Is Trump going to run for re-election?

[Jim in CT]

i say no, that Pence runs with Nikki Haley.

[The Dad Fisherman]

I say yes, because he's a narcissistic #^&#^&#^&#^&
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[scottw]

I just want to see how the left reacts if the repubs keep the house and senate and trump wins reelection

[Raider Ronnie]

Originally Posted by scottw

I just want to see how the left reacts if the repubs keep the house and senate and trump wins reelection

Not If, When 👍
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[wdmso]

why not he has nothing to lose.. and who on the right will challenge him any way for the nomination?

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by scottw

I just want to see how the left reacts if the repubs keep the house and senate and trump wins reelection

They'll go bonkers of they don't take the house. They've gone all-in on this kind of mob-like campaign strategy, they literally have nothing left, if it doesn't work, the snowflakes will implode, and by that, I mean completely implode.

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by wdmso

why not he has nothing to lose.. and who on the right will challenge him any way for the nomination?

No one will challenge him if he runs again, and they'd have no reason to, he'd delivering on most of promises. The democrats primary challenged Jimmy Carter, because the country was falling apart. That's not happening now. Check your pay-stub and your pension investment returns.

[Got Stripers]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

No one will challenge him if he runs again, and they'd have no reason to, he'd delivering on most of promises. The democrats primary challenged Jimmy Carter, because the country was falling apart. That's not happening now. Check your pay-stub and your pension investment returns.

Well I’m retired so no pay stub to check, but I’m thankful I’m not to invested in the market, but even so I’m down 3% in one year. Not as rosey as you pint it.

Got one other word of caution for you “trillion” plus deficit.
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[Nebe]

I love the announcement today that the Trump regime is going to release a mid income tax cut right before mid term elections in early November. It’s like throwing crumbs to the peasants.
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[scottw]

Originally Posted by Nebe

I love the announcement today that the Trump regime is going to release a mid income tax cut right before mid term elections in early November. It’s like throwing crumbs to the peasants.
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except the peasants worked to earn their crumbs....the government is just taking fewer crumbs from the peasants who earned them...see how that works?..plus...it's better than an Obamaphone

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by Got Stripers

Well I’m retired so no pay stub to check, but I’m thankful I’m not to invested in the market, but even so I’m down 3% in one year. Not as rosey as you pint it.

Got one other word of caution for you “trillion” plus deficit.
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well my whole ira is in the stock market and i love trump for it. true about the debt. he is judged by his whole term, not one year. the market is up nicely since january 2107.
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[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by Nebe

I love the announcement today that the Trump regime is going to release a mid income tax cut right before mid term elections in early November. It’s like throwing crumbs to the peasants.
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and obama did what, exactly, that helped us more? those crumbs were $200 a month to me. that’s not crumbs. maybe to you, not to this peasant. if you’re so offended by it, can we assume you aren’t keeping your extra take home pay you got from the first gop tax cut?
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[Nebe]

It’s the irony of the timing.
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[scottw]

yeah, like the Kavanaugh accuser(s), the latest caravan from the south, happens all the time in politics, the "ironic timing" thing....at least this is a pleasant surprise

[wdmso]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

and obama did what, exactly, that helped us more? those crumbs were $200 a month to me. that’s not crumbs. maybe to you, not to this peasant. if you’re so offended by it, can we assume you aren’t keeping your extra take home pay you got from the first gop tax cut?
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If I thought for a second Trump was the only reason for my retirement plan rise 1 I would be a fool. 2nd It was already going up 0n 9\30 \15 had 106 k 10\22\18 I have 136k my contributions have never changed the only time i have lost money was last month .. So on paper Trump has changed nothing .. As for 200 buck a month From his Tax cut I know I am not seeing that ..

I have much higher expectations from any POTUS.. then what my retirement balance looks like..

[scottw]

Originally Posted by wdmso

So on paper Trump has changed nothing .. As for 200 buck a month From his Tax cut I know I am not seeing that ..

.

at least your Obamaphone still works

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by wdmso

If I thought for a second Trump was the only reason for my retirement plan rise 1 I would be a fool. 2nd It was already going up 0n 9\30 \15 had 106 k 10\22\18 I have 136k my contributions have never changed the only time i have lost money was last month .. So on paper Trump has changed nothing .. As for 200 buck a month From his Tax cut I know I am not seeing that ..

I have much higher expectations from any POTUS.. then what my retirement balance looks like..

congratulations, you’ve made the most economically illiterate post in the history of the internet.

trump changed nothing? the tax cuts, the elimination of regulations, amount to ‘nothing’? Apple saying they are adding 20,000 new jobs is nothing?
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[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

congratulations, you’ve made the most economically illiterate post in the history of the internet.

trump changed nothing? the tax cuts, the elimination of regulations, amount to ‘nothing’? Apple saying they are adding 20,000 new jobs is nothing?
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Nothing to see here

[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally Posted by Nebe

It’s the irony of the timing.
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Well, sometimes timing backfires

[Nebe]

Why don’t you focus your anger on the possibility of the gop screwing with your SoCal security or Medicare.... seems like that will effect you more than focusing on warrens ancestry
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[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Why don’t you focus your anger on the possibility of the gop screwing with your SoCal security or Medicare.... seems like that will effect you more than focusing on warrens ancestry
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Anger??? What anger, I find the whole thing hysterical.

Although it does look like that triggered "someone"

and you brought up the irony of Timing, she pulled this stunt to make Trump look bad, and it back fired on her. She is now a punch line.

[Slipknot]

Originally Posted by Nebe

It’s the irony of the timing.
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I wouldn't say irony
more strategic than ironic

letting the people who can use the tax cut most know about the plan ahead of the mid-term elections is smart if congress is to be able to pass it, so as long as the Right controls, it should pass. I'm not sure why even Democrats would not want tax cuts but everyone makes choices.

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman

Well, sometimes timing backfires

Some people are told stories in their childhood that are believed to be true, others are taught to lie.

It seems the Trump family has been lying about their ancestry for a couple of generations. Donald Trump himself claimed in his book Trump: The Art of the Deal from 1987 that his father came to America as a boy, having emigrated from Sweden.

But it's not true. At least not according to the biographies The Trumps: Three Generations That Built An Empire by Gwenda Blair, and The lost tycoon by Henry Hurt.


In their research into the Trump family, both author's have come to the conclusion that the Swedish origins was just a story invented by Trump's father. During the middle of the 19th century, Trump's true descent - German - was simply bad for business.

“In the 1940s, people, especially in the real estate industry in New York, didn't want to hear that somebody was German — so let's get rid of that. Let's be Swedish,” Gwenda Blair said in an inteview with Inside Edition.

According to the New York Times, Donald Trump even asked his father why he had to keep the lie going at the time of writing Trump: the Art of the Deal.


Henry Hurt writes that the reason for continuing the story was to not upset the Jewish tenants of Trump real estate, reports Aftonbladet.

The true story is that Trump's grandparents on his father's side came to America from the German town of Kallstadt in 1905. On his mother's side, Trump's ancestry is Scottish.

"I don't believe there's any Swedish ancestry whatsoever," biographer Gwenda Blair said.

[scottw]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Why don’t you focus your anger
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who is angry? we're all laughing

[scottw]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

"I don't believe there's any Swedish ancestry whatsoever," biographer Gwenda Blair said.

who cares?

[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

Some people are told stories in their childhood that are believed to be true, others are taught to lie.

It seems the Trump family has been lying about their ancestry for a couple of generations. Donald Trump himself claimed in his book Trump: The Art of the Deal from 1987 that his father came to America as a boy, having emigrated from Sweden.

But it's not true. At least not according to the biographies The Trumps: Three Generations That Built An Empire by Gwenda Blair, and The lost tycoon by Henry Hurt.


In their research into the Trump family, both author's have come to the conclusion that the Swedish origins was just a story invented by Trump's father. During the middle of the 19th century, Trump's true descent - German - was simply bad for business.

“In the 1940s, people, especially in the real estate industry in New York, didn't want to hear that somebody was German — so let's get rid of that. Let's be Swedish,” Gwenda Blair said in an inteview with Inside Edition.

According to the New York Times, Donald Trump even asked his father why he had to keep the lie going at the time of writing Trump: the Art of the Deal.


Henry Hurt writes that the reason for continuing the story was to not upset the Jewish tenants of Trump real estate, reports Aftonbladet.

The true story is that Trump's grandparents on his father's side came to America from the German town of Kallstadt in 1905. On his mother's side, Trump's ancestry is Scottish.

"I don't believe there's any Swedish ancestry whatsoever," biographer Gwenda Blair said.

So if Trump did a DNA test and it came back 1/1024th Swedish you'd be OK with his claims then?

for someone who isn't a fan of the "Whataboutism" you came back pretty quickly with a "Whataboutism"

[scottw]

Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman

for someone who isn't a fan of the "Whataboutism" you came back pretty quickly with a "Whataboutism"

ironic timing...

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman

So if Trump did a DNA test and it came back 1/1024th Swedish you'd be OK with his claims then?

for someone who isn't a fan of the "Whataboutism" you came back pretty quickly with a "Whataboutism"

I care more about his total indifference to truth than what his genetic heritage is.

Doesn't fit whataboutism definition, it's a reflection not a deflection.
Trump is the person who politicized the Pocahontas line

He too claimed a heritage that at best was suspect, but that likely he was taught to lie about.

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by Nebe

I love the announcement today that the Trump regime is going to release a mid income tax cut right before mid term elections in early November. Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

How about the timing of 10,000 immigrants marching towards the border just before the elections? That's a coincidence? Or are 10,000 poor people being used as pawns?

[scottw]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

How about the timing of 10,000 immigrants marching towards the border just before the elections? That's a coincidence? Or are 10,000 poor people being used as pawns?

they're trying to get here in time to vote for democrats