Are you tired of winning yet?

[Impenitent]

law can be a servant of power if one enforces the law… enforcement comes in spite of the desire of the one on whom it is served… if one has the power to prevent enforcement, one does…

preventing enforcement can come as a result of compliance or fugitive status… again, the one with the power is shaping events…

[DougBH]

@SixFoot

Hope your luck turns as good as mine soon. I’ve had a great two years.

My income was up significantly this year and yet my taxes are down.

[Absolution]

@H_Arendt

Donald Trump promised us so much winning, America would grow tired of it. So what do we see this morning?

• A sharp drop in monthly employment figures
• Record federal budget deficit
• Record international trade deficit
• Annual GDP growth below 3% again
• Stock Market flat for more than a year
• Coal fired power plants closing at a faster rate than they did during the Obama Presidency
• Massive tax cuts for the wealthy failing to produce the promised increases in corporate investment and employee wages
• Average tax refund down 18%
• Illegal immigration surging
• Kim Jung Un maintaining his nuclear development efforts despite significant unilateral American concessions
• World leaders sit on their hands when the US Secretary of State calls on them to support American policy towards Iran
• No meaningful policy to address opioid use, fifteen months after Jared Kushner was made responsible to address this
• Significant increases in hate and bias crimes since November, 2016

If this is winning, what would losing look like?

Trump is hostile to brown people. When these economic indicators don’t directly affect supporters’ pocketbooks (yet), then all you need is “Trump hates the same people I do.”

[W_and_C]

@H_Arendt

Average tax refund down 18%

I am in an all-day Sprint planning meeting at work so I’m supposed to be paying attention, but I decided to fact check one random line cited in OP

It appears that tax refund is down from last year but not nearly by as much as OP described:

Average tax refund is down 8.7 percent from a year ago

Unless OP meant that tax refund is down 18% since Trump took office which I really really doubt is the case.

[H_Arendt]

@W_and_C

@H_Arendt

Average tax refund down 18%

I am in an all-day Sprint planning meeting at work so I’m supposed to be paying attention, but I decided to fact check one random line cited in OP

It appears that tax refund is down from last year but not nearly by as much as OP described:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/14/average-tax-refund-is-down-8point7-percent-from-year-ago.html

Unless OP meant that tax refund is down 18% since Trump took office which I really really doubt is the case.

The IRS has released different numbers during tax season for the change in refunds. This was an early figure from a month ago. The larger decline was more recent. It will probably keep fluctuating until the end of tax season.

[madasheck]

You didn’t say if it was monetary or mental happiness.

[mobulis]

@Impenitent

democracy is mob rule.

(2 men and one woman vote… you know the rest)

besides, this constitutional republic isn’t a democracy

So we don’t vote for potus, or congressmen?

[CaughtInTheMiddle]

@H_Arendt

@SottoVoce

Behold the power of the anecdote.

Most people tend to judge the world from the perspective of how they are doing, not the overall trends. Ronald Reagan won the Presidency in 1980 while repeatedly asking Americans “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” Given the oil crisis fo the late seventies, the answer carried Reagan to the Presidency. Every presidential election is a referendum on the previous four years.

Way back when Bush Sr was president i was at the gym talking to a bunch of guys and someone mentioned the upcoming. One dude (a salesman) said something like “Well I’m doing okay so I’m going vote for him again”.

I’ll never forget that. It was my epiphany regarding how little people actually care about our country’s long term health.

[SixFoot]

Isn’t that weird? lol

[SixFoot]

Well, I haven’t won the lottery yet, but in due time I’m certain. lol

I am about to have my third child with my wonderful wife of 11 years though, so I got that going for me, which is nice, especially since this is the Year of the Boar!

[Impenitent]

actually, you vote for electors for potus

[lessright]

Boar. Is that from the original Chinese?

Can’t say I’ve ever heard anything but pig.

[SixFoot]

Military thing, with a play on the Chinese Zodiac. My last unit’s name was Wild Boars, given to them by the way they smashed the German front lines at the Marne. It’s fitting that my last child will be born this year.