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On November 10 2025 11:23 Razyda wrote:Show nested quote +On November 09 2025 11:33 WombaT wrote:
What track record of economic literacy does Trump have? What work are you referring to?
I mean sure an undergrad doesn’t confer expertise consummate to a proper policy wonk, but most of those cats aren’t exactly down with the Don either.
It’s this strange Jimmy hinterland where the general consensus of actual economists, who I mean are the experts here can be discarded, but Harris isn’t enough of an expert?
I mean someone with a biology undergrad who works in another field ain’t a scientist, but they’re higher up the expertise scale than some bloke denying evolution or vaccines. He were able to count money his campaign had for starters  . Like, you know, didnt end up with 20kk deficit.
Not really the same thing, even if I don’t know what you’re specifically referring to.
Millions of us can do a household budget, or run a business of some kind. It’s not the same thing as having a sound grasp of economics and how that pertains to a large entity like a state.
As I’ve done in the past, I’ll happily confess to having a semi decent grasp on political theory and philosophical concepts, very much not so economics and fiscal policy. Which is why I appreciate breakdowns on such things from some of the fine people here.
It’s quite symptomatic of the whole fucking Trump malaise. The man can’t accept he’s not an authority on everything, his fan base can’t either. It’s bizarre. The entire point of having things like cabinets, and a civil service/government bureaucracy is precisely because even a savant can’t be on top of everything.
I can either program extremely mediocre drums to accompany my slightly less mediocre music, or, I can just admit I suck at drums and get my pro drummer brother to do it.
But for whatever reason, in politics doing that clearly sensible thing is seen as a sign of weakness rather than the objectively pragmatic call.
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He's making the point (whether or not you think its a good one) that Trump was way better at making profit on his campaign than Harris was, there for he understand economics. I'm not sure that open corruption and taking in lots of donations (that some how make him personally richer) is really a good argument for him understanding economics or that somehow making him the guy you want making the decisions for you country.
Like here's a Jet , 2bn in your crypto country and we get a air force base in Idaho, Deal? Now it makes Trump a bunch of money, so to Rayzda this is good. I'm not sure why he doesn't care that its not good for the American people, but he is also in a pretty freaking large group of people.
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