GDP down .3%
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A reasonable post. And from someone who disagrees with me. At least we can find common ground without me being called out as being in a cult. In fact, I am not. Yes, that is directed at Horshack.
About the brain comment - it was obvious to anyone paying attention that Biden was not all there. You can not like what Trump says. You can disagree with it. You can say he isn't smart or otherwise question his intelligence. But you can't reasonably claim that he doesn't know what he is saying or doing. Comparing Biden's and Trump's brains are not equal and most everyone knows it.
Still, even though Trump is below 50% approval rating, his approval rating is still higher than the Democrats. Like Joe Biden said many times "Don't compare me to the Almighty. Compare me to the alternative." More people are comparing Trump to the alternative and are happier he is in office than the alternative.
What’s impressive is the certainty and expertise on here by so many about complex and nuanced issues like the US and world economy, foreign policy, and immigration. So many absolute answers to complex problems and issues. I am always so impressed by how everyone has it all figured out and knows the exact right answer once these conversations start. **************
Biden has greater cognitive decline. But compare 2016 Trump in the Republican primaries, he was sharp, funny, had a greater vocabulary, to now. I was a Desantis supporter. I like what he's done in Florida with a few exceptions
You saw a clip from a cabinet meeting? I saw one yesterday, but did not see one in the last 4 years. I did however hear the talking points that must have been issued at those meetings. That Biden was "sharp as a tack" and he "controlled the meeting" and was "In command the whole time". As a matter of fact, that sounded cultish because they all were saying the same thing.
If you want to talk about screwing over the economy, that happened under the previous administration spent between 6 and 7 trillion dollars in wasteful spending, which drove up inflation. The stock market crashed, much much harder than the tariffs have caused and rates had to be raised continually. But you were saying?
Not all government spending counts as an increase in GDP. Interest on debt and social security transfers don't count towards GDP. Medicare payments to providers do. So you could have increasing government spending while its contribution to GDP is declining. Don't think that's what's happening here.
Spending is escalating based on automatic spending, both "mandatory" spending and spending that's already appropriated. There's probably not a realistic way for the Trump administration to cut enough spending just to offset the scheduled increases in spending outside of "mandatory" programs.
Neat, another assumed fact because it's "on the internet"
I watch CNBC almost every morning for awhile to see what’s happening in the markets but over the last few years I have come to the conclusion that the various employment, inflation, and spending index reports put out by the government are no closer to the truth than anything else published and communicated by the Federal Government. Last year before the Presidential election we would just laugh when they published the various inflation reports. Anyone with any sense at all could stop at the gas station, go to the grocery store, and then hit Burger King on the way back home and clearly see that their numbers were nothing but bull ****.
Tell me you don't get anything from your echo chamber without telling me you don't get anything you read from your echo chamber.
Yes, he had some bankruptcies. But he also tranformed the New York skyline and became a multi billionaire in the process. He didn't inherit 9 figures from his dad. It was in the single digit millions, but not hundreds of millions.
Great moments in self awareness.
I don't know how much of this is a conscious strategy, but it's pretty funny watching him exaggerate numbers that are already great for him, and then having his political enemies amplify good numbers for him essentially saying "Trump claimed this data was fantastic for him; but if you look, it's only really, really good for him, not fantastic. He's terrible." This one is even better because it's basically, "Trump is claiming he's fantastic on an issue that many (or was it most?) ranked as their number one priority. But it turns out he's only really really good on this issue that voters care so much about.
In other words, Trump ended the policy of ushering in illegal immigrants with frivolous asylum claims and is taking credit for it. That is going to seem pretty reasonable to most people not deranged.
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