The market is up. Consumer confidence is up. The GDP is growing at rates that many economists suggested was no longer possible. Over 2.5 million jobs were created in 2017.
I have seen a tax cut bill pass, which will provide me with extra money in my paycheck. The tax cut bill will also provide business with a large break in their taxes. Some businesses have already announced investments, bonuses, and other positives based on this new law. European economists have suggested that international investment will likely leave the E.U. and end up in the United States.I have seen a new conservative Justice on the Supreme Courts, as well as a record amount of conservative Appeals Court Justices confirmed. More nominations are awaiting confirmation, and more openings exist. Trump has a chance to drastically alter the judiciary for the better.
Illegal immigration is down. ISIS has been crushed. Syria has been quiet since Trump bombed the shit out of them after a chemical attack. North Korea is actually opening up communications with South Korea. We are no longer tied to several poor accords. Our allies in NATO have actually started to increase their own investments into the cause.
Certainly things are not perfect. They never are. But they seem better in nearly all aspects than they have been.
But our liberal friends literally believe people are out of their minds if they don't agree that Trump is the worst thing that has ever happened to our country and should be removed for being a combination of crazy and incompetent.
Why? Apparently much of it is because they don't like how he uses twitter.
It begs the question. Who are the real crazy ones here?
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And you forgot following through with moving the embassy to Jerusalem and reasserting US leadership at the UN
The removal of Obama EPA Rules on my ponds, on my streams was a huge cost savings in 2017 to my business.
The cuts in regulatory paperwork in 2017 saves me, my wife and my accountant money.
Yet his approval rating is the lowest in history. Despite his lie claiming that he's more popular than Obama. He isn't
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I guess we can thank the media's 95% negative reporting for the poll result.
But wd can thank Trump for all of the great news listed above.
Fantasy is reality here, as long as that's the "perception".
"GDP is growing at rates that many economists suggested was no longer possible" - growth has been pretty good the last couple of quarters, but not that good.
"Some businesses have already announced investments, bonuses, and other positives" - "some businesses" are engaged in a PR stunt, but that's not a trend. It's not even a suggestion of the start of a trend.
"Syria has been quiet since Trump bombed the shit out of them after a chemical attack" - don't be ridiculous.
"North Korea is actually opening up communications with South Korea" - don't be ridiculous, part II. Kim suggested that dialog might happen, a far cry from actually opening up communications. And probably just a ploy to buy time for his next nuclear bomb test, just like it was every time in the past.
"We are no longer tied to several poor accords" - we've lost trade opportunities.
"Our allies in NATO have actually started to increase " - If by "increase" you mean defense spending LESS percentage of GDP than in 2014, that would be right for UK and France. Germany spends about the same, and the tinier nations are spending a tinier bit more. And all are still behind the totals from 2008-2013.
liberal friends literally believe ... Trump crazy and incompetent ... Why? Apparently much of it is because they don't like how he uses twitter.
More because Trump IS mentally ill and incompetent. His Twitter is just the most direct outlet demonstrating his illness and ignorance.
Additionally to that, even a lot of republicans think that he's not mentally stable or worse.
I have pneumonia and I will be admitted to the hospital today.
Very little in market trends has anything to do with the White House these days. Most of the upward trends began under Obama and were already approaching full steam when Trump took office. And (almost) everyone here knows Obama had nothing to do with that. No more than Trump has anything to do with it.
The crony faux-capitalist kickback bill (the swamp at its most swampy) adds $1.5 trillion to the national debt. And now they're talking about blowing another trillion on unnecessary infrastructure spending and all that shovel-ready bullshit we'd heard before from Obama and the Democrats. Under Trump, the Republicans have become equal to the Democrats in the irresponsible failed-adult Baby Boomer fiscal liberalism of running up their children's and grandchildren's credit cards.
Gorsuch is not conservative. He's a big government executive branch monarchist. In other words, a liberal who just happens to owe fealty to a Republican Fuhrer.
The few appeals court justices that have come under actual scrutiny have all turned out to be embarrassingly unqualified. Unfortunately Congress started out rubber-stamping these nominees. Who knows how many other blithering idiots snuck under the radar during that time?
Illegal immigration is not a conservative issue. It's a liberal big government social engineering issue.
ISIS was already unraveling when Trump took office. Trump has done little other than continue the policies of Obama as far as ISIS is concerned. Had Trump been smarter than to simply follow Obama's lead, we might have had more to show after the fall of ISIS than the restoration of Bashar Assad as dictator of Syria, the vast strengthening of Iran and its Hezbollah and Shiite militant proxies across the region, and effectively ceding the Levant to Russia.
Bragging about the bombing in response to Assad's chemical attack is ironic given that the people who praised Trump for bombing are the same limpdicks who screamed to high heaven when there was talk of Obama doing exactly the same thing.
And for the record, Assad has been quiet because he's been busy wrapping up his reconquest of Syria with Russian material support. In other words, our enemy is too busy winning to harass America, the hapless bystanders still following Obama-era policy.
North Korea has dialogued with South Korea several times before. If anything, they're probably discussing how to ensure that Trump doesn't fuck them both over with his juvenile impulsive management of this situation.
As for "our allies in NATO", you must have missed the unveiling of the Trump Doctrine. Namely, we have no allies any more, and all of our relationships with other countries will be exclusively quid pro quo. This doctrine has led to policies that have pushed away or spooked pretty much all of our traditional allies except for Poland and Israel.
All the while, the White House and virtually all of our policy-making and policy-enacting organs are still paralyzed with the interminable self-inflicted turmoil that comes from putting a sub-literate dementia case in charge.
You used a lot of lipstick, but Trump's first year has still been a pig.
The more dems keep up with the mentally ill bullshit, the more his base calls out the assinine assertion and becomes entrenched in their support.
Just more of your "healthy lifestyle" you bragged about.
Democrat slogan 2028
Vote for US, Impeach 45
To belive today's Liberal all you have to do is know you're helpless and nothing anyone does effects any thing one way or the other.
Yet his approval rating is the lowest in history. Despite his lie claiming that he's more popular than Obama. He isn't
Really? Lowest approval ratings in Presidential History?
Here are a list of Presidents at their lowest rating:
Truman - 22%
Nixon - 24%
Bush 43 - 25%
Carter - 28%
Bush 41 - 29%
Trump - 33%
Johnson - 34%
Reagan - 35%
Ford - 36%
Clinton - 37%
Obama - 38%
"The more dems keep up with the mentally ill bullshit"
Ironic, really.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
The record cold is caused by, wait for it,,,
GOREBAL WARMING.
YEP,
Now that we've dispenses with that roundup of fake news talking points, we can move on to the critical issue of our day, namely Trump's fitness for office:
Anyone else notice how quickly and emphatically Trump's lawyers have moved to silence former ally Steve Bannon, as well as the author and publisher of the book that puts Bannon's criticisms of Trump on record?
Even for the notably litigious Trump, this kind of legal urgency is unusual. Trump hasn't sued Fusion GPS (although 3 Russian oligarchs are), even though the allegations in the Steele dossier are more serious than anything Bannon has been quoted as saying so far.
So it's not about the specifics of the accusations. It's not about defamation or libel.
Some of the language coming out on-record from the Trump administration hints that this is really about Trump's reaction. The word "furious" was previously used only in critical news articles to describe a barely-containable Trump fuming over bad press, friendly fire, poor advice, incompetent operatives, or the results of his own stupidity. Now his own people are openly using that word, which reveals how bad it's gotten in the Oval Office.
When Trump's people, who always downplay his bad moods, refer to him as "furious", we know that in reality he's beyond furious--he's cracking.
The people close to Trump, whose primary task to date has been managing his mental state, fear what's coming. They fear this book, if it comes out and dominates the news cycles, will be the thing that truly pushes him over the edge. They fear this book and its fallout will make it utterly impossible for them to placate Trump or contain the insanity, and that either there will be a staggeringly crazy outburst that leaves no question as to his unfitness, or else he'll be literally wandering the Rose Garden in his pajamas eating worms or something and they'll be at a complete loss.
For that reason, they've determined, this book must be stopped, and they're acting accordingly.
"The more dems keep up with the mentally ill bullshit, the more his base calls out the assinine assertion and becomes entrenched in their support."
Strategically, I have no problem with letting the Trump cult remain in denial about his increasingly obvious mental state.
Let them be the only ones still standing with him when he snaps.
Those scum deserve nothing less than to go down with him.
Even the non trump people quoted in the book are now accusing the author of making up quotes they say they never said.
Display it in the fiction section.
Being a nonpolitician is now a mental state?
That's what is obvious. He's not a politician. And he was elected because of it.
The questionable mental state is in all those making their baseless projections.
Speaking of the Trump cult, it's instructive to watch their reaction to Bannon going rogue.
If anything, Steve Bannon has managed his image and set himself up as being more Trumpy than Trump himself. Backing candidates like Moore who were like Trump on steroids. Threatening to set up primary challengers against Republicans who aren't Trumpy enough. He was the guardian of the Trumpian dream.
The Trumpists loved Bannon. They voted for his candidates. They supported Breitbart.com. He was invited to speak at last year's poorly-named Values Voter Summit.
And then he (for the most part quite validly) criticized Trump. Trump's supporters responded by shitting on him.
We can see that Trumpism isn't about policy, ideology, or performance. It's about loyalty to one man. A cult of personality built on nothing but unswerving devotion to one Dear Leader, one Fuhrer, one new Messiah. Trump uber alles. There is no god but Trump and Bannon can no longer be his prophet.
Not about policy?? He ran on building a wall and undoing obamacare. Don't be so stupid.
"Being a nonpolitician is now a mental state?"
Every one of us knows lots of nonpoliticians who don't act like Trump. Who aren't obsessed with receiving continuous adulation. Who don't incessantly whine about everyone else being unfair. WHO CAN RUN SOMETHING WITHOUT IT BEING A DAMNED CLUSTERFUCK ALL THE TIME.
Trump's shortcomings in performance and emotion go far beyond him simply being a "nonpolitician". He's unfit.
"Not about policy?? He ran on building a wall and undoing obamacare. Don't be so stupid."
He's done neither and he still has your full unquestioning devotion.
You've just proven my point better than I ever could.
PNC ARE YOU On THE Elected Dems Impeach 45 wagon?
Only an idiot would call all the positive things cht listed above a clusterfuck. Again, Don't be so stupid.
Dems lost in Virgina. Republicans win again.
Earth to pnc. Obamacare is being undone. And illegal Immigration is down even without the wall. You're grasping at straws.
If this is a cluster fuck, I say keep fucking
It's interesting that someone who still goes by the acronym PNC (Proud Neo-Con) actually can make this sort of critique with a straight face?
Wasn't the entire concept of neoconservatism pretty much proven to be a failed experiment?
"PNC ARE YOU On THE Elected Dems Impeach 45 wagon?"
At this point there are better grounds for a 25th Amendment removal than impeachment. What Mueller discovers may change that, though.
"Only an idiot would call all the positive things cht listed above a clusterfuck."
Only an idiot would view much of that list as positive, or believe that Trump had anything to do with most of it.
I never thought that a Trump Bigly Win would be this much fun.
WP, A fellow business owner keeps Zero dollars in cash reserve.
So trump had nothing to do with the tax cuts, economic deregulation, judge appointments, etc.
Don't be so stupid.
pnc: and all of our relationships with other countries will be exclusively quid pro quo. This doctrine has led to policies that have pushed away or spooked pretty much all of our traditional allies except for Poland and Israel.
He's started to go after Israel as well. They're getting a little spooked that Trump proclaimed that they need to pay more for our moving diplomacy to Jerusalem.
"Earth to pnc. Obamacare is being undone. And illegal Immigration is down even without the wall. You're grasping at straws."
Repeal and Replace was never attempted and never happened.
And exactly zero miles of the wall have been built.
Those are the two main things Trump ran on. Not "undoing" Obamacare by gently chipping away at it, not reducing illegal immigration without building a wall (that's what the other primary candidates ran on).
You would not be lowering the bar like this for anyone but Trump, which is one of the marks of a Trump cultist.
According to the CHT Liberals, when the US Economy tanks, they will hold President Trump harmless.
As he has zero to do with the good economic trends. To be consistent they will have to hold him harmless.
So you admit that he ran on policy and not some idiotic cult you claimed a few posts ago.
Got it.
Myballs, Obamacare is not being undone, you've only made health insurance more expensive and done nothing to reign in rising costs of health care.
"Wasn't the entire concept of neoconservatism pretty much proven to be a failed experiment?"
Hardly. Neoconservatism was wildly successful (remember the lowest budget deficits of the 21st century, and foreign policy that actually resulted in tangible geopolitical wins?).
The problem is that neoconservatist policies were halted in 2006 by Democrat opposition and disloyalty from the same Republicans who are now Trump's strongest supporters. It was that coalition of losers and traitors that failed, not neoconservatism.
"If this is a cluster fuck, I say keep fucking"
Sounds pretty gay.
WP, what business do you own?
Building a wall is not a policy. Trump made a few confused statements on policy during the campaign, mostly self-contradictory and nebulous grand claims. The fact is, no one including Trump knew what his policy positions might be, and his campaign was about everything BUT policy.
"So trump had nothing to do with the tax cuts, economic deregulation, judge appointments, etc."
Again, see above.
The crony faux-capitalist plan masquerading as a tax cut adds $1.5 trillion to the debt. That's a bad thing.
Economic deregulation is easily reversible and therefore virtually meaningless to the future of this country.
Trump's judicial appointments are very much in question. Most are turning out to be hardcore statists or shockingly incompetent.
"So you admit that he ran on policy and not some idiotic cult you claimed a few posts ago."
He ran partially on policy, but policy has nothing to with his support. His support is sheer unmitigated cultism, and you're a prime example.
He could murder someone on fifth avenue and not lose your vote.
"As he has zero to do with the good economic trends. To be consistent they will have to hold him harmless."
Invalid. That's like saying because I didn't make a sculpture, I'm not responsible if I break it.
That's probably true, but his entrenched base is unshakable in their support anyway so it's hardly a political downside. It's not just Dems that have him pegged as mentally ill, and that's probably pretty significant. When that becomes commonly accepted it will be easier to ease Trump out of control, whether or not he remains the nominal President.
It's funny, if I were a hard core Republican I'd want to see that happen. I'd want economic success and other triumphs to be associated with conservative Republican policies, not with the egotistical bluster of Trump.
Over the past year or so I have seen the value of my investments rise. I have seen the value of my home increase
Which you jokingly attribute to the child in chief. I'm sure in your simplistic model, nothing else contributed to your good fortune. I used to think you had a brain, I admit now that I was sadly mistaken. It all happened this year to boot....imagine that!!!! It's an economic miracle of monumental proportions to say the lest and you believe it...LOL Seems to me you are as loony as trump!!!
I think the interventionist foreign policy was not exactly successful. That was the emphasis from people like Cheney, Kristol, etc.. We went into places like Iraq with good intentions, but because we had so little past experiences with it, it wasn't thought through long term.
I doubt we will a similar foreign policy in our life times. Probably because of the failures of Iraq (and a lesser degree Afghanistan).
"I doubt we will a similar foreign policy in our life times. Probably because of the failures of Iraq (and a lesser degree Afghanistan)."
There's your reasons that the neoconservatives thankfully lost momentum.
"I think the interventionist foreign policy was not exactly successful. That was the emphasis from people like Cheney, Kristol, etc.. We went into places like Iraq with good intentions, but because we had so little past experiences with it, it wasn't thought through long term."
It used to be only the Democrats suffered from this kind of amnesia.
Forget all of the propaganda that Trump lifted from the Ron Paul isolationist faction of the Republican Party, which they in turn had lifted directly from the far left Democrat / Code Pink / Cindy Sheehan play book.
Remember back to what was actually happening in 2008. Iraq was stabilized. It had a democratic government with representation for all. Law and order prevailed in the streets. Al-Qaeda in Iraq, the forerunners of ISIS, were almost a non-entity.
We WON. That was real winning, not the "lose and claim victory anyway" kind of winning you've grown accustomed to under Trump.
It was Obama who snatched defeat from the jaws of victory when he did away with neoconservative foreign policy and military doctrine. Not only that, but it was also exactly the outcome the neocons predicted Obama's "lead from behind" noninterventionist foreign policy would lead to.
And it's worth pointing out that Obama only did exactly what Donald Trump had been calling for since at least 2007.
It's the Obama-Trump noninterventionist policy that created ISIS and pushed Iraq to the brink of failed statehood, and not neoconservative policies, which had already won the war and decimated ISIS's predecessor organization.
And it's the continuation and even doubling down on much of Obama's foreign policy wrongheadedness by Trump that continues to make America less and less safe.
"There's your reasons that the neoconservatives thankfully lost momentum."
The reason neoconservatives lost momentum (and Americans at home and our troops abroad were resultantly put in greater danger) is because Code Pinko propaganda regurgitating trash like you helped the Democrats take over Congress in 2006.
LOL.
Along with hating homosexuals, the war monger actually thinks Trump paid to have provocateurs riot in Sweden.
Yes she did.
IF any of you missed it HB's "Healthy Lifestyle" has him being admitted to the Hospital.
At the same time period of their presidency. More of your dishonest post.
Are you posting from your hospital bed?
I think the interventionist foreign policy was not exactly successful.
I think the results were mixed at best. After an initial stumble Bush did win the conflict in Iraq and turn over a stable and function Iraq to his successor Barack Obama.
It was the pull out of troops by Barack Obama the caused the rise of ISIS.
Afghanistan is a different story. After initially booting the Taliban from power, we haven't been able the stabilize the country. It is still a haven for islamic extremist and terrorist.
Afghanistan has always been problematic for Western powers. They don't call it the grave yard of empires for nothing.
There's your reasons that the neoconservatives thankfully lost momentum.
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to me, the pinnacle of the neo-con movement was the time paul wolfowitz spit on his pocket comb to slick back his hair.
"Along with hating homosexuals, the war monger"
Your sexually deviant Code Pinko side is showing again.
"It was the pull out of troops by Barack Obama the caused the rise of ISIS."
And it cannot be overemphasized that Obama did exactly what Trump had been demanding since at least 2007. Trump is complicit.
Trump is doubling down on Obama's policy of failure, which is why most of the Middle East has now fallen under the control of our enemies.
I don't think Trump would have pulled out the troops like Obama did.
He may have not put them in the begin with, but once they were in and the war was won he would not be apt to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory like Obama did.
To Trump, winning is everything.
Trump is doubling down on Obama's policy of failure, which is why most of the Middle East has now fallen under the control of our enemies.
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are you reading the same reports out of the ME as i am? mosul and raqqa are no longer under ISIS control, a significant number of ISIS fighters who flourished under 0linsky are now dead, and even the MOAB dropped on shitholeistan was a nice touch and stern warning to our enemy.
pakistan stands to lose big $$$ for being duplicit, and the UN has basically been told to go fuck themselves. a sentiment overdue by at least 25 years.
look, hate trump til the cows come home if that's what blows the wind up your skirt, but don't resort to lying about the accomplishments of his administration. that's the stuff liberals are made of.
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The first thing you have ever posted that I agree with 100% :>
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So how pathetic is it for Hillary and Barack if this insane clown show won an election Hillary was supposed to win, and is still governing the country with better results than Obama?
Well Dennis, I agree with Rat 100%. You should go eat a pistol.
Record setting cold and snow in the USA.
Where is that funny fake GW?
ADP Employment Report + 250,000 JOBS
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The consumer comfort index slowed by 6 tenths to 51.8 in the December 31 week, still at an historically high level and hinting at strength for consumer spending. "
This will really be pissing off the anti-Trumps, oh where is that little thug group the spawn of Hillary/Obama Antifa?
The main problem with the neoconservatives during the Bush Administration is that they over-promised and under-delivered.
Perhaps had the expectations were that we could topple the Hussein rule, the Republican Guard, etc... but that it would be a political and military struggle to actually perform the "nation building"... then people might have been more patient.
But we told everyone that we would be treated as heroes, that oil profits would pay for everything, and that there would be a smooth transition from the Hussein era to an American friendly government.
Unfortunately, that didn't happen. Given a opposition media delivering every military casualty as if it was a personal murder by Bush and Cheney, and the rest of the negativity of how the war effort was covered... there wasn't much room for error. And with a situation like this, trial and error was simply going to happen. As a country we didn't have the patience for it, because we were never told we needed to have it.
Perhaps that was a political miscalculation. Perhaps that was a miscalculation of the situation. Either way, it turned what had been a very successful military campaign, into a politically damaging nation building "quagmire".
Extreme Cold in the USA creating Higher Natural Gas Usage and the Utility companies are delivering life saving heat, for a profit of course.
EIA Natural Gas Report
Released On 1/4/2018 10:30:00 AM For wk12/29, 2017
Prior Actual
Weekly Change -112 bcf -206 bcf
Highlights
Natural gas in storage fell 206 billion cubic feet in the December 29 week to 3,126 bcf. The seventh weekly drawdown of the heating season was more than 4 times the size of the 49 bcf draw in the same week a year ago and sharply higher than the 123 bcf average drawdown in the comparable week over the last 5 years. While natural gas stocks were 5.8 percent below their level last year at this time and also 5.8 percent below the 5-year average for this time of year, they still remain within the 5-year historical range.
"I don't think Trump would have pulled out the troops like Obama did. He may have not put them in the begin with, but once they were in and the war was won he would not be apt to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory like Obama did. To Trump, winning is everything."
What you think Trump would have done, and what Trump actually SAID he would have done, are two different things.
Obama did exactly what Trump had called for, and that Obama-Trump policy created ISIS, killed hundreds of thousands, and made America less safe.
"are you reading the same reports out of the ME as i am? mosul and raqqa are no longer under ISIS control, a significant number of ISIS fighters who flourished under 0linsky are now dead, and even the MOAB dropped on shitholeistan was a nice touch and stern warning to our enemy."
Obviously I'm not ready the rosy Trumpfag propaganda reports you're reading.
The regions once controlled by ISIS are merely under the control of other enemies of ours. ISIS' Syrian territory is now back in Assad's hands, with the additional geopolitical failure that Assad is now under direct control of Russia. Most of ISIS' Iraqi territory, while nominally back under the control of the Iraqi government, is in reality occupied by Shiite militias organized and funded by Iran. And Lebanon, for a short time a democracy, has fallen back under the even deeper control of Assad and Iran via Hezbollah.
The lasting "accomplishment" of the Obama-Trump Mideast policy has been to bring Ahmadinejad's dream of a "Shiite crescent" to fruition.
Extreme Cold in the USA creating Higher Natural Gas Usage
Which is what is killing coal......LOL at you again....idiot
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