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Malcolm Nance tweet. (Original Post) ginnyinWI Sep 2018 OP
And when the Dems take over, the economy will freefall (mainly due to the tax cuts).... NorCen_CT Sep 2018 #1
we've seen this cycle over and over. ginnyinWI Sep 2018 #2
Very well said - it's so SO aggravating NorCen_CT Sep 2018 #3
It's all about empathy. The repubs have none. unitedwethrive Sep 2018 #13
We are pushing mud ... Cosmocat Sep 2018 #14
exactly BigGermanGuy Sep 2018 #6
I heard an economist call it the "sugar high" economy - which is the best description I've heard yet NorCen_CT Sep 2018 #7
it really is BigGermanGuy Sep 2018 #8
Totally agree NorCen_CT Sep 2018 #9
Its been a sugar high since 45 took over Cosmocat Sep 2018 #15
They definitely are 110% heavily conservative. NorCen_CT Sep 2018 #16
After Hitler was appointed chancellor INdemo Sep 2018 #4
Elections and results tampered with (again!). Or postponed/cancelled by Golden Raisin Sep 2018 #5
hyper partisanship 90-percent Sep 2018 #10
K&R UTUSN Sep 2018 #11
The day of reckoning is coming. GOTV! dalton99a Sep 2018 #12
that is assuming that our elections are legit. garybeck Sep 2018 #17

NorCen_CT

(176 posts)
1. And when the Dems take over, the economy will freefall (mainly due to the tax cuts)....
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 09:15 AM
Sep 2018

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)
2. we've seen this cycle over and over.
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 09:22 AM
Sep 2018

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)
3. Very well said - it's so SO aggravating
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 09:27 AM
Sep 2018

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.

 

BigGermanGuy

(131 posts)
6. exactly
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 10:13 AM
Sep 2018

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.

 

BigGermanGuy

(131 posts)
8. it really is
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 10:21 AM
Sep 2018

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)
9. Totally agree
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 10:24 AM
Sep 2018

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)
15. Its been a sugar high since 45 took over
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 12:13 PM
Sep 2018

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)
16. They definitely are 110% heavily conservative.
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 12:18 PM
Sep 2018

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)
4. After Hitler was appointed chancellor
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 09:56 AM
Sep 2018

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)
5. Elections and results tampered with (again!). Or postponed/cancelled by
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 10:02 AM
Sep 2018

some trumped-up (pun intended) national emergency.

90-percent

(6,829 posts)
10. hyper partisanship
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 10:49 AM
Sep 2018

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

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