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Bill Ackman warns of 'economic nuclear winter,' urges 90-day timeout on tariffs
(www.morningstar.com)
Good news for anyone patrolling the economic Mojave
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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Well Bill you are part of the problem. You helped get this piece of human shit into the White House.
I support Donald Trump's tariffs and staying firm, don't back down!
If we keep this up we won't see another Republican win in 60 more years atleast after all this damage is sorted out.
Your country will be burnt to a crisp, but hey, at least you won't have to worry about Republicans anymore...
Having said that, you know it won't be that easy.
Republicans will gasp lie and say it wasn't them, it was all Obama's fault or some shit. As long as you scream the loudest, you will be right. THAT part has to change. Put pack the laws requiring news organizations to be truthful.
Jail pundits, especially Republican ones, as those are the ones that have been carrying the message for decades now.
Get rid of billionaires, all of em. The richest person in the world should not own more than 100 million, tops. Anyone above that should automatically get 100% tax on the surplus until they're below the limit.
You'll have to rebuild your police force and justice system from scratch. US police as it currently is is rotten and corrupt to it's core. Get national databases on police abuse, require cams, all of it
You'll have to make a new constitution from scratch where everyone is the same, no matter race, color, sexual preferences or identity
You'll have to rebuild your healthcare system from damn near scratch. Free healthcare, including mental healthcare.
Free housing and (mental) support for the homeless
You'll have to redo education as you manage to even fuck that up. Free healthcare with high standards, all science based.
You're going to have to severely limit (and if possible get rid of) religion and religious influence as your current state is basically a theocratic dictatorship
You're going to have to change elections. Get rid of the post "president", hand power to 20 different political parties instead to give political stability
Get rid of guns. If you want a normal boring country (and that is a good thing) you'll need to limit access to guns. When you're done there should be less than 1% of guns left. Watch violent crime and murders evaporate
All of it is doable if you get rid of the billionaires. Setup 10 tax brackets on income and current wealth. The lowest pays no taxes, the highest bracket is 100% of income and literally all the wealth above a certain limit. I'm sorry, not sorry, but nobody can tell me a good reason why anybody should have a cess to more than 100 million. Hell, make that 50 million.
Limit the maximum size of companies to 500 employees and max worth of 1 billion. I'll take a thousand 1 billion dollar companies over a single trillion dollar company any day
I could go on for a while as you imagine
Oh no, the moron-in-chief is doing exactly the moronic things he said he was going to do! Who could have predicted that?
Hey Bill Ackman you got EXACTLY what you asked for. So shut the fuck up.
U.S. was headed for a “self-induced, economic nuclear winter,
Yes in part because you fucking supported that!! Piss off moron, and stop pretending like you actually care!!
You aren't getting it, this is the second part of the plan. First you tank the market, then you you remove the tariffs and the market rebounds. Meanwhile, pirates like this guy make money on the crash AND the recovery.
HitlerPig has done this every month since he was inaugurated, just on a smaller scale, to test the concept, and it worked. This was the first big swing, but it won't be the last.
It's deliberate market manipulation that only a fully corrupt president could pull off.
It’s Monday. I can’t wait to see what fresh dumpsterfires are going to happen in the market today.
E: not even 11 AM eastern time and it’s down another 2%.
what’s this? the consequences of exactly what I wanted?
Fuck that guy with a cactus.
You would've thought a competent hedge fund manager would've hedged against that risk, especially since Trump actually ran on using tariffs as opposed to all the other shit he's doing that's coming out of nowhere.
90 day timeout so markets can recover and people can sell off stocks?
How's the leopard treating you, Bill?
"We knew he was an idiot but not such a big idiot"
“I can’t believe the fucking idiot we helped put in charge is an actual fucking idiot surrounded by other fucking idiots. Wait, what does that say about me? Erm.. probably nothing.”
“Who the hell is pulling his strings” is what they should be asking
Putin. Its always Putin, using Skum and HitlerPig as his muscle.
When will people truly internalize that the two biggest foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs, have partnered up with the most prolific traitor in American history? None of them have any loyalty or patriotism toward America, and only see us as a big, rich, fat, lazy target to be ruthlessly exploited and looted, and it's happening in real time before our eyes.
But that's the problem. All the rich dudes were pulling his strings before he was elected and they thought they could do the same after.
Bunch of fucking idjits. Their stupidity is truly astounding.
i never though the leapards would eat MY face...
That window is looking like a tempting exit, isnt it Bill?