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Hüsker Dü said:
I recently had a Trump supporter ask me how I'm so sure that his economic policies won't work.

I laughed — then I said, you're joking, right?

The question really should be: Why would anyone think someone who's failed at basically every business he's ever created would know how to run a country?

I asked them to name one thriving, successful business he's created that wasn't just a wealth generator for himself. As in, name something tangible with Trump's name on it that he's created that actually is seen as a "success."

His biggest "success" is conning people into thinking he's a "success."

Sure, he's built a few buildings, but the majority of the ones that have his name on them, he had little to do with outside of licensing his name to be put on them.

To be fair, that is a level of successful marketing — but he's marketing a lie. That lie being that he's a "hugely successful businessman."

You can put "Trump" in front of a ton of nouns, and you would list one of his many business failures.

Trump: Magazine, Vodka, Steaks, Mortgage, University, Shuttle, all the various names of his hotels and casinos — all massive failures.

For example, here's how long some of his many business failures lasted:

Trump Taj Mahal: Roughly 15 months

Trump Shuttle: 3 years

Trump University (which was a scam): 5 years

Trump Mortgage: Roughly 18 months

Trump Steaks: 2 months

GoTrump.com: Roughly 12 months

Trump Magazine: 3 years

And there's so much context, such as Trump University being nothing but a scam; Trump Magazine being something he started right at the dawn of the digital age of media; Trump Mortgage being something he launched at what he called the "perfect time" to start a mortgage company, just before the worst housing collapse in history; and the fact that he's run every single casino — entities designed to make the house money — out of business.

I mean, come on — he literally started a mortgage company just before the worst housing crash we've ever seen. You can't make that up when it comes to terrible instincts as a businessperson.

Then there's his foundation, which he shut down after he was caught stealing funds from it for his own personal use.

The list goes on and on.

His greatest "success" is his role playing a fake CEO on a fake reality TV show where fake employees did fake work tasks and he fake fired them.

Everything about his image of a "massively successful businessman" is based on total bullsh*t.

That's why I don't trust his economic policies.

We're over 18 months into his second term, and look at the damage he's done. Literally every major economic metric is worse now than when he took over. He's singlehandedly responsible for inflation hitting three-year highs and diesel prices setting new records.

Despite his asinine tariffs, our trade deficit in 2025 was no better than in 2024, and the "goods" deficit actually grew.

The only thing his tariffs did was force every American to pay more for damn near everything.

His current trade war with Canada — you know how idiotic this is? This is a president who's trashing the trade agreement we have with the Canadians — the same trade agreement he signed and boasted about during his first administration.

The moron is literally trashing his own trade agreement. That's how ridiculous his attacks on Canada have been.

His entire reputation as a businessman was built on screwing over small businesses and contractors, racking up bankruptcies and failures, and being so toxic that he was basically run out of New York City because no one wanted to do business with him.

Besides, what has he ever said he would do economically that's actually come true?

Did he "very easily" end deficits and pay off the national debt?

Nope.

Did he "cut electric bills in half during his first 12 months"?

Nope.

Did we ever get DOGE rebate checks or tariff dividend payments?

Nope.

Did his tax cuts even reduce our deficits?

Nope.

Did his tariffs lower our trade deficits?

Nope.

Did he get Mexico to pay for his wall?

Nope.

Even this whole delusion about him being a "master negotiator" — based on what evidence?

He didn't "very easily" end the war in Ukraine; he can't get out of his disastrous war in Iran; and his big promise of "90 trade deals in 90 days" that expired well over a year ago never came anywhere close to being a reality. At best, he signed a handful of tentative outlines of an agreement, but no in-depth, detailed trade deals — and damn sure not 90 of them.

Remember when he said Barack Obama would start a war with Iran because he was a "weak and ineffective negotiator"? Well, our 44th president never started that war — but Trump sure as heck did.

So, I guess according to Trump, he's a "weak and ineffective negotiator"?

His only "negotiation" tactic is to try to bully other people into doing what he wants, then throw hissy fits when anyone pushes back against him.

That's literally it.

That's the end of his "negotiation strategy."

Even his boasting about the economy being "better than ever" is all 100% total bullsh*t. There's no major economic metric anywhere that's better now than even when he took office — let alone "the best ever."

Just like everything about him, it's just his attempt to market failure as "success."

He reminds me of a sales guy I worked with who I couldn't stand. We had a new CFO come in who wasn't a fan of him either. One day, the CFO asked me what I thought of him. My answer was, "His best skill is selling himself as a great salesperson — but he sucks, hardly sells, and doesn't make us any money."

That's Trump.

His greatest "success" is being a con artist who, to his credit, did a great job marketing a failure as a businessman as "successful." It's why I've called him possibly the greatest con man in human history.

So, that's why I don't trust his economic policies — because there's nothing in Donald Trump's past or present that tells me he's anything more than an incompetent, narcissistic, total f*cking idiot whose best "skill" is somehow convincing others that he's successful, despite a resume filled with unethical business practices, screwing over anyone he needed to in order to get ahead, and a long list of failed businesses and poor decisions.
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With exactly two months to go before the US midterm elections, Donald Trump is no longer the only member of his administration squandering the opportunity to win over voters and making clownish headlines for all the wrong reasons.

As the summer winds down and Americans prepare to cast their verdict on Trump’s return to power, a slew of his top lieutenants are now competing with one another to demonstrate that their own grip on reality is loosening.

First out of the gate on Wednesday was Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, a man who has, since the start of Trump’s war on Iran, demonstrated zero capacity to sympathise with the plight of Americans who are recoiling from the conflict’s economic impacts.

Emerging from discussions with G20 finance ministers in North Carolina, Bessent conceded the country is enduring “an energy shock”. But, astoundingly, he blamed it not on the war against Iran and the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, but on Ukraine.

“Ukraine has decided that they want to blow up Russian energy assets and refined products, so that is creating upward price pressure on a global basis,” Bessent told Fox News. He made no mention of the fact that Russia has attacked countless energy facilities across Ukraine since Vladimir Putin’s war began, nor even nodded to the fact that as he was speaking, 350,000 homes in Odesa region were without power after a seventh successive day of round-the-clock Russian missile and drone assaults on the country.

While Putin vowed this week to launch a new campaign of “massive” strikes on Ukraine, Bessent –who reportedly once referred to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as “a little f**ker” and “Mr Bean on crack” – became the first US official directly to accuse the country of culpability for rising oil prices worldwide. As for Trump’s war – the actual culprit – he simply promised Fox viewers that “the conflict…will end and prices will come down”. When that magical moment might come was not vouchsafed unto his audience.

Over on CNBC, the Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, was talking literal and provable nonsense in an interview about AI data centres. As Republican lawmakers across the US find themselves on the receiving end of growing public fury over the rapidity with which they have embraced applications to build data centres, Lutnick scoffed at the notion that they put pressure on local water supplies.

“Both [parties] seem to think that there’s some political points to be scored by being anti-data centre”, observed pro-Trump CNBC host Joe Kernan, who then suggested “a little education might change that”.

Lutnick responded: “One of my favourite things is when people talk about data centres using water. The number-one product in America that uses water is cattle… I mean data centres don’t use water. This is propaganda by our adversaries to try and slow us down.” At no point did Kernan interrupt him and correct the record.

In fact, data centres consume several million litres of water daily to cool servers and generate electricity. The University of Oxford’s Department of Engineering Science calls them “water-guzzling” and a recent case study reported that “a relatively small one-megawatt data centre… would use 26 million litres of water per year. Regional water stress must be considered.”

While Bessent and Lutnick were talking palpable economic nonsense, it fell to Vice President JD Vance to offer more cosmic thoughts about America’s future.

He continues to travel the country promoting his new memoir, Communion: Finding My Way Back To Faith, currently number three on Amazon’s list of “religious leader biographies” yet struggling to crack the top 1,000 in the website’s broader book rankings.

In an interview with the Christian podcaster Bryce Crawford, Vance was challenged over his interest in “end times”, a belief rooted in the Book of Revelation that claims the physical return of Jesus Christ to Earth will presage the start of the final judgement of humanity and then the end of the world.

“We are committed to doing as much as possible to try and make the world the kind of world that God wants it to be,” Vance assured Crawford. “What I’m trying to focus on is doing as much of God’s work as possible right now, and if that leads to the end times, okay. And if that leads to building a better world that thrives and survives for a very long time after I’m gone, that’s great too,” Vance proclaimed.

Lest anyone was wondering whether his beliefs get in the way of cold, hard decision-making, the Vice President assured his host that he was up to the challenge.

“There are… things about the world that make me feel, like, not shocked if the Antichrist was walking among us. But… I try not to focus on it too much,” said the man who remains a single heartbeat away from the American presidency.
 
Hüsker Dü said:
With exactly two months to go before the US midterm elections, Donald Trump is no longer the only member of his administration squandering the opportunity to win over voters and making clownish headlines for all the wrong reasons.

As the summer winds down and Americans prepare to cast their verdict on Trump’s return to power, a slew of his top lieutenants are now competing with one another to demonstrate that their own grip on reality is loosening.

First out of the gate on Wednesday was Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, a man who has, since the start of Trump’s war on Iran, demonstrated zero capacity to sympathise with the plight of Americans who are recoiling from the conflict’s economic impacts.

Emerging from discussions with G20 finance ministers in North Carolina, Bessent conceded the country is enduring “an energy shock”. But, astoundingly, he blamed it not on the war against Iran and the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, but on Ukraine.

“Ukraine has decided that they want to blow up Russian energy assets and refined products, so that is creating upward price pressure on a global basis,” Bessent told Fox News. He made no mention of the fact that Russia has attacked countless energy facilities across Ukraine since Vladimir Putin’s war began, nor even nodded to the fact that as he was speaking, 350,000 homes in Odesa region were without power after a seventh successive day of round-the-clock Russian missile and drone assaults on the country.

While Putin vowed this week to launch a new campaign of “massive” strikes on Ukraine, Bessent –who reportedly once referred to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as “a little f**ker” and “Mr Bean on crack” – became the first US official directly to accuse the country of culpability for rising oil prices worldwide. As for Trump’s war – the actual culprit – he simply promised Fox viewers that “the conflict…will end and prices will come down”. When that magical moment might come was not vouchsafed unto his audience.

Over on CNBC, the Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, was talking literal and provable nonsense in an interview about AI data centres. As Republican lawmakers across the US find themselves on the receiving end of growing public fury over the rapidity with which they have embraced applications to build data centres, Lutnick scoffed at the notion that they put pressure on local water supplies.

“Both [parties] seem to think that there’s some political points to be scored by being anti-data centre”, observed pro-Trump CNBC host Joe Kernan, who then suggested “a little education might change that”.

Lutnick responded: “One of my favourite things is when people talk about data centres using water. The number-one product in America that uses water is cattle… I mean data centres don’t use water. This is propaganda by our adversaries to try and slow us down.” At no point did Kernan interrupt him and correct the record.

In fact, data centres consume several million litres of water daily to cool servers and generate electricity. The University of Oxford’s Department of Engineering Science calls them “water-guzzling” and a recent case study reported that “a relatively small one-megawatt data centre… would use 26 million litres of water per year. Regional water stress must be considered.”

While Bessent and Lutnick were talking palpable economic nonsense, it fell to Vice President JD Vance to offer more cosmic thoughts about America’s future.

He continues to travel the country promoting his new memoir, Communion: Finding My Way Back To Faith, currently number three on Amazon’s list of “religious leader biographies” yet struggling to crack the top 1,000 in the website’s broader book rankings.

In an interview with the Christian podcaster Bryce Crawford, Vance was challenged over his interest in “end times”, a belief rooted in the Book of Revelation that claims the physical return of Jesus Christ to Earth will presage the start of the final judgement of humanity and then the end of the world.

“We are committed to doing as much as possible to try and make the world the kind of world that God wants it to be,” Vance assured Crawford. “What I’m trying to focus on is doing as much of God’s work as possible right now, and if that leads to the end times, okay. And if that leads to building a better world that thrives and survives for a very long time after I’m gone, that’s great too,” Vance proclaimed.

Lest anyone was wondering whether his beliefs get in the way of cold, hard decision-making, the Vice President assured his host that he was up to the challenge.

“There are… things about the world that make me feel, like, not shocked if the Antichrist was walking among us. But… I try not to focus on it too much,” said the man who remains a single heartbeat away from the American presidency.
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