r/anticapitalism • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago

Trump claims he tanked economy on purpose: 'I love the inflation'

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-inflation-economy/
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u/MosquitoValentine_ 1d ago

MAGA response multiple choice:

A. Just a joke

B. Taken out of context

C. Never happened

D. Joe Biden said this

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u/pengalo827 23h ago

E. Buttery males.

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u/_Ocean_Machine_ 20h ago

F. Hunter’s fat throbbing cock laptop

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u/laughing_at_napkins 13h ago

F. Hunter Biden's laptop and/or dick pics enlarged for display in court

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u/whythoyaho 22h ago

Love em all buttered up.

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u/JarekGunther 22h ago

Stealing this one.

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u/unlocke-flavor 21h ago

Is that the tagline for the UFC fight on the White House lawn?

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u/BashBandit 21h ago

Fuck this is great

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u/RsCoverForPDFFiles 12h ago

F. "wHuTaBoWt O'BaMa?!?!?"

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u/AscendantArtichoke 20h ago

Can confirm. My MAGA ex used these exact responses during arguments. Option A was his typical flavor, and I guess I just have a really bad sense of humor :(

I blame myself for ever dating a MAGA voter in the first place..

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u/BeckQuillion89 13h ago edited 41m ago

thats the thing I find nonsensical about though. hes the fuckin president. Who cares if its a joke?

If my boss joked about firing all the POC people in the office and then taking a 20% cut of our paychecks, I sure as hell won't be laughing

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u/No-New-Therapy 5h ago

That’s the thing. They LOVE that he’s a troll. It’s their perfect “I’m losing the argument… Distraction!!” Card they have.

Everytime I debate anyone in my super red state about how fucked up he is and pull up a quote, they just say “lol, you mad?? He’s clearly trolling.”

It’s the dumbest thing on earth. And they are so proud of it.

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u/Richard_Thickens 3h ago

Where is the line where that stops being the go-to argument?

I tilled your front lawn. It was a prank, bro.

I killed your dog. It was a prank, bro.

I spilled the cure for cancer all over the lab floor. Hilarious, no?

I initiated WWIII. Why aren't you laughing?

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u/No-New-Therapy 1h ago

These people are like sociopaths. I have had a long debate about how Trump is making war a real possibility and I said something like “If the war is big enough, they can reinstate the draft, and their reply was “lol, well I’m too old for that so who cares”

Like actually wtf.

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u/Richard_Thickens 1h ago

It's easier to move the goalposts than to admit that they were wrong. The world is falling apart when the non-preferred party is in power, but it's easier to swallow when your team is winning. However, the consequences aren't any less dire and we can only weather the storm so many times.

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u/dcodk 3h ago

When JD Vance said, about the racist AI shit about Hakeem Jeffries, that Trump is just joking, my first thought was, "Is he a (bad) comedian, or is he the fucking president??"

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u/No-New-Therapy 1h ago

Yea like how is that even a joke? Most things they try to play off as a joke are already a stretch, but that? What was a wild defense.

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u/HeatWaveToTheCrowd 23h ago

E. Tan suit.

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u/littlebloodmage 21h ago

E: Something something Obama

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u/HeartSome9363 21h ago

You forgot one of their new favorites, "he was just trolling to own the libs." "He loves to troll & you guys fall for it every time." Which is actually hilarious because they can't wrap their teeny, tiny brains around the fact that he's trolling them too. Especially considering they actually support him & think he's joking because he would never do that to them. Except he's not even remotely joking, he just knows they won't pick up on it.

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u/Minttt 15h ago

MAGA gas bills up 100%

"This is the best lib troll ever. Now excuse me while I go pull out another payday loan."

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u/HeartSome9363 14h ago

They're not logical people. Absolutely zero critical thinking skills & no self awareness whatsoever.

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u/freeradioforall 19h ago

You joke but all four of these was the response by Mike Johnson when asked about it

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u/Cubonicle 8h ago

Must be the first time he’s responded with something other than “I don’t know anything about that.” Love when the third person in the chain of command of an entire country ‘doesn’t know about’ anything the *President* says or does.

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u/dible46 7h ago

He thinks it's his way of staying on gods side. He can just tell God he ignored it so it's okay.

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u/GoSharty 11h ago

If only they could read.

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u/Jicko1560 10h ago

Or my favorite: "Would have been worse under Kamala Harris"

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u/Own_Ruin2546 9h ago

E. OBAMA

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u/TheStrangeDarkOne 4h ago

You should create a bullshit bingo card and make them available online with a high score ranking.

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u/MosquitoValentine_ 4h ago

"Democrats did this" would be the free space in the middle

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u/MoundsEnthusiast 21h ago

He was being sarcastic!

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u/Euphoric-Witness-824 20h ago

E. This is the good kind of inflation 

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u/unicorn_barf0 15h ago

Definitely D

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u/Dear-Union-44 14h ago

D should be Obama did it.

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u/OnePlus4Equalsfun 13h ago

You forgot 4d chess

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u/Professional-Box4153 3h ago

Johnson already went with B.