President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

OK. Then New York, California and Illinois will suspend the collection of all applicable federal taxes. Those three states pay out much more money than they take in.

 

One octogenarian down, a few hundred thousand left to go, amirite, Lt. Gov. Patrick?

Terrence McNally, the playwright who wrote life-affirming and popular scripts, has died

 

That's the second Trump thread, right? We retired one after the election which was dominated by him.

 

A genuine giant of American letters. A fucking titan.

 

And as stupid as it may sound now, to his voters, Trump's appeal was that he (ostensibly) was NOT going to play the same tired government games we've been bitching about for God knows how long. "A bunch of politicians owe me favors, and I owe them favors, but I know how to cut backroom deals and make secret promises to get what I want" is not seen as a virtue by everyone.

Once they became non-threats, everybody developed a soft spot for McCain, Romney and Kasich. Would any of those get your vote over Hillary (or Biden)? I know it sounds good, but is it REALLY just about getting rid of the Idiot-In-Chief?

 

Financial stories never let me down.

Dow rallies more than 9% Wall Street gets lift from stimulus hopes

What? There weren't "stimulus hopes" yesterday?

Just once, say "Dow rises/falls because that's what it does and we haven't the first fucking clue why"

 

YES. Emphatically. Have you not seen what's transpired since 1/2017?? You're okay with a racist president? One who demeans the disabled? Demonizes the immigrants? Appoints people to cabinet positions who are only in it to benefit themselves? Who picked personal interests over addressing the pandemic?

You know if it was "same ole, same ole" we would have had the pandemic/intelligence office in place and would have had a president who picked controlling the pandemic over artificially keeping the numbers of the infected down.

 

This SOB....

 

Moron. The only asshole to pay whores to keep their mouths closed. He has no idea what he says.

 

My grandpa explained the stock market to me once. People buy stocks because they expect the price to rise in the future, they sell stocks because they expect the price to fall in the future. It's a big casino.

 

How are they going to get those beautiful, big STEM jobs with an edumacation!?!

 

With you here. Whatever it takes to get Trump out. It still scares the shit out of me, though, that Biden, of all people, is the guy up to bat in the bottom of the ninth when we need a home run like our lives depend on it. I often think about how we got here. Damn.