The American Politics Thread

I am always amazed at how some Trump-fluffers are so cheaply bought. And without even a kiss goodbye from the John come morning. Your negligible tax cut is being eaten away by higher medical care premiums, gas prices, inflation and rising costs due to Trump's absurd tariffs (they also proved detrimental to Herbert Hoover, but who reads history? Certainly not Trump and his 5th grade-level skills). 

The thing is, the tax cut swindle has really done nothing for the economy except for mega-corporations buying back stocks at a record level ($178 billion in the first 3 months of 2018 alone), which artificially inflates the stock market. The economy was actually doing fine without any tax cuts at all. If you'd check the record, Obama's administration had 75 consecutive months of job growth, a presidential record. 

Meanwhile, as billionaires like Betsy DeVos are buying fleets of super-yachts, the actual income of a middle-class worker is stagnating at 1974 levels. That's right, your dad had as much spending power and longer sideburns back in 1974 than you do now. While corporations and the 1% are stockpiling cash, they are certainly not sharing that horde with workers. The dribbles of wage growth are not commensurate with the massive profits billionaires are reeling. It is not even an arguable point. Stagnation of wages has gone hand in hand with ever mounting inflation and the dramatic increases in the cost of housing.

So enjoy your pennies while you can count them. Perhaps you are not near retirement age, but Trump and his feckless minions want to eliminate Social Security as we know it...because, after all, the rich deserve another tax cut. Bend over and smile. Perhaps they'll throw you a dollar or two at the point of entry, but you'll have to use your own towel to wipe up after them.

You have selected the wrong venue here to try to absolve Trump from his actions, because unlike you most of us clearly see the fat emperor without his clothes on -- and it is a disgusting sight. Perhaps you should share your inanity with the weak-minded crowd more amenable to the fascist platitudes of Trump. In any case, Trump not only defends the Nazis who were shouting "Blood and soil" ("blut and boden", right from the Richard Walther Darre' ideology of pure-blood Nazism), "Jews will not replace us", and the one comment I find the most appalling, "This city is run be Jewish Communists and criminal n*ggers," he called them "fine people" after one of your Nazi friends drove a car into a crowd of innocent people. 

Trump defended them, and the statue of a traitor, rebel and slave holder, Robert E. Lee. A statue dedicated in 1924, at the height of the re-formed Ku Klux Klan activities across the South (a year later, 30,000 Klansmen marched on Washington, D.C.). The meaning of erecting that statue is not lost on anyone who understands historical context.

As far as the main person responsible for the incivility of America.....

Here is 10 hours of Trump insulting people....

Trump is the problem. He is a cancer. He must be removed. Vote November 6th.