Trump’s New Spy Chief Worked For A Foreign Politician The U.S. Accused of Corruption

[AzogtheDefiler]

Yay, the race card. Lowest black unemployment in history. Really getting “screwed”... you’re so uneducated

black unemployment has been in a steady decline for at least 10 years.

Bureau of Labor Statistics Data

Yep and is at historic lows right now. Want me to post a chart on food stamps? It would be eye opening.

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If you Trumpubicans didn't have your lies, you would have NOTHING.

Oh, SNAP! Misleading Claims on Benefit Enrollment
AP FACT CHECK: Trump on drop in food stamp rolls

Your links didn't say I was lying. Did you even read them? I am an Independent. I am certainly not a Republican. I am certainly not a supporter of Socialism. You know who are not Democrats? Sanders and Bloomberg. LMAO!

I'm not a Bernie or Bloomy fan. But you probably know that Trump isn't a Republican OR a conservative RIGHT?

Yeah, he is a populist. I am an Independent so I voted for him over HRC. Who are you for?

 

[BlindBoo]

By the time GW left office it had fallen from over a hundred to below 60, when Obama took over. By the time he left office it had risen to 90.

United States Consumer Sentiment | 1952-2020 Data | 2021-2022 Forecast | Calendar

Yes, rates were at all time lows. So you could borrow freely and cheaply. What else did BHO do other than lower rates to the very bottom?

My point is that consumer confidence was dropping as early as 2007 and hit bottom during Obama's first term.

And what did he do to raise it other than lower interest rates to the floor and give 99 weeks of unemployment benefits?

What does it matter? By time he left office it was hovering around 90, from below 60. Since Trumpybear got elected it has still been rising, slowing but steadily. Just like the economy.

It is at 135. It matters because you cannot keep interest rates at bottom floors forever and under BHO we had a record number of people on food stamps. Unsustainable. Now it is much better because the demand for employees outweighs the supply so wages are rising and rates are 150bps higher than they were under BHO. The deficit is still an issue and that is due to entitlement spend.

Different index. This one shows an even a greater drop and then rise during Obama's terms. The reason so many were on food stamps and assistance was because of the million of jobs that were lost during the recession. Those record numbers were not caused by Obama.

United States | Consumer Confidence Index | Economic Indicators

 

[imawhosure]

He has zero experience in working with intelligence, as he has only been a diplomat. But, like I said, he's a loyal Trump supporter, so he's qualified to be his lackey and direct the intelligence agencies towards whatever Trump wants.

The intelligence agencies spent the last 3+ years investigation TRUMP with the Russia collusion hoax. Grenell is only going to be in there for a few months to clean up the political corruption within the intelligence agencies.

Kitty is correct. He and the person he brought with him are there to clear out the agencies, period.

That is exactly why you see all of the Leftist angst, while using every excuse in the book to make him look bad.

He and his partner have 1 job, and that is CLEAN OUT the Leftist partisans from the intelligence agencies. And without them, the Leftists have no misinformation to leak!

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Yes, rates were at all time lows. So you could borrow freely and cheaply. What else did BHO do other than lower rates to the very bottom?

My point is that consumer confidence was dropping as early as 2007 and hit bottom during Obama's first term.

And what did he do to raise it other than lower interest rates to the floor and give 99 weeks of unemployment benefits?

What does it matter? By time he left office it was hovering around 90, from below 60. Since Trumpybear got elected it has still been rising, slowing but steadily. Just like the economy.

It is at 135. It matters because you cannot keep interest rates at bottom floors forever and under BHO we had a record number of people on food stamps. Unsustainable. Now it is much better because the demand for employees outweighs the supply so wages are rising and rates are 150bps higher than they were under BHO. The deficit is still an issue and that is due to entitlement spend.

Different index. This one shows an even a greater drop and then rise during Obama's terms. The reason so many were on food stamps and assistance was because of the million of jobs that were lost during the recession. Those record numbers were not caused by Obama.

United States | Consumer Confidence Index | Economic Indicators

But it kept rising into 2013? When the recovery took place? How do you explain that?

 

[DrLove]

black unemployment has been in a steady decline for at least 10 years.

Bureau of Labor Statistics Data

Yep and is at historic lows right now. Want me to post a chart on food stamps? It would be eye opening.

View attachment 308117

If you Trumpubicans didn't have your lies, you would have NOTHING.

Oh, SNAP! Misleading Claims on Benefit Enrollment
AP FACT CHECK: Trump on drop in food stamp rolls

Your links didn't say I was lying. Did you even read them? I am an Independent. I am certainly not a Republican. I am certainly not a supporter of Socialism. You know who are not Democrats? Sanders and Bloomberg. LMAO!

I'm not a Bernie or Bloomy fan. But you probably know that Trump isn't a Republican OR a conservative RIGHT?

Yeah, he is a populist. I am an Independent so I voted for him over HRC. Who are you for?

As a moderate indy, Amy or Pete. No more billionaires, no more autocrats, no more old fuckers, no more angry socialists, and no more corrupt, amoral pricks.

Aren't you just a LITTLE bit embarrassed that you voted for the Orange Turd?

 

[easyt65]

Whoever the pick is should be someone from the 'outside', not one of the 'Deep State' groomed from the inside....

 

[BlindBoo]

My point is that consumer confidence was dropping as early as 2007 and hit bottom during Obama's first term.

And what did he do to raise it other than lower interest rates to the floor and give 99 weeks of unemployment benefits?

What does it matter? By time he left office it was hovering around 90, from below 60. Since Trumpybear got elected it has still been rising, slowing but steadily. Just like the economy.

It is at 135. It matters because you cannot keep interest rates at bottom floors forever and under BHO we had a record number of people on food stamps. Unsustainable. Now it is much better because the demand for employees outweighs the supply so wages are rising and rates are 150bps higher than they were under BHO. The deficit is still an issue and that is due to entitlement spend.

Different index. This one shows an even a greater drop and then rise during Obama's terms. The reason so many were on food stamps and assistance was because of the million of jobs that were lost during the recession. Those record numbers were not caused by Obama.

United States | Consumer Confidence Index | Economic Indicators

But it kept rising into 2013? When the recovery took place? How do you explain that?

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All the benefits are based on the poverty level. That figure, the poverty level, increases every year. Combined with stagnant wages, people who had to take lower paying jobs meant that more people qualified. Another reason for a delay effect is the fact that people don't want to be on public assistance and many will deplete their savings and only resort to it as a the last option.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Yep and is at historic lows right now. Want me to post a chart on food stamps? It would be eye opening.

View attachment 308117

If you Trumpubicans didn't have your lies, you would have NOTHING.

Oh, SNAP! Misleading Claims on Benefit Enrollment
AP FACT CHECK: Trump on drop in food stamp rolls

Your links didn't say I was lying. Did you even read them? I am an Independent. I am certainly not a Republican. I am certainly not a supporter of Socialism. You know who are not Democrats? Sanders and Bloomberg. LMAO!

I'm not a Bernie or Bloomy fan. But you probably know that Trump isn't a Republican OR a conservative RIGHT?

Yeah, he is a populist. I am an Independent so I voted for him over HRC. Who are you for?

As a moderate indy, Amy or Pete. No more billionaires, no more autocrats, no more old fuckers, no more angry socialists, and no more corrupt, amoral pricks.

Aren't you just a LITTLE bit embarrassed that you voted for the Orange Turd?

No. Trump is the effect not the cause. I am actually very glad. I am about free markets and about open truth. It’s time we all leveled with another about how we really feel. No more political correctness and flat out lying to one another. Plus the alternative in 2016 was unthinkable. I will happily vote for him again in 2020. But I thank you for your question. I prefer brutal honesty to fake politeness.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

And what did he do to raise it other than lower interest rates to the floor and give 99 weeks of unemployment benefits?

What does it matter? By time he left office it was hovering around 90, from below 60. Since Trumpybear got elected it has still been rising, slowing but steadily. Just like the economy.

It is at 135. It matters because you cannot keep interest rates at bottom floors forever and under BHO we had a record number of people on food stamps. Unsustainable. Now it is much better because the demand for employees outweighs the supply so wages are rising and rates are 150bps higher than they were under BHO. The deficit is still an issue and that is due to entitlement spend.

Different index. This one shows an even a greater drop and then rise during Obama's terms. The reason so many were on food stamps and assistance was because of the million of jobs that were lost during the recession. Those record numbers were not caused by Obama.

United States | Consumer Confidence Index | Economic Indicators

But it kept rising into 2013? When the recovery took place? How do you explain that?

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All the benefits are based on the poverty level. That figure, the poverty level, increases every year. Combined with stagnant wages, people who had to take lower paying jobs meant that more people qualified. Another reason for a delay effect is the fact that people don't want to be on public assistance and many will deplete their savings and only resort to it as a the last option.

Yes and yet under BHO and his great recovery we had a record number of people on food stamps. Not good. Not the case under Trump. Reason being so many jobs and wages increasing.

 

[mudwhistle]

Consumer confidence took off once the Democrats and their propagandists stopped trashing the economy.

By the time GW left office it had fallen from over a hundred to below 60, when Obama took over. By the time he left office it had risen to 90.

United States Consumer Sentiment | 1952-2020 Data | 2021-2022 Forecast | Calendar

Yes, rates were at all time lows. So you could borrow freely and cheaply. What else did BHO do other than lower rates to the very bottom?

My point is that consumer confidence was dropping as early as 2007 and hit bottom during Obama's first term.

And what did he do to raise it other than lower interest rates to the floor and give 99 weeks of unemployment benefits?

What does it matter? By time he left office it was hovering around 90, from below 60. Since Trumpybear got elected it has still been rising, slowing but steadily. Just like the economy.

Course when Obama took office there was nowhere else to go but up.
He proceeded to raise taxes and increase spending astronomically.
Then he started quantitative easing monitizing and offsetting the new debt.

 

[playtime]

looking at the chart the trend has been climbing steadily b4 & since donny took office.

again - numbers don't lie.

So it was climbing before BHO took office so should we thank idiot Bush? By now we should be in a recession and we are still climbing. That is due to high consumer confidence and record low unemployment, which resulted in wage growth for the first time in 30 years.

we were bleeding out 100s of thousands of jobs monthly by the time bush left office. that steady consumer confidance didn't kick in until after he was gone.

It didn't kick in until rates were lowered to the floor, unemployment went up to a crazy 99 weeks and QE started pumping trillions into the economy. But what did BHO do specifically to raise corporate and consumer confidence? I cannot think of one thing. Can you?

& i remember when bush's tax cuts were sunsetted. bigcorp demanded it not be & the only way those people were able to keep their unemployment checks for 18 more months was if them thar tax cuts were extended 2 more years because as boenher said, 'they are the job creators'. uh-huh.

tax cuts & deregs only go one way in the long run.

You didn't answer my question. But OK. Bush was a terrible president and is the cause for the majority of our deficit. I do not disagree with you there. Would taxing billionaires at 90% encourage job creation? Lowering tax rates, giving credits for R&D and making us more competitive globally does create jobs.

the tax rate was 90% under eisenhower's presidency & those were some of the most productive & economically beneficial years america has seen. companies re invested in overhead & paid their workers good wages to keep that rate as far down as they could. it didn't go into their pockets anywhere near as their salaries rake in now. eisenhower - a (R) was also a pro union dude.

ironically the years after - JFK a democrat lowered it down to 70% & it was still a rocking economy where the middle class flourished.

 

[playtime]

What does it matter? By time he left office it was hovering around 90, from below 60. Since Trumpybear got elected it has still been rising, slowing but steadily. Just like the economy.

It is at 135. It matters because you cannot keep interest rates at bottom floors forever and under BHO we had a record number of people on food stamps. Unsustainable. Now it is much better because the demand for employees outweighs the supply so wages are rising and rates are 150bps higher than they were under BHO. The deficit is still an issue and that is due to entitlement spend.

Different index. This one shows an even a greater drop and then rise during Obama's terms. The reason so many were on food stamps and assistance was because of the million of jobs that were lost during the recession. Those record numbers were not caused by Obama.

United States | Consumer Confidence Index | Economic Indicators

But it kept rising into 2013? When the recovery took place? How do you explain that?

View attachment 308533

All the benefits are based on the poverty level. That figure, the poverty level, increases every year. Combined with stagnant wages, people who had to take lower paying jobs meant that more people qualified. Another reason for a delay effect is the fact that people don't want to be on public assistance and many will deplete their savings and only resort to it as a the last option.

Yes and yet under BHO and his great recovery we had a record number of people on food stamps. Not good. Not the case under Trump. Reason being so many jobs and wages increasing.

people on food stamps work. ask them at walmart... or at mickey Ds.

or seniors... a vast majority of those 'welfare queens' are the elderly.

 

[DrLove]

It is at 135. It matters because you cannot keep interest rates at bottom floors forever and under BHO we had a record number of people on food stamps. Unsustainable. Now it is much better because the demand for employees outweighs the supply so wages are rising and rates are 150bps higher than they were under BHO. The deficit is still an issue and that is due to entitlement spend.

Different index. This one shows an even a greater drop and then rise during Obama's terms. The reason so many were on food stamps and assistance was because of the million of jobs that were lost during the recession. Those record numbers were not caused by Obama.

United States | Consumer Confidence Index | Economic Indicators

But it kept rising into 2013? When the recovery took place? How do you explain that?

View attachment 308533

All the benefits are based on the poverty level. That figure, the poverty level, increases every year. Combined with stagnant wages, people who had to take lower paying jobs meant that more people qualified. Another reason for a delay effect is the fact that people don't want to be on public assistance and many will deplete their savings and only resort to it as a the last option.

Yes and yet under BHO and his great recovery we had a record number of people on food stamps. Not good. Not the case under Trump. Reason being so many jobs and wages increasing.

people on food stamps work. ask them at walmart... or at mickey Ds.

or seniors... a vast majority of those 'welfare queens' are the elderly.

Yep, somewhere around 90% of SNAP recipients are either working one or more jobs, are elderly, are mentally or physically disabled, are single mothers with very young children they can't afford day care for, are in college, or are CHILDREN.

 

[WTH_Progs?]

Richard Grenell did not disclose payments for advocacy work on behalf of a Moldovan politician whom the U.S. later accused of corruption.

President Donald Trump’s new acting intelligence director, Richard Grenell, used to do consulting work on behalf of an Eastern European oligarch who is now a fugitive and was recently barred from entering the U.S. under anti-corruption sanctions imposed last month by the State Department.

In 2016, Grenell wrote several articles defending the oligarch, a Moldovan politician named Vladimir Plahotniuc, but did not disclose that he was being paid, according to records and interviews. Grenell also did not register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which generally requires people to disclose work in the U.S. on behalf of foreign politicians.

FARA is the same law that Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and former deputy campaign manager Rick Gates were convicted of violating. (Manafort went to trial. Gates pleaded guilty.)

Much More: Trump’s New Spy Chief Worked For A Foreign Politician The U.S. Accused of Corruption

Trump only hires the best. Grenell is now in charge of all 17 of out intelligence agencies. What do you think?

We should impeach Trump

 

[BlindBoo]

What does it matter? By time he left office it was hovering around 90, from below 60. Since Trumpybear got elected it has still been rising, slowing but steadily. Just like the economy.

It is at 135. It matters because you cannot keep interest rates at bottom floors forever and under BHO we had a record number of people on food stamps. Unsustainable. Now it is much better because the demand for employees outweighs the supply so wages are rising and rates are 150bps higher than they were under BHO. The deficit is still an issue and that is due to entitlement spend.

Different index. This one shows an even a greater drop and then rise during Obama's terms. The reason so many were on food stamps and assistance was because of the million of jobs that were lost during the recession. Those record numbers were not caused by Obama.

United States | Consumer Confidence Index | Economic Indicators

But it kept rising into 2013? When the recovery took place? How do you explain that?

View attachment 308533

All the benefits are based on the poverty level. That figure, the poverty level, increases every year. Combined with stagnant wages, people who had to take lower paying jobs meant that more people qualified. Another reason for a delay effect is the fact that people don't want to be on public assistance and many will deplete their savings and only resort to it as a the last option.

Yes and yet under BHO and his great recovery we had a record number of people on food stamps. Not good. Not the case under Trump. Reason being so many jobs and wages increasing.

By the time GW left office it had fallen from over a hundred to below 60, when Obama took over. By the time he left office it had risen to 90.

United States Consumer Sentiment | 1952-2020 Data | 2021-2022 Forecast | Calendar

Yes, rates were at all time lows. So you could borrow freely and cheaply. What else did BHO do other than lower rates to the very bottom?

My point is that consumer confidence was dropping as early as 2007 and hit bottom during Obama's first term.

And what did he do to raise it other than lower interest rates to the floor and give 99 weeks of unemployment benefits?

What does it matter? By time he left office it was hovering around 90, from below 60. Since Trumpybear got elected it has still been rising, slowing but steadily. Just like the economy.

Course when Obama took office there was nowhere else to go but up.
He proceeded to raise taxes and increase spending astronomically.
Then he started quantitative easing monitizing and offsetting the new debt.

Historical revisionism.

https://www.https://www.thebalance....-3306296thebalance.com/obama-tax-cuts-3306330

Which President Increased U.S. Debt the Most?

Food Stamp numbers began rising in 2008.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

So it was climbing before BHO took office so should we thank idiot Bush? By now we should be in a recession and we are still climbing. That is due to high consumer confidence and record low unemployment, which resulted in wage growth for the first time in 30 years.

we were bleeding out 100s of thousands of jobs monthly by the time bush left office. that steady consumer confidance didn't kick in until after he was gone.

It didn't kick in until rates were lowered to the floor, unemployment went up to a crazy 99 weeks and QE started pumping trillions into the economy. But what did BHO do specifically to raise corporate and consumer confidence? I cannot think of one thing. Can you?

& i remember when bush's tax cuts were sunsetted. bigcorp demanded it not be & the only way those people were able to keep their unemployment checks for 18 more months was if them thar tax cuts were extended 2 more years because as boenher said, 'they are the job creators'. uh-huh.

tax cuts & deregs only go one way in the long run.

You didn't answer my question. But OK. Bush was a terrible president and is the cause for the majority of our deficit. I do not disagree with you there. Would taxing billionaires at 90% encourage job creation? Lowering tax rates, giving credits for R&D and making us more competitive globally does create jobs.

the tax rate was 90% under eisenhower's presidency & those were some of the most productive & economically beneficial years america has seen. companies re invested in overhead & paid their workers good wages to keep that rate as far down as they could. it didn't go into their pockets anywhere near as their salaries rake in now. eisenhower - a (R) was also a pro union dude.

ironically the years after - JFK a democrat lowered it down to 70% & it was still a rocking economy where the middle class flourished.

Effective tax rate was always around ~40% due to the loopholes.

Between 1950 and 1959, he notes, the highest earning 1 percent of Americans paid an effective tax rate of 42 percent.

Did the Rich Really Pay Much Higher Taxes in the 1950s? The Answer Is a Little Complicated.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

It is at 135. It matters because you cannot keep interest rates at bottom floors forever and under BHO we had a record number of people on food stamps. Unsustainable. Now it is much better because the demand for employees outweighs the supply so wages are rising and rates are 150bps higher than they were under BHO. The deficit is still an issue and that is due to entitlement spend.

Different index. This one shows an even a greater drop and then rise during Obama's terms. The reason so many were on food stamps and assistance was because of the million of jobs that were lost during the recession. Those record numbers were not caused by Obama.

United States | Consumer Confidence Index | Economic Indicators

But it kept rising into 2013? When the recovery took place? How do you explain that?

View attachment 308533

All the benefits are based on the poverty level. That figure, the poverty level, increases every year. Combined with stagnant wages, people who had to take lower paying jobs meant that more people qualified. Another reason for a delay effect is the fact that people don't want to be on public assistance and many will deplete their savings and only resort to it as a the last option.

Yes and yet under BHO and his great recovery we had a record number of people on food stamps. Not good. Not the case under Trump. Reason being so many jobs and wages increasing.

people on food stamps work. ask them at walmart... or at mickey Ds.

or seniors... a vast majority of those 'welfare queens' are the elderly.

Link it. I do not agree. See how many game the system...How do you explain the precipitous decline under Trump? We suddenly have fewer elderly persons?

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Different index. This one shows an even a greater drop and then rise during Obama's terms. The reason so many were on food stamps and assistance was because of the million of jobs that were lost during the recession. Those record numbers were not caused by Obama.

United States | Consumer Confidence Index | Economic Indicators

But it kept rising into 2013? When the recovery took place? How do you explain that?

View attachment 308533

All the benefits are based on the poverty level. That figure, the poverty level, increases every year. Combined with stagnant wages, people who had to take lower paying jobs meant that more people qualified. Another reason for a delay effect is the fact that people don't want to be on public assistance and many will deplete their savings and only resort to it as a the last option.

Yes and yet under BHO and his great recovery we had a record number of people on food stamps. Not good. Not the case under Trump. Reason being so many jobs and wages increasing.

people on food stamps work. ask them at walmart... or at mickey Ds.

or seniors... a vast majority of those 'welfare queens' are the elderly.

Yep, somewhere around 90% of SNAP recipients are either working one or more jobs, are elderly, are mentally or physically disabled, are single mothers with very young children they can't afford day care for, are in college, or are CHILDREN.

If you cannot afford kids, do not have them!

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

It is at 135. It matters because you cannot keep interest rates at bottom floors forever and under BHO we had a record number of people on food stamps. Unsustainable. Now it is much better because the demand for employees outweighs the supply so wages are rising and rates are 150bps higher than they were under BHO. The deficit is still an issue and that is due to entitlement spend.

Different index. This one shows an even a greater drop and then rise during Obama's terms. The reason so many were on food stamps and assistance was because of the million of jobs that were lost during the recession. Those record numbers were not caused by Obama.

United States | Consumer Confidence Index | Economic Indicators

But it kept rising into 2013? When the recovery took place? How do you explain that?

View attachment 308533

All the benefits are based on the poverty level. That figure, the poverty level, increases every year. Combined with stagnant wages, people who had to take lower paying jobs meant that more people qualified. Another reason for a delay effect is the fact that people don't want to be on public assistance and many will deplete their savings and only resort to it as a the last option.

Yes and yet under BHO and his great recovery we had a record number of people on food stamps. Not good. Not the case under Trump. Reason being so many jobs and wages increasing.

Yes, rates were at all time lows. So you could borrow freely and cheaply. What else did BHO do other than lower rates to the very bottom?

My point is that consumer confidence was dropping as early as 2007 and hit bottom during Obama's first term.

And what did he do to raise it other than lower interest rates to the floor and give 99 weeks of unemployment benefits?

What does it matter? By time he left office it was hovering around 90, from below 60. Since Trumpybear got elected it has still been rising, slowing but steadily. Just like the economy.

Course when Obama took office there was nowhere else to go but up.
He proceeded to raise taxes and increase spending astronomically.
Then he started quantitative easing monitizing and offsetting the new debt.

Historical revisionism.

https://www.https://www.thebalance....-3306296thebalance.com/obama-tax-cuts-3306330

Which President Increased U.S. Debt the Most?

Food Stamp numbers began rising in 2008.

Bush was awful, Obama worse. Trump better?

 

[DrLove]

But it kept rising into 2013? When the recovery took place? How do you explain that?

View attachment 308533

All the benefits are based on the poverty level. That figure, the poverty level, increases every year. Combined with stagnant wages, people who had to take lower paying jobs meant that more people qualified. Another reason for a delay effect is the fact that people don't want to be on public assistance and many will deplete their savings and only resort to it as a the last option.

Yes and yet under BHO and his great recovery we had a record number of people on food stamps. Not good. Not the case under Trump. Reason being so many jobs and wages increasing.

people on food stamps work. ask them at walmart... or at mickey Ds.

or seniors... a vast majority of those 'welfare queens' are the elderly.

Yep, somewhere around 90% of SNAP recipients are either working one or more jobs, are elderly, are mentally or physically disabled, are single mothers with very young children they can't afford day care for, are in college, or are CHILDREN.

If you cannot afford kids, do not have them!

Translation: Don't make birth control OR abortion available to those sluts, and God bless deadbeat Dads.