re: Anyone else have significant buyer's remorse?

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Nope. I think overall he has done a pretty good job so far, and better than I expected.

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Right.

Clinton would be cutting meals on wheels and we'd be watching the Military getting ready to or executing large scale ground operations in Syria to depose Assad for Israel the same way we deposed Saddam for them. Everything was leading that way until she lost the election, thank God.

Clinton wanted a no-fly zone in Syria

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Clinton would be

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Economic outlook for recession given assumptions of a Clinton Presidency were 25-100% by 2017-Q2. Hillary would have thrown a blizzard of money down the obamacare rathole, knowing full well it would be wasted and obamacare was unsalvageable. After pissing away another few trillion in the ACA, she would have proclaimed it unsustainable and marched us into healthcare communism. All would have remained Bush's fault.

It would have been glorious.

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Top o' the morning, Bengal. How're things?

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FWIW, you are Bengal's best alter. Curious why he brought you back after a year and a half, though.

i got banned for something i said about gary pinkel. then i got busy with work, after a couple of months i forgot my user name and password, but since i was right about everything i enjoyed with smug satisfaction the total despair felt by the never trumps. i noticed that you disappeared for a good while.

yesterday i took off work because the hogs were playing and my son was coming home for spring break.

did i miss anything? anybody start a thread comparing trump to hitler?

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i noticed that you disappeared for a good while.

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I got banned for laughing about a poll last June.

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did i miss anything? anybody start a thread comparing trump to hitler?

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Probably.

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Anyone with two eyes and a brain would have to admit that the economy is doing better with Trump in office.

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The Left has no economic credibility whatsoever! None! Zip! Nada! Zero!

Here are the post-election comments/predictions of their Economic brainchild, Paul"NobelPrizeWinner"Krugman:

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What Happened on Election Day --- The Economic Fallout
By Paul Krugman
November 9, 2016

It really does now look like President Donald J. Trump, and markets are plunging. When might we expect them to recover?

Frankly, I find it hard to care much, even though this is my specialty. The disaster for America and the world has so many aspects that the economic ramifications are way down my list of things to fear.

Still, I guess people want an answer: If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.

Under any circumstances, putting an irresponsible, ignorant man who takes his advice from all the wrong people in charge of the nation with the world’s most important economy would be very bad news. What makes it especially bad right now, however, is the fundamentally fragile state much of the world is still in, eight years after the great financial crisis.

It’s true that we’ve been adding jobs at a pretty good pace and are quite close to full employment. But we’ve been doing O.K. only thanks to extremely low interest rates. There’s nothing wrong with that per se. But what if something bad happens and the economy needs a boost? The Fed and its counterparts abroad basically have very little room for further rate cuts, and therefore very little ability to respond to adverse events.

Now comes the mother of all adverse effects — and what it brings with it is a regime that will be ignorant of economic policy and hostile to any effort to make it work. Effective fiscal support for the Fed? Not a chance. In fact, you can bet that the Fed will lose its independence, and be bullied by cranks.

So we are very probably looking at a global recession, with no end in sight. I suppose we could get lucky somehow. But on economics, as on everything else, a terrible thing has just happened.

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No economic credibility whatsoever!

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He's completely winging it and there's absolutely no shot in hell he's going to get re-elected. He's going to suffer the biggest landslide defeat of any incumbent in history. These protesters that didn't even realize they could vote this election are going to be mobilized in full force. The Democrats are going to be sure to nominate the cleanest, most likable candidate they can find.

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I find this wishful thinking and amusing.

Trump is actually a leader, something I haven't seen in a long time.

He maybe winging it, we knew he would be, so what!

I will take the good with the bad...because it's been all bad and backsliding for years/decades

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I'm still waiting for Krugman to be right

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It isn't so much that he's not been right, or that he's been wrong.

It is how breathtakingly wrong he has consistently been. It is also how little to account his zombie follower have held him in the process.

But that is not unique to Krugman. It actually applies to liberal "thinkers" across the spectrum.