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Old 12-18-2017, 07:45 PM
 
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A generation of GOP stars stands diminished: "Everything Trump touches dies"
By Philip Rucker

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.b052ac25f18e
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Old 12-18-2017, 07:55 PM
 
Location: Tip of the Sphere. Just the tip.
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Republicans are counting on Americans' short attention spans. Whatever happens, it'll be water under the bridge in a year for most people.

It's not a bad gamble to make.
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Old 12-18-2017, 08:05 PM
 
Location: PSL
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Everything Trump touches dies

So when does he touch Pelosi Schumer and Clinton? LOL
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Old 12-18-2017, 08:16 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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A generation of GOP stars stands diminished: "Everything Trump touches dies"

Hmmm... like the stock market, and unemployment and foreign relations....

Try another post.
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Old 12-18-2017, 08:24 PM
 
Location: CO/UT/AZ/NM Catch me if you can!
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When does he touch Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell?

For that matter, when does he touch himself? (eeeww! What an AWFUL (accidental) mental picture!)
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Old 12-18-2017, 08:33 PM
 
Location: USA
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Hmmm... like the stock market, and unemployment and foreign relations....

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Since he hasn't actually DONE anything to address any of those yet, it seems dishonest to give him credit for them. Don't worry - once he DOES start working on them, they'll be just as successful as every business he's destroyed.

Oh, and by the way - all those things you're so concerned about were all doing just fine under Obama for close to 8 years. Seems folks on the right always need to be reminded about that reality - that the economy crashed during Dubya's term in office, not in January 2009, and that it recovered many years before January 2016 and the ascension to the throne of the little Orange King.

It'll be amusing watching them blame the next Recession somehow on Obama, while giving Trump's idiocy a complete pass, of course. So dishonest. So shallow. So laughably pathetic.
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Old 12-18-2017, 08:42 PM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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Republicans are counting on Americans' short attention spans. Whatever happens, it'll be water under the bridge in a year for most people.

It's not a bad gamble to make.
I think at this point the GOP realizes that they have their votes no matter what they do, its why they continue to pass legislation that attacks the working poor (most of their base) and enrich the wealthiest Americans and corporations.

However, if they inflict too much pain they might cause some of their low information voters to swing their votes come election time, so they run this delicate balancing act of trying to not screw over their base too much. And that's where Trump comes in, he could care less how much pain the base feels.

Give it a another year or two. The pain threshold of Trump voters is going to diminish with time.
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Old 12-18-2017, 08:55 PM
 
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didnt Trump shake hands with Obama?
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Old 12-18-2017, 09:03 PM
 
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Hmmm... like the stock market, and unemployment and foreign relations....

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Foreign relations are at a low under Trump, our allies don't trust us, our enemies do not fear us and PUTIN's puppet has made us the laughing stock of the world.

% unemployed has RISEN in trump's rust belt. look it up and learn. it is not going great there.

Stock market is a 8 year rally. Unless trump was secretly running the WH for the last 8 years he is not the man who did it. Trump at least did give the market a big bump but that is all. He did not set this up and Trump has made zero policy changes you can point too outside of a pending tax cut. And that tax cut is why we have the trump bump.

I give trump the bump not the market. and remember RoadKing this is an 8 year bull run, longest in decades, strongest in decades, it is likely going to correct pretty hard. ( we do have the issue of too much profit chasing limited investment options...)

quite the ride, i suggest everybody have strategies in place.
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Old 12-18-2017, 09:03 PM
 
Location: In The Thin Air
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When does he touch Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell?

For that matter, when does he touch himself? (eeeww! What an AWFUL (accidental) mental picture!)
His hands are too small.
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