Have the Democrats completly lost their mind?

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  1. Marine1

    Marine1 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for President


    Elected to Congress during last ...

    Poll: 3/4 Dems would consider backing Ocasio-Cortez for president …

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    3 days ago - Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks to the crowd of ... Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York isn't even old enough to run for president, ... And Democratic-leaning adults would consider voting for her if she could.

    She has got to be the dumbest Democrat ever elected to Congress. Even the Left hand news thinks she is crazy. Yet in a NBC poll, 75% of Democrats asked, said if she was old enough they think they would vote for her.
     
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    She's better than the joke currently in office.
     
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    What’s the approval rating for her 70% top marginal tax rate proposal?
     
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    She checks all the boxes for democrats. She's young, a "person of color", female, economically illiterate, and basically dumb as a rock.
     
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    Marine1 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Well sir, that joke in office just turned this nation around from being a service and part time economy to a thriving diversified one. One of the hottest economies in decades.
     
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    The US economy takes years to change. President Clinton took the glory for actions set in place by Bush 41. Trump rides on the coattails of Obama's doings.

    And the economy is horrible right now anyway.
     
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    Marine1 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    But now that we're in the midst of a booming economy — which kicked in after Trump reversed almost all Obama's economic policies — we're supposed to believe that it's Obama who deserves all the credit.

    Yep. That's precisely what Obama and his Amen Chorus in the press want us to believe.

    In his speech in Illinois last Friday, Obama complained that Republicans were taking credit for his work.

    It would do you to go over this thread and learn what you don't know.
    The Historic Results of President Donald J. Trump’s First Two Years in Office



    "When you hear how great the economy's doing right now, let's just remember when this recovery started," he said. "I mean, I'm glad it's continued, but … suddenly Republicans are saying it's a miracle."

    This week, White House Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Kevin Hassett wisely set the record straight. At a briefing on Monday, he noted that just about every important economic indicator showed the economy was stalling out in Obama's last year.

    Hassett explained that small business optimism had been on the decline before the November 2016 election. The percentage of businesses saying it's a good time to expand was, too. Business investment was stagnant. All those turned upward starting in 2017. Applications for new businesses are now well above the trend over Obama's entire second term, Hassett noted. And blue-collar jobs are growing faster than any time since the Reagan administration.

    Turnaround on GDP Growth
    There's more. The rate of GDP growth was decelerating in Obama's last year. It went from 2.3% in Q2, to 1.9% in Q3 to 1.8% in Q4 of 2016. Under Trump, GDP growth has averaged 2.9%. It was 4.2% last quarter and might be higher in the current one.

    The stock market also was stuck in neutral the year before the November 2016 elections. The Dow is up by some 45% since then.

    Real median family income didn't budge from August 2015 to November 2016, according to Sentier Research. It's up more than 4% since Trump came into office. Wages are on the upswing.


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    I'm sorry, but you just don't know much about the economy. It takes years for legislation to affect the economy in any noticeable way.
     
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    Rising tuition prices and healthcare prices are what will end up getting a person like Cortez in the White House. It's not doubtful in the slightest that the capitalistic system has failed in certain sectors. But hey, you wanted a guy with no experience who was different, who was brash, to govern differently in the WH, didn't you?

    If the answers yes, then Cortez's prospect isn't insane at all. Not in the slightest.
     
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    She was threatening someone with violence on Twitter this week.

    She's scum.
     
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    Sir, that economy started taking off as soon as Trump started cutting regulations ad he started doing that immediately. He held a meeting with all the big heads of corporations just a month after he was sworn in. He was talking to them right after being elected. Many had already made commitments two months after he was sworn in. Read that thread I showed you and see what he had done. Know what kind of condition Obama's economy was in.
     
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    My health care went up after Obama care was started when it was suppose to be cheaper.

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    I'm pretty sure I've heard from the right that polls from NBC are not to believed yet here you are claiming it as truth?

    IF the survey is to be believed, you left out the fact that many independents might vote for her as well as some republicans.

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    Why would anyone but a Liberal vote for her? She is dumber than rocks. She hasn't the slightest idea of how government runs. She thinks we can go ahead and tax the rich 90% like Ike did back in the 50's. Well you can't, conditions are nowhere near the same then as they are now. We can't pay the bills we have now and she thinks we can have free health care and college and heaven what else her sick mind thinks we can do.
     
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    So what?

    She isn't old enough.

    That is like asking a 21-Year-Old girl "If Donald Trump looked like Timothee Chamalat would you sleep with him".

    And then, 99% of the girls say Yes.

    And then the RW Fever Swamp would claim that "99% of 21 year-old girls would sleep with Donald Trump"

    See how that works?

    That poll is BS..
     
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    Obama had better jobs growth.
     
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    It's insane and if you think we made a mistake putting Trump in office I suggest you read this and get educated. You have been brain washed by the news media.

    It would do you to go over this thread and learn what you don't know.
    The Historic Results of President Donald J. Trump’s First Two Years in Office
     
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    How are you measuring the economy?

    Most simply follow trend lines set by the Obama administration
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    And yet that ignorance somehow made Trump qualified.

    Healthcare like the rest of the developed world has?
     
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    Per the poll you've posted, 48% of independents, and 35% of republicans would considering voting for her. Ask them, what they think.

    Neither does Trump. That's why he was voted into office, or don't you remember?

    Then why do we insist on sending money overseas? You don't gripe at Trump for doing so. Spend money at home helping our people first.
     
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    Intelligence ceased to be a meaningful criterion for the presidency in 2016, and obviously even Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has a considerable advantage in this area over the current president.
     
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    It's you right wingers who are absolutely obsessed with AOC!!!
     
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