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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOh My God-Did we and Dems miss this? Trump wants people to face some hardship
Musk said the country has to go through hardship, during tariff regime, and ACA end, before reaching greatness. "A little hardship"? Did we miss to capitalize on this?
https://abcnews.go.com/US/elon-musk-trumps-economic-plans-cause-temporary-hardship/story?id=115316405
Turbineguy
(40,083 posts)And everything trump touches turns to shit. It will get worse until trump is actually in jail.
Loryn
(1,047 posts)I just assume won't be covered by the media.
ProudMNDemocrat
(20,906 posts)And it was NOT good news at that. Where I live,, it's all residents 55+. Average age is 84.
arlyellowdog
(1,430 posts)We have to make noise about the good economic numbers and Musks statement.
Prairie Gates
(8,180 posts)Charging Triceratops
(441 posts)except the Billionaire Bros. They get everything.
The Unmitigated Gall
(4,710 posts)Is an America with it's caste system fully re-established, and with working people fully re-purposed to providing for the super-rich/super-privileged.
What he's saying is that our slavery at first will be hard, but we'll learn to live under the yoke.
kansasobama
(1,750 posts)I hope we all alert all Dems. How can they miss the "HARDSHIP" part?
Intractable
(2,114 posts)I think he enjoyed delivering the news that people must suffer.
comradebillyboy
(10,955 posts)Smith and O'Brian in the Ministry of Love. When O'Brian tells Smith that the true measure of power is how much you can make people suffer.
Intractable
(2,114 posts)to do as they want you to, to be as they want ... then they execute you.
If I recall, Winston felt the bullet as it entered his brain.
It was all an exercise of power ... to see if they can do it.
TwilightZone
(28,836 posts)She's already hit Trump on all of those issues. Repeatedly.
Trump recently noted that he was not in favor of getting rid of the ACA, countering this statement and a comment made by McConnell.
Harris isn't going to waste her time responding to every idiotic thing Trump surrogates say, especially when Trump doesn't even agree with it (publicly).
VMA131Marine
(5,271 posts)Hes not talking about himself or his fellow billionaires. As always, they will be just fine. And he also doesnt have any sound economic theory to back him up.
Demsrule86
(71,542 posts)put us in a depression and then 'rebuild' which involves ending Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA, public schools and many other programs Americans take for granted.