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  • Apr 20, 2017, 12:09 PM
    Athos
    Trump's "Achievements" So Far
    From a factual study of Trump's activities.



    • He rescinded an Obama regulation requiring utilities to reduce CO2 emissions 30% by 2050
    • He ordered the EPA to change a rule giving it authority to regulate pollution of streams and ponds
    • He relieved companies of the duty to report labor law violations when bidding on federal contracts
    • He allowed states to make up their own rules for drug testing applicants for unemployment benefits
    • He made it easier for the mentally ill to buy guns
    • He signed a bill allowing Internet providers to sell data about their users' browsing habits
    • He killed a rule prohibiting coal mines from dumping wastes into streams
    • He has started the procedure for preventing 4 million workers from getting paid overtime


    Then there was his strange self-congratulations when he mismanaged the military in Yemen and Syria, and took credit for Afghanistan when he was totally unaware of what was happening in that country.

    Now it's North Korea - one madman facing another madman.
  • Apr 20, 2017, 12:28 PM
    smoothy
    Yada yada yada, Blah blah blah. Trump is responsible for Erectile Dysfunction of most of the left leaners too I suppose.
  • Apr 20, 2017, 01:57 PM
    catonsville
    LOL Double Yada yada yada Snowflakes.
  • Apr 20, 2017, 02:41 PM
    talaniman
    You forgot Athos, how much time he spends at his golf course with his friends. You know the ones he doubled his membership fees on.
  • Apr 20, 2017, 03:37 PM
    Athos
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    You forgot Athos, how much time he spends at his golf course with his friends. You know the ones he doubled his membership fees on.

    Good point, Tal. And the three million bucks he costs taxpayers every time he goes golfing in Florida. After bashing Obama for occasional golfing. The hypocrisy of Trump is endless.
  • Apr 20, 2017, 05:43 PM
    paraclete
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Athos View Post
    The hypocrisy of Trump is endless.

    Why are you singling out Dump, There is a saying that it is hard to drain the swamp when you are up to your arse in alligators, well Dump is up to his arse in hypocrites. You surely expected no less
  • Apr 21, 2017, 03:03 AM
    excon
    Hello A:

    1) Repeal and replace Obamacare - FAILED

    2) Building a wall - NO

    3) Infrastructure - NADA

    4) Tax Reform - NOT happening

    5) Muslim ban - STOPPED

    6) Gorsuch appointed - 1 outta 6 ain't bad.

    excon
  • Apr 21, 2017, 05:07 AM
    ScottGem
    smoothy, caton, Do you have anything factual to refute any of the points Athos made? Personally, I disagree with at least one of those points, but the others are factual.
  • Apr 21, 2017, 08:17 AM
    catonsville
    I did not "Hear The Fat Lady Sing".
  • Apr 21, 2017, 12:58 PM
    talaniman
    What does a fat lady singing have to do with the policies, practices, words and actions of this newly elected bully and liar?
  • Apr 21, 2017, 01:03 PM
    ScottGem
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    What does a fat lady singing have to do with the policies, practices, words and actions of this newly elected bully and liar?

    Nothing, which is why I ignored that inane response.
  • Apr 21, 2017, 01:31 PM
    catonsville
    No more inane than the prating that "you know it alls" keep putting forth.
  • Apr 21, 2017, 01:43 PM
    ScottGem
    I don't profess to know it all. But I deal in verifiable facts. I don't see anything inane about the other posts in this thread. If you can provide some verifiable facts to disprove that I will be glad to hear them and respond appropriately.
  • Apr 22, 2017, 04:21 AM
    catonsville
    A Good Plan

    [COLOR=#000000]This makes way too much sense to be passed. But at least we can make our wishes known.



    Trump is asking everyone to forward this email to a minimum of 20 people, and to ask each of those to do likewise.

    In three days, most people in the United States will have the message. This is an idea that should be passed around.

    The TRUMP Rule

    Let's see if


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    [COLOR=#000000]Â congress understands what people pressure is all about.

    Salary of retired US Presidents .. . . . .. . . . . .. . $180,000 FOR LIFE.

    Salary of House/Senate members .. . . . .. . . . $174,000 FOR LIFE. This is stupid

    Salary of Speaker of the House .. . . . .. . . . . $223,500 FOR LIFE. This is really stupid

    Salary of Majority / Minority Leaders . . .. . . . . $193,400 FOR LIFE. Stupid

    Average Salary of a teacher . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. .$40,065

    Average Salary of a deployed Soldier . . .. . . .. $38,000

    Here’s where the cuts should be made!

    TRUMP, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling:

    "I could end the deficit in five minutes," he told CNBC. "You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election".


    [/COLOR]

    [COLOR=#000000]

    [/COLOR]

    [COLOR=#000000]The 26th Amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only three months and eight days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971 - before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc.

    Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took one (1) year or less to become the law of the land - all because of public pressure. Trump is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.

    In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.

    Congressional Reform Act of 2017

    1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman/woman should collect a salary while in office and receive no pay when they're out of office.

    2. Congress (past, present, & future) participates in Social Security.

    All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.

    3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

    4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

    5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

    6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

    7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void effective 3/1/17. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen/women.

    Congress made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and go back to work.

    If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people, then it will only take three days for most people in the U.S. to receive the message. It's time!

    THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!

    Pass it on. Let's drain the swamp!

    [/COLOR]
  • Apr 22, 2017, 04:53 AM
    ScottGem
    Trump didn't advance this plan Warren Buffet did, in 2011 https://www.truthorfiction.com/buffet-rule/,
  • Apr 22, 2017, 06:20 AM
    catonsville
    Picky, Picky I guess you don't agree with any of it as an Ideologue?
  • Apr 22, 2017, 06:49 AM
    catonsville
    Did FBI Let Islamists Attack a Texas Cartoon Contest?


    Not long after the brutal 2015 slaying of 11 Charlie Hebdo employees in Paris, Americans were shocked when two men – Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi – opened fire on a “Draw Mohammad” cartoon contest in Garland, Texas. The attack attracted an enormous amount of national coverage in relation to its success; Soofi and Simpson killed no one.
    The outsized coverage came about as a result of two factors: The controversial “anti-Islam” event being targeted and the fact that the attack was the first example of ISIS-inspired terrorism inside the United States.
    But now the attack is in the headlines for a new reason: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wi), who chairs the Homeland Security and Government Affairs committee, is launching an investigation into what the FBI knew prior to the shooting.
    Johnson said he learned from CBS’s “60 Minutes” that the FBI had been monitoring the terrorists for years, a revelation that did not match what Bureau officials told him in the wake of the attack.
    “It is concerning that when I wrote to the FBI and Department of Justice, they never told me about the fact that they had some FBI asset, whether it was an agent or informant, tailing Soofi and Simpson,” Johnson told Fox News.
    “Why didn’t they intervene?” he asked. “As a member of the Senate oversight committee, I think these agencies should be honest when we actually ask them the questions. But it begs the question, what was the FBI doing in Garland, and why wasn’t the agency direct with me when we first started writing letters about this back in 2015?”
    From the Fox News report:
    Johnson is referring to two individuals who had prior contact with the shooters. One was a paid FBI informant, the other an FBI undercover agent.
    Ten days before the attack Simpson hooked up with an FBI undercover informant via the internet, according to an FBI affidavit filed by Agent Shawn Scott Hare in August 2016. The affidavit was filed in a case against Erick Jamal Hendricks, a North Carolina man charged with conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State.
    The affidavit reveals the FBI was aware on May 2, the day before the attack, that Soofi and Simpson were headed to Garland to attend the Draw the Prophet Muhammad Event.
    The criminal complaint shows that the FBI’s informant was at the event, parked directly behind the two terrorists, when they opened fire on the contest.
    “All I know is we don’t have the straight story from the FBI,” Johnson said. “We are just so fortunate that local law enforcement was able to take care of the situation to prevent another mass attack. This was a real tragedy averted.”


    Despite incontrovertible evidence that the FBI had an insider on the scene, the Bureau’s press office told Fox News that they had “no advance knowledge of a plot to attack the cartoon drawing contest.”

    tFunny, that was BT Before Trump could it be the FBI is playing loose and dirty?
  • Apr 22, 2017, 06:55 AM
    ScottGem
    And what has that got to do with post that started this thread?
  • Apr 22, 2017, 07:13 AM
    catonsville
    U.S. Rejects Exxon Mobil Bid for Waiver on Russia Sanctions

    New York Times · 9 hours ago
    HOUSTON — The Trump administration delivered a setback to Exxon Mobil on Friday, announcing that it would not grant the oil giant a waiver from sanctions against …

    I thought this thread was about the "Good, the Ugly and the Bad" of Trump.
  • Apr 22, 2017, 07:30 AM
    talaniman
    Trump would be pretty stupid to blatantly grant Exxon a waiver now wouldn't he? Even his fellow repubs would have had his arse for lunch..
  • Apr 22, 2017, 08:33 AM
    catonsville
    You know he is going to grant a waiver to Exxon. You guys have already declared him "pretty stupid". So there goes the element of surprise.
  • Apr 22, 2017, 09:14 AM
    talaniman
    Trump isn't stupid but he thinks everybody else is. That's why he can tell us how great he is, and how much he has done already.
  • Apr 22, 2017, 10:16 AM
    Athos
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    Trump isn't stupid but he thinks everybody else is.

    It's catching. Just look at the posts from the Trump supporters in this very thread.

    I rest my case.
  • Apr 22, 2017, 12:18 PM
    talaniman
    http://www.motherjones.com/files/blo..._days_nope.gif
  • Apr 22, 2017, 12:35 PM
    Athos
    Lyin' Trump.

    The bozo even ADMITS to lying as part of his strategy. He lied to all those poor unemployed workers in the rust belt, saying he would guarantee they would get their jobs back. He lied to get their vote. Once he got what he wanted, he bailed. He's been doing that for 40 years.

    Lyin' Trump.
  • Apr 23, 2017, 07:13 AM
    talaniman
    Maybe we get to tell repubs and Trump voters "I told you so". I did after Bush! ;)
  • Apr 23, 2017, 12:51 PM
    tomder55
    Donald Trump's China 'Currency Manipulator' Reversal and Other Flip Flops | National Review
  • Apr 23, 2017, 03:52 PM
    Athos
    Must read for all here (and elsewhere).

    My favorite part:

    What Trump said during the campaign was, in fact, a load of nonsense deployed for the purposes of steamrolling the other side in difficult and delicate negotiations. What ... Trump’s admirers missed is that it wasn’t NATO and the Chi-Coms and Enrique Peña Nieto on the other side of the negotiating table getting hornswoggled.

    It was them.
    (Those who voted for Trump).
  • Apr 24, 2017, 11:28 AM
    catonsville
    How many "stabs in the back" can a President sustain, when his own party is stabbing him in addition to the opposition party and press?
  • Apr 24, 2017, 12:31 PM
    Wondergirl
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by catonsville View Post
    How many "stabs in the back" can a President sustain, when his own party is stabbing him in addition to the opposition party and press?

    Methinks he's the one "stabbing" us, with his awful command of English, poor customer service skills, and inability to handle the workload.
  • Apr 24, 2017, 01:41 PM
    catonsville
    11 Ways Trump Has Rolled Back Government Regulations in His First 100 Days

    As President Donald Trump reaches his 100th day in the White House on April 29, he will have worked with Congress to rescind more regulations using the Congressional Review Act
    than any other president. Here's a look at the 11 regulatory rollbacks Congress has passed and Trump has signed.

    Me thinks it is the Press and Rotten Congress doing the Stabbing and that includes Paul Ryan. It is rough duty when you are putting out fires most of the time.
  • Apr 25, 2017, 06:05 AM
    talaniman
    Starting at the top of your "LIST",

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-...-resolution/41

    Quote:

    This joint resolution nullifies the "Disclosure of Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers" rule finalized by the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 27, 2016. (The rule, mandated under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, requires resource extraction issuers to disclose payments made to governments for the commercial development of oil, natural gas, or minerals.)
    So you think money Exxon pays under the table to foreign governments doesn't need to be disclosed?

    Maybe a better question would be did you read any of these new laws yourself or are you one of those Trumpies that just swallows and thing he puts in your face?
  • Apr 25, 2017, 06:17 AM
    tomder55
    Quote:

    How many "stabs in the back" can a President sustain, when his own party is stabbing him in addition to the opposition party and press?
    He hijacked the Republican party. Being kind is to say he is a NY limousine liberal Republican in the Nelson Rockefeller mode. That equates to a Midwest moderate /liberal Democrat in the rest of the country . He masked his true leanings with nationalist /populist rhetoric during the campaign. There was no way that the writers at 'National Review ' was going to buy his shtick .
  • Apr 25, 2017, 06:29 AM
    paraclete
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    He hijacked the Republican party. Being kind is to say he is a NY limousine liberal Republican in the Nelson Rockefeller mode. That equates to a Midwest moderate /liberal Democrat in the rest of the country . He masked his true leanings with nationalist /populist rhetoric during the campaign. There was no way that the writers at 'National Review ' was going to buy his shtick .

    Everything points to his liberal agenda, but then you could see it coming. What has he said he will do

    pull back on environmental controls, not very liberal
    pull back on trade treaties, not very liberal
    increase military spending, not very liberal
    reduce taxes, not very liberal
    abandon Obamacare, not very liberal

    but then you have to examine what the word liberal means, it might not apply to Trump who obviously wants some big spending programs of his own, big wall, big inferstucture, big deportations, big military

    liberal


    1.favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
    2.(often initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to a political party advocating measures of progressive political reform.
    3.of, pertaining to, based on, or advocating liberalism, especially the freedom of the individual and governmental guarantees of individual rights and liberties.
    4.favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual freedom possible, especially as guaranteed by law and secured by governmental protection of civil liberties.
    5.favoring or permitting freedom of action, especially with respect to matters of personal belief or expression:a liberal policy toward dissident artists and writers.
    6.of or relating to representational forms of government rather than aristocracies and monarchies.
    7.free from prejudice or bigotry; tolerant:




    somehow I don't see Dump in there, do you
  • Apr 25, 2017, 06:56 AM
    tomder55
    He lied and deceived on many of the issues that differentiate . Until the election he adored Evita and the Clintoons . He was for gun control ;abortion on demand ,supported funding Planned Parenthood ,universal health care . Trumps agrees with the libs that the government has the arbitrary right to seize private property . He openly supported government giveaways in the form of ethanol subsidies . As noted he is a huuuuuggge fan of using taxpayer money on big public works projects to "create jobs" and "stimulate the economy " . The Tea Party arose in opposition to the stimulus, the auto bailouts, and the bank bailouts. Trump supported all 3 . The candidates who were opposed to all the trade deals was socialist Bolshevik Bernie and Trump. The only place he separates from liberal doctrine is immigration ,corporate taxes ,and reductions in regulations .... all laudable ;but hardly enough to call him conservative .
  • Apr 25, 2017, 07:17 AM
    talaniman
    Trump is a true capitalist and has no problem giving the repubs something to get what he wants. No that doesn't mean the great unwashed masses who voted for him, who may get a buck after he gets his, or they might not. If working with dems to make MO" money is what he needs to do, he surely will.

    Don't be distracted by the big talk and bluster because since the real story is what the congress is passing and what Trump signs.

    PAY attention!!
  • Apr 25, 2017, 04:36 PM
    paraclete
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    Trump is a true capitalist and has no problem giving the repubs something to get what he wants. No that doesn't mean the great unwashed masses who voted for him, who may get a buck after he gets his, or they might not. If working with dems to make MO" money is what he needs to do, he surely will.

    Don't be distracted by the big talk and bluster because since the real story is what the congress is passing and what Trump signs.

    PAY attention!!

    I expect Dump to sign whatever is put in front of him, after all that is what he is there for. But Tal, is your congress passing anything or has factionalism taken over?

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    hardly enough to call him conservative .

    No he isn't for the establishment, said as much in the draining the swamp comments and he does want change, he wants america to be great again, whatever that means; when you have the largest economy and the largest military
  • Apr 25, 2017, 04:36 PM
    talaniman
    See post 31 and 32.

    Quote:

    No he isn't for the establishment, said as much in the draining the swamp comments and he does want change, he wants america to be great again, whatever that means; when you have the largest economy and the largest military
    He NEEDS the establishment and is now part of it. I can't believe you fell for his campaign promises/slogans TOO!? The lying bully will say and do anything to look good and get what he wants.

    You'll see.
  • Apr 25, 2017, 04:54 PM
    paraclete
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    See post 31 and 32.



    He NEEDS the establishment and is now part of it. I can't believe you fell for his campaign promises/slogans TOO!? The lying bully will say and do anything to look good and get what he wants.

    You'll see.

    You think I fell for him, haven't I been saying the same thing, Look Tal from where I stand the whole thing looks like a circus with the clown act in play. You can't find better comedy these days
  • Apr 25, 2017, 06:00 PM
    talaniman
    I'm just waiting for CVille to comeback and defend the republican agenda. That's what Trump is distracting us from while the lame stream talking heads are stuck on the daily BS! Just like the NORK's have the government they deserve, on many levels, so do we in the USA.

    BREAKING NEWS

    The guy that chanted "lock her up" referring to Hillary, may get locked up himself!

    Michael Flynn’s troubles mount | TheHill

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