The Trump Presidency: Sweet/Sweat 16

[Cain]

I wouldn't be surprised if he resigns shortly after losing re-election. I can't see him meeting with the president-elect to give advice, or sitting through the inauguration.

 

[Darat]

Meanwhile...

The Secretary of Energy, the department tasked with overseeing our nuclear stockpile, is posting pseudo-legal screeds on instagram. Only the best people in the Trump cabinet.

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Oh my goodness, that is straight from the freedom of land craziness.

 

[GlennB]

I wouldn't be surprised if he resigns shortly after losing re-election. I can't see him meeting with the president-elect to give advice, or sitting through the inauguration.

I can't see the President elect wanting to meet Trump either, so it would be a win-win.

 

[Darat]

I DO NOT CONSENT!!!!

Or since the agreement will have the words something like " I agree to the terms and conditions" he is being stupid.

 

[Darat]

Or less.

No, I think the best way is that the USA and the rest of the world just never mention this terrible time again. I think we can all agree to that.

 

[TragicMonkey]

I wouldn't be surprised if he resigns shortly after losing re-election. I can't see him meeting with the president-elect to give advice, or sitting through the inauguration.

He would first make sure to issue pardons for himself, his family, and whichever cronies were sufficiently loyal at that moment.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

Doing great with China and other Trade Deals. The only problem we have is Jay Powell and the Fed. He’s like a golfer who can’t putt, has no touch. Big U.S. growth if he does the right thing, BIG CUT - but don’t count on him! So far he has called it wrong, and only let us down....

.....We are competing with many countries that have a far lower interest rate, and we should be lower than them. Yesterday, “highest Dollar in U.S.History.” No inflation. Wake up Federal Reserve. Such growth potential, almost like never before!

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

My proposal to the politically correct Automobile Companies would lower the average price of a car to consumers by more than $3000, while at the same time making the cars substantially safer. Engines would run smoother. Very little impact on the environment! Foolish executives!

 

[Andy_Ross]

TrumpTweets

So Germany is paying Zero interest and is actually being paid to borrow money, while the U.S., a far stronger and more important credit, is paying interest and just stopped (I hope!) Quantitative Tightening. Strongest Dollar in History, very tough on exports. No Inflation!.....

....WHERE IS THE FEDERAL RESERVE?

 

[Armitage72]

Trump Tweets

My proposal to the politically correct Automobile Companies would lower the average price of a car to consumers by more than $3000, while at the same time making the cars substantially safer. Engines would run smoother. Very little impact on the environment! Foolish executives!

For context, he proposed rolling back federal automotive fuel efficiency and emissions standards (they're President Obama's, after all) and is fighting California's ability to set their own standards, but four automakers agreed to follow California's stricter standards.

Four major automakers said on Thursday they have reached an agreement with California on fuel efficiency rules, bypassing a Trump administration effort to strip the state of the right to fight climate change by setting its own standards.
California and other states had vowed to enforce stricter Obama-era emissions standards, after President Donald Trump proposed rolling back the federal rules. Automakers had worried that court battles between state and federal governments could create years of uncertainty for manufacturers.

The White House showed no willingness to reopen talks, saying “the federal government, not a single state, should set this standard. We are moving forward to finalize a rule for the benefit of all Americans.”

State's Rights!! Unless corporations don't want it. Oh wait, these corporations do. What a conundrum.

 

[ponderingturtle]

Oh my goodness, that is straight from the freedom of land craziness.

This was the guy who didn't know that he would be in charge of maintaining our nuclear arsenal until after he got the job.

 

[pgwenthold]

For context, he proposed rolling back federal automotive fuel efficiency and emissions standards (they're President Obama's, after all) and is fighting California's ability to set their own standards, but four automakers agreed to follow California's stricter standards.




State's Rights!! Unless corporations don't want it. Oh wait, these corporations do. What a conundrum.

They are "politically correct."

OR

maybe it's a financial decision based on things like sunk costs and issues of meeting all the standards all over (so, for example, they don't have to make a "Texas car" and a "California car." They just make the California car and sell it everywhere).

Finally, it's not like consumers don't like gas mileage. And maybe it is cheaper up front, but give me 10 more mpg, and that is 150 more miles per tank of gas. If I am getting 30 mpg instead of 20, than is 5 gallons of gas saved per tank, and at $3/gallon, that is $15 per tank. If you fill up once a week, that's $750 per year you save. So by going with better gas mileage, I have just made up that $3000 cost difference in 4 years. We drive our cars for 10. So over 10 years, that is a difference of $4500.

YMMV
(literally!)

 

[TurkeysGhost]

Apparently it's more important to cater towards Israelis than Americans. Now that's patriotic.

I didn't interpret Trump's disloyalty comment as American Jews being disloyal to Trump or America, but disloyal to Israel. Seems pretty clear to me that Trump views American Jews as basically foreign nationals from Israel, so the ideological split between American Jews and Israeli policy is hard for him to understand.

I'm sure the implicit accusation that American Jews are more foreigners than Americans is not lost on the Jews, but fits well within the narrative non-jew Trumpistas believe. Expecting them to have the nuanced reasoning to understand that believing American Jews are automatically loyal to Israel is an anti-Semitic trope and insult is a bridge too far.

 

[Segnosaur]

Interesting bit of news that got buried: at the same event at which he accused Democrat-voting Jews of "disloyalty", just before that statement grabbed all the press; apparently Trump conceded that there might be a "small, two-month recession" on the way, but that it's okay because it's necessary in order to ultimately win the trade war. This despite him and his advisers in recent days expounding that there's absolutely no evidence of an impending recession.

Ummm.... technically I don't think its possible to have a '2 month recession'.

A recession is defined by a decline in GDP over 2 quarters. The shortest possible recession would be one that lasted half a year.

 

[Lurch]

He has changed his position from "Imma nuke you!" to exchanging love letters.

It's also notable that Kim has ceased making threats against USA, and is firing missiles on trajectories not towards US and its allies.

The situation is completely different to what it was in 2017.

Yep. Kim has got the POTUS wrapped around his chubby little finger. Never got that far before.

 

[The Don]

They are "politically correct."

OR

maybe it's a financial decision based on things like sunk costs and issues of meeting all the standards all over (so, for example, they don't have to make a "Texas car" and a "California car." They just make the California car and sell it everywhere).

Finally, it's not like consumers don't like gas mileage. And maybe it is cheaper up front, but give me 10 more mpg, and that is 150 more miles per tank of gas. If I am getting 30 mpg instead of 20, than is 5 gallons of gas saved per tank, and at $3/gallon, that is $15 per tank. If you fill up once a week, that's $750 per year you save. So by going with better gas mileage, I have just made up that $3000 cost difference in 4 years. We drive our cars for 10. So over 10 years, that is a difference of $4500.

YMMV
(literally!)

It depends on the consumer and depends on how it is pitched. IIRC there was a study which showed that a majority of Conservatives would buy non-eco lightbulbs even if they were more expensive to buy and run if the alternatives were branded as ECO.

 

[ponderingturtle]

It depends on the consumer and depends on how it is pitched. IIRC there was a study which showed that a majority of Conservatives would buy non-eco lightbulbs even if they were more expensive to buy and run if the alternatives were branded as ECO.

And of course there is rolling coal.

 

[Segnosaur]

Apparently it's more important to cater towards Israelis than Americans. Now that's patriotic.

Well, I guess if you were measuring 'patriotism' it might be considered a step up compared to catering to Russia. At least Israel is sort of an ally.

 

[Segnosaur]

To absolutely nobody's surprise....

Looks like Trump has abandoned his call for stricter background checks following recent mass shootings.

From: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/21/poli...l-rifle-association-wayne-lapierre/index.html
In the aftermath of the two shootings, Trump signaled support for strengthening background checks, but has since cooled on the idea, repeating a familiar pattern he's taken in the wake of gun tragedies after news coverage has subsided. A source familiar with the details of Tuesday's call between Trump and LaPierre, first reported by The Atlantic, said the President told the NRA chief that universal background checks are "off the table."

Republicans gotta get that sweet Russian-backed NRA support somehow.

 

[Arcade22]

President Trump went on Twitter on Wednesday to quote a conservative radio host and known conspiracy theorist who praised him as “the greatest President for Jews” and claimed that Israelis “love him like he is the second coming of God.”

In his tweets, Trump thanked Wayne Allyn Root for “the very nice words.”

Root has promoted numerous conspiracy theories, including that former president Barack Obama was not born in the United States, that Democratic National Committee staff member Seth Rich was killed by any one of a number of prominent Democrats, that a mass shooting in Las Vegas was coordinated by Muslims and that the person responsible for the death of Heather Heyer at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville was paid by a wealthy Democrat.

...

Root’s comments came from a broadcast Tuesday night by Newsmax, in which he also lamented that “75 percent of all Jews vote Democrat.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...3cea14-c405-11e9-9986-1fb3e4397be4_story.html

Of course you'd have to be utterly insane to write a tribute like that.