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   William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 00:39:11 JST William Lindsey :toad:

   David Kurtz looks at what Musk-Trump are doing to the government and the economy and sees a common theme: the intent to destroy:

   "The damage will be so vast and foreseeable that it’s hard not to veer into wondering about Trump’s motives in unleashing this much destruction on his own country."

   #Trump #Musk #tariffs #economy #LiberationDay #recession #inflation #StockMarket #destruction #chaos
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   https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/trumps-tariffs-are-a-colossal-self

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 00:39:07 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     “Monstrously destructive, incoherent, ill-informed tariffs based on fabrications, imagined wrongs, discredited theories and ignorance of decades of evidence. And the real tragedy is that they will hurt working Americans more than anyone else.”

     ~ Economist Justin Wolfers

     #Trump #Musk #tariffs #economy #LiberationDay #recession #inflation #StockMarket #destruction #chaos
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     https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/a-sham-and-a-scam

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 00:39:08 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Are you ready to be liberated from rising wages, massive foreign direct investments, a growing economy, and friends worldwide?"

     ~ Veronique de Rugy

     #Trump #Musk #tariffs #economy #LiberationDay #recession #inflation #StockMarket #destruction #chaos
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     https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/liberation-day-is-here/

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 00:39:08 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "It's going to be huge. We're going to be liberated from friends and allies. We're going to be liberated from reasonable prices. We're going to be liberated from rational relationship between trade policy and the economy and other foreign policy interests. And dammit, we're going to be liberated from the need not to be assholes."

     ~ Benjamin Wittes

     #Trump #Musk #tariffs #economy #LiberationDay #recession #inflation #StockMarket #destruction #chaos
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     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9JFa7kCf88&t=3s

     Mr. Bill repeated this.
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 00:39:09 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Trump calls it liberation. It’s destruction. The only thing we’re being liberated from is our prosperity."

     ~ William Kristol, Andrew Egger, and Jim Swift

     #Trump #Musk #tariffs #economy #LiberationDay #recession #inflation #StockMarket #destruction #chaos
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     https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-calls-it-liberation-its-destruction-tariffs-economy-markets-trade-ffs

     Steve's Place repeated this.
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 00:39:10 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "But as with the simultaneous destruction of American science and medicine, research and development, and civic and governmental capacity, taking away things in order to extort more power, privilege, and baubles remains the best explanation for Trump’s rampage. There is no public good, only what is good for Trump."

     #Trump #Musk #tariffs #economy #LiberationDay #recession #inflation #StockMarket #destruction #chaos
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     Merry Christmas (lyndamerry484@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 06:55:51 JST Merry Christmas

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     @wdlindsy

     'Wall Street suffers its worst day since 2020 after Donald Trump announced a raft of worldwide tariffs last night'

     I do hope Elon Musk's Tesla Stocks have crashed.