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speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#185351: Apr 28th 2017 at 6:41:33 AM

[up]x4 "I won the election in a landslide. Even the people that didn't vote for me, they secretly wanted to vote for me. Deep down, they knew I was right on everything. Nobody doesn't love The Donald. NOBODY."

edited 28th Apr '17 6:41:51 AM by speedyboris

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#185352: Apr 28th 2017 at 6:42:31 AM

[up][up] it lets them lay blame for the shutdown on Democrats.

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#185353: Apr 28th 2017 at 6:44:06 AM

this would be funny if it wasn't happing.

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/331039-first-quarter-economic-growth-slowest-in-three-years

[down]Doesn't mention, but at least some of it I imagine, just brought it up for ironys sake

edited 28th Apr '17 6:47:22 AM by megaeliz

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#185354: Apr 28th 2017 at 6:45:38 AM

[up] Sincere question: how much of that is on Trump? I'm utterly ignorant on economics but I do know things can be a bit of a Long Game so Trump's idiocies may not be a cause here.

edited 28th Apr '17 6:46:20 AM by sgamer82

CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
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#185355: Apr 28th 2017 at 6:48:26 AM

Realistic economic growth undermines the MAGA narrative.

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#185356: Apr 28th 2017 at 6:50:02 AM

It must be remembered that Republican politics right now are not rational in any way, shape, or form.

The Donald is a petulant child who throws tantrums if he isn't being praised by everybody, is unable to focus on details, and gets most of his information from Breitbart and Fox News. His staff are desperate to show him evidence that his whims are working and terrified of his anger, so they say, "Yes, Mr. President," to everything he demands and then try to throw something together to satisfy them.

Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress are enjoying control of government for the first time since George W. Bush's first term, and they're making a colossal mess of it. They've constituted themselves as an insurgent party steadfastly opposing everything the "dirty liberals" do, and willing to shut down government, throw spurious investigations, and hold the American people hostage to stop the slightest hint of progressive action. They have no coherent legislative plan because none of their ideas are even remotely viable, nor indeed have they put in any diligence to make them so.

Faced with the need to govern, they are throwing all their bad ideas at the walls as if they were chimps in a zoo, hoping that some will stick long enough that they can claim to have enacted "the will of the people" or satisfied the doctrine of American conservatism, or whatever language they use to justify their incompetence to their constituents. Worse, Congressional Republicans, who thought they had a blank check to enact their agenda with a Republican President, are finding that their President is not a true believer in their ideology at all, but rather a vain old man with literally zero understanding of government.

We, the people, can only sit back and hope that in their grotesque buffoonery they don't do too much damage to the country before they are voted out of office.

edited 28th Apr '17 6:54:45 AM by Fighteer

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Mio Since: Jan, 2001
#185357: Apr 28th 2017 at 6:50:27 AM

[up][up][up]We probably won't know for sure until later in the year, but the safe assumption is that it probably isn't Trump's fault since he hasn't really done anything to really effect the economy and even if he did the full effect of government action in the economy usually isn't until later down until a little later down the line unless it's something really massive.

Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#185358: Apr 28th 2017 at 6:56:11 AM

If I understand the situation right, they need a 60-vote supermajority to pass the budget, and the GOP have only got 52 seats?

If Dem senators were united enough and willing to risk it, they could draw straws for exactly eight "Yes" votes, so when it fails to pass (praying fervently that it does), they can say "TROLOLOLOLO you can't blame us, if you had got your shit together it would have passed!"

Edit: And film the drawing of straws, so senators can defend themselves if asked why they voted yes.

edited 28th Apr '17 6:58:19 AM by Medinoc

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#185359: Apr 28th 2017 at 7:09:12 AM

I wouldn't take that risk, but if I were determined to troll the Republicans in that way, I'd play it safe and have seven Democratic senators draw straws.

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#185360: Apr 28th 2017 at 7:10:29 AM

Think future historians will Unperson Trump?

No and neither should they. We should not be pushing for historical revisionism.

This happened because we allowed it to. We must never forget that.

edited 28th Apr '17 7:11:28 AM by TobiasDrake

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#185361: Apr 28th 2017 at 7:14:10 AM

You guys could always do that:

In 2016 we elected a dipshit populist, it sucked real hard for 4 years and we needed at least 8 years to fix the mess, so learn the lesson so this kinda of shit doesn't happen again.

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#185362: Apr 28th 2017 at 7:19:27 AM

[up] Come on, even won't even have two terms. He won't have the same luck as Bush Jr.

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#185363: Apr 28th 2017 at 7:30:43 AM

I'd agree if one of the elements of Dubya's luck hadn't been a terrorist attack, which Trump would have an easier time provoking

edited 28th Apr '17 7:30:58 AM by sgamer82

CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#185364: Apr 28th 2017 at 7:31:11 AM

I do think that a general policy of Detrumpification needs to follow his presidency, but we can't make him an unperson — that will mean we won't learn anything.

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NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#185365: Apr 28th 2017 at 7:35:24 AM

We probably won't know for sure until later in the year, but the safe assumption is that it probably isn't Trump's fault since he hasn't really done anything to really effect the economy and even if he did the full effect of government action in the economy usually isn't until later down until a little later down the line unless it's something really massive.
It's certainly not due to any actual economic policies that Trump has passed (because he hasn't passed any), but the market is skittish as hell about the Trump presidency because he's an unpredictable wild card and the one thing that the markets value above all else is stability. Large economic players are extremely risk-averse — faced with the prospect of an unpredictable president, they're likely to hold back and see what's going to happen, rather than going out on a limb by spending money that they don't actually have to. For example, why build a new factory when Trump might pull out of NAFTA on a whim and completely up-end the cost/benefit analysis of doing so?

So while you can't blame the slowdown on Trump's policy (because he hasn't enacted any economic policy yet), you can still rightly blame it on Trump.

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megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#185366: Apr 28th 2017 at 7:48:20 AM

Trump bragged about election win during 100 days interview

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/331044-trump-gave-reporter-map-displaying-2016-win?amp

I sometimes wonder if this is just bluster, almost to reassure himself.

edited 28th Apr '17 7:51:21 AM by megaeliz

Mio Since: Jan, 2001
#185367: Apr 28th 2017 at 7:53:15 AM

[up][up]I'm still hesitant to suggest that, but perhaps in a bit of an ironic twist companies may have been holding off on doing things in anticipation of Trump's deregulatory measures.

Now that it seems like that may not be coming to the degree some companies may have hoped who knows what they are going to do.

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#185368: Apr 28th 2017 at 7:53:21 AM

So...Tomorrow is the end of the 100 days. Now, I have to ask a question:

What now?

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#185369: Apr 28th 2017 at 7:54:50 AM

Now we resist for another 100 days.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#185371: Apr 28th 2017 at 7:55:33 AM

[up][up][up]Stymie his plans for the next 1360 days.

edited 28th Apr '17 7:55:47 AM by CrimsonZephyr

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TheRoguePenguin Since: Jul, 2009
#185372: Apr 28th 2017 at 7:55:59 AM

After that, we have to get through 7 more sets of 100 and hope the midterms erode Republican majorities. Then another 7 and kick him out of office.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#185373: Apr 28th 2017 at 7:56:50 AM

That and take schaudenfreude in knowing that the only President who accomplished less during the first 100 days was William Henry Harrison. And Harrison was dead for 70 of those days.

edited 28th Apr '17 7:57:15 AM by M84

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#185374: Apr 28th 2017 at 7:57:06 AM

It's kind of funny that Trump is propping up getting elected in the first place as his biggest achievement.

Like the best thing he did as president happened before he was actually President.

edited 28th Apr '17 7:57:47 AM by sgamer82

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#185375: Apr 28th 2017 at 7:57:36 AM

[up]x7 Pray that the Country doesn't break down and that in 2018 the Blue Wave takes over.

[up]x6 That too.

More Americans are saying that Race Relations are deteriorating and that Racism is on the rise, according to a Reuters/Ipsos Poll.

edited 28th Apr '17 7:58:34 AM by DingoWalley1


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