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World's biggest fucking idiot comes to terms with being a massive fucking idiot
You can still take solice in knowing that you "owned some libs" though. That just makes the whole thing worth it, doesn't it?
Heartbreaking.
I can’t stop crying about this redcap’s 23% loss in profits. Never mind that I’m not sure whether my Social Security disability will continue at all (it’s been delayed the last couple of months, to the point I can’t afford ramen right now) or that they’re building interment camps. Or that my doctors say Medicare won’t allow my prescriptions anymore unless I can travel the hour and a half to physically show up at their office, which I cannot do since I’m 100% homebound and Medicare has suddenly decided they’re not allowing remote visits anymore, so I’ll have to stop taking lifesaving meds I’ve been on for 20 years.
But yes, this guy’s 23% profit loss will keep me up tonight.
My heart bleeds purple peanut butter.
Oh and my little friends violin
If only someone had told him the consequences of voting for Trump
Maybe the Lib he owned
Aha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... Suffer, you stupid tool.
This is just like Chinese Cultural Revolution. That destroyed their economy and it took them a few decades to rebuild.
It is easier to destroy but hard to build..I hope they learned their lesson.
I hope they learned their lesson.
Oh I'm sure the Chinese did, republicans however? ...
The vast majority of them won’t learn anything. They are just looking to blame someone right now. Next election (if there is one) some dem will say something they hate, things will be better for them, and they are right back on the trump train.
Most of them are too far gone, in the cult, and listen to nothing but the propaganda. Any soft realization will quickly be forgotten when they are told how it’s the other sides fault b
Yep, they'll just blame the Chinese, Europe and of course the Democrats.
Yep this is "Trump's Great Leap Forward" and we should start referring to it as such.
It'd be a banger if the average asshole in America wasn't so stupid that they'd read that as a positive.
"In fact this will be the greatest leap forward. A big beautiful leap!" and the hateful morons will cheer as he says it.
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Mao wanted people to smelt iron in their backyards, Trump wants people to raise chickens in their backyards.
Chickens are at least more likely to be useful. That is more of an accident than anything, seeing as Trump and Mao are just different shapes of crap.
I did not vote for a neutron bomb to wipe out supply chains and small businesses...
Yes you did jackass. People like him are the reason I don't have a job anymore.
Hey, be fair to the guy. He only voted for all the ways Trump promised to hurt the people he didn't like, not for the ways Trump promised to hurt him.
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Zero fucking sympathy and this is just the beginning of the US collapse. There will be plenty of used trucks and trailers.
“Heartbreak” isn’t really the word I’d use here lol
Well, it can be heartbreaking to realize your intelligence equals that of a toaster.
can't be heartbreaking if you don't have a heart
At some level, I'm just jealous of these people for getting what they voted for. I haven't gotten what I voted for ever since I was old enough to vote.
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Can we start vetting sources a bit better?
What is this site?
The site is hosted in Iceland. Whois link
It's bias is extreme left. It is marked as a questionable source. Mediabiasfactcheck link
It does not disclose ownership or funding sources. They do not provide sources for their articles.
The article mention the businessman name , it's easy to check on x the specific statement https://x.com/FreightAlley/status/1913990382997643418
I'm heartbroken. But not for this motherfucker.
Craig Fuller thought he was voting for business savvy, not economic shock therapy.
Does he know anything at all about the felon who has left a long trail of failed businesses and can bankrupt ~~a casino~~ three casinos? Trump is doing pretty much exactly what he said he'd do and any CEO that doesn't know that deserves to be unemployed.
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I don't understand, why doesn't he just "pull himself up by by his bootstraps" and work harder. That's what they tell everyone else, right?
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Fuller runs Freightwaves. He’s all over the place prognosticating the shipping and logistics community.
I could find no source for the OP post other than the linked popup “news” site.
Fuller is more recently quoted as saying the “recession” (the market downturn due to trump’s idiotic knee-jerk tariff implementation) is over and expecting a market change.
Dude’s an idiot, just another CEO analyst always trying to put a positive spin on any negative event to do with his industry.
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...voting for business savvy...
Did this guy sleep through Trump's first term? Things are worse now than it was then but he messed things up the first time too.
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Heartbreaking? Nah. More like utterly infuriating that they were duped despite the prior term and decades of demonstrated corruption and incompetence.
I’ve no sympathy at all.
I'm sick of calling my senators I'm gonna start calling these guys and dunking on them
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Spoiler alert they will still vote republican.
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