Wtf is going on
They are literally pumping and dumping the stock market as a whole. It’s market manipulation by tariff as they make bank on peoples fear.
announce tariffs > market uncertainty > sell off stocks > value goes down > buy the dip > pause tariffs > markets recover > laugh all the way to the bank
or something like that
That’s what I did. I rebalanced my stock allocation from 50% to 80% and put a few thousand more in the market.
These swings are good opportunities to harvest losses if they cause any and you can move into something else that’s similar.
Like from a Blackrock 80/20 fund to a fidelity 80/20 fund or whatever it would be.
Minimal risk but you can still realize a loss.
I was going to do that until he of course undid it today. My timing was off unfortunately.
I disagree. While many of his sicko fans may be pushing towards this goal, Trump, himself, is far too incompetent, stupid, and demented to understand the point of what ever he is, he does. He reacts at a pure emotion, and this play will obviously end him And all of us in a much worse position. He’ll still convince him, Self he’s winning, though, and every sycophant around him will vociferously agree.
The only way to stop any of this is if Trump, and his entire cabinet, are dead. I’ll leave it up to you to figure out how that should happen.
Oh stop that. He knows exactly what he’s doing. It’s a reverse pump and dump to make insiders more money, while also destabilizing the global economy to help Russia.
It doesn’t much matter whether he has a plan to destroy the USA or whether he is a dumbass being manipulated by others with a plan to destroy the USA, or whether the manipulation is mainly based in blackmail or narcissistic pride. The overall result is the same.
I wonder if all this is just a distraction for something else… no idea what though.
It’s not intentional…
His first term had people managing him and stopping him from doing this shit.
This term is all people egging him on
He thought countries would rush to negotiate, instead they called his bluff. So now he’s vaugely saying “everyone” has been negotiating so he’s pausing everyone but China.
He wants every country to think they’re the only one not negotiating, when really no one is.
trump isn’t that hard to predict. 80s sleazy business practices are way more likely than some convoluted scheme to crash everything.
Putin wants him to, and trump is gonna do it. But at no point will trump be crashing the US economy intentionally, he’s genuinely doing his best right now.
And that’s way fucking scarier
Quick edit:
Even this 90 day pause, it’s almost certainly just because they saw the bounce from that fake tweet, and knew it would at least cause another bump if they really did it
They’re fucking idiots with no clue what they’re doing.
At this point, I am convinced it’s a pump and dump scheme, still ongoing, too. It only takes a few people in the know of when and where the news break about the tariff supsension, to seriously make a killing on the market, on the backs of others. Trumpists can now also (for a while) feel like their God has saved them again and never steered them wrong, or curse their momemts of doubt, when they did not buy yesterday, as their prophet called for.
It is a mixture of incompetence, impulsivity, but I am certain at this point, a huge chunk of it is outright corruption and cult tactics.
I honestly believe it is intentional as well. The 90 pause that went around social media the other day wasn’t a mistake it was a leak.
They’d be stupid to not be financially gaining from their intentional manipulation. We hired an entire administration of grifters, what else should we expect?
Any bets that it will take less than 90 days before we get the next tariff circus?
I feel like it’s just going to be round 1 of Canada and Mexico all over again. The pause for them didn’t make a difference. He said “let’s make a deal”, Canada and Mexico made a deal, and then 30 days later the tariffs began regardless.
No one is making deals this time because everyone knows they won’t affect the outcome. What is affecting the outcome is making threats. So either he just stubbornly waits it out, getting nothing in return before they happen anyways, or he chickens out and walks it all back.
Trump told his friends to short their stocks, announced tarifs to crash the economy, they all made tons of money.
Had everyone buy low, announced pause on tarifs, made tons of money again.
I really hope its that way, and not just trump being batshit crazy and having no idea or plan what to do.
I guess the strategy of USA is based on D20 dices. That would be my best guess.
South Park already explained how the US government determines economic policy…
They wanted to extort other countries but they are too stupid to execute something like this. They used ChatGPT and fake experts to come up with this ‘plan’ and it failed. Now they are bailing. In couple of days they will start droning Mexico or Israel will start another ground invasion somewhere to cover this fuckup with another one.
