I saw this on YouTube. You could have been saying the same things as your Trumpism has taken away your ability to see reality. You used to be able to think rationally. But since Trump beat Hillary "Lock her up" Rodham Clinton you lost it.
A top White House aide called Steve Bannon's comments in a new book on President Donald Trump "grotesque" Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" before anchor Jake Tapper cut him off for not answering questions.
"It's tragic and unfortunate that Steve would make these grotesque comments so out of touch with reality and obviously so vindictive," White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller said, referring to Trump's former chief strategist. During the contentious interview, Miller offered largely combative responses and focused on presenting Trump as a "political genius," repeatedly refusing to answer questions until Tapper decided to cut him off and move to the next segment. CNN has not independently confirmed all the assertions in "Fire and Fury" by author Michael Wolff, which portrays Trump allies questioning the President's mental fitness for office.
I'm in love, sober, have a healthy lifestyle, sorry k'putz, got the liver transplant and it's just wonderful.
I was exposed to pneumonia in a public place as diagnosed by the doctor. My lovely wife has pneumonia and will get admitted this afternoon. She's a wonderful person, and tough as nails.
CH if you would ever express disappointed when he lies, you might be credible again. But since that time my friend said that a story from The New York Times or Washington Post is (Fake News) I lost my respect for you. That's not how an analyst can get caught up in the devotion to the President and remain credible.
Roger, they really think that Trump IS a genius. Because, as Trump said, he is rich. And for modern conservatives, being rich is the measure of a man's worthiness.
Have you noticed the latest babbling from Brannon? Now his comments were directed at Manafort, not Trump Jr, because - and this is what Brannon said - Manafort should know how the Russians are. In other words, Jr is too stupid, and therefore wouldn't be expected to know.
And what else = oh, Brannon says that Trump is a "political" genius because Trump was the "only one" of the Republicans with a chance to "beat the Clinton apparatus". You'd think that someone THAT ignorant about the Presidential election, who doesn't know that Trump was the only Republican that Clinton even had a chance against, wouldn't be talking about how someone was "a political genius". LOL it's the political version of Three Stooges.
It's not like actual grey matter has anything to do with being smart- for them having money proves it. I'm not being facetious, it really is one of the reasons that we have a really dumb really rich guy as our President.
Loretta said... Bitter TDS from the board geniuses.
Unlike you loretta, those genius's you dislike post cogent, complete thoughts, unlike you who posts childish gibberish like the genius trump, who can't find his ass in the dark if he's eating a McDonalds.....All donnie has is wealth....and a shitty life, like you. Cue the I forgot something, it's all you ever do....
Weird - "derangement" is appropriate for those who deny reality, not for those who insist on it. But unfortunately, that's the face of modern politics. When reality doesn't support you, engage in some public name-calling.
When I was growing up, that was considered shameful, a practice that no one with any self-respect would stoop to.
CH, that reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask.
You were telling me that because people "had confidence" in Donald Trump, that confidence caused them to hire people, expand business, invest more, and purchase new equipment. And because of that "confidence", it followed that Trump legitimately carried the economy higher, 2-3% GDP.
Now that sounds like magical thinking to me, but for the sake of argument let's assume that is true. My question is, does that same reasoning hold for any President, or just President Trump?
Just as predicted, the injin idiot of kansas provides her gibberish and obsessive idiocy....Brilliant.....your life must really suck....and BTW WP eats your lunch every day with his logic and well written thoughts, while all you do is act like the child name calling like a second grader and repeating the same forgot BS like a drone....idiot.......
It's hardly magical thinking to see a new administration implementing business friendly economic policies and conclude that they are favorable to business and the economy.
WP - I doubt either is a genius. But of the two of them, Trump is obviously smarter.
Look, I understand that some of you envy success. But ultimately success matters. The Tom Brady issue is a great example. He is considered the greatest Quarterback of all times because of his longevity and success. A few others have better numbers, but he has the Superbowl wins.
It's not about rich. Lots of people are rich but didn't earn it. It's about people who are good at what they do and end up at the top of their profession. Trump did it in real estate, television, and politics. I respect that.
What will be the story that takes down this President this week.
The so called collusion thingy is a disaster for Dems, the Wolfee book is discredited, NK is being tamed.... so what ya go, of the 25th Amendment thingy died when total loons like PNH joined the clown car parade.... so what you got libs?
...to President of the United States (On my first try) I think that would qualify not smart, but not as smart, but genius...and a very stable genius at that!
And yet with all the money and "smart" people surrounding Hillary Clinton she lost a "slam-dunk" election.
Who was the smart person to though calling the American voter "deplorable" was a winning strategy.
And then there was all the "smart" people in the news media who sat dumbfounded as Trump won Florida, Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin and finally Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Blogger Roger Amick said... I'm at the Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park hospital. I just watched the New Orleans Saints win.
My lovely wife has pneumonia and will spend at least one night here. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
good for you, alky.
i am left to wonder why you would think anyone here gives a shit though.
The coal plants announced for early closure in 2017 are younger in age and larger in size than ever before, and utilities are replacing shuttered capacity with clean energy. The reasons why utilities are choosing to close coal plants are just as informative as how they’re choosing to replace them. Six specific closures show why this trend will continue into 2018 despite Trump’s bluster.
And yet with all the money and "smart" people surrounding Hillary Clinton she lost a "slam-dunk" election
And we ended up with a slam dunk idiot with fewer than 100k votes like yours making the difference....Yep, he had 3 million fewer votes in spite of his claim of illegals voting.....LOL
Using liberal logic, hillary won : She had the media She had Hollywood She had the Obama's She had the dnc corruption She had big dog bill She had the ground game She had unlimited money She had the organization She had it all She had 3 million more vote
Yet, she did not have the Electoral Votes, the rules and law matter.
White House aide Stephen Miller was escorted off the CNN stage by security after bashing Steve Bannon. He had refused to answer questions about the President.
The right wing has been trying to portray it as a victory. Instead he looked like a fool.
Confidence matters. Reagan inspired confidence in certain ways. Clinton inspired confidence in other ways.
Do I think this situation is somewhat unique? Sure. We have someone who might be the most business friendly President in our lifetime... following someone who might have been the least business friendly President in our lifetime.
It really doesn't matter if you like Trump. It doesn't matter if you think he is brilliant, an idiot, or a brilliant idiot. The business community knows he has made changes in their favor, and will continue to do so.
That flat out matters. Pretending it doesn't... is just that. Pretending.
If you seriously believe that a guy who didn't finish school, spent his life in a mediocre job, and can barely right a coherent thought (most of the time blaming it on spell checker)...
is smarter than a Wharton School of economics graduate, who made several billion in real estate, because a reality television star, and ran for and won the Presidency...
then quite obviously, you have no objectivity here.
It would be like me claiming that one of the random conservative members here is smarter than Barack Obama (who graduated from Harvard Law school)... simply because I didn't agree with Obama's policies.
Reality is reality. Stupid, untalented people might get lucky every once in a while, but being stupid and untalented catches up with people long term. They don't reach the absolute highest levels of their professions without being smart and talented. They certainly do not make it to the highest levels of multiple professions.
Blogger Roger Amick said... White House aide Stephen Miller was escorted off the CNN stage by security after bashing Steve Bannon. He had refused to answer questions about the President.
The right wing has been trying to portray it as a victory. Instead he looked like a fool. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
President Donald Trump has problems with the truth, it's unfamiliar to him so his legal team will go to any extent to avoid a face to face interview with the investigation.
WASHINGTON — Anticipating that Special Counsel Robert Mueller will ask to interview President Donald Trump, the president's legal team is discussing a range of potential options for the format, including written responses to questions in lieu of a formal sit-down, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Lawyers for Trump have been discussing with FBI investigators a possible interview by the special counsel with the president as part of the inquiry into whether Trump's campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.
The discussions were described by one person with direct knowledge as preliminary and ongoing. Trump's legal team is seeking clarification on whether the president would be interviewed directly by Mueller, as well as the legal standard for when a president can be interviewed, the location of a possible interview, the topics and the duration. But the president's team is also seeking potential compromises that could avoid an interview altogether, two of those interviewed told NBC News.
In a statement to NBC News, Trump lawyer John Dowd said: "The White House does not comment on communications with the OSC (Office of Special Counsel) out of respect for the OSC and its process. The White House is continuing its full cooperation with the OSC in order to facilitate the earliest possible resolution."
Miller looked like a Nazi in his manner of defense of the indefensible President. As I watched him refused to answer, I remembered the defense of dictatorships like Communist Russia and Nazi Germany.
Top Trump aide Stephen Miller was booted off CNN on Sunday, after engaging in testy exchanges with network anchor Jake Tapper over the book "Fire and Fury."
During his appearance, Miller attempted to defend President Donald Trump against explosive claims made in a new book, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House."
Miller took aim at comments attributed to Stephen Bannon, the former White House chief strategist whose quotes in Michael Wolff's book triggered acrimonious replies from Trump and his supporters. In the book, Bannon was highly critical of a meeting that took place between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer, calling it "treasonous" and "unpatriotic."
Blogger Roger Amick said... Miller looked like a Nazi _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
yea, you know alky, those fucking joos are sneaky like that. they can pull off that nazi look better than just about anyone. even a real nazi.
Stupid, untalented people might get lucky every once ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
how do you think the alky got his second hand liver?
A gift to k'putz and his fascination with the Chevrolet Bolt.
General Motors (NYSE: GM) said it delivered 3,227 Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles (EVs) in the United States in December. It was the best monthly sales total yet for the Bolt -- and the ninth month in a row in which the Bolt's U.S. sales were up from the month prior.
It wasn't America's best-selling EV last month, as it lost out to Tesla's (NASDAQ: TSLA) now-traditional quarter-end sales push. But the Bolt's December sales were good enough to put it over 20,000 sold for the year -- and enough to outpace Tesla's Model X.
A black 2018 Chevrolet Bolt EV parked on a sunny beach. A black 2018 Chevrolet Bolt EV parked on a sunny beach.
General Motors sold over 20,000 Chevrolet Bolt EVs in the United States last year. Image source: General Motors.
General Motors (NYSE: GM) said it delivered 3,227 Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles (EVs) in the United States in December. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Its not difficult for a genius and honest genius to pick on the regulars here. All their houses the goofy right wing websites But it is fun to pick on them.
Roger must be attempting to be stupid on purpose. Probably some sort of "genius" attempt at reverse psychology, that we are just not smart enough to understand.
He was there to defend the indefensible President. He went to any length to do so. Your pathetic devotion to the President and his tweeting and attacks on the FBI and and the free press aka Fake News are irrefutable evidence that leads you to defend the indefensible is tragic.
Your comparison isn't valid. You hold on to the fantasy that the free press is a giant conspiracy to sink Trump. Look at what you have said. Not once have you said in response to anything he's said or done. Nor not one of the hundreds of lies or disguised distortions of fact. I simply cannot understand that someone as intelligent as you can close your eyes and defend every single negative report as Fake News. I didn't defend every single negative report on President Obama. I didn't agree with everything.
I have to go collusion collusion collusion collusion collusion collusion collusion collusion collusion collusion . Lol.
As usual... you confuse "indifference" with "support". I would believe that someone half as bright as you would understand the difference between "indifference" and "support".
The fact is that I don't care about what the President tweets. I don't believe his tweeting really matters. I don't believe he will tweet us into WWIII. I don't believe his tweets will cause a recession. I don't believe his tweets will promote terrorism.
They only matter to those of you who are obsessed with attempting to prove (by any means) that there is something wrong with the President. Because "you" don't like it... everyone is supposed to not like it.
. Look at what you have said. Not once have you said in response to anything he's said or done. Nor not one of the hundreds of lies or disguised distortions of fact. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
so...
your piss poor grammar and disjointed "logic" not withstanding...
because CH has not sprung into a frothing spittle-flecked rage like you means he has given trump silent and tacit support every day since election day 2016?
is THAT what you're trying to communicate here, alky?
has it ever occurred to you that there exists a real live version of the american citizen that is actually OK with how trump is doing so far?
supreme court? check.
DJIA setting new records almost every day? check.
shitcanning hundreds of 0linsky's pen and phone regulations? check.
effectively telling both NK and the UN to go fuck themselves? check.
just because you're in the grip of TDS doesn't mean we ALL ARE alky.
and i even happen to know some folks that while not being exactly thrilled with trump as their president, hit their knees every day and thank GOD that hillary is NOT their president.
HB & his land lord got pneumonia. They blame the public. Those to walking basket case racket up 1.2 million in medicaid payments already. Looking to best that mark this year.
Trump is unlike any previous president of the United States. Voters knew this when they chose him over Hillary Clinton. And there is nothing about Trump now that suggests his mental state is any different or worse or dangerous than when voters elected him, or when they first encountered him on gossip pages and in reality television decades ago.
To suggest otherwise is to undermine the democratic election of presidents, and to do so would be far more damaging to the country than anything Trump’s actually done. It is particularly noteworthy that members of an elite are calling for his ouster when Trump’s election was partly in response to anger at mismanagement by members of the media and political establishment.
Talk of mental health and a 25th Amendment removal, “by force if necessary,” is talk of a coup, just as it was in the TV show “24.” Responsible parties should consider how this is perceived by the part of the electorate they rarely speak to and cease.
The F-150 is owned by more Millionaires then any other vehicle.y dad in his life time owned 4, I have owned 2 & my son owns on I bought him. A gift for college.
The only thing that you do by ignoring the reality of the dangers posed by the President is narcissism . This is why those of us who differ with you.
( As usual... you confuse "indifference" with "support". I would believe that someone half as bright as you would understand the difference between "indifference" and "support".)
The F-150 is owned by more Millionaires then any other vehicle.y dad in his life time owned 4, I have owned 2 & my son owns on I bought him. A gift for college.
Talk of mental health and a 25th Amendment removal, “by force if necessary,” is talk of a coup _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
yale's bandy ree even said it would be viewed as a coup.
i'm starting to understand who the fucking psycho crazies really are, and none of them work in the white house.
The danger of him nominating more conservative Justices The danger of more 3-4 percent quarters of growth The danger of more Obama era regulations being overturned The danger of wages increasing The danger of continued full employment The danger that my 401K will continue to grow The danger that my home value will continue to skyrocket The danger that ISIS will continue to be a non-factor
Yeah Rog... the real danger for you, is that people will actually ask themselves whether or not they are better off than they were four years ago... and that the answer will be "yes".
The talks of a coup attempt to repeal the results of the election of Trump is a joke. Putting Pence in the oval office is probably the worst economic catastrophe since the Bush recession.
The Federalist is quite conservative. But I do enjoy reading it.
Bandy Lee We encounter this often in mental health. Those who most require an evaluation are the least likely to submit to one. That is the reason why in all 50 states we have not only the legal authority, but often the legal obligation, to contain someone even against their will when it’s an emergency.
So in an emergency, neither consent nor confidentiality requirements hold. Safety comes first. What we do in the case of danger is we contain the person, we remove them from access to weapons, and we do an urgent evaluation.
This is what we have been calling for with the president based on basic medical standards of care.
Surprisingly, many lawyer groups have actually volunteered, on their own, to file for a court paper to ensure that the security staff will cooperate with us. But we have declined, since this will really look like a coup, and while we are trying to prevent violence, we don’t wish to incite it through, say, an insurrection.
Blogger Roger Amick said... The talks of a coup attempt to repeal the results of the election of Trump is a joke. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
When Barack Obama took office in 2009, we were in the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression.
1: Losing 400,000 jobs per month. 2: The DJIA was approximately at 7,200. 3: The housing market was in a full collapse. 4: Millions of Americans had no health insurance and the costs of emergency room were out of control.
The President inherited in 2017 an economy that had grown for 80 months of job growth, an all time high.
To his credit he hasn't fucked it up yet. So I'm going to be honest and recognize that Trump inherited a solid economy and we are going to have a continuation of the Obama economy.
I rather enjoy discussions with the host. He usually does not just call me names and we have honest disagreement.
He understands that to be a recovering alcoholic who has over five years has been an accomplishment. Not an alky.
The danger of more Obama era regulations being overturned.
This is an obsession with the last real President. In the construction regulations that are provided for the safety of the construction workers, items it's expensive and because they are obsessed with the overturning of the regulations, lives are going to be at risk.
Yeah Rog... the real danger for you, is that people will actually ask themselves whether or not they are better off than they were four years ago... and that the answer will be "yes". Thank you Barack Hussein Obama.
The old man has to reduce his schedule to allow more time for Twitter!
Trump reportedly starts his days later because he wants more 'executive time' to watch TV and go on Twitter AOL.COM 9 hrs ago President Donald Trump shrank his daily schedule because he wanted more "executive time" to watch TV and tweet, according to the news site Axios. He reportedly has three hours of "executive time" every morning and another few hours of it during the day as well. That's in addition to the time he spends watching cable news and going on Twitter every evening after retiring to the private residence. President Donald Trump's official daily schedule is getting shorter because he wants more time to watch cable news and go on Twitter, Axios reported on Sunday.
Trump — who's said in the past that he wakes up at 5 a.m. — now starts his days at 11 a.m. after taking three hours of "executive time" in the Oval Office, most of which the report said he spends in his private residence watching TV and perusing Twitter.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told Axios that Trump's "executive time" in the morning "is a mix of residence time and Oval Office time but he always has calls with staff, Hill members, cabinet members and foreign leaders during this time."
Trump's media habits are well documented, from his voracious consumption of cable news to his tendency to fire off impulsive tweets when he's displeased with the way he's portrayed in the media. According to The New York Times, the only people allowed to touch the TV remote are Trump and the technical support staff. The Times said the president watches at least four and up to eight hours of TV per day.
That point was echoed by a Washington Post report published last April, which said Trump turns on the TV as soon as he wakes up, watches periodically throughout the day, and continues late into the evening when he retires to the private residence.
According to a copy of Trump's private schedule that was shown to Axios, the president's official days last from around 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and sometimes they end before that. He also takes some "executive time" in between, in addition to the three hours every morning.
Did I ever advocate that we should use the 25th amendment to remove Barack Obama for incompetency, advocate that Obama be impeached, or come up with some plot to otherwise remove him (other than supporting his opponent in 2012)?
We can compare and contrast records... but only one of us is crazy enough to believe that a legally elected President (who has shown much objective success) be removed from office because we are upset with his personal use of twitter.
All that being said... I lived through those 8 years. I got like one raise every other year, and some of my co-workers when 3-4 years without a raise. We went through multiple layoffs. My company went through two large mergers to keep afloat. The economy didn't grow enough to push wages... and we were told that 2% growth was the new norm.
Things are better today for me, my coworkers, and my company.
Construction workers build a single-family home in San Diego. Housing starts up 3.3% vs. down 3.1% est. 9:01 AM ET Tue, 19 Dec 2017 | 01:37 U.S. single-family homebuilding and permits surged to more than 10-year highs in November, in a hopeful sign for a housing market that has been hobbled by supply constraints.
Builders have struggled to meet robust demand for housing, which is being fueled by a labor market near full employment. Land and skilled labor have been in short supply, while lumber price increases have accelerated.
The Commerce Department said on Tuesday that single-family homebuilding, which accounts for the largest share of the housing market, jumped 5.3 percent to a rate of 930,000 units. That was the highest level since September 2007.
Pointing to further gains, single-family home permits rose 1.4 percent to a pace of 862,000 units, a level not seen since August 2007. The jump in groundbreaking on single-family housing units suggests housing could contribute to gross domestic product in the fourth quarter.
Investment in residential construction has declined for two straight quarters, weighing on economic growth. A survey on Monday showed confidence among homebuilders soaring to near an 18-1/2-year high in December, amid optimism over buyer traffic and sales over the next six months.
CH "Look, I understand that some of you envy success. But ultimately success matters."
Those of us who don't envy Trump's success don't put as much stock in it. Those of you who do prioritize it over other characteristics, probably do envy it.
It's not about rich. Lots of people are rich but didn't earn it.
Trump's campaign was all about being rich. And yes, I am skeptical that he earned it. I suspect that he started out vastly wealthy, and scammed the rest.
I was rooting for Trump to succeed, to "win" the way he meant it. I was hoping that Trump would immediately demonstrate his acumen, roll up his sleeves and work with our allies solving mutual problems, and notch up a few domestic successes. Something more than nominating judges and a weird "gimme" tax package from the Republican congress. My hope was disappointed, immediately and throughout this year. It's clear to me that he hasn't demonstrated competence, regardless of his bank account.
All you have done since he was inaugurated is bitch about his every move.
Trump started screwing up from his first move. Stupid immigration executive order, that failed to even be put into effect, when just a minimal basic competence would have produced a valid order to begin with. Stupid bombing in Syria that failed to achieve anything at all.
I didn't bitch about Gorsuch, I gave him that "win" because at least *something* was accomplished. But Trump has failed consistently, and where he's succeeded has been mainly counterproductive. (and usually, stupid). I'm looking at results, not brand loyalty.
and there is nothing about Trump now that suggests his mental state is any different or worse or dangerous than when voters elected him
And that's a problem, because a lot of people believed that surely it was a put-on, a clown act for the lowest common denominator which Trump would shed when he got into office.
Another obsessed with the overturning of the regulations by the last real President.
The Trump administration announced Monday that it is ending protected status for El Salvador with an 18-month delay — the latest in a string of legal immigration programs that have been discontinued over the past year.
The approximately 262,000 Salvadorans that currently have Temporary Protected Status (TPS) will have until Sept. 9, 2019 to either change their immigration status, leave the U.S. or face potential deportation.
There are 10 countries with a protected status designation - South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Syria, Haiti, Nepal and Yemen.
Just before Thanksgiving, the administration announced that the status for approximately 59,000 Haitians would end on July 22, 2019. Status for Sudan will end in November and Nicaragua with 2,500 beneficiaries will end in January of next year.
got like one raise every other year, and some of my co-workers when 3-4 years without a raise. We went through multiple layoffs. My company wen
Gee....that sure reminds me of the busch lost years when any raise I got barely covered the increase in health insurance.....Obama saw that cost growth slowed and doubling of the DOW......yep they were very good years in spite of you bitching about them....
The approximately 262,000 Salvadorans that currently have Temporary Protected Status (TPS) will have until Sept. 9, 2019 to either change their immigration status, leave the U.S. or face potential deportation. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
We we will get back to this, but I never said that Twitter is not #impeachmentable.
This is in-correct.
We can compare and contrast records... but only one of us is crazy enough to believe that a legally elected President (who has shown much objective success) be removed from office because we are upset with his personal use of twitter.
I'm going to see my lovely wife. We share one thing Scott. We both are deeply in love with wonderful women. She's a wonderful person and is getting better. But probably will come tomorrow or Wednesday.
Thanks for the interesting and challenging discussion. I'm glad to be a stable genius. 😎😎😎😎😎😎🙂😎
Blogger KD said... The F-150 is owned by more Millionaires then any other vehicle.
Now there is a resounding endorsement by the pig husband....You all were bitching at ford when the auto industry was on the verge of collapse and they survived without aid......dayum you are a sorry son of an idiot.....
Those of us who don't envy Trump's success don't put as much stock in it. Those of you who do prioritize it over other characteristics, probably do envy it.
Yeah... I am sure there are lots of you who do not put any stock in whether or not a person is successful.
I am sure you would see past success doesn't matter in recruiting or drafting athletes, in job recruiting, or determining who to promote.
But as someone who has hired hundreds of people, and made personal recommendations and/or the actual decision on who gets promoted... I do confess, WP... that past success (even if that success is in other areas) is very important in my mind.
Just another one of those "life experience" difference between some of us here that makes us view the world differently.
commonsense said: "The voters saw and the voters made there judgement and in my opinion, after looking at the results of the first year, judged wisely.
So if there is a problem, I believe it's with you."
Correct that it's your opinion only. Very much, a minority one.
Myballs seeing America become great again forgot to say... . Headbaked forgot to say slowest recovery in history. Obama's new normal.
Plenty of experts say "hold on." This recovery may be slow, but it's also lasted a long time -- far longer than usual -- and job growth has been good. "We are in the fourth longest expansion in U.S. history," notes Achuthan. Since World War II, the American economy has typically grown for about five years and then had a contraction. This expansion is already over seven years old. Furthermore, the average pace of job growth in this recovery has already topped what happened during the 2001 to 2007 expansion under President George W. Bush (the Bush recovery was the slowest in terms of jobs growth, Achuthan says).
It's not too much of a stretch to believe that if Hillary Clinton was elected, Garland would be on the bench, ISIS will still be a hugh threat in the Middle East, and the economy would still be slogging along at 2% as the "new normal".
But Trump has failed consistently, and where he's succeeded has been mainly counterproductive. (and usually, stupid). _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
for example?
and spare me the nonsense about trump fucking up the travel ban. if that WAS an issue, it was a white house counsel issue. and furthermore, it was pure hackery by those who objected. even the ACLU lawyer admitted in opposition that if it was worded exactly the same and was a clinton order there wouldn't be a problem.
cheer up, wp. at some point we'll have another democrat president and you'll be able to shower them with accolades for every wonderful thing that could possibly happen to the nation.
we're just going to have to hunker down and suffer through this roaring stock market, economy, and 4+% growth. i know it's going to suck. especially for those of us in the market. and the thought of having to accept a raise could be simply too much to bear.
"In terms of the average pace of GDP growth, this is the slowest expansion on record," says Lakshman Achuthan, co-founder of the Economic Cycle Research Institute.
The U.S. economy has only grown 2% a year since it bottomed out in June 2009. That's far below the typical growth in rosy times of over 4% a year that the U.S. has experienced since World War II. It's even below the rather sluggish rebound during President George W. Bush's tenure of 2.7%.
[...]
Economist Ed Yardeni of Yardeni Research put together over 20 pages of charts comparing this recovery to prior ones. He calls this "one of the weakest" recoveries, but he's hesitant to dub it the absolute worst once you look across a wide range of metrics.
boy, the verbal calisthenics they have to go through to give 0linsky a little credit is absolutely hilarious.
only a moron or a raging alcoholic gives the previous president any credit at all. had the economy grew any slower it would've stalled and started to LOSE ground.
put any stock in whether or not a person is successful.
You consider his sorry life and demeanor successful? Gee, how pathetic is that!!!!!!~He keeps claiming to have lots of friends and then tosses them under his bus.....Not sure I'd like him to be anything but a family tyrant with a short fuse....
When you are in the real estate business, there are two things that define your success. Signature buildings and the amount of money you make. So when it comes to Trump, he satisfies both requirements. So to that degree, his bank account objectively matters to his success. You may believe he simply got lucky over and over again to the tune of a 3.5 billion dollars... but it seems like a pretty lame argument.
He also starred in and helped produce a pretty successful television show... before winning both the GOP nomination and the general election. We'll see how he does over the next few years as President. So far, I am pleased with what he is doing. Remember, he was elected by like minded conservatives (not liberals) so you have to judge him on whether or not he satisfied them.
Just like it would be pretty unfair if I called Obama a failure because he didn't nominate conservative justices, cut corporate taxes, and conform to other things "I" would have liked to have seen. In the eyes of most who voted for him, he was probably at least marginally successful.
the verbal calisthenics they have to go through to give 0linsky a little credit is absolutely hilarious.
The mental masturbation you exhibit in praising trump and ignoring record periods of job growth, economic acumen and DOW increases left under obama shows you cannot even read without a bias...Thanx for proving your hopeless mental state....LOLOLOL
Signature buildings and the amount of money you make.
You have no idea how much money trump made....or lost in his bankruptcies. His bravado is all you know and you accept his word to his wealth....pretty funny for someone who needs absolute proof before making a decision.....LOL
You have no idea how much money trump made....or lost in his bankruptcies
Forbes and others have an idea... they estimate he is worth about $3.5 billion.
Go back to school, opie... learn about bankruptcies. Lot's of businesses go through bankruptcy and come out making more money. When I worked for Zales, they went through a bankruptcy and came out of it a much stronger company. They are still around today, have nearly 2 billion in revenue, and still make a pretty decent profit. Another local jeweler I worked for went through at least three of them. Came back under different names multiple times and still have stores in the area.
Even businesses that end up with Chapter 7 bankruptcies (full liquidation) could have earned a great deal of profit over the years. For someone who's entire income is from one business, that might be horrible... but for someone with a lot of things in the hopper, a Chapter 7 allows for a poorly operating business to liquidate and provide short term cash flow for your other businesses.
And what part of estimate don't you understand....When you lose billions in bankruptcies, it is still a loss no matter how you cut it, idiot. Suggest a remedial logic course since you are obsessed with donnie...And again, your condescending holier than thou opinions are just as valid in the toilet of your life....I am sure your financial background is as massive as your giant head...LOL at you again with abject hilarity....especially the I worked at Zales as a janitor.....
The President will do anything to avoid an interview. The stable genius has a problem with the truth. It changes on a daily basis.
REUTERS/AARON P. BERNSTEIN (Reuters) - President Donald Trump could be interviewed within weeks as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the Washington Post reported on Monday.
Mueller raised the issue of interviewing Trump during a meeting in late December with the president's lawyers, John Dowd and Jay Sekulow, the Post said. The interview, which would deal with a limited portion of questions, could take place within the next several weeks, the Post said, citing a person close to the president.
Sekulow and Dowd did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the Washington Post report. White House attorney Ty Cobb declined to comment on it, saying it was policy not to comment on communications with the special counsel's office.
Earlier on Monday, a source familiar with the issue said discussions about Trump's possible testimony have been going on among lawyers. NBC News reported that Trump's attorneys were in discussions about the president being interviewed in connection with Mueller's Russia probe...
First, this is part of what Forbes does. Estimate people's worth. Everything is cumulative, and from profits to losses, Trump is up 3.5 billion. Not even the best poker player wins every hand. If the guy wins the tournament the guy wins the tournament... regardless if he lost some hands.
furthermore...
You don't "lose" money in bankruptcies... Zales didn't lose a penny. They restructured their dept, cut back expenses and they moved forward as a profitable company. The bankruptcy allowed them to actually dump debt, meaning they "made" money.
Even filing a chapter 7 bankruptcies doesn't necessarily cost you money. Basically the difference between what you sell your assets for and what they might have been otherwise worth. That could be a loss, or it could actually be a profit if your assets have depreciated substantially.
If you honestly believe that a company that files bankruptcy loses "billions" then you truly need to go back to business 101. You have no idea how bankruptcies work.
But I suppose some blogger from the Huffington Post or The Beast told you otherwise.... and of course, a liberal political blogger must understand business much better than Forbes in your mind.
Example , I am retired as is my wife,we both that defined benefit accounts from our prior employers.
We currently run a ranch producing, beef, shep, chickens and eggs, flowers and veggies. All of which we sell thru private treaty or CSA and farmers markets.
".. a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany ... and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Obama" - Barack Obama Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Is there any doubt that someone could seriously say this and not be off his rocker?
I was kinda busy today. But I saw more of the President was unintentionally confirming that he might just be mentally disturbed. The tweets were impulsive.
""I am going to try to be so persuasive, so that those of you who are still wavering...will suddenly come to the conclusion ... a light will come down"
A joke, that he set up himself in the part unquoted. There wasn't anything like that with Trump. He bragged about the changes of the estate tax (unaware that it only helps about 80 farms) and then that. You're so lucky that I gave you the privilege. Trump, to all outward appearances, really believed that he provided all of the little farmers with the privilege to vote for him.
How can you read that and not be concerned for his state of mind?
Fire and Fury Sold out in most book stores and over one million have been sold.
wp, seriously I don't understand that CH is not at least concerned. Some of the regulars are incapable of concern about a Republican President, they see it as just more anti-Trump garbage.
Hamilton was the biggest supporter of the freedom of the press. In his comments yesterday he said if we had stronger libel laws that you use to sue the author or worse to stop the press.
It's not difficult the fact that he tweets. It's what he says.,and who he says it too.
Trump liked to say that one of the things that made life worth living was getting your friends’ wives into bed. In pursuing a friend’s wife, he would try to persuade the wife that her husband was perhaps not what she thought. Then he’d have his secretary ask the friend into his office; once the friend arrived, Trump would engage in what was, for him, more or less constant sexual banter.
Do you still like having sex with your wife? How often? You must have had a better fuck than your wife? Tell me about it. I have girls coming in from Los Angeles at three o’clock. We can go upstairs and have a great time. I promise … And all the while, Trump would have his friend’s wife on the speakerphone, listening in.
Fire and Fury page 23.
Things like this says a lot about his state of mind. It looks like something he would have done.
Other aspects of the Trump character were more problematic. Almost all the professionals who were now set to join him were coming face to face with the fact that it appeared he knew nothing. There was simply no subject, other than perhaps building construction, that he had substantially mastered. Everything with him was off the cuff. Whatever he knew he seemed to have learned an hour before—and that was mostly half-baked. But each member of the new Trump team was convincing him- or herself otherwise—because what did they know, the man had been elected president. He offered something, obviously. Indeed, while everybody in his rich-guy social circle knew about his wide-ranging ignorance—Trump, the businessman, could not even read a balance sheet, and Trump, who had campaigned on his deal-making skills, was, with his inattention to details, a terrible negotiator—they yet found him somehow instinctive.
That was the word. He was a force of personality. He could make you believe. “Is Trump a good person, an intelligent person, a capable person?” asked Sam Nunberg, Trump’s longtime political aide. “I don’t even know. But I know he’s a star.” Trying to explain Trump’s virtues and his attraction, Piers Morgan—the British newspaper man and ill-fated CNN anchor who had appeared on Celebrity Apprentice and stayed a loyal Trump friend—said it was all in Trump’s book The Art of the Deal. Everything that made him Trump and that defined his savvy, energy, and charisma was there. If you wanted to know Trump, just read the book. But Trump had not written The Art of the Deal. His co-writer, Tony Schwartz, insisted that he had hardly contributed to it and might not even have read all of it. And that was perhaps the point. Trump was not a writer, he was a character—a protagonist and hero.
From what we have seen since inauguration speech and the claim that his crowd size was bigger than Obama's inauguration to his stable genius condition, we have to be concerned about his behavior and abilities to be President of the United States
I’ve had to put up with the Fake News from the first day I announced that I would be running for President. Now I have to put up with a Fake Book, written by a totally discredited author. Ronald Reagan had the same problem and handled it well. So will I! 6:40 AM · Jan 7, 2018 30,650 Retweets 147,090 Likes Gavin Ivester Gavin Ivester @gavinivester · Jan 7 Replying to @realDonaldTrump When do you plan to start handling it well? You’ve been a mess so far. 79 36
· Jan 7 He's been a mess for you but a well oiled machine for me. Guess half of America don't share the same values anymore.
Jan 7 So this is handling Fire and Fury like a well-oiled machine? This doesn’t even have to be about values, it’s about competence.
"A joke, that he set up himself in the part unquoted."
Stop lying and at least TRY to get a handle on your hatred for the man. Obama wasn't joking and you know it.
"Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth."
"The notion somehow that well, I’m not as inspired because Barack and Michelle are not on the ballot this time, maybe we’ve got to take it easy –- my legacy is on the ballot!""
Is there any doubt that someone could seriously say this and not be off his rocker?
An insane president would threaten a significant tax increase immediately upon taking office following a financial crisis, and then eventually impose one on individuals and small businesses still in recovery.
He’d impose job-crushing regulations on these same businesses as unemployment rose. He’d put a cumbersome mandate on businesses that upends the entire health care system just as the economy was finally turning a corner.
A really insane president would blow nearly $1 trillion on a stimulus plan with little planning and direction, wasting much of the money on boondoggles (see: Solyndra) and then laugh at the lack of “shovel ready” jobs created. He’d then try to spread his delusion to the masses, telling them to ignore historically low wage growth, anemic economic growth and the massive amount of people who dropped out of the work force because the stock market rallied, thanks in large part to the Fed printing money instead of his own fiscal policies.
Is Barack Obama crazy? No, but his post-2008 economic policies were.
my legacy is on the ballot!"" ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
That answers my question: you're just go into denial and start talking about someone else. Hoping if you find find an equivalency, at least in your own mind, that it doesn't matter?
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oh, you mean like the constant barrage of "but Bush!" utterances that tumbled out of BHO's pie hole on a daily basis?
through at least his entire first term and some of his second the guy couldn't go a day without blaming whatever was annoying him on his predecessor.
you know the one thing trump is NOT doing? blaining the previous administration for something every 5 minutes. trump has just proceeded to run BHO's legacy through a shredder, while barely acknowledging the origin of most of the exec orders he's overturning.
Trump is constantly BS'ing about Obama and how great he (Trump) is, by changing that. What was it he told the farmers in Kentucky yesterday? That they were being tortured by Obama?
It's practically the only thing he IS doing, in between making up names for any well-known person who criticizes him. A person has only to listen to the man, RRB, to know better than that.
Blogger Commonsense said... In one fell swoop today Trump put the media dementia narrative to bed today and embarrassed them in the process. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
he sure did. i listened to most of it and i did not hear the rantings of a dangerous, stark raving mad, lunatic.
poor alky. another narrative he was counting on bites the dust.
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LOL But it's fun to hear that you can't keep up the good work because you are on drugs or mental illness that mimics the President..
I saw this on YouTube. You could have been saying the same things as your Trumpism has taken away your ability to see reality. You used to be able to think rationally. But since Trump beat Hillary "Lock her up" Rodham Clinton you lost it.
A top White House aide called Steve Bannon's comments in a new book on President Donald Trump "grotesque" Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" before anchor Jake Tapper cut him off for not answering questions.
"It's tragic and unfortunate that Steve would make these grotesque comments so out of touch with reality and obviously so vindictive," White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller said, referring to Trump's former chief strategist.
During the contentious interview, Miller offered largely combative responses and focused on presenting Trump as a "political genius," repeatedly refusing to answer questions until Tapper decided to cut him off and move to the next segment.
CNN has not independently confirmed all the assertions in "Fire and Fury" by author Michael Wolff, which portrays Trump allies questioning the President's mental fitness for office.
I'm in love, sober, have a healthy lifestyle, sorry k'putz, got the liver transplant and it's just wonderful.
I was exposed to pneumonia in a public place as diagnosed by the doctor. My lovely wife has pneumonia and will get admitted this afternoon. She's a wonderful person, and tough as nails.
CH if you would ever express disappointed when he lies, you might be credible again. But since that time my friend said that a story from The New York Times or Washington Post is (Fake News) I lost my respect for you. That's not how an analyst can get caught up in the devotion to the President and remain credible.
I don't have the beard
Roger, they really think that Trump IS a genius. Because, as Trump said, he is rich. And for modern conservatives, being rich is the measure of a man's worthiness.
I'm smarter than average. But I'm not crazy.
I admire true geniuses But I'm close but not narcissistic and childish, not dangerous.
Good catch. But rich liberals are going to hell. Soros has contributed millions of dollars in liberal causes. And they despise him.
Hypocrisy is a conservative disease.
Have you noticed the latest babbling from Brannon? Now his comments were directed at Manafort, not Trump Jr, because - and this is what Brannon said - Manafort should know how the Russians are. In other words, Jr is too stupid, and therefore wouldn't be expected to know.
And what else = oh, Brannon says that Trump is a "political" genius because Trump was the "only one" of the Republicans with a chance to "beat the Clinton apparatus". You'd think that someone THAT ignorant about the Presidential election, who doesn't know that Trump was the only Republican that Clinton even had a chance against, wouldn't be talking about how someone was "a political genius". LOL it's the political version of Three Stooges.
It's not like actual grey matter has anything to do with being smart- for them having money proves it. I'm not being facetious, it really is one of the reasons that we have a really dumb really rich guy as our President.
Bitter TDS from the board geniuses.
Loretta said...
Bitter TDS from the board geniuses.
Unlike you loretta, those genius's you dislike post cogent, complete thoughts, unlike you who posts childish gibberish like the genius trump, who can't find his ass in the dark if he's eating a McDonalds.....All donnie has is wealth....and a shitty life, like you. Cue the I forgot something, it's all you ever do....
Weird - "derangement" is appropriate for those who deny reality, not for those who insist on it. But unfortunately, that's the face of modern politics. When reality doesn't support you, engage in some public name-calling.
When I was growing up, that was considered shameful, a practice that no one with any self-respect would stoop to.
CH, that reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask.
You were telling me that because people "had confidence" in Donald Trump, that confidence caused them to hire people, expand business, invest more, and purchase new equipment. And because of that "confidence", it followed that Trump legitimately carried the economy higher, 2-3% GDP.
Now that sounds like magical thinking to me, but for the sake of argument let's assume that is true. My question is, does that same reasoning hold for any President, or just President Trump?
You forgot LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
"When I was growing up, that was considered shameful, a practice that no one with any self-respect would stoop to."
LOL.
When I was growing up, I was taught to give people a chance.
My parents didn't vote for JFK, but gave him a chance by not second guessing his every word, action.
All you have done since he was inaugurated is bitch about his every move. You've cloned yourself into Roger, James and Dennis...
You earned the title.
oretta said...
You forgot
Just as predicted, the injin idiot of kansas provides her gibberish and obsessive idiocy....Brilliant.....your life must really suck....and BTW WP eats your lunch every day with his logic and well written thoughts, while all you do is act like the child name calling like a second grader and repeating the same forgot BS like a drone....idiot.......
You forgot LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
I'm at the Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park hospital. I just watched the New Orleans Saints win.
My lovely wife has pneumonia and will spend at least one night here.
It's hardly magical thinking to see a new administration implementing business friendly economic policies and conclude that they are favorable to business and the economy.
Eh. Trump was one of the few Republicans with a chance to LOSE to Clinton.
He was. Wow, so other Republicans would have kicked that Bitches ass worse then Trump did.
CHT ,you are a genius. TRIGGER THE LIBERALS. Too funny. Ty
Opie knows that loans being made today are all tied to one single rate, the Federal Funds Rate.
Nevermind that he is so completely wrong, he really belives he is right.
Huffington post "Exclusive".... "North East States Experience Record cold" "Heating Bills Surge".
WP - I doubt either is a genius. But of the two of them, Trump is obviously smarter.
Look, I understand that some of you envy success. But ultimately success matters. The Tom Brady issue is a great example. He is considered the greatest Quarterback of all times because of his longevity and success. A few others have better numbers, but he has the Superbowl wins.
It's not about rich. Lots of people are rich but didn't earn it. It's about people who are good at what they do and end up at the top of their profession. Trump did it in real estate, television, and politics. I respect that.
Obviously smarter
Insults are against CHT policy.
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What will be the story that takes down this President this week.
The so called collusion thingy is a disaster for Dems, the Wolfee book is discredited, NK is being tamed.... so what ya go, of the 25th Amendment thingy died when total loons like PNH joined the clown car parade.... so what you got libs?
WP
Any pro business, smart tax cutting President.
JFK
REAGAN
TRUMP
rump is obviously smarter.
Your opinion is duly noted and laughed at......I'm sure your bias has nothing to do with your constant fellation of trump...LOLOLOL
Blogger Loretta said...
You forgot
Sure loretta, keep proving your infantile mentality....it serves the right we'll.....Idiot...
Oil Rig count in USA/North America up Bigly over same time last year. I look for even more rigs to come on line.
East coast coal electricity generation up to all time highs.
Oil Rig count in USA/North America up Bigly over same time last year.
Which again proves bigly that coal is deader than your pig wife's ass....LOL
East coast coal electricity generation up to all time highs.
Horse shit, asshole...https://www.forbes.com/sites/energyinnovation/2017/12/18/utilities-closed-dozens-of-coal-plants-in-2017-here-are-the-6-most-important/#58ad32295aca
Actually, through my life, my two greatest assets have been my mental stability and being, like really smart.
...to President of the United States (On my first try) I think that would qualify not smart, but not as smart, but genius...and a very stable genius at that!
And yet with all the money and "smart" people surrounding Hillary Clinton she lost a "slam-dunk" election.
Who was the smart person to though calling the American voter "deplorable" was a winning strategy.
And then there was all the "smart" people in the news media who sat dumbfounded as Trump won Florida, Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin and finally Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Those guys were sure geniuses.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
I'm at the Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park hospital. I just watched the New Orleans Saints win.
My lovely wife has pneumonia and will spend at least one night here.
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good for you, alky.
i am left to wonder why you would think anyone here gives a shit though.
The coal plants announced for early closure in 2017 are younger in age and larger in size than ever before, and utilities are replacing shuttered capacity with clean energy. The reasons why utilities are choosing to close coal plants are just as informative as how they’re choosing to replace them. Six specific closures show why this trend will continue into 2018 despite Trump’s bluster.
And yet with all the money and "smart" people surrounding Hillary Clinton she lost a "slam-dunk" election
And we ended up with a slam dunk idiot with fewer than 100k votes like yours making the difference....Yep, he had 3 million fewer votes in spite of his claim of illegals voting.....LOL
Opie never knows the laws that control the game.
Trump 304
hillary 227
That is a ass kicking. "Unexpectedly"
RRB, HB and his landlord have a low grade bug, but due to thier "healthy life style" they have be pill popping and in the ER and in the Hospice ward.
All on the backs of the US tax payer. The two of them bilked the US Tax payers for 1.3 million and still growing.
A lot of red in that electoral map.
Opie never knows the laws that control the game.
And you wouldn't know a fact if you found it you your pigs wife ass!!! I certainly know I could kick your scrawny ass in with one hand....LOLOLOL
A lot of red in that electoral map.
And that proves what...he had 3 million less votes????
Opie. Get real, put away your "Digital Courage"
I cued up opie.
Unable to understand the rules of the election.
All dOpie has is impotent insults. He's the most limp-dick troll on the internet.
I suppose that accounts for his obsession with sex.
I agree.
If he could just try to be right on the facts and undial his emotions.
Using liberal logic, hillary won :
She had the media
She had Hollywood
She had the Obama's
She had the dnc corruption
She had big dog bill
She had the ground game
She had unlimited money
She had the organization
She had it all
She had 3 million more vote
Yet, she did not have the Electoral Votes, the rules and law matter.
Blogger Commonsense said...
All dOpie has is impotent insults
I learned well from you, loretta and the goat fucker....thanx again menstral for being such a great mentor and intellect midget....LOL
In the above post dOpie manages to tell the world he's a loser.
But suppose he still thinks himself witty.
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All you have done since he was inaugurated is bitch about his every move. You've cloned yourself into Roger, James and Dennis...
You earned the title.
White House aide Stephen Miller was escorted off the CNN stage by security after bashing Steve Bannon. He had refused to answer questions about the President.
The right wing has been trying to portray it as a victory. Instead he looked like a fool.
That puts Wp in some pretty high company.
Opie are we in your and HB recession?
I groped and kissed women without their consent.
I'm a pedophile.
Signed,
Rev James Boswell pedophile
Normal, Illinois
I'm a pedophile.
Signed,
Rev James Boswell pedophile
Normal, Illinois
Blogger KD said...
Opie are we in your and HB recession?
Is your head a perfect vacuum???? Coal is deader than your pig wife's ass!!!!
I'm a pedophile.
Signed,
Rev James Boswell pedophile
Normal, Illinois
WP...
Confidence matters. Reagan inspired confidence in certain ways. Clinton inspired confidence in other ways.
Do I think this situation is somewhat unique? Sure. We have someone who might be the most business friendly President in our lifetime... following someone who might have been the least business friendly President in our lifetime.
It really doesn't matter if you like Trump. It doesn't matter if you think he is brilliant, an idiot, or a brilliant idiot. The business community knows he has made changes in their favor, and will continue to do so.
That flat out matters. Pretending it doesn't... is just that. Pretending.
Miller on cnn was a big win. He forcefully called out the network right to their faces. Tapper had a tantrum and took his ball and went home..
Opie...
If you seriously believe that a guy who didn't finish school, spent his life in a mediocre job, and can barely right a coherent thought (most of the time blaming it on spell checker)...
is smarter than a Wharton School of economics graduate, who made several billion in real estate, because a reality television star, and ran for and won the Presidency...
then quite obviously, you have no objectivity here.
It would be like me claiming that one of the random conservative members here is smarter than Barack Obama (who graduated from Harvard Law school)... simply because I didn't agree with Obama's policies.
Reality is reality. Stupid, untalented people might get lucky every once in a while, but being stupid and untalented catches up with people long term. They don't reach the absolute highest levels of their professions without being smart and talented. They certainly do not make it to the highest levels of multiple professions.
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White House aide Stephen Miller was escorted off the CNN stage by security after bashing Steve Bannon. He had refused to answer questions about the President.
The right wing has been trying to portray it as a victory. Instead he looked like a fool.
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did you watch the segment, alky?
i did.
i strongly suspect that you did not.
President Oprah how will the left get past, her past.
President Donald Trump has problems with the truth, it's unfamiliar to him so his legal team will go to any extent to avoid a face to face interview with the investigation.
WASHINGTON — Anticipating that Special Counsel Robert Mueller will ask to interview President Donald Trump, the president's legal team is discussing a range of potential options for the format, including written responses to questions in lieu of a formal sit-down, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Lawyers for Trump have been discussing with FBI investigators a possible interview by the special counsel with the president as part of the inquiry into whether Trump's campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.
The discussions were described by one person with direct knowledge as preliminary and ongoing. Trump's legal team is seeking clarification on whether the president would be interviewed directly by Mueller, as well as the legal standard for when a president can be interviewed, the location of a possible interview, the topics and the duration. But the president's team is also seeking potential compromises that could avoid an interview altogether, two of those interviewed told NBC News.
did you watch the segment
He acted like a little punk why got beat up all the time when growing up... A complete jackass, just like you rat hole...
LOL
Hb and his land lord have been in ER's and Hospital. HB blames them catch g a low grade bug on being out in public.
In a statement to NBC News, Trump lawyer John Dowd said: "The White House does not comment on communications with the OSC (Office of Special Counsel) out of respect for the OSC and its process. The White House is continuing its full cooperation with the OSC in order to facilitate the earliest possible resolution."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/initial-talks-underway-about-trump-interview-mueller-russia-probe-n835506
i prefer named sources as opposed to "one person with direct knowledge" alky.
but kristen welker is one of MSDNC's most egregious hacks, so i'm not surprised she dropped a phony source in there.
btw, how you coming on your blog, alky? geez, i hope that your recent bouts with "ammonia" didn't slow your efforts.
CH again posts an amusing thought about righting....
and can barely right a coherent thought (most of the time blaming it on spell checker)...
Impressive CH.....should have read it before posting...>LOLOLOL
Stupid, untalented people might get lucky every once
Just like trump....thanx for agreeing with me.....
Miller looked like a Nazi in his manner of defense of the indefensible President. As I watched him refused to answer, I remembered the defense of dictatorships like Communist Russia and Nazi Germany.
Top Trump aide Stephen Miller was booted off CNN on Sunday, after engaging in testy exchanges with network anchor Jake Tapper over the book "Fire and Fury."
During his appearance, Miller attempted to defend President Donald Trump against explosive claims made in a new book, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House."
Miller took aim at comments attributed to Stephen Bannon, the former White House chief strategist whose quotes in Michael Wolff's book triggered acrimonious replies from Trump and his supporters. In the book, Bannon was highly critical of a meeting that took place between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer, calling it "treasonous" and "unpatriotic."
Lol @ hb fragility
Lol @ hb fragility
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Miller looked like a Nazi
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yea, you know alky, those fucking joos are sneaky like that. they can pull off that nazi look better than just about anyone. even a real nazi.
fucking nazi-looking joos.
you tell em alky!
Stupid, untalented people might get lucky every once
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how do you think the alky got his second hand liver?
shit luck.
A gift to k'putz and his fascination with the Chevrolet Bolt.
General Motors (NYSE: GM) said it delivered 3,227 Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles (EVs) in the United States in December. It was the best monthly sales total yet for the Bolt -- and the ninth month in a row in which the Bolt's U.S. sales were up from the month prior.
It wasn't America's best-selling EV last month, as it lost out to Tesla's (NASDAQ: TSLA) now-traditional quarter-end sales push. But the Bolt's December sales were good enough to put it over 20,000 sold for the year -- and enough to outpace Tesla's Model X.
A black 2018 Chevrolet Bolt EV parked on a sunny beach.
A black 2018 Chevrolet Bolt EV parked on a sunny beach.
General Motors sold over 20,000 Chevrolet Bolt EVs in the United States last year. Image source: General Motors.
General Motors (NYSE: GM) said it delivered 3,227 Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles (EVs) in the United States in December.
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ford delivers that many f-150's in a day.
Roger -
It's Miller's job to defend the President and his policies.
The fact that neither you, or Tapper seemed to understand this... is proof positive that your TDS has gone over the edge.
Imagine Chris Wallace booting Susan Rice off his show, because she refused to admit that Obama had made some mistake that Wallace believed he made.
As it was... Susan Rice went on every show and blatantly lied, and nobody kicked her off.
Its not difficult for a genius and honest genius to pick on the regulars here. All their houses the goofy right wing websites But it is fun to pick on them.
All their houses the goofy right wing websites But it is fun to pick on them.
wha???
Rat
Roger must be attempting to be stupid on purpose. Probably some sort of "genius" attempt at reverse psychology, that we are just not smart enough to understand.
yeah, it takes a real man of genius to go out in public with a compromised immune system due to an organ transplant and contract pneumonia.
He was there to defend the indefensible President. He went to any length to do so. Your pathetic devotion to the President and his tweeting and attacks on the FBI and and the free press aka Fake News are irrefutable evidence that leads you to defend the indefensible is tragic.
Your comparison isn't valid. You hold on to the fantasy that the free press is a giant conspiracy to sink Trump. Look at what you have said. Not once have you said in response to anything he's said or done. Nor not one of the hundreds of lies or disguised distortions of fact. I simply cannot understand that someone as intelligent as you can close your eyes and defend every single negative report as Fake News. I didn't defend every single negative report on President Obama. I didn't agree with everything.
I have to go collusion collusion collusion collusion collusion collusion collusion collusion collusion collusion . Lol.
Or alky×50
yeah, it takes a real man of genius to go out in public with a compromised immune system due to an organ transplant and contract pneumonia.
But in his defense... he is an addict. That shows a high level of intelligence. Especially opposed to the stupidity of Donald Trump, who never drinks.
Drinking a lot is a sign of true genius.
Lol @ hb fragility
Roger...
As usual... you confuse "indifference" with "support". I would believe that someone half as bright as you would understand the difference between "indifference" and "support".
The fact is that I don't care about what the President tweets. I don't believe his tweeting really matters. I don't believe he will tweet us into WWIII. I don't believe his tweets will cause a recession. I don't believe his tweets will promote terrorism.
They only matter to those of you who are obsessed with attempting to prove (by any means) that there is something wrong with the President. Because "you" don't like it... everyone is supposed to not like it.
All that proves is that you are a narcissist.
I refuse to retreat from life. I received a wonderful gift of life and I'm going to enjoy it.
Great the Volt sold a total 0f 22,000 for the year, the Bolt 30,000. Really outstanding.
Ford F-Series. 300,000 for the year.
. Look at what you have said. Not once have you said in response to anything he's said or done. Nor not one of the hundreds of lies or disguised distortions of fact.
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so...
your piss poor grammar and disjointed "logic" not withstanding...
because CH has not sprung into a frothing spittle-flecked rage like you means he has given trump silent and tacit support every day since election day 2016?
is THAT what you're trying to communicate here, alky?
has it ever occurred to you that there exists a real live version of the american citizen that is actually OK with how trump is doing so far?
supreme court? check.
DJIA setting new records almost every day? check.
shitcanning hundreds of 0linsky's pen and phone regulations? check.
effectively telling both NK and the UN to go fuck themselves? check.
just because you're in the grip of TDS doesn't mean we ALL ARE alky.
and i even happen to know some folks that while not being exactly thrilled with trump as their president, hit their knees every day and thank GOD that hillary is NOT their president.
HB & his land lord got pneumonia. They blame the public. Those to walking basket case racket up 1.2 million in medicaid payments already. Looking to best that mark this year.
Treat ‘Mental Health’ Talk Against Trump Like The Coup Attempt It Is
Trump is unlike any previous president of the United States. Voters knew this when they chose him over Hillary Clinton. And there is nothing about Trump now that suggests his mental state is any different or worse or dangerous than when voters elected him, or when they first encountered him on gossip pages and in reality television decades ago.
To suggest otherwise is to undermine the democratic election of presidents, and to do so would be far more damaging to the country than anything Trump’s actually done. It is particularly noteworthy that members of an elite are calling for his ouster when Trump’s election was partly in response to anger at mismanagement by members of the media and political establishment.
Talk of mental health and a 25th Amendment removal, “by force if necessary,” is talk of a coup, just as it was in the TV show “24.” Responsible parties should consider how this is perceived by the part of the electorate they rarely speak to and cease.
The F-150 is owned by more Millionaires then any other vehicle.y dad in his life time owned 4, I have owned 2 & my son owns on I bought him. A gift for college.
The only thing that you do by ignoring the reality of the dangers posed by the President is narcissism . This is why those of us who differ with you.
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As usual... you confuse "indifference" with "support". I would believe that someone half as bright as you would understand the difference between "indifference" and "support".)
I know the difference and you don't
The F-150 is owned by more Millionaires then any other vehicle.y dad in his life time owned 4, I have owned 2 & my son owns on I bought him. A gift for college.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The only thing that you do by ignoring the reality of the dangers posed by the President is narcissism .
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ok alky,
tell us all about those scary monsters that trump put under your bed that the rest of us aren't able to see.
Roger should quit while he's behind.
Talk of mental health and a 25th Amendment removal, “by force if necessary,” is talk of a coup
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yale's bandy ree even said it would be viewed as a coup.
i'm starting to understand who the fucking psycho crazies really are, and none of them work in the white house.
Jane has gone to fake IF's to spam, opium is the greatest fool and HB believes he is winning, like Hillary won the 2016 election
Exactly
Yes Roger...
The danger of him nominating more conservative Justices
The danger of more 3-4 percent quarters of growth
The danger of more Obama era regulations being overturned
The danger of wages increasing
The danger of continued full employment
The danger that my 401K will continue to grow
The danger that my home value will continue to skyrocket
The danger that ISIS will continue to be a non-factor
Yeah Rog... the real danger for you, is that people will actually ask themselves whether or not they are better off than they were four years ago... and that the answer will be "yes".
The talks of a coup attempt to repeal the results of the election of Trump is a joke. Putting Pence in the oval office is probably the worst economic catastrophe since the Bush recession.
The Federalist is quite conservative. But I do enjoy reading it.
Bandy Lee
We encounter this often in mental health. Those who most require an evaluation are the least likely to submit to one. That is the reason why in all 50 states we have not only the legal authority, but often the legal obligation, to contain someone even against their will when it’s an emergency.
So in an emergency, neither consent nor confidentiality requirements hold. Safety comes first. What we do in the case of danger is we contain the person, we remove them from access to weapons, and we do an urgent evaluation.
This is what we have been calling for with the president based on basic medical standards of care.
Surprisingly, many lawyer groups have actually volunteered, on their own, to file for a court paper to ensure that the security staff will cooperate with us. But we have declined, since this will really look like a coup, and while we are trying to prevent violence, we don’t wish to incite it through, say, an insurrection.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/1/5/16770060/trump-mental-health-psychiatrist-25th-amendment?platform=hootsuite
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The talks of a coup attempt to repeal the results of the election of Trump is a joke.
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tell that to bandy ree.
CH one thing that you ignore.
When Barack Obama took office in 2009, we were in the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression.
1: Losing 400,000 jobs per month.
2: The DJIA was approximately at 7,200.
3: The housing market was in a full collapse.
4: Millions of Americans had no health insurance and the costs of emergency room were out of control.
The President inherited in 2017 an economy that had grown for 80 months of job growth, an all time high.
To his credit he hasn't fucked it up yet. So I'm going to be honest and recognize that Trump inherited a solid economy and we are going to have a continuation of the Obama economy.
I rather enjoy discussions with the host. He usually does not just call me names and we have honest disagreement.
He understands that to be a recovering alcoholic who has over five years has been an accomplishment. Not an alky.
The danger of more Obama era regulations being overturned.
This is an obsession with the last real President. In the construction regulations that are provided for the safety of the construction workers, items it's expensive and because they are obsessed with the overturning of the regulations, lives are going to be at risk.
Yeah Rog... the real danger for you, is that people will actually ask themselves whether or not they are better off than they were four years ago... and that the answer will be "yes". Thank you Barack Hussein Obama.
The old man has to reduce his schedule to allow more time for Twitter!
Trump reportedly starts his days later because he wants more 'executive time' to watch TV and go on Twitter
AOL.COM 9 hrs ago
President Donald Trump shrank his daily schedule because he wanted more "executive time" to watch TV and tweet, according to the news site Axios.
He reportedly has three hours of "executive time" every morning and another few hours of it during the day as well.
That's in addition to the time he spends watching cable news and going on Twitter every evening after retiring to the private residence.
President Donald Trump's official daily schedule is getting shorter because he wants more time to watch cable news and go on Twitter, Axios reported on Sunday.
Trump — who's said in the past that he wakes up at 5 a.m. — now starts his days at 11 a.m. after taking three hours of "executive time" in the Oval Office, most of which the report said he spends in his private residence watching TV and perusing Twitter.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told Axios that Trump's "executive time" in the morning "is a mix of residence time and Oval Office time but he always has calls with staff, Hill members, cabinet members and foreign leaders during this time."
Trump's media habits are well documented, from his voracious consumption of cable news to his tendency to fire off impulsive tweets when he's displeased with the way he's portrayed in the media. According to The New York Times, the only people allowed to touch the TV remote are Trump and the technical support staff. The Times said the president watches at least four and up to eight hours of TV per day.
That point was echoed by a Washington Post report published last April, which said Trump turns on the TV as soon as he wakes up, watches periodically throughout the day, and continues late into the evening when he retires to the private residence.
According to a copy of Trump's private schedule that was shown to Axios, the president's official days last from around 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and sometimes they end before that. He also takes some "executive time" in between, in addition to the three hours every morning.
Spam by the drunken creeper.
Headbaked forgot to say slowest recovery in history. Obama's new normal.
Roger -
I am not exactly sure what your point is...
Did I ever advocate that we should use the 25th amendment to remove Barack Obama for incompetency, advocate that Obama be impeached, or come up with some plot to otherwise remove him (other than supporting his opponent in 2012)?
We can compare and contrast records... but only one of us is crazy enough to believe that a legally elected President (who has shown much objective success) be removed from office because we are upset with his personal use of twitter.
All that being said... I lived through those 8 years. I got like one raise every other year, and some of my co-workers when 3-4 years without a raise. We went through multiple layoffs. My company went through two large mergers to keep afloat. The economy didn't grow enough to push wages... and we were told that 2% growth was the new norm.
Things are better today for me, my coworkers, and my company.
Things are better today for me, my coworkers, and my company.
and the alky is so fucking delusional he gives the credit to skeets hussein 0linsky.
Construction workers build a single-family home in San Diego. Housing starts up 3.3% vs. down 3.1% est.
9:01 AM ET Tue, 19 Dec 2017 | 01:37
U.S. single-family homebuilding and permits surged to more than 10-year highs in November, in a hopeful sign for a housing market that has been hobbled by supply constraints.
Builders have struggled to meet robust demand for housing, which is being fueled by a labor market near full employment. Land and skilled labor have been in short supply, while lumber price increases have accelerated.
The Commerce Department said on Tuesday that single-family homebuilding, which accounts for the largest share of the housing market, jumped 5.3 percent to a rate of 930,000 units. That was the highest level since September 2007.
Pointing to further gains, single-family home permits rose 1.4 percent to a pace of 862,000 units, a level not seen since August 2007. The jump in groundbreaking on single-family housing units suggests housing could contribute to gross domestic product in the fourth quarter.
Investment in residential construction has declined for two straight quarters, weighing on economic growth. A survey on Monday showed confidence among homebuilders soaring to near an 18-1/2-year high in December, amid optimism over buyer traffic and sales over the next six months.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/19/us-housing-starts-nov-2017.html
and 0linsky gets credit for exactly none of this.
CH "Look, I understand that some of you envy success. But ultimately success matters."
Those of us who don't envy Trump's success don't put as much stock in it. Those of you who do prioritize it over other characteristics, probably do envy it.
It's not about rich. Lots of people are rich but didn't earn it.
Trump's campaign was all about being rich. And yes, I am skeptical that he earned it. I suspect that he started out vastly wealthy, and scammed the rest.
I was rooting for Trump to succeed, to "win" the way he meant it. I was hoping that Trump would immediately demonstrate his acumen, roll up his sleeves and work with our allies solving mutual problems, and notch up a few domestic successes. Something more than nominating judges and a weird "gimme" tax package from the Republican congress. My hope was disappointed, immediately and throughout this year. It's clear to me that he hasn't demonstrated competence, regardless of his bank account.
Blogger C.H. Truth said...
WP...
Confidence matters. Reagan inspired confidence in certain ways. Clinton inspired confidence in other ways.
So "the longest peace-time economic expansion in history" was due to business confidence in Clinton? Okaaay ....
All you have done since he was inaugurated is bitch about his every move.
Trump started screwing up from his first move. Stupid immigration executive order, that failed to even be put into effect, when just a minimal basic competence would have produced a valid order to begin with. Stupid bombing in Syria that failed to achieve anything at all.
I didn't bitch about Gorsuch, I gave him that "win" because at least *something* was accomplished. But Trump has failed consistently, and where he's succeeded has been mainly counterproductive. (and usually, stupid). I'm looking at results, not brand loyalty.
and there is nothing about Trump now that suggests his mental state is any different or worse or dangerous than when voters elected him
And that's a problem, because a lot of people believed that surely it was a put-on, a clown act for the lowest common denominator which Trump would shed when he got into office.
Another obsessed with the overturning of the regulations by the last real President.
The Trump administration announced Monday that it is ending protected status for El Salvador with an 18-month delay — the latest in a string of legal immigration programs that have been discontinued over the past year.
The approximately 262,000 Salvadorans that currently have Temporary Protected Status (TPS) will have until Sept. 9, 2019 to either change their immigration status, leave the U.S. or face potential deportation.
There are 10 countries with a protected status designation - South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Syria, Haiti, Nepal and Yemen.
Just before Thanksgiving, the administration announced that the status for approximately 59,000 Haitians would end on July 22, 2019. Status for Sudan will end in November and Nicaragua with 2,500 beneficiaries will end in January of next year.
got like one raise every other year, and some of my co-workers when 3-4 years without a raise. We went through multiple layoffs. My company wen
Gee....that sure reminds me of the busch lost years when any raise I got barely covered the increase in health insurance.....Obama saw that cost growth slowed and doubling of the DOW......yep they were very good years in spite of you bitching about them....
The approximately 262,000 Salvadorans that currently have Temporary Protected Status (TPS) will have until Sept. 9, 2019 to either change their immigration status, leave the U.S. or face potential deportation.
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winning bigly
We we will get back to this, but I never said that Twitter is not #impeachmentable.
This is in-correct.
We can compare and contrast records... but only one of us is crazy enough to believe that a legally elected President (who has shown much objective success) be removed from office because we are upset with his personal use of twitter.
I'm going to see my lovely wife. We share one thing Scott. We both are deeply in love with wonderful women. She's a wonderful person and is getting better. But probably will come tomorrow or Wednesday.
Thanks for the interesting and challenging discussion. I'm glad to be a stable genius. 😎😎😎😎😎😎🙂😎
Blogger KD said...
The F-150 is owned by more Millionaires then any other vehicle.
Now there is a resounding endorsement by the pig husband....You all were bitching at ford when the auto industry was on the verge of collapse and they survived without aid......dayum you are a sorry son of an idiot.....
Those of us who don't envy Trump's success don't put as much stock in it. Those of you who do prioritize it over other characteristics, probably do envy it.
Yeah... I am sure there are lots of you who do not put any stock in whether or not a person is successful.
I am sure you would see past success doesn't matter in recruiting or drafting athletes, in job recruiting, or determining who to promote.
But as someone who has hired hundreds of people, and made personal recommendations and/or the actual decision on who gets promoted... I do confess, WP... that past success (even if that success is in other areas) is very important in my mind.
Just another one of those "life experience" difference between some of us here that makes us view the world differently.
HB, you do know your line of the worst recession since the great depression is de unk bullshit , don't you?
And that's a problem, because a lot of people believed that surely it was a put-on, a clown act
The voters saw and the voters made there judgement and in my opinion, after looking at the results of the first year, judged wisely.
So if there is a problem, I believe it's with you.
Debunked bullshit is all HB posts on the economy.
Yeah... I am sure there are lots of you who do not put any stock in whether or not a person is successful.
Success yes, bank account no.
From some of your posts I get the impression that it's the other way around for you. Bank account defines success, over and above any other criteria.
commonsense said: "The voters saw and the voters made there judgement and in my opinion, after looking at the results of the first year, judged wisely.
So if there is a problem, I believe it's with you."
Correct that it's your opinion only. Very much, a minority one.
Myballs seeing America become great again forgot to say... .
Headbaked forgot to say slowest recovery in history. Obama's new normal.
Plenty of experts say "hold on." This recovery may be slow, but it's also lasted a long time -- far longer than usual -- and job growth has been good.
"We are in the fourth longest expansion in U.S. history," notes Achuthan.
Since World War II, the American economy has typically grown for about five years and then had a contraction. This expansion is already over seven years old.
Furthermore, the average pace of job growth in this recovery has already topped what happened during the 2001 to 2007 expansion under President George W. Bush (the Bush recovery was the slowest in terms of jobs growth, Achuthan says).
It's not too much of a stretch to believe that if Hillary Clinton was elected, Garland would be on the bench, ISIS will still be a hugh threat in the Middle East, and the economy would still be slogging along at 2% as the "new normal".
But Trump has failed consistently, and where he's succeeded has been mainly counterproductive. (and usually, stupid).
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for example?
and spare me the nonsense about trump fucking up the travel ban. if that WAS an issue, it was a white house counsel issue. and furthermore, it was pure hackery by those who objected. even the ACLU lawyer admitted in opposition that if it was worded exactly the same and was a clinton order there wouldn't be a problem.
cheer up, wp. at some point we'll have another democrat president and you'll be able to shower them with accolades for every wonderful thing that could possibly happen to the nation.
we're just going to have to hunker down and suffer through this roaring stock market, economy, and 4+% growth. i know it's going to suck. especially for those of us in the market. and the thought of having to accept a raise could be simply too much to bear.
oprah 2020! she can kill this economic rally!
Correct that it's your opinion only. Very much, a minority one.
It wasn't so much a minority in 2016, and it may not be a minority in 2018.
We'll see.
hey d0pie,
thanks for the article.
Yes, this is the slowest U.S. recovery since WWII
"In terms of the average pace of GDP growth, this is the slowest expansion on record," says Lakshman Achuthan, co-founder of the Economic Cycle Research Institute.
The U.S. economy has only grown 2% a year since it bottomed out in June 2009. That's far below the typical growth in rosy times of over 4% a year that the U.S. has experienced since World War II. It's even below the rather sluggish rebound during President George W. Bush's tenure of 2.7%.
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Economist Ed Yardeni of Yardeni Research put together over 20 pages of charts comparing this recovery to prior ones. He calls this "one of the weakest" recoveries, but he's hesitant to dub it the absolute worst once you look across a wide range of metrics.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/05/news/economy/us-recovery-slowest-since-wwii/index.html
boy, the verbal calisthenics they have to go through to give 0linsky a little credit is absolutely hilarious.
only a moron or a raging alcoholic gives the previous president any credit at all. had the economy grew any slower it would've stalled and started to LOSE ground.
put any stock in whether or not a person is successful.
You consider his sorry life and demeanor successful? Gee, how pathetic is that!!!!!!~He keeps claiming to have lots of friends and then tosses them under his bus.....Not sure I'd like him to be anything but a family tyrant with a short fuse....
WP...
Remember, I voted for my Cousin Gary...
When you are in the real estate business, there are two things that define your success. Signature buildings and the amount of money you make. So when it comes to Trump, he satisfies both requirements. So to that degree, his bank account objectively matters to his success. You may believe he simply got lucky over and over again to the tune of a 3.5 billion dollars... but it seems like a pretty lame argument.
He also starred in and helped produce a pretty successful television show... before winning both the GOP nomination and the general election. We'll see how he does over the next few years as President. So far, I am pleased with what he is doing. Remember, he was elected by like minded conservatives (not liberals) so you have to judge him on whether or not he satisfied them.
Just like it would be pretty unfair if I called Obama a failure because he didn't nominate conservative justices, cut corporate taxes, and conform to other things "I" would have liked to have seen. In the eyes of most who voted for him, he was probably at least marginally successful.
Rat the hole opined like an ass.....
the verbal calisthenics they have to go through to give 0linsky a little credit is absolutely hilarious.
The mental masturbation you exhibit in praising trump and ignoring record periods of job growth, economic acumen and DOW increases left under obama shows you cannot even read without a bias...Thanx for proving your hopeless mental state....LOLOLOL
Signature buildings and the amount of money you make.
You have no idea how much money trump made....or lost in his bankruptcies. His bravado is all you know and you accept his word to his wealth....pretty funny for someone who needs absolute proof before making a decision.....LOL
You have no idea how much money trump made....or lost in his bankruptcies
Forbes and others have an idea... they estimate he is worth about $3.5 billion.
Go back to school, opie... learn about bankruptcies. Lot's of businesses go through bankruptcy and come out making more money. When I worked for Zales, they went through a bankruptcy and came out of it a much stronger company. They are still around today, have nearly 2 billion in revenue, and still make a pretty decent profit. Another local jeweler I worked for went through at least three of them. Came back under different names multiple times and still have stores in the area.
Even businesses that end up with Chapter 7 bankruptcies (full liquidation) could have earned a great deal of profit over the years. For someone who's entire income is from one business, that might be horrible... but for someone with a lot of things in the hopper, a Chapter 7 allows for a poorly operating business to liquidate and provide short term cash flow for your other businesses.
. they estimate he is worth about $3.5 billion.
And what part of estimate don't you understand....When you lose billions in bankruptcies, it is still a loss no matter how you cut it, idiot. Suggest a remedial logic course since you are obsessed with donnie...And again, your condescending holier than thou opinions are just as valid in the toilet of your life....I am sure your financial background is as massive as your giant head...LOL at you again with abject hilarity....especially the I worked at Zales as a janitor.....
Just a small question Dennis. How many buildings are named after you?
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The President will do anything to avoid an interview. The stable genius has a problem with the truth. It changes on a daily basis.
REUTERS/AARON P. BERNSTEIN
(Reuters) - President Donald Trump could be interviewed within weeks as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the Washington Post reported on Monday.
Mueller raised the issue of interviewing Trump during a meeting in late December with the president's lawyers, John Dowd and Jay Sekulow, the Post said. The interview, which would deal with a limited portion of questions, could take place within the next several weeks, the Post said, citing a person close to the president.
Sekulow and Dowd did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the Washington Post report. White House attorney Ty Cobb declined to comment on it, saying it was policy not to comment on communications with the special counsel's office.
Earlier on Monday, a source familiar with the issue said discussions about Trump's possible testimony have been going on among lawyers. NBC News reported that Trump's attorneys were in discussions about the president being interviewed in connection with Mueller's Russia probe...
Opie...
First, this is part of what Forbes does. Estimate people's worth. Everything is cumulative, and from profits to losses, Trump is up 3.5 billion. Not even the best poker player wins every hand. If the guy wins the tournament the guy wins the tournament... regardless if he lost some hands.
furthermore...
You don't "lose" money in bankruptcies... Zales didn't lose a penny. They restructured their dept, cut back expenses and they moved forward as a profitable company. The bankruptcy allowed them to actually dump debt, meaning they "made" money.
Even filing a chapter 7 bankruptcies doesn't necessarily cost you money. Basically the difference between what you sell your assets for and what they might have been otherwise worth. That could be a loss, or it could actually be a profit if your assets have depreciated substantially.
If you honestly believe that a company that files bankruptcy loses "billions" then you truly need to go back to business 101. You have no idea how bankruptcies work.
But I suppose some blogger from the Huffington Post or The Beast told you otherwise.... and of course, a liberal political blogger must understand business much better than Forbes in your mind.
Spam by the drunken creeper.
WP, are you gainfully employed?
IF yes ,what does the company you work for produce?
What is the economic outlook for your company.
No way in hell would I expose my employers on this blog.
No one asked you to.
So you work for some one, signing the back of payroll checks.
Ok, they provide a good or service.
No one asked you the names of the company that employees you, nor where they are located or the names of the goods or services they provide.
Defensiveness noted.
Example , I am retired as is my wife,we both that defined benefit accounts from our prior employers.
We currently run a ranch producing, beef, shep, chickens and eggs, flowers and veggies. All of which we sell thru private treaty or CSA and farmers markets.
See WP, no need to go weak in the ankles like Hillary.
" “Oh, you are so happy you voted for me. You are so lucky I gave you that privilege.” - Trump in his speech to farmers in Nashville.
Is there any doubt that someone could seriously say this and not be off his rocker?
Nov 9th, 2016 @ 03:15 am central standard time. The Trump win damaged the losers.
".. a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany ... and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Obama" - Barack Obama Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Is there any doubt that someone could seriously say this and not be off his rocker?
One hell of a football game!
I was kinda busy today. But I saw more of the President was unintentionally confirming that he might just be mentally disturbed. The tweets were impulsive.
""I am going to try to be so persuasive, so that those of you who are still wavering...will suddenly come to the conclusion ... a light will come down"
A joke, that he set up himself in the part unquoted. There wasn't anything like that with Trump. He bragged about the changes of the estate tax (unaware that it only helps about 80 farms) and then that. You're so lucky that I gave you the privilege. Trump, to all outward appearances, really believed that he provided all of the little farmers with the privilege to vote for him.
How can you read that and not be concerned for his state of mind?
Fire and Fury Sold out in most book stores and over one million have been sold.
wp, seriously I don't understand that CH is not at least concerned. Some of the regulars are incapable of concern about a Republican President, they see it as just more anti-Trump garbage.
Hamilton was the biggest supporter of the freedom of the press. In his comments yesterday he said if we had stronger libel laws that you use to sue the author or worse to stop the press.
It's not difficult the fact that he tweets. It's what he says.,and who he says it too.
From page 23.
Trump liked to say that one of the things that made life worth living was getting your friends’ wives into bed. In pursuing a friend’s wife, he would try to persuade the wife that her husband was perhaps not what she thought. Then he’d have his secretary ask the friend into his office; once the friend arrived, Trump would engage in what was, for him, more or less constant sexual banter.
Do you still like having sex with your wife? How often? You must have had a better fuck than your wife? Tell me about it. I have girls coming in from Los Angeles at three o’clock. We can go upstairs and have a great time. I promise … And all the while, Trump would have his friend’s wife on the speakerphone, listening in.
Fire and Fury page 23.
Things like this says a lot about his state of mind. It looks like something he would have done.
Page 24 and25.
Other aspects of the Trump character were more problematic. Almost all the professionals who were now set to join him were coming face to face with the fact that it appeared he knew nothing. There was simply no subject, other than perhaps building construction, that he had substantially mastered. Everything with him was off the cuff. Whatever he knew he seemed to have learned an hour before—and that was mostly half-baked. But each member of the new Trump team was convincing him- or herself otherwise—because what did they know, the man had been elected president. He offered something, obviously. Indeed, while everybody in his rich-guy social circle knew about his wide-ranging ignorance—Trump, the businessman, could not even read a balance sheet, and Trump, who had campaigned on his deal-making skills, was, with his inattention to details, a terrible negotiator—they yet found him somehow instinctive.
That was the word. He was a force of personality. He could make you believe. “Is Trump a good person, an intelligent person, a capable person?” asked Sam Nunberg, Trump’s longtime political aide. “I don’t even know. But I know he’s a star.” Trying to explain Trump’s virtues and his attraction, Piers Morgan—the British newspaper man and ill-fated CNN anchor who had appeared on Celebrity Apprentice and stayed a loyal Trump friend—said it was all in Trump’s book The Art of the Deal. Everything that made him Trump and that defined his savvy, energy, and charisma was there. If you wanted to know Trump, just read the book. But Trump had not written The Art of the Deal. His co-writer, Tony Schwartz, insisted that he had hardly contributed to it and might not even have read all of it. And that was perhaps the point. Trump was not a writer, he was a character—a protagonist and hero.
From what we have seen since inauguration speech and the claim that his crowd size was bigger than Obama's inauguration to his stable genius condition, we have to be concerned about his behavior and abilities to be President of the United States
Have fun with my late night comments.
Spam by the Alky and broke old man.
Lol
I’ve had to put up with the Fake News from the first day I announced that I would be running for President. Now I have to put up with a Fake Book, written by a totally discredited author. Ronald Reagan had the same problem and handled it well. So will I!
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When do you plan to start handling it well? You’ve been a mess so far.
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He's been a mess for you but a well oiled machine for me. Guess half of America don't share the same values anymore.
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So this is handling Fire and Fury like a well-oiled machine?
This doesn’t even have to be about values, it’s about competence.
"A joke, that he set up himself in the part unquoted."
Stop lying and at least TRY to get a handle on your hatred for the man. Obama wasn't joking and you know it.
"Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth."
Poor widdle Barry...
"The notion somehow that well, I’m not as inspired because Barack and Michelle are not on the ballot this time, maybe we’ve got to take it easy –- my legacy is on the ballot!""
Things like this says a lot about his state of mind. It looks like something he would have done.
That you would so readily believe it without the least bit of skepticism says a lot about the state of your mind.
Is there any doubt that someone could seriously say this and not be off his rocker?
An insane president would threaten a significant tax increase immediately upon taking office following a financial crisis, and then eventually impose one on individuals and small businesses still in recovery.
He’d impose job-crushing regulations on these same businesses as unemployment rose. He’d put a cumbersome mandate on businesses that upends the entire health care system just as the economy was finally turning a corner.
A really insane president would blow nearly $1 trillion on a stimulus plan with little planning and direction, wasting much of the money on boondoggles (see: Solyndra) and then laugh at the lack of “shovel ready” jobs created. He’d then try to spread his delusion to the masses, telling them to ignore historically low wage growth, anemic economic growth and the massive amount of people who dropped out of the work force because the stock market rallied, thanks in large part to the Fed printing money instead of his own fiscal policies.
Is Barack Obama crazy? No, but his post-2008 economic policies were.
https://nypost.com/2018/01/07/on-the-economy-trump-has-been-crazy-like-a-fox/
my legacy is on the ballot!""
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no, your legacy is in the shitter.
That answers my question: you're just go into denial and start talking about someone else. Hoping if you find find an equivalency, at least in your own mind, that it doesn't matter?
Hoping if you find find an equivalency, at least in your own mind, that it doesn't matter?
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oh, you mean like the constant barrage of "but Bush!" utterances that tumbled out of BHO's pie hole on a daily basis?
through at least his entire first term and some of his second the guy couldn't go a day without blaming whatever was annoying him on his predecessor.
you know the one thing trump is NOT doing? blaining the previous administration for something every 5 minutes. trump has just proceeded to run BHO's legacy through a shredder, while barely acknowledging the origin of most of the exec orders he's overturning.
Obimbo the puts on his armor to protect small and Big Business.
"MY administration, is the only thing between you and the public with Pitchforks".
Trump is constantly BS'ing about Obama and how great he (Trump) is, by changing that. What was it he told the farmers in Kentucky yesterday? That they were being tortured by Obama?
It's practically the only thing he IS doing, in between making up names for any well-known person who criticizes him. A person has only to listen to the man, RRB, to know better than that.
"oh, you mean like the constant barrage of "but Bush!" utterances that tumbled out of BHO's pie hole on a daily basis?"
Those with TDS are comfortable in their hypocrisy.
Spreading hate and propaganda is in their DNA.
i AM listening to him, wp. perhaps you should start.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-american-farm-bureau-annual-convention-nashville-tn/
tortured by 0bama? not that i can find.
In one fell swoop today Trump put the media dementia narrative to bed today and embarrassed them in the process.
The other "genius"? Not so much.
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In one fell swoop today Trump put the media dementia narrative to bed today and embarrassed them in the process.
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he sure did. i listened to most of it and i did not hear the rantings of a dangerous, stark raving mad, lunatic.
poor alky. another narrative he was counting on bites the dust.
RRB. WP believes Trump said Farmers were tortured by Obama. So that makes it real.
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RRB. WP believes Trump said Farmers were tortured by Obama
Liar....got swine??????
Today the Donald using the Art of the Deal tactic to play with the Dems. It was fun to listen to.
Mr. Opie, you heard what WP heard?
Trump actually got Democrats to defend tax breaks for the rich.
Now that's genius.
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