Florida State Seminoles

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more love (cont.)

He’s tried separating families, sending troops to the border and declaring a national emergency. For all of that, illegal border crossings are, as the president himself calls it, at crisis levels.
He blames House Democrats because casting blame is Trump’s forte. But Republicans controlled the House and the Senate for two full years. That seemed like an ideal time to fix what the president believes ails our immigration laws.

Even with Democrats now controlling the House, where is Trump’s much-touted deal-making mojo, an attribute he campaigned on? “But the economy!”

Yes, the market has done well since Trump’s election. The S&P 500 was up about 21% between Trump’s inauguration and May 31 of his third year in office. Under President Obama, it was up about 56% in that same period. Unemployment is headed down, as it was during seven straight years under Obama.

Wages are up, and that’s a welcome change. But GDP increases so far are no better than some periods under Obama. Deficit spending under Obama was far too high, in part because of the stimulus needed to dig out of the Great Recession. Under Trump, it’s still headed in the wrong direction, once again pushing $1 trillion even though the economy is healthy.

Trump seems to care nothing about the deficit and the national debt, which once breathed life into the Tea Party. Through all of this, Trump’s base remains loyal. Sadly, the truest words Trump might ever have spoken was when he said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose his supporters.

This non-endorsement isn’t defaulting to whomever the Democrats choose. This newspaper has a history of presidential appointments favoring Republicans starting in the mid-20th century. Except for Lyndon Johnson in 1964, the Sentinel backed Republican presidential nominees from 1952 through 2004, when we recommended John Kerry over another four years of George W. Bush.

As recently as 2012 we recommended Republican Mitt Romney because of what seemed at the time to be Obama’s failure to adequately manage the nation’s finances.

If — however unlikely — a Republican like Romney, now a senator from Utah, or former Ohio Gov. John Kasich successfully primaried the president, we would eagerly give them a look. Same if an independent candidate mounted a legitimate campaign.

We’d even consider backing Trump if, say, he found the proverbial cure for cancer or — about as likely — changed the essence of who he is (he won’t).

The nation must endure another 1½ years of Trump. But it needn’t suffer another four beyond that.

We can do better. We have to do better.

[aTm]

Sadly, the Democrats won't necessarily do better at all.

[Jungle Rat]

EFZ

[hedge]

They'll do better at enraging the little trumpies...

[Jungle Rat]

All that takes is a salt lick covered in meth.

[Professor Tiger]

A media outlet says they hate Trump. Not exactly shocking...

Saw this bumper sticker today: “Trump in 2020: Make liberals cry again”

[Professor Tiger]

Why is Trump still president? All the “smart” people spent the past 2.5 years assuring us that this gorilla, this monster, this Satan, this madman, would be run out of office by now. Trump was supposed to be sent packing to prison and/or an insane asylum a long time ago.

Yet here he his. What happened? The impeachment of this imbecilic Hitler hasn’t even started. What’s the holdup?

[bluetick]

At least Hitler wasn't lying when he said HIS father was born in Germany.

[Jungle Rat]

That rally was hilarious. Since when did Hillary decide to run for President again? What a buffoon

[eCat]

A good read on Malaysia MH370

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... es/590653/

[aTm]

I dont think Hitler's father was born in Germany. Hitler wasn't even born in Germany.

[bluetick]

Austria, Germany..same same.

Like the Carolinas.

[Professor Tiger]

Heh heh. Post of the day.

Except South Carolina is a little more educated and classy than North Carolina.

Speaking of dubious claims about parentage, at least Trump didn’t do like the PAH and claim to be named after Sir Edmund Hillary, who climbed Mt. Everest 6 years after she was born.

[Jungle Rat]

Yeah. He just had 6 different kids with 3 different wives. No biggie.

[hedge]

Austria, Germany..same same.

Like the Carolinas.

Tennessee is western Carolina...

[Jungle Rat]

Don't you mean eastern Tennessee you dumb ass?

[hedge]

You're not very bright, are you Rat?

[Professor Tiger]

Maybe not, but he makes up for it by having three balls and pee that smells like ham. Nobody can take that away from him.

[Professor Tiger]

Moderator: Ladies, gentlemen, and other persons who are uncommitted to any gender label, welcome to the first round of debates of candidates for the Democratic nomination. Let’s begin. The first topic: gun control, As president, what would you do to stop the wave of gun violence plaguing our country?

Booker: I would like to point out that, not only am I an African American, whose people have suffered gun violence ever since the first colony at Plymouth Rock was established, but at I also have a plan to end gun violence in America. First, I would require a background check for all gun purchases, end the gun show loophole, outlaw the AR-15 and all assault weapons, reinstate the Brady Bill, and ban high capacity magazines.

Biden: I remember growing up in Scranton P.A. That’s what we used to call “Pennsylvania” back home in coal country, where my grandfather and father come home from their blue collar jobs as coal miners, and they would take me huntin’ with them when I was just a boy. Those memories I have of my good ol’ American blue collar values were really the cat’s pajamas man!

Buttigieg: I would like to interject here; first, what kind of twisted sadistic monster would even own a gun, even 70 years ago? And to kill those cute little furry defenseless creatures? That is totally disgusting.

Biden; I would like to apologize to all Americans, and especially to those cute little animals that my father and grandfather tried to get me to shoot, but I followed my progressive values and never pulled the trigger. (My father and grandfather, the coal miners, were also segregationists, by the bye.) But rest assured, I never actually shot any kind of gun. And my record in the Senate will show that I actually hate guns, and always have.

By the way, Mr Buttigieg, how does all that gay sex stuff actually... work? I mean, doesn’t it... hurt? I know whenever I go to the doctor, and he checks my prostate, hooo-weee let me tell you mister...

Moderator: Time is up, Me. Biden. We will now cut to an emergency commercial.

Biden: .., and man, the idea of a long finger would scare the jeepers out of me...

[hedge]

I'm sure you invent reasons to get your prostate checked...