Passing Peak Trump?

Slings and Arrows said:
"Bad news?"

Stock market success and Trump's re-election is bad news? Only if you are opposed to jobs and prosperity.
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'Bad news' for the majority of the people on this forum.

I'd love a perpetually strong economy and lots of jobs. But the reality is that we live in a world with a boom-bust cycle with a roughly 10-year interval. The question is if the next bust starts before or after the next election.
 
applecorped said:
Tick tock
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Ha ha! Ha ha. Honestly, time well spent! Totally made a salient point there. Those who think that Trump is a stain on the presidency will rethink their position now, I tell you what.

You are indeed a master debater, give or take a syllable.
 
phiwum said:
Ha ha! Ha ha. Honestly, time well spent! Totally made a salient point there. Those who think that Trump is a stain on the presidency will rethink their position now, I tell you what.

You are indeed a master debater, give or take a syllable.
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Don't take away a syllable. His posts are irreducibly complex.
 
phiwum said:
Ha ha! Ha ha. Honestly, time well spent! Totally made a salient point there. Those who think that Trump is a stain on the presidency will rethink their position now, I tell you what.

You are indeed a master debater, give or take a syllable.
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Or... he trolled you with a two word post. :boxedin:
 
Imhotep said:
Or... he trolled you with a two word post. :boxedin:
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Could be. Or it could be that I recognized his usual trolling tactic and, having grown tired of it, thought that a response pointing out his shallow strategy was worth it.

I mean, you could go either way. You might think he won. You might think that I had good reason to bitch about his tedious idiocy and chose to do so.
 
phiwum said:
Could be. Or it could be that I recognized his usual trolling tactic and, having grown tired of it, thought that a response pointing out his shallow strategy was worth it.

I mean, you could go either way. You might think he won. You might think that I had good reason to bitch about his tedious idiocy and chose to do so.
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I don't think those are mutually exclusive, and I gladly accept your explanation for why you felt the need to respond.
 
Eddie Dane said:
the reality is that we live in a world with a boom-bust cycle with a roughly 10-year interval. The question is if the next bust starts before or after the next election.
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Hopefully after. Trump isn't done wreaking conservatives' reputations yet. A second term will make the downturn worse, and make it harder for Republicans to pin it on Democrats (they will still try of course...).
 
Roger Ramjets said:
Hopefully after. Trump isn't done wreaking conservatives' reputations yet. A second term will make the downturn worse, and make it harder for Republicans to pin it on Democrats (they will still try of course...).
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What "downturn"? The one you hope is coming or what?
 
ChrisBFRPKY said:
What "downturn"? The one you hope is coming or what?
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The one all economists say is coming.
Just a normal boom and bust cycle model, as it has applied for decades, would predict a downturn ten years after the last one - which was 2008.
The Fed has to raise interest rates, which is the normal signal that the economy isn't growing organically anymore.
 
As of November 6, we have passed peak Trumpism, at least: 54 of the 75 GOP candidates that Trump endorsed lost, and losing the House means the MAGA legislative agenda is dead. Anyone still imagining that Trump can win in 2020 and the GOP can hold the Senate must also be imagining some unexpected change in the current vector. You can hope for that, but two things should be clear by now: Trump just can't stop Trumping, and his base is as large as it will ever be.
 
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