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"President Trump will sign the border security compromise package on Capitol Hill to avert another government shutdown and will take the extraordinary step of declaring a national emergency to obtain funding for the border wall, the White House announced Thursday."
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by khallow on Friday February 15 2019, @05:29AM (8 children)
(Score: 5, Funny) by sjames on Friday February 15 2019, @08:37AM (1 child)
Trump isn't actually that smart and he is not a great businessman. He would be richer today if he had just put daddy's money in an index fund.
He is a classic financial example of the saying "given sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine". His nearly half billion inheritance plus an undeserved inheritance of his dad's reputation has been a hell of a JATO.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @10:21AM
https://qz.com/1411006/trumps-413-million-inheritance-doesnt-explain-his-mysterious-cash-spending/ [qz.com]
The dude's on the take of Russian mob for over a decade now. Cash flows, literally.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @01:08PM (3 children)
How do you measure "Political Fapital"? It sounds made up.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday February 15 2019, @01:25PM (2 children)
Sorry, it's moderately intangible. Look it up [oxforddictionaries.com] in the dictionary. Trump had the power and populist-based leeway to stop some degree of government services for more than a month. He used that power to try to fund a $6(+) billion wall on the border with Mexico. He could have used that power in vastly more constructive ways that I would respect.
Now, he doesn't have that power anymore. Sure, he could shutdown the government again. But this time, he's unlikely to get any support from his own party (with enough votes, vetos can be overridden). That's what political capital is to me. The power or advantage to do certain things once or a few times, which can be expended.
There are other examples of political capital such as the period of time after a president gets elected, when implementation of proposed policies and such are relatively easy to push through Congress. Or when Bush was given a pretty big check to do what he wanted after the 9/11 attacks. But those powers/advantages go away.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @03:46PM (1 child)
So there is no way to measure it, and it may magically appear or disappear based on current events? It doesn't sound like something that can be "used up".
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday February 16 2019, @12:04AM
Yep.
And yet, Trump managed it.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 15 2019, @04:04PM
WTF, man? That is the status quo in Washington. Bullshit from start to finish, day in, day out, day after day, for the past - what? 240 years or so? Name something actually IMPORTANT that congress has dealt with, effectively, since the Declaration of Independence? If/when they deal with an issue that is NOT bullshit, they are always a day late, and a dollar short, and usually in the wrong damned place.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday February 16 2019, @01:14AM
Don't worry. Because I'll be President in 2020. And through 2020. Unless something horrible happens. Anything can happen, right? But I'm being very very nice to our 2nd. Amendment people so it won't!!!