Campaign isn't a day old and Trump poodle Ron Desantis already had a "macaca" moment

anatta said:
first off we're talking about Florida - not Trump and Trump is piloting a booming economy
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The economy is not booming.

Q1 GDP growth was just 2.2%.

Q2 GDP growth is 4.2%, but that's because of businesses rushing inventory orders to get ahead of the tariffs...that means Q3 growth will drop like a rock. In fact, the tariffs were responsible for a full point of GDP growth. Without the tariffs, growth would have maybe been about 3.2%.

The market is only up 5% since the start of the Russia Tax Cut. By contrast, at this point last year it had grown about 11%, and about 6% in 2016.

Slowest pace of job growth since 2017, which was the slowest since 2011.

REAL WAGES FOR MOST WORKERS HAVE DECLINED.

If that's signs of a good economy, then the bar is so low, it's resting on the floor.
 
anatta said:
first off we're talking about Florida - not Trump and Trump is piloting a booming economy
( GDP revised up to 6.2 today for Q2 )
I should be such a bad business person that I could own a worldwide RE empire.

This guy never even HAD A private sector JOB! What does he know about running an economy??
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I just read one of his campaign platforms is to raise business taxes to 40%. I hope he sticks with that....
 
anatta said:
first off we're talking about Florida - not Trump and Trump is piloting a booming economy
( GDP revised up to 6.2 today for Q2 )
I should be such a bad business person that I could own a worldwide RE empire
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He doesn't own anything other than his name. He licenses his name out to buildings. He doesn't own those buildings. He doesn't even build them. He sells his name to them.

And how do we know he has this vast empire if he won't release his tax returns?

You're taking him at his word, even after he already lied to you countless times.

That makes you a cult member.
 
anatta said:
This guy never even HAD A private sector JOB! What does he know about running an economy??
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Well, Bush came from the private sector and that was a disaster. The only other President to have an MBA was Hoover. How'd that work out?
 
christiefan915 said:
Yeah, whatever happened to good old "screw this up"? I never heard anyone say "monkey" this up before now.
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It was a Freudian slip. All Conservatives are racists; some of them are just good at hiding it. But give them enough rope and they'll hang themselves. See: DeSantis.
 
LV426 said:
The economy is not booming.

Q1 GDP growth was just 2.2%.

Q2 GDP growth is 4.2%, but that's because of businesses rushing inventory orders to get ahead of the tariffs...that means Q3 growth will drop like a rock. In fact, the tariffs were responsible for a full point of GDP growth. Without the tariffs, growth would have maybe been about 3.2%.

The market is only up 5% since the start of the Russia Tax Cut. By contrast, at this point last year it had grown about 11%, and about 6% in 2016.

Slowest pace of job growth since 2017, which was the slowest since 2011.

REAL WAGES FOR MOST WORKERS HAVE DECLINED.

If that's signs of a good economy, then the bar is so low, it's resting on the floor.
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81% economist predicting a recession 2020-2021. It will not be good timing for Trump.
 
Phantasmal said:
81% economist predicting a recession 2020-2021. It will not be good timing for Trump.
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I personally think we will be in a recession by the end of the year, Q2 2019 at the latest. The fact that inventory orders contributed only 1% to GDP growth last quarter leads me to think that a contraction is on the horizon in the short term. All those orders will be cut for Q3 and Q4. There's nothing keeping the economy afloat, and the massive premium increases everyone is going to see this fall is going to lead to a lot of angry, motivated people.
 
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