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I realize it isn’t technically foreign “investment”, but international tourism to the USA is way down, which is having a huge impact on all the areas that rely on tourists.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/travel/international-tourist-decline-united-states
Maybe Qatar should not give him that plane now
I’m pretty sure it’s a brick and they just want to be rid of it.
hes doing what is told by PUTIN to him. make USA too weak, to help ukraine.
Don’t blame American losers on Russians. Russians didn’t vote for Trump, Americans did.
Hyundai capitulated.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia-plant-hyundai-ev-expansion-ice-raid/
they have too many billions invested already. the question is how they are going to force koreans to come the states.
Fucking wish Australia had just said to the yes to the French submarine deal we already signed instead of buying a bunch of virgin boomers.
You mean the defense contractor that suffered two data breaches that leaked weapons system capabilities and source code?
Still better than the defense contractor owned by the Russians
More importantly, why does Australia need submarines? In case it decides to invade its biggest trade partner at the behest of America?
this is a terrible typeface for more than like 4 words. you want to post text you should use a more legible typeface.
“incase” isn’t a word.
Insane we just allowed a Russian asset to take power and break anything he can touch.
If America still exists in 50 years people will look back at this time like we do with Nazi Germany today
50 years? Try now today. That’s how I see you guys.
A nazi regime with mostly a population that is either weak, stupid, or maliciously complacent. Or fully complicit and collaborative.Look what Germany had to go through to purge the Nazis. And it didn’t even take.
That’s our future. Can’t happen here? That’s what the citizens of Berlin, Dresden, and a whole lot of other German cities said in 1939.
That’s not our future. Germany had its Nazis forcefully stripped from power by foreign armies. There is no such force coming to liberate us.
I work in construction, and we’ve had no new bids come through in the past 2 weeks. That’s never happened before, even during covid. I’ve noticed a lot less positive talk about Trump when I go into the office, though I doubt even this would be enough to make any of my coworkers reconsider their political views.
i noticed our area, residential houses are bougie enough to use white american construction companies, they probably cost a ton more. and the only other POC that does construction usually caters to asian households only.
We have clients all over, and the tariffs have been a point of concern for many of them. It’s gonna hit businesses hard, especially for shit that is only manufactured overseas.
It’s just teams at this point. Trump is just the quarterback that they’re bitching about this season, they’re not switching teams over it.
I want to compare Trump to DeSean Watson, but that’s unfair to Watson.
The dude is man that his best buddy Epstein got nabbed by America and set out to destroy it, since he can no longer be happy by fucking children and he wants the country that took away his favorite pedo time to suffer and die for it
“Look what you made me do” - Donald Trump in his mind probably
We are just the next casino.
I mean, no. There’s a possibility of winning at a casino no matter how small. You can’t win in USA because even if you bet on a factory, ICE is gonna come and rape your employees. So, no. Your odds are much much better in a casino. Hell, with what Trump is doing I’d say he makes a casino look like investing.
OP means the next business which is seemingly impossible to bankrupt that Trump is succeeding in bankrupting, like his casino attempts.
And just like those casinos, it’s won’t be done by mere gross incompetence but because criminal Trump will subvert the entire federal government to be a front for his crimes and embezzle the entire country dry.
his casinos were purely money laundering for the russians to begin with, he had every intention to bankrupt it.
Oh fair. I wouldn’t trust a Trump ran casino either.
I do not want to give the impression that I support this guy, but is there any evidence at all of some gains?
Maybe I’m dumb, but I don’t why they would willingly bankrupt this country unless theyre just betting against us and look to take full control. I’m not sure what the value of controlling a derelict former superpower country would be.
It’s like vandalizing a fantastic house to drive the value down and then moving in. Great, you own a piece of shit that was once special but is no more.
There are three primary factors at play here.
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Trump’s greed and need to line his own pockets. He will wreck entire economic sectors to add another billion (in bribe money) to his accounts.
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Rich benefactors wanting more. They stay rich regardless of what the economy does, and have a ton of liquid. If it crashes, they can buy so much more of it up for themselves.
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Foreign actors looking to upset US hegemony. They don’t have to go to war, they don’t have to fight economic battles…just incentivize the right people to do the wrong things at home in the US, and we destroy ourselves. It’s cheap and easy for them.
It’s #2, first and foremost.
Tank everything so the rich can consolidate their power.
We know billionaires, they’ll bitch and moan when their profits haven’t increased as much as they increased last year. They wouldn’t support Trump for his own gains or to appease a foreign agency for any amount of downturn. But to spend money on changing the rules and consolidating power, well, they haven’t spent billions lobbying the government for fun.
This was my take, at least with the soybean thing. Family farms go belly up. Big AG is there to buy up the land for pennies.
JD Vance is an investor in a startup that does precisely that. - Acre Trader
Foreign actors looking to upset US hegemony.
Before putting Trump into the Oval Office, Brexit was hailed as Putins biggest victory over the west. We are losing left and right to his manipulations and all our governments stick their fingers into their ears.
Foreign actors looking to upset US hegemony. They don’t have to go to war, they don’t have to fight economic battles…just incentivize the right people to do the wrong things at home in the US, and we destroy ourselves. It’s cheap and easy for them.
Meme about China is “do nothing, win”. They do not have significant diminishment influence operations in US. There is more of a natural disgust with our oppression.
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- Foreign powers are manipulating trump to weaken US for their own agendas
- its only about Trump being avaricious and gaining more power. Like going into nice neighbors house and stealing all the gold fixtures and copper wiring. Plus pilfering any funds connected to the house. There isnt any long term planning here. He still has his own place an can bail to anywhere in the world
- Using said power to manipulate/bully others into paying trump for favors engorging himself more
Take your pick
The rich can afford to take an economic hit and are willing to do so for more power and control.
More?
Line. Must. Go.
UP.
Married a billionaire. There is no amount of control that will make them happy.
No, and the effects have not been as noticeable as they should be because too many cowardly CEOs are too afraid of being the first to enrage the Orange Turd by passing on costs to the consumer… but that won’t last too long either
I can vouch for this. The company I work for uses a ton of steel and instead of raising prices our conservative CEO has just taken the monthly bonus that each employee used to get. So while our customers are thinking " this isn’t so bad" we are footing the bill by being paid less.
Is it so hard to believe that Musk and Putin, two foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs with no loyalty or patriotism, would team up with America’s most massive psychopath, and treat America as a rich, fat, lazy, vulnerable target that DESERVES to be ruthlessly and mercilessly exploited and looted?
Without a strong government to defend our nation (thanks to relentless lobbying with a fraction of their massive fortunes), it was inevitable that this would happen, as more and more billionaires meant more and more of a chance of at least some of them using their influence to literally take over the world.
1 being an ILLEGAL alien, that got his citizenship under false pretenses, plus his brother. Musk’s whole family is just as messed up as he is in the head. minus his trans daughter whom he hates.
Only thing I can think of is if you liquidate funds or suppress them being impacted while taking bribes like that alleged $2 billion in crypto they got, they ride out everything dropping in price living the high life still, then buy up as much as they can on their way out so they own large portions of companies as they get built back up by the next generation. The laborers and will still exists, and they can build it back with these people owning more and having more say in what happens.
Otherwise… Just power. If no one can say shit about you doing anything you want whenever you want and you can treat everyone else like shit… Some people enjoy it greatly I guess.
is there any evidence at all of some gains?
Wall street seems to be doing okay. Slower growth, but line keeps going up
The value of the dollar is down like 10% from when he took office, so most of that stock market value is the same value but more dollars needed to represent it, not real growth. The rest is mainly the AI bubble - which has nothing to do with him
The stock market is a terrible measure of economic health.
They are generating revenue from the tariffs but it is not enough to offset the tax cuts and will decrease over time as there are fewer imports.
just deploying the national guard as a political spectacle was enough to surpass what the “doge saved”, i read on reddit its already going to cost 200million.
even though OP is highlighting some losses/tensions, NATO colonies are being conquered hard, and that buys the US empire a few more years of “appearances of existing in a dominant position”. For political purposes, elections, you can point to the complete explicit subjugation of colonies as “winning”. Job losses, interest rates, currency depreciation, inflation don’t matter if you can point to Europe/Canada sycophants doing worse, and paying for entirety US war on Russia. Blame for everything bad goes to someone else, and success measured in relative pace of decline. Make sure no one else is allowed to speak, and third term is secured.
Seriously, I can respect someone having the opinion that you can run a country like a company, but then for their candidate to run the ‘company’ so badly
I can’t. Corporations exist to make a profit for their shareholders in the current quarter. Governments exist to protect the people from outside influences such as those corporations. Their goals are completely at odds. That’s why every Republican president is followed by an economic downturn, because they did exactly what a corporation would do, steal from the future to increase profits in the present and then funnel those profits straight to the top.
They don’t need to run the world, they only need to run America. It’s really that simple. Oh and also Krasnov is a foreign agent.
Sources?
Everything just keeps getting more expensive.
“tRuMp iS bEtTeR fOr ThE eCoNoMy!”
Oh, he is very good for his own economy.
