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Politico Calls Trump Economic Success Lucky 'Gambling' and 'Getting Away With It'
Newsbusters ^ | March 6, 2026 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 03/07/2026 6:28:44 AM PST by PJ-Comix

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To: PJ-Comix

“...it must be the result of sheer dumb luck.”

Or maybe that their agenda isn’t panning out even though they have made a concerted effort to sabotage Trump’s efforts. Calling it dumb luck when it turned a destroyed economy almost completely around in less than a year that took democrats over a half century to destroy to control the citizens is either stupid or just flat lying.

The biggest tool was the lies right after the 2000 election about the Fanny and Freddie housing funds by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd and then pulling the rug out from under the lenders and loanees destroying the maintaining of home ownership and trying to Blame Bush for it. And the Biden administration harmed the economy recently through increased inflation and national debt, higher interest rates, and a decrease in real wages. Not every one of the employed in the US wants to do fast food.

wy69


21 posted on 03/07/2026 9:18:34 AM PST by whitney69 (uin.)
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To: PJ-Comix

They need to stop taking story advise from Paul Krugman.


22 posted on 03/07/2026 9:21:01 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: PJ-Comix

Who or what is a Victoria Guida?


23 posted on 03/07/2026 9:31:35 AM PST by Bookshelf (The )
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To: PJ-Comix

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”


24 posted on 03/07/2026 9:37:49 AM PST by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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To: fhayek

Nice, I like that. It dovetails perfectly with my all-time best investment, real estate.


25 posted on 03/07/2026 10:11:47 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....I voted for this too!)
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To: escapefromboston
Such is the weird attitude of Politico's economics correspondent, Victoria Guida.

You ask if "the experts” were lying or just dumb"... I'm guessing the bimbo and her friends ONLY talk to 'liberal elite experts' who give them the same BS answers they want to hear. AND that my friend is stupid.

26 posted on 03/07/2026 10:14:10 AM PST by GOPJ (Trump's a Rorschach: for good or ill people see thier hidden selves in him. Protector? Bully? Savior)
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To: Skwor
I dunno…

Just because he managed to out-maneuver New York industrialists and organized crime figures (many in political office) to reach billionaire status by age thirty, author a best-seller and become an uber-successful media figure, then run for and win the presidency (at least) twice doesn’t mean he’s not the incompetent buffoon AOC and others say he is./s

27 posted on 03/07/2026 10:22:30 AM PST by daler
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To: PJ-Comix

Mediocre minds think other people’s good fortune is due to good luck. They don’t understand that there is a reason why things happen — and their lives are not just a random crapshoot of bad luck.

So they believe that if they just protest loud enough, bad things won’t happen — and never that wise, successful people make good things happen. That is the story of human evolution (history) — and not that shit just happens, and how it got on Joe Biden’s pants and the streets of San Francisco (Portland, Seattle, et al), is one of life’s great mysteries.

“Success is as success does.” We’re lucky to have a leader who knows what he is doing. That is preferable to maintaining a smug superiority by having an incompetent president we have to tell “Go left, go right, Don’t fall off the stage. Don’t wander into the jungle.”

Just so they can retain their sense of moral superiority and outrage. Better they should do something useful — for a change of occupations.


28 posted on 03/07/2026 10:29:04 AM PST by MikeHu
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To: PJ-Comix
In other words, the liberal economists were correct but just unlucky?

-PJ

29 posted on 03/07/2026 11:08:32 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: PJ-Comix

Fortune favors the bold.


30 posted on 03/07/2026 12:21:13 PM PST by Salman (I spell "Sodomy" with a capital-S because it is the name of a religion. )
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To: PJ-Comix

I claim no qualifications on economic issues. What I know is this: Every single time DJT advances an economic plan, 98% of all the “experts”, on both sides of the aisle, shout that he’s a naive dunce who simply can’t comprehend the way that things work, this is the death knell of civilization, and the Dow will be below zero in a month. And a month later, we’re still here. And six months later, things are getting better. And a year and a half after that, everything that DJT predicted has come to pass, and none of what the Experts predicted has come to pass.
I don’t need a degree to know who to follow. The degrees haven’t served anyone very well.


31 posted on 03/07/2026 1:45:26 PM PST by _longranger81
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To: Skwor
Right, Trump literally predicts what he will do years in advance, puts the plan in place, what he said would happen happens and somehow, he just got lucky. Honestly these people should be cleaning bathrooms and ignored otherwise, that are liars and just all around horrible miserable souls.

They do not have the intelligence to clean bathrooms must less speak of economics.

32 posted on 03/07/2026 1:56:20 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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