They are fools, not stupid. Stupid people learn from their mistakes, just slower. Fools never learn. Fools refuse to learn.
I didn’t mean to imply they were below average intelligence. I meant that they were deliberately doing something terrible and even if it was bad for them, they would keep doing it. It might not be smart, but that’s not the root of the problem.
QFT. Well said!
Let’s settle on stupid fools.
In the middle of all that there’s the guy who showed a screenshot of how he’d lost $200K = 33% on his investments in the past 3 months. And I’m like, taken out of the story to wonder OK, wait, what were you investing in? Sanctuary Cities R Us?
If you’ve read Trump’s fundraising emails, they’re written with pretty much the same kind of language televangelists like Peter Popoff and the Bakkers have been using for decades to get their marks to part with their money. It’s very much about engendering this sort of one-sided parasocial relationship where the mark believes that the person ripping them off is communicating personally with them and cares about them on an individual level. These people probably do believe they’ve received personal messages from Trump and that he’s listening to what they have to say, and the only reason they’re losing money is because he’s getting bad advice or the Deep State is sabotaging him.
This reminds me of all the people scammed by fake Elon Musk, who really thought he was talking to them. Genuinely, factually, believed it. People are so fucking incurious.
I wondered that too. At the lowest, I’d lost around that amount, but my overall starting point was much higher. How did that moron lose a third?
One possibility, DJT:US.
Down about 54% from its high 3 months ago.
And of course Tesla down 48%.
There are innumerable ways for MAGAs to lose their money betting on the business acumen or their leaders.
Needs a third panel where they say “Whoooo!! MAGA, baby!” again.
“He tells it like it is!”
Oh, that works.
Yeah. The look of dismay on the MAGAts’ faces in the second panel is totally not the right sentiment.
It never gets old
Oh yeah. That would have totally nailed it.
I only have sympathy for the bees:
A beekeeper who voted for President Donald Trump three times says he would have “considered other options” after the president ordered tariffs and cuts that could put him out of business.
“I never thought I was going to lose this much money this fast,” farmer Jim Hartman told CNN, explaining that cuts to the federal budget, combined with the Trump administration’s tariff policy, could cause him to lose over half of his annual income.
I made two attempts to ‘sign in’ with Facebook. Unsuccessful. ‘You need a password.’ ‘You need an email.’ Never mind, then! Thank you for quoting the relevant part.
“Losing money costs you nothing.” MiniTrue couldn’t have said it better.
Not only play down, but it’s a good thing!
I was listening to a radio show last night while driving. The guest had some sort of market-focused channel/podcast or something and was obviously pro-Trump.
He said we’re only in the “downslope of a V-shaped economy” and were about to rebound to greater than ever heights. This seems like the “patient before-and-after surgery” analogy that seems currently popular with Trump apologists. A few minutes later, he said the economy was also on solid ground because there was now an adult in charge–Donald Trump–repairing all the damage done by every incompetent admin before him.
The guest boohoo’ed claims of a coming recession because we’re actually currently in a recession that Biden caused but no one has noticed.
Apparently, all the claims that the economy had the most successful recovery after the pandemic and was the envy of the world were just smoke and mirrors because Biden was manipulating government spending to make “numbers look good” and destroying private business.
The decrease in unemployment? All those jobs were going to non-native-born immigrants. Native-born Americans saw increased unemployment. (I don’t know if this is true.)
The best part was the defense of tariffs based on trade deficits. You see, all those US dollars spent on goods abroad are money that the American worker no longer has access to. If we had trade surpluses with all those countries or didn’t have to buy goods from them, American workers would be awash in money for themselves.
Don’t be misled and discouraged by the mainstream media, MAGA; Donald Trump is fighting the Deep State and working hard to fix and improve the American economy to prosperity never seen before for YOU!
(When the guy talked about a “V-shaped economy” I guess he was talking about a graph of a soon-to-come recovery using some variable over time. My first thought was Trump’s economy is probably more L-shaped.)