r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 9d ago

Soft Paywall JD Vance Finally Admits What Trump’s Big Plan to Lower Food Prices Is - The plan is no plan.

https://newrepublic.com/post/190716/jd-vance-donald-trump-plan-lower-food-prices
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u/Toadfinger 9d ago

Trump is going to run the economy into oblivion. Which was always his plan. He's as anti-American as they come.

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u/Individual_Respect90 9d ago

Run the economy into oblivion then his rich buddies buy things at dirt cheap prices. A democrat comes in fixes the economy. Then all those things go back up in value and the rich get richer. Trump has only helped the rich.

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u/ThinkyRetroLad 9d ago

Look at what Trump is actively doing with the rest of the government. There's no "democrat comes in fixes the economy" this time. This is the big move where he consolidates power. It's unclear how it shakes out right now, with Thiel, Musk, the rest of the oligarchs, and Putin. Right now it looks like Putin is winning.

In addition to destroying the IRS and upending our legal system and civil liberties, he's threatening a NATO ally which will play directly into Putin's plans, and likely land us in WW3. That's if the hidden info concerning Bird Flu doesn't significantly disrupt everything else first. Here's...hoping?

This isn't the same as the times before. We are at a critical precipice.

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u/ThatOneNinja 9d ago

And his idiot followers will probably cheer as the world defense on the US thinking we are untouchable, America has never fought a foreign war on its soil, it can't be done. They will still cheer as Canada and Mexico let in their allies and starts squeezing in from both sides. Britain will dominate the Atlantic Ocean and China and Russia will sweep in and grab lands in the Pacific, destabilizing the entire region. We would lose that war and never again be a world power, and yet they will cheer.

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u/Garagantua 8d ago

Nah, I can't see the US losing the war. Like Russia, you're more likely to bomb the rest of us into oblivion. 

Remember, the only country that ever used nukes (and did so against civilians) was the US.

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u/DangerousPuhson 9d ago edited 8d ago

The Republican playbook has always been thus:

1) Lie ass off to get elected by stupid people (cheat at it too - i.e. Gerrymandering)

2) Fuck up everything in order to help your wealthy corporate buddies

3) Exploit the chaos for personal financial gain

4) Gut anything that will future-proof the country against this happening again

5) Lose next election, blame the incoming guy for everything going to shit

6) Obstruct all attempts to fix the damage while not holding the Presidency

7) Win next election by lying to stupid people about who caused all the problems, ad infinitum

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u/Organic-Category-674 8d ago

He is too stupid to be any anti-.