I have a feeling if Trump wins, his administration is going to traumatize a lot of people, including people who think they won't be affected. Musk revealed "that a period of intentional 'temporary hardship'is on the horizon for American households"* and admitted "that he knows that Donald Trump's policies would crash the economy if he's elected president, but thinks that the price is worth it."
*meidasnews.com
**www.yahoo.com
What Musk sees as a temporary hardship for some will be a devastating hardship for others. For example, if the stock market crashes, people nearing or already at retirement age will lose the life savings they are using to supplement their social security benefits. If the housing market crashes, wealthy investors will benefit but not average Americans. Case in point:
Profiting off pain: Trump confidant cashed in on housing crisis
When the housing market crashed, Tom Barrack was ready. He built a company that bought more than 30,000 homes across the country--including nearly 5,000 in Texas--and converted them to rentals.
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I think that's what Trump himself was trying to do back in 2006 when he -------- fears of a coming housing collapse and opened his own mortgage company. But Trump being Trump and not being the savvy business man he claims to be, f'ed up. From a 2016 WP article:
Trump Mortgage failed. Here's what that says about the GOP front-runner.
In attaching his brand to the residential mortgage market at the height of the bubble, Trump defied a growing chorus of pessimism among economic forecasters and cast his decision as a sign of his own good judgment.
"How you react to the so-called housing bubble can be a barometer of your business personality," he wrote in a September 2005 blog entry, months before the launch of Trump Mortgage. The post, published on the website of Trump University, the now-defunct business that provided seminars for aspiring real estate entrepreneurs, appeared under the headline "The Housing Bubble: Doom and Gloom Don't Pay."
"Are you the type of person who takes advantage of positive situations when they present themselves, riding them out as long as they last? Or do you heed every message of doom and gloom, avoiding risks that could be some remarkable opportunities?"
Recently, as a candidate, Trump has presented himself as a truth teller who sounded an early alarm about the pending mortgage crisis. He told MSNBC last July that he had known the housing market "was a bubble that was waiting to explode."
"I told a lot of people," Trump said. "And I was right. You know, I'm pretty good at thatstuff."
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Trump was a failed businessman, a liar and a con man from the get-go, and that was before he started showing signs of mental and physical decline due to age-related infirmities. Really people? This is the man you want to entrust with the nuclear codes and our economy?