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Rocket Fuel And Melodrama
It never stops. The soap opera never stops in Donald Trump's America. Every, single day there has to
When will the people who have money, power, and some modicum of brains start talking? Service to the to the country will come from people who are brass b*lls brave, shouting the truth repeatedly as loudly as the other guy shouts his lies. Is everyone with money, power, and brains already in the MAGA cult for life or are some willing to give this guy a black eye he can’t cover with any kind of make up?
“If Trump wants Powell to rev up the Ponzi machine and fund the GOP’s deficit spending, he should just say that.”
Again, I’m just not sure he understands how money even works. He wants the above but lacks understanding of the mechanics to make it happen. In his very small and aging mind, cutting rates revs up the Ponzi machine.
I was nice to see Big-Eared Du, the father of modern Taiwan, mentioned. Though he was someone you most certainly DID NOT want to cross.
I recall reading about one of Trump I’s economic advisers, Gary Cohn, trying to explain how tariffs work and their direct effects. He inferred – reading between the lines, he was being polite – that Trump’s economic beliefs were long-held, simple, and could not be changed by facts or discussion. Cohn, of course, resigned in 2018, over tariffs.
H-Man, it is a sad day when we cannot trust what POTUS is saying — about anything.
I’m sure in Trump’s mind he’s just continuing The Apprentice with a new reality TV show with a bigger audience. No one cared about the underlying business on The Apprentice, it was just about negative drama. And so it goes in DC. Being president isn’t a job, it’s just his role. H is absolutely correct on this. One thing Trump learned for a good TV series is to keep the temperature dialed up, particularly before a weekend. Trump didn’t hire ‘the best people’ for his cabinet, just actors who could stir up drama and keep the show’s ratings high.