Just the info that has been released shows the CIA and FBI to be fumbling fools.
Not much has changed in all of the years since then.

 

Shooter nods
He suspected last November that the Trump/Russian thingy would come back to bite the DNC right in the ass.
And so it appears that is exactly what is happening.

Shooter runs off to check the safe space cookie and juice stocks, and to (yet again) seek a replacement puppy.

 

If a person was a democrat and knew anything about their party they already knew how crooked the DNC was.
After 8 years of an affirmative action president they thought everyone else was as stupid as he is.
It has come as a hell of a surprise to them when they found out how damn stupid he really was.

 

Time’s new cover perfectly captures the general media attitude toward the federal government.



Donald Trump is a wrecking ball, and his crew is “dismantling government as we know it.”

But is government as we know it such a good thing?

The well-reported story says: "Quietly, the Administration has taken thousands of actions, affecting everyone from the poorest day laborer to the richest investment banker."

But it’s not so quiet, as the piece acknowledges. Trump touts his slashing of regulations all the time. And Communications Director Hope Hicks is quoted as saying: "No president or administration has deregulated or withdrawn as many anticipated regulatory actions as this one in this short amount of time."

The default setting for many in the media is that Republican presidents—especially this Republican president--want to whack government’s vital functions and Democratic presidents want to reinforce them.


The pendulum swings back and forth. Republican administrations often hire industry executives who have chafed under the very regulations they are now in charge of administering. Democratic administrations tend to hire advocates and activists who have spent their careers criticizing business pushing for more regulations.

In the media world this side of the Wall Street Journal editorial page, more regulation is often progress, and less regulation is going backward.

If Barack Obama comes in and reverses the Bush policies and beefs up enforcement, that’s seen as a good thing. If Trump comes in and reverses the Obama policies and scales back enforcement, that’s seen as a troubling thing.

Now we can all agree that government has a core responsibility to ensure clean air and water, safe food and air travel, and solvent banks. I’ve done lots of stories on how regulatory failures have led to housing scandals, environmental disasters and banking failures.

The devil is in the details.

But there’s another side of the argument: that an excessively heavy hand of government can cost jobs by driving up the cost of compliance and paperwork.

So Donald Trump’s wrecking ball might do some damage, but could also hit some things worth knocking down.

Howard Kurtz is a Fox News analyst and the host of "MediaBuzz" (Sundays 11 a.m.). He is the author of five books and is based in Washington. Follow him at @HowardKurtz. Click here for more information on Howard Kurtz.



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And, on another note, growth was 3% last quarter.
Under Trump.
Obama never got above 2.75%

Now, if Trump can continue to see this kind of growth, his popularity among the unsupporters, the melinials, and the arrogant elite entitled won't much matter now, will it?

 

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is having more success getting judges confirmed than Democrat Barack Obama did at this early stage in their presidencies, and that disparity is expected to increase this week as the GOP-led Senate pushes through more of Trump's choices.



Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has set the stage for votes on four of the president's appellate court nominees and one district court nominee starting Monday night. In doing so, he declared that Democrats would be unsuccessful in stopping their confirmation.

"We'll confirm all of them this week, no matter how long that takes," McConnell said.

 

This is not true. Check it yourself.

 

Shooter did.

 

No you didn't because if you did you would know GDP growth hit 3 percent in 8 separate quarters when Obama was president.

And if you still want to try claim otherwise please link a source because I am still stuck with just my phone. And if wasn't I would have alresdy proven you wrong.

 

Trump keeps marching on, no distractions affect his agenda, even the distractions from the leftists on this site spouting their total horseshit as facts.


Obama?...3%?...yeah right.

Gross domestic product (GDP), the total value of goods and services produced in the U.S., never rose 3 percent annually under Obama.

Quarters are irrelevant

 

oh holy fuck. Talk about fucking hilarious. Someone tries to claim that GDP growth hit 3 percent for two quarters under Trump and it never hit 3 percent under Obama. So I prove that wrong. And then someone tries to claim it never hit 3 percent in annual growth and that quarterly growth is irrevelent. Which is exactly the original claim that GDP growth has hit 3 percent for two quarters under Trump. FUCKING ROFLCOPTERS! !!!

But on a more important note I could be wrong. I often am. But it sure looks like to me we are actually seeing the collapse of Trump World and the Trump presidency happening right before our very eyes. And I mean collapsing like an avalanche.

 

8 years....8 separate quarters over 3%, with an annual average of less than 2%. Irrelevant.

 

Two days late and a dollar short...but still funny.

 

When I point out that there has usually been over twice as much economic growth under Democrat presidents as Republican presidents the right wing bully boys claim that the president does not control economic growth. Now they give Trump credit for economic growth that is slowing down a bit.

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by Chris Isidore @CNNMoneySeptember 1, 2017: 2:07 PM ET

Donald Trump's job record as president so far has been pretty good. It's just not as good as Barack Obama's.
Employers added 1,189,000 jobs in February through August, according to data released Friday.

That falls short of the 1,375,000 jobs created during Obama's last seven months...

Of course, Trump's seven-month record is far better than Obama's first seven months in office, when the economy lost 3.6 million jobs. That's because Obama was sworn in during the worst downturn since the Great Depression. The economy was hemorrhaging jobs.

By contrast, Obama handed Trump an economy that was close to what economists consider full employment. The unemployment rate on Inauguration Day was 4.8%, and it has fallen since then to 4.4%.

 

NBC News
NOV 1 2017, 8:46 AM ET

WASHINGTON — House Republicans are facing a major disadvantage with their tax plan, even before they delayed the rollout of their bill by one day.

Their plan starts out underwater, according to our latest NBC/WSJ poll — and by about the same margin as the poll's first track of George W. Bush's failed effort to partially privatize Social Security.

In this new NBC/WSJ poll, 25 percent call Trump’s tax plan a good idea, versus 35 percent who call it a bad idea (-10). And nearly four-in-10 Americans — 39 percent — do not have an opinion.

By comparison, here is how the major legislative efforts over the last 13 years started out in the NBC/WSJ poll under this same good idea-vs.-bad idea question:

• December 2004: George W. Bush’s Social Security privatization effort: 38 percent good idea, 50 percent bad idea (-12); 12 percent not sure/no opinion.

• January 2009: Barack Obama’s economic stimulus: 43 percent good idea, 27 percent bad idea (+16); 30 percent not sure/undecided.

• April 2009: Barack Obama’s health-care bill: 33 percent good idea, 26 percent bad idea (+7); 41 percent not sure/undecided.

• October 2017: Donald Trump’s tax plan: 25 percent good idea, 35 percent bad idea (-10); 39 percent not sure/no opinion.

 

Federal policy and regulation is the sole creator of what the economy will do.

If Business is stifled due to policy and regulation GDP falls,

The only reason that Obama had so many quarters above 3% growth, the Federal Reserve dropped interest rates to damn near 0%.

As for Obama's unemployment rate hoax, part time work is not being employed.

Optimism is high with Trump as POTUS, Obama was never above 30% during his entire 2 terms.

However, he sure was liked, especially in the big city polls.

Everyone is attempting to compare apples to oranges with these two POTUS's.

The community organizing/socialist/communist/leftist/lying fraudulent Muslim had 8 years for comparison rates...

Trump...for all shits and giggles...9 months, hardly a fair comparison

 

And again, your comparisons are as irrelevant as your polls.

 

Speaking just before a Cabinet meeting, Trump took a somber tone in the wake of the vicious attack that left eight dead and a dozen hurt. In addition to vowing to end the State Department's Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, which is how suspect Sayfullo Saipov came into the United States in 2010 from Uzbekistan, Trump called for swift and harsh justice.

“We have to come up with a punishment that much worse than what these animals are getting now,” said Trump, who is asking Congress to end the diversity visa program.

Saipov, 29, carried out his bloody rampage from behind the wheel of a rented pickup truck, barreling down a bike path along Manhattan's West Side Highway Tuesday afternoon.

Trump took aim Wednesday at the diversity immigration program, as well as others that allow “chain migration,” in which immigrants can enter the country simply to be united with a relative already living here.

The type of visa Saipov possessed could theoretically have allowed dozens of his family members into the U.S.

“We will take all of the necessary steps to take care of our communities and our country has a whole,” Trump also said Wednesday. “What we have now is a joke and a laughingstock.”

The president instead wants foreigners allowed into the country only under merit-based programs.

 

Ex-CIA officer: Mueller also needs to investigate US intel’s attempts to damage Trump

America’s senior law enforcement and intelligence officials were directly involved in the targeting of a democratically elected president for political assassination.

With special counsel Bob Mueller filing charges against Trump associates Paul Manafort and Rick Gates this week, a divided country is quickly moving on from last week’s controversy of the “Steele Dossier.”

The scandalou series of memos – which contained allegations of treason and impropriety by then-candidate Trump and his campaign – took on renewed life after it was confirmed that the document was little more than a political hit job

Indeed, when President Obama was briefed on the dossier and the spymasters’ justification for doing so, his incredulous response captured the confusion perfectly.


“What does this have anything to do with anything?”
(Suggesting that this is not enough to shut down Trump)

The Obama administration had every reason to believe that Trump and a Republican Congress would reverse Obama’s legacy – from the nuclear deal with Iran to health care reform. Republicans were also poised to add several conservative Supreme Court justices to the court, altering the direction of the country for decades to come.

It’s reasonable to believe, then, that leaking a dossier alleging treason might severely wound Trump and his agenda for the duration of his presidency.

Which begs the question: which spymaster had the greatest motivation to try to bring down the president? And was he alone in his efforts?

Said differently, we cannot support an illicit political assassination simply because it brings about misfortune to those we oppose.

Accordingly, it’s time for Mueller to investigate our national security community with the same ferocity that he’s shown in his likely prosecution of Trump associates.

It’s time to investigate the scandal of America’s spymasters.

 

Huh?

According to Gallup:

Obama's lowest approval rating was 38%, in September 5, 2014;
Obama's highest approval rating was 69%, in January 24, 2009;

Trump's lowest approval rating was 33% in October 29, 2017;
Trump's highest approval rating was 46% in January 24, 2017.

According to FOX News, in January 15 - 17, 2017, Obama's approval rating was 57%; his disapproval rating was 39%.

According to Rasmussen, in January 15, 17, 2017, Obama's approval rating was 62%; his disapproval rating was 38%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_approval_rating