***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[aepps20]

The umbrella is black.....

The umbrella is a metaphor for Trump's treatment of biscuit folks. He will use you and leave you out in the cold once he's done.

 

[RustyShackleford]

Maybe his clown *** will stop taking about dangerous "globalist" now.

 

[rexanglorum]

Maybe his clown *** will stop taking about dangerous "globalist" now.

He should but you know Trump will be defended by the Conservative Jews like Dennis Prager and Michael Medved (whom I propose shall be known as Buttered Challah Bread boys)

 

[blastercombo]

Killed 8 people

Shot 3 cops

Taken alive

“We didn’t fear for our lives at any point”

 

[stuntman mike]

arming yourself with a gun in church? i’m sure jesus would have been 100% behind that idea
any supposed christian still supporting this guy is full of crap.

 

[whywesteppin]

 

[whywesteppin]

arming yourself with a gun in church? i’m sure jesus would have been 100% behind that idea
any supposed christian still supporting this guy is full of crap.

and as pointed out, 3 cops got shot too. but someone in the synagogue packing heat for morning prayers would've stopped an AR15.

 

[gry60]

Deplorables are something else.

All of sudden, "nobody preached violence on Obama," "nobody threatened to use their second amendment when the left called for responsible gun control measures," "gun manufacturers didn't get record sales after every mass shooting between 2009 and 2016 fueled by the Republican anti-democratic hype machine," "nobody said 'maybe the second amendment folks will do something' when talking about a presidential candidate," "nobody promised to cover legal fees for whoever assaults protesters present at the GOP candidate's rally," "marches and protests are totally, totally comparable to sending pipe bombs to politicians and gunning down religious minorities."

 

[boris]

Just remember, Comrades, killing people is already illegal, so there's nothing that could have been done to stop this.

 

[getback]

Better get working on that border wall and Muslim ban! Oh wait...

 

[AEA18]

Told me to my face he hated my kind and people like me and other groups he hated should be eradicated but he was a good delivery guy ¯\_(ツ)_/ ¯ ¯\_(ツ)_/ ¯ ¯\_(ツ)_/ ¯

These are the kind of people that really piss me off.

Being racist is not just "different political views". That woman is insane for being around him after he told her that she would be on the island with Obama and Hilary that he would blow up.

She accepted a ride in his racist van where she saw beheaded puppets and nooses.

Dude should have been on all kinds of watchlist but it's Florida and that level of racism is just accepted down there.

 

[boris]

Where's that one guy who was crying about racism towards white people?

 

[blastercombo]

That lady should be in jail too

 

[stuntman mike]

an anti-hispanic filipino

 

[IATT]

 

[RustyShackleford]

an anti-hispanic filipino

Da diaspora on diaspora hate, b

 

[RustyShackleford]

Anderson Copper's face in that video got me weak

 

[Belgium]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-economy-flashes-signs-its-downhill-from-here-1540656002
U.S. Economy Flashes Signs It’s Downhill From Here
A slowdown in growth would have big implications for stocks, the Fed and President Trump
What if that was as good as it gets?

The Commerce Department reported Friday that U.S. gross domestic productexpanded at a 3.5% annual rate in the third quarter.

Coming off a 4.2% growth rate in the second quarter, it marked one of the best six-month stretches for the U.S. economy in the past decade.

However, private analysts and the Federal Reserve say a slowdown is looming.Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal estimate the growth rate will slow to 2.5% by the first quarter of next year and 2.3% by the third quarter of 2019. The Fed is expecting growth to slow further to a 1.8% rate by 2021.

“We think U.S. growth may have just peaked,” said Michael Gapen, chief U.S. economist for Barclays Capital, who is in Wall Street’s big-slowdown camp.

Few believe a recession is near, and the expansion is widely expected to become the longest on record next year. Still, a slowdown in growth would have big implications for stocks, the central bank and President Trump. The White House says faster growth is evidence that tax cuts and its deregulatory stance are working, and that the growth acceleration they produced are sustainable.

Mr. Gapen said two big drivers of growth this year—consumers and government spending—will slow in the months ahead. Consumer spending has picked up, thanks to tax cuts. He says the spending impetus from income-tax cuts tends to be greatest in the first two quarters after they’re enacted, and then fades over about eight quarters. Thus consumer-spending growth, which hit a robust 4% annual rate in the third quarter, should slow in the months ahead, though he said strong household saving and low unemployment will prevent a sharp drop-off.

In February, the White House and Congress agreed to increase federal government spending by $300 billion above earlier spending caps. That will propel government spending for several more months, boosting growth, but the budget agreement runs out next September. That means its impact, too, will fade, unless the next Congress agrees to more.

Mr. Gapen noted that the big wild card for growth is business investment. Business tax cuts are meant to increase investment in software, plants and equipment, boosting the economy’s growth rate now and its potential to grow far into the future.

The White House projection of sustained 3% growth hinges on a business-investment boom. It looked like that was happening early in the year. Business investment grew at an 11.5% rate in the first quarter, with gains across many categories, including machines, intellectual property and big structures. But it has faded since, registering just 0.8% growth in the third quarter. That includes a drop in investment in structures such as oil-and-gas rigs, which had been a big driver of growth.

“That’s a worry, particularly after (businesses) got a nice big check from Uncle Sam,” said Beth Ann Bovino, an economist at S&P Global Ratings.

For the White House forecast to play out, business investment would have to rebound. A lower corporate tax rate—down to 21% from 35%—might help. But uncertainty about U.S. trade disputes with China and others might be making business executives wary about proceeding aggressively with new projects.

“The economy is still strong other than some of this noise introduced by the trade tariffs and whatnot,” said Douglas Waggoner, chief executive of freight broker Echo Global Logistics Inc., during an earnings call Wednesday. “We don’t really have a read whether this is just a temporary glitch or a start of a trend.”

The investment picture matters immensely for the Fed as well. If businesses plow money into new software and machines, it increases the chances worker productivity will rise, allowing the economy to grow faster without causing inflation. Stronger productivity would take pressure off the central bank to keep raising interest rates. Without follow-through on business investment, the U.S. could face a different outcome: less growth and more inflation that requires the Fed to keep pushing rates higher.

Interest rate-sensitive sectors already show signs of wobbling. Home building has contracted in five of the past six quarters. Moreover, a stronger dollar, which raises the cost of exports to foreign buyers, could weigh on U.S. trade.

Why has the stock market stumbled of late? Mr. Gapen said investors appear to be sniffing out the slowdown that economists have been calling for several months. While earnings growth was strong in the third quarter, and many analysts still expect double-digit earnings growth through next year, some executives sound wary.

Garbage-hauling and recycling company Waste Management Inc. said Thursday that net income was up 29% from a year earlier in the third quarter, but Devina Rankin, chief financial officer, said “the economy is probably at a peak.”

“There’s definitely some room to go from here,” she said. “But we talked about the length of growth in this economy and the expectation that it could turn from here.”

 

[RustyShackleford]

He should but you know Trump will be defended by the Conservative Jews like Dennis Prager and Michael Medved (whom I propose shall be known as Buttered Challah Bread boys)

אנחנו לא מונולית

 

[wr]

Da diaspora on diaspora hate, b

Some feel like they came over here the right way and are embarrassed of their own kind that didn't. Think it makes them look bad.

 

[kdawg]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-economy-flashes-signs-its-downhill-from-here-1540656002
U.S. Economy Flashes Signs It’s Downhill From Here
A slowdown in growth would have big implications for stocks, the Fed and President Trump
What if that was as good as it gets?

The Commerce Department reported Friday that U.S. gross domestic productexpanded at a 3.5% annual rate in the third quarter.

Coming off a 4.2% growth rate in the second quarter, it marked one of the best six-month stretches for the U.S. economy in the past decade.

However, private analysts and the Federal Reserve say a slowdown is looming.Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal estimate the growth rate will slow to 2.5% by the first quarter of next year and 2.3% by the third quarter of 2019. The Fed is expecting growth to slow further to a 1.8% rate by 2021.

“We think U.S. growth may have just peaked,” said Michael Gapen, chief U.S. economist for Barclays Capital, who is in Wall Street’s big-slowdown camp.

Few believe a recession is near, and the expansion is widely expected to become the longest on record next year. Still, a slowdown in growth would have big implications for stocks, the central bank and President Trump. The White House says faster growth is evidence that tax cuts and its deregulatory stance are working, and that the growth acceleration they produced are sustainable.

I’ve been waiting for that - it’s very convenient for littly Donny because he’ll be able to blame this election when the economy tanks - in the same way that he credits his being in office to the current situation. They have no concept of the repercussions of their actions and how long it takes.

 

[wr]

Scary times ahead dealing with these folks who don't handle L's well.

 

[frink85]

Some feel like they came over here the right way and are embarrassed of their own kind that didn't. Think it makes them look bad.

I know Filipinos like that, but they got in through sponsors aka chain migration and don’t understand the difference between 1975 and 2018

 

[whywesteppin]

The biggest fear of many Americans is that the demographics and laws of this country will change in such a way that a far right super-conservative religious entity can install their man as president, that they can fill the supreme court with people partial to their cause, that their leaders will answer to a foreign power and not American principles, and that they can then use terrorist attacks against their opposition to have their way.

Turns out this enemy has already achieved that, and they're not Muslim or black or Mexican....

 

[Wargames]

The biggest fear of many Americans is that the demographics and laws of this country will change in such a way that a far right super-conservative religious entity can install their man as president, that they can fill the supreme court with people partial to their cause, that their leaders will answer to a foreign power and not American principles, and that they can then use terrorist attacks against their opposition to have their way.

Turns out this enemy has already achieved that, and they're not Muslim or black or Mexican....

You're avoiding the elephant in the room though. All those things only become a nightmare if they are perpetrated by people of color.

That is the lesson of the last two years. For far too many Americans. It's not about what is done but who are the ones doing it.