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Trump doesn't know shit. (Original Post) Swede 9 hrs ago OP
Supply and demand, just one of everything on Earth Johonny 9 hrs ago #1
Stockman? That's a blast from the past. He's one of the architects of "reducing fraud, waste and abuse". Midnight Writer 8 hrs ago #2
+1 dalton99a 8 hrs ago #4
He is a blast from the past karynnj 8 hrs ago #5
Exactly! In 1984, who of us would have thought.... paleotn 7 hrs ago #7
Let's hope that it moves in a better direction, not worse. karynnj 7 hrs ago #8
You and me both! paleotn 7 hrs ago #9
I never thought I would ever agree with Stockman. Just goes to show, even a stoppd clock is right twice a day. flashman13 7 hrs ago #12
Kick dalton99a 8 hrs ago #3
He doesn't KNOW shit yet manages to be FULL of shit. 3catwoman3 7 hrs ago #6
And sitting in shit...... BeneteauBum 6 hrs ago #22
Yes Donald, "our FIGHT FOR FREEDOM in Iran". OGBuzz 7 hrs ago #10
"So listen up MAGA:" sop 7 hrs ago #11
This is a fight for Freedom To Take Their Shit... BurnDoubt 7 hrs ago #13
Anyone who has the temerity to not genuflect to the art of the steal. BattleRow 7 hrs ago #17
Ding! Ding! Ding!!!! Bonus points for use of the word "genuflect"! BurnDoubt 5 hrs ago #23
Trump only knows how to spew shit. Historic NY 7 hrs ago #14
Donny.... SergeStorms 1 hr ago #28
Sorry to inform you, Mr. Stockman... OldBaldy1701E 7 hrs ago #15
Anyone who knows enough to advise him on this was fired IronLionZion 7 hrs ago #16
Billionaires Gouging Millionaires modrepub 6 hrs ago #18
trump's goal is destruction of the USA as we knew it. he has destroyed mucifer 6 hrs ago #19
Sorry David Stockman but you're wrong. Glaisne 6 hrs ago #20
Bats aren't blind. I wish someone would correct David Stockman on this. n/t marked50 6 hrs ago #21
None so blind as those who can't (won't) see. BurnDoubt 5 hrs ago #24
trmp IS shit spanone 5 hrs ago #25
Yeah, I'm starting to think he's a little dim BaronChocula 2 hrs ago #26
Stockman has told the truth about a lot of things. Kid Berwyn 2 hrs ago #27
I'd be happy if some farmer wants to... mwooldri 43 min ago #29

Johonny

(26,286 posts)
1. Supply and demand, just one of everything on Earth
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 09:48 AM
9 hrs ago

That Trump doesn't understand. He truly is a complete moron. Who voted for this fuckfaced idiot? Sad.

Midnight Writer

(25,487 posts)
2. Stockman? That's a blast from the past. He's one of the architects of "reducing fraud, waste and abuse".
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 10:22 AM
8 hrs ago

As a hatchet man for Reagan, he loved screwing Federal workers and the underprivileged, all in the name of "balancing the budget". Of course, the Reagan tax cuts for the wealthiest got his full support.

As he was doing this, the Federal debt exploded, leading to decades of "borrow and spend" Republican policies.

The same Republican policies that have us in an endless cycle of increasing debt and cutting government services for the people.

Supply-side, my ass.

dalton99a

(94,471 posts)
4. +1
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 10:29 AM
8 hrs ago
In the November 1981 Atlantic Monthly article, Stockman said supply-side economics -- the backbone of the Reagan economic revolution - was a 'Trojan horse' that would ultimately benefit the rich.

The press seized upon his remarks as a big story and Stockman writes that White House imagemakers -- especially deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver -- wanted him fired for betraying the president.

Baker called him into his White House office and told him in no uncertain terms that Reagan's inner circle wanted him fired.

''If it weren't for me,' he continued, 'you'd be a goner already. But I got you one last chance to save yourself. So you're going to do it exactly like I tell you. Otherwise, you're finished around here,'' Stockman writes.

''You're going to have lunch with the president. The menu is humble pie. You're going to eat every last ... spoonful of it. ... When you go through the Oval Office door, I want to see that sorry ass of yours dragging on the carpet.''

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/04/12/David-Stockmans-famous-trip-to-the-woodshed-was-prompted/2637513666000/

karynnj

(61,007 posts)
5. He is a blast from the past
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 10:30 AM
8 hrs ago

It shows how far off the Republicans have gone that he is attacking them from the left!

paleotn

(22,341 posts)
7. Exactly! In 1984, who of us would have thought....
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 11:14 AM
7 hrs ago

that we and Stockman would be on the same team 40+ years later? Or we and Rick Wilson for that matter. They were our sworn enemies once and now strange allies. The only thing weirder would be Lee Atwater if he'd lived.

A lesson for those who think "Trump-time" will last forever. It won't. What will the future be and when? Who the hell knows, but it won't be exactly like now. Maybe way different. That much we do know.

flashman13

(2,445 posts)
12. I never thought I would ever agree with Stockman. Just goes to show, even a stoppd clock is right twice a day.
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 11:43 AM
7 hrs ago

OGBuzz

(371 posts)
10. Yes Donald, "our FIGHT FOR FREEDOM in Iran".
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 11:21 AM
7 hrs ago

Because Iran was just hours away from a full scale invasion of America, with their mighty navy parked just miles offshore from Mar a Lago. You f*cking mutt.

sop

(18,788 posts)
11. "So listen up MAGA:"
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 11:42 AM
7 hrs ago

"The GOP once stood for free markets, balanced budgets, sound money and rigorous observance of the Bill of Rights and Constitution. If you can't see that Trump is the sworn enemy of all four of
those principles, then you are blind as a bat."

BurnDoubt

(1,781 posts)
13. This is a fight for Freedom To Take Their Shit...
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 11:44 AM
7 hrs ago

and a warning to anyone else that refuses "The Art Of The Deal".
Make No Mistake.

BurnDoubt

(1,781 posts)
23. Ding! Ding! Ding!!!! Bonus points for use of the word "genuflect"!
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 01:25 PM
5 hrs ago

That's REALLY the crux of the biscuit here in the upside-down.

OldBaldy1701E

(11,242 posts)
15. Sorry to inform you, Mr. Stockman...
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 11:49 AM
7 hrs ago

They are blind as a bat.

(Also completely delusional, but that is another matter....)

IronLionZion

(51,356 posts)
16. Anyone who knows enough to advise him on this was fired
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 11:58 AM
7 hrs ago

Hiring and promoting only loyalists leads to costly and stupid mistakes like this.



modrepub

(4,126 posts)
18. Billionaires Gouging Millionaires
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 12:03 PM
6 hrs ago

Most farmers are millionaires and that's the only reason Trump has some interest in this topic. It will be somewhat interesting in seeing who he goes after. Hopefully, it will be one of the contributors to his library, ballroom or some other grifts he's got going.

Oh, and bats may be blind eyesight, but they can see well enough to feed, take care of themselves and their young and not destroy whole ecosystems, unlike the orange turd.

mucifer

(25,690 posts)
19. trump's goal is destruction of the USA as we knew it. he has destroyed
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 12:06 PM
6 hrs ago

EPA, CDC, FDA, FEMA, Immigration, he's working on destroying social security, medicare, medicaid, foreign policy.

he doesn't care about his voters. his goal is destruction for whatever reason. I don't believe he thinks he's fixing ANYTHING.

Glaisne

(649 posts)
20. Sorry David Stockman but you're wrong.
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 12:07 PM
6 hrs ago

The GOP never ever stood for free markets, which isn't a thing. They stood for rigged markets that benefited their cronies and harmed the workers.
The GOP never ever stood balanced budgets or sound money policy. They used that to bludgeon anyone who advocated spending money for the benefit of the people. Instead the GOP supported bloated and ever expanding budgets for war and tax cuts for the rich which expanded the debt and were not sound money policy. The stood for monetary policy that benefited the rich and harmed workers.
The GOP never ever stood for rigorous observance of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. The GOP continually violated or reduced the rights or marginalized or vulnerable people, essentially anyone who did not fit their narrow rich, white, fake Christian class. The GOP routinely violated the Constitution or twisted its meaning to benefit and expand its privilege and power.
The GOP was never a party of principles. It was always the party of power, greed and exclusivity.

Kid Berwyn

(24,586 posts)
27. Stockman has told the truth about a lot of things.
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 04:57 PM
2 hrs ago

I don’t care if the Southwest Michigan product is a Republican. Stockman has stood for the Constitution and against the plutocrat class.

mwooldri

(10,819 posts)
29. I'd be happy if some farmer wants to...
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 06:19 PM
43 min ago

... deposit some "natural fertilizer" - free of charge - at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC. Or 1100 S Ocean Blvd, Palm Beach FL. Probably better off in Florida he can make use of it there easier.

Better yet they can spread it for free.

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