Believe me or not, I'm pulling for Trump to succeed. If he does a good job, we all succeed. He has a good man in Scott Bessent to help him. Hopefully, Trump listens to him . If Trump fails, well, you know.
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If you stop right here at this point in Trump’s Presidency it’s already a full blown success. We were teetering over the edge of the cliff. We still have a long way to go but immediate collapse adverted. Fighting the complete corruption entrenched in our government and judicial system must be figured out to get this shit show turned around. I dunno if it’s even possible but here’s hoping. That’s alot to ask. One man can only do so much and he’s already exceeded what anyone has done in the last century. He’s definitely going to need help.
Agreed, Trump has accomplished more in a few short months than Biden did his ENTIRE term. It was pure Brilliance to have a parade celebrating the Army's birthday, and done with SO MUCH CLASS and Honor. If you didnt watch it, You Tube it.
your bias is showing.
his disapproval ratings have risen above his approval ratings.
"His approval rating was 16 points underwater in the latest Quinnipiac poll and 13 points underwater in today’s Navigator Research poll. And the June AP-NORC poll shows Trump with a net approval rating of -21. That’s Trump’s worst poll of his second term, and the first time his second term disapproval rating has hit 60 percent."
How popular is Donald Trump?
Silver Bulletin approval ratings for President Trump — and all presidents since Truman.
www.natesilver.net
Israel and Iran are bombing the hell out of each other- it's a mess.
US Embassy Hit by Iran Missile, Israel Claims Air Supremacy
The U.S. Embassy in Israel was damaged Monday after it was struck in a new missile barrage from Iran, as Israel claims "full air superiority" over Tehran.
www.mediaite.com
Ukraine and Russia are bombing each other on a daily basis. Nothing has changed.
A political assassination just occurred over the weekend.
The economy, as it was over the last year, is humming along- albeit a bit more unstable than it was before January.
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Even though a large share of the Dem party constituency is Jewish, the party will never vote for a Jewish candidate. The irony of the party.
Trying to mandate large businesses - that employe a minority of Americans- is not mandating masks for everyone in the united states.
Governors making people mask up (which some republican governors mandated) anc closing schools -as many Republican governors did- or closing damn boat ramps as Henry McMaster did - is government overreach.
That a governor did it- that you like and support- doesn't make it right.
Joe Biden didn't close any schools. He wasn't even President in 2020. Numerous Republican governors did- on the advice of Trump administration officials in 2020
As I said, I might take some time today or tomorrow to break down the party switch that occurred using specific examples and quotes from politicians that left the Democrat party to join the Republican party.
Smart people understand that the Republican party of the 1960s and 1970s wasn't quite the same thing as the Republican Party of 1850s-
That's silly.
Joe Lieberman polled well when he ran for President but his support for the IRAQ war doomed his candidacy. Many Democrats wanted Joe to succeed but running around bragging about how great the war was going which was parroting the Republican position wasn't going to win a Democrat primary.
If Shapiro wants to run, he will have an excellent shot at the Democrat nomination in 2028.
Gomer -- This is actually when you would want to use AI.
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Q: Did biden try to mandate masks?
A: Yes, President Biden took actions to promote mask-wearing during his administration, particularly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the term "mandate" can be nuanced, as it depends on the context and scope of the policy. Here's a concise overview based on available information:
- Federal Mask Mandates: On January 21, 2021, shortly after taking office, Biden signed an executive order requiring masks on federal property and in certain modes of interstate transportation (e.g., airplanes, trains, buses, and airports). This mandate applied to federal employees, contractors, and travelers in these settings. It was enforced by agencies like the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and extended multiple times, though it faced legal challenges and was eventually struck down for some contexts (e.g., a federal judge in Florida ruled against the transportation mask mandate in April 2022).
- Workplace Mandates: Biden's administration also pursued a vaccine-or-mask mandate for large private employers (100+ employees) through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). This rule, announced in September 2021, required employees to either be vaccinated against COVID-19 or wear masks and undergo regular testing. However, this mandate was blocked by the Supreme Court in January 2022, which ruled that OSHA overstepped its authority.
- Encouragement vs. Mandate: Beyond federal property and specific sectors, Biden did not have the authority to impose a nationwide mask mandate for the general public, as public health measures largely fall under state and local jurisdiction in the U.S. Instead, his administration strongly encouraged mask-wearing through CDC guidance, public campaigns, and calls for state and local governments to implement their own mandates. For example, the CDC recommended masks in indoor public settings in areas with high COVID-19 transmission rates.
- Context and Opposition: Biden's mask policies were part of a broader effort to curb COVID-19 spread, especially during surges driven by variants like Delta and Omicron. However, these efforts faced significant pushback, including legal challenges, political opposition, and public resistance in some regions, with critics arguing mandates infringed on personal freedoms.
This is another example when anyone in their right mind could use AI.
your bias is showing.
his disapproval ratings have risen above his approval ratings.
"His approval rating was 16 points underwater in the latest Quinnipiac poll and 13 points underwater in today’s Navigator Research poll. And the June AP-NORC poll shows Trump with a net approval rating of -21. That’s Trump’s worst poll of his second term, and the first time his second term disapproval rating has hit 60 percent."
How popular is Donald Trump?
Silver Bulletin approval ratings for President Trump — and all presidents since Truman.
Israel and Iran are bombing the hell out of each other- it's a mess.
US Embassy Hit by Iran Missile, Israel Claims Air Supremacy
The U.S. Embassy in Israel was damaged Monday after it was struck in a new missile barrage from Iran, as Israel claims "full air superiority" over Tehran.
Ukraine and Russia are bombing each other on a daily basis. Nothing has changed.
A political assassination just occurred over the weekend.
The economy, as it was over the last year, is humming along- albeit a bit more unstable than it was before January.
Gomer - Your thirst for propaganda coupled with lack of the most basic critical thinking skills are such a magical combination.
I love it.
It's funny that stupid people have to be the one to TELL US they're the smart people. Otherwise no one else would ever say that about them.Gomer - Your thirst for propaganda coupled with lack of the most basic critical thinking skills are such a magical combination.
I love it.
Hey if they don't toot their own horn who will? What I don't get is why they care so much about what others think about them.
1st post on this subject....
Let's begin with some basic background from Princeton Professor of History Kevin Kruse
At the start of the 20th century, the Democrats -- dominated by white southern conservatives -- were clearly the party of segregationists. White southern conservatives dominated the Democrat party for a majority of the 20th century, especially in the South. It was near impossible for Republicans to win in the southern United States.
President Woodrow Wilson, for instance, instituted segregation in Washington and across the federal government. (See @EricSYellin's work.)
That said, both parties in this period had their share of racists in their ranks.
When the second KKK rose to power in the 1920s, it had a strong Democratic ties in some states; strong GOP ones elsewhere.
Then was a period when the two parties' IDs were in flux.
Democrats still had a base of segregationists in the South, but increasingly some liberals in the North.
Republicans, liberal & even radical in Lincoln's era, had more conservatives joining, often in the West.
With the New Deal, FDR brought new big-government liberalism to the Democrats but found sharp resistance from southern Dems on two issues: unions and civil rights.
Importantly, despite some small gestures, FDR's brand of liberalism was purely focused on economic issues.
Though some in the administration (Eleanor Roosevelt, progressive Republican Harold Ickes, etc.) were racially liberal, the Democrats as a whole were not.
As Nancy Weiss Malkiel (American Historian and History Professor and Dean at Princeton now retired) and others showed, African Americans began voting Democratic not because of the New Deal's record on race, but in spite of it.
Blacks stayed loyal to "the party of Lincoln" in 1932, but shifted in massive numbers to FDR in 1936. (~76% of northern blacks)
Over the next two decades, Democrats had an uneasy coalition that combined white southern conservatives and African Americans in the north, plus a growing number of white liberals.
This tension came to a head in the 1948 election, under the leadership of President Harry Truman.
Outraged at reports of black WWII vets being assaulted, Truman launched a presidential commission on civil rights in 1946-7.
Then -- to the nation's shock -- he pressed hard for all its recommendations, including protecting black voting rights and desegregating the military.
Liberal Democrats rallied around Truman's call, with then-Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey urging the 1948 DNC "to get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights."
After Humphrey's speech, the Democrat convention adopted a strong civil rights plank.
It was a turning point for the Democrat party, the first major fight on civil rights in which northern liberals beat back southern conservatives and took control of the party on race relations.
To say this angered many southern Conservatives is an understatement, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond being one of the most glaring examples. An exodus of conservative Democrats from the party to the Republican Party would soon begin.
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Famously, of course, Southern Democrats bolted the party in anger, forming the States Rights Democratic Party -- "the Dixiecrats" -- under the leadership of avowed segregationist Strom Thurmond, who railed against Truman's civil rights proposals:
Famously, of course, Southern Democrats bolted the party in anger, forming the States Rights Democratic Party -- "the Dixiecrats" -- under the leadership of avowed segregationist Strom Thurmond, who railed against Truman's civil rights proposals:
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Thurmond and the Dixiecrats, in 1948, took four Deep South states (notably, all places where local allies kicked Truman off the ballot) but Truman still won re-election that fall.
The Dixiecrats came back into the Democrat coalition but increasingly saw that they were on the losing end of things.
The Democratic Party was still the only party in the South, where the Republicans -- "the party of Lincoln" -- were still reviled and, as a result, virtually non-existent.
In his classic 1949 study, the famous political scientist V.O. Key judged that the Republican Party in the South “scarcely deserves the name of party. It wavers somewhat between an esoteric cult on the order of a lodge and a conspiracy for plunder.”
In fact, Republicans were so rare in the South that in the 1950s they told a story in East Texas about a sheriff who threw out the only two votes for a Republican candidate on the assumption that the candidate himself must have voted twice.
Both parties vied for the southern white vote during the 1950s, and thus took a fairly hands-off approach to civil rights.
Republican President Dwight Eisenhower and Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson, his Dem opponent in 1952 & 1956, both tried to duck the issue whenever possible.
As president, Ike sympathized with southern whites.
After Brown v. Board, he said appointing Chief Justice Earl Warren had been "the biggest damfool mistake I ever made." He refused to urge compliance with Brown, allowing southern Democrats to wage "massive resistance" to it.
Eisenhower reluctantly intervened in Little Rock, but only belatedly, when Democratic Governor Orval Faubus's defiance of the Supreme Court -- and, by extension, Eisenhower's own authority -- got dangerously out of hand.
JFK was a lot like Ike on civil rights. He made symbolic efforts in the 1960 campaign, calling Coretta Scott King when MLK was in jail and winning key black votes in the North.
But until the Birmingham protests in 1963 he was generally reluctant to act, just as Ike had been.
That's it for now. I'll pick up later with my 4th post with the summer of 1963.
Thurmond and the Dixiecrats, in 1948, took four Deep South states (notably, all places where local allies kicked Truman off the ballot) but Truman still won re-election that fall.
The Dixiecrats came back into the Democrat coalition but increasingly saw that they were on the losing end of things.
The Democratic Party was still the only party in the South, where the Republicans -- "the party of Lincoln" -- were still reviled and, as a result, virtually non-existent.
In his classic 1949 study, the famous political scientist V.O. Key judged that the Republican Party in the South “scarcely deserves the name of party. It wavers somewhat between an esoteric cult on the order of a lodge and a conspiracy for plunder.”
In fact, Republicans were so rare in the South that in the 1950s they told a story in East Texas about a sheriff who threw out the only two votes for a Republican candidate on the assumption that the candidate himself must have voted twice.
Both parties vied for the southern white vote during the 1950s, and thus took a fairly hands-off approach to civil rights.
Republican President Dwight Eisenhower and Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson, his Dem opponent in 1952 & 1956, both tried to duck the issue whenever possible.
As president, Ike sympathized with southern whites.
After Brown v. Board, he said appointing Chief Justice Earl Warren had been "the biggest damfool mistake I ever made." He refused to urge compliance with Brown, allowing southern Democrats to wage "massive resistance" to it.
Eisenhower reluctantly intervened in Little Rock, but only belatedly, when Democratic Governor Orval Faubus's defiance of the Supreme Court -- and, by extension, Eisenhower's own authority -- got dangerously out of hand.
JFK was a lot like Ike on civil rights. He made symbolic efforts in the 1960 campaign, calling Coretta Scott King when MLK was in jail and winning key black votes in the North.
But until the Birmingham protests in 1963 he was generally reluctant to act, just as Ike had been.
That's it for now. I'll pick up later with my 4th post with the summer of 1963.
Anyone who beats their own chest or sings their own praises are the ones to stay far away from. You’re gonna get the lowest quality slop bucket results from these people. We’ve interviewed for everything from construction jobs to lawyers and the same holds true across the spectrum. Talented people NEVER toot their own horn. Just the facts. I do enjoy hearing losers do it though. Never gets old. Lol
Genuine question, have you ever considered that you might actually be on the lower end of the intelligence bell curve?
For example, when I took the ASVAB to join the Army I tested in the 98th percentile (99th percentile being the max score). That objectively would put me on the higher end of the bell curve and means most people would fall below me.
Is it really out of the realm of possibility that I just have a better aptitude to learning and making decisions than you?
For some unknown reason... perhaps some standup comedy gold, I also enjoy seeing the lengths they tend to go to pad their resumes as they stand at podiums of their own making for all us little people to see. Yeah I think the satisfaction I get from it is knowing that normal people with actual accomplishments dont do that.
Isn’t Trump’s entire mystique that he can stand at a podium and lie about his accomplishments with zero hesitation?
I apologize for hijacking this thread. But your last sentence referencing "the summer of 1963", brought back memories for me. I spent the entire summer of 1963 in Greece with my Mom and brother. We were visiting my maternal grandparents. That was the first time I had ever seen my grandparents. My paternal grandparents passed away before I was born. We spent that whole summer on a Greek island where you could see the country of Turkey from there. What a great, great time to spend an entire summer. When I'm on my death bed thinking about my life, I'm sure that one of the things I will think about is that summer. My Dad was not able to come. He owned and operated 2 retail businesses. He made sure I would not miss any sports news by sending me the sports pages of a newspaper once per week. On a Greek island on the Aegean Sea, I can attest to the fact that major league baseball standings did not make the rounds there back then. What a great Dad I had to take the time from his busy schedule to send me the sports pages every week. I wish he did not pass away when I was 17. Words don't actually convey how much I still miss him.
Again, I apologize for hijacking the thread. Thanks for getting me to remember about some things more important than politics.
Stock
PS: I was allowed to finish the 5th grade 3 weeks early before graduating that grade with my class mates, in order to make the trip. So, I'm actually not sure I completed the 5th grade. Maybe that's why I am sometimes slow on the uptake. LOL
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Assuming you meant "aptitude for learning" above.
Given you've been wrong on pretty much every issue you've argued on this forum, when you do plan on unleashing your intelligence on the rest of us peasants?
Just because something proves you wrong, doesn't mean it's a lie.
That's really the ultimate issue in this thread. You can't just ignore good data because it doesn't help your case.
Remember guys! No Kings!
But, always wear your mask!
Stand 6 feet apart!
No vaccine, you’re fired!
But, always wear your mask!
Stand 6 feet apart!
No vaccine, you’re fired!
What does your soft-shell skull think you PROVED me wrong about? You just fart out of your mouth. And your breath stinks. 🙂
Thing is though, he won that podium. Much as I know ya'll would hate to admit, he earned it. Didn't have to build one for himself to stand on in order to tweet his horn. More accurately, i guess you could say he took it away from you guys. So believe him and his accomplishments or not. Haters gonna hate. That has become pretty clear.
I spent 15 mins online today responding to someone who was convinced the shooter in Minnesota was a Democrat despite his friends saying he was a Trump supporter who had strong anti gay/anti LGBT views.
I don't know his motivation. Hell, it might end up being something sports related for all I know. But calling him a Democrat, which Donald Trump Junior did today, is the stuff of fools. I am glad the NewsNation host called out Trump Jr. to his face on that one.
Remember Henry McMaster closing down public boat landings?
remember Trump's Secretary of the Interior Republican Governor Doug Bergum ordering masks for outdoor gatherings? I'm sure you don't. LOL
Somewhat.
What's more interesting is that people repeat the lies.
and then we have a poster on here complaining about people bragging- and saying that people with real accomplishments don't brag - while being a cult member of a man who brags about every damn thing in the world- including things he clearly had nothing to do with at all- and bragging about stupid stuff. The damn fool Trump brags constantly about everything. LOL
So Trump was president before he ever lied on the campaign trail?
It's wild how you guys can convince yourself of things that make no sense.
That was when he was earning it. Gotta earn it... but I get how that may be somewhat of a foreign concept for liberals.
Someone earlier mentioned Trump being underwater in some poll. You know who's underwater in these polls? DEMOCRATS. Most polls I've seen concerning issues most important to Americans breaks down about 80/20. The Democrats still don't know or understand what is happening. They are incapable of coming to grips with the fact that most Americans would just as soon p*** on them as look at them. All they have really is violence at this point. There's a chance we'll get to see how that 80/20 plays out in the streets.
The way they keep falling into the bottom side of 80/20 issues... they are like traps the dems cant help themselves but fall in to. Over the top funny watching this in action. And I dont think all the traps have been set yet. lol
Russiagate
Laptops not real. Russian disinformation 🤣
Joes fine, sharp as a tack can’t keep up with him
Fine people hoax
Men can have babies…………. My fav
Border is secure
“Mostly“ peaceful protests
Fauci had nothing to do with Covid
Who was the last democrat that spoke truth?
Answer. Jimmy Carter
The last honest democrat is now gone. Nothing but leftist liars remaining and everyone knows it.
