aquascoot wrote on Sep 21
st, 2018 at 6:33am:
karnal, you and sad skippy and aia are pretty interested in politics but Joe lunchbox and his 60 million mates are interested in "monster trucks' and "the pittsburgh steelers".
so they only get hit by the headlines and they get their news in soundbites.
and what gets repeated gets remembered.
and what gets repeated is trumps message.
and what gets repeated is trumps message , broadcast to Joe and his 60 million mates FOR FREE by the media.
now why would trump hate someone that gives him 5 billion dollars as a gift.
trump LOVES the media .
and why would he answer questions?
that might appeal to you and longy and aia but Joe could not give a flying f.
such a very smart president
so dialed in.
beats the most 'qualified candidate in the history of the USA" without even trying.
a rare talent and definitely a new age man.
you Karnal are a dinosaur
So basically, you're applauding Trump for getting free airtime where his lies get repeated enough that the dumb arses of the country who are too lazy or stupid to learn that facts start to believe the lies are true?
I agree. This is pretty much what many people have been saying for a long time. Trump relied on the misinformed or the stupid.
It's not a bad thing overall. What I mean is, this sort of thing is a byproduct of a prosperous democratic country.
If Obama had done a truly bad job these people would be really really hurting, not just reeling from the GFC.
They would be far more engaged and want true representation.
This is the sort of movement Trump is starting. His policies are hurting those, the "forgotten people", that he claims he's governing for while protecting those he's accused of being part of the swamp.
It's not up for debate, the fact show it to be true.
More and more people are realising when Trump says things like "the Democrats are coming after medicare and social security but I won't let them" but his tax cuts and other economic and monetary policies are raiding the funds that finance these solutions and he's accelerating their insolvency.
Now, there are too many big words in there for the fat steves and the joe lunchboxes I know, but Trump's solution to "stopping the Dems from coming after Medicare etc" is, rather than work towards fixing these issues before the payouts overtake the earnings for these funds, he's proposing cuts, NOW. Not in 5 or 6 years time, NOW.
People are going to see themselves kicked off Medicare and all the taxpayers who contribute towards social security, they're going to find out there will be nothing left for them.
Then, of course, there are the issues with the true state of employment, wage growth etc, all of these may not impact the midterms, but will they start to hurt before the next election?
The Whitehouse projections say yes.
Trump has tied his economic success and policy to the overall performance and numbers that so far have been in spite of his actions. He, his team and his supporters can't actually show what he's done to get the economy to where it is, so all they can do is claim "record this" and "record that" when all they're doing is celebrating the upward trends they inherited and talked down in opposition.
The problem is, the Whitehouse is saying things are headed south. The Trade Wars, the loss of taxation income and massive increases in spending by Trump, they're all slowing things down, they're all negatively impacting the economy.
Those upwards trends, the "records", they're about to go away.
If I were Trump and his supporters, I'd be hoping for a blue wave. Without it, Trump will have nobody to blame for his poor performance at the next election and it could signal the end of his presidency.
But with the Blue wave, if the Dems are able to take some control back, he'll lose his SCOTUS pick if they can take a page from the Republican playbook and delay the confirmation.
Trump has to decide what is more important. Help for himself to escape the consequences of his collusion with Russia, or doing what is right for the people and his party in the long term (from a conservative point of view)?
We all know which he'll choose, which he has already chosen.
His needs, his ego, it comes before anything else. Always has, always will.
He's telling his support base that a "Red Wave" is coming. That's blatantly false going by all the polling (the real polling, not the condensed percentages that fooled people during the 2016 election) which means the Joe Lunch Box and Fat Steve's trust Trump on this.
After all, he's convinced them that he's the only source of news that can be trusted, everything else is fake. If Trump keeps telling them there is a red wave, voter apathy will take over and it's going to hurt his chances at the midterms even more.
The Republican establishment is losing their poo at his stupidity around this.
We'll have to wait and see what happens, but either way, Trump and his small mushroom penis and yeti pubes, along with all of his other insecurities, mainly being that he just can't admit that he's lot ground to the Dems and a blue wave is coming, it will be the end of him in the long run.