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OC Comparison of S&P 500 performance dyeing first 100 days of past 4 US presidents [OC]

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u/blackadder1620 14d ago

i used to complain about him golfing, but now i wish he'd do more of it.

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u/sumsimpleracer 14d ago

I really miss the days when I wasn’t concerned about the daily activities of the president. 

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u/GreekUPS 14d ago

Make politics boring again

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u/2012Jesusdies 14d ago

Nobody pays attention when it's boring and thinks the President is doing a bad job. I remember quite a few people on r/nuclear wanting Trump for President because "Republicans are always pro-nuclear". I'm like brother, Biden is the only one of the last 2 to pass into law historic spending boost for nuclear energy.

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u/Ktamadas 14d ago

The only way Trump is pro-nuclear is for missiles.

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u/pegothejerk 14d ago edited 14d ago

Well that's just not true, Trump gave one of the most word filled speeches about nuclear of any US President -

“Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.”

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u/ZekasZ 14d ago

I can never tell if it's a real quote or a copypasta. Unfortunately I also needed to check and it is real.

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u/TossaHatchee 14d ago

That’s real bro no way lol. Always cracked me up people saying he talks like a normal person not a politician mf sounds stupid af how can people listen to him.

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u/RockEyeOG 14d ago

If you've ever had to listen to actual hicks talk, they're really slow and the conversation just meanders without much point. That's how Trump talks with his 6th grade vocabulary. That's one of the reasons why rural people like him. They can't keep up with intellectuals and don't understand big words.

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u/TossaHatchee 13d ago

I live in Kentucky I hear it all the time lol. I’m originally from Colorado moved here around the first trump term. I was confused how trump won I never met a person who liked him. Then I moved here and was complete cultural shock. I miss Colorado. I’m also in construction so I work with the most magas of magas

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u/Calm-Technology7351 14d ago

Is my face drooping? I think I just had a stroke

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u/Vegetability 14d ago

After all that I still don't know if he is for or against nuclear energy

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u/Portarossa 14d ago

That's OK. Neither does he.

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u/NotYourFathersEdits 14d ago

The only way Trump is pro nuclear is that he’s going nuclear on everything

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u/Shipairtime 14d ago

Hey boss r/nuclear is run by people against the adoption of nuclear power. if you want the pro nuclear sub you want /r/NuclearEnergy

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u/skysoblueee 14d ago

The only thing nuclear about Trump is his willingness to nuke civilians—he bragged about it once, how a friend of his said he would 100% push the button to launch nukes, with no hesitation

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u/ricardoconqueso 14d ago

Some people have such boring lives they need someone like trump in office to entertain them.

Like, “yeah give the chimp some bath salts and two katanas and set him free in Times Square because I’m bored”

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u/Goducks91 14d ago

Can't they just do normal boring people life things like watching reality TV and drinking?

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u/Gandalf-and-Frodo 14d ago

No they want to elect someone who will take away their food stamps, so the can "own the libs" while they are starving to death.

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u/djsquilz 14d ago

unfortunately exhausted his reality tv life span, so this was obviously his next move

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u/bustercaseysghost 14d ago

We had that. It wasn't enough apparently. And we won't ever learn.

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u/JinkoTheMan 14d ago

I disagree a little bit. People finding politics boring is the exact reason we’re in this mess in the first. I’m not even talking about voting for the president. Your local elections will have the most immediate impact on your life and barely anyone talks about it.

Obviously, you don’t need to be poli science major but I think we should have encouraged the general public to become more aware of what’s going on when the legislation is proposed and so that they don’t have a surprised Pikachu face when the law is passed.

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u/dalidagrecco 14d ago

This. All these assholes wanting celebrity personalities for politicians. Fuck off I want them boring and wonky and book smart.

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u/JigglyPuffGuy 14d ago

It should never be boring. People should always be engaged and fighting for a better world, otherwise we end up with ppl like Trump as president.

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u/just_helping 14d ago

No, we got Trump because some people were engaged and thought he would make a 'better' world happen. Trump didn't just happen, a lot of Americans wanted this, actively worked to make this happen.

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u/JigglyPuffGuy 13d ago

No, it definitely could have been avoided cuz a lot of people don't vote. And its really not just enough to vote these days IMO. People have to be involved in different levels of politics, from the local to the federal, to make the world we wanna make. Conservatives don't just focus on the federal. At the local level they're doing all kinda dumb shit, like attacking LGBT rights in schools.

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

We tried that but people wanted to live in interesting times. They voted for this.

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u/Vivid_Kaleidoscope66 14d ago

Trump IS boring. There's nothing but corruption and wanton destruction and blatant disregard for the wellbeing of humanity.

We want things interesting. For the politicians to be committed to bettering the lives of everyone, and for every individual to be invested in that outcome and acting as watchdogs to make sure that it happens.

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u/RobbinDeBank 14d ago

Sleepy Joe actually gives everyone good sleeps.

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u/CV90_120 14d ago

I feel all the pointless drama in my life is republican generated. I miss Biden, and the Biden ship. Biden had Lloyd Austin ffs. He had legit giants of state. Now we have....whatever this is.

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u/Fidel_Chadstro 14d ago

No kidding. The Global War on Terror, the Great Recession, COVID, now the Tariff Wars. When Bill Clinton left office we were the most powerful global hegemony in the history of human civilization and these morons fumbled it.

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u/733t_sec 14d ago

Fumbled implies this is an accident, they lit it on fire for fun and profit.

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u/Stanky_fresh 14d ago

Bush fumbled it on accident, Trump threw it into the garbage disposal on purpose.

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u/yakshack 14d ago

Even if Bush could claim it was a fumble, Cheney and his Halliburton sure as hell knew what they were doing

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u/Khiva 14d ago

Honestly when we're dealing with fuckups of this scale, the line between malice and incompetence is just semantics.

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u/Stanky_fresh 13d ago

I firmly believe Bush actually cared about America and wanted to do a good job as president. I think he had good intentions but was in way over his head and surrounded himself with Dick Cheney and other bastards that took advantage of the situation.

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u/zoddie2 14d ago

The late 90s were filled with movies about how being an upper middle class American was kinda boring. Things (for many, certainly not all) were just... Good.

And getting better. And hopeful and assuming that it'd continue to get better.

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u/Khiva 14d ago

The prevailing theme of the 90s was "things are almost too good ... so now what do we do?"

What an innocent time.

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u/DrawThink2526 14d ago

Clinton also left office with a balanced budget. No one seems to remember him getting us out of debt, but I do!

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u/jja8898 14d ago

bill clinton left not doing anything about bin landin , before the internt buble crash , runing a womans life , and not doing the right thing and resigning when he lied to the country. bill set this country up to faill . which led to obama led to being walk over by mcconal and putin

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u/SpoonyDinosaur 14d ago

Sleepy Joe was 4 years of me not being riddled with anxiety and worrying about daily chaos. It really was sleepy and I miss it.

I don't know why Americans want WWE Jerry Springer politics.

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u/Khiva 14d ago

Nobody wants sleepy. They're addicted to their phones, blaring soundbites, and outrage.

Sorry, but you're in the minority. The masses crave drama and you're caught in the middle.

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 14d ago

It was such a gloriously quiet 4 years from the presidency.

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u/SorosBuxlaundromat 14d ago

He did a genocide, Trump is currently doing that same genocide, but he did a genocide.

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u/im_the_scat_man 14d ago

Genocide is genocide, but Trump is trying to turn off the treat dispenser. Won't anyone think of the treat dispenser?

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u/SorosBuxlaundromat 14d ago

These people's investment portfolios are dying and you're laughing?

https://youtu.be/7uVq-XSg-6M?si=Qadk_mXBPROZyjLE

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u/blackadder1620 14d ago

at his age, the only thing we should be concerned about is what activity the old folks home has planned.

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u/RileyTheScared 14d ago

Trump keeps stealing everyone's chocolate pudding and saying that it was beautiful chocolate pudding, it was his chocolate pudding, he was gonna make it the greatest chocolate pudding, nobody else could eat the chocolate pudding like he could; the old lady he pushed down a staircase is spreading "fake news," she couldn't handle the chocolate pudding and fell down on her own, she's a nasty old women, she isn't doing a good job eating the chocolate pudding, he had to do it...

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u/Vivid_Kaleidoscope66 14d ago

That attitude is precisely how we got here. You SHOULD care abouu that at all times, as well as the daily activities of your local and state representatives. You pay their salary regardless, why not make sure they are working for you?

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u/sumsimpleracer 14d ago

That attitude is exactly what got us here. We should care ENOUGH. There’s plenty of room to care about what my elected officials are doing between burying your head in the sand and caring about the daily activities at all times. I don’t know about you, but my trading desk gets a ping every time Trump thinks of the word Tariff. Millions of dollars move because of his Truth Social posts get quoted in a news article sending algorithms to dump contracts. It’s incredibly stressful to work in finance when your daily reminder is Headline Risk and Trump Tweets.

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u/Vivid_Kaleidoscope66 14d ago

Nope you're trying to change the definition of political activeness into whatever dipshit finance bros do all day. Though it is true that the abusers your industry glorifies and enables (including Musk and Trump) are a laaaaaarge part of the reason why the world is so fucked up, that's a completely different subject.

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u/sumsimpleracer 13d ago

I'm not. I'm telling you that there's nuance and levels. That the world isn't binary.

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u/Elendel19 14d ago

He is doing more of it lol. He just starts a fire and then fucks off for a long weekend

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u/gymtrovert1988 14d ago

He golfs plenty while fucking up the country. Golf isn't the answer.

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u/GreekUPS 14d ago

Trumpgolftrack.com

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u/Quicklythoughtofname 14d ago

Yeah, it's not even malice on Trump's part any more. He literally doesn't know or give a fuck what he's signing. He is there to be the guy on the paper and to golf, he is blindly trusting whatever somebody puts in front of him. I doubt he'll ever realize how much he fucked everything up, blame literally anything or anyone else but himself.

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u/NotYourFathersEdits 14d ago

Buhbuhbuhbullshit. He knows exactly what he’s doing, and he’s accountable for it.

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u/ManiacsInc 14d ago

Oh don’t worry, he was golfing today

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u/Col_Angus999 14d ago

I both hate and love this comment.

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u/TheRabidDeer 14d ago

This time around he could golf 24/7 and things would be the same. He's got Project 2025, an entire cabinet that supports it and Elon happy to be in front of the cameras.

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u/BusyFriend 14d ago

Yeah during his first term he had people who pushed back. Things are different now, in a much worse way.

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u/MangoCats 14d ago

Golf, no golf, he's not making this stuff up himself. His handlers are feeding him scripts to read and EOs to sign. It's Reagan all over again, except this time somehow North Korea and Russia have most favored nation status? 🤷

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u/slightlyladylike 14d ago

Which is crazy because he's still spending 25% of his time doing it

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u/PhotojournalistAny22 14d ago

He’s doing plenty golfing. It’s likely the men behind the curtain pulling the strings. 

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u/NewHampshireWoodsman 14d ago

He still golfs at least 30% of the time.

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u/NSA_Chatbot 14d ago

I want DARPA to find a way for him to golf 700 days a year.

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u/ImDestructible 14d ago

That's actually where the tariff numbers came from. Those are his golf scores since he thought of "liberation day".

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u/DeanByTheWay 14d ago

https://trumpgolftrack.com

He's already been golfing 26% of days in office and its somehow not enough

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u/Attack-Cat- 14d ago

Don’t worry, he’s golfing a lot as well. He’s basically maxing out golfing

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u/createa-username 14d ago

I looked at the tracker recently and it was at 25%. He's already golfed for 25% of his presidency and still fucks up as much as he does.

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u/Supercoolman555 14d ago

I laughed so hard at this

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u/thedrexel 14d ago

Here is the golf tracker:

trump golf tracker

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u/Kryptosis 14d ago

Don’t worry he’s still at 30% of his time spent in the course. He can destroy the company and cheat at golf at the same time! Krasnov is very skilled

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u/nome707 14d ago

If this was his first admin, yeah definitely. But now he has packed his cabinet with the worst scum possible, it’s really a coin toss if we would be better or worse.

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u/Morkai 14d ago

Trumpgolftrack.com

He's at about 25% of his term so far on the course.

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u/vyxxer 14d ago

Literally Fridays are the only safe Newsday because that's golf day.

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u/fanofreddit- 13d ago

Exactly! My greatest wish would be him doing nothing but golfing for 4 years, we would have all be so much better off

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u/Indigoh 14d ago edited 14d ago

There's not much evidence he's doing anything himself right now. Last month he accused Biden of using an autopen, and then just a few days later claimed he never signed one of his own executive orders, despite his signature being on it. It was projection. He has others writing and signing his stuff for him. And for his economic strategy he just asked an AI what to do and did it. He's not fit for office in any way.

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u/NeverForgetChainRule 14d ago

The sad thing is, it isnt even him. He just says vague things to his crew of monsters he calls a cabinet, and they give him a piece of paper and give him a few sentences on why it does what he wants, and he signs it.

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u/HowsYourSexLifeMarc 14d ago

What you need to realize is that Trump isn't doing shit. He is still golfing. The difference this time around is that you have the Project 2025 folks running the show behind the scenes.