154 points

The grilling exposed Trump’s total cluelessness with regard to his own economic policy, and led Trump to attack Micklethwait as biased.

Yes the notably socialist empire of Bloomberg, used by communist stock traders around the world, is biased against the totally rational and very cool Trump economic “plan”.

Maybe adopting failed economic policies from the 1920s (and older) isn’t a winning formula?

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I love this video so much. The interviewer asks Shapiro to defend his stances and Shapiro responds by calling the interviewer a liberal.

“A Georgia law you support would have women who had a miscarriage face trail for potentialy 30 years in jail. Isn’t that a bit harsh?”

“Oh, sorry, I didn’t know you were A LIBERAL!”

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27 points

Knowing Neil’s background and then watching this video gives one truly one of the most delicious viewings of all time.

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3 points

I watched it without and it was still interesting. What’s Neil’s background? Seemed like a super nice old guy.

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34 points

That’s the one group I don’t understand, the finance guys, business owners, stock analysts, etc. How can they possibly be on team Trump? You want some certainty in the market, not some dementia patient steering the wheel with Christian Nationalists like Stephen Miller whispering directions in his ear.

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33 points

That’s the one group I don’t understand, the finance guys, business owners, stock analysts, etc. How can they possibly be on team Trump?

Tax cuts for the rich

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Lot of fucking good that’s going to do them when nobody can afford to buy their shit

Who are you going to sell to? Because it ain’t me, and it ain’t 99% of the rest of the American people. So if these rich fucks want to chase their infinite paycheck, they’re going to need some revenue.

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“What does The Wall Street Journal know? They’ve been wrong about everything, and so have you by the way, you’ve been wrong,” Trump replied, crossing his arms and curling into his seat.

Ah, yes, the well known unreputable, woke, liberal extremist publication, the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal.

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For some of the ultra-wealthy (Theil, Altman, Andreessen, Eric Schmidt, OpenAI board, etc), a type of accelerationism seems to be in-vogue (e/acc publicly, and probably accelerationist thoughts like The Dark Enlightenment privately). I think some ultra-wealthy are just trying to hedge their bets (Zuckerberg, and news corporations come to mind), because if Trump does win he’ll definitely try to use his power to harm companies he doesn’t like. I think others, such as Musk, want to be Russian-style oligarchs. I guess all this is kinda related; accelerate into some sort of collapse or chaos, use their positions to maneuver into greater power and become oligarchs or create corporate-city-states, or whatever stupid shit they believe in.

I think finance workers are about as split between the parties as the rest of the population; probably more socially liberal. Small bussiness owners are some of the most ignorant and authoritarian people I’ve encountered.

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Also you’ve gotta look at other similar situations in history. Capitalism isn’t doing so great at the moment and that drives people to socialism or barbarism. To the rich who’d spent a long time fighting for capitalism to be unrestrained its an easier leap to fascism than to restraining capitalism.

The harsh truth these people don’t want to accept is their best outcome involves huge taxes on them to fund a revamped new deal alongside strong unions that will force them to pay labor fairly. They’ll still be rich but it’s unlikely they’ll be “quick jaunt to orbit” rich.

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8 points

He creates turmoil and doubt, which is fertile ground for scams and cons.

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5 points

A lot of people with a high degree of expertise in one area are deficient in other areas, but wrongly assume they are geniuses in all areas.

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7 points

I just assume I’m a dipshit across the board so I can be pleasantly surprised any time I do something competently

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5 points

Cocaine’s a hell of a drug.

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4 points

The richer you are, the more likely you vote republican.

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2 points

To be fair, they are probably biased against him, but that’s just because his plan is fucking trash and even those who would benefit see the long term problems with turnip’s plan to kick off a deflationary spiral.

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92 points

He’s truly a man of the people. Turns out the people of America are dumb.

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93 points

They are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know …

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45 points

Thanks for the opening. “Morons!”

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22 points

Possibly the best line of dialog ever spoken from a movie screen.

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I don’t know who upvotes you, but let me remind you that the Trumpers are the minority in America. Always have, always will.

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32 points

Yes! We also have dumb people who don’t support Trump.

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21 points

And a whole other group of dumb people who also support nothing and do absolutely nothing to encourage or support anything and just stand back and watch the world burn.

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Bro literary got over 45% of votes.

Edit: And is likely to again

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2 points

Most people don’t vote.

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< 50%

Which means that they’re a minority. Checkmate, atheist.

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Trump responded by sighing and ranting about Virginia’s voter rolls. “The question is about Google, President Trump,” Micklethwait replied. Trump then went on a spiel about how Google is unfair to him and doesn’t show users any positive stories about him.

There are no positive articles about him that aren’t from horribly biased sources.

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A journalist had to answer a question from the public on the subject in a Canadian special on US elections and his answer was “Look, I’m a journalist, I report facts and if you believe I’m biased because all the news coming from the republican side are bad news I would tell you I’m not the one who chose the candidate that generates these bad news, my job is just to report them, nothing else.”

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Mad respect to those professional ethics

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One time Google’s snippet for Republican described Nazis. This enraged the Republicans and Google manually changed it. But it was auto generated from stuff the GOP was really saying, and still are.

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25 points

LOL that photo

he’s such a fucking whiny baby

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6 points

Looks like a toddler refusing to put on his shoes.

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why put on your shoes when you can get some other cunt to do it for you. just tell them you’ll pay them LOL

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“They’re eating the dogs. And can we get some music?”

/dances to opera

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