US Politics/2016 Election Pick Your Poison Master Thread

[ChaimMoskowitz]

MAGA.

Check your 401K

[aygart]

MAGA.

Which is why we shouldn't do this. Making costs higher in the US does little to help us.

[aygart]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/us/politics/senate-intelligence-nunes-leaks.html?smid=pl-share

Bye bye Nunes

[ChaimMoskowitz]

Which is why we shouldn't do this. Making costs higher in the US does little to help us.

That's not what Hannity says. 

[aygart]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/us/politics/justice-dept-andrew-mccabe.html

Not quite the narrative they were looking for.......

It is starting to look more and more like there is interest in weakening whoever would win.

[ChaimMoskowitz]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/us/politics/justice-dept-andrew-mccabe.html

Not quite the narrative they were looking for.......

It is starting to look more and more like there is interest in weakening whoever would win.

Each side will twist it to support their narrative. The only thing that matters is the SC report that IMHO has a long way to go.

[aygart]

Each side will twist it to support their narrative. The only thing that matters is the SC report that IMHO has a long way to go.

Should Meuller be the one investigating the FBIabout items which can possibly be going back to under his watch?

[aygart]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/report-said-to-fault-fbis-former-no-2-for-approving-media-disclosure-misleading-inspector-general/2018/03/01/f1e532c0-1ce3-11e8-9de1-147dd2df3829_story.html?utm_term=.9385dc1c9fee

[aygart]

https://twitter.com/JimPethokoukis/status/964901699251994624

[ChaimMoskowitz]

https://twitter.com/JimPethokoukis/status/964901699251994624

Farmers will get hit big time.

[aygart]

Farmers will get hit big time.

Which is why that is a smart strategy by Brussels. It will get the R senators of the farm states against this.

[ChaimMoskowitz]

It will get the R senators of the farm states against this.

Is this going to be a bill or EO?

[aygart]

Is this going to be a bill or EO?

I don't know the legalities of it. It would put pressure even if EO.

[ChaimMoskowitz]

I don't know the legalities of it. It would put pressure even if EO.

Can't see it passing as a bill. EO he doesn't care.

[ChaimMoskowitz]

He does have a point.

“When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win,” Trump said in an early morning tweet on Friday.

[ExGingi]

Tariffs: 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum.
First shots fired!!!

My initial thoughts were oh no.

But on further contemplation, this might just be a grandstanding tactic. Might have been carefully considered to sound drastic, but analyzed behind the scenes to have minimal impact.

[ChaimMoskowitz]

My initial thoughts were oh no.

But on further contemplation, this might just be a grandstanding tactic. Might have been carefully considered to sound drastic, but analyzed behind the scenes to have minimal impact.

You mean he is not going to go through with it? Maybe exempt certain countries like Canada?

[ExGingi]

You mean he is not going to go through with it? Maybe exempt certain countries like Canada?

I don't know.

I've given up on trying to figure out his strategies quite a while ago.

All I am saying is that while I believe trade wars are counterproductive, I reserve judgment until I see how things unfold.

[aygart]

He does have a point.

“When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win,” Trump said in an early morning tweet on Friday.

https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2004/09/09/jobs-and-snow-jobs-n1027785

President Bush's tariffs on imported steel may have saved some jobs in the steel industry but estimates are that the higher price of steel that resulted cost several times as many jobs in industries that use steel.

 With jobs, as with anything else, it is the net result that counts -- and there is no free lunch, not even in election years.

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As an aside, he mentions there something which has long been my position here:

"Senator John Kerry says that he would create 10 million jobs if he were President. But Presidents don't create jobs.

 The most a President can do is have policies that allow private employers to create jobs. Foolish policies can destroy jobs and prolong a recession or depression but Presidents cannot "grow the economy," no matter what political rhetoric says."

[ChaimMoskowitz]

I've given up on trying to figure out his strategies quite a while ago.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-was-angry-and-%e2%80%98unglued%e2%80%99-when-he-started-a-trade-war-officials-say/ar-BBJNms1?li=BBnb7Kz