As President Donald Trump's tariffs roil global markets, some of the thought leaders and influential podcasters who backed the Republican's campaign are voicing doubts.

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

  • cowfodder@lemmy.world
    153·
    12 days ago

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

        • Geetnerd@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          12 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.eeEnglish
        4·
        12 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

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      12 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.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
    112·
    12 days ago

    All these fucking idiots spent at least 4 years scouring the globe to find the world’s best shit sandwich chefs, to source premium, wagyu quality bullshit from the finest international suppliers…

    And now they don’t enjoy eating the sandwich.

    Gulp it down fuckos, yum yum yum, you wanted this.

    I’ll also throw Aiden Ross into this group. Actual sub room temp IQ idiot zoomer streamer, MAGA cultist/propigandist, who rose to fame by quite literally sniffing Andrew Tate’s farts …

    (I am not joking, he did a video with Tate where at one point Tate gets up from his chair and leaves the shot, Aiden sneakily gets up and huffs the seat of the chair)

    … yeah this dumb fuck had a stream in the last 24 hrs where he said he has taken an 8 figure loss on presumably his stocks and crypto from this Trump crash.

    That is at least 10 million dollars, bare minimum.

    • toothandnail@lemm.ee
      241·
      12 days ago

      “All these fucking idiots spent at least 4 years scouring the globe to find the world’s best shit sandwich chefs, to source premium, wagyu quality bullshit from the finest international suppliers… And now they don’t enjoy eating the sandwich. Gulp it down fuckos, yum yum yum, _**you wanted this.**_”

      This… Is the best thing I have read about all of these MAGA goons. Quote of 2025 for me.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        12 days ago

        Thanks lol.

        Unfortunately, I was crippled by an assault and now live off of SSDI, so if the shit eating splatters enough shit my way, I get to die homeless and starving in a wheelchair.

        God Bless America.

    • Geetnerd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      12 days ago

      There you are.

      He was all in until it fucked with his money. Which he has more than enough to live at least 5 lives, in opulence.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        12 days ago

        I can’t say I’ve seen or heard of him doing that, but it wouldn’t surprise me.

        I know Aiden showed up with Trump and gave him a CyberTruck with an American Flag style wrap.

        Curiously, this was not long after Aiden literally shot the shit out of his own CyberTruck with an AR15 at close range, and was dismayed to find that it was in fact not bullet proof.

        I can’t prove it, but it would not surprise me at all if this was the same actual CyberTruck after some repairs and a wrap applied.

  • jasonwnclife@lemm.eeEnglish
    73·
    12 days ago

    They are questioning it now… not before he got elected even though he clearly said he would be this stupid in his campaign.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      Roegan is responsible for turning young minds into voting magats that were originally voting Ds

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      12 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.

  • LittleBorat3@lemmy.world
    251·
    12 days ago

    A complete idiot understands that this is madness. That’s we are right now.

    Before the election anyone who read entry level economics understood this.

    • 13igTyme@lemmy.world
      3·
      12 days ago

      Economics is taught in highschool. 54% read below a 6th grade level. I’d be willing to bet the 30% of the population that voted for Trump read below that.

  • kamenLady.@lemmy.world
    24·
    12 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.

  • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
    16·
    12 days ago

    It’s because it hurts their bottom line, basically they can’t grift anymore with lies if the conservatives don’t have jobs and they start blaming Republicans and their policy, they will lose viewer ship to their shows or podcasts. It is the reason they have been quiet all of the sudden much like the situation with Luigi early on.