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Franklin Pierce. Warren G. Harding. WHH. Grant had a pretty weak presidency. GWB was objectively bad. It's a miracle the Middle East didn't spiral into a regional war. Biden deserves a ton of credit for that. His economy, all things considered, was pretty good. A lot of the unhappiness with the economy is traceable to people's own failings (poor spending habits, lack of discipline) and the COVID fallout. My beef with Biden is that he didn't speak well enough, or maybe enough, to the working class. The student loan thing was a bad idea. We had a chance to take back the narrative about Democrats being the party of farmers and workers and unions. And, unfortunately, we didn't. Ultimately, though, he didn't project strength. Trump is a fat, weak, old, flabby phony. But people think he's strong. A guy like Obama runs Trump over. Bill Clinton probably does the same. Sanders probably beats him in 2016 if he's the nominee. We need that right now in the Democratic Party. I'm not sure, though, who that is.

He hasn’t done anything meaningful. And he isn’t helping the people who got him elected. Say what you will, but he’s making exactly the same mistakes that democrats made last cycle.

Meanwhile, while the King golfs, the Dow is way down, earnings picture is bleak, and consumer credit card debt hits another high.

I'm with you on Hollywood. I'll add this nugget on Slayton. I have a hunch that he's a good team guy, and a very coachable player. When you see the head coach's little guy wearing a Slayton jersey, it's probably a good sign.

I don't believe I'm complaining about anything. The conversation considers Trump's lousy approval rating. I pointed out that it may be because he's a corrupt, do-nothing, vapid president. He fritters his time and energy on the golf course, while the angst of the middle class that he exploited and that got him elected is ignored. Actually, it's probably made worse by his talk about tariffs and the idiotic firing of the people who work on the bird flu. But hey, we stopped "DEI" (whatever that is) and the probably 100 trans who play girls high school sports can't do that anymore. Great stuff. And, I'll turn it around on you. You complained a LOT during the Biden presidency. But crickets now. When nothing meaningful has been done to address the issues raised about the Biden presidency. The price of eggs! (guess what, higher now) Not deporting violent illegals! (not now getting done) The price of gas! (also going up) Inflation! (going up) Stop the steal! (shockingly, no investigation about that now, because it was all BS in the first instance). Those horrible Haitians! (turns out we need them because the MAGA methheads in Ohio don't show up to work). They're eating the cats and dogs! (BS then, and BS now)

It’s hard not to do more when he’s done basically nothing.

But no response to the other grifts and shakedowns and the tariff nonsense. And no response to the biggest point in the whole thing which is that Trump is frittering away his time and energy golfing while doing nothing for the working class. All of these are clues as to why he’s underwater only 30 days into this presidency. Also, on the waste, abuse, and fraud, you’d think if it was so prevalent that the “smartest guy on the planet” would have found something by now. But still no specifics. You guys like to toss “fraud” around without any actual, you know, proof.

It's a big offseason for Keon. I wonder if he's a big part of the reason Ciano was let go. Release packages can be learned. Strength must be earned. Keon (and Kincaid) need to get a LOT stronger this offseason.

Nobody said anything about an approach to 60. He's not close to 50/50. There are a large number of people who held their noses and voted for him, in spite of his myriad character and leadership flaws, because their personal finances are a train wreck. He offered the glib promise of a shortcut to those people. And now it's actually getting worse because he's focused on golf, this ridiculous tariff idea, trying to hide his failures with respect to immigration, trying to explain away his broken promise on inflation, and a largely inconsequential social agenda. This corruption you're talking about, too, is far worse under Trump than probably any administration since Grant. The Trumps are monetizing this presidency through things like the Melania Amazon deal, the attempt to sell sponsorships for the film, the meme coin ripoffs, the Facebook "settlement," and the X "settlement." It's a grift, plain and simple, and we're only a month in. In the meantime, he's done nothing but ignore the working class. The leopards are feasting, and it's only going to get worse. Just wait until the recession hits and the job losses start.

Indeed it was. Today this fool of a president is saying that Ukraine invaded itself and started this war. None of these things has any relation to the ability of middle America a to afford food. With the exception of the border crossing issue (an overblown problem, given the inability of trump to deport), all of this is social nonsense.

But still lousy approved ratings. Americans got sucked into his DEI handwringing and voted against good economic policy in the hopes that Trump would cure inflation (difficult in a capitalistic system, and a mess for which he is culpable in the first instance), and bail them out of their own economic plights. So far, he has done nothing to help the economy. He golfs. He wastes time on Fox. He proposes crippling new taxes. And he chases ghosts with respect to these millions of violent illegals that don’t actually exist. But prices rise, gas gets more expensive, eggs are even more expensive, and he fiddles while middle America burns.

Solid economy and no wars required saving, eh? What corruption, specifically, do you speak of?

From what, exactly?

Start throwing “c cup” bombs around and then can’t take a little gentle ribbing. Which I guess makes sense because if I was a little person I’d probably be just as touchy as you.

Must be a little person. Like that guy in wolf of Wall Street who gets wrapped in Velcro and flung against the wall. I feel pretty guilty about laughing at that now.