2016 Postmortem

Grassy Knoll

(10,118 posts) Thu Aug 11, 2016, 11:32 AM Aug 2016

Trump's Dopey Chart Was Him Slipping In Polls, Not Home Ownership

What a jackass.

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Trump's Dopey Chart Was Him Slipping In Polls, Not Home Ownership (Original Post) Grassy Knoll Aug 2016 OP

What they hell did the chart bring to the table? HipChick Aug 2016 #1

It's like that pic Brietbart posted showing all those people, PatrickforO Aug 2016 #2

The actual chart is pretty funny jberryhill Aug 2016 #3

Wow, That's Even Funnier Grassy Knoll Aug 2016 #4

Chart scale manipulation. MineralMan Aug 2016 #5

Not to mention... Bobbie Jo Aug 2016 #6

Also worth asking the question of why their was a housing bubble oberliner Aug 2016 #7

This.. Grassy Knoll Aug 2016 #9

greenspud's keeping the interest rate at 0 to pump up georgee's shitty economy. pansypoo53219 Aug 2016 #10

I liked how his little fingers waved at ~2005 as he said "and here's Obama." Gidney N Cloyd Aug 2016 #8

HipChick

(25,485 posts)

1. What they hell did the chart bring to the table?

Reply to Grassy Knoll (Original post)

Thu Aug 11, 2016, 11:34 AM

Aug 2016

PatrickforO

(14,578 posts)

2. It's like that pic Brietbart posted showing all those people,

Reply to Grassy Knoll (Original post)

Thu Aug 11, 2016, 11:35 AM

Aug 2016

claiming they were at a Trump rally when in reality it was a parade for a winning sports team.

"Oh, yeah, LOOK at this chart!! I'm gonna get you a REALLY good deal! I'm really great! Blah, blah, blah..."

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

3. The actual chart is pretty funny

Reply to Grassy Knoll (Original post)

Thu Aug 11, 2016, 11:48 AM

Aug 2016

Scary lines, eh?

Take a look a the left side. The scale is a few percentage points.

Grassy Knoll

(10,118 posts)

4. Wow, That's Even Funnier

Reply to jberryhill (Reply #3)

Thu Aug 11, 2016, 11:52 AM

Aug 2016

Thanks

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)

5. Chart scale manipulation.

Reply to jberryhill (Reply #3)

Thu Aug 11, 2016, 11:54 AM

Aug 2016

Oldest trick in the book.

Bobbie Jo

(14,341 posts)

6. Not to mention...

Reply to jberryhill (Reply #3)

Thu Aug 11, 2016, 11:54 AM

Aug 2016

They were handing out mortgages like candy in the lead up to the crash.

My cat could have scooped up a loan back in the day.

oberliner

(58,724 posts)

7. Also worth asking the question of why their was a housing bubble

Reply to jberryhill (Reply #3)

Thu Aug 11, 2016, 11:59 AM

Aug 2016

And what caused it to burst.

Grassy Knoll

(10,118 posts)

9. This..

Reply to oberliner (Reply #7)

Thu Aug 11, 2016, 12:21 PM

Aug 2016

pansypoo53219

(20,981 posts)

10. greenspud's keeping the interest rate at 0 to pump up georgee's shitty economy.

Reply to oberliner (Reply #7)

Thu Aug 11, 2016, 01:26 PM

Aug 2016

greenspan was known as bubble boy inside the fed. this fed the housing bubble. best book on it all kevin philips american theocracy. pt 1 + 3. part 2 was unreadable. sadly in 06 it foretold of the Wecession to come.

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,841 posts)

8. I liked how his little fingers waved at ~2005 as he said "and here's Obama."

Reply to jberryhill (Reply #3)

Thu Aug 11, 2016, 12:02 PM

Aug 2016

I mean, c'mon. Everybody knows Obama was too busy founding ISIS in 2005 to crash the housing market.

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