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After the fastest recession in U.S. history, the economic recovery may be fizzling
washingtonpost.com ^ | 7/13/2020 | david lynch

Posted on 07/17/2020 6:26:36 AM PDT by rktman

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To: rktman

Lost me at ‘wash post‘


21 posted on 07/17/2020 6:55:05 AM PDT by stanne
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To: rktman

Impossible. We were promised by several so called ‘experts’ in here that this would be a very quick V shaped recovery and we’d be at full steam by summer. Some of us tried to tell them that the Democrat governors and mayors would make that reality impossible.

You simply cannot shut down the entire US economy and expect a quick recovery unless EVERYONE is working together.


22 posted on 07/17/2020 7:04:18 AM PDT by tatown
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To: stanne

Seriously. Why even believe these bozos. It’s nothing but a collection of liberally slanted/biased crap.

The sleeping giant will awake again to re-elect him, just as it did in 2016. And it will knock their freaking socks off, just as it did in 2016.

There will be riots, exaggerated claims of cheating, stealing the election, foreign interference, etc ...just like we’ve seen over the past four years.

Nothing will change.


23 posted on 07/17/2020 7:06:31 AM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: LibsRJerks

I t hi no it will have so much less of an impact. I also think they know it

Regarding Trump, what we’ve been watching has been Trump not caring about how people react- but needing reelection in order to help the country.

It will be a little different after that factor is removed. I should think.


24 posted on 07/17/2020 7:16:48 AM PDT by stanne
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To: rktman

The recovery is going to happen as fast as a herd of turtles in winter.


25 posted on 07/17/2020 7:22:34 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: rktman
United Airlines announced plans to lay off more than one-third of its 95,000 workers. Brooks Brothers, which first opened for business in 1818, filed for bankruptcy. And Bed Bath and Beyond said it will close 200 stores.

And WaPo's glee just drips off the page.

26 posted on 07/17/2020 7:26:49 AM PDT by libertylover (Socialism will always look good to those who think they can get something for nothing.)
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To: rktman

“It’s almost like someone came up with an idea that too rapid a recovery would help PDJT.”

That’s been the 3yr post-Russian crap plan, all along,


27 posted on 07/17/2020 7:33:10 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill
How about an impeachment then? 😨😴
28 posted on 07/17/2020 7:41:20 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

WashPo under it’s breath : (I hope, I hope, I hope)


29 posted on 07/17/2020 7:46:02 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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To: dowcaet
But it's not just one man, in their minds.

Until these freedom lovin', gun-toting American conservatives are defeated, the Left cannot implement their global agenda.

That's why it is worth it to them to destroy everything to defeat Pres. Trump and his supporters.

They think they can rebuild their Communist Utopia* after we're gone.









*In reality, it is a utopia for the elites, not anyone else. See image of Cacklin' Hillary with the balloons.

30 posted on 07/17/2020 8:10:07 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: rktman

Why anyone here would read the WP is beyond me.


31 posted on 07/17/2020 8:34:13 AM PDT by Revel
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To: rktman

Unemployment will fall to below 9% in July.


32 posted on 07/17/2020 8:52:33 AM PDT by lurk
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To: a little elbow grease

“.... I am still awaiting the appropriate miracle.“

I think your miracle is the DNC’s mind-boggling decision to nominate Joe Biden, an elderly baggage-laden senator, clearly suffering from dementia, - and leave to the imagination such questions as - who will be his running mate (the actual President)?, and how radically socialist/anarchist will the party platform be?

By comparison to Joe Biden, Walter Mondale had the political agility of a ninja warrior and the mental acuity of a chess master.

With Walter Mondale, George McGovern or Jimmy Carter, the Democrat voters knew exactly what they would get. With Joe Biden, it is anyone’s guess.

Even lots of hard core Democrats are going to have a difficult time pulling the lever for such a blank page agenda.

Another miracle is the Democrat decisions to a) scuttle the economy over Covid19 fears, b) endorse the violent torching of American cities over anti-LE rhetoric, c) continue to put open borders and green new deal agendas ahead of American jobs at every turn, d) shamelessly and obviously exploit and foment racial divisions to score cheap political points.

As a result, the Leftist university campuses from which all Democrat political energy emanates, will be ghost towns. The LE and first responders have turned against the Democrat party with a vengeance. The labor unions in industrial belt swing states (supposedly Joe Biden’s secret weapon), are walking away from the Democrats in droves. And blacks and Hispanics are beginning to break the mold and look at the Republican Party.

All the Democrats have left is the public school teachers unions, late-term abortion lovers, and the government and quasi government drones and bureaucrats who thrive on parasitic big government regulatory abuse.

Over the next eight weeks, President Trump is going to unleash a truth campaign the likes of which the world has not seen since Thomas Jefferson penned The Declaration of Independence. He will declare war on big government - it will be normal people vs. zombie parasites.

The Democrats are blowing it and President Trump will take full advantage. The Democrats are going down hard, and the progressive Left fake news and celebrity crowd - they going to get their asses handed to them as well.

The entrenched unelected deep state will still be there to deal with, but President Trump will have earned another four years, with coattails, to try and make a real dent. I’m not talking about indictments - I really don’t give a crap about putting Obama co-conspirators in jail for what they did (since it is never going to happen anyway).

I’m talking about where the real stakes are: politics. If Obama had never been elected, he never could have orchestrated that coup. I want to see these Progressive Lefitist politicians, globalist RINOs and fake news propagandists publicly discredited. I want to see a change in public opinion so that they never get elected again.

I think 2016 left the Democrat Left confused - they really believe Trump winning was a fluke - a misunderstanding. They think red state Republicans didn’t know what they were voting for in 2016. They are thinking surely after four years, even the most deplorable Republican won’t make that “mistake” again.

When President Trump wins in 2020 it will send a completely different message. We have had four years of Donald Trump as President. We have had four years of being lectured by the fake news Left about how evil, dangerous and stupid he is, and yet we STILL voted for him, in even bigger numbers!

That will set them back on their heels. Many will still think we are stupid, but there will be fewer of them left to think that. And hopefully it will shut them up a little, knowing they are outnumbered.


33 posted on 07/17/2020 9:02:39 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: rktman

I think thigs would be much better if we didn’t allow the Looters and Rioters to do what they want without punishment.

Businesses could actually open and thrive without fear of being destroyed while the Government looks the other way.


34 posted on 07/17/2020 9:06:20 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

What do you suggest the “WE” do when someone lives in liberal-ran city/state?


35 posted on 07/17/2020 9:42:09 AM PDT by 82nd Bragger (Count to four except when in a helicopter)
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To: rktman
If there were still hopes of a “V-shaped” comeback from the novel coronavirus shutdown, this past week should have put an end to them. The pandemic shock, which economists once assumed would be only a temporary business interruption, appears instead to be settling into a traditional, self-perpetuating recession.

Well, when all these Democrats and Abbott keep shutting down their States, what do they think is gonna happen? Recovery can only do so much when they force businesses to shut down again and again.
36 posted on 07/17/2020 9:56:33 AM PDT by Svartalfiar
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>>>What do you suggest the “WE” do when someone lives in liberal-ran city/state?<<<

Vote them out. If that doesn’t work, leave. “We” did...


37 posted on 07/17/2020 7:22:03 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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