According to this Slate article, How to govern from prison, yes.
I can’t stand Trump, I think his actions, words and especially his tweets are an embarrassment to the country. But, to many many Americans, nothing matters but the economy and it is doing well. They give him credit for an economy that has been growing through actions not his own but his successful cheer-leading of the market has helped.
I can see how some people turn a blind eye to the less savory aspects of his personality (about 95% of it) and like what he is doing. Especially when you look at the unemployment figures and that wages are finally after all these years going up.
I am greeted with this cheery billboard when I head south on I-71 to see a Cincinnati Reds game.
C’mon, the starting pitching isn’t that bad. :dubious:
I’m doing this from memory, so the spelling and punctuation are mine. I’m reasonably sure they spelled it right.
Hell is real. I’ve been there, it’s just outside Trondheim, Norway. I’ve been there when it was frozen over, too!
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That would be because Putin put up the sign himself. Probably literally, while he was shirtless, too.
Honestly, I have yet to meet a former Trump supporter. I have asked.
I think that sign is a message from the football gods to the cabal of Mike Brown and Marvin Lewis.
Really? Because I know several. Though I suppose they weren’t true Trump supporters but rather Hillary haters. At least one of them though thought Trump would be good for the country, he has changed his mind.
I’ve never met a single person who gave a shit about the economy when it came to electing presidents, or, well, pretty much anything else, other than during some sort of recession. They care about their own financial situation, sure, but even that isn’t the reason they vote. When have you met a politician who ran on “You’ve got a lot of money! Vote for me!”?
The economy does seem to correlate well with who is elected. But it’s not as simple as “more money in my pocket [or in the economy] means I support this guy.” It’s just that times of boom tend to be when people are happier, less stressed, and more likely to accept things the way they are.
But that isn’t 100% correlated. The economy was growing in 2016, but people still voted to switch. Workers weren’t happy, despite unemployment being lower than it had been previously. People were still unhappy.
I mean, it is a worry, definitely. We don’t want any good thing incorrectly correlated to Trump so that people might think better of him. But it’s not as fixed as the usual maxim would seem, and I do not think that most people in this country are greedy fucks as you describe who put monetary concerns above everything else.
Oh, and, do remember that Trump’s supporters are different from those who voted for Trump. There were many reasons people did that. The question is not whether Trump supporters have changed their minds, but whether Trump voters have. Or was, as they said, Clinton the main reason they voted for Trump?
I suspect that may be more of a sarcastic statement that the tax cut helped big corporations like Apple but not so the much the average citizen. I don’t think Apple would want its logo posted illegally on street signs.
I’m not saying Apple endorsed the graffiti. But I don’t think it was meant sarcastically by anyone either. In Silicon Valley nobody would get the subtle commentary you describe. What helps big tech companies does in fact help the average citizen in those parts. But it’s not even so much that it helped big corporations in general. It helped Apple. Specifically. A lot.
No other company had over $250 billion sitting offshore. They could buy every other company who had anything sitting offshore. It is a staggering amount of capital and it’s theirs to use now to pay back investors and buy up companies, with 8 years to pay off the pittance they owe in repatriation taxes under the new scheme. It really, really, really helped Apple. I could certainly see someone in Silicon Valley, Apple employee or not, Trump supporter in general or not, being really really happy about it.
Those same accounts did “very well” the previous 8 years as well. If they think Trump did something new and different, then they’re fucking morons.