investments.
Also, I don’t care about no boomers portfolio that dropped 15-20% when they’re already loaded to the tits on cheap equity for awhile and was able to buy property for cheap. I doubt the less fortunate people got screwed over by the market drop too since they’re unlikely to be directly invested in the first place (other than CPP I guess).
Not really it's self inflicted cuz he can't shut the fuck up, that's why Powell isn't cutting rates. Times ticking for him cuz who else can you blame for destroying America? Kamilla? I bet they are all laughing their ass off.
It's clear he under estimated this shit like Russia Ukraine. Now you play with fire you get burned.
We're technically still within the first 100 days honeymoon period (day 92 now), and I believe Trump's current approval rating is the lowest -- or at least among the lowest -- of all POTUS.
At a 42% approval rating, I wonder how far away that is from the size of his core MAGA support crowd. Those idiots will say it is great to see the entire house burning down if that's what Trump told them. There is really no hope among these idiots.
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The whole world has gone down a road no one can recover from, and it's nothing to do with governments, it's because so much of the general public is so fucking stupid.
Dats fine time to make China great again, no one ever gave a shit about Ukraine, Israel, when was the last time you donated or stood on a bridge to waive a flag? The markets went up after Israel got invaded. He ended the war in 24 hours ok, did you say thank you?
so whats that retard doing about Ukraine and Russia? this cease fire proposal bs is it even holding?
Nobodys talking about that shit anymore since the economy is fucked and now everyone is worried about their own stocks/retirement savings.
The Easter truce never held. Russia accused Ukraine of attacking some 50 places during Easter Sunday, and Ukraine accused Russia of attacking at 1000+ places during the truce period.
I am not fully understanding what Trump / Rubio means though if Russia isn't gonna stop. Is the US just gonna give up and wash their hands clean of the whole thing? Are they gonna lay on more (useless) sanctions against Russia or buyers of Russian oil? Are they gonna keep supplying Ukraine with anything?
I'm still loosely following the war's developments, but it isn't very clear to me what the US is gonna do should peace talks fail.
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The whole world has gone down a road no one can recover from, and it's nothing to do with governments, it's because so much of the general public is so fucking stupid.
Bald here is a YouTuber who is very well versed in Eastern Europe and Russia/Ukraine recently went out to some of the war zones in this video
Most Ukrainians in those war zones have given up most hope, funny or not so funny but some basically saying “if Putin didn’t listen to Trump he won’t listen to anyone”
Outside of Kyiv and the towns which border Europe, Ukraine will never recover from this war, not in our lifetimes at least
Not only infrastructure wise but you’ve lost a huge chunk of an entire generation
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Russia doesn't appear to have the capacity to advance much more at this time. And for Russia, if they aren't "winning" they are losing. They need to have success to keep the war going.
I would expect to see them pushing harder to freeze the war so they can rebuild before they launch again in a year or so. Ukraine and the EU need to avoid that kind of a pause.
He just went on TV saying he's gonna bring down China tariffs and not fire Powell, in before 200% China tariffs tomorrow and he blames Powell.
To be fair he can't really fire Powell without cause and policy disagreements are not cause, I should preface with at least he shouldn't be able to but I guess that hasn't stopped him from doing all kinds of illegal shit already. If only the guy who originally nominated him for that job was available to hold accountable because according to Dump he's doing such a bad job.......oh wait, that orange fuck did that.
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Trump is backing down to work out deal trade war with China.
Elon saying he'll focus more on business and pivot back away from politics... let's see how this plays out.
Trump is backing down to work out deal trade war with China.
Elon saying he'll focus more on business and pivot back away from politics... let's see how this plays out.
Seems like he totally underestimated China, imagine that. When he was talking about it yesterday I couldn't help but laugh, paraphrasing but basically, "yeah Tariffs are much too high we're going to substantially drop them not zero but they'll come way down". I'm surprised he didn't blame Biden.
Then someone asked if he was talking to China, he kind of side stepped it because obviously not and paraphrasing again, "we're going to drop the tariffs regardless and China will come around, I have a great relationship with President Xi"
He's fucking delusional, seems like this was just another market manipulation play on the way to back tracking because his whole Tariff plan was not thought out and it's blowing up in his face. Spineless, no cards and I hope all the other world leaders realize how much of a cuck he is and take full advantage.
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Hopefully no matter what avenue he takes on removing tariffs, everyone can see that the US is not to be trusted and will not work well with others. Isolate them for the next 4 years and show them what happens when they act like the countries they invade to "bring democracy."
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Westopher is correct.
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seems like you got a dick up your ass well..get that checked
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Well.. I’d hate to be the first to say it, but Westopher is correct.
Maybe Cheeto is finally listening to American businesspeople, CEOs, about the damaging effect of his tariffs on the American economy and retail sector?
-from CNN:
President Donald Trump’s notable shift in tone toward Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and China came a day after he met privately in the Oval Office with chief executives of four major US retail companies, who conveyed concerns about rising economic fallout from Trump’s tariff policy and the uncertainty it has created for financial markets.
The CEOs of Walmart, Target, Home Depot and Lowe’s — all of whom delivered a blunt message about interruptions in the supply chain and its effects on consumers — were invited to the White House as part of an ongoing internal campaign to make the case to Trump about the real-world impact of his policies, administration officials said.
Trump’s tariffs have placed significant pressure on the retail sector. The business leaders warned that store shelves across America could “soon be empty,” two people familiar with the meeting said, as they presented a dire economic picture that could come into sharper view within weeks.
Doug McMillon, the CEO of Walmart — who has developed a cordial relationship with Trump through meetings at Mar-a-Lago and several mutual friends — bluntly told Trump that the trade war with China had already started to disrupt the supply chain, officials said, and would only intensify by summer.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who has emerged as one of the leading Cabinet officials whose words have calmed financial markets, played a key role in arranging the meeting of CEOs, officials said, as part of an effort to show Trump how serious the economic challenges facing the administration have become.
Axios first reported the fallout from the president’s meeting with CEOs.
In summary, the CEOs of Walmart, Target, Lowe's and Home Depot, bluntly told Cheeto that store shelves would be empty soon because of his tariffs on China.
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"The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed almost 1,000 points on Monday and is headed for its worst April performance since 1932, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
The S&P 500’s performance since Inauguration Day is now the worst for any president up to this point in data going back to 1928, according to Bespoke Investment Group."
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