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uponit7771

(92,308 posts)
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 12:14 PM Jan 29

Thom Hartman: **TRUMP PLANS TO CRASH ECONOMY** Have a plan !!

BILLIONAIRES LOVE ECONOMIC CRASHES !!!

Thom Hartmann makes sense here, TFG can't deliver the tax cuts he for billionaires so crash the economy so the broligarchy can pick up assets for nothing.

He doesn't give a damn about GQP or MAGA he just wants the grift to continue, the rest will be mostly distractions including their overt bigotry and breaking the law and constitution.

Sit in safe assets and lower spending, I foresee things getting ruff ...

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Thom Hartman: **TRUMP PLANS TO CRASH ECONOMY** Have a plan !! (Original Post) uponit7771 Jan 29 OP
Sane people know this..... Lovie777 Jan 29 #1
YEP !! There are literally bots going around in different SM sites responding as if people are overreacting to this ... uponit7771 Jan 29 #4
100% n/t OneGrassRoot Jan 29 #2
More than a little nervous Nictuku Jan 29 #3
If there's a low risk category I'd sit there and wait it out for a while, if the tariffs are wide and sweeping even if uponit7771 Jan 29 #5
Gold or silver ETFs suegeo Jan 29 #10
WHOA !!! This shit has been happening since the 80s then !! uponit7771 Jan 29 #17
Silverado Savings and Loan crash suegeo Jan 29 #21
Yooo, that's some scary shit !! RayGun came in a wrecked it and GQP has been doing this ever sense. uponit7771 Jan 29 #24
Just wait DENVERPOPS Jan 29 #11
I'm with you. MiKenMi33 Jan 29 #18
Don't take financial advice from an anonymous internet poster on DU. Contact a CFP. beaglelover Jan 29 #22
Hear, hear. jeffreyi Jan 29 #23
AGREED !!! uponit7771 Jan 29 #25
And we Democrats have to rescue the US. Again. sakabatou Jan 29 #6
Hmmm, just a thought ... this time they plan to crash it early so the GQP candidate isn't saddled with legacy and lose uponit7771 Jan 29 #12
Cleaning up The Wizard Jan 29 #27
If he does it quickly, he can blame Biden Johnny2X2X Jan 29 #7
The sick fuck wants Biden arrested and/or executed. Initech Jan 29 #8
THIS !! I just posted about them crashing it early this time but blaming it all on Biden would be their excuse ... uponit7771 Jan 29 #13
Today Thom talked about this gab13by13 Jan 29 #9
Yep, except dems will go to legacy M$M instead of TYT ... MT ... BTC Roland Martin etc to amplify. We need to catch up uponit7771 Jan 29 #14
Dotard J Hoover. roamer65 Jan 29 #15
Yep, all my voting life the economy has crashed at the end of a GQP term !!! uponit7771 Jan 29 #16
Yup mine too proud patriot Jan 29 #19
That's what republicans do proud patriot Jan 29 #20
The bribing class will buy The Wizard Jan 29 #26

uponit7771

(92,308 posts)
4. YEP !! There are literally bots going around in different SM sites responding as if people are overreacting to this ...
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 12:28 PM
Jan 29

... notion and some on M$M.

FAUX News was trying to prime people for higher cost and even Jamie Diamond came out on video and said "get over it" in response to a question about higher prices.

These people are assholes, we see what they about to do

Nictuku

(4,012 posts)
3. More than a little nervous
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 12:28 PM
Jan 29

My life savings is from my government 401(k) - They call it TSP. I can move it around to different stock market funds, or have it in an interest only safe account. I've been too (either stupid or chicken), and have kept it in the safe spot for the past several years. When I first retired, I did try to benefit from the stock market, but by the time my loss was 30K, that was it for me and I put it back in the safe place. Murphys law, ever since then stock market has gone up and up and up. Of course now, there is no way I would put it in the stock market with TSF in office.

But what if they try to steal all that money? There is a shit-ton of money in the TSP, if TSF knows about it I'm sure he probably is drooling over it.

I'm thinking I should pull it all out and put in my bank.

But then I've been reading that he is going to fuck around with the FDIC.

I really don't know what a 'safe' place for savings is. Do we still trust CDs and stuff like that? I do have someone I can cal for advice.

It is all the money I have in the world, and am not earning any more (SS and modest pension is getting me by for now), but this money I'm basically saving for an emergency.

I'm scared. Not thinking clearly.

uponit7771

(92,308 posts)
5. If there's a low risk category I'd sit there and wait it out for a while, if the tariffs are wide and sweeping even if
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 12:32 PM
Jan 29

... its a head fake like the government spending freeze was we know what's coming.

I'd rather ride out with a 3 - 5% increase than a 10% drop, Hartmann is correct; each GQP government has had mondo crashes in equities and assets since I've been voting.

suegeo

(2,887 posts)
10. Gold or silver ETFs
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 01:01 PM
Jan 29
https://etfdb.com/etfdb-category/precious-metals/

I'm looking into these to protect some of my assets. I'm no financial expert and don't know anything about ETFs, fair warning. I'm nearing retirement.

I don't think I want to live in an oligarchy. I don't have as much time left in my life's timeline. What time I still have, I don't want to live in Pottersville. Looking into the abyss of insane republicans.

Replying to you to scream: Each GQP government has had mondo crashes in equities and assets since I've been voting.

I still hate George W. Asshat. We nearly lost our banking system twice due to that Bush crime family: Savings and Loan. 2008-2009. Privatize the profits, socialize the risks. Assholes.

suegeo

(2,887 posts)
21. Silverado Savings and Loan crash
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 04:38 PM
Jan 29

Read this whole thing from the Denver Post (link and excerpts below).

If you wish, google for more, because there's plenty more than just this. Riggs Bank, dead bodies in parks in D.C., and Bush Sr. brother's involvement (Jonathan Bush) with this bank. And foreign nationals just for some more fuckery.

Somehow the elder Prescott Bush helped funnel money to fascists in Germany back in the 1930s. I have a forever beef with fascists (AKA Republicans) and Nazis (Elon Musk threw 2 Nazi salutes behind the presidential seal)

Real estate crash, oil crisis, Banking system failure, billions go poof.
Bush Crime Family. Republican patterns of grift.
All repeated with that asshole GWB circa 2009.

https://www.denverpost.com/2008/09/29/silverado-collapse-cost-taxpayers-1-billion/

The failure of one of Colorado’s thrifts, Silverado Banking Savings and Loan, was legendary. Its collapse in 1988 cost taxpayers $1 billion and entangled prominent Denver businessmen, including Neil Bush.

The son of then-President George H.W. Bush and a brother of the current president, Neil Bush was on Silverado’s board of directors. Silverado made loans to developers who owned shares in the thrift and who had bankrolled Neil Bush’s oil company.

In what was considered a largely symbolic ruling, Neil Bush was barred by an administrative judge from having conflicts of interest at a savings and loan again.

uponit7771

(92,308 posts)
24. Yooo, that's some scary shit !! RayGun came in a wrecked it and GQP has been doing this ever sense.
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 06:44 PM
Jan 29

DENVERPOPS

(10,637 posts)
11. Just wait
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 01:05 PM
Jan 29

Until Trump produces a massive amount of his phony Crypto, has it replace our currency, and has the U.S. government needing to buy all of his Crypto from him, by using the Gold in Fort Knox.......

MiKenMi33

(181 posts)
18. I'm with you.
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 01:43 PM
Jan 29

All the money I have in the world is in a FDIC insured bank account. Taking it out and bringing it home presents all kinds of risks. I’m hardly well off but I can afford to fix or replace whatever breaks. I hoped this money would last the rest of my life. If you figure it out, let me know.

uponit7771

(92,308 posts)
12. Hmmm, just a thought ... this time they plan to crash it early so the GQP candidate isn't saddled with legacy and lose
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 01:19 PM
Jan 29

.... big in another election.

Just my prediction ... Trump is maniacal

Initech

(103,300 posts)
8. The sick fuck wants Biden arrested and/or executed.
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 12:43 PM
Jan 29

This is some truly scary shit. He is a grade A psychopath.

uponit7771

(92,308 posts)
13. THIS !! I just posted about them crashing it early this time but blaming it all on Biden would be their excuse ...
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 01:20 PM
Jan 29

... especially if the narrative is among the MAGA Cult is its all Biden's fault

gab13by13

(26,192 posts)
9. Today Thom talked about this
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 12:45 PM
Jan 29

Thom believes that Trump and his billionaire friends are running the same platform that David Koch ran back when he ran as a Libertarian.

Koch wanted all government dismantled except for the military, the police and courts so that dissenters can be arrested and jailed.

Thom also mentioned that Trump is dismantling government by breaking numerous laws.

A point I made a couple days ago when people opined that nothing could be done to stop his EO's. When his EO breaks the law something needs to be done immediately.

I guess Jeffries held a meeting and told his members to raise hell and seek out microphones. I still believe that holding town halls would be better, or do both.

uponit7771

(92,308 posts)
14. Yep, except dems will go to legacy M$M instead of TYT ... MT ... BTC Roland Martin etc to amplify. We need to catch up
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 01:22 PM
Jan 29

... to the audience that needs to be influenced and that's GEN x; the age group Harris lost the most.

They're online instead of legacy

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