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Video: Clapper Says Comey Testimony “Damning” For Trump, President Is “Assaulting” America
There's a certain frustration in being incredulous.
Or at least initially there is.
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Funny take on incredulity. Nothing surprises me anymore. Yes, there are a lot of “stupid” people out there who don’t vote for people or policies that are in their own self-interest. That’s what politicians count on and try to exploit (or in this case, a demagogue non-politician). I don’t see how Trump makes it through 4 years, although I do hope it’s not because people like Jim Clapper. Let’s let the intelligentsia decide! No, I hope not. So, maybe people will come around and become “smarter” and sweep the Democrats into office in 2018 and 2020. Redistribute wealth. Fine, they should. Then more populist left policies sweep the land. Everyone will happy, birds will be chirping. I wonder what would happen to financial markets if that “smart” scenario plays out?
Although I am no fan of Trump, I don’t think that I would hold up Clapper as my touchstone of truth and accurate analysis.
Love the take that it all has to be left or right on the political and financial scale. We can be a little of both. If anyone besides the top 10-15% think the way to good governance and financial success is this one-sided printing orgy of debt going on now then I feel sorry for you. The “status quo” (who benefits) will lead to more debt and implosion of some or all of our markets with the end result of at least a recession (quite possibly a major one). We can’t continue printing and spending 3-4$’s for every ONE dollar of GDP, it already has created a multitude of problems. We are being manipulated into a very tight corner and when this implosion happens there will be a lot of unsuspecting people (who have been lied to) led like lambs to the slaughter. Who do you think they will blame? Republicans? Democrats? How about all government, how do you think we got a piece of sh*t like Trump?