Donald Trump

[Banned Tosspot]

I live in San Francisco -- every day is lovely and ironic.

Unlike Chorlton, which seems more like ugly and bubonic. ;)

You'll know I'm not busy when you check my status and see me reading the "Soap or shower gel" thread.

Watch out for that San Andreas Fault ;-)

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Watch out for that San Andreas Fault ;-)

Think I'm ok -- I live on the side with the land that will stay attached to the continent, not the land that will be up in Alaska in 10 million years.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

With a bit of luck you might have passed some firearms legislation by then.

It will NEVER pass in Alaska in 10 x 10 x 10 million years. I think owning a gun there is a legal requirement of residency.

OT -- I met a park ranger at Glacier Bay National Park who lived in Gustavus. No roads in or out -- you take a helicopter or a boat or plane to leave. He hadn't been to an actual grocery store in ten years. Grew veggies in the garden, and froze them, and shot or fished for his family's entire meat supply and froze it. Amazing fellow actually. His wife is -- you guessed it -- a marine biologist who studies humpback whales. Different world up there.

 

[west didsblue]

Doesn’t everyone know that Toledo is a portmanteau of Texas and Ohio?
Stable genius.

 

[Blue Hefner]

Help me out here, Grand Theft Auto's to blame?

Among other things, yes. But the amount of guns and easy access to them, certainly isn’t to blame

 

[aguero93:20]

I agree with him that people who commit hate crimes should face the death penalty. When's his execution?

 

[aguero93:20]

Dow Jones currently down nearly 800 points.

US recession in the next 8-9 months is basically guaranteed if this trade war with China goes on. Yield curve is nearly as bad as it was in 2007.

 

[mat]

US recession in the next 8-9 months is basically guaranteed if this trade war with China goes on. Yield curve is nearly as bad as it was in 2007.

Add Brexit to that shitstorm and we might be looking at a new system to replace capitalism.

(I can dream)

 

[aguero93:20]

Add Brexit to that shitstorm and we might be looking at a new system to replace capitalism.

(I can dream)

Or another global crash followed by the same neo-liberalist shite as the right and alt-right can't see past it and they hold a lot of influence while anyone advocating a return to Keynesian structures or further left gets assassinated in the press and shouted down by idiots in the public forum.

 

[BobKowalski]

Seems the US/China trade war has gone up a notch or two to encompass a currency war. Looks like the rest of us are going to get fucked over in the blowback.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Trump isn't just stirring up racial tension at his rallies or on Twitter, he's buying add space on Facebook to do it.

 

[Dax777]

Or another global crash followed by the same neo-liberalist shite as the right and alt-right can't see past it and they hold a lot of influence while anyone advocating a return to Keynesian structures or further left gets assassinated in the press and shouted down by idiots in the public forum.

Huh? What you talking about Willis?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Huh? What you talking about Willis?

Do you guys know how close to a recession you are?

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Do you guys know how close to a recession you are?

Probably not. They haven't been bigging it up on Fox yet.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Probably not. They haven't been bigging it up on Fox yet.

The juxtaposition of not trusting politicians in general and the blind belief in Trump is totally bizarre.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

The juxtaposition of not trusting politicians in general and the blind belief in Trump is totally bizarre.

It's almost cult-like.

 

[super_city_si]

It's almost cult-like.

No ‘almost’ about it

 

[Dax777]

Do you guys know how close to a recession you are?

Well if there is a recession he'll lose.

 

[Dax777]

Probably not. They haven't been bigging it up on Fox yet.

No they have not. Nor in MSNBC or CNN. But hey, you got your jab in. That's all that matters

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Do you guys know how close to a recession you are?

Not sure yet. I think it's still touch and go and things are slowing/will slow but the usual danger signs aren't there quite yet. LEI wobbled a little last month. Consumer looks good, the leading labor indicators are solid, the Fed is clearly trying to get ahead of the yield curve. Were it not for the significant uncertainty the trade war has created for business (esp for capital spending) we'd probably be running quite a bit better. Labor's been replacing capital for a good long while; companies are under-staffed, but we've probably exhausted the pool now, so capital spending is needed for growth but companies are afraid. All IMO.