Summary

Historian Nicole Hemmer discussed Donald Trump’s strategy of exploiting tragedies for political gain, labeling it part of a broader right-wing effort to sow division.

Hemmer noted Trump’s pattern of politicizing disasters, from Hurricane Maria to the California wildfires, to attack political opponents and promote conspiracy theories.

This tactic is linked to a media environment that thrives on outrage and a conservative ecosystem that weaponizes anger for electoral gains.

This approach degrades public life, fosters animosity, and amplifies societal despair.

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    He is trying to help lower the stock market so he has room to keep growing the bubble. He already tried to raise the debt ceiling, and thay failed. I expect the market to keep dumping while him and his followers buy into the market are lows. Then then once he is in office will chill out on the Panama and Greenland BS. Tell everyone he got us a great deal. And economy will blast off with them making bank.

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      I really believe the oligarchs are supporting him so he’ll crash the economy again. When everything’s cheap, they just buy it up.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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        There was a huge effort to get a recession going when stuff was starting to pick back up after COVID and workers started to get gains. I feel like Biden was trying to keep things in one piece.

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      This is just normal annual sell off at this point. But if people aren’t up at least 100% by spring, that fagbag traitor will have more to worry about than staged assassination attempts. There won’t be a maxipad big enough to hold his entire skull together

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        Also with the last jobs numbers, the Fed ain’t lowering those rates anytime soon, so they sell.