The [s]First[/s] [s]Only[/s] Second Trump term

[TheCatt]

Why not simply raise the money via tariffs and tell Germany as soon as they pay up the tariffs will be lifted?

Because those tariffs would be considered something Germany could retaliate for tit-for-tat.

[GORDON]

Germany is going.take a bit to their local economy when 15k troops are no longer spending their paychecks there.

[Leisher]

Why not simply raise the money via tariffs and tell Germany as soon as they pay up the tariffs will be lifted?

Because those tariffs would be considered something Germany could retaliate for tit-for-tat.

So let them. Make it a public war where the U.S. is simply asking Germany, the best economy in the EU, to pay the 2% they agreed to pay years ago.

[TheCatt]

I can't tell if he's just the ultimate troll, or what.

!RmindMe 11/4/2020 - Did we have an election?

[Leisher]

Trump does something good?

Two in one day?

[GORDON]

Executives of top drug companies have requested a meeting to discuss how they can lower drug prices, the president said.

Executives of top drug companies have contacted their lawyers to start looking for loopholes, and legal challenges.

[Cakedaddy]

Hell. I'm just happy we have incandescent light bulbs back. I look better now. And that's important to everybody. He's done enough.

[Leisher]

8 hours ago: Trump to order TikiTok operations in the U.S. be sold.

20 minutes ago: He is going to use an executive order to ban TikTok as soon as tomorrow.

[Leisher]

[TheCatt]

I dont think I could handle the cognitive dissonance of working for an administration. This one in particular.

[TheCatt]

Trump just a reflection of his generation.

Baby boomers show concerning decline in cognitive functioning
Trend reverses progress over several generations, study finds

[TheCatt]

Trump attacks another member of his panel.

Her comments

Birx also warned that the pandemic has entered "a new phase," contradicting the president's persistently optimistic predictions as he pushes schools to reopen for full in-person instruction and resists any reversals on reopenings.

"I want to be very clear: What we are seeing today is different from March and April. It is extraordinarily widespread. It's into the rural as equal urban areas," Birx told CNN. "To everybody who lives in a rural area, you are not immune or protected from this virus."

When asked about a prediction there could be 300,000 deaths by the end of the year, Birx said, "Anything is possible." She went on to emphasize social distancing and suggest that some Americans in multi-generational families should start wearing masks inside their homes and assume they already have the virus.

[TheCatt]

“I did say that ‘If you buy it…a very substantial portion of that price is going to have to come into the Treasury of the United States, because we’re making it possible for this deal to happen.’ Right now they don’t have any rights unless we give it to them.”

Can we say Socialism? Can we?

[Leisher]

What's that from?

[TheCatt]

What's that from?

Wall Street Journal. They are paywalled, so I just post snippets. That was a direct quote of Trump.

[Leisher]

I really need a translator for him.

[Leisher]

Says he's done more for black people than anyone while diminishing John Lewis.

Shows support for Ghislaine Maxwell again.

[GORDON]

Before Rona his numbers for black employment were way higher than Obama's.

At least according to a graph I saw last year.

[TheCatt]

Before Rona his numbers for black employment were way higher than Obama's.

At least according to a graph I saw last year.

1) Economies don't exist in isolation. Those #s build on Obama's.

2) President only does so much for the economy. And his stuff has fallen far short of his projections of what it would do.

[Leisher]

2) President only does so much for the economy. And his stuff has fallen far short of his projections of what it would do.

Pre or post corona?

Just curious.