The Trump Presidency: Part 20

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Stacyhs said:
Trump's crowing about the economy, low unemployment and the stock market has come to a complete halt.
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Low unemployment?? I've been getting layoff alerts from Google News every few hours for the last several days. The restaurant industry alone is likely going to see tens of thousands put out of work.
 
Babbylonian said:
Low unemployment?? I've been getting layoff alerts from Google News every few hours for the last several days. The restaurant industry alone is likely going to see tens of thousands put out of work.
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Exactly...there was low unemployment which he was constantly taking credit for. Not any more.
 
Stacyhs said:
Speaking of fake and corrupt, Fivethiryeight has Trump's approval rating at 43% overall, disapproval at 52.8% as of today. Even Rassmussen, which is generally more Trump friendly, has his disapproval at 46%, disapproval at 54%.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
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He threw out the "95% approval in the Republican party" stat again today. I think he keeps a faded, crumpled piece of paper with that data from a single poll last year in his pocket, that he pulls out every day or so.
 
wasapi said:
I recall Trump saying that he perhaps had a "gift" for being able to just "know" about the virus. Insinuating he had some type of psychic ability.
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No, it is not psychic ability; it is his gut. He brags about making decisions with his gut. Ex-White House staffers allege he doesn’t read background documents before going into important meetings because it will interfere with his gut’s decision-making abilities.
 
More "progress" for Trump to tweet.

Market slide wipes out gains of Trump presidency as Covid-19 crisis deepens

Presidents usually avoid boasting about the stock market, aware that today’s gains can be wiped out by tomorrow’s events.

It’s a lesson Trump is learning the hard way. Covid-19 has now erased all the stock market gains of the Trump presidency.

After his last speech, markets fell so hard they were temporarily stopped. Now they are open again and still falling. The Dow is now down 9%.
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https://www.theguardian.com/busines...088d7575595e84#block-5e725b9e8f088d7575595e84
 
alfaniner said:
He threw out the "95% approval in the Republican party" stat again today. I think he keeps a faded, crumpled piece of paper with that data from a single poll last year in his pocket, that he pulls out every day or so.
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I get ads for polling from his campaign on YouTube, that's probably where the 95% keeps coming from. Self selecting dupes willing to click into the propaganda polls his campaign puts out.
 
quadraginta said:
I haven't gotten any.

You must have mine.

Give it back!
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Same thing happened for me, incidentally. I'm letting it pass as an effort at redundancy, albeit poorly handled.

Either way, they claim that they'll mail a paper questionnaire to the address in a few weeks if there's no online response. Failing that, an in person visit.
 
To poke elsewhere, though...

Paragraph from the NYT -

The Trump administration has been working to relax regulations governing America’s nursing homes, including rules meant to curb deadly infections among elderly residents.
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Anyone surprised? Next, though...

GOP strategist: 'We built this moment. And then we looked the other way'

Hey look, another GOP strategist bailing out and calling out some of the evils of the Republican Party after yet another disaster that the GOP made exponentially worse than it could have been.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
Trump is now calling himself a Wartime President - which actually isn't that far off the mark.

This crisis might very well be the thing that gets him a second term, even though his administration is largely to blame for the lack of preparedness.
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More and more, I get the feeling that trump is going to suffer. People are irrational and people are going to get angry, and the administration in charge at the time of that anger will be to blame. I think it will be that simple.

If many people die, or lose their jobs in numbers, it won't matter whether there is a mitigating argument about whether more could have been done. Any perceived failing in the timeline of the crisis that resulted in hardship will make people angry at whoever is in charge.
 
TofuFighter said:
More and more, I get the feeling that trump is going to suffer. People are irrational and people are going to get angry, and the administration in charge at the time of that anger will be to blame. I think it will be that simple.

If many people die, or lose their jobs in numbers, it won't matter whether there is a mitigating argument about whether more could have been done. Any perceived failing in the timeline of the crisis that resulted in hardship will make people angry at whoever is in charge.
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Let alone failings as massive and obvious as the ones that Trump and co made. Still, it's probably well worth acknowledging a few things - like that Obama is still being blamed for how that last big recession started on his watch. :jaw-dropp The GOP has built a fortress of lies, BS, and distrust towards people who don't offer immediate gratification and bias confirmation. They have vilified Democrats to the point where Jesus returning from heaven to denounce the GOP for preaching horror and cruelty in his name will just lead to Jesus being called Satan by the televangelists. Those Republicans waking up to how badly they've been scammed would be great - and the massive problems that are likely to happen do certainly provide impetus to actually seriously evaluate what went wrong, but it's really not something to count on actually happening.
 
Cain said:
All of these nasty, viscous remarks directed at our president... you guys should be ashamed. Step back and think about what kind of person at a moment of national crisis would waste valuable time by posting hateful comments to the Internet.
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Good post, should be a sticky.
 
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