"I Voted for Trump" — Now My Industry's Down 23% and Collapsing Fast: Freight CEO’s Heartbreaking Realization
"I Voted for Trump" — Now My Industry's Down 23% and Collapsing Fast: Freight CEO’s Heartbreaking Realization
At some level, I'm just jealous of these people for getting what they voted for. I haven't gotten what I voted for ever since I was old enough to vote.
The funny thing is, this would say off some right wing people without them realizing the irony of getting mad at it.
I'm heartbroken. But not for this motherfucker.
Craig Fuller thought he was voting for business savvy, not economic shock therapy.
Does he know anything at all about the felon who has left a long trail of failed businesses and can bankrupt a casino three casinos? Trump is doing pretty much exactly what he said he'd do and any CEO that doesn't know that deserves to be unemployed.
Three casinos.
6 total bankruptcies.
I thought it was 5 casinos and a resort (with a casino on)...?
Edit:
Bankruptcies were...
1991: Trump Taj Mahal
1992: Trump Castle Hotel & Casino
1992: Trump Plaza Casino
1992: Trump Plaza Hotel (not a casino, just a hotel.)
2004: Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts
2009: Trump Entertainment Resorts (casino holding company. FFS, not only did he bankrupt casinos. Which is one of the most lucrative businesses out there, he also bankrupted a company that handles the casinos. How the fuck is that even -legally- possible to bankrupt a company that owns the most lucrative businesses!!!)
There are numerous other businesses that also failed spectacularly. Plus there 'businesses' that were just scams, the university that never was.
Promises of extensive redevelopment that got 'put on hold' after his golf courses got built etc.
It's all emotions. Facts don't matter.
Bet they won't stop voting Republican tho
"See the next GOP president will fix it all with this one simple trick. Yup. It'll totally work. USA USA."
If that doesn’t work, elect them again!
They are the only game in town, particularly at the state and local level.
Republicans are in a suicide pact with their party. If you try to leave, your peers will kill you that much faster.
I don't understand, why doesn't he just "pull himself up by by his bootstraps" and work harder. That's what they tell everyone else, right?
That is a real shame. All these people are choosing to be poor. The real trick of this whole thing is you need to be independently wealthy for it to work for you. If only these folks understood that, they might choose differently.
Heartbreaking? Nah. More like utterly infuriating that they were duped despite the prior term and decades of demonstrated corruption and incompetence.
I’ve no sympathy at all.
I'm sick of calling my senators I'm gonna start calling these guys and dunking on them
That sounds amazing!! DO IT!!!!
Heartbreaking? Lol.
Heartbreaking for them
Unfortunately I have no sympathy for these fools
They had a heart?
Won't somebody think of the hopeless CEOs?
Yes heartbreaking! I don't care about all those people being detained and deported unlawfully. But think of poor old me, I got what I voted for and now I'm sad! How could I've ever expected him to do what he's known for, running things into bankruptcy?!
remember until it affects them personally in a negative way they don't care about what this administration does. This is what make it so difficult to change a large population of trump supporter's minds, because they seem to not have much empathy for anyone but themselves.
Heartbreaking.
I can’t stop crying about this redcap’s 23% loss in profits. Never mind that I’m not sure whether my Social Security disability will continue at all (it’s been delayed the last couple of months, to the point I can’t afford ramen right now) or that they’re building interment camps. Or that my doctors say Medicare won’t allow my prescriptions anymore unless I can travel the hour and a half to physically show up at their office, which I cannot do since I’m 100% homebound and Medicare has suddenly decided they’re not allowing remote visits anymore, so I’ll have to stop taking lifesaving meds I’ve been on for 20 years.
But yes, this guy’s 23% profit loss will keep me up tonight.
...voting for business savvy...
Did this guy sleep through Trump's first term? Things are worse now than it was then but he messed things up the first time too.
People have very short memories.
The article explains the differences. In the first term tariffs were targeted and rolled out slowly. The person in the article expected the same in Trump's second term.
The first term tariffs also caused reciprocal tariffs to be put in place that caused short term ($27B from mid 2018 to 2019) and long term damage to our agriculture industries by enabling other countries to develop their own industrial base to replace the US. Trump ended up bailing out US farmers with packages that equalled 92% of that the tariffs brought in.
I stand by my first statement. The farmer wasn't paying attention to the first term.
Spoiler alert they will still vote republican.
In his view, the 145% tariffs on Chinese goods are functionally an embargo, and they’ve been rolled out so suddenly that U.S. companies haven’t had time to adapt. “It’s too much too fast,” Fuller told reporters in a phone interview. “The economy can’t absorb it.”
If only an expert had known this beforehand.
TL;DR:
Craig Fuller, founder of FreightWaves and once a potential Trump transportation pick, says the 145% tariffs on Chinese goods have triggered a supply chain collapse, truck traffic from LA ports is down 23%, with 50% import drops predicted. Even major logistics firms like Knight-Swift blame "toxic tariffs" for plummeting volumes.
Man helps throw gasoline on his own house that was set fire by arsonist who told everyone he was going to burn houses ..... the man who threw gasoline around is now heartbroken that his house is on fire.
Zero fucking sympathy and this is just the beginning of the US collapse. There will be plenty of used trucks and trailers.
This is just like Chinese Cultural Revolution. That destroyed their economy and it took them a few decades to rebuild.
It is easier to destroy but hard to build..I hope they learned their lesson.
Mao wanted people to smelt iron in their backyards, Trump wants people to raise chickens in their backyards.
Chickens are at least more likely to be useful. That is more of an accident than anything, seeing as Trump and Mao are just different shapes of crap.
I hope they learned their lesson.
Oh I'm sure the Chinese did, republicans however? ...
The vast majority of them won’t learn anything. They are just looking to blame someone right now. Next election (if there is one) some dem will say something they hate, things will be better for them, and they are right back on the trump train.
Most of them are too far gone, in the cult, and listen to nothing but the propaganda. Any soft realization will quickly be forgotten when they are told how it’s the other sides fault b
My heart bleeds purple peanut butter.
Oh and my little friends violin
If only there was some way to know that this would happen!
Sadly history has nothing to teach us and we can't predict the future. What are ya gonna do?
World's biggest fucking idiot comes to terms with being a massive fucking idiot
Can we start vetting sources a bit better?
What is this site?
The site is hosted in Iceland. Whois link
It's bias is extreme left. It is marked as a questionable source. Mediabiasfactcheck link
It does not disclose ownership or funding sources. They do not provide sources for their articles.
The article mention the businessman name , it's easy to check on x the specific statement https://x.com/FreightAlley/status/1913990382997643418
“Heartbreak” isn’t really the word I’d use here lol
Well, it can be heartbreaking to realize your intelligence equals that of a toaster.
can't be heartbreaking if you don't have a heart
You can still take solice in knowing that you "owned some libs" though. That just makes the whole thing worth it, doesn't it?
Doesn't anyone care about the poor CEOs anymore? Lol. Trump said he was going apply tariffs, which always reduce trade. He's getting exactly what he voted for.
Face eating leopards gotta eat too.
If only someone had told him the consequences of voting for Trump
Maybe the Lib he owned
Fuller runs Freightwaves. He’s all over the place prognosticating the shipping and logistics community.
I could find no source for the OP post other than the linked popup “news” site.
Fuller is more recently quoted as saying the “recession” (the market downturn due to trump’s idiotic knee-jerk tariff implementation) is over and expecting a market change.
Dude’s an idiot, just another CEO analyst always trying to put a positive spin on any negative event to do with his industry.
Freightwaves also does the majority of its business selling pay for play to T&L business owners to be talking heads on podcasts, interviews, the you tubes and similar.
This is probably a play so that people don't think they're giving money to an org that's killing their business
Aha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... Suffer, you stupid tool.
Very clear example of the media being very divorced from middle class realities.
Bro, we don’t feel bad for poor people who voted for their demise, and you think we would care about CEOs?
Not killing enough minorities to make the hit to your wallet worth it, Craig?
Womp womp.
The only sympathy I have is for the overworked employees.
"But how could the Leopards eat MY face???" screamed the man who voted for the Leopards-Eating-People's-Faces Party at the Leopards-Eating-People's-Faces Party rally.
Absolute fucking clowns.
I think the one thing that visual misses out on is that no one accounted for how many would describe themselves as loving having their face eaten.
Or at least say that it's worth it to own the libs
Stock Market is Up.
That's all these people care about. The US can become a country that only knows how to make weird AI advertisements and MLM scams, and so long as GDP goes up these people will think everything is fine.
The stock market is around the same level it was 6 months ago and still down from the beginning of his presidency
LOL! I hope he starves.
That's a shame.
I heard this in Jerry's voice.
Welp
This just the beginning. It takes time for all these effects to show themselves. Takes time for mortgages to go I to foreclosure. Etc.
It's disheartening that no one in this comment section applied some critical reading skills and questioned this source.
I live in SoCal and the truck traffic coming out of L.A. is substantially down. Before the felon's tariffs truck traffic would be so dense it would take miles to get over to the right lane to exit the freeway. Now traffic's way down to maybe 2/3 of what it was. The lack of container ships in West Coast ports has been well documented.
No matter what you think of the source, the big drop in freight traffic is real. CEOs of trucking companies should be seriously alarmed. Maybe even some Magats are questioning their choice in the last election.
Will you please explain?
The source is garbage. The news site is rated as being Mixed Factual reporting. They don't identify who funds them, and they don't detail their sources.
They are left leaning and primarily lean in to discredit Trump. Trump does a good enough job discrediting himself without the need to fabricate or embelish stories to make him look bad. This "feel good" bullshit is the same sort of stuff that the right does to capture their viewers and feed them "alternative truth". Be better. Check your sources, and check whether this is reliable information.
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Where is Squid when we need them most?
Heartbreaking to only them. You get what you vote for
This, predictably, does not break my heart.
lol
"FreightWaves is the most trusted provider of global supply chain market intelligence. Our high-frequency price, demand, and capacity data and analysis allow our customers to benchmark, analyze, monitor and forecast the global physical economy."
Ironic. Although I guess their data wouldn't be very good at analyzing someone picking up the economy, turning it upside down and giving it a good shake.
If only someone with some level of responsibility at Freightwaves bothered to google "tariffs" before donating and voting for the Tupperware face.
Lol
Lmao
The jobs of the future aren't in the manufacturing. These are the jobs of the past.
Retards will vote for another corrupt criminal.
This statement doesn't need a slur to get the point across
Yes you did jackass. People like him are the reason I don't have a job anymore.
Hey, be fair to the guy. He only voted for all the ways Trump promised to hurt the people he didn't like, not for the ways Trump promised to hurt him.
Sucks, bro. Sorry. I tried to stop this.