Mia Love’s Republican party is fucked for good, but I agree that the Republican party in its current form could continue indefinitely. If she doesn’t like the Trumpster fire, she needs to remove some of its oxygen.
Tell GM, Ford, and the farmers whose crops are rotting in the silos and in the fields about how good the economy is.
The stock market has been doing terrible all year long. I don’t get it when people say the economy is doing great.
In many cases what they’re really saying is “I voted for the guy and I will NEVER NEVER EVER admit that I made a bad call.”
Like Bill Maher, I actually wish we would have a recession to blame on Trump. But a reasonable person cannot deny the strength of the economy right now. (The stock market is not a good measure, in either direction.) The extremely low unemployment rate is not just a statistic: I drive for Uber, and over and over I hear from people who are working massive overtime because their companies simply cannot find enough warm bodies to fill positions. And they also complain about incompetent or unbearable coworkers who keep their jobs for the same reason.
I believe presidents have relatively little impact on the economy, and whatever credit is dished out should go more to Obama than Trump. But facts are facts. We can comfort ourselves with the fact that Democrats had a wave election (oh yes they did—don’t let anyone tell you different!) despite low gas prices and low unemployment. This shows how truly repulsive Trump and the congressional GOP are to a majority of Americans, regardless of the traditional factors that bias voters for or against the party in power. If there’s a recession, the wave will become a tsunami.
It’s not doing great.
True, the employment situation is as good as it’s been in decades and there has been some modest wage growth, but what good is that for low-wage workers in California who would be struggling to find affordable housing even if you doubled their wages?
I think Trump will eventually come to his senses on the trade war. There will probably come a point at which Javanka will step in and show Navarro and other trade hawks the door, but when that happens and how much damage will have been sustained is anyone’s guess.
But the real bind that Trump finds himself in now is how to balance the budget. The deficit is going to be a major issue in 2019 because it’s going to be too big not to notice, and that will force the president and the congress into a political confrontation. We can cut the military, cut entitlements, or raise taxes. We already know they won’t raise taxes, so it looks like cutting defense spending or social security and medicare will be the great debate of 2019.
The usual Republican strategy is to let the Democrats dig the country out of the Republican spending.
Oh, I suspect there’s some personal animosity there too, stemming not only from general revulsion at the short-fingered vulgarian, but from the humiliation he went through when auditioning for Secretary of State. Romney did show a wide streak of personal spite when he was MA Governor, yanno - he spent the first half of his term trying to get rid of a Turnpike Authority commissioner he didn’t like, and the second half trying to keep gays from getting married while he campaigned for President on the platform of hating how liberal his state was. He was elected to get the Big Dig finances under control, but did absolutely nothing about it. It does illustrate how fucked the Executive Branch is that such a spite-driven man would be seen as one of its potential adults.
Who named it “Operation Faithful Patriot”, and why was the name dropped right after Election Day? Never mind that second part; we all know.
And blame them for not doing it fast enough, while taking every possible step to prevent it.
Yep, and if the fix hurts even a little, Republicans blame Democrats for their horrible policy that has absolutely nothing to do with the problem they didn’t cause.
Oh. And it’s not Republican spending unless you consider entitlements for the rich to be spending.
Entitlements for the rich? No, those are incentives for the job creators.
I don’t give a flying fuck WHAT they were doing. They used tear gas on infants and toddlers.
If the fucktard in chief had shipped as many agents who could process asylum applications to the border stations as he shipped soldiers who cannot legally be used to enforce the law (not that that seems to be stopping the administration) and not closed the ports down to single lanes, this situation would not have happened. He’s not interested in being just, though, he’s interested in looking tough at the expense of desperate people.
They used tear gas on infants and toddlers. There is no excuse for that. There is no justification sufficient for that.
Oh, I hate him. HATE him. I don’t know how he was elected in MA. It’s disgraceful. And while he’s better than Trump, I don’t give him a lot of credit for being *much *better than Trump. He’s dead behind his eyes. The lights are on but no one’s home. He might be mad at Trump for that dinner (and it’s actually one of the only things I don’t dislike Romney for; having an exploratory meal isn’t that big of a deal), but had Trump offered him a position and had he accepted it, would Romney at any point have resigned in protest? I doubt it unless he had a long-term plan that Trump’s agenda was interfering with. A personal agenda, as he has no actual guiding philosophy or moral backbone.
And to his credit, he can at least spell those words.
And if I said “The American economy is not just GM and Ford”. What would you say?
B-b-b-but it couldn’t have happened, 'cause the Prez says it didn’t happen!
Trump denies tear gas was used on child migrants despite pictures, video
Who ya gonna believe?? Our Prez or lying, fake CNN video? :rolleyes:
They used tear gas on guys breaching the fence. They should have realized that the wind would carry it to children. They are idiots; stupid but not evil.
My oft mentioned example: In Der Ring Das Nibelungenleid, Wotan asks Albreich, “Are you malicious, or merely insane?”
The border guards are merely insane.
He went on to say - “Why are they there?” and that the gas was a “a very minor form of the tear gas” and described it as “very safe.”
I am not trying to convince everybody that Mitt Romney is a fantastic guy. I do think he understands how money works though, and I do think the financial wrecking ball aspect of the Trump Administration is going to chap his hide (yeah, I know things are going OK now, except for that $1 trillion deficit, rising interest rates and what appear to be looming headwinds). He is going to be critical of Trump for that, and his Mormon supporters will surely prod him to attack Trump over his many other failings.
And wait until the investigations start!
I don’t disagree, but trillion dollar deficits most definitely impact every single sector of the US economy.
With regard to GM and Ford, as much as I’d love to pile on Trump, I really don’t know if we can attribute GM and Ford’s woes to Trumponomics. This seems more like the auto industry having its retail moment. American consumers aren’t buying sedans anymore - that’s definitely a problem for American labor, but that has nothing to do with Trump.
The piles of grain and the decline in marine activity in the ports along the mouth of the Mississippi? Yeah, that’s pretty much a Trump-induced headache.
I think some people are also forgetting Romney’s anti-Trump speech where he correctly predicted Trump would never release his taxes, talked about Trump University as a huge scam, etc. It was pretty great, whatever else you think of the guy.