What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Syt]

https://www.vox.com/2019/3/29/18287491/trump-closing-border-mexico-trade-not-how-it-works

"I'll just close the border, and with a deficit like we have with Mexico and have had for many years, closing the border will be a profit-making operation," Trump said

According to the Office of the US Trade Representative, Mexico is the US's third-largest trading partner, with the total goods and services trade amounting to over $615 billion in 2017. While the US's overall deficit with Mexico was $63.6 billion that year, an estimated 1.2 million American jobs are based on US-Mexico trade.

Even short border closures have significant negative consequences. When the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego was closed for five hours last November following an ill-fated march on the Mexican side, the San Ysidro Chamber of Commerce estimated it cost American businesses about $5.3 million.

Trump may believe American jobs are better guarded through protectionist trade policies —trade protectionism is one of Trump's signature issues — but he has a long history of either misunderstanding how those policies actually impact the US economy or of making wildly false statements about trade deficits. He's repeatedly spread inaccurate figures about US deficits and demonstrated ignorance about the fact that deficits are calculated based on both goods and services, not just goods.

Trump has tried to bring down deficits by imposing tariffs on imported goods, but he doesn't seem to understand that tariffs are really taxes on US importers, not foreign governments. And the latest figures indicate that not only are Trump's trade wars not shrinking deficits, but they're actually doing the opposite: The US trade deficit of $891.3 billion in 2018 was the highest in history.

[FunkMonk]

Texas is gonna get fucked lmao

[jimmy olsen]

Concentration camp by any other name

https://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-na-asylum-migrants-el-paso-camp-20190329-htmlstory.html

British 1901, German 1933 or German 1939-45 version?

British, but that's bad enough and always has the potential to worsen.

[The Brain]

How do they compare to the US concentration camps of the WW2 era?

[grumbler]

How do they compare to the US concentration camps of the WW2 era?

They were more concentrated.

[jimmy olsen]

GOP continues to get thumped

https://twitter.com/JessicaPost/status/1112181782735175680

BREAKING: Tonight in leg special elections, the Louisiana GOP was soundly rejected by voters. Dems held a seat Trump won by 18 points, & the GOP lost a seat Trump won by 17 points. The state legislature & gov is on the ballot this fall, & this is a very encouraging trend.

[Eddie Teach]

this is a very encouraging trend.

[/quote]

The unbiased Twitter news service for ya. 

[Valmy]

State and local governments are vital so definitely a nice win in territory generally hostile to Democrats. We'll see. Lots of interesting Local Elections this year to follow.

[Oexmelin]

this is a very encouraging trend.

The unbiased Twitter news service for ya. 
[/quote]

The post is from the executive director of the Democratic legislative campaign Committee. I don't think she wishes to be unbiased...

[The Larch]

It seems that Fox has given up on Geography. Can somebody checks if it's photoshopped?



It comes from this other piece of sadder news:

Trump administration says it will cut foreign aid for Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador

[viper37]

It will just make the problem worst at the border.  Less aid = more poors = more migration.

[Admiral Yi]

It seems that Fox has given up on Geography.

Half of their audience didn't notice the banner at all.

[Oexmelin]

At this point, Fox News is the Executive branch of the American government.

[Admiral Yi]

Captain Gel-Job needs to get on board with the spray tan.

[Valmy]

At this point, Fox News is the Executive branch of the American government.

I thought the Trump people were mad at Fox News for going left.