Trump Thread

[Gilrandir]

Please continue to underestimate and chase these nonsense stories as He continues to Make America Great Again!!!

I heard that over the year the has elapsed American economy has displayed a growth greater than in 12 previous years. So Trump electorate may be proud of bringing him to the White House. If the tendency persists he has a good chance of being re-elected whatever his opponents may say or do. After all, it is what happens with their wallets that is gonna move people to vote for him in 3 years.

[HopAlongBunny]

I heard that over the year the has elapsed American economy has displayed a growth greater than in 12 previous years. So Trump electorate may be proud of bringing him to the White House. If the tendency persists he has a good chance of being re-elected whatever his opponents may say or do. After all, it is what happens with their wallets that is gonna move people to vote for him in 3 years.

https://wonkette.com/627942/donald-t...ted-fewer-jobs

Rather,Trump has not yet upset the Obama apple cart.

[Devastatin Dave]

https://wonkette.com/627942/donald-t...ted-fewer-jobs

Rather,Trump has not yet upset the Obama apple cart.

Only a dummy would think that Obama's policies were anyway beneficial to this nation's economy. Obama had no quarters in 8 years of anything over 3% growth in the economy. When you remove regulation, move to lift demoralizing and unfair taxes on businesses, and give productive tax PAYING citizens back more of their money that the government has stolen from their labor, you get economic growth like we are seeing now. Obama was a international ####-boy for globalist scumbags and when this nation's businesses saw that Obama with the wrinkled vagina and kankles lost her bid to continue to ruin this country from the inside, the economy took off knowing that they were no longer beholden to third world wannabe dictator sluts like the Clintons.... MAGA!!!

[Montmorency]

Many have called Michael Wolff, author of the new Trump Exposé, was sleazy and unprofessional in misleading his principals and violating reporting norms. Another perspective considers it laudable:

Michael Wolff Did What Every Other White House Reporter Is Too Cowardly to Do

I’m gonna begin this post with the same disclaimer that needs to come with every post about Michael Wolff, which is that Wolff is a fart-sniffer whose credibility is often suspect and who represents the absolute worst of New York media-cocktail-circuit inbreeding. But in a way, it’s fitting that our least reliable president could finally find himself undone at the hands of one of our least reliable journalists.

All of Wolff’s excerpts from Fire & Fury so far (the book was rushed into stores today) read like jayvee fan fiction. They read like a pilot that Steve Bannon himself wrote, pitched to Hollywood, and had rejected 17 times over. They read, in short, like bullshit. And yet…Wolff has audio. He’s got hours upon hours of audio. Not only that, but the book has already caused legitimate upheaval in the administration, opened a permanent rift between President Trump and Bannon, AND it confirms what we have all always known to be true: that the president severely lacks the cognitive ability to do this job, and that he is surrounded at all times by a cadre of enablers, dunces, and outright thieves. As much as I wanna discredit Wolff, he got receipts and, more important, he used them. Wolff got it all. Wolff nailed them.

And look how he did it. He did it by sleazily ingratiating himself with the White House, gaining access, hosting weird private dinners, and then taking full advantage of the administration's basic lack of knowledge about how reporting works. Some of the officials Wolff got on tape claim to be unaware that they were on the record. Wolff denies this, but he's very much up front in the book's intro about the fact that he was able to exploit the incredible "lack of experience" on display here. In other words, Wolff got his book by playing a bunch of naive dopes.

Thank God for that. Wolff has spent this week thoroughly exploiting Trump and his minions the same way they've exploited the cluelessness of others. And he pulled it off because, at long last, there was a reporter out there willing to toss decorum aside and burn bridges the same way Trump does.

Everyone around Donald Trump is too polite to Donald Trump. Democrats, foreign dignitaries, underlings… all of them. And the White House press is perhaps the worst offender. From the media pool playing along with Sarah Sanders during press conferences—conferences where Sanders openly lies and pisses on democracy—to access merchants like Maggie Haberman doling out Trump gossip like so many bread crumbs, too many reporters have been far too deferential to an administration that is brazenly racist, dysfunctional, and corrupt. And for what purpose? It’s clear to me that Haberman and the like aren’t saving up their chits for just the EXACT right time to bring this Administration down. No, the only end goal of their access is continued access, to preserve it indefinitely so that the copy spigot never gets shut off. They are abiding by traditional wink-wink understandings that have long existed between the government and the press covering it.

But Wolff didn’t do that. He did not engage in some endless bullshit access tango. No, Wolff actually USED his access, and extended zero courtesy to Trump on the process, and it’s going to pay off for him not just from a book sales standpoint, but from a real journalistic impact. I am utterly sick to death of hearing anonymous reports about people inside the White House “concerned” about the madman currently in charge of everything. These people don’t deserve the courtesy of discretion. They don’t deserve to dictate the terms of coverage to people. They deserve to be torched.

Trump ascended into power in part because he relied on other people being too nice. It’s fun to rampage through the china shop when the china shop owner is standing over there being like, “SIR, that is not how we do things here!” If Trump refuses to abide by the standard (and now useless) “norms” of the presidency—shit, if he doesn't even KNOW them—why should ANYONE in the press adhere to needless norms of their own? They shouldn’t, and it appears that Michael Wolff was one of the few people to instinctively grasp that, and I hope more White House insiders follow his lead. Sometimes you need a rat to catch a rat.

[CrossLOPER]

unfair taxes on businesses

Relaxing taxation does not encourage business growth because growth is linked to things other than taxes, namely people buying goods and services. People will only buy things if they have the money to do so. In general, businesses should be the last ones to receive tax breaks if your goal is economic growth.

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42111.pdf

[a completely inoffensive name]

Anyone promoting supply side economics is a shill or a moron.

All I do is ask the question: Would you buy more fidget spinners if the supply increased to make them 5 cents apiece?

As soon as they say no, because who the fuck needs two fidget spinners, I ask them why they feel that giving the fidget spinner company a tax cut will give you a new and better job at the fidget spinner company.

[rory_20_uk]

The best way to get money flowing is... to give it to poor people. They almost always spend most / all of it on things. I say that as someone who loathes paying tax for anything and would not get any money if this were to occur. If I was given money I'd probably save it - hell, possibly even offshore it.

[Husar]

Good news, the President is in perfect health, mental health included:

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/16/p...lth/index.html

Dr. Ronny Jackson, the presidential physician, gushed about President Donald Trump's health during a briefing before the White House press corps on Tuesday, touting the President's "good genes," how he did "exceedingly well" on his cognitive test and his "excellent" cardiac health.

[...]

"I think he will remain fit for duty for the remainder of this term and even the remainder of another term if he is elected," Jackson said.