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Americans sour on Trump's handling of the economy, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds:
Well, duh.
Americans elected President Donald Trump in hopes that he would fight inflation and boost the U.S. economy, but as he approaches his 100th day in office they are giving the Republican poor marks for his handling of both, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows.
… "You have a president who promised a golden age," said James Pethokoukis, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. "But everything that's supposed to be up is down, everything that's supposed to be down is up."
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Liz Warren and Senate Dems on the Banking Committee show why:
Worse than back in ‘22, when economists were predicting a Biden recession with “100% certainty”.
This one, though, looks more likely to actually occur:
Can doing 180’s on tariffs now (which were always a dumb idea) restore confidence?
If you were a businessman, would you trust this guy?
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Latest S+P Global survey:
US business activity moderates in April; firms demand higher prices for their products
(…and by “business activity moderates”, they mean “heads south”.)
U.S. business activity slowed to a 16-month low in April and prices charged for goods and services soared amid uncertainty caused by tariffs, reinforcing financial market fears of stagflation that could put the Federal Reserve in a tough spot.
Stagflation. The best stagflation. People can’t believe it; they’ve never seen anything like it.
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Finally, what are Senate Republicans laser-focused on now that they have the majority?
Senate Republican wants to hold hearings on a 9/11 conspiracy theory
… In a podcast interview Tuesday with MAGA personality Benny Johnson, [Senator] Ron Johnson [Nutjob…R-WI) asserted that one of the buildings around the World Trade Center complex in New York was brought down via “a controlled demolition” in the aftermath of the collapse of the twin towers.
“ jet fuel can’t melt steel beams”
You…uh… sure about that?
Citing a documentary that promoted these conspiracy theories about the attack, Ron Johnson went on to say… “What actually happened on 9/11? What do we know? What is being covered up?” he asked. “My guess is there’s an awful lot being covered up in terms of what the American government knows about 9/11.”
Hoo boy.
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Wait until he signs those big, beautiful checks to everyone with all of that terrific money he's saving the real Americans!
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Reviewing recent big upheavals
2000/2001 - Enron/Dot-Com Speculation/9-11
2008 - Mortgage Crisis
2020 - COVID and the aftermath
2025 -- Hamfisted meddling
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From that same poll, a tidbit I hadn’t noticed.
Split by party, approval rate of Trump on the economy: Dems 5%; Independents; 28%…
Republicans? 81%
Hoo boy.
No, they aren’t deluded, Trump-can-do-no-wrong groupies. Nope. Nothin to worry about there.
:nuts:
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pdq wrote:
From that same poll, a tidbit I hadn’t noticed.
Split by party, approval rate of Trump on the economy: Dems 5%; Independents; 28%…
Republicans? 81%
Hoo boy.
No, they aren’t deluded, Trump-can-do-no-wrong groupies. Nope. Nothin to worry about there.
:nuts:
And this is the crux of the problem. We can all admire the colossal failings of the administration, but until the other side eats the sunk cost and realizes that the emperor has no clothes, things will remain to be tough. I do not know if there can be a truly useful blue wave (i.e., a two-thirds majority in the Senate) without a good portion of republicans
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dk62 wrote:
[quote=pdq]
From that same poll, a tidbit I hadn’t noticed.
Split by party, approval rate of Trump on the economy: Dems 5%; Independents; 28%…
Republicans? 81%
Hoo boy.
No, they aren’t deluded, Trump-can-do-no-wrong groupies. Nope. Nothin to worry about there.
:nuts:
And this is the crux of the problem. We can all admire the colossal failings of the administration, but until the other side eats the sunk cost and realizes that the emperor has no clothes, things will remain to be tough. I do not know if there can be a truly useful blue wave (i.e., a two-thirds majority in the Senate) without a good portion of republicans
Dems won’t even get a majority in the Senate for at least another Republican term in the alt.White House beyond Trump’s.
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