re: Red-hot Dow closes above 26,000 for the first time

i'm no Trumpkin, but i do like common sense. stock market started surging the day after his election and after passage of the tax bill. that says that he does something for consumer and trader confidence.

post tax bill, european countries started to worry that some of them were going to jump ship to have less of a tax burden in the US.

less people are on welfare today than when he took office.

also, even though it's not talked about outside of conservative circle jerks (i.e. the Poli board) unemployment is at record lows and dropping, namely black unemployment. he also started negotiating with companies to keep production here in the US before he took office with success.


i think Trump is a GD moron and a bully with 160 character limit keyboard. i tell my kids to NOT be like him when they grow up. he says really borderline racist shite and makes up nicknames at the age of 70.

but dammit if he hasn't impacted the economy for the greater. you can say he's just benefiting from an Obama economy, but it was 8 years of that economy and then all of the sudden year 9 everything is magically improved with the stock market making sudden gains and increases in employment?

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Obama's last 2 years in office were pretty stagnant when talking about the economy.

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no, i completely agree. it had nowhere to go but up after 2008. you can only coast on a recovery for so long.

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i think Trump is a GD moron and a bully with 160 character limit keyboard. i tell my kids to NOT be like him when they grow up. he says really borderline racist shite and makes up nicknames at the age of 70.

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Bullying americas enemies is fine by me.

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but dammit if he hasn't impacted the economy for the greater. you can say he's just benefiting from an Obama economy, but it was 8 years of that economy and then all of the sudden year 9 everything is magically improved with the stock market making sudden gains and increases in employment

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Don't short change him his fantastic foreign policy record.

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Best president of my lifetime.

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i think Trump is a GD moron

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You simply don’t get to where he is in life being a GD moron. It is not possible. Everything else you posted is accurate, but not deserving of a green arrow with this statement.

I would have preferred Rand Paul or Ted Cruz but I voted for Trump and he's been far, far better than Hillary would have been.

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You simply don’t get to where he is in life being a GD moron. It is not possible. Everything else you posted is accurate, but not deserving of a green arrow with this statement.

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Exactly.

Trump is not an idiot. He knows exactly what's going on, and how he's portrayed by the media. He also knows that by giving them an inch, that they'll take a mile, hence his refusal to comply

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You simply don’t get to where he is in life being a GD moron.

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not seeking green arrows. i think he is the leader we need (blunt force object,) not the hero we want (nice articulate grandpa like figure that makes us feel warm and fuzzy)

when i say GD moron, i mean he says some stupid shite that it seems like somebody would have stopped an thought "maybe that was too far?" but he does not. he persists and doubles down.

for instance... he airs his DACA meeting, which clearly shows him to have business acumen and control of a meeting. then says shithole in the same room as an avowed enemy. that's moronic.

don't get me wrong, i'm happy for the things he's done. i just don't like what he says most often.

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Oh the horror!!

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should we blame Bush or Obama for the Great Recession?

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Both to some degree? And a whole lot of other folks.

Some of the policies that helped cause the mortgage crisis were put in place during the Clinton administration. Sometimes it takes a long time for the ripple effect to reveal itself.