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Official Trump: Dems favorability down to 31%! All time low! Sad!

Anybody noticing how Trump is touting this million jobs in 6 months like it's some sort of big deal. We're on Pace for lower job growth in 2017 than we were in 2016 or 2015 in net jobs gain numbers
 
ChrisL68 said:
Anybody noticing how Trump is touting this million jobs in 6 months like it's some sort of big deal. We're on Pace for lower job growth in 2017 than we were in 2016 or 2015 in net jobs gain numbers
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Are you kidding?!?! We just had 2.6% growth for the first time since 2016! Trump's economy is the best. Let's cut taxes and increase military spending.
 
ChrisL68 said:
Anybody noticing how Trump is touting this million jobs in 6 months like it's some sort of big deal. We're on Pace for lower job growth in 2017 than we were in 2016 or 2015 in net jobs gain numbers
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Sure but the numbers were fake back then under the Muslim president who wasn't even born in America.
 
What is happening in your actual lives that causes y'all to be so hate filled and negative? What has trump done to you?
 
tintinisahottie said:
What is happening in your actual lives that causes y'all to be so hate filled and negative? What has trump done to you?
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LOL. A Trump voter wondering why someone else is hate filled and negative. Hilarious.
 
tying the success of your economic policy to the stock market seems like a dangerous game.
 
tintinisahottie said:
What is happening in your actual lives that causes y'all to be so hate filled and negative? What has trump done to you?
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Not supporting a pathological liar, thief, serial sexual abuser, bigot, who put our nation at greater risk almost daily is the duty of Americans.
 
harmoniousmonk said:
tying the success of your economic policy to the stock market seems like a dangerous game.
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Well they convinced their people that stock market gains under Obama weren't real. They're sure they can convince them Trump is doing great when the numbers go south. They probably still don't think Bush tanked the economy.
 
ChrisL68 said:
Anybody noticing how Trump is touting this million jobs in 6 months like it's some sort of big deal. We're on Pace for lower job growth in 2017 than we were in 2016 or 2015 in net jobs gain numbers
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Facts don't matter. His supporters eat that shit up. 1,000,000 JOBS! AMAZING! TRUMP!
 
Aggressive incompetence from Team Trump at the Department of Energy. This is a sobering article. Wonder if Vad (or his wife) know anything about what's going on there. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department-of-energy-risks-michael-lewis

After Pyle’s list of questions wound up on Bloomberg News, the Trump administration disavowed them, but a signal had been sent: We don’t want you to help us understand; we want to find out who you are and punish you. Pyle vanished from the scene. According to a former Obama official, he was replaced by a handful of young ideologues who called themselves “the Beachhead Team.” “They mainly ran around the building insulting people,” says a former Obama official. “There was a mentality that everything that government does is stupid and bad and the people are stupid and bad,” says another. They allegedly demanded to know the names and salaries of the 20 highest-paid people in the national-science labs overseen by the D.O.E. They’d eventually, according to former D.O.E. staffers, delete the contact list with the e-mail addresses of all D.O.E.-funded scientists—apparently to make it more difficult for them to communicate with one another. “These people were insane,” says the former D.O.E. staffer. “They weren’t prepared. They didn’t know what they were doing.”

“We had tried desperately to prepare them,” said Tarak Shah, chief of staff for the D.O.E.’s $6 billion basic-science program. “But that required them to show up. And bring qualified people. But they didn’t. They didn’t ask for even an introductory briefing. Like ‘What do you do?’ ”
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But there was actually a long history of even the appointees of one administration hanging around to help the new appointees of the next. The man who had served as chief financial officer of the department during the Bush administration, for instance, stayed a year and a half into the Obama administration—simply because he had a detailed understanding of the money end of things that was hard to replicate quickly. The C.F.O. of the department at the end of the Obama administration was a mild-mannered civil-servant type named Joe Hezir. He had no particular political identity and was widely thought to have done a good job—and so he half-expected a call from the Trump people asking him to stay on, just to keep the money side of things running smoothly. The call never came. No one even let him know his services were no longer required. Not knowing what else to do, but without anyone to replace him, the C.F.O. of a $30 billion operation just up and left.

This was a loss. A lunch or two with the chief financial officer might have alerted the new administration to some of the terrifying risks they were leaving essentially unmanaged. Roughly half of the D.O.E.’s annual budget is spent on maintaining and guarding our nuclear arsenal, for instance. Two billion of that goes to hunting down weapons-grade plutonium and uranium at loose in the world so that it doesn’t fall into the hands of terrorists. In just the past eight years the D.O.E.’s National Nuclear Security Administration has collected enough material to make 160 nuclear bombs. The department trains every international atomic-energy inspector; if nuclear power plants around the world are not producing weapons-grade material on the sly by reprocessing spent fuel rods and recovering plutonium, it’s because of these people. The D.O.E. also supplies radiation-detection equipment to enable other countries to detect bomb material making its way across national borders. To maintain the nuclear arsenal, it conducts endless, wildly expensive experiments on tiny amounts of nuclear material to try to understand what is actually happening to plutonium when it fissions, which, amazingly, no one really does. To study the process, it is funding what promises to be the next generation of supercomputers, which will in turn lead God knows where.
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i guess the plan is to let the magic of the free market monitor nonproliferation and guard the nukes?
 
Yet another example of Republicans creating government incompetence so they can campaign against it.
 
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