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kansasobama

(1,750 posts)
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 10:16 AM Oct 2024

Oh 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

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Oh My God-Did we and Dems miss this? Trump wants people to face some hardship (Original Post) kansasobama Oct 2024 OP
Musk has been touched by trump. Turbineguy Oct 2024 #1
Whatever horrific thing is said or done by these people Loryn Oct 2024 #2
The tariff news made FRONT PAGE in our paper this morning. ProudMNDemocrat Oct 2024 #4
I thought the same thing. This got lost in the garbage. arlyellowdog Oct 2024 #3
... Prairie Gates Oct 2024 #5
Economic catastrophe ahead for everyone ... Charging Triceratops Oct 2024 #6
"Greatnes" for Elmo Skum... The Unmitigated Gall Oct 2024 #7
I just emailed Harris campaign kansasobama Oct 2024 #8
Elon has entered the sadist phase of being a bored narcissist. Intractable Oct 2024 #9
Reminds me of the conversation between Winston comradebillyboy Oct 2024 #13
And after they have converted you to fully accept the ways of the party, to think as they want you to, Intractable Oct 2024 #14
Harris is way ahead of you, and Trump is denying the ACA is on the table. TwilightZone Oct 2024 #10
When Elon says the country will have to go through hardship VMA131Marine Oct 2024 #11
Both Musk and Trump have admitted to their plan to crash the economy and Demsrule86 Oct 2024 #12

Turbineguy

(40,083 posts)
1. Musk has been touched by trump.
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 10:18 AM
Oct 2024

And everything trump touches turns to shit. It will get worse until trump is actually in jail.

Loryn

(1,047 posts)
2. Whatever horrific thing is said or done by these people
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 10:19 AM
Oct 2024

I just assume won't be covered by the media.

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,906 posts)
4. The tariff news made FRONT PAGE in our paper this morning.
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 10:21 AM
Oct 2024

And it was NOT good news at that. Where I live,, it's all residents 55+. Average age is 84.

arlyellowdog

(1,430 posts)
3. I thought the same thing. This got lost in the garbage.
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 10:21 AM
Oct 2024

We have to make noise about the good economic numbers and Musk’s statement.

The Unmitigated Gall

(4,710 posts)
7. "Greatnes" for Elmo Skum...
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 10:24 AM
Oct 2024

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)
8. I just emailed Harris campaign
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 10:26 AM
Oct 2024

I hope we all alert all Dems. How can they miss the "HARDSHIP" part?

Intractable

(2,114 posts)
9. Elon has entered the sadist phase of being a bored narcissist.
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 10:28 AM
Oct 2024

I think he enjoyed delivering the news that people must suffer.

comradebillyboy

(10,955 posts)
13. Reminds me of the conversation between Winston
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 10:43 AM
Oct 2024

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)
14. And after they have converted you to fully accept the ways of the party, to think as they want you to,
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 01:19 PM
Oct 2024

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)
10. Harris is way ahead of you, and Trump is denying the ACA is on the table.
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 10:31 AM
Oct 2024

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)
11. When Elon says the country will have to go through hardship
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 10:34 AM
Oct 2024

He’s not talking about himself or his fellow billionaires. As always, they will be just fine. And he also doesn’t have any sound economic theory to back him up.

Demsrule86

(71,542 posts)
12. Both Musk and Trump have admitted to their plan to crash the economy and
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 10:37 AM
Oct 2024

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.

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