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Touting the great depression time period as a good economy is certainly a way to make your case (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

There's a new batch of Trump signs that have appeared in the last couple of weeks which I call the "TRUMP GOOD / KAMALA BAD" signs. They are targeted at the unimaginably simple, with stuff like "TRUMP LOW TAXES / KAMALA HIGH TAXES" and "TRUMP SECURE BORDER / KAMALA OPEN BORDER". My favorite is the one that says "TRUMP LOW PRICES / KAMALA HIGH PRICES" which counts on the total ignorance of basic economics on the part of Trumpers - tariffs raise prices.

These signs are almost as amusing as the "TRUMP: UNIFYING THE COUNTRY" billboards. I don't know who the fuck those are aimed at.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty sure "unify" is a dogwhistle for "turn into fascism".

[–] M1nds3nd@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

Unify by force. Fall in line or die.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee -4 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Tariffs raise prices and wages.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago

They raise wages if you have domestic producers ready to step in to replace the tariffed goods and if those companies pass on some of their new profits to their employees. US companies don't exactly have a good track record of that.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 12 hours ago

How’d you reach that conclusion? Tariffs aren’t exactly a new concept so you surely can point me to a concrete example from the past several hundred years across several hundred countries right?

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm not American, but the Great Depression and 1932 was taught in school as it was that historically significant as the biggest low-point in modern western economics.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

I've got a degree in american economic history and studied the 1930s depressions. hoo boy the tariffs caused the second dip

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee -1 points 16 hours ago

And I was taught in calculus that a local minimum is when the line starts going up

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Bold of them to think the coffee and donuts would be free under Trump.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

IIRC it was Al Capone providing the food

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

JD Vance will be ordering the doughnuts.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Well... whatever makes sense.

How long have you worked here?

[–] Mammothmothman@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

For daddy trump

[–] Damage@feddit.it 12 points 1 day ago

Well, the rich don't care either way