Because people aren’t voting for the real Donald Trump. They’re voting for the character of Donald Trump; the meme of him. They have no interest in the real politics around his candidacy and consider any real information about it a sneaky liberal trick. And most of his supporters will be dead of old age before the…

I do think Trump probably doesn’t really give a shit about anything he said or promised—this run was purely to get himself out of (or postpone) legal trouble. Trump only cares about Trump, and since he can’t run again, I doubt he cares what anybody thinks beyond getting the occasional ego boost from his diehard fans.…

Jimmy Kimmel summed it up neatly:

1st Gear: You forget that Trump and his minions have already categorized his promised 100% and 200% tariffs as “metaphorical tariffs.”

I seem to recall Trumps campaign and spokespeople being pretty clear that under his administration “there will be economic pain” for Americans. I don’t know why some Americans who aren’t rich thought that pain would somehow exclude them; but here we are. Guess we will all find out together if he actually follows throug…

I’m sort of morbidly curious about how much of the campaign trail was bullshit to rile up his supporters, and how much he’ll actually action. It seems kinda clear to me the inflation and cost of living are likely the reasons for the convincing win…doesn’t really matter what or how it started, the government in office…

They tried to repeal Obamacare, McCain saved it.

Adding a few thousand bucks to the price of two of the best-selling cars in America is surely an easy way to piss off the people that voted for you and your pledge to make America affordable once again.

Did you read what I wrote?

Tribalism makes people stupid.  Clinton, Obama and Biden were great for markets.  Why the trade bro’s hate Dems is impossible to rectify with reason.

You couldn’t give me a Tesla at this point. If someone did, I’d light it on fire.

I should also add. The first Trump term was terrible for my company. We got screwed hard by tariffs the first time around. It was difficult and expensive for us to secure the things we needed. Lots of raw goods are made in China and India which are then finished here. Because of tariffs and scarcity input costs like…

I’m in the same boat as you.

There is no “EV mandate”. Trump’s position on anything is transactional and changes with the weather.

The markets jumped this morning because Republican. Tesla jumped because Musk/Trump cuddling. If Trump actually follows through on his promises of mass deportation and tariffs, that is a lethal combination of inflationary pressures. From an economic policy perspective, Trump is going to push us off of a cliff. I…

Trump rarely knows what the fuck he’s talking about, never mind actually understanding the ramifications of what he’s saying. I’d say it’s a toss up for Elon. He has enough money to (personally) weather most things, the actual health of his companies be damned, but there’s no guarantee Trump will be a boon for him.…

Yeah, speaking as a homeowner who weathered the last bubble, this is not the boon you hope it will be. Your buying power, and your ability to secure financing, will likely both decrease. I lost a third of my equity over night in 2008, but nobody was clamoring to buy my place, because they couldn’t. A more rational…

You are assuming that the housing market drops but your wealth and spending power isn’t similarly eroded?

This is my silver linings. I’m wanting to buy a house sometime in the next couple years. Unfettered and unilateral Wall St. deregulation will crash the housing market and I’ll be able to get 2x the house for what I’m wanting to spend. 

Can’t wait for Leon to implode the economy, maybe it will get so bad that houses become affordable again.