The Republicans are headed for a Civil War
How long before they rebel against the Trump faction that has led them to defeat?
How long before they have to seize power from the crazies ?
How long before aoc and ilhan mullah omar demands nancy Pelosi's assassination?
My thoughts as well, minus the assassination part. Post-election unity is not looking good for the Democratic Party.
Herbert Spencer's phrase "survival of the fittest" comes to mind, but of course Darwin gets the credit since Spencer was reading Darwin at the time. They don't give IQ tests, nor any type of emotional or occupational testing that should be required prior to holding national office, so it's hard to determine who is the fittest or even who is just fit. Going by appearances only makes it even harder to detect any true substance by those who are out in the public spotlight.
We'll be viewed as halfwits mostly by those who study us in the future. Pretty much like we consider cutting off an ear to reduce a headache; our political election blunders beginning in 2000 - undetermined end-date, to be a case of a "
slackers at the wheel with subversive motives, sluggish efforts to improve, untapped available technology".
Democrats know how to resolve their differences and work behind the scenes. They tend towards moderation
Wayward Republicans are publicly shamed and branded RINO and driven from the party. They tend towards the extremes
Well they sure weren't moderate when they pursued Trump for four years.
Oh and lets not forget the dumbass Dem mayors of Seattle, Portland and Indi who told their police department to stand down so looters and arsonists could loot and burn businesses to the ground.
Dems sure didn't resolve that mess. Moderates my ass.
Trump misbehaved for four years
Republicans looked the other way
Trump was his win worst enemy....still is
Nope. Trump did a great job for four years. Before the very convenient Chinese virus UE was the lowest it had been in 50 years, we had jobs all across this country and a great economy. The country was doing great.
If that's your idea of misbehaving I'll take it.
Wait till your Biden boy does what he says he will do. You will be regretting your choice big time along with every other tax payer in this country.
Unemployment
For starters the UE was low under Obama and was in the direction of going lower... Can you tell us what actual actions took to lower UE that Obama had not already done... Note: Tax Break had not evidence of doing anything good or bad to UE.
Deficit
Now lets look at borrowing... A economy who is actually doing well shouldn't need to borrow money should it? Well it shouldn't need to increase borrowing, should it...
So you can see from this graph that Trump was increasing borrowing even before the crisis. He got the deficit at $600bn and he had almost doubled it to $1.1 trillion... That is 2.4% of GDP extra over Obama in an Economy which "Best in the world ever"... In total US was set to borrow 5.6% of there GDP, so the US is pumping there economy with 5.6% borrowing. So what was the growth?
So there is no major increase in GDP even after borrowing so much more money... Actually after borrowing 5.6% and growth of only 2.5%, so if the US Government that is a loss of 3.1% after borrowing 2.4% more... And Trump was saying this was the best Economy ever.... This was remortgaging the house and going to Disneyland....
COVID
A few people use the excuse that COVID is what hurt the economy. Truth is that Trump cut the CDC pandemic response team around the world. Trump never considered a Pandemic/Epidemic as a national defence issue and best way to defend it is to work with everyone in the world together.
Trump made misstep after misstep but his response was to always downplay the virus.
He never understood the basic concept, beat the virus and the economy will recover.
Because of this the strategy has been always off... Other economies understood this was a 100 year event and normal rules don't apply... You support your economy or you will get unrest.
Sorry lads, but when the pandemic hit, Trump if he knew any history would only have to have a speech about national unity and leave the Health experts to handle the day to day stuff... US has a very strong history of rallying around its leadership in crisis.
Trump didn't do that, why?, I don't know. Maybe he doesn't know that is what to do, it is also one of these occasions when the right thing to do is also the popular thing to do. It is just about being competent, listening to the experts and acting on there advise...
