Armchair_Politician wrote on Jan 22
nd, 2025 at 11:51am:
greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 21
st, 2025 at 4:58pm:
Dnarever wrote on Jan 21
st, 2025 at 4:32pm:
1 Min 20 Trump saying he will get it settled before he takes office. Will be fixed as President elect. The 24 hour commitment was earlier but also in this context.
His first failure as POTUS.
Many more to come.
Now his minions are trying to walk it back and say it's really going to take about 100 days to get it done. Sure, no one believes Trump.
They’re already backtracking on a significant number of promises, not just the ones on the much-vaunted “day one” list.
Gone is the focus on tangible cost-of-living improvements, no more chatter about relief at the petrol pump or the checkout.
Tax cuts? The plan they campaigned on not only fails to deliver cuts for the average voter but explicitly includes tax increases for nearly everyone outside the top two brackets, who, of course, get their predictable windfall. And with new tariffs on the horizon, any progress made by Biden in reducing inflation is about to be undone, setting the stage for a looming recession.
So, what can we expect? A rerun of the Trump-era obsession with one single metric: the stock market. Forget cost-of-living pressures, the Consumer Price Index, or wage growth. None of that will matter. The stock market will be paraded as the ultimate measure of success, bolstered by the same tired playbook of tax cuts for the wealthy.
And what will those tax cuts fund? Share buybacks and wealth consolidation at the top. The “trickle-down” fantasy will once again fail to materialise, leaving ordinary people, MAGA cultists included, shouldering the burden and footing the bill.
I'm done being sympathetic to the people who will suffer after they voted for Trump. I anticipate a smile on my face as the leopard eats theirs.
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