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I think in principle there is nothing wrong with opposition research as long as it's ethical. It's part of the vetting process. How politicians use it isn't really ethical and that's the problem.
Pity the country of beings who would believe whatever BS was said against you!
And that is EXACTLY what happened in Hillary's last election and why she lost it. Because, a supposedly "believable" head of the FBI indicated (in the last week before the election) that she was being "reinvestigated" once again.
Of course, that did not have a serious enough impact upon the final-vote. Donald Dork lost that by more of the most important margins in presidential-voting history.
And yet, he's still President Donald Dork. In a deeply warped system of electoral counting, he STILL became the winner. AbraCadabra ... !
Now, let us watch how a prevalently Replicant Supreme Court of wise-people can justify that the electoral manipulation of gerrymandering (that destroys the principle of "one voter, one vote and winner takes all") is acceptable!
And if this nation of ours is in deep, deep sneakers regarding its political situation, then I say "we, the sheeple" deserve it. We should have had cooler heads and voted definitively for the defeat of a Replicant Candidate, after all, it was one of them that CREATED the SubPrime Mess, which spiked the Great Recession.
But no, we thought that Donald Dork was going to "create jobs" at a time when the US was ALREADY at one of its historically lowest unemployment rates. See that here:
Moreover, under Obama the US had begun to "create jobs" since the beginning of his term in office (2009), as the unemployment rate downturn shows clearly.
Get your history right. People did not drop out of the workforce of their own will. They were yanked out by a super-recession in the final year of the Dubya administration.
Obama was gifted an unemployment rate of 11% by Dubya's colossal mismanagement of the SubPrime Mess. Obama reacted immediately in 2009 upon entering office by passing (along with a Dem-Congress) the ARRA-bill, which was $787B of stimulus-spending. The massive expenditure stopped-dead the unemployment rate explosion at 10%. (See that fact demonstrated here.) The US unemployment rate had exploded from 5-to-10% in just a year.
When it became obvious a year later that further stimulus-spending became necessary, in 2010, Obama found himself facing a hostile Replicant-controlled HofR; the political purpose of which became unseating him in 2012. So, higher unemployment - they thought - would help them accomplish that fact. (Didn't work out that way, did it?)
The Replicants nonetheless refused any further stimulus-spending offering - we, the sheeple, instead got a mountain-of-BS from them about the inequity of "massive debt". For four longggg years (from 2010 to 2014 the economy created no further jobs. See that fact visibly in this Employment-to-population Ratio infographic from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (taken from here):
Finally, somewhat miraculously, Americans got fed-up of pulling the belt in on spending, and (all by ourselves) in 2014 we kick-started the economy's ability to create jobs by spending. Upon Trump's assumption of office, the economy had been creating jobs for two-years already.
It is not yet back up to its fullest employment-to-population ratio of 63% (pre-2008). Still, the unemployment rate is descending to near historic levels of around 4%.
Trump's employment rate recovery was "inherited" from Obama in January of this year. Donald Duck instead of Donald Dork could have been elected in 2016, and that still would be the truth of our recent economic recovery.
Dork-head had nothing to do with it. Absolutely nothing ... !
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