My question is: does trump actually WANT to crash the economy? Or is he just a totally deluded moron who thinks he knows

[LymphocyteLover]

how to fix everything when he doesn't?

I've heard Fernando Armandi on Stephanie Miller this morning. His take was pretty depressing. He think Trump is trying to crash the economy big time so he can declare an emergency and declare martial law or grab more power.

[jls4561]

1. Yes and yes.

[lostnfound]

25. Yes and yes, and it feels like The Shock Doctrine playbook. Nt

[Fullduplexxx]

2. Remember trump's a dope and a grifter, but he has a lot of people around him that want to destroy the government

[duncang]

3. I remember him saying at his Scotland golf course

He does better when the economy crashes. I guess he can pick up property cheaper.

[Walleye]

8. Trump looks at every country as a piece of real estate to be exploited, including ours

Wait until you see what Kushner is going to do with Gaza. It’s why he loves North Korea with all that undeveloped land. United States is an idea not a piece of real estate dammit.

[Walleye]

4. Of course they're trying to destroy our government and economy. They hate the United States and they hate Americans.

[Maru Kitteh]

5. My question is, does it matter?

The end result is the same.

[LymphocyteLover]

14. well, we can perhaps game him out better if we know which one is right

[haele]

6. Yes. Because his billionaire buddies told him it will make more money.

Dismantle Government protection, crash the economy, and buy up whatever's left to remake the country into what they think will work best for them. Other people, they don't matter if they can't be used or seen.

Sociopathic Narcissists.

Haele

[LymphocyteLover]

15. do they really make more money? Some people benefit from economic destruction, but by and large, it's not good for most

investors

[haele]

22. They can get more "stuff" at discount as desperate wealthier people sell off.

But no, they don't really get richer.
Their money loses value when the economy contracts. But Billionaires are at a level that so long as there is currency, they're the last to feel the pinch until the resources or stuff they like to surround themselves with aren't available for even love or barter because there just isn't any more artisans or infrastructure to get them what they want anymore.
The richer or more isolated someone is born, the more clueless they are as to what it takes to get what they want.

Haele

[lostnfound]

26. Private equity is different. Cryptocurrency is different. Advanced knowledge is different.

I’m not sure that “investors” are a monolithic group anymore.

[republianmushroom]

7. How about one in the same.

[LymphocyteLover]

17. they are a bit different-- the first is way more malevolent, the second offers more hope

[Akacia]

9. Probably both.

Afterall this is a man who thought injecting bleach would be a good idea.

[LymphocyteLover]

18. he's defnitely deluded and dumb, but the question is his what are his motives?

[magicarpet]

10. Djt and his buddies want to game the system so they can freely pilfer and plunder to their hearts content.

[Blue_Tires]

11. Don't you remember a couple of months back

When the stock market dipped and all the Trumpers were openly cheering for a crash??

[LymphocyteLover]

19. yeah but that's because they wanted to hurt Biden

[Blue_Tires]

21. And a stock market crash would hurt them even worse

[LymphocyteLover]

23. and trump will screw them over

[AllyCat]

12. In my opinion, this is the plan . Crash the economy.

Much easier for us to start fighting over crumbs and work the jobs we don't want to work after he deports all the immigrants.

Also, he has no idea how to do the job correctly. Exactly why Putin picked him and all the other idiots for his cabinet.

[dalton99a]

13. Absolutely. Maximum destruction and chaos.

[0rganism]

16. Yes

Putin's puppet does what Putin wants but he remains a puppet

[doc03]

20. If he crashes the economy Muskrat will

pick up the remains for pennies on the dollar.

[markodochartaigh]

27. Exactly.

We've been through 3 crashes in two decades, it baffles me that people can fail to realize this basic principle. I suppose that many gazelles think that it is simply not possible that the lions want to eat them.

I like the way that the Bible says it:

18
Can there be peace between the hyena and the dog?

Or peace between the rich and the poor?

19
Wild donkeys of the desert are lion’s prey;

likewise the poor are feeding grounds for the rich.

[LessAspin]

24. Thiel and Musk

have both openly talked of crashing the US dollar 💵 and replacing it with Crypto

So yes to all of the above.