Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Zan15]

Kids say the darndest things.

Best part is here we are what 20+ years later and we are still waiting for the hundreds of thousands of missing bush/Cheney emails.....

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We all know this will be Trump canceling the Tariffs and then claiming some big victory over a problem he started.

You guys are not even pretending anymore.

As long as it owns the libs!

He will get a one page agreement, that agrees to sit down and make an agreement, agreeing to deal with trade problems in a future agreement!

just like his mexico deal

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Oh and while we are celebrating almost hitting a record...again.....some other records are getting close too

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us..._theo_homepage

U.S. consumer debt is now breaching levels last reached during the 2008 financial crisis
Ben Mohr, senior research analyst of fixed income at investment consultant Marquette Associates, calculated that total U.S. consumer debt hit $14 trillion in the first quarter of 2019, surpassing the roughly $13 trillion of leverage accumulated in credit cards, auto loans and mortgages and other debt back in 2008, when those souring loans and securities pegged to them helped to send global markets into a tailspin


https://www.marketwatch.com/story/em...une-2019-06-17

Empire State manufacturing index posts largest-ever drop into negative territory in June


https://www.usatoday.com/story/money...08/1451609001/

The Morgan Stanley Business Conditions Index fell by 32 points in June, to a level of 13 from a level of 45 in May. This drop is the largest one-month decline on record.
“The decline shows a sharp deterioration in sentiment this month that was broad-based across sectors,” economist Ellen Zentner said in a note to clients on Thursday.

[kaelleria]

and when its not record breaking they just kick out GE...and others who are not doing so well...to make it look better.

That is why I follow the SP500 and Russell 2000.

Though even those measurements are effected by companies that drop below a financial threshold so the worst performing companies are kicked out.


The closest thing to real performance tracking is the Wilshire 5000. It tracks over 3500 stocks and only limits OTC and penny stocks on minor markets.
Though they still do some adjustments at least they don't kick out companies that have a few bad years to prop up the index.

Wilshire 5000 hit 29,760 on 1/22/2018
Today they are at 30,008.45

Flat now for almost 17 months.

They hit this "record" area around 7 times already before something stupid is said or done by the administration.

Well... The Fed isn't going to cut rates. Inb4 the market reacts poorly.

[Edge-]

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-suppo...-rally-1444834

A supporter of President Donald Trump was arrested Tuesday night for assaulting an Orlando Sentinel reporter outside the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida, where the president was holding a rally to mark the start of his bid for re-election in 2020.

Daniel Kestner, 51, of St. Augustine, can be seen in a red MAGA hat harassing and hurling curses at Sentinel reporter Michael Williams before smacking a cell phone out of Williams' hand which was being used to record the incident.

Very. Fine. People.

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https://thehill.com/regulation/court...d-trump-census

Bad news for Trump on the Census lawsuit. The judge is going to re-examine whether the administration added the question to discriminate against immigrants and non-white residents in light of the new information released in recent weeks. It was initially ruled out as there wasn't enough evidence to support it, but it seems the emails uncovered have given the judge enough information to re-examine the question.

This doesn't bode well for Trump.

[Adam Jensen]

Well, you can. It's not that dangerous now. But what you would see is a post-Soviet post-industrial wasteland and you can actually find plenty of those without the radiation.

Yeah but I wanna go inside the sarcophagus and stare at the reactor core.

[Felya]

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-suppo...-rally-1444834

Very. Fine. People.

The interesting part of this, is that all sentinel did is announce their president pick in 2020 is “not Trump”. It seems like to some, simply not voting Trump, is horrible enough to assault.

[Belize]

More or less Trump related, but fuck Mitch McConnell.

Seriously, what a fucking douchetard.

[DarkTZeratul]

More or less Trump related, but fuck Mitch McConnell.

Seriously, what a fucking douchetard.

What'd he do now?

[bladeXcrasher]

Yeah but I wanna go inside the sarcophagus and stare at the reactor core.

Pretty sure they poured concrete over the entire thing.

[Dontrike]

Ah yes... we're back at Hillary again! But teh emails!

What a loser of an old senile fuck that "man" is.

What gets me is that his zealots are still cheering for shit about Hillary. This is how he started his 2020 campaign and it's already tired and fucking stupid, not that it was smart before hand.

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https://thehill.com/regulation/court...d-trump-census

Bad news for Trump on the Census lawsuit. The judge is going to re-examine whether the administration added the question to discriminate against immigrants and non-white residents in light of the new information released in recent weeks. It was initially ruled out as there wasn't enough evidence to support it, but it seems the emails uncovered have given the judge enough information to re-examine the question.

This doesn't bode well for Trump.

That 4% win rate of his is always going lower.

[Thestrawman]

What is all this talk about Trump just now starting to campaign? What were all those rallies from 2017 and 2028 then?

[Shadowferal]

Yeah, he's had dozens of rallies in the past couple of years.

[Redwyrm]

What is all this talk about Trump just now starting to campaign? What were all those rallies from 2017 and 2028 then?

Half ego stroking and half victory laps

[zorkuus]

What is all this talk about Trump just now starting to campaign? What were all those rallies from 2017 and 2028 then?

Those were just his greatest hits tour. This time it's for real... with the same old songs. This reality TV show could use some new writers.

[Zan15]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/19/busin...ack/index.html

Oops
Guess maga tarrifs don't work on steel.
Remember when they were cheering all those steel factories opening back up.

Poof... Closing and running with tax breaks p, profits and cutting jobs...

[Captain N]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/19/busin...ack/index.html

Oops
Guess maga tarrifs don't work on steel.
Remember when they were cheering all those steel factories opening back up.

Poof... Closing and running with tax breaks p, profits and cutting jobs...

Another bunch of job losses in Indiana after those tax cuts? Say it ain't so!

So that's Carrier and US Steel shutting down operations -- not looking good in your home state is it there Pence?

[Belize]

What'd he do now?

Have you seen the shit he said about how "electing Obama was the country trying to get over slavery" and how it didn't work?

Like, jesus, you fucking turtle you're part of the problem.

[D Luniz]

This is one for the ages -- Trump's America is going to cure cancer and AIDS!

President Donald Trump officially launched his bid for the 2020 presidency at rally in Orlando, Florida, on Tuesday with a series of extravagant pledges to a packed stadium of cheering supporters.

He told cheering supporters: "We will push onward with new medical frontiers. We will come up with the cures to many, many problems, to many, many diseases — including cancer and others, and we're getting closer all the time."

"We will eradicate AIDS in America once and for all, and we're very close. We will lay the foundation for landing American astronauts on the surface of Mars."

https://www.businessinsider.com/trum...MB_JJZrEmiIaj0

he didnt say "cure" he said "eradicate", considering the GOP history with AIDS in this country, and how Trump seems to be trying replay the Nixon admin years, be concerned

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https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/19/busin...ack/index.html

Oops
Guess maga tarrifs don't work on steel.
Remember when they were cheering all those steel factories opening back up.

Poof... Closing and running with tax breaks p, profits and cutting jobs...

just like coal

[Shadowferal]

I dunno...the GOP and their voter base seems more in touch with measles than anything.

[Canpinter]

What gets me is that his zealots are still cheering for shit about Hillary. This is how he started his 2020 campaign and it's already tired and fucking stupid, not that it was smart before hand.

Trumps the prime example of a sore winner, he cant just win he has to humiliate his enemy and can never let go of a grudge.

[Felya]

Trumps the prime example of a sore winner, he cant just win he has to humiliate his enemy and can never let go of a grudge.

The fucker made his grudge with NFL, a national issue. It’s insanity...