Richdude wrote on Jun 19
th, 2018 at 1:31am:
A good idea is to start every paragraph with IMO.
He ran a manipulative campaign! Really? He made promises and has kept or in the process of keeping every one. How is that manipulative? I think you are either very desperate or confused. Which is it?
I think you should take your own advice, however in this case, while entitled to your own opinion, you are not entitled to your own facts.
Keeping "everyone one"?
Trump's already broken most of his promises with healthcare and the outcomes of removing Obamacare. I may only be highlighting a single example here, but it's a big one.
Then there are all the people who will be worse off because of his protections in one small sector of the economy and the ensuing trade wars that will impact a far greater number of people than those he's helped, vs his promises to the contrary.
Quote:Here's another gem. You don't think Trump is intelligent. Thats not an intelligent statement IMO. Trump defeated 18 of the best the Reps could find and then as underdog and spending a fraction of what Hillary did went on to win a rigged election. Is that what an unintelligent person achieves?
Being the loudest and running a campaign of "might is right" is pretty much the counter to an intelligent campaign.
But credit where it's due, he did read and exploit is audience better than anyone in modern politics.
But if you want to call him intelligent, he needs to start listening to the experts rather than yes men and instead ignoring those informed on the given subject thinking he knows best.
He displays time and time again that he thinks he's always the smartest person in the room. If he doesn't understand something, he'll say "Who knew" as if he's the first to discover the complexities of the issue at hand. Sadly, it just shows that he's so uninformed that he's a perfect candidate for the Dunning Kruger effect until he learns just enough to realise how complex the issue is, often after it's too late, proclaiming "who knew" or "nobody knew",
Quote:No, Trump is effective. Intelligent action = effectiveness. Despite an unparalleled hostile congress and press he is winning.
He controls both houses, he has a majority everywhere.
Again, entitled to your opinion, but not your own facts.
Quote:Unemployment is the lowest since 1968 - there are more vacancies than jobs. This means his policies work and you think he's unintelligent?
Why then is nobody ever willing or able to articulate the policies and the actions he's taken to achieve this and point to the statistics that show an increase over the previous Obama year or a positive change in tragectory under Trump?
The best we get is, "Him simply being President is enough".
Really..?
You'll find that the reason these questions go unanswered is, the moment you do the fact checking you'll see that the positive trends have slowed down under Trump.
The biggest difference between Obama and Trump is that Trump is loudly taking personal credit for the jobs that have been created, even though they're less than the number created under Obama, and the sources you're getting your facts from are being deliberately misleading in claiming otherwise.
Since February, after Trump took office, the economy has gained nearly 1.7 million, according to preliminary data on nonfarm payroll for November which is great.
But once again, the job gains are part of a multiyear trend that started in 2010 while Obama was still in office.
Here’s yearly job growth since 2000:
You can see the big drop after the GFC thanks to the Bush era policies and lack of intervention/regulation in "the free market" and then the Obama recovery.
Now you add in Trump's first year where he's taking credit for the millions of jobs created and you can see he's created less than 5 out of the 7 of Obama's years,
And the reason Trump supporters are using whole job numbers and not the historical percentages is that if you compare his "unprecedented job growth" to Obama's strongest year, under Trump there has been a drop in jobs created by 33.4%, or more fairly to compare Obama's last year in office, Trump has created 13.2% fewer jobs than Obama.
If Trump had done nothing, it's likely there would have been
more jobs created.
The same goes for the unemployment rate. The decline in the rate has slowed since Trump took office.
What is actually happening is Trump is doing very little, but very loudly taking all the credit, that's all.
You want to judge Trump as effective because he's taken "Intelligent Action", how does that work when his outcomes are in the negative compared to his predecessor?
It's smart of him to claim otherwise, but again you've been duped.
Quote:You and your fellow haters continue to underestimate Trump and this will continue making you lot look more and more foolish and irrelevant.
When the facts support your opinions I'll take your criticisms seriously. Until then you're just another uninformed Trump Supporter using alternative facts to support Trump and credit him for all things positive and attack and blame others for anything negative.