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    Quote Originally Posted by acesfull86 View Post
    Tend to agree, but that's not the most inspiring thing to read the day after the election, lol. That the president-elect won't be as much of a lunatic as he could be isn't much to hang your hat on.
    Just saying. Im not really a Trump fan, but he's going to be much more moderate than people assume.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NinersSBChamps View Post
    Like a literal axe, right? Comey's life is in real danger.
    It's going to be interesting to see if there's any kind of trail between the FBI agents in the NYC office and Guiliani. I may be alone, but given how the election played out, I don't think the Comey affair made much, if any, difference. He was in a tough position. Trump rode an undercurrent of anger that I think would have carried him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gilesfan View Post
    Just saying. Im not really a Trump fan, but he's going to be much more moderate than people assume.
    But will that satisfy those who elected him, especially if there's an economic downturn?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 50PoundHead View Post
    But will that satisfy those who elected him, especially if there's an economic downturn?
    Yeah, that's what I'll be curious to watch. In midterms and 2020, how are those disaffected folks going to react when there's no wall on the southern border, trade deals aren't renegotiated, and health insurance premiums aren't decreasing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 50PoundHead View Post
    But will that satisfy those who elected him, especially if there's an economic downturn?
    And how is it going to sit with the uber wealthy who outsource jobs, hide money, screw their employees any and every way they can, if/when he does away with NAFTA, the TPP, and other sources of cheap foreign labor, not to mention insurance companies and drug companies if/when he makes them actually compete across state lines and does away with their little sweetheart monopolies?

    Will he really follow through with those promises?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Julio3000 View Post
    Yeah, that's what I'll be curious to watch. In midterms and 2020, how are those disaffected folks going to react when there's no wall on the southern border, trade deals aren't renegotiated, and health insurance premiums aren't decreasing.
    I actually watched a program on C-Span a couple of weeks ago. It featured political analyst Charlie Cook and he pointed out that we may be due for a recession and if that's the case, I wonder if it will be better for Trump to have that early (like Reagan) or will he be forced to pull out all stops to avoid it early in fear that he'll lose any momentum for his program. Charlie Cook isn't an economist, so I don't know. The macro-economy has been looking better lately, but it's still fragile. If early indications of Wall Street are a harbinger of the short term performance, we could hit the skids. Too early to tell.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oklahomahawk View Post
    And how is it going to sit with the uber wealthy who outsource jobs, hide money, screw their employees any and every way they can, if/when he does away with NAFTA, the TPP, and other sources of cheap foreign labor, not to mention insurance companies and drug companies if/when he makes them actually compete across state lines and does away with their little sweetheart monopolies?

    Will he really follow through with those promises?
    Did the uber-wealthy vote for him? I haven't seen a breakdown. I think he may be able to push Congress in some directions on issues like the ability to sell insurance across state lines, but the NAFTA and TPP stuff will be tricky. Tearing up those agreements would likely weaken the dollar and cause some measure of inflation (and inflation being the thing all Presidents seek to avoid seemingly at all costs) which could drive up interest rates to combat that. Interesting times. I think the big thing is that corporations don't have to invest if they don't feel like it. We've seen that for the past decade. Profits are up, but CEOs are sitting on them. Curious to see if that continues.

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    I thought uber wealthy voted Hillary. Status quo.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Julio3000 View Post
    Yeah, that's what I'll be curious to watch. In midterms and 2020, how are those disaffected folks going to react when there's no wall on the southern border, trade deals aren't renegotiated, and health insurance premiums aren't decreasing.

    Kanye vs Trump in 2020 is going to be great. I bet Kanye picks himself as VP.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Oklahomahawk View Post
    And how is it going to sit with the uber wealthy who outsource jobs, hide money, screw their employees any and every way they can, if/when he does away with NAFTA, the TPP, and other sources of cheap foreign labor, not to mention insurance companies and drug companies if/when he makes them actually compete across state lines and does away with their little sweetheart monopolies?

    Will he really follow through with those promises?
    Well one thing we know for certain is that Clinton wasn't going to touch any of that so at least we're giving ourselves a shot at it here with Trump.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 50PoundHead View Post
    Did the uber-wealthy vote for him? I haven't seen a breakdown. I think he may be able to push Congress in some directions on issues like the ability to sell insurance across state lines, but the NAFTA and TPP stuff will be tricky. Tearing up those agreements would likely weaken the dollar and cause some measure of inflation (and inflation being the thing all Presidents seek to avoid seemingly at all costs) which could drive up interest rates to combat that. Interesting times. I think the big thing is that corporations don't have to invest if they don't feel like it. We've seen that for the past decade. Profits are up, but CEOs are sitting on them. Curious to see if that continues.
    I guess I didn't explain that very well. I'm sure some of the uber wealthy voted for him, probably quite a few of them. I know this is a stereotype but typically I believe most of the uber wealthy vote Repub, though that's not a 100% thing. Those same types tend to love BS systems like NAFTA and the TPP (2 Repub like arrangements made by Dems) because it helps them make more money, regardless of the cost to their workers.

    Trump has promised to get rid of Obamacare, which would make the happy. He's promised a revised tax setup, which should make them at least somewhat happier, plus he isn't Obama or Hilldog which makes them very happy. But my point was their happiness may fade pretty quickly if he stops them from being able to outsource jobs, hide money overseas and basically screw their workers, not to mention making insurances companies and drug companies give up their monopolies and actually compete in something akin to a semi free market, you know that system they claim to love so much? My point was, they may love some of the stuff he does but they may not be nearly as crazy about some of those other, less "let the wealthy and the corporations rule the world" elements of his plans. Or he may "pull a politician" and go back on all of his promises or maybe pick and choose which promises he keeps and which ones he goes back on. He certainly wouldn't be the first one to ever do that, huh?

    Did this do a better job?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ESP47 View Post
    Well one thing we know for certain is that Clinton wasn't going to touch any of that so at least we're giving ourselves a shot at it here with Trump.
    Oh yeah I definitely agree with you about Hilldog, I'm just wondering about how many of those promises he keeps now that he's won, and how some of them will go over with those at the top of the food chain.

    Oh and one other thing. Is "giving ourselves a shot" going to be enough for you if he doesn't follow through with his promises?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oklahomahawk View Post
    Oh yeah I definitely agree with you about Hilldog, I'm just wondering about how many of those promises he keeps now that he's won, and how some of them will go over with those at the top of the food chain.

    Oh and one other thing. Is "giving ourselves a shot" going to be enough for you if he doesn't follow through with his promises?
    No of course I wont be ok with it and I doubt many people in this country would. Trump said a lot of the right things when it came to policy. He might pull through on his promises and make our lives better. He might pull through on his promises but get stymied by those at the top of the food chain. He might just say "haha jokes on you" and screw us all over. There is plenty of uncertainty just as there is with any president.

    With Hillary the certainty was that the next 4 or 8 years weren't going to do a damn thing for the average person in America. So would you rather give yourself a chance with the first candidate or just concede the loss with the latter candidate and bend over and take it for the next however many years? I'd rather give myself a shot with the unpredictable guy because I just don't see how he could possibly be worse than her. She made her policies perfectly clear and they weren't for the health of the country. They were strictly for votes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 50PoundHead View Post
    It's going to be interesting to see if there's any kind of trail between the FBI agents in the NYC office and Guiliani. I may be alone, but given how the election played out, I don't think the Comey affair made much, if any, difference. He was in a tough position. Trump rode an undercurrent of anger that I think would have carried him.
    I agree. I don't think Comey swayed this election much, if at all. I do know that there is a rather long history of people who have worked with the Clinton's in some capacity that have all died and some have been a little more mysterious than others. Not saying this is going to happen, but if in the near future something happens to Comey this can of worms will explode.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gilesfan View Post
    Just saying. Im not really a Trump fan, but he's going to be much more moderate than people assume.
    A sane person can understand this. The ones crying and acting all pissed off are the ones who will automatically assume the worst about everything. You can't reason with those people.

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    I was having my doubts that Trump would make America great again but day after he is elected and the mcrib is back. He is off to a good start.
    "Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.

    It’s over."


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    Quote Originally Posted by Oklahomahawk View Post
    I guess I didn't explain that very well. I'm sure some of the uber wealthy voted for him, probably quite a few of them. I know this is a stereotype but typically I believe most of the uber wealthy vote Repub, though that's not a 100% thing. Those same types tend to love BS systems like NAFTA and the TPP (2 Repub like arrangements made by Dems) because it helps them make more money, regardless of the cost to their workers.

    Trump has promised to get rid of Obamacare, which would make the happy. He's promised a revised tax setup, which should make them at least somewhat happier, plus he isn't Obama or Hilldog which makes them very happy. But my point was their happiness may fade pretty quickly if he stops them from being able to outsource jobs, hide money overseas and basically screw their workers, not to mention making insurances companies and drug companies give up their monopolies and actually compete in something akin to a semi free market, you know that system they claim to love so much? My point was, they may love some of the stuff he does but they may not be nearly as crazy about some of those other, less "let the wealthy and the corporations rule the world" elements of his plans. Or he may "pull a politician" and go back on all of his promises or maybe pick and choose which promises he keeps and which ones he goes back on. He certainly wouldn't be the first one to ever do that, huh?

    Did this do a better job?
    I'm clearer this time through. The 1% or whatever you want to call them make more money regardless of who is sitting in the white building on Pennsylvania avenue. I just don't see how he can do a tax cut the size he has been touting and increase defense spending at the same time (and not touch Social Security or Medicare) without totally blowing up the deficit. I agree that Mitch McConnell probably won't go along with a lot of the corporate tax loopholes (but he'll still agree to drop the marginal rate).

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    https://www.bloomberg.com/view/artic...cs-chapter-one

    If there is any common theme to my predictions, it stems from Trump’s history in franchising his name and putting relatively little capital into many of his business deals. I think his natural instinct will be to look for some quick symbolic victories to satisfy supporters, and then pursue mass popularity with a lot of government benefits, debt and free-lunch thinking. I don’t think the Trump presidency will be recognizable as traditionally conservative or right-wing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by acesfull86 View Post
    https://www.bloomberg.com/view/artic...cs-chapter-one

    If there is any common theme to my predictions, it stems from Trump’s history in franchising his name and putting relatively little capital into many of his business deals. I think his natural instinct will be to look for some quick symbolic victories to satisfy supporters, and then pursue mass popularity with a lot of government benefits, debt and free-lunch thinking. I don’t think the Trump presidency will be recognizable as traditionally conservative or right-wing.

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    Agree. He'll nominate a conservative for the court, probably do some window-dressing things on immigration, and cancel almost all (if not all) of Obama's Executive Orders. After that, I expect the deficit to balloon.

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