Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

You're confusing "pointing and laughing" with "obsessed."

 

It's amusing to me that many of the people on my Facebook feed who bitch about the "librull media" don't see the issue with plagiarism.

 

Look, I'm just glad someone is hiring AND paying writers.

 

If that's the case, what's the point in even discussing the election if everyone is already dug in on both sides?

 

I think most of them could. They just don't have time.

 

We're so appalled by Trump's overt xenophobia and racism that we sometimes forget, his economic blueprint is a catastrophe waiting to happen, as well.

‘Too nice’ economist says Donald Trump would kill 3.5 million jobs

About 400 of 650 institutional investors surveyed by Morgan Stanley said Trump would materially change their markets in the first months of his presidency. They think he might hurt the dollar, tank stocks and hurt Treasury bonds at a time of an ongoing, global investment drought that will worsen thanks to Trump’s proposed tariff barriers against China and Mexico. That’s even as the Federal Reserve raises interest rates to preempt the inflationary effect of a tax cut adding $9.5 trillion to the national debt. Other banks are coming up with similar surveys.

And then there’s Zandi’s analysis, which was so far out of character that it was impossible to miss.

“The economy will be significantly weaker if Mr. Trump’s economic proposals are adopted,” Zandi and three colleagues write. “[If] all his stated policies become law, the economy suffers a lengthy recession and is smaller at the end of his four-year term than when he took office. By the end of his presidency, there are close to 3.5 million fewer jobs and the unemployment rate rises to as high as 7%, compared with below 5% today. During Mr. Trump’s presidency, the average American household’s after-inflation income will stagnate, and stock prices and real house values will decline.”

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln says “Thumbs up!”

The verdict is much the same at Oxford Economics, which has the recession beginning next year and costing the U.S. 3 million jobs. That’s worse than the 2.8 million lost in the 2001-2003 recession. Incomes would shrink and unemployment would hit 7.6% by 2019 — two years sooner than Zandi’s model forecasts 7.3% joblessness.

 

The idea that Trump actually writes his speeches, rather than just bloviating about the first thing that pops into his head, is pretty damn scary.

 

In other news that's been overshadowed by Melania-gate and Queengazi, apparently Paul Ryan was handed a Steelers Terrible Towel yesterday and started waving it. In Cleveland. Yep.

 

Are we sure Trump is going to pay them?

 

Question: Did yesterday's doings at the RNC do anything for Trump to win over the 15% in the middle? Anything other than "yes" is failure.

 

Y'all are going to piss me off soon. My son is named after a presidential speechwriter. (Who happens to be his great-grandfather, but still.)

 

Aren't they shoring down the base right now?

"Make America Safe Again" seemed like a "Saturday Night Live" skit.

Who is running this show? Trump himself? Is there no quality control from the party?