I dont understand how he's allowed to do this jesus christ the secret service needs to take him to walter reed and put him in a straightjacket literal mad king brain rotting in front of our eyes and nobody does anything fuck this stupid country dude
You sound like me every morning. I don’t get it either.
Well, there was a war on drugs. So wars on abstract concepts seem to have precedent.
He thinks the bond market is a place
"So I was talking to people, very smart people, the best people, about the bond market, which is, you know, it's a market, it's right there, it's a beautiful market, some people don't know this, but it's real, there's a floor, there's traders, there's guys yelling — I've seen it, I've been there, tremendous energy, tremendous — and I said, we gotta go in. We gotta send in the — I'm thinking Marines, maybe the Guard, somebody strong — and just, you know, straighten it out. Because right now the yields are doing something, nobody can explain it, they use words like 'basis points,' sounds made up, sounds like a Scrabble word, and I said, if it's a market, and it's un-American what's happening in there, we go in, we clean it up, like a — like a raid, a beautiful raid. And this actually — this reminds me, because there's a very famous story, everyone knows it, tremendous story, where Jesus — good guy, great guy, maybe the greatest — he goes into the temple, and there's a market in there, and he doesn't like the prices, the vig, whatever they were charging, and he goes in, flips everything, tables everywhere, coins flying, unbelievable scene, and the lesson — and this is the lesson, folks, this is Biblical, you can look it up, I'm not sure you can, but you should — the lesson is: when the market's ripping you off, you send in strength. That's it. That's the whole Bible right there in one story. He didn't file a complaint. He didn't write a letter to the — to the temple commissioner, there was no commissioner, there was just him, and a table, and boom. So that's what we're gonna do to the bond market. We're gonna flip some tables. Metaphorically — or not metaphorically, we'll see, I've got people looking into whether there's an actual floor we can send people onto, physically, and if there is, boy, are those yield curve people in for a surprise."
Trump, probably...
He's going to arrest people and lock them up in the federal reserve.
Subtext: if you dump your treasuries/US bond holdings you get invaded and/or bombed.
That is your opinion of what he might have meant if his brain were working. In reality, we have no idea what he means, and neither does he.
I mean.... Good luck, USA? Doesn't seem like a really viable strategy.
I don't even understand how he could get from A to B here. Where are the neurons going?
This is dementia.
What happens is that pathways in your brain start to break down, so when you're trying to form a connection, the connection just isn't there. But what your brain does is it tries to be "helpful" by routing around the damaged pathway without even telling you that it's doing this.
So part way through trying to talk about bond markets, something he doesn't really have a deep pool of knowledge on to begin with, Trump's brain ran into a block. To fix the issue, it took the last word - intervention - and formed a pathway from there. This lead to "military", kind of like an LLM losing context but continuing its next word guessing.
He probably finished out the sentence without even realizing that it has zero connection to the original question he was supposed to be answering.
I think he's confusing bond markets with Bond... James Bond, the guy who keeps defeating villains like Trump in all those movies.
Someone just needs to tell Trump what building the bond market is in and he can station some tanks in front of it and let them know he'll start shooting if they don't do what he wants.
I cannot wait until we are out of weapons. I hope we're invaded by lots of countries all at once.
I don't think there is a country that wants to invade the US, not even out of spite. Maybe Canada will take a bit of the top, and Mexico will snoop a bit of the south, but I don't think you should expect much more.
I can only hope the west gets absorbed by Canada and labled a new terrority of cascadia. Anything east of that mountain range can get fucked.
I WANT Minnesota to be the next province of Canada. Hell, I almost speak in a Canadian accent. It's really flat, with a hint of a twist.
I make an exception for Minnesota.
I'd actually be okay with texas breaking off to do their own thing, so they can build a million data centers with their shitty power grid, only to regret it when the next mild winter hits.
Then they can do their Republican version of sharia law where they hunt down any female who has a penis or an aborted baby with flock cameras and bounty hunters. Oh and the armed masked unmarked millitas roaming the streets to fill detention centers like its some third world country that has CIA backed insurgencies.
Maine and Vermont are super Canadian too a bunch of Mainers are really just dislocated Québécois.
I call dibs on my city being invaded by Hungary. I've visited there several times and it was great. Tell the invading troops to bring pálinka.
I call dibs on Minnesota being invaded by Canada.
Woke left communist bond markets
must be that same guy that suggested to nuke a hurricane...
The only way it'll work is trump saying..."You're selling our debt?", turns to Stinky Pete, "Bomb them!".
He must have loaned out his one brain cell again.
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