floofloof@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agoTrump Suggests He Can Use the Military on Bond Markets: ‘If We Have To Use That, We Will’www.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square140linkfedilinkarrow-up1474arrow-down19cross-posted to: usa@midwest.socialusa@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareLibertyLizard@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up87·12 days agoThis is insane even for Trump. What would a military intervention in the bond market even mean? My guess is this is just dementia related word salad.
minus-squareOoops@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·12 days agoIs it really an escalation from the already established case of ‘wanting to nuke a hurricane’?
minus-squareLibertyLizard@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·12 days agoYes. I mean that’s very insane but frankly not even as insane as nuking a populated area. Let alone an intangible concept like a market.
minus-squareianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·12 days agohe’s willing to blow up a school to distract from his star role in the Epstein Files. now he’s going to blow up a bank to distract from his economic fuckup
minus-squareim_fine_sandy@nord.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·12 days agoMy translation is: if people keep complaining about whatever bonds are we can invade Greenland or Uzbekistan or Herd Island.
minus-squarepostmateDumbass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·12 days agoMaybe he just watched Beverly Hills Cop 2 and wants to steal a bunch of bearer bonds.
minus-squaredan1101@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 days agoA lot of shit seems to have happened after Trump watched a movie over the weekend. What a stupid state of affairs we are in.
minus-squarecrapwittyname@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 days agoBig if true. Make him watch Disney and Star Trek if true.
minus-squareLastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·12 days agoYou can’t imagine what a $2 trillion budget can do to a bond market?
minus-squareSabinStargem@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 days agoMarching into the stock exchange and telling people what the numbers should be, probably…no, almost certainly. 😦
minus-squareTetragrade@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·12 days agoOl’ reliable: issue $1,000,000,000,000,000 in fascist funny bonds and invade Canada.
This is insane even for Trump. What would a military intervention in the bond market even mean?
My guess is this is just dementia related word salad.
Is it really an escalation from the already established case of ‘wanting to nuke a hurricane’?
Yes. I mean that’s very insane but frankly not even as insane as nuking a populated area. Let alone an intangible concept like a market.
he’s willing to blow up a school to distract from his star role in the Epstein Files.
now he’s going to blow up a bank to distract from his economic fuckup
My translation is: if people keep complaining about whatever bonds are we can invade Greenland or Uzbekistan or Herd Island.
Maybe he just watched Beverly Hills Cop 2 and wants to steal a bunch of bearer bonds.
A lot of shit seems to have happened after Trump watched a movie over the weekend. What a stupid state of affairs we are in.
Big if true. Make him watch Disney and Star Trek if true.
You can’t imagine what a $2 trillion budget can do to a bond market?
Marching into the stock exchange and telling people what the numbers should be, probably…no, almost certainly. 😦
Ol’ reliable: issue $1,000,000,000,000,000 in fascist funny bonds and invade Canada.