Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP, Updated 18/03/25

The Democrats are asleep at the wheel. Maybe they have some great plan for the midterms or the next election who knows.

I don't even think there's a plan; I think they live in hope that someday Trump will do something so outrageous the public outcry will be a wave they can ride. The problem is, as you said, the slow boil will have the populace conned before they can be too vocal. As long as those who are deemed 'different' are being targeted, there's a sizeable population that will continue to excuse everything else going on.

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

Was seeing that it's already starting to hit Las Vegas pretty hard, which is almost entirely a tourism-based economy. Tourism, visitors, hotel bookings etc all down around 5% from last year.

conservatives in general and American conservatives in particular just want someone to blame. They don’t really care for much else out of trump, he blames Biden the media the liberal left foreigners anyone for anything. They don’t want to blame themselves for any ills in their country and he gives them someone to blame for everything. That’s all they want

For sure places like that and Florida will be hit harder by the fall in tourism.

All that tells me is that they'll boast about having the best civil wars.

I don't mean to be glib, but they'll crater their civil society after they've catered their economy.

It will be mad max territory but at least they've got their f150s and guns to doing at eachother. Their civilisation nodes will be around oil refineries.

Indeed Capaill, and apparently he would have everyone for dinner and rant on in monologues until 3 or 4am keeping everyone else up. Typical narcissist. Also let's not forget Himmler, the genocidal maniac. I could never understand before why the germans just fell for the propaganda, but watching this and seeing what Goebbels did, it all makes sense.

It's too early to really see the tariffs impact as companies have stocked up and most items from China would be nonperishable.

If companies want to keep their profit margins then yes the tariff will be compounded throughout the supply chain. But a 10c widget bought from China and sold for $5 retail, there's a hefty profit margin there for the retailer to absorb/cushion the tariff.

It's really only when the tariffed goods (or lack of goods) starts hitting the shelves that you will see the impact.

You only have to look at the impact covid and the Russian invasion had with the supply chain/input costs to see how quickly inflation can rise.... The US is going to see both at once!

Mark Carney takes **** with more integrity and intelliegence than the Orange Buffon and his brains trust.

I really hope he schools the US in economics.

Oh Canada....

Trump said last year the stock market was going so well because the market assumed Trump was going to be president. Now he’s saying the economy has tanked due to Biden even though it’s 4 months since he took over? And MAGA lap it up

Credit to sky for going though all his bullshit:

I wouldn't be surprised in 2028, 3 years into the great US depression, he's still blaming Biden. As blind as the MAGA crowd are, I'd say every day more and more become disillusioned with him.

yeah 🫠

I said this yesterday, but this seems to be the latest thing going around social media and as someone who lives in vegas, I'm just not seeing it yet. Monday was the 3rd busiest day at the airport ever and everywhere is still packed. I know for a fact that in at least one of the big casino companies, earnings are up this year and hotel occupancy is still close to 100%, and is 100% at some properties. The state took in over a billion dollars in gaming tax just in March, and most of that is vegas. Also last year the super bowl was here so obviously bookings, spending etc will be a drop compared to that. If anything is putting people off it's the ridiculous charges like parking and resort fees as well as the extortionate cost of food and drinks on the strip but we will see how things go. I'm not looking forward to what the effects of a recession might be, certainly not wishing it on like some seem to be.

I wasnt here then but I've heard it was pretty bad, one of the worst hit cities. I hope we aren't heading for a similar situation