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HERE ARE THE MOST EGREGIOUS FAKE NEWS STORIES OF 2018
As 2018 comes to a close, it’s time to review the year’s worst cases of media misquotes, misleading narratives, major corrections and straight-up fake news.
Without further ado, here is the list of 2018’s worst examples of fake news:
1. WAPO BLAMES BORDER PATROL FOR DEATH OF 7-YEAR-OLD MIGRANT
2. CNN AND THE HILL SPREAD RETRACTED s*xual ASSAULT CLAIM AGAINST KAVANAUGH
3. BOSTON GLOBE CORRECTS LIZ WARREN STORY — MAKES HER LESS NATIVE AMERICAN
4. NYT ACCUSES NIKKI HALEY OF PURCHASING EXPENSIVE CURTAINS
5. MEDIA STILL BLAMING REPUBLICANS FOR STEELE DOSSIER
6. CNN ANALYST PUBLISHES DUBIOUS REPORT ON ADDITIONAL KAVANAUGH ALLEGATIONS
7. CNN ACCUSES TED CRUZ OF BEING AFRAID TO APPEAR ON THEIR NETWORK
8. CNN SPREADS FALSE STATISTIC ON SCHOOL SHOOTING
9. NBC SAT ON INFORMATION THAT CONTRADICTED KAVANAUGH ALLEGATIONS
10. MCCLATCHY CLAIMS MUELLER HAS EVIDENCE THAT CORROBORATES PIECE OF DOSSIER
11. JIM ACOSTA SAID ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WOULDN’T CLIMB BORDER
12. WAPO RAN KAVANAUGH STORY WITH KNOWINGLY FALSE INFORMATION
13. ANDREA MITCHELL SAYS DISGRACED FL ELECTION OFFICIAL IS A REPUBLICAN
14. WAPO FORCED TO CORRECT NIKKI HALEY MISQUOTE
15. CHRIS CUOMO SHARES FALSE STORY ABOUT AR-15 PURCHASE
More fake news and a rundown on each:
Without further ado, here is the list of 2018’s worst examples of fake news:
1. WAPO BLAMES BORDER PATROL FOR DEATH OF 7-YEAR-OLD MIGRANT
2. CNN AND THE HILL SPREAD RETRACTED s*xual ASSAULT CLAIM AGAINST KAVANAUGH
3. BOSTON GLOBE CORRECTS LIZ WARREN STORY — MAKES HER LESS NATIVE AMERICAN
4. NYT ACCUSES NIKKI HALEY OF PURCHASING EXPENSIVE CURTAINS
5. MEDIA STILL BLAMING REPUBLICANS FOR STEELE DOSSIER
6. CNN ANALYST PUBLISHES DUBIOUS REPORT ON ADDITIONAL KAVANAUGH ALLEGATIONS
7. CNN ACCUSES TED CRUZ OF BEING AFRAID TO APPEAR ON THEIR NETWORK
8. CNN SPREADS FALSE STATISTIC ON SCHOOL SHOOTING
9. NBC SAT ON INFORMATION THAT CONTRADICTED KAVANAUGH ALLEGATIONS
10. MCCLATCHY CLAIMS MUELLER HAS EVIDENCE THAT CORROBORATES PIECE OF DOSSIER
11. JIM ACOSTA SAID ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WOULDN’T CLIMB BORDER
12. WAPO RAN KAVANAUGH STORY WITH KNOWINGLY FALSE INFORMATION
13. ANDREA MITCHELL SAYS DISGRACED FL ELECTION OFFICIAL IS A REPUBLICAN
14. WAPO FORCED TO CORRECT NIKKI HALEY MISQUOTE
15. CHRIS CUOMO SHARES FALSE STORY ABOUT AR-15 PURCHASE
More fake news and a rundown on each:
The real National Emergency
Today in The Huffington Post
The National Emergency, is not only that we have someone who is not only unqualified to be in any public office, but has no idea what he is doing, and won't follow the advice of advisors, and furthermore is morally and legally corrupt. The sooner he either resigns, or is impeached and removed from office, the better this country will be.
In response to:
Donald Trump Is The Real National Emergency, Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig Says
These statutes were not written to “give a man like Donald Trump the power he’s now claiming,” Lawrence Lessig said.
By Mary Papenfuss
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Constitutional law expert and Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig dismissed President Donald Trump’s characterization of the immigrant situation at the Mexican border as a crisis on Sunday, then said the real national emergency was “this president.”
Asked about Trump’s threat to declare a national emergency on the southern border so that he can order his wall built without congressional approval, Lessig told MSNBC: “The man is using words that have no connection to reality.”
“He says we have a national crisis ... a national emergency. I agree we have a national emergency, but the emergency is this president,” Lessig added. “The emergency is the fact we don’t have an executive who’s exercising his power in a responsible way.”
Lessig said the president can’t build his wall without the backing of Congress.
“Ultimately he has no constitutional authority to exercise the power to build this wall without Congress’ approval,” Lessig said. “These statutes were certainly not written with the intent to give a man like Donald Trump the power that he’s now claiming.”
In an opinion piece Lessig published in The Guardian on Friday, he said the Constitution would not uphold the actions of a president who shut down the government to insist on a program that was not supported by the public. Lessing referred to the situation as a “veto-ocracy,” ruled by “petulance” rather than “principle.”
If the Republicans support Trump in this, they are saying that any president can “support whatever policy he likes,” including, say, to nationalize health insurance.
“The fools are they who enable this constitutional immorality,” Lessig wrote. “Those fools are the Senate Republicans, who have placed party over country, and President Trump over the Republican Party.”
Donald Trump Is The Real National Emergency, Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig Says
These statutes were not written to “give a man like Donald Trump the power he’s now claiming,” Lawrence Lessig said.
By Mary Papenfuss
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Constitutional law expert and Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig dismissed President Donald Trump’s characterization of the immigrant situation at the Mexican border as a crisis on Sunday, then said the real national emergency was “this president.”
Asked about Trump’s threat to declare a national emergency on the southern border so that he can order his wall built without congressional approval, Lessig told MSNBC: “The man is using words that have no connection to reality.”
“He says we have a national crisis ... a national emergency. I agree we have a national emergency, but the emergency is this president,” Lessig added. “The emergency is the fact we don’t have an executive who’s exercising his power in a responsible way.”
Lessig said the president can’t build his wall without the backing of Congress.
“Ultimately he has no constitutional authority to exercise the power to build this wall without Congress’ approval,” Lessig said. “These statutes were certainly not written with the intent to give a man like Donald Trump the power that he’s now claiming.”
In an opinion piece Lessig published in The Guardian on Friday, he said the Constitution would not uphold the actions of a president who shut down the government to insist on a program that was not supported by the public. Lessing referred to the situation as a “veto-ocracy,” ruled by “petulance” rather than “principle.”
If the Republicans support Trump in this, they are saying that any president can “support whatever policy he likes,” including, say, to nationalize health insurance.
“The fools are they who enable this constitutional immorality,” Lessig wrote. “Those fools are the Senate Republicans, who have placed party over country, and President Trump over the Republican Party.”
The National Emergency, is not only that we have someone who is not only unqualified to be in any public office, but has no idea what he is doing, and won't follow the advice of advisors, and furthermore is morally and legally corrupt. The sooner he either resigns, or is impeached and removed from office, the better this country will be.
Liberty and Freedom
The philosophies of Locke and Blackstone, combined with the Magna Carta and the Bible, were what our Founders used to define the type of government they were creating... nothing has changed, except the gatekeepers of liberty and freedom.
We the People have become complacent and lazy over the last 160 years, to a point that by the early 1900's, the government inserted a slightly different agenda, and people started looking toward them for their liberties and freedoms. Liberty and Freedom comes from the Creator... they are natural, unalienable rights bestowed upon us at birth. Nobody gives them to you, you take them and make your life happen. Living responsible and self-reliant, while not infringing upon another's same rights, that's ALL there is to it.
A Progressively tyrannical government (that sounded amazing at first), started rescinding those natural rights, and when combined with that complacent citizenry; viola, we have what we have now, a co-dependent citizenry that accepts that the government allows them to carry a firearm to protect innocent lives. A government that has created over 300,000 statutes, the majority within those last 160 years, making it hard for any citizen to remain; “law-abiding”.
As we move forward into 2019, changes are taking place that creates more effective grassroots advocating. It's time We the People start looking to advocate for ourselves, so we can eliminate special interest groups doing it for us, behind a veil of secrecy! Time to study the founding documents, and ensure you know what they truly intended, instead of believing what the government tells you they intended. They have intentionally and successfully dumbed-down society, and force-fed them a watered down version of what the true intentions of our Founders were. For example:
“If you want to understand the real Declaration of Independence, do not repeat the preface.” ~ Woodrow Wilson
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” ~ Preamble to the Declaration of Independence
That pretty much sums up what our politicians today, think about our liberties and freedoms!
Patrick James
Cold Dead Hands
We the People have become complacent and lazy over the last 160 years, to a point that by the early 1900's, the government inserted a slightly different agenda, and people started looking toward them for their liberties and freedoms. Liberty and Freedom comes from the Creator... they are natural, unalienable rights bestowed upon us at birth. Nobody gives them to you, you take them and make your life happen. Living responsible and self-reliant, while not infringing upon another's same rights, that's ALL there is to it.
A Progressively tyrannical government (that sounded amazing at first), started rescinding those natural rights, and when combined with that complacent citizenry; viola, we have what we have now, a co-dependent citizenry that accepts that the government allows them to carry a firearm to protect innocent lives. A government that has created over 300,000 statutes, the majority within those last 160 years, making it hard for any citizen to remain; “law-abiding”.
As we move forward into 2019, changes are taking place that creates more effective grassroots advocating. It's time We the People start looking to advocate for ourselves, so we can eliminate special interest groups doing it for us, behind a veil of secrecy! Time to study the founding documents, and ensure you know what they truly intended, instead of believing what the government tells you they intended. They have intentionally and successfully dumbed-down society, and force-fed them a watered down version of what the true intentions of our Founders were. For example:
“If you want to understand the real Declaration of Independence, do not repeat the preface.” ~ Woodrow Wilson
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” ~ Preamble to the Declaration of Independence
That pretty much sums up what our politicians today, think about our liberties and freedoms!
Patrick James
Cold Dead Hands
29 Facts About the Border and Mexican Cartels You Need to Know
1) No one is proposing a wall between all of Mexico and the U.S.—the U.S. southern border is approximately 2,000 miles. The discussion is about 1,000 miles of physical barriers in regions that are heavily controlled by drug cartels.
2) The Texas border is about 1,200 miles of the approximately 2,000 miles of the total southern border. Most of that border is the Rio Grande, a river which varies in intensity with respect to currents.
3) Mexico has numerous states under the direct influence of drug cartels that have standing armies with access to RPGs, armored vehicles, artillery, and explosives. Most of Mexico has military forces patrolling streets to deal with cartel paramilitary forces.
4) The most violent drug cartels operate south of the Texas border. Factions of Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel routinely allow their violence to spill over to the average person.
5) The border city of Tijuana has some of the highest murder statistics in all of Mexico. Despite record-setting figures, most of the victims tend to be tied to drug trafficking.
6) Border cities south of Texas like Reynosa, Tamaulipas, have much lower murder rates than Tijuana. Despite the difference, average citizens are often touched by cartels including shootouts, kidnappings, and other violent activities.
7) Most of the efforts by drug cartels to control migration happens South of the Texas border. Criminal organizations like the Reynosa faction of the Gulf Cartel profit more from human smuggling than drug trafficking.
8) The majority of tunnels are found on the Arizona and California borders. The tunnels are generally discovered in areas where there are population centers on both sides of the border and a wall or fence is already in place. Few have been found in Texas, where there is a river.
9) Most tunnels are discovered thanks to informants; law enforcement technology has rarely been successful in locating border tunnels.
10) Most of the border does not have a drug tunnel problem. They are typically found in Douglas and Nogales, Arizona, as well as Mexicali, San Diego/San Isidro, California.
11) Cartels spend a lot of money building a tunnel–only to be discovered shortly after.
12) Claims by Democrats about the low crime rates in El Paso are an example of walls working. In areas with considerable border barriers such as El Paso, the regional criminal groups turn more professional and shy away from illegal immigration to traffic harder drugs through ports of entry.
13) The presence of physical barriers in cities like El Paso has led to fewer people coming over the border to commit petty crimes or bring loads of drugs on their backs. The criminal organizations in the area shifted toward corrupting U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials to smuggle harder drugs.
14) A partially secured border is more deadly than an open or well-secured one. Previous administrations put barriers south of most cities in Arizona and California to funnel illicit traffic into areas that were easier to manage or too desolate to cross. This led to a spike in deaths since the desire of people to reach the U.S. pushes them to more remote and dangerous areas.
15) Human smuggling and illegal immigration will continue to be a problem until economic opportunities improve in Mexico and in Central America.
16) Mexican transnational criminal groups and their leaders have grown beyond the size and power of the American mafia from Prohibition Era and Al Capone. Cartels are integrated into the Mexican political culture and bureaucracy. Legalization would not stop them.
Continued in the first comment.
2) The Texas border is about 1,200 miles of the approximately 2,000 miles of the total southern border. Most of that border is the Rio Grande, a river which varies in intensity with respect to currents.
3) Mexico has numerous states under the direct influence of drug cartels that have standing armies with access to RPGs, armored vehicles, artillery, and explosives. Most of Mexico has military forces patrolling streets to deal with cartel paramilitary forces.
4) The most violent drug cartels operate south of the Texas border. Factions of Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel routinely allow their violence to spill over to the average person.
5) The border city of Tijuana has some of the highest murder statistics in all of Mexico. Despite record-setting figures, most of the victims tend to be tied to drug trafficking.
6) Border cities south of Texas like Reynosa, Tamaulipas, have much lower murder rates than Tijuana. Despite the difference, average citizens are often touched by cartels including shootouts, kidnappings, and other violent activities.
7) Most of the efforts by drug cartels to control migration happens South of the Texas border. Criminal organizations like the Reynosa faction of the Gulf Cartel profit more from human smuggling than drug trafficking.
8) The majority of tunnels are found on the Arizona and California borders. The tunnels are generally discovered in areas where there are population centers on both sides of the border and a wall or fence is already in place. Few have been found in Texas, where there is a river.
9) Most tunnels are discovered thanks to informants; law enforcement technology has rarely been successful in locating border tunnels.
10) Most of the border does not have a drug tunnel problem. They are typically found in Douglas and Nogales, Arizona, as well as Mexicali, San Diego/San Isidro, California.
11) Cartels spend a lot of money building a tunnel–only to be discovered shortly after.
12) Claims by Democrats about the low crime rates in El Paso are an example of walls working. In areas with considerable border barriers such as El Paso, the regional criminal groups turn more professional and shy away from illegal immigration to traffic harder drugs through ports of entry.
13) The presence of physical barriers in cities like El Paso has led to fewer people coming over the border to commit petty crimes or bring loads of drugs on their backs. The criminal organizations in the area shifted toward corrupting U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials to smuggle harder drugs.
14) A partially secured border is more deadly than an open or well-secured one. Previous administrations put barriers south of most cities in Arizona and California to funnel illicit traffic into areas that were easier to manage or too desolate to cross. This led to a spike in deaths since the desire of people to reach the U.S. pushes them to more remote and dangerous areas.
15) Human smuggling and illegal immigration will continue to be a problem until economic opportunities improve in Mexico and in Central America.
16) Mexican transnational criminal groups and their leaders have grown beyond the size and power of the American mafia from Prohibition Era and Al Capone. Cartels are integrated into the Mexican political culture and bureaucracy. Legalization would not stop them.
Continued in the first comment.
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This opinion ALWAYS gets me into trouble!
New Years Eve, the only evening where it is acceptable to get hammered and play with explosives. Because that is what fireworks are: Explosives!
Here in Denmark, every New Years Eve always produce the same story: Rescue personnel, like firefighters and EMT's, are getting SHOT AT with fireworks - and it's usually a bunch of teens who are extremely bored. Many so called experts always ask the same question: "How can we make sure this doesn't happen?"
The answer to that is extremely simple: Ban fireworks to private people. If you MUST use it, you have to be specially trained, or possibly have a military background, preferably with the EOD. You need to have a good understanding of explosives as well. If you don't have either of those things, you cannot buy any fireworks.
That is what I believe will solve that issue. I wrote that on a Facebook thread, and people are NOT happy. At all! Here are just a small selection of comments that I have received on this opinion: "Die!". "f*ck off! Let people have fun!". "You are the reason why I am in favor of the death penalty".. But this one is my favourite: "Commie!"..
Because wanting to ban fireworks is SOMEHOW communist
The fact is: Fireworks ARE explosives. Mix explosives with a ridiculous intake of alcohol, and the results are quite clear!
Here in Denmark, every New Years Eve always produce the same story: Rescue personnel, like firefighters and EMT's, are getting SHOT AT with fireworks - and it's usually a bunch of teens who are extremely bored. Many so called experts always ask the same question: "How can we make sure this doesn't happen?"
The answer to that is extremely simple: Ban fireworks to private people. If you MUST use it, you have to be specially trained, or possibly have a military background, preferably with the EOD. You need to have a good understanding of explosives as well. If you don't have either of those things, you cannot buy any fireworks.
That is what I believe will solve that issue. I wrote that on a Facebook thread, and people are NOT happy. At all! Here are just a small selection of comments that I have received on this opinion: "Die!". "f*ck off! Let people have fun!". "You are the reason why I am in favor of the death penalty".. But this one is my favourite: "Commie!"..
Because wanting to ban fireworks is SOMEHOW communist
The fact is: Fireworks ARE explosives. Mix explosives with a ridiculous intake of alcohol, and the results are quite clear!
The Inevitability of (Trump's) Impeachment
I have been predicting that Trump would get impeached, since his election.
While the Trump rah rah loonies have written off my prediction as some sort of anti-Republican thing,
it has little to do with which political party the con man currently represents.
It has to do with his long term criminal behavior and his lack of fitness to hold the office.
Today in The New York Times
(Continued in my first comment below)
While the Trump rah rah loonies have written off my prediction as some sort of anti-Republican thing,
it has little to do with which political party the con man currently represents.
It has to do with his long term criminal behavior and his lack of fitness to hold the office.
Today in The New York Times
In response to:
The Inevitability of Impeachment
Even Republicans may be deciding that the president has become too great a burden to their party or too great a danger to the country.
By Elizabeth Drew
Ms. Drew is a journalist based in Washington who covered Watergate.
Dec. 27, 2018
An impeachment process against President Trump now seems inescapable.
Unless the president resigns, the pressure by the public on the Democratic leaders to begin an impeachment process next year will only increase. Too many people think in terms of stasis: How things are is how they will remain. They don’t take into account that opinion moves with events.
Whether or not there’s already enough evidence to impeach Mr. Trump — I think there is — we will learn what the special counsel, Robert Mueller, has found, even if his investigation is cut short. A significant number of Republican candidates didn’t want to run with Mr. Trump in the midterms, and the results of those elections didn’t exactly strengthen his standing within his party. His political status, weak for some time, is now hurtling downhill.
The midterms were followed by new revelations in criminal investigations of once-close advisers as well as new scandals involving Mr. Trump himself. The odor of personal corruption on the president’s part — perhaps affecting his foreign policy — grew stronger. Then the events of the past several days — the president’s precipitous decision to pull American troops out of Syria, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis’s abrupt resignation, the swoon in the stock market, the pointless shutdown of parts of the government — instilled a new sense of alarm among many Republicans.
The word “impeachment” has been thrown around with abandon. The frivolous impeachment of President Bill Clinton helped to define it as a form of political revenge. But it is far more important and serious than that: It has a critical role in the functioning of our democracy.
Impeachment was the founders’ method of holding a president accountable between elections. Determined to avoid setting up a king in all but name, they put the decision about whether a president should be allowed to continue to serve in the hands of the representatives of the people who elected him.
The founders understood that overturning the results of a presidential election must be approached with care and that they needed to prevent the use of that power as a partisan exercise or by a faction. So they wrote into the Constitution provisions to make it extremely difficult for Congress to remove a president from office, including that after an impeachment vote in the House, the Senate would hold a trial, with a two-thirds vote needed for conviction.
Lost in all the discussion about possible lawbreaking by Mr. Trump is the fact that impeachment wasn’t intended only for crimes. For example, in 1974 the House Judiciary Committee charged Richard Nixon with, among other things, abusing power by using the I.R.S. against his political enemies. The committee also held the president accountable for misdeeds by his aides and for failing to honor the oath of office’s pledge that a president must “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”
The current presidential crisis seems to have only two possible outcomes. If Mr. Trump sees criminal charges coming at him and members of his family, he may feel trapped. This would leave him the choice of resigning or trying to fight congressional removal. But the latter is highly risky.
The Inevitability of Impeachment
Even Republicans may be deciding that the president has become too great a burden to their party or too great a danger to the country.
By Elizabeth Drew
Ms. Drew is a journalist based in Washington who covered Watergate.
Dec. 27, 2018
An impeachment process against President Trump now seems inescapable.
Unless the president resigns, the pressure by the public on the Democratic leaders to begin an impeachment process next year will only increase. Too many people think in terms of stasis: How things are is how they will remain. They don’t take into account that opinion moves with events.
Whether or not there’s already enough evidence to impeach Mr. Trump — I think there is — we will learn what the special counsel, Robert Mueller, has found, even if his investigation is cut short. A significant number of Republican candidates didn’t want to run with Mr. Trump in the midterms, and the results of those elections didn’t exactly strengthen his standing within his party. His political status, weak for some time, is now hurtling downhill.
The midterms were followed by new revelations in criminal investigations of once-close advisers as well as new scandals involving Mr. Trump himself. The odor of personal corruption on the president’s part — perhaps affecting his foreign policy — grew stronger. Then the events of the past several days — the president’s precipitous decision to pull American troops out of Syria, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis’s abrupt resignation, the swoon in the stock market, the pointless shutdown of parts of the government — instilled a new sense of alarm among many Republicans.
The word “impeachment” has been thrown around with abandon. The frivolous impeachment of President Bill Clinton helped to define it as a form of political revenge. But it is far more important and serious than that: It has a critical role in the functioning of our democracy.
Impeachment was the founders’ method of holding a president accountable between elections. Determined to avoid setting up a king in all but name, they put the decision about whether a president should be allowed to continue to serve in the hands of the representatives of the people who elected him.
The founders understood that overturning the results of a presidential election must be approached with care and that they needed to prevent the use of that power as a partisan exercise or by a faction. So they wrote into the Constitution provisions to make it extremely difficult for Congress to remove a president from office, including that after an impeachment vote in the House, the Senate would hold a trial, with a two-thirds vote needed for conviction.
Lost in all the discussion about possible lawbreaking by Mr. Trump is the fact that impeachment wasn’t intended only for crimes. For example, in 1974 the House Judiciary Committee charged Richard Nixon with, among other things, abusing power by using the I.R.S. against his political enemies. The committee also held the president accountable for misdeeds by his aides and for failing to honor the oath of office’s pledge that a president must “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”
The current presidential crisis seems to have only two possible outcomes. If Mr. Trump sees criminal charges coming at him and members of his family, he may feel trapped. This would leave him the choice of resigning or trying to fight congressional removal. But the latter is highly risky.
(Continued in my first comment below)
Don't listen to Left Wing whiners...President Trump Had A Strong 2018
Despite the media’s unyielding obsession with Russian-collusion conspiracies, tax returns, Stormy Daniels, and any other scandal conjured through sophistry, President Donald Trump has accrued a slew of accomplishments in 2018 that deserve recognition.
From the economy to the Supreme Court to foreign policy, this past year has been replete with home runs for the 45th president.
Economy
Defying skeptics in the media, reputable economists, and Paul Krugman, Trump achieved GDP growth of 4.1% in 2018.
Trump helped stimulate the fastest economic growth since 2014 by reducing the corporate tax rate from 35% (the highest in the developed world) to a far more competitive 21%. In September, the national unemployment rate fell to 3.7% – the lowest it’s been since 1969. Furthermore, over the last year, businesses and corporations saw tremendous growth in profits fueled by Trump’s deregulation and tax cuts.
Some skeptics may point to the stock market’s feeble performance over the past few months – the biggest annual decline in a decade – as an indication of economic turmoil. That claim, however, erroneously conflates market performance with economic performance. Strong jobs numbers, wage and labor force participation increases, and GDP growth all indicate vigor, not volatility, in the economy.
The S&P 500 index may have taken a beating in 2018 (falling 6.2 percent), but so did the unemployment rate, dropping to a five-decade low. And the latest economic news reveals a massive hiring surge. The economy added 312,000 new jobs in December, far exceeding tepid expectations, and the average number of new jobs being created each month in 2018 increased 20 percent. Manufacturing jobs – a policy pillar of Trump’s presidential campaign – grew 714% faster under Trump than Obama. Moreover, average hourly wages increased by 3.2% from the previous year.
Trade
Through the entirety of his run for the presidency, Trump railed against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), vowing to renegotiate it and leverage more favorable terms for the U.S. economy. This year, he accomplished just that, renegotiating NAFTA with Canada and Mexico.
Read the full article:
From the economy to the Supreme Court to foreign policy, this past year has been replete with home runs for the 45th president.
Economy
Defying skeptics in the media, reputable economists, and Paul Krugman, Trump achieved GDP growth of 4.1% in 2018.
Trump helped stimulate the fastest economic growth since 2014 by reducing the corporate tax rate from 35% (the highest in the developed world) to a far more competitive 21%. In September, the national unemployment rate fell to 3.7% – the lowest it’s been since 1969. Furthermore, over the last year, businesses and corporations saw tremendous growth in profits fueled by Trump’s deregulation and tax cuts.
Some skeptics may point to the stock market’s feeble performance over the past few months – the biggest annual decline in a decade – as an indication of economic turmoil. That claim, however, erroneously conflates market performance with economic performance. Strong jobs numbers, wage and labor force participation increases, and GDP growth all indicate vigor, not volatility, in the economy.
The S&P 500 index may have taken a beating in 2018 (falling 6.2 percent), but so did the unemployment rate, dropping to a five-decade low. And the latest economic news reveals a massive hiring surge. The economy added 312,000 new jobs in December, far exceeding tepid expectations, and the average number of new jobs being created each month in 2018 increased 20 percent. Manufacturing jobs – a policy pillar of Trump’s presidential campaign – grew 714% faster under Trump than Obama. Moreover, average hourly wages increased by 3.2% from the previous year.
Trade
Through the entirety of his run for the presidency, Trump railed against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), vowing to renegotiate it and leverage more favorable terms for the U.S. economy. This year, he accomplished just that, renegotiating NAFTA with Canada and Mexico.
Read the full article:
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the master baiters...
Somewhere in the world a retailer is selling mattresses at 70% off. They are the whores of the furniture business. Placing an online order is easy, expecting delivery is something else!
Three weeks ago I placed an order for two mattresses. A few days after the tentative ship date, I called to get an update. I was told they needed to contact the manufacturer and they would get back to me. They didn't. I called again a few days ago and heard the same story. My third call was today to get a shipping update and I was told they have been discontinued by the manufacturer.
Requesting to speak to a supervisor my complaint was they are still for sale on your website! His comment to me was I need two re-select. They have no control over discontinued products. We all know the products that are not discontinued are nearly double in price to the ones that lured me to the site that I bought.
They are the master baiters
Three weeks ago I placed an order for two mattresses. A few days after the tentative ship date, I called to get an update. I was told they needed to contact the manufacturer and they would get back to me. They didn't. I called again a few days ago and heard the same story. My third call was today to get a shipping update and I was told they have been discontinued by the manufacturer.
Requesting to speak to a supervisor my complaint was they are still for sale on your website! His comment to me was I need two re-select. They have no control over discontinued products. We all know the products that are not discontinued are nearly double in price to the ones that lured me to the site that I bought.
They are the master baiters
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