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THIS (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2018 OP
Get thee to the greatest page malaise Sep 2018 #1
Yay! yuiyoshida Sep 2018 #21
Get thee into the minds and to the screens and pages of media folks. Fred Sanders Sep 2018 #23
A legacy that Trump inheirited, guillaumeb Sep 2018 #2
This WAS the improvement President Obama built. calimary Sep 2018 #12
Well said. Very well said. guillaumeb Sep 2018 #18
A point that cannot be overemphasized. dchill Sep 2018 #13
And the Democratic Party should emphasize it. guillaumeb Sep 2018 #19
K&R Andy823 Sep 2018 #3
K&R Gothmog Sep 2018 #4
"Combat Troops Deployed" PatSeg Sep 2018 #5
The minute the Orange Bastard took office, Rethugs were crowing about the "miraculous" good economy sandensea Sep 2018 #6
Dems should have been singing this from the rooftops in 2016! Chemisse Sep 2018 #7
Democrats should ALWAYS hold their heads high. We're the ones doing the heavy lifting ffr Sep 2018 #8
They claim to be conservatives but all they are, are wolves in sheep's clothing... SWBTATTReg Sep 2018 #16
Why isn't this the banner across every liberal media page and Program? nolabear Sep 2018 #9
K&R! gademocrat7 Sep 2018 #10
Thanks DSB DDySiegs Sep 2018 #11
Thanks Trump! JohnnyRingo Sep 2018 #14
According to the MAGATS, none of this was fast enough or aggressive enough Mr. Ected Sep 2018 #15
Charts. tRump and Jr have difficulty with charts, but we don't, so here you are Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2018 #17
That's great for knocking down GOP talking points, but touting corp profits and stock market gains progressoid Sep 2018 #20
K&R Scurrilous Sep 2018 #22
just golfed with a buddy... AZ8theist Sep 2018 #24
Step back from the edge. You and I know you cannot convince these followers. ffr Sep 2018 #25
About best trump can say is SHORT-TERM he hasn't screwed up trend. Long-term, lots Hoyt Sep 2018 #26
k&r Demovictory9 Sep 2018 #27
And Obama accomplished that True Dough Sep 2018 #28
Yes. Nitram Sep 2018 #29

calimary

(81,189 posts)
12. This WAS the improvement President Obama built.
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 12:54 PM
Sep 2018

This WAS the mess left by the last CON-jobbers (bush/cheney), that President Obama CLEANED UP. Took him eight years to get the deficit AND the unemployment rate AND the number of uninsured DOWN, and the GDP, the stock market, consumer confidence, even corporate profits UP.

trump did NOTHING but try to take credit for all that hard work and heavy lifting over the eight years before him. He’s like the guy at the end of the conveyor belt who puts the last screw in place and then claims that he built the whole thing from the ground up. So trump puts a cherry on top of the sundae and then claims he built the whole ice cream parlor.

Results like you see in this graph might make you wince ONLY when you think how much greater and wider and more broad-based they’d be if the republi-CONS hadn’t done their damnedest to hobble and hamstring and obstruct him every damn step of the damn way.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
18. Well said. Very well said.
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 01:34 PM
Sep 2018

The GOP is not interested in governing, except for passing tax cuts for their rich masters.

sandensea

(21,620 posts)
6. The minute the Orange Bastard took office, Rethugs were crowing about the "miraculous" good economy
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 11:49 AM
Sep 2018

Hate radio has them very well organized.

ffr

(22,668 posts)
8. Democrats should ALWAYS hold their heads high. We're the ones doing the heavy lifting
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 12:20 PM
Sep 2018

Conservatives coast and ruin. We rebuild and right the ship.

SWBTATTReg

(22,100 posts)
16. They claim to be conservatives but all they are, are wolves in sheep's clothing...
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 01:17 PM
Sep 2018

They (so called conservatives) claimed loudly that their sacred principals were being violated during President Obama's reign and then they passed the 2018 tax cut and jobs act. The most hypocritical thing that they could have done to prove to everyone that they are not conservative, but mama's boys to the likes of the kochie brothers.

Hypocrites.

nolabear

(41,959 posts)
9. Why isn't this the banner across every liberal media page and Program?
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 12:21 PM
Sep 2018

Most people don’t know. Asshole can say anything and be believed because people believe authorities and don’t know.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
15. According to the MAGATS, none of this was fast enough or aggressive enough
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 01:11 PM
Sep 2018

I remember a real estate agent associate of mine, a Republican, having just bought a boat to moor at his million dollar lake home, lamenting the "piss poor, slow economy" in around 2014.

Now that he has his guy in office, he's not as concerned - not at all, in fact - that things have actually stalled under Trump.

Facts don't matter to these folks. We can't change them based on reality. We can only reach out to independents and hope to wrest them from the GOP stranglehold.

progressoid

(49,964 posts)
20. That's great for knocking down GOP talking points, but touting corp profits and stock market gains
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 01:37 PM
Sep 2018

won't win you much favor among most Americans. Half own no stock, while 80% of all stock is owned by the top 10 percent.


And wages are stagnant as corporations flourish.


AZ8theist

(5,449 posts)
24. just golfed with a buddy...
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 08:58 PM
Sep 2018

who STILL THINKS that the economy is great until the Dems get in, and then it goes to shit.

Cognitive Dissidence and a Fox Noise view of the world, as wells as a lack of understanding of FACTS propel our electorate to make BAD DECISIONS.

EVERY. FUCKING. TIME.

I am so fucking sick of the uneducated rubes in America.

I seriously think dissolving the union may be the only way out of this nightmare.

ffr

(22,668 posts)
25. Step back from the edge. You and I know you cannot convince these followers.
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 01:01 AM
Sep 2018

They are sheep who will literally cut their noses off if told to do so. Stand tall on your positions, but don't try to argue with those who are lost.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
26. About best trump can say is SHORT-TERM he hasn't screwed up trend. Long-term, lots
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 01:27 AM
Sep 2018

of people will suffer from what he has done or has ignored. And we are just talking economy.

I miss Obama and feeling we were headed in right direction, even if seemingly slowly.

True Dough

(17,296 posts)
28. And Obama accomplished that
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 05:30 AM
Sep 2018

without cowing to the banks. He made them more accountable.

He also did it without complete disregard for environmental regulations.

Donny is using unscrupulous means to accelerate the economy so he can boast about it and further enrich his 1 per center buddies. But the rest of us will suffer the consequences long term.

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