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Will Trump be Re-elected?

Trump is more effective than people are willing to admit [ala Scott Adams] and will be re-elected.
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Hillary will run again in 2020, and thus Trump will beat her again.
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Trump will cause the GOP to lose one or both houses of congress in the mid-term elections.
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The Dems in congress will be so insufferable, Trumps wins by a small margin despite them.
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Trump will choose not to run for re-election, since he never really wanted the job anyway.
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Trump is a disaster and will lose by a landslide.
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Trump will not only lose, but will lose to a candidate so far to the left that people will wish he'd stayed.
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Other, please elaborate.
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by jacksonM » Sat Jul 20, 2019 8:50 am

Mountaineer wrote:
Sat Jul 20, 2019 7:15 am
Libertarian666 wrote:
Fri Jul 19, 2019 1:39 pm
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I'm convinced that many people would sooner sacrifice their happiness and prosperity than forgo their insane obsession with Trump. In fact, I think Trump has become a one-size-fits-all excuse for many people for their failure to do anything productive with their lives.
This is not hypothetical. Many people already HAVE done that.
I recently heard that 1.5% of the rats in Los Angeles have bubonic plague and when it gets to 2% the plague usually makes the jump to humans (not sure how credible that is, maybe WiseOne could comment). Cause is the large homeless population and the corresponding filth and feces and litter. Have not heard anything about San Francisco though which I would expect to be worse. I wonder how rampant TDS needs to be to make the jump to the rats? ;D
I saw Drew Pinsky talking about this the other day on TV. He was definitely worried about bubonic plague but he also said California has been dealing with diseases rarely seen in other parts of the country for over 20 years and warned that the rest of the country better get ready to deal with the same thing.

I haven't been able to confirm that it is true but I read recently that there have been confirmed cases of Ebola in Texas among migrants from the Congo. Maybe it's not because I haven't heard anything about it in the MSM and you know they would be reporting it if it was (sarcasm intended).
if there is an Ebola outbreak that can be linked to an illegal border crossing and the Dems persist with their open borders and free medical care for illegals policy, I tend to think Trump will win re-election easily. TDS is a strange malady however, so you never know.
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by jhogue » Thu Jul 25, 2019 7:39 am

jhogue wrote:
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Everything will be exactly the same, except different.

In 2020, Dems will nominate Elizabeth Warren who will rail against plutocrats in banks, Wall Street, and offshore tax havens; but for taxes on Roth IRAs over $1 million, tighter capital controls, and Obamacare Plus Free Everything. Ironically, the Russians -- who will be found to have had nothing to do with the outcome of the 2016 election -- will be inspired to seriously hack the 2020 election, thereby assuring the return of the chaotic Donald to office for another 4 years. Only in America, baby!
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I predict that we will look back on the Robert Mueller hearings yesterday as a critical milestone in Trump's re-election:

1. Russian Hack 2020 is already well under way.

2. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer can count to 51 and they now know for certain that impeaching Trump is an exercise in futility, even for the most partisan in their caucus. Worried that Ruth Bader Ginsburg will not last another 5 years on the Supreme Court, influential groups like NARAL will demand that the Dems drop impeachment and focus on electoral victory in November 2020.
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by dualstow » Sat Jul 27, 2019 6:48 am

Sounds about right.
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by Cortopassi » Sat Jul 27, 2019 9:07 am

Libertarian666 wrote:
Fri Jul 26, 2019 9:56 pm
jhogue wrote:
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You heard it here first! Happy New Year!!
I predict that we will look back on the Robert Mueller hearings yesterday as a critical milestone in Trump's re-election:

1. Russian Hack 2020 is already well under way.

2. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer can count to 51 and they now know for certain that impeaching Trump is an exercise in futility, even for the most partisan in their caucus. Worried that Ruth Bader Ginsburg will not last another 5 years on the Supreme Court, influential groups like NARAL will demand that the Dems drop impeachment and focus on electoral victory in November 2020.
Yes, that's what the Democrats should do if they want a prayer of winning next year.

I don't believe they can do it though, because the crazy D freshpersons in Congress won't let them.

And I'm not sure they could win even then, because the crazy D primary voters would destroy any candidate who went along with it.

So I think we're stuck with 13 more years of a Donald Trump presidency.
Executive order changing the two term limit amendment... I wouldn’t put it past him.

Economy will blow up before 2020 election is my call, and he will have a hard time of it. Running out of people to blame when that happens. Only has the Fed left to bitch about.
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by dualstow » Sat Jul 27, 2019 9:31 am

I agree with the above, but I thought I was reading Mountaineer’s post, having only seen the avatar in my peripheral vision. I thought, that doesn’t sound like him. O0
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by flyingpylon » Sat Jul 27, 2019 12:13 pm

Cortopassi wrote:
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Executive order changing the two term limit amendment... I wouldn’t put it past him.
What previous actions has Trump taken that lead you to believe that?
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by Cortopassi » Sat Jul 27, 2019 4:48 pm

flyingpylon wrote:
Sat Jul 27, 2019 12:13 pm
Cortopassi wrote:
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Executive order changing the two term limit amendment... I wouldn’t put it past him.
What previous actions has Trump taken that lead you to believe that?
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/16/ ... president/

Just words, but seriously, what other president after the 22nd amendment would even have considered talking like that?
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by flyingpylon » Sat Jul 27, 2019 6:56 pm

Cortopassi wrote:
Sat Jul 27, 2019 4:48 pm
flyingpylon wrote:
Sat Jul 27, 2019 12:13 pm
Cortopassi wrote:
Sat Jul 27, 2019 9:07 am
Executive order changing the two term limit amendment... I wouldn’t put it past him.
What previous actions has Trump taken that lead you to believe that?
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/16/ ... president/

Just words, but seriously, what other president after the 22nd amendment would even have considered talking like that?
He does love to troll his opponents. And it seems to work every... single... time.
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by jacksonM » Mon Jul 29, 2019 7:31 am

Libertarian666 wrote:
Sat Jul 27, 2019 7:02 pm
flyingpylon wrote:
Sat Jul 27, 2019 6:56 pm
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Sat Jul 27, 2019 4:48 pm


https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/16/ ... president/

Just words, but seriously, what other president after the 22nd amendment would even have considered talking like that?
He does love to troll his opponents. And it seems to work every... single... time.
He is very lucky, isn't he!
I may have to take back what I said about there being some sort of grand strategy behind all this. Now that the Russian collusion narrative might be losing steam it looks like the Dems are resorting to the tried and true racist, racist, racist strategy. If Trump has a real strategy it must be to get them all to keep saying it over and over to keep it in the news so people will see it for what it really is. Looks like it's working too. That story about the congresswoman at Publix in Georgia was a real gem. And now they are fact checking his claims about Baltimore and finding out they're true.
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by Cortopassi » Thu Aug 01, 2019 12:15 pm

To conservatives out there:

Trump tweet: "Budget Deal is phenomenal for our Great Military, our Vets, and Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!" he tweeted. "Two year deal gets us past the Election. Go for it Republicans, there is always plenty of time to CUT!"

Budgets and debt only matter when the other party is in power.

All hypocrites and they all suck.
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by jhogue » Thu Aug 01, 2019 1:40 pm

I don't recall Trump running as a fiscal conservative in 2016.
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by jacksonM » Thu Aug 01, 2019 4:55 pm

jhogue wrote:
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I don't recall Trump running as a fiscal conservative in 2016.
To quote Hillary Clinton, "what difference does it make at this point".

G.W. Bush ran as a fiscal conservative and added $6 trillion dollars to the debt.

The only difference between Dems and Repubs on this issue is that Dems believe in "tax and spend" and Repubs in "Cut taxes and spend".
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by jacksonM » Tue Aug 06, 2019 5:25 pm

My, except for the spam that got through it's getting pretty boring around here.

So does anyone remember how the Republicans were all over Obama for the mass murders that happened on his watch? And that included the elementary school shooting in Sandy Hook, the Las Vegas country concert shooting, the Orlando nightclub shooting, the San Bernadino shootings and I could go on and on.

Don't remember? Neither do I.

Never seen anything like this in all of my years of observing politics. The total dishonestly and hypocrisy makes you want to tune completely out of politics and current events but I think that is maybe the whole point of the democrat strategy,

Sickening.
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by stuper1 » Tue Aug 06, 2019 6:04 pm

Yeah, Trump wants to reduce immigration from the current insane levels, and therefore he hates Mexicans, Africans, Asians, etc.

Trump points out that Democratic leaders are doing a terrible job at improving places like Baltimore, and therefore he is racist against African-Americans.

Ergo, we have a bunch of mass shootings.

It makes perfect sense.

And when he points out that the fake news is actually a big part of the problem behind the mass shootings, he is 100% correct. The fake news won't acknowledge that our current immigration levels are insanely high; all they do is stoke the flames by pretending there is no problem and blaming Trump for seeing that there is a problem. Same with Baltimore.
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by jacksonM » Tue Aug 06, 2019 7:50 pm

stuper1 wrote:
Tue Aug 06, 2019 6:04 pm
Yeah, Trump wants to reduce immigration from the current insane levels, and therefore he hates Mexicans, Africans, Asians, etc.

Trump points out that Democratic leaders are doing a terrible job at improving places like Baltimore, and therefore he is racist against African-Americans.

Ergo, we have a bunch of mass shootings.

It makes perfect sense.

And when he points out that the fake news is actually a big part of the problem behind the mass shootings, he is 100% correct. The fake news won't acknowledge that our current immigration levels are insanely high; all they do is stoke the flames by pretending there is no problem and blaming Trump for seeing that there is a problem. Same with Baltimore.
I still give the majority of the American people credit for being able to see through all of this and discern what's really going on.

Otherwise I would lose all hope (at least in the American electorate).
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by dualstow » Tue Aug 06, 2019 7:50 pm

jacksonM wrote:
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My, except for the spam that got through it's getting pretty boring around here.
Hey now, although there are some interesting people here, the forum is principally for education, not your entertainment.
You want thrills, then turn on Hee Haw.
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dualstow wrote:
Tue Aug 06, 2019 7:50 pm
jacksonM wrote:
Tue Aug 06, 2019 5:25 pm
My, except for the spam that got through it's getting pretty boring around here.
Hey now, although there are some interesting people here, the forum is principally for education, not your entertainment.
You want thrills, then turn on Hee Haw.
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Post by Smith1776 » Tue Aug 06, 2019 11:47 pm

MediumTex wrote:
Tue Aug 06, 2019 11:20 pm
dualstow wrote:
Tue Aug 06, 2019 7:50 pm
jacksonM wrote:
Tue Aug 06, 2019 5:25 pm
My, except for the spam that got through it's getting pretty boring around here.
Hey now, although there are some interesting people here, the forum is principally for education, not your entertainment.
You want thrills, then turn on Hee Haw.
Hee Haw baffled and frightened me a little as a child. In retrospect, I see it differently and admire the quality music, corny humor and girl next door sexuality it offered.

Hee Haw mined the same vein as The Dukes of Hazzard. Where Hee Haw provided a low brow showcase for important American Art, The Dukes of Hazzard provided a low brow redemption story that is as American as it gets: well-intentioned good old boys trying to escape their pasts while struggling against the forces of evil and incompetence that surround them.
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by Mountaineer » Wed Aug 07, 2019 5:39 am

Smith1776 wrote:
Tue Aug 06, 2019 11:47 pm
MediumTex wrote:
Tue Aug 06, 2019 11:20 pm
dualstow wrote:
Tue Aug 06, 2019 7:50 pm


Hey now, although there are some interesting people here, the forum is principally for education, not your entertainment.
You want thrills, then turn on Hee Haw.
Hee Haw baffled and frightened me a little as a child. In retrospect, I see it differently and admire the quality music, corny humor and girl next door sexuality it offered.

Hee Haw mined the same vein as The Dukes of Hazzard. Where Hee Haw provided a low brow showcase for important American Art, The Dukes of Hazzard provided a low brow redemption story that is as American as it gets: well-intentioned good old boys trying to escape their pasts while struggling against the forces of evil and incompetence that surround them.
MediumTex, seeing you post here is like seeing a unicorn for me.

Big fan. ;D ;D ;D

I became a PP proponent long after the epic thread on the Bogleheads forum. I've always enjoyed reading your posts and content.
Ditto re. Medium Tex - I still really like the Spyderco Delica knife he recommended to me. Excellent choice.
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by gizmo_rat » Wed Aug 07, 2019 7:08 am

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Ditto re. Medium Tex - I still really like the Spyderco Delica knife he recommended to me. Excellent choice.
Portfolio recommendation worked out pretty well, not so sure about the leather chaps.
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Post by dualstow » Wed Aug 07, 2019 8:04 am

Wow, if I knew invoking that title could summon you, Medium Tex, I would have done it years ago! O0 (or is it gold’s rise?)

Btw, it was mentioned the other day on the radio as the first really high-tech-produced show — no joke — to film everything out of sequence and then put it all together with computers. You and I are the same age and I have fond memories of the show from childhood.
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Good to see you, MediumTex! I've taken the liberty of restoring something approaching your old avatar.
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Post by MediumTex » Wed Aug 07, 2019 11:49 am

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Post by stuper1 » Wed Aug 07, 2019 12:54 pm

Right, but I'm not just talking about the reaction but also the causes. If the mass media would acknowledge some of our real problems, rather than papering over them, then some of those sick white boys might not be driven over the edge, and in addition maybe some of the problems with the inner city would improve.

I'm not holding my breath, because as I've started way too many times, the mass media is beholden to big business, which profits off these problems rather than trying to solve them.

As my favorite example which again I've stated way too many times, high immigration rates drive the native white boys crazy, and they also hurt urban minorities by making their labor less valuable. However, big business loves high immigration rates, so the slave of big business, which is the mass media, keeps promoting it.
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Post by dualstow » Wed Aug 07, 2019 1:21 pm

Carlsbad Caverns, ooh. I used to visit family in NM, and went to the caverns in the 80s for the mass bat exodus at dusk. Kind of scary.
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