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SergeStorms

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3. Relax......

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Mar 4, 2026, 09:28 AM

22 hrs ago

The U.S. has plenty of money! Trump's tariffs have filled our coffers. And all that tariff money came from other countries.

That's what orange jebus still thinks, anyway.

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Trump's strikes on Iran could cost the American economy up to $210B, report says [View all] BumRushDaShow Yesterday OP

Right now I'm thinking $210 billion is minimum... Hugin Yesterday #1

Military contractors are doing happy dances Bayard 20 hrs ago #12

220b wont even begin to fund this fiasco. Ferrets are Cool 18 hrs ago #28

Sure Whip-poor-will 23 hrs ago #2

Relax...... SergeStorms 22 hrs ago #3

It will be far, far more than that. travelingthrulife 22 hrs ago #4

Every GOPee billionaire, congresscritter, and official should have their accounts impounded to pay for this peppertree 22 hrs ago #5

It's time for a war tax SpankMe 21 hrs ago #6

Or like 1918 WWI - "Liberty Bonds" (for war) BumRushDaShow 21 hrs ago #7

What about the 110B he gave the board of peace ? RANDYWILDMAN 21 hrs ago #8

Oh that money? Check his pockets Attilatheblond 19 hrs ago #19

Unfortunately bmichaelh 21 hrs ago #9

There goes that big, beautiful tariff money. Midnight Writer 21 hrs ago #10

I figured a dying Trump would try to take us with him ala Jim Jones delisen 20 hrs ago #11

THIS orangecrush 19 hrs ago #20

Putting on my tinfoil hat (as if I removed it) Bayard 20 hrs ago #13

Couldn't get internet this morning. Mild panic that Iran had thrown the cyber switch Attilatheblond 19 hrs ago #21

I believe that anything under $2 trillion, is a likely understatement when all is said and done. /nt artemisia1 20 hrs ago #14

Yes niyad 19 hrs ago #17

No money for the poor... purr-rat beauty 19 hrs ago #15

That is just for the first week, I am assuming? First four days? niyad 19 hrs ago #16

I do not want to hear wnylib 19 hrs ago #18

You know what is sad about this article? Not that it isn't true, but that the only thing these people seem to PatrickforB 19 hrs ago #22

Break out the magic Sharpie! We will be making money off of this war in no time! Ol Janx Spirit 18 hrs ago #23

Shouldn't we call it the "attack on Iran" rather than "war with Iran"? twodogsbarking 18 hrs ago #24

"Up to" lol nt Gore1FL 18 hrs ago #25

Take it from Trump's fortune of ill-gotten gains. mdbl 18 hrs ago #26

Ah yes. "They really do ignore the counterfactual (that was was conveniently invented) unblock 18 hrs ago #27

trump can't spend America into bankruptcy fast enough... nt slightlv 16 hrs ago #29

Kick dalton99a 16 hrs ago #30

So much for tariff, DOGE, and "Trump health accounts" AllyCat 13 hrs ago #31

Send the bill to the billionaires. SleeplessinSoCal 11 hrs ago #32