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[–] FluidBeef@quokk.au 9 points 2 hours ago

He’ll lose that war too.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 49 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Same guy who wanted to nuke hurricanes.

[–] rethnor@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 hours ago

https://what-if.xkcd.com/23/

Evidently this is asked a lot and had been answered

[–] samsamsamsam@discuss.online 2 points 4 hours ago

Hmm... I am starting to see a pattern here...

[–] sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 201 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

America isn't like this because Trump is president

Trump is president because America is like this

[–] deacon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

It a fair and accurate criticism and it probably shouldn’t have snuck up on us like this.

[–] Prairie_Madness@lemmy.world 92 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Decades of stripping education funding is taking its toll

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

That's not the issue at all. It's the curriculum, the no child left behind act implementation, and the overall indoctrination and corruption of a system of government that rewards the rich.

Most schools get plenty of money and just blow it on things they don't need. Buildings way too fancy and overpriced educational subscriptions to crap, instead of spending it on more teachers and teacher salary. The money is plenty there. None of the rich fucks get a cut from cheaper buildings and teacher payrolls.

[–] Prairie_Madness@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Stripping education doesn't necessarily mean money. The GOP has waged an all out war on knowledge over the last few decades. Hell Fox News was recently saying "colleges make liberals" despite the fact that all the people saying it had college degrees.

No Child Left Behind gas been terrible. And I agree that money needs to go to teachers, not admins

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

They use their money on the sports stuff because they can sell it.

[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You'd rather have uneducated strippers?

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

That's the best kind

[–] EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml 39 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Idiocracy was the game plan all along.

[–] BooBees@fedinsfw.app 7 points 3 hours ago

It was idiocy all along.

Signed - a native whose ancestors talked at length and wrote down (or had someone else write down) how dumb they were in the very beginning, before there was even a nation

[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 57 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

"And then we'll send the Marines to shoot inflation in the FACE." -- Some president soon, probably

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

But Brawndo’s got electrolytes.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Let's hope we never have another president as fucking stupid as this one

[–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 hours ago

Let's hope you have another one period

[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 hours ago

don't worry, the next guy will make Trump look like Dubya

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 23 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

He's a walking LLM, just making word associations based on what's most probable to resonate with idiots.

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[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 57 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

This is insane even for Trump. What would a military intervention in the bond market even mean?

My guess is this is just dementia related word salad.

[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 9 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

The largest chunks of US bonds are held by nations, so I think the subtext is that if any nation starts dumping bonds to hurt the US economy he may consider it a casus belli. Basically forcing them to hold the bag at gunpoint. This is a dream situation for a conman like him.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 points 19 minutes ago

Damn I didn't consider that but it makes some sense. What a fucking monster.

[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

This is what he means. In fact, I think he is specifically referring to Canada. The first time Trump brought in tariffs, Carney initiated a little bond market run, causing him to back down. It was the first "CO" in TACO. Trump has been bristling since then.

I hate how the headline tries to trivialize the fact that America is threatening to attack its former allies on the basis of trade irritations. This guy is fucking mental.

[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 hours ago

he's willing to blow up a school to distract from his star role in the Epstein Files.

now he's going to blow up a bank to distract from his economic fuckup

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 15 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Is it really an escalation from the already established case of 'wanting to nuke a hurricane'?

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[–] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 61 points 9 hours ago (8 children)

This needs to stop. Why are we letting a dipshit pedophile destroy our country?

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 14 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Because the republicans have control over all three branches, and the party has dedicated itself to authoritarian rule under that orange asshole.

This is the government that they have been wanting for my entire life. This stupid fucking country decided to finally gift it to them.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 2 hours ago

yeah I keep saying this. Im not the type to say conservatism is all bs but they have no relation to actual ideals they had before nixon and by nixon half of it was gone and with trump 100% is gone. whoever they are they need to wake up and realize thier party have violated the constitution to a level where the party is not only unamerican but traiters to the country. they have to realize that they have decimated federal departments including their favored military ones. they need to realize their party did not just not make america great again but have mired us in awefulness. The party and its brand cannot be salvaged and has to go. They should realize this has also spoiled the libertarian brand as well and need to start anew. Anything made would need to start small and show results with actual improvments to localities and states to show they have found their ethos again. they need to look back at lincoln, roosevelt, eisenhaur. Heck they should be the party of healthy land, air, and water for america. they should be anti corporate monopoly and pro small bussiness and farms. they should be pro individual rights. ugh.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 36 points 8 hours ago (7 children)

It's not a case of the people "letting" him destroy your country. The people wanted him to. Maybe not all the specific details of how he's doing it, but the previous election was largely a choice between "status quo" and "break the system" and break the system won. For some reason few of those voters seemed to be aware of how well the system was serving them, it appears they may have been misled. But that's democracy for you.

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[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

the poor are too busy dying without healthcare

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 16 points 7 hours ago

The poor are overworked and overwhelmed, extremely underserved or disserved, and floundering about as best they can for solutions.

They need to take a cue from what is supposedly taught in scuba lessons: if you forget which way is up, stop swimming and watch the bubbles.

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[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 87 points 9 hours ago (8 children)

Dipshit is so delusional he thinks he can send the military after bond traders.

[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 71 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I laughed about your comment, paused, and then started getting nervous.

I decided to take a quick glance at the article and came across this:

President Donald Trump suggested Friday he could use the military to stage an "intervention" on bond markets in a confusing response to a reporter asking about Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's efforts to bring down soaring yields.

Much to my dismay, you weren't exaggerating.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

What the fuck does that even mean...

[–] DougPiranha42@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago

Just for the record: in the comments section of a post about a news article in a news community, you described a story about how you read what the lead says when you took a quick glance at the article.
We’re talking about an “article” that is shown as a “2 minute read”, and takes about 30 seconds to read.
Fun fact: the demographic in which Trump gained the most before the 2024 election was “people who don’t read news daily”.

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[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 13 points 7 hours ago

I'm imagining a Drumpf intervention being something like a Venezuelan one. Helicopters and paratroopers over Wall St (and maybe over other international financial centers at the same time), soldiers rounding up traders, flying them off to concentration camps (losing a few out the door on the way, just for show) where they'd loosen their ties and drink WormyWater while their wounds festered.

Orangeboi would then demand a 10% cut of all portfolios as reparations, paid to his shell companies and friends and family. The traders would be replaced with puppets, no longer concerned with profits, but instead with maximizing the ego-yield for Diaper-baby. Demands would be made nightly on Truth Trading with the expectation of fulfillment the following morning.

Rinse & repeat with equity markets.

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