# The Trump Recession

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-recession/1014592
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Tags:** trump
**Created:** [February 20, 2025, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-recession/1014592 "2025-02-20T20:13:47Z")
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### Author: ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2025, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-recession/1014592/439 "2025-10-21T12:55:42Z")

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If you check my thread about the shit-person taking power:

> [@I fear I'm about to lose my country](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fear-im-about-to-lose-my-country/991926):
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> I just came back from voting and I fear I’m about to lose my country. Now, there will probably stil be a country in the south of the world called Argentina in a few years, with more or less the same territory. But my country is a country where anyone, from anywhere in the world, of any race, creed or religion can come, be welcome, live a few years and then be granted citizenship. My country is a country where everybody can receive a free education, primary, secundary and tertiary, with some o…

Specially here:

> [@I fear I'm about to lose my country](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fear-im-about-to-lose-my-country/991926/272):
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> It’s even worse when you know that Caputo is the same guy who took 75 billion dollars of IMF debt in his previous term as minister, money that was (charitably speaking) used in diverse financial maneuvers to try and stabilize the economy and the value of the dollar… without success and leaving us with the debt while he (famously) bronzed himself at a Brazilian beach [[image] ](https://media.minutouno.com/p/4dc8da1c6acfc296cab525c2e5d4c2de/adjuntos/150/imagenes/029/396/0029396404/610x0/smart/luis-caputo-ipanema.jpg) Less charitably, he took the debt so his financial cronies could change all…

You’ll see that we non-shit-person-voters already strongly suspected that it was going to happen again, and in fact we firmly _knew_ it was going to happen for about a year now.  
What was a surprise was the Northern shit-person intervention, if it wasn’t for that we would be in step 8 already.

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