Trump Is Reportedly Considering Firing Mnuchin Over Stock Market Woes

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- December 25, 2018 at 12:02 PM - Views: 95 #4843
  Stupid is as Stupid does
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  That's a pretty stupid thing...
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  Why don't you just go...
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  I hope he fires him.
  trump's confused the presidency with...
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  Because the sketch is about...
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  "Mr. Trump fretted to aides...
  peacecorps
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  Trump Is Reportedly Considering Firing Mnuchin Over Stock Market Woes
  
  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin could become the latest White House official to get the boot. President Donald Trump has been souring on Mnuchin for some time now and the continued decline in the stock markets could be the final straw, reports Bloomberg. One source told Bloomberg that the president has considered firing Mnuchin while another said that whether he stays on or not will depend in large part on what happens to the markets.
  
  If Trump was already not so happy with his Treasury secretary, what he did before Christmas Eve surely didn’t help things. Mnuchin rattled nervous markets over the weekend when he put out a statement saying the heads of the country’s six largest banks had told him they had “ample liquidity” to keep lending. Considering that was never seen as a serious concern many saw it either as a huge blunder or a sign that the government knows something the rest of the world doesn’t. He then held a call Monday with members of the President’s Working Group on financial markets, which also raised concern that the problems in the economy could be deeper than many thought.
  
  https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/trump-is-reportedly-considering-Bwahaha!
- December 25, 2018 at 12:26 PM #4846
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  Stupid is as Stupid does
  In America, “Liberty” means “Free to Die in Service of Capital” - Amfortas the hippie.
  
  Most of today’s elites have the moral and social reasoning capacities of spoiled toddlers.
  
  “People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage...but the privileged also feel that their privileges, however egregious they may seem to others, are a solemn, basic, God-right. The sensitivity of the poor to injustice is a trivial thing c
  - December 25, 2018 at 2:23 PM #4870
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    That's a pretty stupid thing for a Treasury Secretary to say
    
    in an already jittery market. It’s like being on a plane and hearing, “Hello, this is your Captain speaking. There is absolutely no cause for alarm. The wings are not on fire.”
    
    Monty Python – How to Irritate People Airplane Sketch
    - December 25, 2018 at 2:54 PM #4877
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      Why don't you just go to YouTube and find the Monty Python how to irritate people on an airplane skit?
      
      Just click on Copy Video URL and then paste it in the text box of JPR. That function works splendidly.
      
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  - December 25, 2018 at 11:52 PM #5023
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    I hope he fires him.
    
    I don’t know jack about Mnuchin. I just love to see Trump swing his melee weapons around and hack his own administration to bits. It’s fun!
- December 25, 2018 at 12:34 PM #4850
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  trump's confused the presidency with his tv show; it doesnt help to fire people if there's no one to replace
  
  them with (who’s competent) and graft only goes so far until the people catch on
  - December 25, 2018 at 11:40 PM #5015
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    Because the sketch is about 4 mins long and the lines I quoted from it exactly summed up my point about the OP.
    
    If someone wants to see the entire sketch I’ll bet he/she can find it.
- December 25, 2018 at 12:59 PM #4857
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  Trump and Hillary are two of a kind. Neither can take the blame for losing. She blames everyone who she pushed
  
  away from her and he blames everyone he hired.
  jwirr
- December 25, 2018 at 1:45 PM #4863
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  "Mr. Trump fretted to aides that Mr. Powell (Fed chairman) would “turn me into Hoover,”
  
  Dude, if you govern like Hoover you can expect history (if you paid any attention to it) to repeat itself. Higher tariffs, isolationism, anti-immigrant policies, tax cuts for the rich, deregulation were all favorite policies of Hoover and Coolidge before him.
  
  We are in the 1920’s again. Will Bernie be “FDR”?
  The Big Lie: "Make the lie big, Make it simple, Keep saying it, And eventually they will believe it." AH.
  
  "Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect." JG
  
  National issues (slavery/racism, income inequality, pandemics and pathetic health care, weak unions) are not solved with more states' rights. Global problems (climate change, migration, trade, war, pandemics) are not solved with more nationalism.
  - December 25, 2018 at 2:57 PM #4878
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    Bernie may well be the next FDR. Hopefully, someone like him will be better than FDR, because that is what the world needs from America
    
    right now.
    
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    - December 25, 2018 at 3:47 PM #4894
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      Well we certainly don't need another thirty years of stupid. (like we have been through)
      
      Prolonged unnecessary war? Was that really a good idea?
      
      I would like to remind you that U.S. health insurance companies do not contribute anything to health care. They are only a PARASITIC middle man receiving an undeserved cut of "FREE MONEY".
      
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- December 25, 2018 at 3:58 PM #4899
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  So one of the guys
  
  that Kamala Harris refused to do her duty and prosecute Mnuchin when she was California AG has fallen out of favor with the orange emperor.
- December 25, 2018 at 3:59 PM #4900
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  Reply To: Trump Is Reportedly Considering Firing Mnuchin Over Stock Market Woes
  
  Go for it. Why stop now? clean out that cabinet.
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