Schwab: For Trump's base it's personal -- finance, that is

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Put up your umbrellas when you go outside, folks: Pigs are flying.

I heard from a Trump supporter who admitted, without the usual pretense, why he supports him. Were it me, I’d have been ashamed, but at least he was honest. The more-typical critics repeat Trump’s lies, deny the obvious, ignore my point and insist what I write is nothing more than baseless hate for Trump and his supporters.

It’s an easy way out, passing off criticism of Trump as blind hate. Were I to spend time in his company, it’s likely I’d find Trump’s arrogant ignorance repulsive, not someone with whom I’d want to spend more time. Rather than hate, I’d call that realistic. I know several Trump supporters, and I don’t hate them. Some, I consider friends. But I sure find their rationales repellent; particularly their all-too-common delight in seeing liberals upset by what Trump says and does. What a hoot; unhappy about making climate change worse, attacking the press, lying about pretty much everything, demanding to use the DOJ for personal vendettas against perceived enemies.

Silly libtards. Advocating a cleaner, cooler planet, a sustainable budget, access to health care, a president who’s occasionally truthful: what a bunch of haters. (Trump just rolled back methane reduction rules, the worst greenhouse gas. I do hate that. Everyone should. And who knew liberals could feel sorry for Jeff Sessions?)

Which returns us to the subject Trumpist. Until our conversation devolved — as he began forwarding an endless stream of repetitive right-wing memes based on misquotations and outright lies, preceded by gleeful “This will make liberals’ heads explode,” and when the barrage continued even after I’d respond with proof of their falsehood — we had exchanged a few borderline thoughtful emails.

I asked if and why he stopped caring about deficits, now rising to over a trillion dollars; whether he had children or grandchildren about whose health and future survival he worried, given the increased pollution and climate change we’re seeing. Did it bother him to see nonstop attacks on institutions designed to protect us from dictatorship? At first, he responded with by-the-playbook distractions and what-aboutisms. Eventually, though, he got down to it.

“I don’t care about any of those things,” he wrote “Trump’s tax cuts are making me rich.” (Paraphrasing, but not mischaracterizing the message.) (Newsweek: tinyurl.com/4CEOnotU) He’s the prosperous business owner at whom those cuts were aimed. Deficits, pollution, climate change, truth, democracy itself: not among his concerns. And if they’re the next generation’s problem, his kids’, and theirs, so what? It’s the current agenda of today’s Republican party in a nutshell, isn’t it? (YouTube: tinyurl.com/no-worry-4U)

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/schwab-for-trumps-base-its-personal-finance-that-is/?utm_source=DAILY+HERALD&utm_campaign=bdf6490a88-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d81d073bb4-bdf6490a88-228635337

[donkeypoofed]

1. The rich 1% have to remember that they only get 1 vote each

The majority wins - everyone just needs to vote.

[AnnieBW]

2. My Financial Advisor

Says that he personally thinks that DOLT 45 is an asshole, but he isn't denying that he's been good for the stock market. However, he's very concerned about the tariffs hurting the economy in the next year or so. And the tax "cuts" are going to kill relatively small investors like me.

[pansypoo53219]

3. how patriotic.