President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

No, I live in a "condo home that contains 1,525 sq ft and was built in 1991. It contains 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.

The Zestimate for this house is $391,385, which has increased by $6,981 in the last 30 days. The Rent Zestimate for this home is $2,400/mo."
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For Needles or Barstow I could get a 4 bedroom, 3 bath 2300 sq ft house with a 3 car garage on an 1/3 acre lot.

 

Obviously in the hindsight that Trump threaded the needle and pulled off an unlikely win, I'd love to see Sanders have gotten a chance.

But those poll numbers were inflated by some serious backup QB syndrome.

 

He was generic "guy I never heard of," a candidate who always polls extremely well when used as an alternative candidates.

 

On right-wing radio interview today, Trump said he was "very frustrated" he can't just order the FBI to arrest Hillary Clinton. He's watching "America: The Series" and yelling at the TV set when things don't go his way. He's in serious mental decline and he hasn't been President a year.

 

The Republicans never really attacked him and I have a hard time believing he could have overcome what they would have thrown at him.

I'm pretty sure the DNC could not have said at the convention "Yes, Hillary got 4 million votes more than he did, but the polls show he has a better chance against trump so we're giving him the nomination."
I don't think it works that way.
And did the rules really change between 2008 and 2006? Why couldn't she have rigged it in 2008?

 

In hindsight, she probably wishes she had tried to (or maybe she did but just not well enough). Failure trends to make one try something, uh, different next time.

 

There’s no way the Democrats, as constituted in2016, were ever going to allow an old white Jewish socialist be their nominee. The anti-Semitism of the many Democrat Party activists rivals the racism in the Republican Party.

 

Talked to a preacher tonight and he mentioned erasing itemized deductions will disincentivize people to make charitable gifts. Given the financial state of a lot of charities, that could put them under.

 

I look for that sort of thing to sink tax reform. Everyone whose ox is being gored is going to go find a couple of dozen Congressmen who hold the same view and hold out for the issue to be changed. No change? No vote. Home builders. Realtors. Charities. All sorts of interest groups who don't want to lose their big item. At the same time they're going to gut the business tax and throw a huge cut to the top end of the income scale. There are a whole lot of cuts, and not enough offsets.

Add in that the Republicans are throwing their "concern" over the National Debt out the window. These cuts are supposed to cost a Trillion and a half... and you can bet that there's a lot of stuff hidden in the verbiage that will cost more that they're admitting. Then there's the whole "Well, this cut will only be for eight years, then it will sunset" bullshit. That was the Bush Tax Cut song and dance, and as soon as they passed the GOP started to work on making them permanent. You can look for that one again too.

 

The problem is every one of those offsets is gonna be rephrased as a tax increase in attack ads by both democrats and primary challengers. They might be able to whip votes to squeeze it through but nobody will be happy about it.

 

Did some cocktail-napkin ciphering w.r.t. the mortgage interest deduction. Best I can tell, it’s estimated to be about a $69.7 billion subsidy. Further, the market value of U.S. housing stock is in the neighborhood of $29.6 trillion. So per the sj.com real estate roundtable, this housing stock will decline by 10%!!!! if this quarter-percent subsidy is reduced.