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Kierland wrote:Fuck Turtleneck and the other 67 war mongers who voted against getting out of Syria/Afghanistan.

Softball Bat wrote:Donald J. Trump should be immediately removed from office.
Mike Pence should be sworn in.

.088 wrote:If your heart is in your dream to have Trump impeached

.088 wrote:A dude who believes the Earth is flat in 2019 wants us to take his statements about the 25th Amendment seriously. Sorry, bub. Your surrendered your ability to engage in conversation with rational adults years ago. Go back to the kids’ table and tell some more stories about unicorns or some other shit.

Softball Bat wrote:

.088 wrote:A dude who believes the Earth is flat in 2019 wants us to take his statements about the 25th Amendment seriously. Sorry, bub. Your surrendered your ability to engage in conversation with rational adults years ago. Go back to the kids’ table and tell some more stories about unicorns or some other shit.

Great take, nazi.

Hard to determine who is more irrational and unhinged, you or Don.

Kierland wrote:
Either repent or deal with the fallout of your folly.

Tina Nguyen wrote:One of the most closely guarded and worst-kept secrets of Donald Trump’s presidency is his extraordinary laziness. Despite efforts to project a manly ardor, the current leader of the free world spends most of his free time tweeting, calling friends, and watching Fox News. Of his 745 days in office, Trump has spent 222 days unwinding at Trump-branded properties and 168 days golfing. According to the testimony of numerous West Wing staffers, he struggles to focus in meetings, largely ignores intelligence briefings, and tunes out policy minutiae. Once, according to former White House aide Cliff Sims, Trump literally got up and wandered away while Paul Ryan was in the Oval Office attempting to explain the Republican health-care bill. While Ryan was still talking, Trump walked down the hall to his private dining room and turned on the TV.

We’ve known since January 2018 that White House staffers have an official designation for these unstructured periods on Trump’s private schedule: “Executive Time.” What we didn’t know is exactly how much of the president’s average day is spent un-presidenting.

In fact, “Executive Time” is far more than just a respite from the duties of the office. In perhaps the most remarkable White House leak this year, Axios on Sunday published about three months’ worth of Trump’s private daily schedules, dating back to the day after the midterm elections. They reveal that Trump has spent around 297 hours—or roughly 60 percent of his waking hours since the midterms—in “Executive Time.” For comparison, he’s only spent about 77 hours in meetings—less time than his travel (51 hours) and eating lunch (39 hours) combined.

Leaks are endemic to the Trump administration, but this one has especially rattled an already paranoid White House. “If most [leaks] are involuntary manslaughter,” Sims told Axios, “this was premeditated murder.” Morale inside the West Wing has reportedly taken a substantial hit. “What a disgraceful breach of trust to leak schedules,” tweeted Madeleine Westerhout, the White House’s director of Oval Office operations. “What these don’t show are the hundreds of calls and meetings @realDonaldTrump takes everyday.”

If Trump really is taking “hundreds” of undocumented calls and meetings every day, that’s another problem entirely, at least for those who care about transparency. But it’s hard to believe Westerhout’s denial, especially when the evidence of how Trump spends his time is so obvious online. From shortly after he wakes up until mid-morning, the president’s Twitter feed is often just responses to what he is watching on Fox News. Often, there is a consistent delay between what had just aired on Fox & Friends and a Trump tweet, suggesting that the president watches his programs on a DVR. In the evening, he returns to live-tweeting his favorite Fox hosts, or raging against an unflattering story on CNN.

In stark contrast, Trump’s predecessors’ schedules were fully booked. Bill Clinton was known to work constantly and at all hours, sometimes calling aides in the middle of the night. George W. Bush began his day at 5:15 A.M., and Barack Obama would stay up until 2 A.M. reading. Trump seems to believe that nobody has ever worked harder—“[Obama] just sat in here and watched basketball all day,” Sims recalls Trump saying in the Oval Office—but his protestations appear to be little more than projection.

It’s unclear whether Trump’s leaked post-midterm schedules reflect an increase or decrease in “Executive Time” over the past year, but it’s clearly information the White House didn’t want made public. The image of the 72-year-old president doddering around the White House with nothing to do for 60 percent of the time is hardly the image his campaign wants seen by the public before the next election. But this particular leak is unnerving for other reasons, too. It suggests, once again, that Trump’s inner circle is not loyal to him. It also would seem to confirm many of the other unflattering portraits of the president as incurious, disorganized, and distractible. ”Trump does review briefing materials, at least if you make it a point to have him do so,” one former senior White House official told Axios. “But only if you talk and guide him through it as he’s reading.”

Gobbles lazily wrote:...something something...wall-of-text...something

Shlomart Ben Yisrael wrote: The Cliffs Notes version, if you would indulge us.
Not everybody is just marking time, just waiting to die.

Screw_Michigan wrote:...spends 60% of his time shitposting...

Shlomart Ben Yisrael wrote:

Gobbles lazily wrote:...something something...wall-of-text...something

The Cliffs Notes version, if you would indulge us.
Not everybody is just marking time, just waiting to die.

Screw_Michigan wrote:

Shlomart Ben Yisrael wrote: The Cliffs Notes version, if you would indulge us.
Not everybody is just marking time, just waiting to die.

The president spends 60% of his time shitposting, watching Fox News and getting advice from Sean Hannity and assorted deplorables. He's also too stupid to follow along in meetings.

Goober McTuber wrote:

Shlomart Ben Yisrael wrote:

Gobbles lazily wrote:...something something...wall-of-text...something

The Cliffs Notes version, if you would indulge us.
Not everybody is just marking time, just waiting to die.

Other than suckaholic and Dohron (and you apparently) most of the posters here are capable of reading and comprehending several paragraphs. Just read the first sentence, you dumb Canuck.

Left Seater wrote:Link?

Executive Time

Screw_Michigan wrote:

Left Seater wrote:Link?

Common fucking sense. Then read Gobbles' post.

Dipshit.

Mark Zandi wrote:President Trump frequently touts the strong economy as one of his great achievements, and he will likely do so again in his State of the Union address Tuesday. He should take credit while he can. Sure, he inherited an economy moving solidly down the tracks, but he is set to leave one that is headed off the rails.

Nearly a year ago, Trump pushed massive deficit-financed tax cuts through the Republican Congress that temporarily juiced up the economy. But they came at a steep cost. Businesses and wealthy households received a windfall, but the Treasury had to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars from global investors to cut the checks.

Growth now, as the stimulus wears off, has slowed to where it was prior to the tax cut. Trump's argument that the corporate tax cuts would incent businesses to invest more and support sustainably stronger long-term growth looks more and more like a pipe dream. Corporations' effective tax rate — the taxes they pay as a percent of their profits — was cut in half to an all-time low but has yet to unleash more investment.

The president also argued that the tax cuts would pay for themselves. Not even close. Tax revenues are plunging, and the nation's budget deficit is ballooning. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the nonpartisan government agency that does the bean counting, if we don't take a U-turn on the president's tax and spending policies, our collective finances will end in a train wreck.

Trump's trade war is also corrosive on the economy. Higher tariffs have cut into corporate profits — General Motors warned last summer that tariffs on imported cars and parts could force the company to cut jobs. In November it announced plans to close four US plants and cut thousands of jobs.

Businesses are nervous, unsure of whether the president's next move is to lower the tariffs or raise them. That's another reason business investment has flat-lined. The rest of the global economy is also suffering fallout from the trade war, which is blowing back on us. Just ask Apple and other technology companies about their overseas sales.

Yet, the president has nothing to show for all the trade drama. Consider the deal he struck with Canada and Mexico late last year — The United-States-Mexico-Canada Agreement — which made nothing more than a few tweaks to the existing North American Free Trade Agreement, or last summer's handshake deal with the European Union that has to date led to no meaningful change in our trade relationship with the EU.

Trade negotiations with China appear headed to the same end. That is, after a lot of chest thumping, President Trump will ultimately agree to a face-saving, largely inconsequential trade deal with the Chinese. Getting China to play fairly in the global economy and stop its bad behavior over intellectual property rights, forced technology transfer, market access and cyber espionage will have to wait for another day and another approach.

Immigration reform will surely come up during President Trump's address, but his immigration policy is economically wrong-headed. US businesses say their biggest problem is finding qualified workers. And with the large baby boom generation set to retire over the next decade, this will be a perennial problem. Our farmers, hotel and restaurant owners, and transportation and construction companies are struggling to fill a record number of job openings. If the president wants to build a border wall between the United States and Mexico, he will probably need to hire Mexicans to build it.

Our nation's comparative economic advantage is that we innovate, and we do so in significant part because we have historically welcomed new people and their fresh ideas. We need more immigrants, not fewer. The president's only chance of fulfilling his campaign promise of sustainably stronger economic growth is to open his arms to more immigrants.

The president's disregard for rules (think tariffs) and organizations (think World Trade Organization) that for generations have powered enormous gains in our economy will end up doing the most economic damage. Indeed, we wrote the rules and built the organizations. They worked for us because the rest of the world trusted that we would still follow them, even if it wasn't completely convenient for us to do so.

Papa Willie wrote:

Screw_Michigan wrote:

Shlomart Ben Yisrael wrote: The Cliffs Notes version, if you would indulge us.
Not everybody is just marking time, just waiting to die.

The president spends 60% of his time shitposting, watching Fox News and getting advice from Sean Hannity and assorted deplorables. He's also too stupid to follow along in meetings.

And you spend 98% of your time shitposting and crying about Trump. Sounds like he's got more of a life than you do.

Papa Willie wrote:What's funny is how the old man won't acknowledge that this is a pitiful CNN article.

Joe in PB wrote: They wouldn't just print unsubstantiated garbage......oh yes they would. Costing tax payers trillions.....

Joe in PB wrote:

Papa Willie wrote:What's funny is how the old man won't acknowledge that this is a pitiful CNN article.

What, the same news service that screamed WMDs for weeks leading up to the mistaken war in Iraq?

They wouldn't just print unsubstantiated garbage......oh yes they would. Costing tax payers trillions.....

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Papa Willie wrote:What's funny is how the old man won't acknowledge that this is a pitiful CNN article.

Goober McTuber wrote:

Papa Willie wrote:What's funny is how the old man won't acknowledge that this is a pitiful CNN article.

Oh it's spot on, tubby. As you will soon see. You really can't deny the skyrocketing deficit he's creating. Unless, of course, you're a FAT fucking RETARD.

Left Seater wrote:

Goober McTuber wrote:

Papa Willie wrote:What's funny is how the old man won't acknowledge that this is a pitiful CNN article.

Oh it's spot on, tubby. As you will soon see. You really can't deny the skyrocketing deficit he's creating. Unless, of course, you're a FAT fucking RETARD.

Meanwhile the Dems want to add health care for all, free college for all, free job training for all, etc. But yeah Trump’s spending is the issue. Nevermind Congress controls the purse strings.

Goober McTuber wrote: You mean the Republican Congress that threw together our current budget?

Goober McTuber wrote:
You mean the Republican Congress that threw together our current budget?

Left Seater wrote:

Goober McTuber wrote:
You mean the Republican Congress that threw together our current budget?

You are the one claiming it is the President’s spending. When corrected you now want to move the goalposts? How liberal of you.

Goober McTuber wrote: You mean the Republican Congress that threw together our current budget?

Goober McTuber wrote:

Left Seater wrote:

Goober McTuber wrote:
You mean the Republican Congress that threw together our current budget?

You are the one claiming it is the President’s spending. When corrected you now want to move the goalposts? How liberal of you.

I was speaking to the deficit, dumbass. Created by the budget AND Trump's irresponsible tax cut.