Oh no some conservatives are suffering, oh no...

Notice how even when potentially becoming self aware they still say it’s having a negative effect on “conservative Canadians” as if they’re the only demographic that would be pissed about a hostile foreign power threatening to take their sovereignty.
- The "In-group" is the only one that matters.

This person is rich enough to own stocks. It's good that they're feeling some negative effects of what they voted for, but calling a 15 % dip in their portfolio "suffering" is kind of devaluing the actual human suffering that Trump's policies are causing.
- Yea but they're never going to find that empathy so at least there's this
- As if conservatives place an iota of value on any human life apart from their own.

Even if Biden had been as "out to lunch" as they all claimed (which was so crazy it hurt to see), even if he was worse, then at least the people around him knew what they were doing.
We're instead now surrounded by people like the crazy drunk fox news weekend host Hegseth and "one of the victors re-writing history Patel.
These aren't even serious enough people to have a conversation with. I legit think they would device immediately into literally saying "hurr durrr" if asked about their behavior for more than a couple minutes.

Aw poor babies maybe they shouldn’t have voted for a selfish worthless puppet manchild

Oh, but there IS a national bankruptcy filing, little brainless Timmy.
You're not going to like that at all.

Lol what morons. They deserved to be fleeced for all they're worth - they're still goddamn idiotic enough to believe Trump is a business man or that he doesn't explicitly want the "company" tanked.

A business man who has failed to sell: Booze, football, and steaks...TO AMERICANS.
- Can't forget gambling.
  
  True. LOL.
- Which is because he tried to put his name on all of it and charge a premium. No actual added value. Just his name. Turns out that's not a winning strategy.

"He's a businessman".
No, he's a nepo baby hustler who thinks winning is the only thing that matters, and winning is when you rip off and take advantage of people.
- No he's a businessman just not a good one and by good I simply mean minimally competent, I won't get into the morality although... Woof.
  
  minimally competent
  I think bankrupting a casino disqualifies him from even that.
- Sounds like a business guy to me

A fresh bowlful of faces for the leopards to snack on.

the idea is to convince the rabble that invading and taking over Canada is....noble, warranted, patriotic and an American right. just as the Nazis did in the 30s
- Bringing back manifest destiny but facing north this time.

- I'm an investor in predominately european companies. My investments have risen 20%... so far
  
  EutelSat is where the investments are at. And the EU's MIC. Good time to be European.
- Mine haven't. I pulled my money out a month ago when I saw that the new Trump presidency wasn't going to be like the first one.
  
  Well, he's being the same failed businessman and bigot he's been his entire life, the biggest difference between the two terms is that now he doesn't have undoing all the things that a black man did while in office to keep him busy.
  
  I can't decide what the right move right now to do is. I lost months of growth in a couple weeks. The market has always come back before, but the orange shitstain is pretty uniquely awful, and showing us how he cares jackshit about nuking the economy.

Just getting exactly what they voted for. Zero sympathy for these cunts. Hope their iNvEsTmEnTs crater to nothing.

He's a BAD business man, how do you retards not know this. And it's a country not a business, it was never meant to be run like a business...
Jesus Christ I hate these people
- Additionally, he was always a bad businessman
- Hey, Blake, would you mind editing the R-slur out of your comment? We don't do ableism around here.

Fuck these idiots. Reaping what they sowed.
- The problem is we (Americans) are all reaping what a small group of people sowed. Some of us didn't vote for this. Most people didn't vote at all. I wish it was mandatory like in Australia. I want my voting sausage.
  
  Yeah I’m not stupid, that isn’t lost on me.
  I’m just glad they are suffering too. Probably considerably more than i am, tbh.
- Trump is doing exactly what he said he would do and the obvious outcome happens, but they still don't see through his bullshit not matter how many times it bites them in the ass.
  
  Well, except the things that would have been nice. Like bringing down prices, ending wars, not being a little bitch in the white house.
  
  Even past that, the market has been on a historic bull run. The NASDAQ is up around 150% over five years. Unprecedented gains, even with the COVID dip.
  What kind of whiny bullshit is this about a 15% decline? You're holding equity with a 100+ p/e. You took a bunch of leveraged risk and came out ahead, but you're still not happy because... you're not a trillionaire like Daddy Musk yet? Take your fucking profits and back away from the roulette wheel, you degenerates.
- Right? Fuck around and find out. Damn them all for setting us on this path of this hellscape they set us all upon. If you're MAGA or didn't vote at all I don't have the sympathy or empathy left to give a shit what happens. The leopards are going to eat so many faces the next four years they're going to die of obesity.

He's a TV businessman as in he's as much a business man as any actor. Conservatives seem to repeatedly make the mistake that actors actually do the things for real

What I love is how many of them talk about, "he's just trolling," and it's like, even if he was, is that seriously what you want in a president? Now it's, "even if he is just trolling, this is a bad idea," as if there's ever a time that the fucking president treating international relations like a shitpost would be a good idea. These people are so, so stupid.
- They don’t understand that when you have the kind of power he has “trolling” is terrorism.
- I am guessing a lot of them will blame this on Biden, citing the normal truth that presidents usually don't make immediately apparent noticeable impacts on the economy. It normally takes months or years for most policy to make a big difference. In this case, the tariffs are so stupid on their face that no honest person could deny they would have drastic effects. Compare stock market graphs to the timeline of trump announcements... but they will deny it and pretend this is business as usual, and because it's only a month in, it's obviously Biden. Nevermind that they would never normally believe that shit if it's inconvenient to their case.

You needn't look further than 'Conservative Environmentalist'. Obviously, he has no clue what his party actually does.
- I've known a few of those. "Environmentalism" to them only goes as far as making sure they have some fields around them stocked with deer and pheasant to hunt, and maybe a lake they can tool around in their bass boat.
  
  See also: ‘Conservation’
  Because even natural preservation has to have a conservative version.
- Like is he just ignoring the “Drill baby drill” shit? Or the fact that in his first term Trump reduced the size of national parks for the sake of oil operations?
  
  He's a trump voter.
  All you need to know.
- Unless that’s the ghost of Teddy Roosevelt then I agree
  
  Teddy Roosevelt would be called a commie by many of today's top Democrats, let alone the MAGA Republicans.
  He literally tried to start a progressive third party.

"BUSINESSMAN GOOD"
If these people existed in the past, before modern society broke the process of natural selection, they'd have perished long ago.

Well well well. Is he "hurting the wrong people" again? who would've thunk
- He's not even hurting them. They're still up for the year. They're historically up for the last ten years, in the face of enormous economic headwinds.
  Trump stepped in, the market surged, and now its floated back down to December 2024 baseline.
  And these losers are screaming like stick pigs because Big Line doesn't always go up forever.

MUH INVESTMENTS

Talked to my MAGA blood again yesterday. Apparently, the conservative talk radio is telling listeners Europe and Canada have had tariffs on us from day one and trump is just trying to level the playing field. America is always paying for them and now it’s their turn to pay.
In addition, firings are “political reward” jobs being removed, because that’s not fair. (Injustice and not fair resonates with everyone.) And a caller apparently called in to talk about his government employee buddy upset that his job credit card he normally uses to buy lunch was cut off, discovered when he tried to buy subway. Again with the “not fair” because most jobs don’t buy you lunch.
They still haven’t told me what show they heard this is on, because I invariably listen and pick it apart and they find my “over-analysis” upsetting.
- I just don't talk to my maga relatives about anything of substance, or about anything at all if I can help it. Less frustrating for everyone involved.
- I mentioned this to a relative that a federal job has lost all security compared to a equivalent private sector position. They said "well no job ever has security". Private sectors only goal is make money for the boss - the other provides essential public services and maintains infrastructure. They are not the same
  
  Exactly. And part of that infrastructure is the same person filing the paperwork, making sure it’s done right.

May they lose every dime. May they only know the taste of day old bread and stagnant water for the rest of time. May they shiver in the night and boil in the day. May the rain soak them to the bone, and may the snow freeze their skin. No love, no shelter, no aid.
- Amen brother.

I keep seeing this sentiment expressed over and over again and it seems that a large cross-section of the public still doesn't get it. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, of all places, but it bears repeating:
Trump is not a "businessman." Trump is a con man.
He has never actually run a successful business and he doesn't know how. The only thing he does know how to do is run a grift to bilk investors, creditors, the government, HUD, etc. out of money for projects that he really has no intention of completing or to prop up businesses he has no intention of sustaining. He is incessantly robbing Peter to pay Paul just long enough in the hopes of keeping his creditors or the prosecution at bay -- not always successfully, I might add, because his businesses have been bankrupted four times including the infamous three casinos.
The issue now is that since he's oozed his way into government he is shielded from having the hammer brought down on him by many of the people he's cheated.

I wish I had saved it. On r/conservative they posted a meme where libs said they told you this would happen and they say they don't care because they wanted it to happen. That would love lovely next to this.

Hahahahah it never gets old
"HeS a BiSnNeSSmaN"
When the fuck has a business/businessman ever given a shit about your interests?
- Hiring business men to run the government is like hiring a fancy mouse breeder to do surgery on your seeing eye dog.
  
  But he jes needa run this cuntry like a business, that's all we need
- A businessman who has bankrupted casinos and had to be bailed out by his rich family and screwing over his creditors on several occasions.

"business" man. He is in the business of crime & destruction. Everything he touches, dies. He is killing it right now.
- I can't believe a businessman who ran a casino into bankruptcy isn't good at business!

Just wait tell they find out he does not give a shit about them.

I'm crying a huge river atm

Oh now they're beginning to realize hes a moron at the wheel? No longer the Trump playing 4D meme chess?

He is acting like a business man: fucking over everyone else for his own interest.

"my investments" -TSLA bagholder

Guess they missed the part where President Elon said economic pain was inevitable and necessary

Yeah, we told you dumb pieces of shit that chaos was bad since 2015. None of you cared.

My favorite part of this is "Real people are suffering..." Oh no! Real people, you say? I better take that seriously, unlike all those fake people whose suffering is both imaginary, and completely justified. Who the hell cares about any of them?

He’s a businessman who bankrupted multiple casinos. What the hell did they expect?

Here's my thinking: we forgive these people if they agree to stand at the frontlines and endure the impacts of the first tear gas canisters/rubber bullets. Then it feels more fair and we can work together again maybe.

Oh no, his investments!

He's a businessman with no business man, he doesn't even have a business plan.
Trump is going to bankrupt America like his past businesses and the guide rails are being complicit.

What if the states all became provinces of Canada? Best of both worlds!

I hate everything about this. This "passive income" shit is total BS. Fuck investors, landlords, and anyone absent from their own business. You're scum leeching off the backs of hardworking people!

I heard an interesting theory that the stupid tariffs on Canada are intended to destroy their economy and force them to surrender their sovereignty to the US. He doesn't care if his threats trigger nationalist backlash because he thinks Canada is so dependent on the US that they can't resist.
I'm not sure he actually has a plan, but if there is a plan I could see it as a play for conquest.
- This seems like a bit of the Gru meme where you add "tank the US economy" as the last slide.
- That would be absolutely mentally deranged reasoning but given other shit hes done, like cancelling the CHIPS act, i would not at all be suprised if this was how he thought/planned
  
  Hey, CG, would you mind editing the R-slur out of your comment? We don’t do ableism around here.

A business man with a business plan, gonna make you money in business land. (I'm not a cop)

They're learning...
- They only care when it affects them. If Trump hurts other people they're ok with it.
- ...are they though? Or is this just temporary observation until the next outrage distraction?
  
  Let me have hope pleaseeee