Ben Shapiro, Dave Portnoy, Joe Rogan, Bill Ackman & Elon Musk views on tariffs

  • @cowfodder@lemmy.world
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    16620 days ago

    When someone as fucking stupid as Rogan is questioning the idiocy of a policy you know it’s gotta be bad.

    • Geetnerd
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      20 days ago

      He’s frightened by all his stock bottoming out.

      • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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        520 days ago

        This exactly, all that sweet sweet revenue from conservatives flocking to your podcasts, channel,etc suddenly disappears due as a result of supporters more concerned about the tariffs than to the brainrot podcasts

        • Geetnerd
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          1420 days ago

          Don’t worry, I don’t.

          In the early days, when he and his buds just got high, and talked about conspiracy theory bullshit, it was mildly amusing, in a “Let’s get high, bro” kind of way.

          I was never a regular listener/watcher, and dropped it completely when he obviously started taking Right Wing money.

    • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      720 days ago

      Nah like the other grifters he’s more worried about his supporters turning on him once they have no jobs or can’t afford anything because of the tariffs, hence no money they can grift from them.

  • @GuyFawkes@midwest.social
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    4520 days ago

    Wait, not Joe Rogan the global trade expert? Oh. Then why do we care what he has to say on it one way or the other?

    • @aaron@lemm.ee
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      2420 days ago

      He’s built like a steroided bonobo at 5’6" and speaks really confidently. The insecure males can’t get enough of it.

      • Geetnerd
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        20 days ago

        Well, to be fair, he’s built like a brick shithouse, and he is an actual Tae Kwon Do, and Jujitsu expert. He’s the real deal, in that respect. I’m pretty confident that he could kick the shit out of all of us. But, to his credit, he seems laid back, and chill, and not the violent aggressive type.

        He’s just a meathead dudebro of average intelligence, and the gift of gab, that got lucky. Good for him on that.

        But, giving truly evil people a platform to spread their poison… not cool. You have more money than you can ever spend, Joe. Stop enabling the poisoning of young minds.

        His Stoner Zen Badass persona is why teenage boys, and adults with the minds of teenage boys love him.

        • @aaron@lemm.ee
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          1020 days ago

          Agree, he feasts on insecure men. He also doesn’t really care about truth, which bothers me. So he’s a charlatan who profits on the gullible. Not a big leap.

        • ngdev
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          720 days ago

          watch a video of him sparring, the dude is not an expert by any metric

    • Lemminary
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      1720 days ago

      It’s not what he’s saying, but that he’s saying it.

    • @lobut@lemmy.ca
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      20 days ago

      He let Trump say to Rogan’s face that Trump never said “Lock her up”. Never questioned it. Fuck Rogan.

    • Geetnerd
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      220 days ago

      You don’t have to a genius to understand when your stock lost 1/2 to 3/4 of it’s value, that’s bad.

  • kamenLady.
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    20 days ago

    I don’t know if i should be amused, that even Musk is reacting like he didn’t think Trump was going to pull this through or rather alarmed that Trump really is unhinged.

    It’s not like Trump wasn’t talking about tariffs a long time before enforcing them.

    I’ll just be both.

  • kn0wmad1c
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    2820 days ago

    More people who don’t give a shit until they’re personally affected.

    • @CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      2220 days ago

      “He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting”

      Imagine: voting not for any particular benefit for you or other Americans, not for the good of the country, but voting to HURT a specific set of people.