Quote (IceMage @ Jun 4 2018 08:23am)

I hope everyone is comfortable with the fact that Trump is going to serve two terms.

Quote (IceMage @ 4 Jun 2018 10:23)

I hope everyone is comfortable with the fact that Trump is going to serve two terms.

Quote (ThatAlex @ Jun 4 2018 02:22pm)

My prediction:

Donald Trump will serve one term. The Special Counsel will recommend charges against Trump, including obstruction of justice.

Our country will face a Constitutional crisis regarding whether a sitting President can be indicted by the DoJ and whether the President can pardon himself. Ultimately, Rod Rosenstein will defer charges to Congress.

If the impeachment proceedings are after 2019, he will be impeached by the House, but the Senate will not convict him. If the impeachment proceedings are before the 2018 midterms, the House will not impeach Trump.

Trump will lose his bid for re-election in 2020. He will not resign, he will not be impeached, and he will not be removed from office.

Quote (Beowulf @ 4 Jun 2018 16:31)

Assuming he survives everything up until the next election I highly doubt he loses and would guess he probably wins by even more unless a unicorn Democrat appears but I also highly doubt democrats do anything politically smart enough to stop Trump in 2020

Quote (Plaguefear @ Jun 4 2018 01:40am)

Conservatives did the same thing here, they force people out of the work force and then say unemployment is down, while less people are searching for work because they just gave up.

Quote (sir_lance_bb @ Jun 4 2018 02:42pm)

People don't have skills for jobs , companies don't hire them. Older people unable to retire and survive on SS shrinking potential job opportunities and then companies investing profits to the eventual automation of many job industries/services.

Human beings going full tribal off the rails with social media and full uber populism for right wing/left wing politics is in full swing. All the while living in the safest time period in human history with the power to end life on earth and a growing climate change debacle continuing to increase and suicide rate/depression rate climbs and opined drug overdoses continue to rise.

Strap yourselves in folks. We are in for a ride.

Quote (inkanddagger @ 3 Jun 2018 23:06)

Let’s be sober about the employment numbers and jobs report. The # of Americans NOT in the labor force has hit record highs six out of the past eight months - 94 million Americans have given up looking for a full time job and are not working: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS15000000. That’s the worst in history. Additionally, about half of the new jobs created over the past 5 years are low paid gig jobs with no benefits. So if you’re wondering why, despite this huge news cycle about record low unemployment numbers, you have no job or your current job pays peanuts and offers no medical insurance, retirement benefits, etc... here’s your answer.



This is a pretty flat downward slope (and in actuality, the decrease in unemployment slowed when Trump was elected vs the year prior as represented on the graph). I don't see much contribution from Trump. What I said above still stands though: they all want to take credit for "jobs" but it's a lot of smoke and mirrors to achieve the narrative they are pushing on either side of the aisle.

https://ei.marketwatch.com/Multimedia/2017/05/05/Photos/ZH/MW-FL893_u6rate_20170505085247_ZH.png

Quote (Cambridge @ Jun 5 2018 08:26am)

According to the 2010 census there are 72M Americans under the age of 18, and 40M Americans who are retired.
You’re saying that out of the 214M Americans of eligible working age almost HALF are unemployed, and that’s not even considering those with disabilities unable to work?
So roughly 45% of Americans can’t find a job?

That doesn’t seem accurate.