elucidator wrote: “Tighty rightys have no actual sense of humor, its the only reason Dennis Miller still cashes any paychecks.”
Actually, conservatives DO have a sense of humor, however it usually hasn’t advanced past the Larry, Moe, and Curley stage. Anything involving, say, irony goes right past them.
They don’t have a sense of humor, but they do understand the concept of a joke.
They know that there are some comedians who say things that they find offensive, and other’s find funny.
So, they assume that by phrasing it as a joke, they can say whatever hateful, harmful, offensive rhetoric, and then step back and say, “Why are you offended, it was just a joke.” and then usually make some remarks about snowflakes or something.
I was so excited when the Phantom Menace came out. I had been waiting so long for a Star Wars movie. I KNEW it was gonna be awesome. I annoyed everyone about how excited I was about it.
When I left the theater, part of me knew that the movie blew, but I convinced myself that I enjoyed it. I wasn’t effusive in the praise, but I was so committed to that movie being good that I lied to myself and I lied to everyone I spoke to and said it was a decent to good flick.
Took a few years before I finally acknowledged what I knew at the time. Trump supporters went all in here, and to admit that all the shit that they took for their support was actually justified is likely to take longer than that. Nobody likes to be conned, and they will lie to themselves to convince themselves that the con was something they wanted from the beginning.
CNN commentators gave Trump a report card. Personally, I thought SE Cupp’s observation was the most relevant:
But I suspect quite a few here will enjoy reading some confirmation from their friends at CNN, so here it is.
BTW, I’d give President Trump a B- so far.
Obama’s job count was closer to 10 million than 15.
But let’s look at Trump so far. For the month of January:
So…227,000 jobs in January. Let’s assume that’s low, and also assume that will be an average monthly increase. 227k x 12 = 2.724 million jobs first year. Multiiply that by 4 and we get 10.896 million jobs first term, which is almost exactly what Obama took two terms to create.
Therefore, Trump is whipping Obama’s ass 2 to 1 in job creation so far. QED.
Will it keep up? I hope so.
What con, pray tell? So far, Trump has shown no signs of deviating from trying to keep his campaign promises. That, in and of itself, is a refreshing breath of fresh air in the Washington swamp.
Locking up Hillary
Having Mexico pay for a wall
universal health care
Releasing his tax returns
Draining the swamp
Being competent
No golfing (too busy)
Making America great
That’s a month that Trump was not even president for most of.
No, let’s not. Let’s take a month that Trump was actually president for all of, March 2017. 98,000 jobs, that’s 1,176,000 per month, 4,704,000 for a four-year term; that’s a slower rate than Obama. And Trump didn’t have to dig his way out of a recession at the start of his term.
Sorry. Bit of brain fade, should say 1,176,000 per year. The other figures are correct.
Nice attempt at a pivot, but your statement was that Trump has done more than Obama since taking office than Obama did in 8 years. This is categorically false.
Now, if you’re retracting your incorrect statement and replacing it with “Trump has a higher rate of job creation that Obama so far” well see Robot Arm’s post.
As do I. I want the US economy and everyone to do well, and I don’t give a shit who’s president. But, FFS, cherry picking January data, when the guy wasn’t even in office and none of the policies would have anything to do with that number? Come on. You can’t seriously believe that’s a good data point.
I’m not ready to make any sort of comparisons at the moment. I’ll wait a year and see where we’re at, when his policies will actually start affecting the numbers.
I would not argue with your position, not one whit. I meant a literal point or two on a scale of 0-1000. He is a joke, a clown, by his own admission, an unprepared lightweight in a job that requires vastly different skills than he ever dreamed of having. Even if he learns to read his teleprompter and not go off on self agrandizing flights of fancy he will never be someone I will call ‘President’.
You think we have a year? I think it depends on whether or not fatboy North Korea leader wants to be a martyr. Picture NK as a terrorist state…
Well, in the interest of clarity, these numbers are permit overstayers, not total actual undocumented.
Who was President of the United States in January?
Unemployment WILL rise in Trump’s Presidency, and I’ll put money on it.
They’re still “illegals,” unless we define that term as meaning ‘brown-skinned (and only brown-skinned) people here illegally.’
Before you made sexual comments, you maybe should have asked me to clarify “young” and how I know her. Then you wouldn’t be in the position of having talked so about my teenage daughter. However, I recognize that your boorish behavior wasn’t meant to be quite that spiteful.
This number indicates that Trump inherited a healthy economy with US jobs growing at around a quarter million jobs per month.
January 2009…
Job loss: Worst in 34 years
That’s what Obama inherited (-600,000ish jobs).
I don’t understand how you can simultaneously hold the beliefs that job growth of 227,000 a month is a good (great?) number, and that Obama did nothing in office when he flipped that number from disastrous to a number you like during his eight years.
We used to go on picnics sometimes. In the summer, badminton in the backyard. Even a trip to Disney World, once.
Sneering at anonymous libtards— well, the important thing is you’re doing something together as a family, I guess.