but if it means Trump loses, I'll take it.

But his policies have made one inevitable.

Anyone who's tried to recreate a Bush bubble, gets a Bush crash.

Just ask Trump's BFF Macri in Argentina.

We're just lucky we have the Fed to bail us out of these GOPee debacles.

recoveries have an up and a down. The up part never sustains forever. Soon enough it inevitably starts sliding back down, equalizing or moderating. Wha goes up must come down. It’s cyclical. I suspect that’s why he’s angling for war now. I think he knows he needs that poll boost that the wrong-wing “mighty Wurlitzer” will crank up to push public opinion to “stand by our president. We’re at war! We HAVE TO stand by OUR president!!!”

I suspect he or his advisors or Brad Parscale remember what happened to dubya. A war last time silenced the bush/cheney critics - at least for awhile. And George the Second saw his poll numbers go way up. It was after 9/11 and Man-oh-Man did that boost his numbers. Almost the whole nation wanted to go kick somebody’s ass internationally for what happened on September 11th. And dubya delivered. Bombing the crap out of Afghanistan and then beating the PR drums nonstop to spread it to Iraq. And then kept that war cranking as the clock ticked toward what he hoped would be his re-election. And it worked.

We got PLAYED. BIGTIME. And we have to hope we won’t get fooled again. Maybe the MAGAts will allow themselves to get fooled. But the rest of us better not. And always remember: there are MORE of US than there are of the MAGAts. That’s why his numbers will NEVER grow higher than the mid-40s. Because the majority is NOT with him.

I bet he’s betting that a war could change that.

The inevitable result of putting brigands like Mnuchin, Cohn, and Kudlow in key economic policy posts.

rather than trying to fix or prevent this, will put all their efforts, strategy and skills into figuring out how to blame it on the Democrats.

And if Biden wins next year, they'll try to create a crisis if they things are starting to look up again.

to blow his "fake news" dingy bell on his trike

Trump needs to have this tied to his administration.

As with all previous recessions under their watch, the Republicans will spend a solid year pretending it isn't happening, then they'll move immediately into "we have recovered and it was Dems fault we had a recession."

Right now, the timing is politically advantageous for Dems. The ads write themselves and the narrative can very easily be controlled. "The American people are smart, they know the first couple years of a presidency the economy is inherited, what we are seeing right now is the first report card on the Trump economy." Framing it that way would be devastating to Trump. Basically, the good economy we had was left over from the Obama policies, this is the Trump result, and that is mostly true. A recession right now would gut Trump of his only thing to brag about.

There is nothing to cheer about when a recession hits, good people are being harmed, their lives are being thrown into disorder and the most vulnerable will suffer. I do not want a recession, at all, period. But it looks like we are getting on, and the only way for it to be as shallow as possible is for the recession to be used to help get Trump out.

if you have not ran out of free page views, LOL. They're a bit less alarmist but see some indicators that are concerning.

Tips for Spotting a U.S. Recession Before It Becomes Official
By Reade Pickert
June 15, 2019

See: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-15/tips-for-spotting-a-u-s-recession-before-it-becomes-official

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