Maybe whatever infected Florida has just migrated north as temperature have risen. It would explain a lot.
The really weird thing about Trump(well, ok...one of the weird things) is that as far as I know he's never been publicly drunk, or even really publicly drinking. You would think someone that moronic, who says and does so many obscenely idiotic things would at least be able to blame booze on some of them. Again, as I've made fairly obvious on this board over the years, I don't watch TV/news/movies a lot, so if there's any evidence to the contrary feel free to correct me, but I think this shit-for-brains has said/done all of his stupid things over the last seven decades while sober.
Yep... he doesn't drink. He's this fucking whacked while completely sober. Makes me want to see him get hammered and given access to his Twitter account.
Im hoping at some point some enterprising fellow doses the halls of congress with Acid like the merry prankster days. Headline after headline has been mind warping enough. I think a good heavy dose of some pscyhedelics would do us all some good.
Easiest job in the world when your suspect cops to it on national tv. God forbid someone else gets the credit. But what will the GOP do about it? Why should they do anything?
I would love to see what happens if Trump got drunk. As someone else said, its kind of unbelievable he acts this way without the influence of any drugs. He has to have used coke, there's just no way he hasn't.
What really surprises me about Trump is that as far as we know, he's only been with 3 women his whole life: Ivanna, Marla, Melania. No girlfriends, no mistresses, no side action ever? For a time the Golden Boy of NYC, richer than God, and to this day not even one past lover coming forward to praise or insult him? EDIT: Yes I know Marla started as his mistress during his Ivanna period, but he married her and had a kid. That's not side action by the classic definition.
I'm telling you, someone is spiking the water supply with lysergic acid. Also, PotCoins promotions guy is a fucking genius.
So, the Fed raised rates and weak retail sales (http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mark...es-put-spotlight-on-fed/ar-BBCFxrl?li=BBnbfcN) are two of the "real" economic indicators pointing towards a down turn. Couple that with a president now under an active investigation, a super secret for-realsies this time you guys healthcare bill that totally won't fuck up millions of people's lives, and a stock market packed to the brim with over-valued assets....we are in for a bad, bad time economically. The moment one of the stock bubbles burst (think Tesla with 3 products and a half dozen production facilities should be worth more in real dollars than GM with a global footprint and several brands encompassing dozens of products?) this shit is gonna tank. I think a lot of this administration is hamstrung by incompetence (or inexperience if you're generous), and a lack of political capital to spend. In the event of shit hitting the fan a la 2008, I seriously doubt this gang's ability to steer the ship well.
Its actually the opposite. Consumer spending is not always a great indicator of economic strength by itself because its often a result of it. Plus, its a dip in sales, not a drop. The overall trend for 2017 is upward. The BIR was raised 3 times in 6 months, thats a sign of economic structural stability and was anticipated. Unemployment hit a 16-year low last month.
I'm seeing it from the retail side of things as something of a correction, but a shit ton of store closings this year. There's definitely a market adjustment happening (largely blamed on Millennials not patronizing the Dress Barn or Applebee's) and it's reverberations are being powerfully felt on retail. The prevailing wisdom is the folks in their prime spending years are far more comfortable shopping online, and retail is lead by old-school hardliners that have dramatically under-invested in tech (or poorly invested in it balls-deep). So, some of these are trends shaking out, but the stock bubble is there, as is the "Retail apocalypse" and the interest rate hike, while expected, will dampen growth, Republican tax fetishes be damned.
http://www.avclub.com/article/trump-fans-boycott-goldbergs-after-creator-critici-256812 In their defense, I can't imagine the overlap between "Trump voters" and "people who watch network sitcoms" contains America's best and brightest.
I think this goes back to the larger problem that we have slowly, but steadily grown as an economy that is increasingly becoming way over-invested in the (low end) service sector. I don't know if it's imminent, but I couldn't agree more that the ensuring economic downturn that would come with a course correction would be really ugly.