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BigRedMan wrote:Buy hey, they don't have guns so they won't escalate the violence.

Cletus wrote:

BigRedMan wrote:Buy hey, they don't have guns so they won't escalate the violence.

Do you think that guy could do more damage with a gun?

On a related note, Trump really did a nice job comforting the Santa Fe shooting victims and survivors. As one mother said, "It was like talking to a toddler." You Trump people must be very proud.

Trump met with more than two dozen people affected by the shooting, and did not publicly share his message for the grieving families and local leaders during a meeting at a Coast Guard base outside Houston.

Pamela Stanich — whose 17-year-old son, Jared Black, was among the eight students killed — was one of the parents who met with Trump, presenting him with a family statement and a copy of her son's eulogy.Trump "met with us privately and showed sincerity, compassion, and concern on making our schools safer across the nation," she wrote in a Facebook post after the meeting. "He spent time talking to the survivors and asking on what happened and what would have made a difference. Changes are coming for the good. Thank you Mr. Trump."

Rhonda Hart, whose 14-year-old daughter, Kimberly Vaughan, was killed at the school, told The Associated Press that Trump repeatedly used the word 'wacky' to describe the shooter and the trench coat he wore. She said she told Trump, "Maybe if everyone had access to mental health care, we wouldn't be in the situation."

Hart, an Army veteran, said she also suggested employing veterans as sentinels in schools. She said Trump responded, "And arm them?" She replied, "No," but said Trump "kept mentioning" arming classroom teachers. "It was like talking to a toddler," Hart said.

Reporters were not permitted to witness the meeting.

sardis wrote:What's even more amazing...

"Full-time jobs rose an eye-popping 904,000 for the month, while part-time positions declined by 625,000"

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/01/the-5-m ... eport.html

A quick look at the five most important numbers from Friday's nonfarm payrolls report:

1) Payroll growth hit 223,000 for May, its highest level since February, beating market expectations for 188,000.

2) The headline unemployment rate fell to 3.8 percent, the lowest reading since April 2000, while the "real" rate, which includes discouraged workers and the underemployed, dropped to 7.6 percent, its best since May 2001.

3) Average hourly earnings rose 2.7 percent, in line with expectations and enough to convince markets that the Fed will raise interest rates at least two more times in 2018.

4) Full-time jobs rose an eye-popping 904,000 for the month, while part-time positions declined by 625,000.

5) Unemployment for blacks continues to decline, with the rate falling to a record 5.9 percent, down a full point from March.

The black unemployment rate fell to 5.9% in May — the lowest since the government started keeping track in 1972.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/01/news/ec ... tml?iid=EL

Cletus wrote:Well, there is ample evidence of him communicating like an incoherent imbecile so the description of him as a toddler rings true.

hedge wrote:"So if the numbers are good, it is meaningless and Trump gets no credit."

Unemployment has been steadily declining for at least 8 years. But I guess Obama gets no credit for that either, huh?

I would predict that if there's a massive shift in congress in the upcoming midterms and the dems regain the house and/or senate...

Senate Republicans Are Newly Hopeful About the Midterms. For Good Reason.

Republicans, already on the offensive thanks to a Senate map that includes 10 Democratic-held seats in states Mr. Trump won, have seen nearly every electoral variable turn in their direction in recent months: They have averted disaster in the West Virginia primary, successfully recruited their preferred candidates in North Dakota and Florida, and watched a renegade Republican challenger wane in one of Mississippi’s two Senate races.

...the Senate campaign is taking place on much more Trump-friendly terrain. Six of the most competitive Senate races are in states he carried by double digits: Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Tennessee and West Virginia. (Democrats hold all of those seats except Tennessee’s.)

Yet even some Democrats concede that Republicans have seen their prospects brighten recently — thanks to their actions in some cases and their good fortune in others. “They are limiting their vulnerabilities,” said Adam Jentleson, a Democratic strategist, conceding that “it’s entirely possible we lose two or three seats.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/us/p ... york-times

Jobs report raises GOP hopes for midterms, while worrying Dems

“I do think this is the single biggest challenge, by far, faced by the Democrats, and it will determine whether we pick up 30 seats or 50 seats,” Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster, said of the economy...

...“It’s not the economic numbers that matter, it’s people’s perception of the economic numbers that matter,” she said.

“In Donald Trump they see someone who’s actually quite good on economic message,” she said of blue-collar voters. “We may be dismissive of it but voters aren’t.”

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/39034 ... rying-dems

Big Democrat Lead in the Generic Congressional House Poll Down to 3.2%

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epoll ... -6185.html