Barackface: 17: Trump

An A+++++ Economy, My A++ Trump made big boasts but he isn’t delivering ....................... When Politico recently asked Donald Trump to grade the current U.S. economy, he replied “A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus.” ......... While it’s too soon to declare that we’re in a recession, the data are at least pre-recessionary: that is, the numbers are weak enough that we should be seriously worried that a recession is coming. .............. the data show a weak labor market .............. The headline unemployment rate in November was 4.6 percent, up from an average of 4 percent in 2024. That number is close to triggering the Sahm Rule, an economic rule of thumb devised by Claudia Sahm, a former economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, that has historically been highly successful at identifying the early stages of a recession. ...............
a recession is on the horizon.
................ None other than Jerome Powell has suggested that official job growth is probably overstated by around 60,000 a month. .........
the Trumpian project of bringing “masculine” blue-collar jobs back is going badly.
................ Trump owns this economy — because he broke it. ................ the economy that Trump inherited when he took office was in much better shape than today’s economy, with lower unemployment combined with faster job growth, and inflation trending down. .............. Trump’s radical policy changes – huge (illegal) tariffs, mass deportations, big tax cuts (for the rich), benefit cuts (for the poor and middle class), mass layoffs of federal workers, disinvesting in huge green energy projects and aid to farmers — have been clearly damaging to everything besides crypto and AI. It strains credulity – even for the Trump faithful – to claim that we are still in Joe Biden’s economy. ..................... how can Trump blame Biden for a troubled economy when he won’t admit that we have a troubled economy? .............. the two Trump “gaps” — the difference between what he promised and what he has delivered, and the gap between what he says is happening and what everyone can see with their own eyes. ............... “Populist” leaders like Trump — I don’t like the term, but it has come to mean politicians who have disdain for responsible policy and the rule of law — do long-term economic damage. ................. on average, such leaders leave GDP 10 percent lower after 15 years than it would otherwise have been. ............
Trumpism is reducing our future living standards.
........ he intends to gaslight Americans yet again, claiming that things are going well. They aren’t.

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This is Elon telling you the future.

A mass driver is basically a giant electromagnetic catapult. You build a track on the Moon, run current through superconducting coils, and yeet payloads into space at 5,300 mph. No fuel. No rocket engines. Just electricity.

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