"The Coming Collapse"

Everything Trump is doing is leading to an economic crash, as bad or worse than 2008. Republicans are removing all the safeguards. I've seen experts say that they expect the crash before the end of this year.

Of course, if Democrats DO take back the House and/or Senate, Republicans will heap all the blame on them.

This is going to be a nightmare, no two ways about it.

We won't have someone like Obama (with a Dem House and Senate) to fix things this time. So it'll just spiral downwards.

The article loses credibility with this claim:

[quote]Yet the party steadfastly refuses to address the social inequality that led to the election of Trump and the insurgency by Bernie Sanders

Inequality didn't lead to the election of Trump or the insurgency by Bernie Sanders. Racism and Sexism did. Knee-jerk reactions to the first black President and the first woman nominee.

The claim of 'economic anxiety' has been thoroughly debunked.

It's weird how this blog post spends so much time bashing Democrats, trying to blame them, when they aren't the problem, and aren't to blame at all.

This is some bullshit right here.

The coming Collapse -- pretty much inevitable at this point -- is entirely at the feet of the Republicans and their supporters.

Do you have a source for that, R2? I was under the impression that the data supported a widening income gap in the U.S.

Oh, there is one. But that is NOT why Trump was elected, or why Bernie rose as he did. Those two are two sides of the same straight white male supremacist coin, riding a wave of racist and sexist/misogynist resentment.

If it had been about economics, Hillary would have won in a landslide.

R4

R2 is a troll I blocked ages ago.

Racism had very little to do with Trump winning.

No, OP.

Thanks, R6. I thought as much when he/she couldn't come up with a source for the assertion that "The claim of 'economic anxiety' has been thoroughly debunked." I believe that racism and misogyny were factors, but I also believe that the widening income disparity was also a significant factor.

Trump wants a crash so he can buy up real estate on the cheap. He also knows when his wacky comments will cause stock market dips and you can bet he and his cronies are timing stock buys and sell offs around them. Everything he does is about lining his pockets.

OP's article reads like Russian kommentariat porn.

Trump will do what he always does- run up huge debts and run away when the bill comes due. He’s done it multiple times with multiple bankruptcies - hid business “success” has relied on it. Then Democrats will be in charge when the bill comes due and Trump will be scot-free and will point the fingers at someone else. It’s his modus operandi - and the tax cut bill was exactly that. Short term profits that will pump up the economy in near term (while he’s President) at the expense of long term financial health and a coming crash and crushing burden of debt.

r11 Republican governments (not just Trump) have been cutting taxes and raising the national debt since Saint Ronnie Reagan perfected the strategy.

I'm more worried about the coming prolapse.

[quote]Racism had very little to do with Trump winning.

The level of utter clueless stupidity it takes to make this idiotic and laughably false assertion is off the charts.

I'm just laughing at R6. What a fucking moron.

R4/R8, here's your fucking article... Jesus, have you been paying attention for any of the last two years?!?

Another article for those that apparently have no clue how to use Google, like R4, R6, and R8

R2: Sanders had nothing to do with sexism. Not everyone wanted Rodham Clinton as the nominee based on her policies or her negatives. It is possible to hold that belief and vote accordingly in the primary election, which I and many others did. Who then turned around and voted for her in November. This shit needs to STOP! NOW!

Sanders had everything to do with sexism. He was the "Not-Hillary" candidate for all the sexist, misogynists out there... proven by the virulently and toxically sexist BernieBros who were attacking any and all Hillary supporters (but ESPECIALLY women) all over the internet.

Hillary's positions and negatives were better than Bernie's in every way. Bernie is an intellectually dishonest fraud and an empty suit, as exposed by his disastrous NYDN interview. He lost in a LANDSLIDE of 4 million votes, all on his own, and then pouted and threw tantrums like a sore loser, while simultaneously lying to his cult of supporters about his chances of winning (after being mathematically eliminated by March 15th, 2016). He was a sore loser. He failed to release his taxes as promised. He failed every test of character and leadership. He has no record of any progressive achievements. He's all talk, no plans, no ability to build coalitions, no ability to generate consensus, no ability to shepherd policies through into law. His negatives include taking NRA money, voting with the NRA on critical bills, voting AGAINST universal healthcare back in 93 when it MIGHT have done some good, dumping toxic waste on minority communities, and never voting against military intervention or weapons funding except that one time (which he's milked to death, ironic for a guy nicknamed "Bomber Bernie" by his peers).

If you thought he was a better candidate than Hillary, you were a gullible misinformed moron who paid no attention. Hillary was more truthful, trustworthy, transparent, experienced, qualified, competent, hardworking, and capable than Bernie or anyone else that ran. He would have been SLAUGHTERED in a general election against the GOP if he'd actually won the primary (which was never a possibility).

Anyone who didn't vote for Hillary in the general enabled Trump's win, and owns all this shit that is happening now. That's just a mathematical, statistical fact. Tell all those kids ripped away from their parents that the purity of your ego was more important than their family. Have fun. Dumbasses.

Thanks for that article, R15. Obviously, I'm not as well-informed as you are, and I appreciate your taking the time to find that article.