Who’s In Wall Street’s Pocket
It’s been a banner day for Donald Trump. And here’s the banner:
A ban on all financial regulation? Dude. I like the financial plan that everybody Dad’s gives them one million dollars when they turn 21.
And the rest of his financial speech didn’t go much better. Although it was supposed to be a private speech, he was interrupted 14 times.
“You want to close Michigan plants and outsource our jobs! ” yelled Jacquie Maxwell, a Grosse Pointe auto worker. “How are we supposed to raise our families without good jobs? Is that what you call winning?”
Another protester targeted Trump’s comments on sexual harassment. “Why are you blaming the victims of sexual harassment?” shouted Sarah Messer, a food service worker from Detroit.
Trump did not lash back at the protesters. He just read the speech and stayed stoned.
I don’t care who you are – this is gonna make a great bumper sticker.
One woman opted for a more lighthearted call than her fellow protesters. “Tiny hands! All you got is tiny hands!” she yelled to Trump.
Ya gotta wonder what the fool tarnation Trump is doing.
actually, he has tiny, prissy hands
1Let’s not forget the “Donald Junior, Err-reich and Ivanka Protected Species Act” or whatever special snowflake plan Donnie has so his trust fund babies inherit tax free.
Then there’s the peeing Florida did on Texas. George Pee Bush wants to be your special kind of Texas Republican. He’s endorsing Donnie, so he’ll be seen a a loyal party boy when he takes his shot at being a Texas governor. Dayum, Texas Republicans, quit lowering the bar to st00pid. Dubya, pRick Perry, A-butt … end that chain.
2“Trump did not lash back at protesters” . . . .
Well that can’t go on much longer. His head is going to explode all over someone—–soon.
3Donald’s big draw seems to be talking in bumper stickers. Sad!
4Trump is a one-dimensional thinker. Everything with him is transactional, and immediately in the present. He forgets the past, and he can’t puzzle out the future.
He expects if he says “X” then “Y” will happen, just on the strength of his having said it. “If I say Hillary’s crazy, everyone will believe she is and not me. If I read a speech and stay on the ‘Prompter, then people will believe I’m Presidential.”
He is angry and baffled when the quid doesn’t follow the pro quo. “What do these people WANT from me?”
This was driven home to me today when I was reading an article on Politico: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/inside-the-swing-state-trenches-226769
They list a bunch of bellwether counties in swing states and note that Trump has been making trips to some of them. Here are quotes from three GOP County Chairs in FL and VA:
“He looked me right in the eye and said you need to tell me what does it take to win in this county.”
“He just stopped and said, ‘We’ve got to win Loudoun. How do we win Loudoun?’”
“He immediately started firing off questions to me about what are the significant issues in Henrico. He knew it was important.”
First off, I hate Richard Nixon, but the guy could be flying over someplace, look down and give a complete dissertation on the county, the important folks in it, and the issues that would play there. He was a political force of nature (he had to be.) Trump’s campaign should know all these things, but there IS no Trump campaign. He is relying on these local guys and others like them to run and win the election FOR HIM.
Second: what these almost identical quotes say to me is this: somebody gave him a checklist of the most important counties in swing states. He went to them. He asked a pro forma question. He promptly forgot what was said to him. And now he figures those counties are locked up.
“Hey, I made the trip, I asked the question, I was a good boy…WHERE’S MY ELECTORAL CANDY REWARD?!”
5Trump once promised to completely eliminate the federal debt (a virtually impossible goal, for the record). But in a major economic policy speech today, he mentioned the subject just once, in passing, when he complained about “a doubling of the national debt during the Obama years.”
It’s the latest sign that fiscal rectitude is not a top priority for him, unlike past Republican contenders who frequently talked about the need to stanch the government’s red ink. Instead, Trump vowed to increase defense and domestic spending, and claimed that other countries would help foot the bill – an uncertain offset, to say the least. “We will also rebuild our military, and get our allies to pay their fair share for the protection we provide to them, saving us countless more billions of dollars to invest in our own country,” he said.
The biggest news out of the Detroit speech was Trump changing his tax policies to mirror the House GOP’s agenda. “We will work with House Republicans on this plan using the same brackets they’ve proposed: 12 percent, 25 percent and 33 percent,” he said, Pro Tax’s Brian Faler reports. Previously, Trump had called for slashing the top rate to 25 percent, from the current 39.6 percent.
Trump also proposed making child care tax-deductible, perhaps in a bid to shave off some of his campaign’s sharp edges. But POLITICO’s Danny Vinik notes the plan won’t actually help those most in need: “Millions of low-income Americans – the families most likely to be unable to afford child care – don’t pay any taxes. They won’t see any benefit from Trump’s new proposal. Of course high-income people benefit the most from tax deductions, since they pay the highest marginal tax rates.” Trump could have proposed a refundable tax credit, which would be a boon to people who owe no income tax. But that, Danny writes, would have cost a lot more money.
So how much would Trump’s tax plan cost now? It’s still a lot, per Marc Goldwein, senior policy director of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Goldwein tweeted that according to his “back of messiest envelope” calculations, Trump’s plan might cost $7 trillion over a decade, down from $9 trillion. He added: “Maybe $5 trillion if @realDonaldTrump is also ditching his 0% bracket/expanded standard deduction. Of course, many details to come.”
6It would help if there was some sense of accuracy in his blather. NAFTA was a Republican bill for an act signed by Bill Clinton. Getting rid of regulations and cutting taxes – check that philosophy of government as it applies to Kansas. So many omissions.
7AND, he said “Titties” instead of “Cities!”
http://boingboing.net/2016/08/08/yes-trump-just-said-titties.html
8Loved his ranting that we would use American workers to do American jobs with American materials. This from the guy who produces all his products with foreign labor, foreign materials and in foreign countries. Those people in Detroit especially should see through his bullcr*p. Their jobs and homes went down the toilet due to Rthug deregulation, the Repuglican recession and their attempt to stop the government from saving the auto industry. He’s selling swamp root elixir and it’s not FDA approved. Glad to see Elizabeth Warren’s retaliatory tweets.
9“Tiny hands! All you got is tiny hands!”
Yes, and with a minor alteration we could even update that old saying, “Many tiny hands make light work even tinier.”
10@Malarkey: Hands up anyone who’s surprised.
11Primo, your being around the block allows you to have insight most of the rest of lack. Let me ask you for your input on a different tack on some thoughts I have on this trump subject.
12trump is not the problem; he’s a symptom and a diversion from the actual controllers. The 1% using the dumbed down mostly white pop is the main problem. The setup leading to the trumps have been a work in progress starting with goldwater. Yes, we can go back much earlier. All of us to varying degrees have permitted this situation to come about kinda in the manner of a death by a 1000 paper cuts.
Canning of roger ailes. IMO, the real bad guy and danger to the long-term security of this country is murdoch who is clever enough to skate any real attention but controls so much of the info hwy. So what’s in a name of rnc, dnc? Without taking out the real power behind any of these parties there ain’t gonna be any substantive changes.
Would you comment on whether the 1% have bottom line only loyalty vs national allegiances?
Let me comment on your statement “I hate Richard Nixon” with brotherly concern. Back in the ’70s when living in Denver I met a Messianic Rabbi in a Baptist Church. He missioned to other Jews for Christ. He was from Poland, put into concentration camp in the south from which he was able to escape into Russia, joined their army and then escaped into Vienna at the end of the war. He lost all other family members in the camps. At that time, he became a Christian and his job was to minister to Jews.
I visited his services and one night after all had left, I asked him if he could ever forgive hitler and the nazis.
Without hesitation he told me he did that a long time ago. More recently, Amish parents back east several years ago forgave the man who killed a number of their children in school and then even helped the killer’s wife and child.
I understand that there is biological evidence now of the effect positive and negative thinking on our system.
IMO, most, if not all of these very self-centered people who, given the power, would end up be as bad as any in history. Therefore, I do not want to even come close to thinking like them.
Why would we even want to get rid of the national debt? We get to borrow money and put it to work in this country while paying absurdly low interest rates.
Of course, defaulting on our debt as Trump advises would change all that in a hurry.
13Based on stories about Russian money in Trump’s business empire I would say it’s Comrade Trump who is owned by Russia. Wall Street would be an improvement.
14Lynn, I think you’re right about Comrade Scumpf. I’m waiting for Anonymous to hack and release his tax returns showing all the nefarious ways Scumpf cheats America. October would be a nice time for that.
15Primo remember that old film starring Peter Ustinov and Maggie Smith? Peter played the part of a grifter who managed to get a job with a high tech company as a security expert (irony here) and eventually and accidentally discover how to use the most secure computer ever to embezzle himself and wife played by Maggie Smith to South America. Prior to setting up his own ghost company he was sent to a branch of the company and charged with finding out what was going wrong with the profit margin. He asked the head bozo the same questions Trump is asking, then told the bozo to put it in writing anonymously and send him the data so he could use it in his grifting. I swear Trump must have seen that movie a lot! He got some ideas from it but never the moral!
16Speaking of bumper stickers:
Ignorant is not bliss. Dump Trump.
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