The insanity of leftism
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OP is the classic “I didn’t vote for trump, but I voted for Trump” message board poster. You are losing you edge, Soup
Oh look, Soup’s back and just as trolly and banal as ever before.
Well you are sure as shit making it, and clearer with every post.
Here I thought it was a soaring economy and plummeting unemployment. i.e. the great American economic recovery that started in 2009
Can you point on the graph where the recovery started? What were we recovering from? What is the measure of greatness since we apparently weren't great?
Can you point on the graph where the recovery started? What were we recovering from? What is the measure of greatness since we apparently weren't great?
you are you letting Soup troll you.
That fact that You think I'm soup amuses me to no end. I remember when you guys used to think I was Prime.
This may be the dumbest talking point in history. What Obama policies helped the economy? “Obama’s multitrillion-dollar spend-and-borrow policies produced 2 percent growth. In his final year, Obama handed off to Trump an economy that was limping at 1.6 percent.
After only 18 months in office, Trump has elevated growth to 3 percent on an annual rate and the latest projections are that the growth rate for the second and third quarter (which ends Sept. 30) will be over 4 percent. One might say all it took to get the economy really crackling was getting Obama out of office.
Obama is right that this has been a long recovery — beginning in June 2009. But the real economic boom started almost the day after the election in 2016 with the surge in small business, investor and consumer confidence.
No one on the left, least of all Obama, thought this was remotely possible.
Two years ago, Obama famously ridiculed Trump’s campaign promise of faster growth and a comeback in manufacturing jobs by saying this could only happen if Trump was waving “a magic wand.” Obama’s first chief economist, Larry Summers, proclaimed to the world that 2 percent was the best we could hope for. Other liberal economists were so disdainful of Trump’s tax cuts, deregulation and energy development that they predicted Trump would crash the world economy and the stock market.“
Here’s a breakdown that obliterates your talking point for anyone who is economically literate. Most of you Sociology and Arts majors probably won’t understand it though.
Interesting, cause I’ve only been here about a year and you suggested you have taken a three year break. Stay golden, Soup
Was it just a coincidence that the economy made a sharp u-turn under Obama? Trump just rode the Obama wave. All Trump had to do was not screw everything up. Woah he's making us great again! OMG!
Obama did the heavy lifting of "making America great again" yet people act like the country was falling apart under him. Please. Obliterate my talking point... LOL.
Ahh deregulation... the magic republican bullet. Funny how it only seems to work for a short period of time until large corporations start to implode and take us down with them. Tax cuts and deregulation are like taking a drug. They make you feel good for a short period of time and then the effect fades and we are left with a country that spends more than it brings in and companies with run away greed and anti-competitive practices that damage the economy.
This vaunted republican strategy also seems to follow a booming economy that was setup by a democrat. See Bush Jr for the previous example.
Also, you have no room to talk about borrow and spend. What republican hasn't done that? Trump is doing it right now. I know the debt is meaningless when you guys are in power but go ahead and take a look at it. Is the tea party out protesting Trump's spending? He's spending like crazy.
Huh? She's banging on it. Go read her stuff.
But yeah, I've known about this stuff for a while now, it was bubbling up back when Trump got elected.
It's the reason you read a CNN story now with the implicit assumption that a confrontation between a white cop and black man must have a significant racial element to it.
Again, empathy as a weapon...
OP has a thread about the religion of leftism, and a thread on Donald Trump being a genius, and both are at/near the top of a message board full of dudes wasting time. If irony is a form of Art, OP is worthy of The Louvre.
spoken like a true leftist who believes anyone to the political right of Marx is alt right
They don't even try to hide their hypocrisy anymore.
In a series of now-deleted tweets, Dr Priyamvada Gopal, a lecturer who specializes in postcolonial literature and “critical race studies” at the University of Cambridge’s Churchill College, announced that “white lives don’t matter,” and that whiteness should be “abolished.” Unsurprisingly, she received mountains of criticism for her divisive utterances.
In the current racially charged era, one might assume Cambridge would want to distance itself from her radical pronouncements, but it seems to have assumed a bolder position. “The university defends the right of its academics to express their own lawful opinions, which others might find controversial, and deplores, in the strongest terms, abuse and personal attacks,” the prestigious institution tweeted on Wednesday, adding that any attacks leveled against its faculty were “totally unacceptable and must cease.”
The University defends the right of its academics to express their own lawful opinions which others might find controversial and deplores in the strongest terms abuse and personal attacks. These attacks are totally unacceptable and must cease.
The statement elicited howls of “hypocrisy!” from social media, with numerous commentators pointing out that Cambridge was clearly selective when it came to defending controversial opinions. In March 2019, the university withdrew Canadian professor of psychology Jordan Peterson’s fellowship, after staff and students protested. Peterson, who rose to prominence after deriding the compulsory use of gendered pronouns, has been accused of being transphobic – an allegation he denies. Announcing its decision to withdraw the fellowship, the university said it aimed to foster an “inclusive environment” and that all staff and visitors must uphold those principles.
In a series of now-deleted tweets, Dr Priyamvada Gopal, a lecturer who specializes in postcolonial literature and “critical race studies” at the University of Cambridge’s Churchill College, announced that “white lives don’t matter,” and that whiteness should be “abolished.” Unsurprisingly, she received mountains of criticism for her divisive utterances.
In the current racially charged era, one might assume Cambridge would want to distance itself from her radical pronouncements, but it seems to have assumed a bolder position. “The university defends the right of its academics to express their own lawful opinions, which others might find controversial, and deplores, in the strongest terms, abuse and personal attacks,” the prestigious institution tweeted on Wednesday, adding that any attacks leveled against its faculty were “totally unacceptable and must cease.”
The University defends the right of its academics to express their own lawful opinions which others might find controversial and deplores in the strongest terms abuse and personal attacks. These attacks are totally unacceptable and must cease.
The statement elicited howls of “hypocrisy!” from social media, with numerous commentators pointing out that Cambridge was clearly selective when it came to defending controversial opinions. In March 2019, the university withdrew Canadian professor of psychology Jordan Peterson’s fellowship, after staff and students protested. Peterson, who rose to prominence after deriding the compulsory use of gendered pronouns, has been accused of being transphobic – an allegation he denies. Announcing its decision to withdraw the fellowship, the university said it aimed to foster an “inclusive environment” and that all staff and visitors must uphold those principles.
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