The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making

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The Handwriting is on the Wall (not the border wall)

Speaker Paul Ryan Will Not Seek Re-election in November

The usual “want to be with my family” explanation, but he saw he was facing a difficult road to re-election. Trump has done more to destroy the GOP than any anti-American liberal could hope to.

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Exactly. There’s hardly a fire sale going on yet with the market. If there’s “low prices,” I don’t see them.

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A window into what Republican politicians really think of the Dotard-in-Chief:

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Nevermind.

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I don’t want to sidetrack this too much, but buying at a local low will make you money regardless of the overall value of the market (assuming it goes back up).

If I buy 10 shares @ $10 per share, and it climbs to $20. I could sell for $100. Suppose I do not sell.

If it then drops to $15 and I buy 10 more shares, I now have 20 shares at an average of $12.50 a share.

If it climbs back to $20 a share and I sell, I make $150 (invested $250, sold for $400). This is equivalent to 20 x $7.50, but also equivalent to 10 x $10 + 10 x $5.

So buying at this local low makes sense, even if overall the market is up.

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My schadenfreude bucket just overflowed.

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Well, it just hasn’t been as much fun for the GOP as it would have been with Hillary as president. There would have been dozens of investigations going on right now. (I don’t think they would have impeached her right off the bat - torturing her would have been more satisfying). So, like others before him, he’ll probably join Fox News, where at least he can pretend to torture her.

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Ain’t that always the case, though? Those that do the worst to others can be quite the pathetic crybabies when the shit comes back at 'em.

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I am entirely unsympathetic.

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My understanding is that he actually has a relatively smooth road to reelection.

I suspect that it is two fold.

  1. He succeeded in getting a massive tax cut for the rich which was his only real legislative priority, so he doesn’t have any real reason to keep going.
  2. Even if he is reelected he’s probably not going to be in the majority which is never as fun.
  3. When the shit really hits the fan any GOP remotely close to the source is going to be covered in it, so since he may eventually have presidential ambitions it is best to be as far away as possible from Washington when it happens.
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Any chance this is preliminary maneuvering to be a primary challenger in two years?

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Just in, he’s doing it to spend more time with his family. And he has his eye on the future, as the huge economic boom that is sure to roll down from the wonderful tax cuts the people will remember him as the numbers guy, policy wonk, and intellectual powerhouse of the party.

Gotta wonder, though, what happens if a bunch of other Pubbies misunderstand his sincere commitment to family values and see it as gittin’ gone while the gittin’ is good. What happens if ten…twenty…fifty?..of his colleagues take the Great Leap Overboard, in the tradition of rodents confronted with a nautical calamity?

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Rumor is there’s a plummy job waiting for Ryan to head up the Heritage Foundation. A little ‘thank you’ from the Kochs.

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I swear that place must be a revolving door as well, because I have vague recollections of any number of Republican politicians taking that spot in the past decade.

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I love this, thanks for posting the link :stuck_out_tongue:

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So many lobbyist positions, so few retired Republican legislators to fill them…

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We are already there.

According to Vox, we are already up to twenty-eight. Seven more than during Watergate.

Only nine Democrats will not run this year.

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Where did you get the money to buy with at the local low?

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I just saw this. No way to know how true it is, of course, but very amusing.

Strangest part is how upset he seems to be about Nancy Pelosi “fucking up” the cafeteria.

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I regard all anonymous quotes as fabrications.