Trump is purposely moving the country towards a depression!

[imanamerican63]

All the while, the GOP lawmakers stand by idly. Why? So they can force all the financial burden on the middle class? That is my opinion. What is yours?

[lapfog_1]

1. Disaster Capitalism in action

man, er... idiot made of course.

[Johnny2X2X]

2. The deficit

The deficits if we go into a recession are going to be unreal, could top $2 Trillion if things get bad quickly. That's what they want so they can cut all spending that helps any working people at all.

[Cosmocat]

6. YEP

this is a win for "conservatives."

And, most of the people going along with this, our family members and neighbors, they know it, too.

Just don't care ...

[RockRaven]

3. Yep, need an economic collapse to justify massive social security/medicare/medicaid cuts

and even further tax cuts for the "job creating" rich. Because honestly, they can't justify cutting taxes further than they already have without a distracting apocalypse.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

22. Amen. Add to that privatizing public lands, gutting the VA, and destroying the environment,

all in the name of the "free market."

And that's even before the 9-11 type attack Trump and Putin will be planning during their undocumented meeting. That would be a certain way for Trump to declare martial law and himself Supreme Leader, disbanding both the Congress and the SCOTUS.

#MAGA #MIHOP!

[TNLib]

4. Putin's plan

Make America weak so China can take over as the new super power.

[uponit7771]

31. +1

[sarah FAILIN]

5. Bargains..

They will scoop everything up when we try to sell out to keep our families fed. Then they will rent our own homes back to us for a hefty profit once the economy stabilizes and we can get jobs.

[Dave Starsky]

12. Exactly.

The people at the very top make shitloads of money regardless of how the markets rise or fall. A Great Depression 2.0 would be a Fire Sale for the Koch Brothers. It's everyone else who gets shafted.

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. Not sell, rent. Slumlord Paradise awaits!

[sarah FAILIN]

24. That's what I said

They will bleed us dry.

[GreenPartyVoter]

30. Yep! Bigly!

[sarah FAILIN]

7. Also..

They will give Alaska back to Russia to settle our debts.

Yes, I know that is a crackpot theory, but isn't that what you're asking for? The crazier, the better... but Russia does want all their land back which is why they took Crimea.

[imanamerican63]

9. Well, it would be a bargain if they take Sarah Palin too!

[sarah FAILIN]

11. Nobody wants those nuts, lol

I've thought about this since we saw the depths of his bankruptcy situation before the election. When he did that, he took everything out of a company he could get, then sold assets.
Crackpot idea or not, there is nothing I'd put past him.

[Soxfan58]

8. I've been reading about

The smoot-hawley trade bill of 1930. Which imposed huge tariffs on many imports. Some economist feel it turned a recession into the great depression. Its hard to draw any other conclusion than the one you propose. The orange sphincter is crashing the economy!

[eShirl]

10. Yep; his mission is to weaken America for Putin.

[thegoose]

13. Bingo!

It's so clear and the Pukes cover it up...

[bdamomma]

25. yes, and those

Senators who went to Russia on the 4th July are also conspirators to screw the US too and do the bidding for their trump/Fuhrer.

they should ex communicate them all.

[DBoon]

28. We will be like the Vichy regime

nominally independent but in fact run by Russia

[GeorgeGist]

14. Putin's plan to destroy US from within.

[smirkymonkey]

15. That, and the Dotard's revenge upon us for not loving him enough.

He lives for vengeance. He doesn't care if he takes down his base too, as long as he makes the rest of us suffer.

[bdamomma]

26. yes he is doing that.

but then again he is only one person may be we should take him down by shouting to see his tax forms. Ha, I am being nice oh, Hello agent Mike.

[duforsure]

16. I think he's doing this for two reasons,

one for putin's revenge, and so he and others can swoop in and get stuff for pennies on the dollar, or robber barons. The Republicans have been bought and paid for by putin .

[NCTraveler]

17. You are giving Trump credit for competence that he does not deserve. nt

[imanamerican63]

18. No, I discredited him a long time ago!

[NCTraveler]

19. "Trump is purposely moving the country towards a depression!"

He is not competent enough for the consistent thought required to purposefully peruse such and intent.

That's all I was saying.

[WhiteTara]

20. Destroy the country and pick up the pieces for a song

after all his mouth is an organ.

[Oneironaut]

23. I disagree. Imo, this is incompetence so severe, that it's indistinguishable from malice.

Trump removed most of the seasoned government employees, and replaced them with incompetent toadies. If the government were not such a historically strong organization, it would have collapsed already.

Through incompetence and arrogance, they are doing their best to destroy the government, though. Hold fast - the next 2 years will be exponentially worse, as this is when Trump’s policies truly start to take effect.

No more riding the coat tails of Obama. Everything is going to go to shit fast.

[bdamomma]

27. well if this POS

gets his way with Putin I wonder how many of those who are benefiting from his tax cuts will be hightailing out of the US to their private planes. Does anyone think they will want citizens confronting them from the wrath that they brought to its citizens. Just saying

[imanamerican63]

29. Exactly!

[appalachiablue]

32. Recession, Depression-The Republican Way!

[Runningdawg]

33. People were civil during the last depression,

they were actually civil during the civil war but all hell is going to break loose this time. The purge will no longer be just a movie. When the population has died off to a number that can be reasonably controlled by martial law our overlords will emerge from their bunkers and the dictatorship will begin.

[lunatica]

34. Republic of Gilead

[eleny]

35. Putin's puppet

Maybe that's the price for DT's getting his Trump Moscow hotel. At least I'm pretty confident that Putin wants to see us crash and burn.

[Mc Mike]

36. It's axiomatic. Repugs always want a depression, war, instability.

So they can have more power and money for the .1%.

[matt819]

37. You just know

that he and his family of cons and grifters are making stock and bond trades based on the market movements created by the con-in-chief. Steel companies, aluminum companies, oil & gas, Harley and auto companies. You just know it. But he has thousands of shell companies to make these trades, so finding them, if anyone were making the effort in the first place, would be difficult.

[madinmaryland]

38. I'm sure Robert mueller is well aware of those shell

Companies.