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TexasTowelie

(112,405 posts) Fri Aug 30, 2019, 12:24 AM Aug 2019

Texas small business owners explain why they tolerate Trump and his tweets

AUSTIN — Several small business owners said at a Republican-sponsored forum Thursday that they adore President Donald Trump’s tax cuts and deregulation policies.

But the event’s host, a printing-company owner, said he disagrees with “some things about President Trump.” He declined to be more specific.

State GOP Chairman James Dickey, emcee and co-sponsor of the Trump reelection campaign’s “Open for Business” roundtable in north Austin, acknowledged that some recent tweets by the president have been odd.

But the business owners and Dickey shrugged off talk of Trump’s Twitter eruptions. Instead, they attributed the country’s low unemployment rate and what they described as their businesses’ surging profits as products of Trump economic policies.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/08/29/texas-small-business-owners-explain-why-they-tolerate-trump-and-his-tweets/

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Texas small business owners explain why they tolerate Trump and his tweets (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2019 OP

Sadly Wawannabe Aug 2019 #1

Some folks enjoy being shit upon... Blue Owl Aug 2019 #2

and some people enjoy being shits. AJT Aug 2019 #5

I am having somewhat of a hard time .... CatMor Aug 2019 #3

rightly or wrongly, Trump is credited with the economy fairly regularly stopdiggin Aug 2019 #4

If you're a small business owner, and you disagree with some things Trump does or says. LuckyLib Aug 2019 #6

Austin... correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it the most liberal city in the state? Thekaspervote Aug 2019 #7

It may be liberal in Austin, but greed is rampant. TexasTowelie Aug 2019 #8

Wawannabe

(5,678 posts)

1. Sadly

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Aug 30, 2019, 12:44 AM

Aug 2019

It is the same with a small business owner I love. In western WA. Voting is all about the almighty $ to so many.

Blue Owl

(50,491 posts)

2. Some folks enjoy being shit upon...

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Aug 30, 2019, 12:51 AM

Aug 2019

AJT

(5,240 posts)

5. and some people enjoy being shits.

Reply to Blue Owl (Reply #2)

Fri Aug 30, 2019, 01:24 AM

Aug 2019

CatMor

(6,212 posts)

3. I am having somewhat of a hard time ....

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Aug 30, 2019, 01:00 AM

Aug 2019

believing some of the claims being made by these business owners. The claims seem almost too good to be true.

stopdiggin

(11,358 posts)

4. rightly or wrongly, Trump is credited with the economy fairly regularly

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Aug 30, 2019, 01:06 AM

Aug 2019

this is not an outlier as far as opinion, particularly among small business.

LuckyLib

(6,819 posts)

6. If you're a small business owner, and you disagree with some things Trump does or says.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Aug 30, 2019, 03:15 AM

Aug 2019

But you refuse to be more specific, hesitate to be direct about what you disagree with or don't like -- you're waffling. Not having an opinion is having an opinion. Of the kiss ass/don't offend variety.

Thekaspervote

(32,793 posts)

7. Austin... correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it the most liberal city in the state?

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Fri Aug 30, 2019, 03:21 AM

Aug 2019

How many small business owners did they have to “sift thru” b4 they got the answers they wanted?

TexasTowelie

(112,405 posts)

8. It may be liberal in Austin, but greed is rampant.

Reply to Thekaspervote (Reply #7)

Fri Aug 30, 2019, 03:37 AM

Aug 2019

I doubt that the journalist that wrote the article had to look very hard.

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