As I pointed out in a past post, trade wars aren’t something that can be just turned off. Other countries adjust to the current situation and establish new production and trade patterns. The business that America is losing because of Trump’s trade policies won’t automatically be restored when he declares he’s made his point and wants to go back to the way things were.
This x 1,000. It’s also like a “win now” team that trades away a bazillion future draft picks to get a few aging stars.
There was a good Dave Eggars piece on a Trump rally in summer 2016 in which he talked about how the audience mostly filed out long before he finished talking. They had taken their pics, snickered at his naughty talk, had their fun. Now they wanted to beat traffic home.
Too unwieldy. I propose POTSE.
I barfed :(.
Okay, so just horrifying instead of unwieldy and horrifying.
How 'bout we just take the whole idea out back and kill it with fire?
*Après Moi Le Déluge *
Or just throw it down the quarry.
Trump says the Federal Reserve is a bigger threat to US economic growth than China!
He also said this:
Yeah but your gut tells you that MacDonalds is good eatin’, so I’m not sure I’m willing to give the same “expert” status to your gut that you do.
<sniffles> I’m just so goatdamned proud. I made the whole board nauseous!
Trump may not be thinking that their paychecks add up to $5 million. He may instead be assuming that like him, they find lots of opportunities for off-the-books income (and that they take those opportunities).
Either way, this should further endear him to the leaders of the US military branches.
Maybe he’s thinking of retired US generals who sell out to the Russians, ala Mike Flynn.
No, steak with catsup. The man is filthy rich, and eats steak with catsup.
:dubious:
He probably is.
The biggest of the Big Lies pushed by Trump and his enablers is surely “everyone does it.”
But not everyone is a crook. Trump will never be able to wrap his tiny brain around that fact.
Though of course Trump would love to have an entire network devoted to glorifying and praising him, even he has to have an idea of the obstacles involved in making that dream a reality.
What he’s really doing here, I suspect, is telling the Murdochs how pissed off he is every time one of their handful of actual journalists (there are a few) say something that could be construed as criticism of himself and his works.
In other words, he’s telling Rupert, James, and Lachlan that they’d better get busy firing Shep Smith. Or else.
Not me! I’m nauseated.
Don’t forget the Turks wanted to give Flynn a pile of money to help kidnap that guy (Fethullah Gulen) that Turkey wants extradited who was just in the news in connection to the Jamal Khashoggi murder.
Old article: “Ex-Trump aide Mike Flynn ‘offered $15m by Turkey for Gulen’”
“To ease Turkish pressure on Saudis over killing, White House weighs expelling Erdogan foe”
I don’t know what any of those initialisms represent, and I’m pretty sure I don’t want to!
It’s ketchup, but yeah. He also orders it super well done. These are extremely expensive, aged cuts of beef. I can only imagine what these highfalutin’ chefs think when they get the order to burn it. :smack:
Yes, you do not.
Not all of them are initialisms. Some are end points.
Politically, he needs to figure that out BEFORE his base becomes angry at him. And what Republicans in the Senate need to understand is that pretty soon, they’re going to be blamed for taking sides with this stable genius.
The trade war wasn’t likely to be a midterms issue, but it could very well turn out to be a 2020 talking point, and this is at a time when the market seems to be pulling back and, more ominously, the national debt is soaring to dangerously high levels. I think 2019 is going to be a year in which we talk a lot about the economy, and not in the way Republicans want.
Another interesting Vox article. It’s worth checking out just for the embedded YouTube clip of Colbert at the White House Correspondents dinner speech where he poked fun at Bush for trusting his gut and not his brain:
Now we have a President who does this in real life.
Trump’s Washington Post interview shows a presidency that’s beyond satire