President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

I'm disappointed they figured out what it was before Starman declared it a false flag operation.

 

Does looking at something just long enough to post a link, but not really reading it count as consumption?

 

I just do not understand this mentality. Sophisticated guy that I am, I manage to read both the NYT and the WSJ editorial pages without cancelling my subscription...

 

Nasty, frightened simpletons. Opinions different from their own narrow biases are genuinely terrifying. They want to live in a dictatorship where the dictator lives out their hate and fear filled fantasies. Horrible people, fuck them all.

 

Narrow worldviews go both ways. Trust me. I'm friends with some hardcore Bernie folks.

 

Never thought it didn't. Self-righteousness is in its own way even more irritating than ignorance.

 

Nah, has nothing to do with Trump. LOL.

 

You've never been to that part of Oklahoma. The liberal PC police have nothing on the wrath conservative Okies rain down on those who don't toe their line.

 

A tiny bit. Maybe.

But the trend since 2012 or so has been upward.

 

LOL. I'm sure the New York Times wouldn't have faced a backlash, or lost subscribers if they had endorsed Trump for president.

You say that's ridiculous? A betrayal of their values, and would never happen?

Exactly.

 

Reuters lede:

U.S. consumer confidence shot to its highest in more than 15 years in December as Americans saw more strength ahead in business conditions, stock prices and the job market following the election of Donald Trump as president in November.

House prices continued their steady recovery in October, although a spike in borrowing costs after Trump's Nov. 8 victory could present a headwind to sustained home value gains.

 

I'm sure consumer confidence shot up after Herbert Hoover was elected too.