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Fast Eddie B said:
The same thing could have been said when all the Nervous Nellies were predicting doom and gloom post-election.
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I absolutely agree. There were a number of predictions about a market drop should Trump be elected, and they were wrong.

Of course, now the question remains: how will a Trump presidency affect the economy? We'll have to see. At least the market "thinks" that it will be good for them. ("Thinks" in quotes because I'm personifying an abstract, not to cast doubt on the market's "wisdom" -- which is in quotes for, oh, to hell with it.)
 
Kris Kobach will soon learn the value of a file folder. Aide reveals plans including those to roll back voting rights.

And the final visible section, with just a few legible words, seems to refer to voting rights. Kobach, who campaigned for his office in 2010 saying he needed to stop the plague of voter fraud, suggests drafting “amendments to the National Voter…,” with the rest of the phrase blocked by his wrist. It’s likely that he’s suggesting changes to the*National Voter Registration Act, a Clinton-era law that allowed easy voter registration at DMVs, and which some Republicans have argued for clawing back.
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Captain_Swoop said:
Cashing in BIGLY in Argentina!

For a number of years, Trump and his Argentine partners have been trying to build a major office building in Buenos Aires. The project has been held up by a series of complications tied to financing, importation of building materials and various permitting requirements.

According to*a report out of Argentina, when Argentine President Mauricio Macri called President-Elect Trump to congratulate him on his election, Trump asked Macri to deal with the permitting issues that are currently holding up the project.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cashing-in-bigly-in-argentina
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His daughter, who is running his businesses, was also on the call.

Q: What did you say to Trump in your (congratulatory) call to him?
A: We promised to establish the best bilateral relations ever. I hope that our good relations with the United States, seen under U.S. President Barack Obama, will continue and expand further under Trump. In the call, I also talked with his daughter. I have known her since her infant days
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The first piece of legislation Democrats should push is a reform making the conflict of interest rules that apply to every other elected official in DC apply to the POTUS.
 
Trump: US to quit TPP trade deal on first day in office

President-elect Donald Trump says the US will quit the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal on his first day in the White House.

He made the announcement*in a video message*outlining what he intends to do first when he takes office in January.

The TPP trade deal was signed by 12 countries which together cover 40% of the world's economy.

The Republican also pledged to reduce "job-killing restrictions" on coal production and stop visa abuses.

But there was no mention of repealing Obamacare or building a wall on the southern border with Mexico, two actions he said during the campaign he would do on day one.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38059623
 
The Don said:
Perhaps the first couple of Trump "failures to deliver" may generate some coverage but as soon as it becomes same-old same-old, the public will lose interest which means the networks won't bother to report it.
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Which is very similar to the negative stories of Trump during the campaign and presently. Trump is selling the White House, has settled a lawsuit for fraud and has neo-nazi's in his future administration, but that isn't getting covered by the mainstream media.
 
sunmaster14 said:
Wouldn't take much instruction for Trump to surpass Obama. Not that Obama's sycophants in Britain gave a crap.
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Obama's "anti-British gaffes". :rolleyes: Yeah, Obama gave the finger to the Queen and grabbed Diane's pussy right out of the grave. He ruined - RUINED, I say, Anglo-American relations for decades to come.

Jesus, sunmaster14, surely you can find additional minuscule nit-picks for us to worry about.
 
SezMe said:
I was going to post that link. It's an excellent article worth reading in full. In short, Trump's infrastructure plan is really a tax reduction plan. Gawd, can't the Reps think of anything besides cutting taxes and Planned Parenthood?
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Yes. They also think about registering Muslims, criminalizing abortion, and forcing gays back into the closet.
 
sunmaster14 said:
The markets discount the expected future, and right now they're all bullish on the US economy with Donald as President. The markets could be wrong, of course, but their predictions are also self-fulfilling to a considerable degree.
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By all accounts, what the markets fear most is uncertainty. With the election over, there's no reason to think the market wouldn't have responded similarly to a victory by Clinton, who certainly inspired no particular fear on Wall Street.
 
Now Trump is suggesting who the UK ambassador to Washington should be:

President-elect Donald Trump has said UKIP leader Nigel Farage would make a good British ambassador to the US.

Mr Trump said "many people" would like to see Mr Farage as ambassador and he would do a "great job".
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38060434

That's a pretty bad breach of protocol (imagine if the shoe was on the other foot and Theresa May said that she wanted Elizabeth Warren as the US ambassador to the UK) and puts the current ambassador in a difficult place. :mad:

It's being spun as one businessman wanting another businessman in position because they trust each other. Farage is no longer a businessman, he's a leech who is determined to suck the public purse dry. Against Brexpectation (;)) it looks like he's going to lose his cushy job as an MEP and so he's trying to find another gig where he can fill his pockets at the taxpayer's expense.
 
thaiboxerken said:
Which is very similar to the negative stories of Trump during the campaign and presently. Trump is selling the White House, has settled a lawsuit for fraud and has neo-nazi's in his future administration, but that isn't getting covered by the mainstream media.
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I guess they don't want to be seen as being partisan - they stand to lose 50% of their customers. In the current post-factual age, facts are seen as partisan and have to be countered or tempered by out-and-out lies from the other side :mad:
 
acbytesla said:
I don't know. That seems too simplistic. Trump will have been given a Republican Senate and House and if jobs in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania don't make a huge turnaround, he'll be in trouble. The news will delightfully report all the scandals. Trump will no longer be the outsider, he'll be the incompetent boob and a-hole. America's mistake. He'll be the "what the hell were we thinking?" mistake. Pence just announced that priority one out of the gate will be repealing Obamacare. This will be a mistake of major proportions. 20 million who had Healthcare won't have it anymore. Trump will have promised to have replaced it with something better. I don't think he can or will replace it with anything.
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You've just witnessed 18 months of Trump turning facts into fiction. I am not sure what makes you think he'll ever somehow be held to account for anything.
 
Trump is clear that the US will pull out of the TPP on day 1.

This article claims that the US pulling out of the TPP would be great for China:

Today US diplomats can't have it both ways in Asia. After telling partners that pushing through TPP was bolstering American leadership in the region, the obvious conclusion must be that reversing TPP is undermining US leadership. And into this perceived leadership vacuum, China itself is ready to move.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-38060980

This may be a model for a Trump Presidency, to meet short-termist campaign pledges, the administration makes strategically poor choices.....
 
The Don said:
Now Trump is suggesting who the UK ambassador to Washington should be:



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38060434

That's a pretty bad breach of protocol (imagine if the shoe was on the other foot and Theresa May said that she wanted Elizabeth Warren as the US ambassador to the UK) and puts the current ambassador in a difficult place. :mad:

It's being spun as one businessman wanting another businessman in position because they trust each other. Farage is no longer a businessman, he's a leech who is determined to suck the public purse dry. Against Brexpectation (;)) it looks like he's going to lose his cushy job as an MEP and so he's trying to find another gig where he can fill his pockets at the taxpayer's expense.
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Donald loves dealing with sycophants.
 
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