Strewth, where to start?

Not quite a love letter to Trump but certainly and apologist for him.

I can understand the frustration of a fixation on Trump. I have it too. He is not the main problem, instead his popularity needs to be a acknowledged as a symptom of a wider malaise within American politics. As Michael Moore said 6 months before he was elected people are looking to throw a hand-grenade at the system and could well have supported Bernie Saunders if he had got the nod.

But to be claiming Trump's policies (most of which were funded by a severe rise in the deficit) as successful, is just a fanciful meme continuously unquestioned by his sycophants such as this author.

Sure there can be a distinction between Trump's presidency before Covid and after. But there are some really stark figures that should disavow any notion his policies did the US much good at all.

The federal debt went up, from $14.4 trillion to $21.6 trillion.

Illegal immigration increased dramatically.

The international trade deficit Trump promised to reduce instead ballooned, increasing 40.5% from 2016.

The record eight years and four months of monthly job gains from October 2010 ended in February 2019 when 50,000 jobs were lost that month.

He was not a good leader, nor a good president, because he had neither the skills nor the intellect to do the job.

But the problems which blight America still exist in plain sight. if they are not going to be addressed then Trump will again be a contender.

Hear, hear and well said, Foxy.

Trump was a disaster. What he wants now is to make Trump, alias America, great again.

Moreover he wants to win the next election for the immunity of office, and if he does, he will if he can have the constitution amended, so he like his good mate Putin, stay in office indefinitely. That's the plan, mark my words.

But do not worry he will not win, may not even win party preselection nor the primaries.

Against all odds, should he win, anyone who stands or stood in the way, eliminated. Those that support him the greatest losers, as trump will do what always use the easiest manipulated (white redneck morons) and then move on giving them SFA for their loyal support or millions in financial donations.

He will get any who stood in his way. His "mind" is focused on revenge.

His policies, if one can call them that, would destroy American economy as the debt ceiling pulls the economy into the financial cellar.

Debt funded growth can work, but only if the investments earn a quid or two, enough to service the debt and then still produce a profit above operating costs. Pipelines, toll roads, tunnels, bridges low-cost rental homes/apartments, etc.

One cannot borrow to fund current operational expenditure. That needs to come out of capital earnings.

Little wonder this financial " Genius" went bankrupt six or seven times.

Look what happened last time a madman won power! And, I believe, the "man" is madder than a cut snake.

The lessons of history are never learned, until they are, they must be endlessly repeated! Ah, sigh, bugger.
Alan B.

Here in Australia, anyone who goes bankrupt can never stand for public office. And with good reason.

Who would want a financial incompetent in charge of millions, or in the case of the US of A, trillions.

Only in America.

Thank heavens our residential white redneck morons are a tiny if vocal minority. For them anyone not of the extreme far right, is a mongrel lefty.

Thank heavens they operate in an echo chamber and the moderate middle just look with disbelief at their preferred dehumanising policies!

Germany has stepped up to the political plate, with never again, activism against a small, extreme far right political movement.

Here in Australia, they have infiltrated the coalition and have changed it from the once great party it was and in effect, forced the TEALS (more moderate of the right, fiscally conservate and socially progressive) into existence.

This result, all but pulled the teeth of the coalition.
Alan B.

As usual, unable to understand, let lone argue the big picture, SR decides to pick out a few details and pretend they are in fact the big picture.

And then gets those details hopelessly wrong.

eg "The federal debt went up, from $14.4 trillion to $21.6 trillion." says innumerate SR.

When Trump office in 2017 the Federal debt was c.$20 trillion. It had been c.$14 trillion back in 2011 but in the land of TDs inhabited by SR that was probably retrospectively caused by Trump.

What is it with SR and numbers?

BTW SR's other figures used in his post are just as wrong and/or dubious as his debt figures but who can be bothered picking each apart when its likely he just made them up in the first place.

Trump has been nominated for a Nobel for his Abraham Accords which were close to achieving a lasting peace in the Levant before Biden managed to screw it up. Putin was in his place. Xi also. NK was cowered. All without starting any new wars.

It was a presidency of consequence that only small minds failed to understand.

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In my opinion, the D.J. (Donald John Trump) is like sand in an oyster: a little produces a pearl, and too much kills the animal.

He has already woken us all up from a deep slumber in the Western world – because, with a single grain of sand, he produced a truly amazing pearl. But, heaven forbid, if ever he offloads more sand, we’ll all be done. Not a single survivor !

We can’t just let one man, no matter who he is, annihilate us all. That wouldn’t be democratic !

But the Sandman’s back and he’s carrying a huge sack of sand with him. He’s headed for that big juicy oyster again. But can he make it? He’s not so young anymore, and he looks tired. The sack is heavy and gets heavier every day. He still has a long way to go and there’s a pack of wolves out to get him.

He runs from courthouse to courthouse, from primary to primary but they keep catching up with him and he keeps fighting them off. He swears to get even with them and bury them all in sand, every single one of them …

That’s the end of this first episode, folks. Next episode next time.

In the next episode, we’ll see if the Sandman succeeds in eliminating his only remaining pearl-producing competitor, Nikki Haley. Nikki is a newcomer to the profession and travels light. She keeps a single grain of sand in one of her shoes and never has to stop off at the courthouses on the way to satisfy a pressing obligation.

The D.J. calls her ‘Nimrada’ (her Indian maiden name is Nimarata Nikki Randhawa) and he says she “doesn’t have what it takes” – presumably, a big bag of sand. He probably doesn't know she has a single grain of sand hidden in one of her shoes.

So, folks, tune in to the next episode next time to follow this fascinating … flop(!)

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Dearie me post-truth mhaze, you really should know the format by now. If you post some initial figures people can either take them as given or dispute them. However if you are disputing the figures used by someone else you really should provide a source.

http://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/trumps-final-numbers/ was where I got my figures from. If you have something more robust then happy to look at it, but just pulling them out of your backside doesn't cut it.