Trump/gop smoke and mirrors

[Klingsor]

Not good at all! He's in decline. He was speaking at the level of a 10 year old when he was elected.

He still has the best words. Just . . . not as many.

 

[chrisrobin]

It's a sign of his cognitive decline. His vocabulary is shrinking.

Donald Trump speaks at the level of an 8-year-old, analysis finds

If he didnt speak at the level of an eight year old his core followers wouldn't understand him

 

[Freddie53]

That's a good question. Because according to Trump and his sycophants, we're doing all of this "winning."





we're ALL winning...

U.S. posted record-breaking $891 billion goods trade deficit in 2018, despite Trump’s ‘America First’ policies - The Washington Post

This latest project by Trumpy Dumb Dumb is his swan song and hoped for masterpiece.

Trump has made and lost billions over time. Nearly every endeavor eventually ends up in bankruptcy which the people who have invested lose all their investment. Workers and suppliers are screwed.

What makes anyone think that it will be or is any different now? All Trump knows how to do is bankrupt anything he touches.

No wonder Putin really wanted Trump to be our president! Trump's greatest achievement in bankrupting something is now his goal. Bankrupt the entire US economy and government.

Trump is exceedingly successful getting there more quickly than he had imagined.

 

[deleted15807]

This latest project by Trumpy Dumb Dumb is his swan song and hoped for masterpiece.

Trump has made and lost billions over time. Nearly every endeavor eventually ends up in bankruptcy which the people who have invested lose all their investment. Workers and suppliers are screwed.

What makes anyone think that it will be or is any different now? All Trump knows how to do is bankrupt anything he touches.

No wonder Putin really wanted Trump to be our president! Trump's greatest achievement in bankrupting something is now his goal. Bankrupt the entire US economy and government.

Trump is exceedingly successful getting there more quickly than he had imagined.

Trump is a tailor made American president for Putin. He is a dream come true. You couldn't design a more destructive president to America's position and NATO's position.

James Comey: Russia succeeded beyond its wildest dreams in 2016 election - CNN Video

 

[b.c.]

This latest project by Trumpy Dumb Dumb is his swan song and hoped for masterpiece.

Trump has made and lost billions over time. Nearly every endeavor eventually ends up in bankruptcy which the people who have invested lose all their investment. Workers and suppliers are screwed.

What makes anyone think that it will be or is any different now? All Trump knows how to do is bankrupt anything he touches.

No wonder Putin really wanted Trump to be our president! Trump's greatest achievement in bankrupting something is now his goal. Bankrupt the entire US economy and government.

Trump is exceedingly successful getting there more quickly than he had imagined.

Trump is a tailor made American president for Putin. He is a dream come true. You couldn't design a more destructive president to America's position and NATO's position.

James Comey: Russia succeeded beyond its wildest dreams in 2016 election - CNN Video

Well, Putin sure as HELL didn't back him because he LOVES AMERICA so much.

 

[b.c.]

A thread dedicated to the alternate reality LIES and CON JOBS, perpetrated by Trump and the GOP upon the American PEOPLE. And there are MANY to choose from.

PART I: TRUMP'S "MASSIVE" TAX CUT FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS

Trump sold and got his so called tax break for the middle class passed with the promise that "The middle class will be the biggest beneficiaries." Or so it was in their "alternate reality."

THE TRUTH:

Early Tax Returns Suggest Some Americans Will Get Less Money And Could Owe IRS | NBC Nightly News

PART I CONTINUED: TRUMP'S "MASSIVE" TAX CUT FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS

Did 80% of GOP corporate tax cut benefits go to workers? Try 6%

"So another tax season has come and gone... that means Americans can render their verdict on the first year of the signature legislative achievement of Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

Thus far, the reviews are not kind. Despite an analysis by the Tax Policy Center showing 64% of Americans have received a tax cut, polling continues to show that voters solidly disapprove of a GOP tax plan they perceive as not having provided them financial relief at all.


... that perception is fueled by the fact that most taxpayers realized relatively small benefits, benefits further masked by changes in withholding rules that left many with unexpected checks to write to Uncle Sam.

But the bigger problem for Republicans heading into the 2020 elections is one not of perception, but of reality. Simply put,

the GOP’s best and brightest lied—early, often, and spectacularly—in their effort to sell Americans on what became the TCJA."

 

[b.c.]

On Tax Day, Trump tax cuts remain deeply unpopular - POLITICO

"Trump boasted in Michigan last month that he signed into law “massive tax cuts, the biggest in the history of our country.”

As Americans rush Monday to finish with their own tax filings, their judgment on Trump’s beloved tax cut bill is pretty clear: Most really don’t like it.

Multiple polls show a majority of Americans don’t think they got a tax cut at all — even though independent analyses show they did. And only about a third of the country approves of the legislation itself, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, passed by Congress at the end of 2017.

So as Trump moves closer to full-time reelection mode later this year, he will have to battle a stark reality: While his personal rating on the economy remains high, his signature legislative achievement is widely viewed as a political dud, one that has drawn special anger in places with high state and local taxes and pricey housing markets where deductions were limited to reduce the overall cost of the tax plan."

Though I personally doubt Trump is worried about the last ("anger in places with high state and local taxes and pricey housing markets where deductions were limited...") since those so affected live in mostly BLUE states... as was the PLAN.


...might be LOOKING for those votes down the line, though.

 

[b.c.]

The pathetically weak Trump stock market in three easy-to-read charts

 

[phonehome]

On Tax Day, Trump tax cuts remain deeply unpopular - POLITICO

"Trump boasted in Michigan last month that he signed into law “massive tax cuts, the biggest in the history of our country.”

As Americans rush Monday to finish with their own tax filings, their judgment on Trump’s beloved tax cut bill is pretty clear: Most really don’t like it.

Multiple polls show a majority of Americans don’t think they got a tax cut at all — even though independent analyses show they did. And only about a third of the country approves of the legislation itself, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, passed by Congress at the end of 2017.

So as Trump moves closer to full-time reelection mode later this year, he will have to battle a stark reality: While his personal rating on the economy remains high, his signature legislative achievement is widely viewed as a political dud, one that has drawn special anger in places with high state and local taxes and pricey housing markets where deductions were limited to reduce the overall cost of the tax plan."

Though I personally doubt Trump is worried about the last ("anger in places with high state and local taxes and pricey housing markets where deductions were limited...") since those so affected live in mostly BLUE states... as was the PLAN.


...might be LOOKING for those votes down the line, though.

The burbs of Philly and Pittsburg

McComb County and the other burbs around Detroit

The burbs around Milwaukee, I have sister who lives there who "didn't vote for Clinton"

SW FL, Naples, Fort Myers

Loose 2 of those 4

 

[keenobserver]

Yes, but they really hate it when people drop the 'h' on Pittsburgh.

 

[MisterB]

Yes, but they really hate it when people drop the 'h' on Pittsburgh.

Yup. When you add the "h", it means we're not in Kansas anymore...lol.

 

[b.c.]

Only the obscene gullibility and indefensible, willful IGNORANCE of Trump's and the GOP's constituency can explain how and WHY Trump and the GOP continue to lie to their FACES, while working to HURT PEOPLE.

INCLUDING many of their OWN bamboozled believers.

The "wall that Mexico would pay for" the better healthcare plan that THEY NEVER HAD, the cost of prescription drugs that THEY NEVER LOWERED, the so-called "tax cut" that WASN'T, Trump's bullshit lies about his environmental achievements ... and so on, and so on, and so on.

ALL OF IT... A FUCKING CON GAME. Sold to and gobbled up by those who OBVIOUSLY love being made a COMPLETE ASS OF.

Here is yet another example. Trump and the GOP have LONG been fighting against, blocking, obstructing, and undermining efforts at increasing the minimum wage. The article and map below shows who stands to benefit the most by a $15.00 minimum wage by 2024.

AND MOST OF THEM LIVE IN TRUMP COUNTRY. So yeah, a-----oles, keep empowering the b----------ds who HURT YOU THE MOST:

CBO: $15 min wage will lift 1.3 million out of poverty, give 27 million a raise

The impact of raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2024, by congressional district

 

[chrisrobin]

They call Trump the Terminator
The would would be happy with a Termination!

 

[b.c.]

Now they are set to scuttle the Affordable Care Act. Nevermind that they FAILED to come up with any semblance of a replacement healthcare law. Now, conservative judges of the Fifth Circuit are ready to add to the misery, anxiety, and contribute to the deaths of possibly thousands who will suddenly be left without coverage.

And I'd daresay that'd include a number of voters who EMPOWERED that kind of shit.

Mind you, these are the same unconscionable, racist, b----------------ds who upheld clearly discriminatory Texas voter SUPPRESSION laws, and on one of the FEW occasions, after a city saw fit to prosecute and actually CONVICT renegade cops for murder, THIS court of GOP appointees saw fit to throw out the convictions. (see: Danzinger Bridge Shootings - Wikipedia).

So yeah, the alt-REICH can ALWAYS count on these fkrs to uphold and rubber stamp some bit of MALEVOLENT chicanery:

Obamacare Is One Step Closer to Death After Tuesday’s Court Hearing
https://news.yahoo.com/federal-appe...vbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQTA2MDdfMQRzZWMDc2M-
Federal appeals court grills Democratic lawyers on whether ACA, or Obamacare, is constitutional

 

[keenobserver]

Now they are set to scuttle the Affordable Care Act. Nevermind that they FAILED to come up with any semblance of a replacement healthcare law. Now, conservative judges of the Fifth Circuit are ready to add to the misery, anxiety, and contribute to the deaths of possibly thousands who will suddenly be left without coverage.

And I'd daresay that'd include a number of voters who EMPOWERED that kind of shit.

Mind you, these are the same unconscionable, racist, b----------------ds who upheld clearly discriminatory Texas voter SUPPRESSION laws, and on one of the FEW occasions, after a city saw fit to prosecute and actually CONVICT renegade cops for murder, THIS court of GOP appointees saw fit to throw out the convictions. (see: Danzinger Bridge Shootings - Wikipedia).

So yeah, the alt-REICH can ALWAYS count on these fkrs to uphold and rubber stamp some bit of MALEVOLENT chicanery:

Obamacare Is One Step Closer to Death After Tuesday’s Court Hearing
Federal appeals court grills Democratic lawyers on whether ACA, or Obamacare, is constitutional

I would hate to see the ACA overturned but if it is, Democrats win it all - White House, Senate, Increase the seats in the House. Trump gets dragged out by U.S. Marshals, gets indicted, tries to flee to Russia but Putin denies him entry because he 'doesn't recall ever knowing him,' Don Jr., and Eric go to Sing Sing where they become love slaves to MS-13 and Ivanka takes a job clerking at Sears.

But I will settle for just the first sentence. THAT is entirely possible if this case goes south.

 

[chrisrobin]

I would hate to see the ACA overturned but if it is, Democrats win it all - White House, Senate, Increase the seats in the House. Trump gets dragged out by U.S. Marshals, gets indicted, tries to flee to Russia but Putin denies him entry because he 'doesn't recall ever knowing him,' Don Jr., and Eric go to Sing Sing where they become love slaves to MS-13 and Ivanka takes a job clerking at Sears.

But I will settle for just the first sentence. THAT is entirely possible if this case goes south.

TRUMP IS LOVED
OR
IS IT LOATHED?
You gotta remember the one aim in the life of Trump is to remove, repeal and dismiss anything to do with the Obama years.
Regardless.
His liberal lovers applaud when Trump supports child molesters, they like him to lie through his teeth as it sounds good by by heck when they start dying off like flies - well will the base Funny how pictures of his meetings in a past life and he cant remember ever being there, wonder if his dictator friends will also be fair weather?
One thing is for sure, when the time comes for the great fat lump to vacate the WH its not going to be a pretty sight.
If is 2020 its going to be screams of "fake results", if its 2024 its going to be "I'm fit for another 4 years and the people want me".

 

[b.c.]

I would hate to see the ACA overturned but if it is, Democrats win it all - White House, Senate, Increase the seats in the House. Trump gets dragged out by U.S. Marshals, gets indicted, tries to flee to Russia but Putin denies him entry because he 'doesn't recall ever knowing him,' Don Jr., and Eric go to Sing Sing where they become love slaves to MS-13 and Ivanka takes a job clerking at Sears.

But I will settle for just the first sentence. THAT is entirely possible if this case goes south.

That's what one would THINK happen, if we were living in normal times and dealing with people capable of anything RESEMBLING rational thought, or even self preservation.

However (and I don't know how often I need say it) we are DEALING WITH A CULT.

Think of that scene from Conan the Barbarian (the original one... not that... "remake"), where Thulsa Doom (James Earl Jones) motions to one of his zombie like followers, says, "Come my child," and she jumps off a fkng cliff.

There are those within Trump's basket who already HAVE (figuratively) jumped off the fkng CLIFF, and no doubt a few who'd LITERALLY do so as well. And I'm saying this in all seriousness.

What's MORE likely to happen is that Trump and the GOP will do what they've ALWAYS done... LIE TO THEIR FACES, blame Democrats, minorities and poor people, and invoke Obama's, Hillary's, or some other demonized liberal name.

What... trust THEM?? to realize who's been REALLY fucking them?? NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

 

[b.c.]

PERFECT example of what I just wrote above:

Trump’s secret tax on ordinary Americans | Salon.com

"It’s bad enough that the Trump administration has now imposed tariffs on America’s closest trading partners – because those tariffs will raise prices on everything from clothing to cars.

Even worse — and this will come as no surprise — Trump and his enablers are lying about the consequences of these trade wars.

First, a bit about tariffs: Tariffs operate exactly like taxes – on you.

Trump claims that “tariffs are… being paid to the United States by China…“ That’s baloney. Average Americans end up bearing the financial burden.

When the U.S. imposes tariffs on a country, like China, that raises costs for companies doing business there. And then those companies pass on their increased costs to you in the form of higher prices, as even Trump’s own economic advisor Larry Kudlow acknowledged ."

 

[Freddie53]

That's what one would THINK happen, if we were living in normal times and dealing with people capable of anything RESEMBLING rational thought, or even self preservation.

However (and I don't know how often I need say it) we are DEALING WITH A CULT.

Think of that scene from Conan the Barbarian (the original one... not that... "remake"), where Thulsa Doom (James Earl Jones) motions to one of his zombie like followers, says, "Come my child," and she jumps off a fkng cliff.

There are those within Trump's basket who already HAVE (figuratively) jumped off the fkng CLIFF, and no doubt a few who'd LITERALLY do so as well. And I'm saying this in all seriousness.

What's MORE likely to happen is that Trump and the GOP will do what they've ALWAYS done... LIE TO THEIR FACES, blame Democrats, minorities and poor people, and invoke Obama's, Hillary's, or some other demonized liberal name.

What... trust THEM?? to realize who's been REALLY fucking them?? NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

What is really driving the rise of ignorance is the emergence of Faux News! All that most Trump supporters know is what Faux News tells them. They have no other source of news they follow. Faux News doesn't share with their audience anything that makes Trump look like the real lier and snake that he really is.

 

[b.c.]

What is really driving the rise of ignorance is the emergence of Faux News! All that most Trump supporters know is what Faux News tells them. They have no other source of news they follow. Faux News doesn't share with their audience anything that makes Trump look like the real lier and snake that he really is.

Not only that, but they have been BRAINWASHED (and I use this term in the strictest sense of the word) into believing that any information or news that DOESN'T come from Faux (or similar) is "fake news."

Trump’s China Tariffs Hit America’s Poor and Working Class the Hardest - Bloomberg