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Post by walnut on May 30, 2023 11:43:17 GMT
Code: You should listen to the whole undecorated clip. How many people did he burn? How many posts went unfilled?
How was he received on the world stage by allies?
How much did he get done?
National debt?
You know, I was thinking about this- That Trump was not respected on the world stage was a common theme in the liberal mainstream press. But only now has the world come to respect the US so much that about half the countries have declared that they are joining the BRICS and dumping the dollar for trade among themselves. They are doing this with resentful satisfaction. Biden got that ball rolling with his careless and unnecessary (stupid) comments and insults about Saudi Arabia. Only after Trump's term did Putin dare to invade Ukraine. He chose this time for a reason. |
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Post by glennkoks on May 30, 2023 12:49:44 GMT
When I think about who should be President, this comes to mind.
If Trump had been elected in 2020, I’m pretty sure there would not have been a Ukraine war. I think the withdrawal from Afghanistan would have been smooth and we would not have left a massive amount of equipment behind.
The Keystone XL Pipeline would have been built. Our petroleum reserve would still be full. Our oil production would be higher and prices would be lower.
Our southern border would be safe and immigration would be orderly. Drugs would not flow as easily into the US and many lives of young adults would have been saved.
Inflation would not have skyrocketed. The Fed would not have been so driven to keep interest rates at zero to support the libs. Trump would not have pushed for dangerously low interest rates because the economy was recovering nicely and in his second term he wasn’t going to be running for reelection.
China would have respected us.
Better military, fairer FBI, CIA and Justice Department, Transportation Department, and better run government operations in general (Swamp draining).
Does anyone doubt these things? I agree with everything but the Fed. Trump was not a fiscal conservative and put pressure on the Fed to keep rates low. I give him a little bit of a free pass because he was dealing with Covid at the end of his tenure but nothing in his first couple of years showed me he was going to do anything but continue our spending spree. With that being said he did foster a very friendly pro business, pro regulatory environment. |
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Post by duwayne on May 30, 2023 16:43:28 GMT
Code: You should listen to the whole undecorated clip. How many people did he burn? How many posts went unfilled?
How was he received on the world stage by allies?
How much did he get done?
National debt?
If Trump failed farmers and rural America as these articles you selected indicate, why was his support in rural America in 2020 the strongest of any part of the US and why did it not fall from the level in 2016?
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Post by blustnmtn on May 31, 2023 12:32:38 GMT
How was he received on the world stage by allies?
foreignpolicy.com/2017/07/31/how-the-trump-administration-broke-the-state-department/
You know, I was thinking about this- That Trump was not respected on the world stage was a common theme in the liberal mainstream press. But only lately has the world come to respect the US so much that about half the countries have declared that they are joining the BRICS and dumping the dollar for trade among themselves. They are doing this with resentful satisfaction. Biden got that ball rolling with his careless and unnecessary comments and insults about Saudi Arabia. Only now did Putin dare to invade Ukraine. He chose this time for a reason. I still contend China's time to take Taiwan has a deadline associated with the puppet's term. |
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Post by walnut on May 31, 2023 12:49:35 GMT
How was he received on the world stage by allies?
foreignpolicy.com/2017/07/31/how-the-trump-administration-broke-the-state-department/
You know, I was thinking about this- That Trump was not respected on the world stage was a common theme in the liberal mainstream press. But only lately has the world come to respect the US so much that about half the countries have declared that they are joining the BRICS and dumping the dollar for trade among themselves. They are doing this with resentful satisfaction. Biden got that ball rolling with his careless and unnecessary comments and insults about Saudi Arabia. Only now did Putin dare to invade Ukraine. He chose this time for a reason. I still contend China's time to take Taiwan has a deadline associated with the puppet's term. You know they are thinking that way. |
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Post by duwayne on May 31, 2023 17:02:57 GMT
When I think about who should be President, this comes to mind.
If Trump had been elected in 2020, I’m pretty sure there would not have been a Ukraine war. I think the withdrawal from Afghanistan would have been smooth and we would not have left a massive amount of equipment behind.
The Keystone XL Pipeline would have been built. Our petroleum reserve would still be full. Our oil production would be higher and prices would be lower.
Our southern border would be safe and immigration would be orderly. Drugs would not flow as easily into the US and many lives of young adults would have been saved.
Inflation would not have skyrocketed. The Fed would not have been so driven to keep interest rates at zero to support the libs. Trump would not have pushed for dangerously low interest rates because the economy was recovering nicely and in his second term he wasn’t going to be running for reelection.
China would have respected us.
Better military, fairer FBI, CIA and Justice Department, Transportation Department, and better run government operations in general (Swamp draining).
Does anyone doubt these things? I agree with everything but the Fed. Trump was not a fiscal conservative and put pressure on the Fed to keep rates low. I give him a little bit of a free pass because he was dealing with Covid at the end of his tenure but nothing in his first couple of years showed me he was going to do anything but continue our spending spree. With that being said he did foster a very friendly pro business, pro regulatory environment. As you say, Trump did complain about the FED going on a fiscally conservative path and an interest rate increase tear shortly after Trump’s election as president, but let’s look at the situation at the time.
Some of you may recall my complaints on the old board about the Fed’s zero federal funds rates at the end of Obama’s second term. I even set up a poll and some of you agreed.
My complaint was that savers were being robbed of a fair return on their savings and the retirees were missing an expected source of income because of the zero interest rates. The Fed seemed to be supporting the Democrat’s political fortunes through economic stimulus at the expense of savers.
This later became apparent when immediately after Trump was elected, even before he was sworn in, the Fed started raising rates. It wasn’t because the economy was growing rapidly under Obama. Fortunately, the economic optimism created by Trump’s win kicked off a big stock market rise and the economy under Trump surged forward in spite of the higher rates.
Trump complained that the string of rate increases from the Fed were happening too fast, particularly since inflation which is the normal reason for raising interest rates was not a problem. So it’s correct that Trump early on was not in favor of the rapid rate of increase in Fed rates.
But, my point was, had Trump been President the last year couple of years, I think the Fed brain-trust (Yellen?) would not have been so eager to keep rates at zero and treat inflation as temporary when it obviously was not. They seem to have foolishly allowed themselves to be blinded by their desire to support the Democrats in power. And Yellen was rewarded by being named as Secretary of Treasury despite her blunders. |
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Post by missouriboy on May 31, 2023 18:35:07 GMT
I think it is fair to say that we should know where the career political bureaucrats hang their hats. It's largely not with the American public. I think we would get a fairer deal with a few self-taught Central American migrants ... at least for the first generation.
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Post by ratty on May 31, 2023 23:05:47 GMT
I think it is fair to say that we should know where the career political bureaucrats hang their hats. It's largely not with the American public. I think we would get a fairer deal with a few self-taught Central American migrants ... at least for the first generation.  I think it is fair to say that we should know where the career political bureaucrats hang their hats. It's largely not with the Australian public. |
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Post by gridley on Jun 6, 2023 11:19:37 GMT
Just when you thought the candidates couldn't get worse... notthebee.com/article/breaking-mike-pence-files-paperwork-to-run-for-president-in-2024"The field of contestants for 2024 grew Monday as former VP Mike Pence filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to run for the White House in 2024" "CNN will never find an audience willing to clap for Mike Pence." No kidding. He's a Republican (at least I assume he's going to run as an R) so the Righteous Left will never clap for him. The apparent handful of us who paid attention to the fraud in 2020 know he ignored it and will thus never trust him, much less clap for him. Since he's running against Trump the Trumpists will spit on his shadow, and the true conservatives will ask (legitimately) "So... have you every done anything effective for us... ever?" The honest answer would be "no." Maybe he learned 5D chess from Trump and this is his plan to be Trump's VP candidate? |
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