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President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Nov 12, 2016.

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  1. typefitter

    typefitter Well-Known Member

    I am now giggling at the idea that the newest senator from Alabama is a ficus tree that had shoplifted a couple of times (R).
     
    typefitter, Dec 13, 2017
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  2. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    Roy Moore on his way to his concession speech.

     
    CD Boogie, Dec 13, 2017
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  3. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    I'm not sure Moore would've run away with it, but he would've won. The exit poll showing Trump with a 48 percent approval rating means scads of Republicans just didn't show up at the polls. The press never does "let's look at the people who didn't vote" post-mortems, but one here would be instructive,
     
    Michael_ Gee, Dec 13, 2017
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  4. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    Yet Trump didn't reject him.
    Trump endorsed him.
    Trump endorsed the child molester.
    That's your guy.
    You must be a proud man.
    You love the president who endorsed the child molester.
     
    poindexter, Dec 13, 2017
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  5. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    Ya know when you’re a loser? When you make robocalls for a child molester, and the child molester still loses.
     
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    CD Boogie, Dec 13, 2017
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  6. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    People aren’t that stupid. Bush and the GOP’s deregulation nuts own the economic crisis. Two terms of Obama brought the second-longest economic growth period ever.

    Let us know how it works out when Paul Ryan asks everyone to pay for the wealthy’s tax cuts by cutting social security and Medicare.
     
    cranberry, Dec 13, 2017
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  7. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    [QUOTE="cranberry, post: 4340556, member: 495"]People aren’t that stupid.[/QUOTE]
    “LOL” — Donald Trump
     
    CD Boogie, Dec 13, 2017
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  8. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    People trying to claim that various politicians (whoever is on the team they blindly root for) have caused U.S. equities to rise, don't get it. First, the Dow Jones industrial average is not the U.S. economy -- which has been in a decade long malaise that rivals the great depression in terms of actual growth.

    Second, this is all due to one thing. ... expansion of fiat money supplies around the world since the collapse in 2008.

    [​IMG]

    That isn't false correlation. It is one-for-one cause. And it goes well beyond the U.S. equity markets. The misallocations of capital have sent prices of a lot of things (risk assets, and things dependent on endless borrowing such as an auto loan bubble and a student loan bubble) straight up. It has been reckless and laid the seeds for what will be the next financial crisis. To the extent any politician (of any party) had anything to do with it, with the price of money price fixed at such artificially cheap levels (I can pull up the chart demonstrating that financial conditions are looser today than they have been at any time during the last 10 years of this insanity, because they fell so far behind the curve), politicians have gladly availed themselves of the opportunity to keep borrowing and spending and running up our sovereign debt exponentially without any regard for the future consequences. Those central banks enabled that bad behavior, though, because without them price fixing the debt markets via asset buying and rate suppression (that has rates hundreds of basis points below where a market would have them), we'd already be drowning in interest payments. Which is why this continues -- despite the bullshit mumbo jumbo about "price stability" -- something we have gotten anything BUT of. That isn't a Republican thing or a Democrat thing. They are two sides of the same coin.
     
    The Big Ragu, Dec 13, 2017
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  9. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    Who was the guest tweeter? That was coherent.
     
    poindexter, Dec 13, 2017
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  10. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    Fiat money supplies? Charts? And all before 9 am? You have an awful lot of faith in readers
     
    CD Boogie, Dec 13, 2017
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  11. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Wasn't the "economic crisis" mostly related to housing defaults?

    Can you explain to me how Bush or the GOP's "deregulation nuts" were responsible for that? And, even if you disagree that housing was the prime contributor, I'm still unsure how we're laying it at the feet of GWB and the GOP.

    Sometimes, timing is everything. Clinton benefited from the internet economy, Bush suffered from an economic crisis, that was years in the making, and to the degree that we can trace it to government decisions/legislation/regulations/deregulation, they were surely not purely driven by the GOP.
     
    YankeeFan, Dec 13, 2017
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  12. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    His lawyer isnt that coherent either
     
    heyabbott, Dec 13, 2017
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