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(176 posts)and will be blamed for 110% of it by the GOP.
Having the GOP in charge is like having a 5 year old run a household - not paying any bills, using all the money on toys and pizza, and when the parents (the Dems) take charge again, things have to get fixed / put back where they were, which get jeered by the GOP. Rinse and repeat. UGHH.
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)And I might add, they always take credit for what good things the Dems have done.
And when they attack Dems, especially during campaigns, it's always a mythical image of what a Democrat is--crazy lefty radicals who want to take away all freedoms, etc etc etc. The only way they can make their case is to lie.
NorCen_CT
(176 posts)I should be the #1 GOP supporter in the country.
White - check
Male - check
No college degree - check
Heterosexual - check
Married - check
Make over 6 figures - check
Lacking a soul - no check
And yet, I have never EVER (nor will ever) support any GOP candidate in any way, shape or form. I don't understand how others fail to see them ALL for exactly what they are.
unitedwethrive
(1,997 posts)Cosmocat
(14,565 posts)The stupid in this country is at DEFCON 1.
It is unfathomable.
BigGermanGuy
(131 posts)right now our economy is being fluffed by stock buy backs from the tax cuts. in 2018 those cuts were unexpected.
in 2019 those cuts will be baked into budgets. Q1-2 will see a drop off of 10-20% or more. And of course dems will be blamed, as was designed.
NorCen_CT
(176 posts)BigGermanGuy
(131 posts)between the stock buy backs, and the inflated prices from the tariffs, we aren't truly at 4.5% gdp. we are damn near zero growth.
NorCen_CT
(176 posts)I work in financial services (corporate/professional liability), and the financials I'm seeing are all better YoY due to the accrued tax benefit in 99% of the accounts I see.
Cosmocat
(14,565 posts)the people in high finance are heavily "conservative."
They always keep their money in their pockets as long as they can stand with a D in the white house being the childish pricks they are - eventually they can't help themselves.
They always get too far out in front when there is an R in the White House, and it was amped up even more with 45 cause of who he is.
NorCen_CT
(176 posts)80% of the policies on my book of business are VC funds / PE funds / hedge funds / commercial banks, and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM is shorting the hell out of the dollar (along with still using CDO's / CDS's / CLO's is the unhealthiest of manners.
INdemo
(6,994 posts)he stacked the high court with Judges that would promote his agenda.
With the confirmation of Kavanagh the SCOTUS will be a move that is one huge action that destroys our Democracy and move the United States to a Fascist State.
What is next
Golden Raisin
(4,609 posts)some trumped-up (pun intended) national emergency.
90-percent
(6,829 posts)It's amazing how "state media" (a term I hear more and more on MSNBC in reference to Fox News) has got FORTY PERCENT of our fellow Americans totally committed to their mass production of half truths and misleading PROPAGANDA.
It's also amazing that if Kav is seating it will insure EVEN MORE future misery on EVERYBODY IN AMERICA that makes less than $250,000 a year.
Go ahead, take my social security. The morbidly wealthy need it more than I do. Take away my medicare. I should have known thirty five years ago that Republicans would steal it from me SIX MONTHS before I'm eligible to enroll.
And only lowlife sub humans ever get abortions, so abortion should be illegal and women should be forced to give birth to unwanted children. That will statistically determine a life of poverty for the rest of the unwed mothers life.
And Corporations should be allowed to have more monopolies so they don't have to compete in "the marketplace" and can charge what ever they damn well please.
And ANY pre-existing condition should be grounds for your for profit health insurance company to drop you and leave you to die quickly.
Repubs are willing to seat Kav if it means sacrificing a few election cycles. My definition of "a few" would be the next 100 years!
They may get him seated, but those that are women or have women in their lives and going to be pretty energized to fight this rapidly accelerating FASCISM!
--90% Jimmy
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)garybeck
(9,942 posts)that is a pretty big assumption.