Discussion: Trump Giving Medal Of Freedom To 'Trickle Down' Economist, 'Trumponomics' Co-Author

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We’re not laffing.

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Future history books would say:
Medal of Freedom (Trump TM)

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A famous and influentially proven wrong economist puts a lip lock on Moscow Donnie and gets a medal. That’s pretty much how things work in present day Swamplandia.

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So Trump’s new campaign slogan will be MACA=Make Asterisks Critical Again.
We are going to have to re-name/re-brand the Medal of Freedom unless we use more asterisks.

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The Presidential Medal of Freedom has become a laughing-stock, just like everything else this administration touches.

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Well, it was an effort to grant freedom from sense to economic discussions, so I suppose that fits (in the perverse way that Trump has with these things).

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Devaluing anything he touches.

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He should hand them out in boxes of Cracker Jacks.

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There is a special place in hell for those pushing trickle down economics while surrounded by decades of proof it does not work.

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It “works” for those pushing the false theories. They keep getting their tax reductions (while the rest of us get . . . )

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Future recipients include Kim Jong Un, Putin and Trump himself

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Trump actually has extensive experience with “trickle-down” economics.

Mostly involving rubles, women, and the Ritz-Carlton Moscow.

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Naw, just blanket award them to attendees at his rallies.

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So the Medal of Freedom is worthless now?

ETTD.

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Welp, it’s kind of like when Bart Simpson was the all-powerful entity and also impulsive little boy based on “It’s a Good Life” from “Twilight Zone” except being Bart he decreed among other things that the United States was now called “Bonerland.” This is a Bonerland award, not a U.S. one.

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You get a medal of Freedom medal, and You get a medal of Freedom Medal, and You get a medal of Freedom Medal . . . .

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David Stockton was famously taken to the woodshed for saying that supply side economics was gift to the rich.

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“Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive Our Economy.”

Step 1: destroy it
Step 2: leave the mess to the next president

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