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Defending Trump

The Republicans and his followers, will have to take this very serious,
or they will drown in the 'swamp' with him. He has created this mess
himself, and it seem like he has a delusional idea that it will be a great
reality show. Does he have any defense ?

I think he might have. There isn't any previous Presidents which have had
psychitric experts in a joint effort writing books and raised concerns.
Perhaps there is a way to spare him from a total humiliation, I don't know.
But in any case, he isn't really fit for office. We have all at some level
known this, but I suppose just too many have been in denial of it.

Where's this recession predicted by the libs that was suppose to be right around the corner? And yes, Trump is responsible for how well the economy is doing, not Obama!

U.S. hiring surged in November, as the economy added 266,000 jobs and unemployment returned to a half-century low, a sign the U.S. is powering through a global slowdown.

The payroll number easily topped the estimate of 180,000 from economists surveyed by Refinitiv, who also saw the unemployment rate holding steady from October's 3.6 percent.

It marks the 110th month of straight gains.

Unemployment ticked down slightly to 3.5 percent as more people were looking for work, matching a 50-year low. The labor force participation rate was little changed at 63.2 percent. Average hourly earnings, meanwhile, rose by 3.1 percent over the past year to $28.29.

Revisions, meanwhile, added 41,000 jobs for the prior two months, bringing the three-month average to 205,000, a 10-month high. (September increased by 13,000 to 193,000, and October jumped by 28,000 to 156,000). Still, job growth on average is slower than it was in 2018: The 2019 monthly average is 180,000 jobs per month, compared with an average gain of 223,000 last year.

“This is a blowout number and the U.S. economy continues to be all about the jobs,” said Tony Bedikian, head of global markets for Citizens Bank.

One reason for the rebound is the conclusion of the General Motors strike at the end of October. The motor vehicles and parts sector boosted employment with 41,300 workers in November, adding to the 54,000 jobs created in manufacturing last month. In October, when the economy added a better-than-expected 156,000 jobs, the motor vehicles and parts manufacturing sector posted a decline of 42,000 workers.

The blockbuster report provides further evidence that the longest economic expansion on record will continue and reinforces the Federal Reserve's characterization of the labor market as "strong." It also affirms the central bank's decision to press pause on further interest rate cuts this year. Economists widely expect policymakers to leave interest rates unchanged at their two-day meeting next week.

Other sectors that contributed to the stellar report included leisure and hospitality, which increased by 45,000, and professional and business services, which rose by 38,000. One concerning sign in the report is that retail added 2,000 jobs, even in the midst of the vital holiday shopping season.

"This strength is leading the market to conclude that the Fed might not lower interest rates any further in 2020, and (interestingly) the futures market is even pointing to the slightest possibility of a rate increase as the year progresses," said Scott Clemons, chief investment strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman.

FOX Business

Everything is pointing to Trump,
Rising like a Phoenix,
after the ways,
he had been treated...

Open for discussion...

Mind you I'm not talking about the social media dummies who actually believe they have not already lost the 2020 presidential election. It's no surprise that they continue down the same losing road. They are just stupid. No, I am talking about the party power brokers. The question keeps coming up as to why after losing over and over again to President Trump, being beaten by him like a rented mule, and seeing that every time they try to smear him with a new scam he comes back even stronger... why they heck would they continue down the same losing road. Are they masochists?

I can think of only one logical explanation. They've know for a long time now that with no platform, no candidates and no sane ideas, they don't have a snowball's chance in hell of beating a president who is filled with great ideas, keeping his campaign promises more than any president in history, and getting the ball in the basket on every front from the economy to national security to foreign affairs. They have long since stopped trying to compete with that. You can't run on raising taxes to provide free sex change operations for illegals and seriously expect to get anywhere.

So why do they persist? It's not about the presidency anymore. They know they lost. It's about the Senate. They know that if they can somehow take the Senate, they can prevent President Trump from doing anything at all in his next 4 years in the White House. If you think they are obstructionists now, with both the House and Senate in their pockets they would redefine what that means. They will shut down Washington for 4 years in a row, like they are trying to do now with mixed success. It's the only thing they are good at and the only thing they have left.

...Well, who is really surprised? The dems changed Senate rules on majorities, a scummy, completely expedient move, and have been paying for it ever since. Now that we have our Brilliant President Trump, and a great SCOTUS for generations, surprise, surprise, oh you astute CS brainiacs. We are now hearing Dem calls for the following---SCOTUS 18 year term limits, rank choice voting and---and, an end to the sacred, logical, fair---electoral college. Yep, do as we say, NOT as we do. Can anyone say LIBERALS!

Yet more evidence of our decades long indoctrination of the society we live in, the normalisation process and how it's acheived, reminds me of a quote from Adolf Hitler, quote, "iff you tell a lie for long enough the people will beleive it", if you sit and think about it you'll begin to realise it's all true, we've been normalised into thinking we must pay our way in life, we must pay our taxes, what we are not told is that they are all fraud on the people and unlawful and yet because the institution of law itself is so corrupt it allows unlawful demands on the people for taxes and penalty charges for which we are under no lawful obligation to pay.
think about all these things came about, council tax, V.A.T income tax, parking charges, all of these things we take for granted as legitimate laws are ALL FALSE and what we've been normalised into beleiving is normal and that we are obligated to pay, NO WE ARE NOT.

From Australia, of all places!

Onya, Cobbers

The US Senate is passing legislation to further punish the economy of the PRC, if it doesn't lighten up on tiny moves toward democratic process in world financial center Hong Kong. Unkept promisses make for jaded populations. Removing this city's special economic status may be short sighted. Potentially destabilizing to a world power like China which is already nervous (i.e. The cushy party hacks) over tiny similar emergent moves closer to home. Oh, ye politically shite in one sock CS posters, it's one thing to try to nation build in backwaters like Irwreck and Afgonestan. Just how's that all working out? Quite another in a complex giant like the PRC. Clued Statesperson Deficit Syndromes, ---a lot of it about. CSDS. And yep, this is a political blog, for the creatins to whine over.