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naraburns  nihil supernum  21d ago (text post)   26939 thread views

U.S. Election (Day?) 2024 Megathread

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I’m daring to believe that over the next four years Trump and his team of consultants genuinely can start Making America Great Again.

By pressing the make the economy good button along with the make inflation not have happened button? I expect a bit better from the users here no matter who they hoped would win the idea that either of them were gonna effect the economy in any major way in the short term betrays a bit of a lack of understanding.

By pressing the make the economy good button along with the make inflation not have happened button?

Not the op, but...

More like by pressing the "rocket engines go burrrrrrr" button and not pressing certain other buttons that a Harris administration would've almost certainly pressed.

To be clear, I don’t expect the economy to significantly turn around under Trump. There are other measures by which a country can be great, though, and I do believe that the Trump administration, both through direct action and through not hamstringing private industry, can contribute significantly to increasing America’s greatness along those axes.

I would disagree. I think we are going to see full ID Trump tariffs and all. I don't think he has the patience for anyone that is going to tell him no and he's gonna pull the trigger on any idea he has that can pass legally unchallenged though EOs or he can get the legislature to pass. The two things I am most sure of in the next 4 years is that he will 1. hurt the people who believe he is the only one who can help him 2. ruin JD Vances political career through either malice or indifference.

As as aside I also highly suspect Musk overestimates the influence what he has done for Trump has bought him but this is just a hunch.

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