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It Must Really Suck For You People

Not just your industry, but the entire business community in Ameria will take it across the chin. Dow Jones lost again today and is down over 2000 points in just 9 days. Losing streak for the ninth day in a row. The reason? Trump's tariffs on the way.

These MAGA folks are not too bright.
MAGA folks are incapable of second-order thinking.
 
Yes thank you for acknowledging the country will suck under Trump.

Human rights, voting rights, reproductive rights and religious freedom out the window. Mass shootings and gun crime will increase and tariffs and tax cuts for the corrupt cabal of billionaires he's surrounded himself with will bankrupt the economy. Civil service gutted, unqualified shills placed in positions of power, diplomacy out the window, alliances frayed. Even MAGA voters will see their worker protections and entitlements like medicare and medicaid eroded.

We know it's going to suck because he near-completely wrecked the place last time. We've seen this before.

Now he'll go scorched Earth. This is what you get when you elect a president whose sole platform is vengeance and retribution: Gotterdamerung.
Trump's fiefdom on full display. A true 2 class society whereby the middle class becomes extinct.
 
All you people who hate Trump, it must really suck for you that he got back in the White House. And it must really suck for people who want illegal immigrants to come waltzing over here like they own the place. And it particularly sucks for people who want more gun control, when Trump gets back in office gun control will go out the window.

Here is a story of what Trump said about taking guns away and due process in 2018.

 
My prediction:

Once the initial honeymoon period ends after 10 months, and the focus turns to the upcoming midterms, a legislatively stymied Trump will turn to self-enrichment.

He has never done anything except for self-enrichment. He has zero interest in governance or legislation, and that is what will stymie him.
 
What also sucks is the stock market didn't crash and all the CEOs that wouldn't endorse his are suddenly knocking on his door.
 
To the contrary I support securing our border allowing only legal immigration. I also support regulating guns to people who have committed crimes with a gun to protect the law abiding.

Agreed. Very much so, actually.

I was vey pleased with the economy under Trump. The inflation we experienced under Biden I do not like or want. As a retired person on a fixed income when things I buy double and triple while my income goes up only a small percentage is a real problem and concern.

Trump's economy was fine. Biden's was even better, as long as your income kept up with or surpassed inflation. I do get that those on fixed incomes bore a heavy burden, though.

Many of us gained a lot of equity in the markets and in property appreciation, though. Significant equity.

I personally never worked & billed more hours than in the 18 months following the pandemic. More-so than during the Clinton dotcom years, which I never thought would be surpassed. I was literally working 7 day weeks, trying to take off every 2nd or 3rd Sunday, until finally I burnt-out and dropped my most demanding client. And then they amazingly responded by asking me to come onboard with them, dangling the possibility of equity sharing (where ostensibly I would continue to work 7 day weeks)!

It will take time to undo the mess. That is certain. Trump cannot fix anything without congress. As long as our congress is owned by the rich and powerful I doubt Trump will get much done that doesn't benefit the rich and powerful. The rich and powerful are making a lot of money right now off of Biden omics. It will be very difficult to take this away from them. Especially considering the fact they own both parties. We saw the extent of their power when they told the sitting president he could not run for reelection.

Quite honestly, this sounds like an excuse to rationalize Trump's inevitable failure in reducing prices to below 2020 levels. It's just not going to happen, and if it did - it would crash the economy.
 
I think that was done to simplify our tax system. It did help people who did not keep accurate records giving then a more general deduction over itemizing. Sorry to hear that. I was no longer self employed when that was done so it actually didn't make much difference to me. I think also the cost of checking and approving all those itemized deductions also cost a lot of time and money someone has to pay for. I look forward to seeing what he does different this time around.

The only real (non-business) records needed are mortgage interest and property tax deductions. The sales tax deduction can be done as a percentage of income, which is how my accountant does it.

As to paying to have someone do it, I file through my accountant so my fee's pretty much the same every year except for his regular increases.

I swear the best money spent is on a good fairly-priced accountant, that is willing to work for your best interest. It's a very good ROI.
 
All you people who hate Trump, it must really suck for you that he got back in the White House. And it must really suck for people who want illegal immigrants to come waltzing over here like they own the place. And it particularly sucks for people who want more gun control, when Trump gets back in office gun control will go out the window.
We're the ones preparing for the disaster. Are you?
 
I'm sorry, are you not getting the wailing and gnashing of teeth you expected?

Personally, I'm just waiting to watch the red states get cornholed by Trump's dumbass ideas.

I'm waiting for Trump to threaten the Blue States or cities with withholding federal funds, only for them to respond by threatening to withhold federal taxes!

Trump's got to remember he & his government work for us, not the other way around. We fund the federal government, he doesn't fund us.

I'm also getting tired of the MAGA states draining our Blue states of funds too, but that's a whole 'nother issue. Given that they're financial dependent upon us, they sure have a fugged-up way of showing gratitude.
 
All you people who hate Trump, it must really suck for you that he got back in the White House. And it must really suck for people who want illegal immigrants to come waltzing over here like they own the place. And it particularly sucks for people who want more gun control, when Trump gets back in office gun control will go out the window.
I know I don't "hate Trump", but I DO hate the ignorance that put him back in. There is a big difference there.........
 
It does suck. For EVERYBODY except for criminals, perverts, thieves, liars, and traitors (GQP and MAGA) and those who support them.
Who the president is has that much effect on your life? Where did you go wrong?
 
Very few people actually want illegal immigrants to come streaming over the border as they did. They bought into the idea it was racist to put up a wall and secure our borders. When they realized what it really means to engage in an open border policy, the people including many democrats said WTF? Between homeless on the streets, rising crime and immigrants to feed and clothe our lives are being significantly impacted for the worse. Did you see the minorities screaming at their liberal mayor in Chicago? I have no pity for them they elected him knowing he was to the left of Lightfoot.

What really sucks for progressives is they are either going to pull a Harris and suddenly deny they were in favor of everything they were in favor of for years. Or somehow get the American people to feel sorry for criminals, illegal aliens, drug dealers, trans-women who win competitions or want the people to pay for sex change operations. I think they're too proudfull to do an about face./\

Unfortunately, cynical hypocrisy and pathological denial is far more common on both sides of the divide than is deliberative and informed understandings of the other side. I have not yet looked at responses to your post (I assume there are some) but no doubt you have triggered a clichéd list of objections. Here is my checklist of the usual:

"I am not against border control, but it's too expensive and I just know it won't work to use walls, large fines, detention in camps, "encounters" (arrests) beyond the border, raids...yada, yada, yada. But ya of course I am against illegal migration".

" I am not in favor of illegal migration, but can't we use less judgmental and nicer terms like "undocumented migrants"?

" I am not in favor of illegal migration but it's impossible to send any back".

" I am not in favor of illegal entry but it's too harsh to segregate families and children after they are caught."

" I am not in favor of illegal workers, but we can't send them back because our economy will collapse without enough yard workers, dishwashers, nanny's, and illegal migrant farm labor."

"I am against illegal migrants so why not give everyone caught or turning themselves in at the border legal documentation making their crossing and employment legal".

"I am for legal immigration, so we ought to give amnesty to all to make them legal and then raise the legal limits to immigration to 20,000,000 a year because more is better."

The point here is that those holding the above opinions are not against self-approved entry, they just want to make sure that the millions who wishes to move here can, and they fill out the paperwork needed to provide them jobs, benefits, and protection from deportation... ie a legal status and a "path to citizenship".

For those who are lying to themselves, and/or to us, they keep insisting they are not for open borders, because they actually support open borders with paperwork attached.

Go figure.
 
Bloody he'll its worse than I thought if you guys are having to ration salt.

No wonder people are angry.

Yeah, but we still got our ammo & Jack. We'll get by! :p
 
All you people who hate Trump, it must really suck for you that he got back in the White House. And it must really suck for people who want illegal immigrants to come waltzing over here like they own the place. And it particularly sucks for people who want more gun control, when Trump gets back in office gun control will go out the window.
This thread sucks and seems completely gratuitous and information-free.
 
What also sucks is the stock market didn't crash and all the CEOs that wouldn't endorse his are suddenly knocking on his door.
Because their scared about what he might try to do. Their knocking on his door in order to curry favor with him. Which is more proof of his authoritarian tendencies. Us little guys have been saying it all along. Now the big corporate CEOs and owners are just proving we were right.

The overall survival of our democracy depends on just how many and how hard the corporate world pushes back on Trump. If they all capitulate, welcome to a carbon copy of the early years of Putin's reign. We already see it beginning to happen.
 
Because their scared about what he might try to do. Their knocking on his door in order to curry favor with him. Which is more proof of his authoritarian tendencies. Us little guys have been saying it all along. Now the big corporate CEOs and owners are just proving we were right.

The overall survival of our democracy depends on just how many and how hard the corporate world pushes back on Trump. If they all capitulate, welcome to a carbon copy of the early years of Putin's reign. We already see it beginning to happen.
You don't gain credibility by being buddy-buddy after the fact. The people that endorsed him when he was struggling are his real friends and supporters. And that's like over half the people. Truth is these CEOs always supported him (because he's pro-business) but there were forced to display loyalty to Biden and the Democrats just in case he lost.
 
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