Trump at 500 days plus
- Thread starter Walter
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Something else will happen by then and he'll likely be the golden haired boy again. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
Dow is moving ahead?
Lower than it was in January when you were buying GE.
(sorry - pretending to buy GE)
I want to see your grade school diploma.
Really? Exactly how well has Trump dealt with these issues? -
Russia and its meddling in the US elections
Puerto Rico which is still reeling from the hurricane almost a year later
The overwhelming influence of the NRA
Rebuilding of decaying US infrastructure (A Trump election promise)
Job losses in the coal industry (Another Trump promise)
Making sure that goods sold in the US (like Harleys, for example) stay in the US
Actually judging from the interview after the meeting with Putin it is dead on. The only thing wrong with the picture is that the Trump puppet should have its head up Putin's ass.
Yes wholesale theft from the nation you are supposed to be governing has worked out quite well for Vlad the Embezzler.
John Cleese:
My American friends are asking me about President Trumps’s observation that the British ‘like him’
I regret this is quite unfounded
The explanation for this canard is that Trump is pronoid
Pronoid is the opposite of paranoid. A paranoid person thinks, without any basis in reality, that everybody is out to get them. A pronoid person is someone who thinks, without any
basis in reality, that everybody likes them
The fact is that the British loathe Donald Trump
This is because he is the polar opposite of a ‘ Gentleman ‘, who has qualities the British admire. A fine example is Gareth Southgate
To the British, a ‘ Gentleman ' is a man who is modest, well-mannered, self deprecating, quietly intelligent, considerate of other people’s feeling, and well-informed.
He is not vulgar, inflated, vain, boastful, noisily ignorant, sleazy and common as muck
I hope this clears up any confusion
Isn’t he dead ?
Yet the football hooligans call them pufters .
John Cleese:
My American friends are asking me about President Trumps’s observation that the British ‘like him’
I regret this is quite unfounded
The explanation for this canard is that Trump is pronoid
Pronoid is the opposite of paranoid. A paranoid person thinks, without any basis in reality, that everybody is out to get them. A pronoid person is someone who thinks, without any
basis in reality, that everybody likes them
The fact is that the British loathe Donald Trump
This is because he is the polar opposite of a ‘ Gentleman ‘, who has qualities the British admire. A fine example is Gareth Southgate
To the British, a ‘ Gentleman ' is a man who is modest, well-mannered, self deprecating, quietly intelligent, considerate of other people’s feeling, and well-informed.
He is not vulgar, inflated, vain, boastful, noisily ignorant, sleazy and common as muck
I hope this clears up any confusion
So are you
Every day ... I predict that you will post a stupid Fakebook meme ....
And every day my prediction comes true!
Powell backs more rate hikes as economy growing 'considerably stronger'
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/17/pow...as-economy-growing-considerably-stronger.html
MAGA
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/17/pow...as-economy-growing-considerably-stronger.html
MAGA
And every day I predict you will make one or more stupid posts. I've never been wrong yet.
I am more convinced that all this political division is purposeful in order to have the population fighting amongst themselves. As I mentioned before, if the army was brought onto the streets today it would be said that they arrived to protect the Rich Folks. However; with the citizenry at each others throats, it will be said that the military was introduced to protect us from ourselves.
I know that this view is conspiratorial, but I just can not understand why the Ruling Class are not trying to tamp down the anger and seem to be doing their utmost to ramp it up.
I also tend to think that all this chatter about the 2018-2020 elections being at risk is because the Ruling Class are very afraid of a true blue socialist being elected. If this were to happen, the election would be disqualified with the excuse that the ballots/voting process was meddled with.
With these statistics, something is going to explode very soon .....
National (In)Security
In the United States of Inequality
By Rajan Menon
Tomgram: Rajan Menon, The Wages of Poverty in America | TomDispatch
For millions of Americans, however, the greatest threat to their day-to-day security isn’t terrorism or North Korea, Iran, Russia, or China. It’s internal -- and economic. That’s particularly true for the 12.7% of Americans (43.1 million of them) classified as poor by the government’s criteria: an income below $12,140 for a one-person household, $16,460 for a family of two, and so on... until you get to the princely sum of $42,380 for a family of eight.
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2017/demo/p60-259.html
https://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty-guidelines
As a result, though the United States has a per-capita income of $59,500 and is among the wealthiest countries in the world, 12.7% of Americans (that’s 43.1 million people), officially are impoverished.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2004rank.html
https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/what-current-poverty-rate-united-states
And things will only get worse in the age of Trump. His 2019 budget includes deep cuts in a raft of anti-poverty programs.
https://www.cbpp.org/research/feder...s-health-housing-other-assistance-for-low-and
The not-so-good news: one-third of all workers earn less than $12 an hour and 42% earn less than $15.
How many workers earn less than $15 per hour.
The problem facing the working poor isn’t just low wages, but the widening gap between wages and rising prices. The government has increased the hourly federal minimum wage more than 20 times since it was set at 25 cents under the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act. Between 2007 and 2009 it rose to $7.25, but over the past decade that sum lost nearly 10% of its purchasing power to inflation, which means that, in 2018, someone would have to work 41 additional days to make the equivalent of the 2009 minimum wage.
5 facts about the minimum wage | Pew Research Center
https://www.americanprogress.org/is...59/march-1-minimum-wage-workers-equal-pay-day
Workers in the lowest 20% have lost the most ground, their inflation-adjusted wages falling by nearly 1% between 1979 and 2016, compared to a 24.7% increase for the top 20%.
https://www.brookings.edu/research/thirteen-facts-about-wage-growth
Child poverty has declined in the United States since 2010, but a Columbia University report estimates that 19% of American kids (13.7 million) nevertheless lived in families with incomes below the official poverty line in 2016.
NCCP | Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES)
I know that this view is conspiratorial, but I just can not understand why the Ruling Class are not trying to tamp down the anger and seem to be doing their utmost to ramp it up.
I also tend to think that all this chatter about the 2018-2020 elections being at risk is because the Ruling Class are very afraid of a true blue socialist being elected. If this were to happen, the election would be disqualified with the excuse that the ballots/voting process was meddled with.
With these statistics, something is going to explode very soon .....
National (In)Security
In the United States of Inequality
By Rajan Menon
Tomgram: Rajan Menon, The Wages of Poverty in America | TomDispatch
For millions of Americans, however, the greatest threat to their day-to-day security isn’t terrorism or North Korea, Iran, Russia, or China. It’s internal -- and economic. That’s particularly true for the 12.7% of Americans (43.1 million of them) classified as poor by the government’s criteria: an income below $12,140 for a one-person household, $16,460 for a family of two, and so on... until you get to the princely sum of $42,380 for a family of eight.
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2017/demo/p60-259.html
https://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty-guidelines
As a result, though the United States has a per-capita income of $59,500 and is among the wealthiest countries in the world, 12.7% of Americans (that’s 43.1 million people), officially are impoverished.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2004rank.html
https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/what-current-poverty-rate-united-states
And things will only get worse in the age of Trump. His 2019 budget includes deep cuts in a raft of anti-poverty programs.
https://www.cbpp.org/research/feder...s-health-housing-other-assistance-for-low-and
The not-so-good news: one-third of all workers earn less than $12 an hour and 42% earn less than $15.
How many workers earn less than $15 per hour.
The problem facing the working poor isn’t just low wages, but the widening gap between wages and rising prices. The government has increased the hourly federal minimum wage more than 20 times since it was set at 25 cents under the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act. Between 2007 and 2009 it rose to $7.25, but over the past decade that sum lost nearly 10% of its purchasing power to inflation, which means that, in 2018, someone would have to work 41 additional days to make the equivalent of the 2009 minimum wage.
5 facts about the minimum wage | Pew Research Center
https://www.americanprogress.org/is...59/march-1-minimum-wage-workers-equal-pay-day
Workers in the lowest 20% have lost the most ground, their inflation-adjusted wages falling by nearly 1% between 1979 and 2016, compared to a 24.7% increase for the top 20%.
https://www.brookings.edu/research/thirteen-facts-about-wage-growth
Child poverty has declined in the United States since 2010, but a Columbia University report estimates that 19% of American kids (13.7 million) nevertheless lived in families with incomes below the official poverty line in 2016.
NCCP | Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES)