And seriously? Korea? Trump called Kim Jong Un “Little Rocket Man” and threatened “fire and fury like the world has never seen” and brought us to the brink of nuclear war, even as he was dismantling the agreement to stop nukes in Iran. Top Trump aide John Bolton compared Kim Jong Un to Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was rewarded for stopping his nuke program by getting blown up. Trump undermined U.S. credibility by violating the Iran agreement. Trump responded to Kim Jong Un’s gestures of goodwill by hosting joint military operations with South Korea that North Korea has always considered a provocation.
It was South Korean President Moon Jae-in who saw himself in the middle of two crazy, unstable wild men with nukes and decided he needed to take the lead on his own to negotiate for his own safety by himself, without the Americans.
Moon knew that Trump would claim victory if he got Kim Jong Un to stop further development of any nukes that could reach the United States but leave in place existing nukes that could reach South Korea, so he needed to take his own bold action without regard to the United States.
If any Nobel Peace Prize is awarded over the Korea issue, it should go to Moon Jae-in.
Stock markets have plummeted (after that first year when the final Obama fiscal year budget was operational).
Interest rates are going up.
Healthcare premiums going up (and people losing their coverage)
Deficits and debts exploding to unprecedented levels
Companies that were supposed to invest their corporate tax giveaways in more jobs are adding low-wage jobs in China and closing American factories.
Gas prices are skyrocketing (glad to plug our two electric cars into our solar panels).
No infrastructure plan, and roads/bridges crumbling
Sure, employment rates are still good, but employment is a lagging economic indicator. Took Obama several months to reverse the steady job losses he inherited from Bush, but then he reversed it to 84 consecutive months of job gains — an all time record — that did not end until, you guessed it, the first Trump budget kicked in.
Trump family profits at all time highs! Emoluments! Bribes!
Under Obama, the stock market skyrocketed and unemployment nose-dived. We went from losing 800,000 jobs a month to more than 70 consecutive months of job growth. Conservatives gave him NO credit.
With Trump, unemployment goes down by one more percentage point, and he did it?
And North Korea is a joke. As things stand now, Kim got what he wanted – increased stature on the world stage, and a wedge between South Korea and the US. We got nothing.
And, of course, “conservatives” refused to give President Obama ANY praise, even when Bin Laden was killed.
Trump’s tweets, speeches and actions towards North Korea are the equivalent of having your child smoke a carton of cigarettes to stop them from smoking.
The economy is performing very well for the traders. The fluctuation on whether or not there will be tariffs along with other destabilizing nonsense from Trump results in payoff to traders because of the volatility. Not so great for long-term planning by companies or individuals and retirement is now off the table for many that were planning it a couple of years ago.
Today’s strip is a great example of how the two week publishing delay hurts this particular comic.
I’m pretty sure some of the things Carmen was commenting on appeared to be true two weeks ago; today, not so much.
Of course, the way things are going, who knows? Maybe there will be a North Korean summit, even after Trumpcalled it off a week ago!
Moral of the story: If Scott wants this comic strip to be a commentary on current events, he needs to find a way to crank it out every day, the day it is meant to appear!
And hope that Trump doesn’t change the narrative 180 degrees with a single tweet between the time the ink dries and it hits Go Comics!
FWIW, Lavrov, Russian foreign minister, is in Pyongyang at this moment. I do hope we are preparing for a much more extensive event, but if it happens in less than 2 weeks (June 12), we’re going to be out in the cold big time.
Look above and you will find a group of people who would rather blow their own brains out before speaking even the slightest positive word about Trump.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is what a closed mind looks like from the inside. Their hatred runs so deep that they would prefer that Trump fail, no matter what the cost to the nation. They would sacrifice any positive development if it reflected well on Trump. They will work to prevent any gain, any triumph, any goodness, just so it cannot be credited to Trump.
Andylit, if Trump follows thru on commutation / pardon for Rod Blagojevich and Martha Stewart then I will commend him for doing the right thing. Trump would do this for a distraction, but the results would be positive IMO.
Trump has mishandled the economy and North Korea . The economy is fluctuating wildly because of his on again-off again tariffs and the tax cut was a HORRIBLE idea that will increase debt which the Repubs plan to handle by cutting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. If there is a peace deal for Korea that would be great, but name-calling isn’t a path to diplomacy and that peace would be gained DESPITE Trump’s actions, not because of them.
Your blind worship of Trump runs so deep that you can’t possibly see the harm he is doing, or more likely you are a paid troll.
@RRROB43 — if you want any credibility here then respond point-for-point as you can. Telling us you won’t is the chicken’s way out of it.
Stop giving the Russians credit for aping what is good old USA propaganda by our own Reich Wingers. Yes “Reich Wingers” are the most extreme and would do or support whatever the Nazi and KKK kinds would do now to get their way. Though the Radical Libertarians under Republican guise want to do it legally and Constitutionally. See Chilé’s history from 1973 onward to the present. The fascist dictatorship was gone by 1975, but the Constitutional changes linger even now.
Leftists are too dim to note the correlation between the economy and control of Congress. Economy roared in the 1990s after Republicans took Congress, then faltered two years after Democrats took the Senate. Began to roar again in 2003 when Republicans took control of Congress. 11 months after Democrats took Congress in 2007, the economy was in free fall. The economy began to recover after Republicans took the House in 2011, and the pace of recovery quickened when they took the Senate in 2015. Eliminating the Democrat drag in the White House allows the free market to work, for the first time since 2005. The secret sauce is that Republicans know that bureaucrat power and economic growth are inversely-related properties. There used to be Democrats who understood the damage regulators do, but they are long gone now.
Trump has “mishandled” the economy and NK. Fluctuating “wildly”.
Wow. The stock market is not the economy, Nance. As for NK, don’t you think it is just a wee bit early to pronounce judgement? Even for you? Apparently not, since you have already pronounced any success that may arise as the product of…what? Luck? Purely random occurrences?
Once again we see the utter hysteria. Anyone who offers any support, any approval, is either a paid shill or a mindless sycophant.
DD Wiz over 6 years ago
And seriously? Korea? Trump called Kim Jong Un “Little Rocket Man” and threatened “fire and fury like the world has never seen” and brought us to the brink of nuclear war, even as he was dismantling the agreement to stop nukes in Iran. Top Trump aide John Bolton compared Kim Jong Un to Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was rewarded for stopping his nuke program by getting blown up. Trump undermined U.S. credibility by violating the Iran agreement. Trump responded to Kim Jong Un’s gestures of goodwill by hosting joint military operations with South Korea that North Korea has always considered a provocation.
It was South Korean President Moon Jae-in who saw himself in the middle of two crazy, unstable wild men with nukes and decided he needed to take the lead on his own to negotiate for his own safety by himself, without the Americans.
Moon knew that Trump would claim victory if he got Kim Jong Un to stop further development of any nukes that could reach the United States but leave in place existing nukes that could reach South Korea, so he needed to take his own bold action without regard to the United States.
If any Nobel Peace Prize is awarded over the Korea issue, it should go to Moon Jae-in.
DD Wiz over 6 years ago
The economy doing well?
Stock markets have plummeted (after that first year when the final Obama fiscal year budget was operational).
Interest rates are going up.
Healthcare premiums going up (and people losing their coverage)
Deficits and debts exploding to unprecedented levels
Companies that were supposed to invest their corporate tax giveaways in more jobs are adding low-wage jobs in China and closing American factories.
Gas prices are skyrocketing (glad to plug our two electric cars into our solar panels).
No infrastructure plan, and roads/bridges crumbling
Sure, employment rates are still good, but employment is a lagging economic indicator. Took Obama several months to reverse the steady job losses he inherited from Bush, but then he reversed it to 84 consecutive months of job gains — an all time record — that did not end until, you guessed it, the first Trump budget kicked in.
Trump family profits at all time highs! Emoluments! Bribes!
Ignatz Premium Member over 6 years ago
Under Obama, the stock market skyrocketed and unemployment nose-dived. We went from losing 800,000 jobs a month to more than 70 consecutive months of job growth. Conservatives gave him NO credit.
With Trump, unemployment goes down by one more percentage point, and he did it?
And North Korea is a joke. As things stand now, Kim got what he wanted – increased stature on the world stage, and a wedge between South Korea and the US. We got nothing.
And, of course, “conservatives” refused to give President Obama ANY praise, even when Bin Laden was killed.
Nantucket Premium Member over 6 years ago
Trump’s tweets, speeches and actions towards North Korea are the equivalent of having your child smoke a carton of cigarettes to stop them from smoking.
The economy is performing very well for the traders. The fluctuation on whether or not there will be tariffs along with other destabilizing nonsense from Trump results in payoff to traders because of the volatility. Not so great for long-term planning by companies or individuals and retirement is now off the table for many that were planning it a couple of years ago.
Cheapskate0 over 6 years ago
Today’s strip is a great example of how the two week publishing delay hurts this particular comic.
I’m pretty sure some of the things Carmen was commenting on appeared to be true two weeks ago; today, not so much.
Of course, the way things are going, who knows? Maybe there will be a North Korean summit, even after Trump called it off a week ago!
Moral of the story: If Scott wants this comic strip to be a commentary on current events, he needs to find a way to crank it out every day, the day it is meant to appear!
And hope that Trump doesn’t change the narrative 180 degrees with a single tweet between the time the ink dries and it hits Go Comics!
williamlyons7 over 6 years ago
Don’t forget that our unemployment rate is at an 18 year low. Thank You president Trump.
martens over 6 years ago
FWIW, Lavrov, Russian foreign minister, is in Pyongyang at this moment. I do hope we are preparing for a much more extensive event, but if it happens in less than 2 weeks (June 12), we’re going to be out in the cold big time.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-lavrov-kim/russias-lavrov-meets-north-koreas-kim-in-pyongyang-russian-agencies-idUSKCN1IW0SH
Mr. Blawt over 6 years ago
The deserve all the credit for the stock market tanking, the debt going up and the rich getting richer.
Andylit Premium Member over 6 years ago
Yep.
Look above and you will find a group of people who would rather blow their own brains out before speaking even the slightest positive word about Trump.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is what a closed mind looks like from the inside. Their hatred runs so deep that they would prefer that Trump fail, no matter what the cost to the nation. They would sacrifice any positive development if it reflected well on Trump. They will work to prevent any gain, any triumph, any goodness, just so it cannot be credited to Trump.
Nantucket Premium Member over 6 years ago
Andylit, if Trump follows thru on commutation / pardon for Rod Blagojevich and Martha Stewart then I will commend him for doing the right thing. Trump would do this for a distraction, but the results would be positive IMO.
Trump has mishandled the economy and North Korea . The economy is fluctuating wildly because of his on again-off again tariffs and the tax cut was a HORRIBLE idea that will increase debt which the Repubs plan to handle by cutting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. If there is a peace deal for Korea that would be great, but name-calling isn’t a path to diplomacy and that peace would be gained DESPITE Trump’s actions, not because of them.
Your blind worship of Trump runs so deep that you can’t possibly see the harm he is doing, or more likely you are a paid troll.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 6 years ago
@RRROB43 — if you want any credibility here then respond point-for-point as you can. Telling us you won’t is the chicken’s way out of it.
Stop giving the Russians credit for aping what is good old USA propaganda by our own Reich Wingers. Yes “Reich Wingers” are the most extreme and would do or support whatever the Nazi and KKK kinds would do now to get their way. Though the Radical Libertarians under Republican guise want to do it legally and Constitutionally. See Chilé’s history from 1973 onward to the present. The fascist dictatorship was gone by 1975, but the Constitutional changes linger even now.
jbmlaw01 over 6 years ago
Leftists are too dim to note the correlation between the economy and control of Congress. Economy roared in the 1990s after Republicans took Congress, then faltered two years after Democrats took the Senate. Began to roar again in 2003 when Republicans took control of Congress. 11 months after Democrats took Congress in 2007, the economy was in free fall. The economy began to recover after Republicans took the House in 2011, and the pace of recovery quickened when they took the Senate in 2015. Eliminating the Democrat drag in the White House allows the free market to work, for the first time since 2005. The secret sauce is that Republicans know that bureaucrat power and economic growth are inversely-related properties. There used to be Democrats who understood the damage regulators do, but they are long gone now.
Andylit Premium Member over 6 years ago
Poor Nance.
Trump has “mishandled” the economy and NK. Fluctuating “wildly”.
Wow. The stock market is not the economy, Nance. As for NK, don’t you think it is just a wee bit early to pronounce judgement? Even for you? Apparently not, since you have already pronounced any success that may arise as the product of…what? Luck? Purely random occurrences?
Once again we see the utter hysteria. Anyone who offers any support, any approval, is either a paid shill or a mindless sycophant.