President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Republicans really do seem desperate to turn an election in which their guy lost the popular vote into some kind of mandate. It didn't happen. Sorry. It won't matter, anyway, because Trump won the vote that matters and the Republicans now control the White House and Congress, but it wasn't a blowout, an ass-kicking or any of the other terms they keep throwing around to try to make the margin of victory look larger than it really was that night.

 

One of them is President-elect. Both wanted to be.

Quibbling over the semantics of whether that counts as an ass-kicking doesn't mean much

 

That's a lie.

 

On the other hand, there are no excuses. Immediate positive results are expected. But there will be excuses everyday. Trump will spend however long he's in office blaming everyone for the cratering economy and foreign policy failures.

 

What if the economy doesn't crater?

 

Anything short of full employment and 5.5 % annual GDP growth is a cratering economy with Trump as President. He's not a politician but someone with 50 years of experience as a economic genius. Anything shortof the best economy in US history is a failure

If he gets the US there by this time next year, without a war and internment camps, i will quit my job and become a monk.

 

I agree; it really is a 0-1 issue, and any talk about a "mandate" is just that ... talk.

Jonah Goldberg at National Review was writing about some of the ... ahem ... creative interpretation of election results. One interpretation was how the Senate elections didn't really reflect the will of the people seeing as how "more people across the country voted for Democratic candidates than Republican ones." But this is because there wasn't a Republican on the ballot for Senate in California! One hundred percent of the 12.2 million Senate votes in California went to one of the two Democratic candidates.

 

LOL

 

Those goalposts moved *fast*

 

He's an economic genius. A self made billionaire. It's expected. He's no lying politician who doesn't know what it's like in the real world. He is capitalism. The goalposts were moved for him as a politician. As a business leader he's expected to be great

 

Winners don't win?

 

Yes, because everyone who voted against Trump is having that extreme reaction. Thanks for painting everyone with a broad brush, you raging asshole.