I just like the graphic. That and the fact that the writer (at Axios) has a name that is also a bird — Jonathan Livingston Seagull... I mean, Jonathan Swan.
April 19, 2018
"Trump's 'great man' play on North Korea."
I just like the graphic. That and the fact that the writer (at Axios) has a name that is also a bird — Jonathan Livingston Seagull... I mean, Jonathan Swan.
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Trump will win his Nobel Peace Prize the "old fashioned way"...
"He'll earn it'
Trump is eliciting some skepticism all over. Drudge has these as top line links today:
OIL PRICE HIGHEST SINCE OBAMA...
Gas cost could wipe out tax cut gains...
Thanks for the new desktop image.
Meade has this thing he does for fun here in Madison. We'll be walking down the lake path and just as someone is walking by, he'll say "The thing I love about Trump..." as if we're in the middle of a conversation. Just helping to keep Madison alive and vibrant. This post made me think of a new line to be spoken when someone passes by: "Trump is making me believe in the Great Man theory of history."
"Trump will win his Nobel Peace Prize the "old fashioned way"..."
I'll bet there are a lot of people who'd prefer to see the NK talks fail than for it to become necessary to give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize.
Damn, now Democrats are worried about deficits and fossil fuel prices!
Trump really is reshaping America!
"for it to become necessary to give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize."
It won't be necessary. They gave it to Gorbachev all by himself for unilaterally ending the Cold War.
If the Koreas sign a peace treaty and the north denuclearizes, look for the Nobel to go to Xi Jinping.
There's been a rash of Amazon prime packages being sent on misdirected routes (delayed due to bad weather or natural disaster, says the post office blurb).
Russian hacking.
If he catches that bird, will he eat it or just play with it?
Blogger Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said...
Gas cost could wipe out tax cut gains...
Maybe, but if Trump wins the Nobel Peace Prize we in the northeast can heat our homes with so many liberals' hair on fire.
Plus, presumably that tax cut "wipe out" only counts the value of direct tax savings to certain taxpayers on the extreme of the incidence spectrum, not the fact that the tax cuts will benefit most and create more and better paying jobs that will lift overall living standards.
Moreover, right now it's difficult to blame Trump for higher oil prices except on the demand side -- more economic activity -- rather than the supply side which is the province of socialists like Obama and Chavez.
I'll bet there are a lot of people who'd prefer to see the NK talks fail than for it to become necessary to give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize.
Just as they cheer bad economic news.
Well everybody knows the bird is the word:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPrtFxd9u9Y
Do not believe what your eyes tell you
All they show is limitation
Look with your understanding...
Directly contradicts
i had a long talk.
with my fren.
about how to spot.
a fake ball throw.
the optimal strategy.
is to follow the ball.
with your eyes.
instead of your heart.
I just can't imagine what him winning the Peace Prize would be like. I just can't.
But if he can help untangle Korea, I would nominate him for king of the whole world.
Petroleum prices are up because global demand is up, which because out there in the greater world it is good times. All sorts of people are living better.
Which is most likely to come crashing to a halt due to American political conflict. Stop it.
Trump is like the global lucky cat, or the buddha in the corner of the shop.
Leave him alone.
There's no way in hell Trump would ever be given the Nobel Peace prize. It's only given to the "right" people, good globalists, progressives, and socialists, like Yasser Arafat and Al Gore.
In the event that Trump succeeds where pretty much everyone else has failed, various people in the worldwide press, all the great thinkers, all the learned intellectuals would adopt a severe cognitive dissonance. The Nobel committee itself would also have to warp reality in their own minds. In order to cope with the mental strain of such an extreme dissonance, they'd probably end up giving the prize to someone like Kim Jung Un.
buwaya said...
Which is most likely to come crashing to a halt due to American political conflict. Stop it.
This is both stupid and fundamentally anti-democratic.
IMF says global growth will be fastest in 7years. 2018 - 2019 forecast is 3.9% - since the 2010-2011 recovery (which was not so good for the US - the rest of the world did better).
Explains petroleum prices.
Do not screw this up. Let Trump be Trump.
It is not anti-democratic.
One heart at a time, thats all we can hope for.
The US is the global economic engine and trouble here is more consequential than anywhere. Calm down, be less arrogant and think of all those poor people.
But since all liberals know that the tax cuts only benefit the rich, why would they care if those benefits were offset by gas prices?
buwaya said...
the rest of the world did better
This is also nonsense. The US outperformed the EU, the most comparable economic unit, throughout the recovery. Only in the last year has the EU outperformed the US.
Europe’s Economic Growth, Aided by France, Outpaces U.S.
buwaya said...
The US is the global economic engine and trouble here is more consequential than anywhere. Calm down, be less arrogant and think of all those poor people.
I am, thinking or the poor people in the US saddled with trillion deficits for the foreseable future, thanks to Trump.
The rest of the world, not just the EU.
The EU has almost always had lower growth than the US.
And the EU did not fall as hard, and quickly climbed back to their previous employment levels. Not the US.
>>thanks to Trump.
Failed math AND history, I see....
Hmmm.
Trump was presented with a fait accompli on the budget by an alliance of his enemies, no? Your government is complex and has many factions, and your President has limited powers.
So I suggest reducing your enmity, and urge your chieftains to cooperate, that your President can reduce the budget in some sensible way.
Again, you make no effort to validate basic facts. The EU GDP growth rate fell lower that the US in the aftermath of the Great Recession. The Great Recession was devastating for many EU economies. The economic difficulties of the EU was a major drag on the US economy over the entirety of Obama's tenure.
buwaya said...
Trump was presented with a fait accompli on the budget.
A veto on both the tax cuts and the budget were both possible and desirable. Trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see.
"I'll bet there are a lot of people who'd prefer to see the NK talks fail than for it to become necessary to give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize."
-- Moon or Kim Jong-un will get the Peace Prize before Trump if the talks succeed.
If the talks succeed, to give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize would be to damn him with the faintest of praise.
Andy Jackson's greatness has finally been surpassed. And Melania is not chopped liver.
I pass folks on the Lake path and say to my friend "What lie has Trump told today,"just to keep the air lively, I may have even uttered this when passing Mead and Althouse but got no response. Now I would like to see a positive response in the peace talks with North Korea work, but will hold off the Nobel Peace prize until the talks are over, and if successful I suspect it will be shared with Moon Jae-in who is helping smooth the way.
I like to say, "I'm so glad I voted for Jill Stein, otherwise that warmongering bitch Hillary would be President."
getting tired of so much winning
"but will hold off the Nobel Peace prize until the talks are over"
As opposed to just handing him the damn thing because...well, I'm not really sure why.
roesch/voltaire said...
I pass folks on the Lake path and say to my friend "What lie has Trump told today,"just to keep the air lively, I may have even uttered this when passing Mead and Althouse but got no response.
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Impossible. I never fail to respond whenever I overhear someone utter untruths about Trump. You'll know it's me by my articulate signature response: Stop lying about Trump, asshole!.
BTW it has been reported that the NORKS have dropped their demand that US troops be removed from South Korea in exchange for de-nuking.
BTW it has been reported that the NORKS have dropped their demand that US troops be removed from South Korea in exchange for de-nuking.
J. Farmer hardest hit.
Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said...
buwaya said...
Which is most likely to come crashing to a halt due to American political conflict. Stop it.
This is both stupid and fundamentally anti-democratic.
Says the person who wants to impeach Trump for "Russian Collusion."
roesch/voltaire said...
I pass folks on the Lake path and say to my friend "What lie has Trump told today,"just to keep the air lively, I may have even uttered this when passing Mead and Althouse but got no response.
This isn't new. Leftists say stupid shit all of the time in public.
Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said...
Trump is eliciting some skepticism all over. Drudge has these as top line links today:
OIL PRICE HIGHEST SINCE OBAMA...
Gas cost could wipe out tax cut gains..."
Why do you post such nonsense? As others mentioned upthread oil is up because demand is up and demand is up because the economy is up which wasn't the case during Obama's term. So would you prefer lower gas prices due to a basically stagnant economy paying higher taxes like you did under Obama? You make snide remarks about the deficit as if Hillary or any progressive will ever actually produce a balanced budget. So all you are arguing for is a weaker economy, higher spending and deficits and higher taxes.
>>What lie has Trump told today?
"If you like your nuclear North Korea, you can keep your nuclear North Korea."
Apparently he's going to go back on that promise...
>>So would you prefer lower gas prices due to a basically stagnant economy paying higher taxes like you did under Obama?
Why yes. Yes he would.
Lefties fairness: Everybody is equally poor.
A messenger of peace.
Gas cost could wipe out tax cut gains...
High price of gas can't be a bad thing from the Progressive point of view, otherwise California would not have raised gas taxes, would they ?
Although I support Trump I doubt he will succeed in getting North Korea to actually denuclearize and eliminate its ballistic missile program. What else does the Kim Family Crime Ring have going for them? He saw what happened to Saddam Hussein and the Duck Of Death. And he saw his grandad and dad play us like a violin. So at this point it doesn't look to likely to actually work out positively.
On the other hand if it actually does work, Trump should not disrespect himself by accepting a Nobel Peace Prize. Any award given to the likes of an Arafat is an award no decent person would want to be conferred with.
>>Trump should not disrespect himself by accepting a Nobel Peace Prize.
We are getting way ahead of ourselves, but Hitler will win three Nobels before Trump ever wins one.
Limited blogger said...
getting tired of so much winning
Power naps, Lb. That's how I keep up.
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