The Donald Trump Score Card

The public can vote Trump in for a second term if it wants even deeper trade wars, the ones Trump says are so easy to win. So easy that it takes at least two terms to try to win them.



Trump was so angry after China’s trade retaliation that he wanted to double tariffs
Kayla Tausche and Jacob Pramuk
September 3, 2019

Trump was so angry after China's trade retaliation that he wanted to double tariffs

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"Earlier Tuesday, Trump suggested he could take even more drastic action to crack down on China’s trade practices if he wins reelection next year without a new trade agreement in place.

“Deal would get MUCH TOUGHER!” he wrote in a tweet."

 

Think the whole point was it was hard to get aid there, not that he didnt know it was an island

 

Its necessary, world needs to ween itself off China and spread out manufacturing

Asia started to get nervous about China as soon as it started building fake islands on putting military bases on them

Even if its just pure ego from the Orange Man that gets us there, so be it.

Its already started anyway, markets getting nervous about tariffs is enough for companies to start thinking, hey, what about putting a few sites in Indonesia, India, Vietnam just in case

 

Perot did a televised address before the presidentlal election of 1992. On the issue of trade, his focus was on grappling with the details of the internal workings of U.S. production.

Perot saw the upcoming interconnected global market and the increased competition. He said that the U.S. had to improve its productivity with new science and technology and compete with other countries like it was playing in the Super Bowl every day.

This was in 1992 before China had become the major economic force that it is today.

Perot's assessment is in stark contrast to the simplistic view of Trump who looks outward and blames everything on foreigners who he claims are taking advantage of the U.S. He thinks the remedy is coercion of other countries by waging trade wars implemented by declaring national emergencies that circumvent Congress.

 

Trump humor pic: "Build the wall around my house. I hate everyone."

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Trump farm subsidies: Farmers find ways to boost their payments
AP
July 3, 2019 / 9:01 AM

Trump farm subsidies: Farmers find ways to boost their payments

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"But there are legal ways around those caps. For example, farmers can claim payments in more than one category. Individual farmers who produce both soybeans and hogs could collect up to $250,000 if their production of each was high enough.

Older, bigger farm subsidy programs also contain $125,000 caps -- with similar ways to get around them. Large-scale farming operations do that by structuring themselves as partnerships, in which each family member or "legal entity" who is "actively engaged in farming" gets their own cap.

Many relatives are exempt from the "actively engaged" requirement -- including parents, spouses, siblings and children who can each qualify for their own $125,000 cap. First cousins, nieces and nephews were added to the list in the 2018 farm bill."

 

‘I don’t know how we’re going to survive this.’ Some once-loyal farmers begin to doubt Trump.
Annie Gowen
June 21, 2019 at 11:32 AM EDT

https://beta.washingtonpost.com/nat...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.cdbe4d9647f7

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"Like farmers throughout the country, they were faced with gut-wrenching choices: Plant their corn in muddy fields or file an insurance claim? How much would they receive from the $14.5 billion of aid that Trump promised in May to offset their losses from China’s tariffs, and what crops would they have to plant to receive it?

Some rural residents are growing increasingly frustrated with the ongoing trade feuds and wonder how long Trump will call upon farmers to make sacrifices as the country’s “patriots.”

“People are starting to say, ‘I don’t know how we’re going to survive this,’ ” said Martinmaas, who voted for Trump in 2016 but said he is open to a Democrat such as Montana Gov. Steve Bullock this time. “You know, we’re the ones taking the brunt of it in all these negotiations, so they need to be kind of helping us out right now.”

Martinmaas, whose family homesteaded this land in 1888, said his farm operation lost more than $700,000 last year. He’s had to put a moratorium on buying new equipment, and he is stuck with grain bins full of soybeans because China isn’t buying. Other farmers can’t pay their bills for the hay and grain they bought from him."

 

Sonny Perdue needs to come up with better jokes to break the ice with U.S. farmers.

Referring to a basement full of farmers as a 'whine cellar' at a public meeting with them didn't win him any supporters.



Trump Agriculture chief says farmers are 'one of the casualties' of trade war with China
By Justin Wise
06/25/19 02:21 PM EDT

Trump Agriculture chief says farmers are 'one of the casualties' of trade war with China

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"Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said in a new interview that farmers were a casualty of President Trump's escalating trade dispute China.

"[American farmers] are one of the casualties here with trade disruption," Perdue told CNN. "We knew going in that when you flew the penalty flag on China, the retaliation, if it came, would be against the farmer."

The comments from Perdue come amid a months-long dispute between the U.S. and China that has led to retaliatory tariffs from both nations.

China's government in 2018 imposed duties on US soybean, corn, and wheat after Trump enforced tariffs on Chinese products."

 

In the mafia, there is a name for what Pence and Barr did
Opinion by Elie Honig
Updated 9:55 AM ET, Wed September 4, 2019

In the mafia, there is a name for what Pence and Barr did (Opinion) - CNN

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"The "kicking up" model works well for the mafia, and now a political version of it seems to be catching on within the Trump administration. Vice President Mike Pence has decided to stay at Trump's golf resort in Doonbeg, Ireland, during an official visit to Dublin (over a one-hour flight away, so not particularly close or convenient). On Tuesday, Pence's chief of staff remarked that the decision was made on Trump's suggestion. The Vice President's office later stated, "at no time did the President direct our office to stay at his Doonbeg resort.""


"Not to be outdone in the "posterior osculation" category (as Paul Begala colorfully put it), Attorney General William Barr reportedly will spend more than $30,000 of personal money to throw a private holiday party at the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC."


"When I worked at the Justice Department, employees were trained not to sell a child's Girl Scout cookies in the office, to prevent even the appearance of mixing personal finance with Justice Department business. Compare that to Barr cutting a personal check for reportedly $30,000 to a Trump business and you can see the magnitude of the ethical problem.

Both Pence and Barr had plenty of options available. Yet they both conspicuously chose to go with Trump properties. Trump will get a little richer, and the integrity of our government will take another loss.'

 

Eat, stink, and be hairy for tomorrow we die! The more rope you give these guys, the faster they will hang themselves, while half the country looks on in horror, and the other half insists everything is just fine, fine, fine or will be even more fine, fine, fine with the next administration, and there's nothing to worry about here, so go back to sleep. It is your patriotic duty to vote for whichever clown advertises the most, who is not a member of the Mickey Mouse Club.

 

With the economy looking shaky, Trump scrambles to blame others
By Steve Benen
09/04/19 08:00 AM

With the economy looking shaky, Trump scrambles to blame others

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"Chris Rupkey, the chief financial economist at MUFG Union Bank, added, “The U.S. trade war with the world has blown open a great big hole in manufacturers’ confidence. The manufacturing sector has officially turned down and is falling for the first time this year as the China tariffs and slowdown in exports has really started to bite.”

This news came on the heels of a related report on falling economic confidence among small businesses, as well as a report from last week on sagging consumer confidence."


"It’s American businesses’ fault: Late last week, lashed out at “badly run and weak companies,” which he believes are struggling as a result of “bad management.” It’s not at all common for American presidents to complain indiscriminately about his own country’s private sector, but Trump is obviously unique.

It’s the Federal Reserve’s and Jerome Powell’s fault: Trump has been almost hysterical in recent months when attacking the Fed, filled with board members he nominated, and its chairman, whom Trump chose for the job. “We don’t have a Tariff problem … we have a Fed problem,” the president complained on Twitter last week. “They don’t have a clue!”

It’s the media’s fault:"

 

I think Americans have been down this road enough times, they will most certainly do it again at the first opportunity. In case it escaped your attention, the republican party has been destroying our economy at every opportunity since Ronald Reagan, who was the last republican president who adopted democratic economics. Other than being nasty with issues such as the homeless, Reagan did everything that a democratic president would have done to bolster the economy. Republican economics are based on gambling and war. If you gamble away a fortune, you can always go to war.

Donald Duck is attempting to squeeze foreign countries for money, and failing so badly he wants to declare martial law and start conquering the world. Weapons-R-US and for special deals on our old inventory, we will hold an auction in the Crystal City underground, next to the Pentagon, by invitation only.

 

I'm all ears ...

 

The Trump Voters Whose ‘Need for Chaos’ Obliterates Everything Else
Political nihilism is one of the president’s strongest weapons.
By Thomas B. Edsall
Sept. 4, 2019

Opinion | The Trump Voters Whose ‘Need for Chaos’ Obliterates Everything Else

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"Trump’s expertise, in this view, lies in his ability to capitalize on the fear of chaos. “Populist movements,” McDermott and Hatemi write, “rely on inflammatory rhetoric to create a tribal ‘us versus them’ condition — this type of environment instigates neural mechanisms from the evolutionary desire to be part of the group.”'


"In the 2016 campaign, Trump successfully elevated in the national consciousness the perceived threat of undocumented immigrants, a sense of a disordered country and a fear of random criminal assault on the streets of major cities.

In that election, Trump had a great deal to work with: residual anxiety over the 2007-9 recession; battles over the rights of transgender people; rising levels of social and economic inequality; employment losses driven by globalization; rampant automation; the deterioration of traditional family structures; climate change and extreme weather; and the prospect that whites would no longer be the majority."


"While Trump’s focus on disorder and chaos worked to his advantage during the 2016 campaign, there is no guarantee that he will benefit from it when he is an incumbent seeking re-election.

As the 2018 election demonstrated, Trump’s personally chaotic approach to governance, his record of undermining relations with allies and strengthening ties to autocrats; his use of trade policy to heighten market insecurity; his aggression, his recklessness, his incessant lying; and his sneering contemptuous, bullying style, together worked against him and the Republican Party."

 

Eggheads will say anything to avoid the simple truth our government is now led by the KKK, that 40% of the country rejects our current government, and the only government they hate worse is the old one. Academics should be ashamed to admit they are responsible for these people's education. They will learn the hard way just who taught all these fools complete bullshit and that arguing and fighting was the way to determine the truth.

 

President Trump showed a doctored hurricane chart. Was it to cover up for ‘Alabama’ Twitter flub?
Trump had erroneously stated that Hurricane Dorian threatened Alabama.
by Matthew Cappucci and Andrew Freedman
September 4 at 4:51 PM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weat...e-chart-was-it-cover-up-alabama-twitter-flub/

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"It is not clear whether Trump was responsible for altering the forecast chart, but the modified photo appeared to show Alabama in Dorian’s eventual line of fire. The original forecast by the National Hurricane Center can be seen here. The National Hurricane Center’s text bulletin at that time included Florida in its discussion five times, but it did not mention Alabama. Instead, the center urged caution from residents in “the Bahamas, Florida, and elsewhere in the southeastern United States.”"


"Altering official government weather forecasts isn’t just a cause for concern — it’s illegal. Per 18 U.S. Code 2074, which addresses false weather reports, “Whoever knowingly issues or publishes any counterfeit weather forecast or warning of weather conditions falsely representing such forecast or warning to have been issued or published by the Weather Bureau, United States Signal Service, or other branch of the Government service, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both.”"

 

Meanwhile Trump shows a weather map proving Dorian is going to hit Alabama...





Yeah... You just can't keep up with this guy.

 

COOL! I loved that show when I was a kid.

 

I thought Dorian was going to hit Nebraska...