Trump Timeline ... Trumpocalypse

[XKawN]

That Obama was a "failed" president is purely a opinion. But let's not forget what he inherited and got us out of. Hilary I agree I disliked her and she was not a change. Let's no t accuse her of selling government when you put in office the worse crook possible, lying about all his campaign promises just to get elected and putting in charge the worst group of billionaires and Wall Street scum instead of "emptying the swamp" but making it 100 times deeper and more populated...

Trump hasn't even been in office more than a couple months. He hasn't even had time to enact what he promised. It's funny how trump is the worst president ever and has only been in office a few months and by this period of time in his first term obama was the greatest president that ever existed. Rhetoric cool-aid anyone?

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

[WTF! ...]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Fans of old TV series may remember a classic “Twilight Zone” episode titled “It’s a Good Life.” It featured a small town terrorized by a 6-year-old who for some reason had monstrous superpowers, coupled with complete emotional immaturity. Everyone lived in constant fear, made worse by the need to pretend that everything was fine. After all, any hint of discontent could bring terrible retribution.

And now you know what it must be like working in the Trump administration. Actually, it feels a bit like that just living in Trump’s America.

What set me off on this chain of association? The answer may surprise you; it was the tax “plan” the administration released on Wednesday.

The reason I use scare quotes here is that the single-page document the White House circulated this week bore no resemblance to what people normally mean when they talk about a tax plan. True, a few tax rates were mentioned — but nothing was said about the income thresholds at which these rates apply.

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It’s clear the White House is proposing huge tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy, with the breaks especially big for people who can bypass regular personal taxes by channeling their income into tax-privileged businesses — people, for example, named Donald Trump. So Trump plans to blow up the deficit bigly, largely to his own personal benefit; but that’s about all we know.

So why would the White House release such an embarrassing document? Why would the Treasury Department go along with this clown show?

Unfortunately, we know the answer. Every report from inside the White House conveys the impression that Trump is like a temperamental child, bored by details and easily frustrated when things don’t go his way; being an effective staffer seems to involve finding ways to make him feel good and take his mind off news that he feels makes him look bad.

 

[Mister Sandman]

It was so bad it is imploding.

Back it up with facts and I can revise my position
Simply stating a opinion is not sufficient

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Back it up with facts and I can revise my position
Simply stating a opinion is not sufficient

It is one of their many cult talking points ... refuted time and time again ...

How about improving healthcare access, affordability, ...

No, Obamacare Isn’t in a ‘Death Spiral’
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/...replacement-probably-wont-be-either.html?_r=0

The CBO's other bombshell: the Affordable Care Act isn't imploding
The CBO's other bombshell: the Affordable Care Act isn't imploding

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Back it up with facts and I can revise my position
Simply stating a opinion is not sufficient

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Back it up with facts and I can revise my position
Simply stating a opinion is not sufficient

But, Trumpcare ...

 

[Michael Scally MD]

In early 2007, a group of Morgan Stanley bankers bundled a group of subprime mortgage instruments into a package they hoped to sell to investors. The only problem was, they couldn't come up with a name for the package of mortgage-backed derivatives, which they all knew were doomed.

The bankers decided to play around with potential names. In a series of emails back and forth, they suggested possibilities. "Jon is voting for 'Hitman,'" wrote one. "How about 'Nuclear Holocaust 2007-1?'" wrote another, adding a few more possible names: Shitbag, Mike Tyson's Punchout and Fludderfish.

Eventually they stopped with the comedy jokes, gave the pile of "nuclear" assets a more respectable name – "Stack" – and sold the $500 million Collateralized Debt Obligation with a straight face to the China Development Industrial Bank. Within three years, the bank was suing a series of parties, including Morgan Stanley, to recover losses from the toxic fund.

The name on the original registration document for Stack? Craig S. Phillips, then president of Morgan Stanley's ABS (Asset-Backed Securities) division. Phillips may not have written the emails in question, but he was the boss of this sordid episode, and it was his name on the comedy-free document that was presented to Chinese investors.

This is just another detail in the emerging absurd narrative that is Donald Trump naming Phillips, of all people, to head up the effort to reform the Government-Sponsored Entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

 

[Big_paul]

The problem is that trump supporters feel that trump is truth and everyone else lies.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

The problem is that trump supporters feel that trump is truth and everyone else lies.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Big_paul]

Exactly. The reds gave it the old college try though.