• NielsBohron
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    17 hours ago

    As someone mentioned earlier, this reeks of a “pump and dump” scheme.

    1. Trigger an easily avoidable economic crisis
    2. Watch the stock market tank
    3. Wait for you and your oligarch friends to buy assets for a song
    4. Cancel the “crisis”
    5. Profit

    The fact that Trump pretended to be unaware of the effects of the threatened tariffs on the stock market is pretty indicative of him knowing exactly what the effects would be…

      • @SolidShake
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        915 hours ago

        Yeah this actually makes the most sense. Like damn I didn’t think about it before. I even saw the stocks plumet but I never thought he’d do it on purpose… but then again. He is a felon

        • NielsBohron
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          2 hours ago

          I never thought he’d do it on purpose

          Me neither; not because he’s better than that, but because I didn’t think his ego would let him pretend to take the L. Jokes on me! It seems like his handlers and the billionaires he surrounds himself with are (just) smart enough to play his ego to their own advantage.