Trump says re-elect me or the stock market will crash worse then the Great Depression and the economic meltdown of 2007

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Bitek

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If he loses I'm really looking forward to four years of rage tweets any time the stock market drops 1% about how it never would have happened if he were still president.

Only if he hides the phone in his prison wallet
 

pauldun170

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What sort of idiot tries to compare what the President of the United States says with random people who are clearly not the president nor anyone of any significant influence or power?
Was that a satire post?


It has to be satire
 

UNCjigga

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I don’t think he’s gaslighting here. I think this should be interpreted as a threat. Between Mnuchin, Mulvaney, Ross and all his quislings on Wall Street and at Fox Business, Trump probably could do enough to trigger a sell-off and tank the market after an election defeat. Traitors gotta traitor.

Oops...I forgot to mention Kudlow. Looks like he and Trump have been secretly planning to demote his own Fed Chairman too (and is now denying it.) Hmmm...I guess it would be helpful to have someone who refuses to raise rates when warranted, or waits until after the election?
 

trenchfoot

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I can see it now where Trump is at one of his "packed the house" rallies:

Trump: If I lose the stock market will crash and crash big!!

His supporters: Crash The Market! Crash The Market! Crash The Market!

(While this is ongoing a Democrat operative in the crowd who started the chant is seen laughing her ass off)
 
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I can see it now where Trump is at one of his "packed the house" rallies:

Trump: If I lose the stock market will crash and crash big!!

His supporters: Crash The Market! Crash The Market! Crash The Market!

(While this is ongoing a Democrat operative in the crowd who started the chant is seen laughing her ass off)

I would actually be really curious what would happen if Hilary showed up and said she agree with him on pretty much everything. Basically she pulls a Wendy from that episode of South Park (where Carman accuses her of killing the Smurfs).
 

Moonbeam

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Trump once again manages to draw attention to himself. Why are people bothered by the village idiot running around saying the sky if falling. Do we possibly feel some hidden inner dread he might be right. What if he said it might snow in Antarctica if he didn't didn't brush his teeth on June 20? He likes people to be habituated to outrage for and against everything.
 
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trenchfoot

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Trump once again manages to draw attention to himself. Why are people bothered by the village idiot running around saying the sky if falling. Do we possibly feel some hidden inner dread he might be right. What if he said it might snow in Antarctica if he didn't didn't brush his teeth on June 20? He likes people to be habituated to outrage for and against everything.


Morbid curiosity is such an interesting human trait. I haven't studied it in depth as I would like to, however I do get bothered a bit when traffic slows down to a crawl on my side of the freeway even though a colossal traffic accident happened on the other side that's completely separated by a five foot tall reinforced concrete median strip with fencing on top of that.

It's what primarily draws me to any impromptu televised Trump interview where you just know he's going to say something that likens itself to the traffic accident carnage I previously mentioned or like watching a drunkard repeatedly meander into and out of oncoming traffic.
 

Moonbeam

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Morbid curiosity is such an interesting human trait. I haven't studied it in depth as I would like to, however I do get bothered a bit when traffic slows down to a crawl on my side of the freeway even though a colossal traffic accident happened on the other side that's completely separated by a five foot tall reinforced concrete median strip with fencing on top of that.

It's what primarily draws me to any impromptu televised Trump interview where you just know he's going to say something that likens itself to the traffic accident carnage I previously mentioned or like watching a drunkard repeatedly meander into and out of oncoming traffic.
One think I would say is that being raised in a competitive society makes it more unlikely we will think of others. Some concern for social graces and respect for others, thoughtfulness, it seems to me leads to a sense of personal dignity. To me that means the practice of self control, intentionally denying yourself that look across the freeway as one small example.
 

HomerJS

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Trump once again manages to draw attention to himself. Why are people bothered by the village idiot running around saying the sky if falling. Do we possibly feel some hidden inner dread he might be right. What if he said it might snow in Antarctica if he didn't didn't brush his teeth on June 20? He likes people to be habituated to outrage for and against everything.
You are forgetting there is a large segment of this population susceptible to gaslighting. It's causing serious problem in the country. If he is capable of convincing his base Obama is a Kenyan born Muslim interloper there is cause for concern.
 

Zorba

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Oct 22, 1999
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If he loses I'm really looking forward to four years of rage tweets any time the stock market drops 1% about how it never would have happened if he were still president.
Can you tweet from prison?
 

looniam

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Can you tweet from prison?
are you naive to think guards are above bribery/extortion? hell, i'm sure he'll find many supporters among them.
it's like no one knows how drugs get into prisons let alone cell phones.
 

Moonbeam

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You are forgetting there is a large segment of this population susceptible to gaslighting. It's causing serious problem in the country. If he is capable of convincing his base Obama is a Kenyan born Muslim interloper there is cause for concern.
What if they gave an outrage fest and nobody came? Remember, you define what is serious.
 

trenchfoot

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At least his new jumpsuit color will match his face.


Methinks with Trump's megalomaniacal disposition and being used to all the trappings that wealth brings, going to the showers with the other bad boys would be a majorly problematic yet rather satisfying sight to behold from a righteously fulfilling point of view.
 

Moonbeam

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I would think a large part of the populous conditioned to believe facts don't matter is serious.
How so? When I was young and starting to be exposed to the world of human wisdom, I read this saying from the German WW1 trenches. “The situation is hopeless but not serious.” I think that the humor here goes so deep it can only be appreciated by those who have really experienced hopelessness first hand. The fact that a large part of the populous believes that facts don’t matter is a fact that can’t be any other way and that to dwell on that as reality is to miss the fact is to cast ourselves out true reality is the garden of eden, the perfection of the indivisible now.

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