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Trump promised lower inflation, lowe interest rates, higher wages and that everyone would get a nice house . The only thing he left out was a pony. I wonder how long the honeymoon will last.

It depends.

US inflation is now back to where it was before Covid (when Trump was last in office), latest report being about 2.4% and dropping. He can't be blaming Biden 18 months from now if he introduces all these tariffs and drives prices way up again. Wages have been rising fairly steadily, unfortunately alongside the inflation.

Not sure what he can or will do about housing. Housing prices went through the roof starting in 2020 (again, when he was in office) as people suddenly started leaving big cities and moving all over the country for telework. Lots of people starting moving to places like Florida and Arizona. Then the Fed raised interest rates in response to inflation. In addition, as in Ireland, much of America simply hasn't been building enough houses, while a lot of housing in more popular areas has been diverted into short term rental investment properties or bought up by hedge funds and the like. And many of those blocked from getting on the housing ladder are children of parents who do not want regs or zoning loosened or changed in their neighbourhood because that might affect the value of THEIR house, which is now nice and high.

Well go back to Romney and Clint Eastwood ranting at the empty stool.

They all wheel out the big names hoping to bask in a bit of star dazzle.

Fair enough

But if I can't afford to put gas in my car or buy groceries and as the encumbent you can't answer simple questions about what you'll do differently than Biden, pardon me for not giving a flying fvck and actually being offended about what JLO has to say about the situation

Well yeah.

I just don't get why people get offended when the other side rolls out the stars when they all do it.

A celebrity endorsement is not going to influence anyone who isn't already leaning that way. And even then it'll just be to the effect of liking that you share the same view.

Although my ten year old daughter loved that Taylor Swift endorsed Harris.

Well go back to Romney and Clint Eastwood ranting at the empty stool.

They all wheel out the big names hoping to bask in a bit of star dazzle.

What have Beyoncé and Katy Perry got to do with anything?

Anything more than Hulk Hogan? Or Kanye West? Or Dr Phil?

Thought this analysis nailed it:

https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1854203271713538235

To an extent he's right, but I'm not sure what he thinks Trump is going to do to fix all of these things.

Inflation has been an international issue and one where the US has fared relatively well. We would still have had inflation if Trump had won in 2020. Governments, both right and left, have been kicked out this past few years in the wake of the pandemic in response to inflation and housing and migration and so on. And even if you're like the US right wingers who put all of the blame on Biden pumping money into the economy, and none of it on the effects of the pandemic on supply chains, shipping networks, factories around the world shutting down etc., then let's not forget that Trump was divvying out billions in 2020 (those who live here will, I'm sure, remember the cheque in the post with Donald's signature on it). A man who did that and who also pressured the fed to keep interest rates low for political reasons would not have been at all reticent about further government spending after his re-election. We'll see how inflationary pressures are handled as these tariffs are introduced.

Immigration – no doubt Trump will "address" this and, had he won in 2020, would have not allowed too many of the people mobilized in the post-pandemic mass migration around the world into the US. So he'll close the border and then turn to those already here (no idea where whitey gets his 11 million number, but let's assume he's correct for now). Depending on how far he goes, he could trigger some serious blowback, despite the fairly resigned and beaten-down reaction of most opposing people to his election so far. If he does go crazy, good luck getting your roof replaced or finding staff to pick vegetables and fruit.

Crime – this is where the Dems need to grow a brain. Crime rates ARE extremely low, but they're losing the PR war through dumb policies like dollar limits on felony theft. Phone videos that can publicize police brutality can also make flash mob thefts of pharmacies or high end clothing/goods shops go viral. Every time someone goes to Rite Aid and has to ring the bell for the attendant to unlock the baby wipes or a can of deodorant, or they actually observe someone walking out past the security guard with an armful of items, they're reminded of the air of lawlessness around this issue. And this fuels the idiotic propaganda that convinces people who've never set foot there that large cities like NYC are unsafe Democratic hellscapes.

As for the garbage and Nazi stuff, get the f**k out of here. Who has thrown around those labels more than Trump himself? And maybe next time you're holding a massive rally in the Garden, vet the speeches and "jokes" of your speakers rather than cry about it when the world rightly calls you out.

Good to see Trump winning. There was a hysterical liberal woman crying on BBC news just now  I couldn't wipe the grin off my face. I can still remember them dancing on the street 4 years ago.

Maybe they should have invaded the Capitol building to shit on the floor, try to string up Mike Pence, and get a few people killed. Is that  better way to react?

[People go on about how dumb could you be to vote for Trump. I'd ask the same question about Harris.]

(I am no Trump fan)

For pure entertainment in not having a clue what she was at for the last couple of months - Kamala was gold.

I mean the Democratic Party put that up against Trump. Trump must have been rubbing his hands.

How did she get into this position? Does anyone here honestly think she was a good candidate? Do you think she should have been voted in just on the premise that she is a woman, regardless of her being any good? She got such a free pass from main stream media. She did no interviews. She had no policies. And she just rambled on in circles when asked on issues. And the Laugh to cover up a uncomfortable situation.....

People go on about how dumb could you be to vote for Trump. I'd ask the same question about Harris.

It ain't going to make  any difference for ordinary folk  in America (or Gaza, or elsewhere)who got  in.  They won't be serving or looking out  for the 99% , but themselves and their  cronies in the top 1%

Dunno about that. Trump's tax "cuts" cost me personally about $10k his first year in office. Up to that point you could deduct your mortage payments against your tax bill. Not anymore.

Throw in the SALT cap too.

He was briefly pandering on Long Island late summer about repealing it, but I haven't heard anything since.

I hear tr**p plans bringing in cnut Musk to sack thousands of Government employees.

And replace many of them, including career professionals and specialists, with political appointees who are, first and foremost, "loyal".

I wonder will RFK Jr make it to a high level cabinet position? There's been chat about putting him over Health. Although I'd assume that would be a bridge too far even for the spineless GOP senators? Conspiracy theorist he may be, but RFK Jr is from the left section of the extremes.

Apparently Harris will ring Trump and do a concession speech this afternoon.

It's more than that toe rag deserves, but it's the right thing to do. I expect herself and Biden will also attend the inauguration, like everyone else before them with the exception of the cowardly orange god king himself.

(I am no Trump fan)

For pure entertainment in not having a clue what she was at for the last couple of months - Kamala was gold.

I mean the Democratic Party put that up against Trump. Trump must have been rubbing his hands.

How did she get into this position? Does anyone here honestly think she was a good candidate? Do you think she should have been voted in just on the premise that she is a woman, regardless of her being any good? She got such a free pass from main stream media. She did no interviews. She had no policies. And she just rambled on in circles when asked on issues. And the Laugh to cover up a uncomfortable situation.....

People go on about how dumb could you be to vote for Trump. I'd ask the same question about Harris.

Trump was "rubbing his hands" so much that he chickened out of a second debate,  on Fox News, after she humiliated him in the one debate they had. As for interviews, she WAS criticized widely in the media for weeks on this issue, but you must not have been paying any attention whatsoever after that, not least when she did the gotcha session on Fox News with Brett Baier a few weeks ago in which he blatantly lied about Trump's threats against the so-called "enemy within" such as Adam Schiff. Her policies were, I suppose, "hidden" on the campaign website, like most policies these days are. Were you so taken aback four years ago when the Trump campaign had no official platform at all?

And yeah, she was not the most articulate, accomplished political candidate, and she was in a very tough position having been thrown into a very short campaign in which she had to deal with her idiotic 2019 pandering to progressives as well as threading the needle with the Biden admin record.

On media treatment, she was held to a far higher standard that her opponent who has transgressed so much and so frequently, in both action and words, that people are hard pushed to remember the thing he did LAST week that would have ended any other political campaign or even career.

Wasn't expecting THAT news!

By most accounts, he had an excellent club championship, but as Spiderlegs says, surely he'll have a tonne of work to do to get back into intercounty shape, especially at 35! Maybe Paul Conroy's exploits have tempted him in addition to the new rules.

Obviously a fabulous option for us to have, especially when McBrearty tires or gets a knock. And another expert long range shooter as well alongside the likes of Thompson, Langan etc.

Going to see Dave Gilmour this weekend

Three from Pink Floyd - tough to narrow it down...

Comfortably Numb
Echoes
Us and Them

Both full on America Firsters AND fervent Zionists delighted at the result. Will be interesting to see who's been fooled... as if there's any doubt.

Watch again in this administration how Jews control America (and rest of the West).

This is acceptable on the board now, is it?

It's true.

It's pure, ignorant and bigoted idiocy.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1853612871877329188?s=48&t=b3zsZpIXIpKiP2NO9eSyfA

lol

Musk has even more big fat government contracts on the way. He's feeling good today.

I wonder will Trump follow through on the austerity program that Musk said would bring  "temporary hardship" last week? One thing about Trump, he likes to be liked. I seriously doubt he has the resolve that, say, Reagan displayed when he supported Alan Greenspan's inflation-fighting Fed policies in the early 80s.

Jesus! Just enjoy the moment and possible quad that's up for grabs