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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Apr 14, 2025, 02:20 PM Apr 14

Trump, the Evel Knievel of the World Economy, Is Taking Us Over The Edge.

The best analogy I have heard that describes the menace of Trump’s economic policies on America and the world invokes the iconic quote of the late daredevil Evel Knievel, “Stick with me, and we’ll jump the Grand Canyon.” Reminder: Knievel broke more than 433 bones in his lifetime as he crashed his motorcycles while jumping cars and buses and never successfully jumped the Grand Canyon.

So, think of Donald Trump and his economic policies as taking his followers and the rest of us to the Grand Canyon, telling us it’s “huge,” and it’s “going to be so beautiful” when we get there. How many times did he tell us “tariffs” was the most beautiful word ever as he invoked the highest worldwide tariffs ever? He was Evel Knievel, and we were all, willingly and unwillingly, on his bus as he hit the gas, accelerating up the ramp to jump the biggest canyon ever - the world economy.

“It’s liberation day! Stick with me,” he told us, “There’s going to be some pain, but it’s going to be so beautiful when we get to the other side!”

But as Trump was about to take the world over the edge something happened — he declared a 90-day pause on his tariffs. After waiting for anyone in America — and I mean anyone in America - to stop him. The world stepped in and started to sell America’s Treasury Bonds.

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/trump-the-evel-knievel-of-the-world

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Trump, the Evel Knievel of the World Economy, Is Taking Us Over The Edge. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 14 OP
Nope. He doesn't risk his own life or anything of his. LuvLoogie Apr 14 #1

LuvLoogie

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1. Nope. He doesn't risk his own life or anything of his.
Mon Apr 14, 2025, 02:42 PM
Apr 14

He creates/uses the chaos to generate wealth for himself and his benefactors, and to pay off debts to Putin.

Evel's fans were getting the real deal. a real show with real risk to their hero. He inspired a generation of kids making their own ramps and riding crazy on their Stingray bicycles, taking their own risks, and knowing what they were getting themselves into.

trumps fans are bigots and dupes, and he risks nothing

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