Yes. We're all mad, here.
You'd be best served by carefully noting what the US is up to -- and doing the opposite.
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Do you think President Trump is doing a bad job?
- Thread starter Shaul
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You'd be best served by carefully noting what the US is up to -- and doing the opposite.
I can't say that he's doing a good or a bad job.
Individual issues & policies show a mixed record.
Daemon Sophic
Avatar in flux
Just setting aside the horrendous lack of morality, along with his flagrant racism, sexism, and myriad of other personal failings that denote the P.O.S. that is the current POTUS.....lets examine his policy failures, if you’re not too scared to look.
I realize that most, particulaly @Shaul and other Rumpies, can’t be bothered to read the links below, so I will summarize:
- denial of and concealing science on Covid-19, not just being slow, but willfully crippling and delaying appropriate necessary actions, costing several to many extra tens of thousands of American lives and worsening the economic impact of the disease.
- tax cuts for the rich and almost nothing for the middle class, all while spending madly for the military and massively worsening our debt and in no way helping the national economy (even before the pandemic).
- Cutting health insurance for working Americans.
- Slashing environmental protections, including now trying to drill for oil (that we don’t need) in Alaskan preserved lands.
- Cutting regulations on polluters.
- Utter lack of transparency in the Federal government, along with cutting regulations on large businesses, thus allowing more criminal activity.
- removing banking oversight, setting us up for the next collapse and economic recession with more “to big to fail” criminal cowardice.
- Utter failure at selecting non-criminal and/or competent cabinet members.
- abandoning our Kurdish allies to slaughter.
- trade wars and tarriffs that simply hurt US agriculture and manufacturing, without returns. Primarily ending in a deal to favor Rump personally/politically, while having the US turn its back on human rights violations in Hong Kong and elsewhere.
- Impetuous shutdown of the US gov’t for the longest duration ever, with no gain and only economic loss.
- Denying science and reality with withdrawal from climate change policies.
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- children in cages.
- hush money to prostitutes
- mafia-style “fixers”
- unrequested military personnel in unmarked vehicles arresting US citizens in the streets.
- willfully destabilizing US elections, and promoting voter suppression.
- etc....
- etc....
- etc....
What Trump has actually done in his first 3 years
Trump’s failed presidency
The A to Z of Things Trump Could and Should Have Been Impeached For
I realize that most, particulaly @Shaul and other Rumpies, can’t be bothered to read the links below, so I will summarize:
- denial of and concealing science on Covid-19, not just being slow, but willfully crippling and delaying appropriate necessary actions, costing several to many extra tens of thousands of American lives and worsening the economic impact of the disease.
- tax cuts for the rich and almost nothing for the middle class, all while spending madly for the military and massively worsening our debt and in no way helping the national economy (even before the pandemic).
- Cutting health insurance for working Americans.
- Slashing environmental protections, including now trying to drill for oil (that we don’t need) in Alaskan preserved lands.
- Cutting regulations on polluters.
- Utter lack of transparency in the Federal government, along with cutting regulations on large businesses, thus allowing more criminal activity.
- removing banking oversight, setting us up for the next collapse and economic recession with more “to big to fail” criminal cowardice.
- Utter failure at selecting non-criminal and/or competent cabinet members.
- abandoning our Kurdish allies to slaughter.
- trade wars and tarriffs that simply hurt US agriculture and manufacturing, without returns. Primarily ending in a deal to favor Rump personally/politically, while having the US turn its back on human rights violations in Hong Kong and elsewhere.
- Impetuous shutdown of the US gov’t for the longest duration ever, with no gain and only economic loss.
- Denying science and reality with withdrawal from climate change policies.
......
......
- children in cages.
- hush money to prostitutes
- mafia-style “fixers”
- unrequested military personnel in unmarked vehicles arresting US citizens in the streets.
- willfully destabilizing US elections, and promoting voter suppression.
- etc....
- etc....
- etc....
What Trump has actually done in his first 3 years
Trump’s failed presidency
The A to Z of Things Trump Could and Should Have Been Impeached For
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What flavor of Cool Aid is the GOP serving today, Mindmaster?
Why is everyone who states the obvious a "Republican"? Take your time to answer.
Anyway, whatever Kool-Aid the GOP is drinking it's not as detrimental to one's health as the mind-virus most of the left has caught. I'd take my chances with the mystery-flavored beverage.
At the current rate of decline of Democratic cities, they're all going to basically be as bad or worse than Detroit. Also, worth mentioning that the COVID nonsense is essentially a luxury someone has to pay for that no one wants. No one rides for free, and as the business base that is usually paying the taxes erodes they're gong to have to start mining the real estate and the individuals for money. Get while the getting is good, lol. California is so bad they're talking about taxing you if you've lived in the state in the last ten years. I've never heard such nonsense...
True, I was being a bit flippant, there.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I think policy wise Trump is largely doing an exemplary job. I still approve Trump for that.
I do think he needs to work on his character as he's pretty rough in light of how past presidents carried on in office.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I feel California's ex-residents pain.
New York is going after those who moved out of state as well to extract taxes from. Its like a crime family runs the state.
If I could, I'd move out of a democrat controlled state as it will get worse with each passing cycle.
Tambourine
Well-Known Member
Don't forget Europe, which is a Stalinist wasteland scoured by armed ISIS rape armies, while senior citizens are gruesomely murdered by Government Death Panels, and freedom is brutally suppressed by Politically Correct Feminist Thought Police units.
Tambourine
Well-Known Member
I don't think we can blame the Americans in this instance. In my opinion, the inability (or, in some cases, sheer unwillingness) of the EU to manage itself is largely a homegrown problem.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
The "Washington Examiner", eh?
Typical. Some don’t like the results so deny, deny, deny. Criticize the poll. Blame the source. Talk about cognitive dissonance. Heaven forbid you actually consider the possibility you might need to examine yourselves. But for that you would need an open mind.
Freedom is never really free, and sometimes you have to make tough choices to preserve individual rights and things. This is generally the crux of the problem that the left in the USA can't grok. There are many feel-good things that you can't do because they undermine your freedom. People that aren't happy with that can move countries if they'd like, there are plenty of them out there no reason to ruin this one, lol.
Tambourine
Well-Known Member
I don't understand why you are addressing this at me, and replying to that particular post.
Isn't that true for every politician?
The Hill had Trump behind, but things tightening up.
So...
Do you think it really matters that Trump is 52% rather than (say) 49%? Or is your point that there are a lot of people that agree with his approach overall, and the election race might be close?
Because if it's the 52% thing that matters, I think the source lacks credibility, and I'd question how accurate the polling was. But if you're making a more generalised point, based on what I've been reading I would agree.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Naw. Just tired of seeing Democrats endorse continual looting and destruction and doing nothing about it.
The more dense and diverse the population, the more people have to exercise restraint and consideration -- curbing the "feel-good" freedom the anti-social right wing so covets.
It's the ultra-individualistic right that feels alienated from society, that complains that pro-social -- "socialist!" -- mandates violate their 'rights'. They laud family and Christian values, yet fail to understand that these are social values, not the unfettered license they seem to crave.
It's the left that's traditionally supported individual rights -- civil rights, legal rights, universal suffrage, &c.
What the right really values is conventionalism: tradition, familiarity and predictability. Diversity, in the form of actual freedom -- in lifestyles, language, appearance, &c -- they abhor and fear. It's threatening to them.
tytlyf
Not Religious
That's funny, I haven't seen any democrats endorse violence, looting or destruction.
If you have to make it up, do you really think people won't fact check it? And why don't you fact check what you hear on social media?