It will be worse than a recession!!!!! ("Sh*t, that ain't true . . .")

Photo above - Gotcha! More than a dozen democrat senators caught on social media reading identical scripts, on the same day. Does anyone really believe this is how economic progress will be made?

(Full disclosure: I did not vote for Trump. Or Biden. I wrote in for former UN ambassador/governor Nikki Haley in November 2024).

The nonstop hyperbolic claims that Trump is ruining America economically are probably only ratcheting up sympathy among his supporters. In the past week or so, I've read that:

1 - The social security system will collapse. Or at least March and April benefit payments won’t arrive on time. Due to federal layoffs.

2 - Everyone will pay $3,000 more per year due to foreign tariffs. The fine print is never disclosed – only if we continue to buy brand new foreign cars. Wait . . . weren’t car prices already soaring astronomically anyway? The average new car was $50,000 in 2024.

3 - The deficit could get out of control, and ruin us. “Could”?? It’s $36 trillion already! Thank you, all 3 of the last presidential administrations.

4 - Deadly epidemics (because of federal spending cuts) are going to result in a near-mass extinction event. Measles down in Texas is the poster child for this. Except that America has been lackadaisical about childhood vaccinations for decades, and we’ve also been welcoming record numbers of unvaccinated migrants.

5 - The stock market is going to crash. Look it did it again yesterday! And one day last week, too! Disregard that the indexes recently hit new highs and were up and down several times over the past month. A recession is sure to happen! Because of tariffs. Worldwide recession. Worse than recession! See link below. (Full disclosure – this writer has been predicting for years that the stock market will have a correction due to excessive federal debt).

There was an amazing graphic on several cable news outlets last night showing more than a dozen democrat senators posting on social media – reading identical anti Trump scripts. IDENTICAL. See 2nd link below. The talking points appear to be egg prices and inflation, so we know whoever wrote this script is completely oblivious to years of inaction by the previous administration on bird flu. They weren’t even able to make the connection between bird flu and higher milk prices.

If democrats want to return to power – the White House, a senate majority, a House of Representatives majority, they will need something better than reading a moronic script prepared by some paid consultant. This is the very definition of a political failure, and a lack of new ideas. Come on guys, bring your "A" game!

I’m just sayin’ . . .

Warning US economy could be headed toward outcome worse than a recession

Videos showing dozens of Democratic senators reading same anti-Trump script go viral

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Avectoijesuismoi · 31-35

Some of it may or may not happen but it is being used a political rhetoric hype one side rubbishing the other.
What the DEMS probably don't like is that currently they have little or no political power to block or disrupt the plans which is precisely what the one has been doing to the other if for no other reason just to make the other side look ineffective or useless at trying to do something that would be positive to at least try to make change to improve things.
It is sadly why governments like the Saudi Arabian one achieve getting things done MBS says we are going to do this and the ministers get on with it and deliver the result and also why they get on with doing their actual jobs. Dubai is another example it went from nothing and a place that most probably would not even have known where it even was to what it is today and in a very small time frame.

People are going to say nut that is rich country yes it had some money, but equally the US is or should be a very rich country. Just imagine what the person who is head of the UAE could achieve with the US resources simply by making people do their jobs I bet it would not be 36 trillion in debt though.

SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F

@Avectoijesuismoi possibly.

but i prefer democracy to a "royal crown prince" with a private police force.

i'm just sayin' . . .

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@Avectoijesuismoi Dubai and the Arab states are possibly not the best examples to pull up once you get down intom the social, business and work practices involved in "getting things done " there.. While this is a generalization for the sake of simplicity, just about every white of blue collar worker and professional is an imported worker. The whole government workforce are citizens and a few powerful related families control everything. (Ok. That part may be familiar.)😷

Avectoijesuismoi · 31-35

@whowasthatmaskedman what I am saying is we should look at them as examples of actually getting the right people in the positions that can actually achieve the tasks. As a whole when they start a project it gets done

Avectoijesuismoi · 31-35

@SusanInFlorida Their is nothing wrong with democracy on itself but what countries need is a good government that does its job rather than ones that work against each other to score points at the expense of the people that put them there

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@Avectoijesuismoi It does...And the nation functions.. But with only the thinnest facade of a western nation. Citizens has rights unobtainable by others. There is no path to citizenship for outsiders. a foreign worker who loses their job has 30 days to find another or leave the country (And your living arrangements are such they can track you.) And forget trying to appeal anything to the legal system.. Can you see that working in America?😷

SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F

@Avectoijesuismoi can you name any governments like that? I can't.

a couple of years ago, i might have said "Canada", but they're ousting their current PM (Trudeau, son of previous PM named Trudeau) which makes it look like a failed hereditary parliamentary republic.

Avectoijesuismoi · 31-35

@SusanInFlorida No I actually can't name one. The ideal would be a democratically elected one that has a good competent leader that can make the others carry out their jobs.
Ideally most countries almost need a board of Directors that are professionals in all the relevant things like health, education etc that can systematically go through a sort out the mess that politicians have caused.
I am very much of the opinion that you don't need and excessively large management structure 1) you need competent management , 2) you need the people on the ground doing the work, but equally they need to be competent and motivated then they should be decently rewarded.

SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F

@Avectoijesuismoi authoritarian leaders (kings, dictators, premiers, general-issimo's, warlords) can "make others do their jobs". A democratically elected head of state has less maneuvering room, because they can't throw people out of hotel windows, down their aircraft with surface to air missiles, or throw them in jail and make them disappear entirely..

In democracies, the most immediate/effective thing a president or prime minister can do is to dismiss a direct report.

This is where the free press steps in. Let THEM debate whether the dismissal was warranted or not. The president should not attempt to muzzle that debate.

Avectoijesuismoi · 31-35

@SusanInFlorida The only good thing I can see with a democratically elected government at the moment is every X amount of years you get to change the face you have get to look at on TV that is sprouting a load of nonsense it may be different nonsense from his predecessor but it is still nonsense.
The big Problem the world over is the quality and calibre of what is available as a choice to actually elect