President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

OK, so no one cares about my Facebook feed, but I gotta share this: One of my old sportswriter friends has gone full tilt New Age/Millennial (which is absolutely NOT a good luck for a white guy in his mid-50s, I gotta say), and today he put up a link to a youtube talk by a guy he refers to as "America's top economist." Now I'm certainly no economics sage, but if the guy really was in the ballpark of "top economist" ... don't you think I'd have at least heard of him?

 

I would too. It'll never happen, though, seeing as how busy the Democratic party is with the fightfor15.

 

"Top economist" sounds like being "champagne of bottled beer" to me. It's a slogan, not a reality.

 

Maybe because the Fucking president (or president-elect) should and does have many many more important things to do?

And if he doesn't know what they are, I could write him a Fucking list. Unlike pretty much anybody on Team Trump, I watched The West Wing. And I even got B grades in my history and poli sci classes. Sometimes better.

 

No. He's not.

Still not sure why he shouldn't push back.

 

In my friend's usage, I think it translates to "economist who says my worldview is correct" ...

 

Liberals fantasizing about punching Trump in the mouth for the next 8 years should be fun.

 

Just did an article on the 30th anniversary of The Color of Money being released and what the film did for the popularity of pocket billiards. Talked to the former president of Murrey Billiards, which supplied tables for the film. The movie resulted in 10 times the tables orders. A decade later the were out of the business totally and I asked why.

"China. China was making a table as quality as ours and at one-third of what our cost was."

And that's just fucking pool tables. You can imagine the difference throughout the economy. Yeah, those jobs aren't coming back.

 

By 2020 $15 will be the equivalent of $9 today. Big Macs will cost ten bucks each.

 

I was surprised to hear that about the tables (the supplies, that wouldn't surprise me at all), then I did a bit of the Google and found out that for a very long time China (along with Brazil and Italy) has been a prime source for billiards table slate.

 

More or less fun than conservatives fantasizing about shipping Obama back to Kenya the last 8 years?